[MERGED] Fiery Djinn quest

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 07:52 - 1

I just had to say it. Our party was down to 4 people because the others dropped out to goto bed. We got this quest and thought it would be easy like the others. WE WERE SO WRONG.

We got pwned by the djinn. He blasted right through all my prot spells as if they were paper--even with protective spirit on, he would still do 400 points of damage! OMG. At one point we had him stuck in a corner and we all were using wands and bows on him. Unfortunately he regenerated faster than we could damage him.

I assure you, we practiced the art of dying (as the frog once said was need to see all the colors of the world) and we tried many methods to take this beast down. Eventually we found one and we prevailed

I don't know if we did it the proper way, but we sure did an interesting way. Mad props to ANet for this clever quest.

Zenny

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Moa Birds [MB]

Mo/N

08 Sep 2005 at 08:01 - 2

What did you do, use the smashy things? I think I found a way to beat it without those, but that was after only two survived XD.

But ya, that 400dmg thing is a drain. You'll notice his hp jump up when he uses it

That on top of his high natural health regen. Not something everyone will be prepared for.

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 08:02 - 3

yeah we finally smashed it. we actually smashed ourselves and then he went to investigate our corpses and got himself smashed.

cunninghambone

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

none

R/E

08 Sep 2005 at 08:06 - 4

I'm confused about all this... I did the quests with henchies and I don't even think he hit us. Seems like he was targeting some random NPC. Maybe I just got lucky. I thought he was an amazing looking enemy though.

SecUnder

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

San Diego CA

Eternity Lost and Found

08 Sep 2005 at 08:13 - 5

when my party fought him, we lead him through the door nearby and closed the gate behind him, he killed the one person that lead him through, and the rest of us nuked him to death.

theVariable

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

CA, USA

Knights of the Hokuten [KotH] (hokuten.org)

Mo/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 10:04 - 6

Weird, I took it down fairly quick with henchmen and nobody even came close to dying...

Sai of Winter

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

[ale]

Mo/

08 Sep 2005 at 10:14 - 7

Yeah the Djinn...that mofo killed our group fast.

chadwick

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 12:18 - 8

We were doing a quest. Fire something, and we had to kill this Djin..level 28, fiery looking dude. So over this bridge we go.......

"Oh shit here he comes"
"WTF is that"
*gives 200dmg in one hit*
"RUNAWAY RUNAWAY"

So we run, 2 of us survive, the rest were dead...

Took an SS of him attacking 3 level 28 Giants that were guarding a Furnace of somesort, and another lvl 28 (which he is attacking in the picture)

Oh, and he killed all of those without going below half health

man i love sorrows!

xxstalker24xx

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 13:51 - 9

God that sound like fun, but i am at college so cant play

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 13:55 - 10

He had several different attacks. One did little damage. One did about 200HP damge. One did 400HP damage. These attacks bypassed Protective Spirit so that did not help. When we fought him, he alternated between the 200HP attack and the 400HP attack. He never liked to use his low damage attack. We could only kill him by leading him to the smashers. I don't know why he didn't seem to do alot of damage to others. Of course it did not help that we only had 4 players...

Aeryn Dimeneira

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

France

Luxan Forces

Mo/

08 Sep 2005 at 13:58 - 11

Actually the 400dmg attack is divided beetween the number of opponents close to him when he casts, so if you're alone tanking you take it a FUll 400dmg, if you're 2 you're down to 200dmg, so if you had been 8 i think it would have been easier, and add to taht the fact that the Djinn gets healed when he casts the 400 dmg spell, fat dmg + heal = yum yum

Antilles

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

Silverdale, WA

Confuzion

W/Mo

08 Sep 2005 at 13:59 - 12

We led him to the Furnace guardians and they threw fireballs at him and killed him :X

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 14:12 - 13

Ah then that explains it. We had 2 tanks, 1 mesmer and 1 monk. So he was doing mega dmg since we weren't all surrounding him at the same time.

Sekkira

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canberra, AU

08 Sep 2005 at 14:50 - 14

's what protection monks are for :>

chadwick

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 15:12 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sekkira

's what protection monks are for :> prot monks dont do anything, his skills are unprotectable from what i have seen

Fye Duron

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Chico, CA, USA

Dragon Fang

08 Sep 2005 at 15:35 - 16

That is so sweetie... I can't wait to get off work so that I can play more...

johnjaguar

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

Sweden

Draco Sit Mihi Dux

W/E

08 Sep 2005 at 15:49 - 17

Cool.

Not so cool topic.

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

08 Sep 2005 at 15:52 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fye Duron

That is so sweetie... I can't wait to get off work so that I can play more... Same here, they released it too late last night that buy the time I finished the first quest from droknar and then got to ascalon it was 2AM.
I should have took the day off.
lol

QuixotesGhost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 16:54 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadwick

prot monks dont do anything, his skills are unprotectable from what i have seen Read the full description of "Consuming Flames" which is his skill that pops people for 400. It strips enchantments. From memory the full skill is this:

Consuming Flames:
(Monster skill) Target touched foe loses an enchament. Deal 400 damage divided between touched foe and all adjacent foes. Consuming flames heals damage equal to the amount of damage done to a single foe.

It seems to be a .25 activation time, I tried over and over again to hit it with Cry of Frustration and failed. The Djin spams this and flourish, I'm guessing to recharge it.

Ways to kill this guy (I'm thinking):

Diversion - Close as you can get to an instant win button

Echo+Blackout - The Combo my Warrior/Mes packs, unfortunatly I fought him with with my mes/nec instead :/

Meteor Shower spam - It constantly interupts so that's good, only problem is that he seems to be resistant to fire.

Snares (Water Magic in particular) - since consuming is a touch attack... if he can't touch you...

Protection - Can work but you need cover enchants. Like put down Prot spirit and keep laying guardian over it everytime he uses a Consuming Flames.

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 16:58 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadwick

prot monks dont do anything, his skills are unprotectable from what i have seen

Yeah he bypassed all the protections I threw up (Aegis, Prot Spirit, Mark of Protection--this one *might* have been working I don't know, since 400dmg is gonna overload it anyway). Note: the protections were not disenchanted, they simply had no noticeable effect.

Quote: Originally Posted by QuixotesGhost

Read the full description of "Consuming Flames" which is his skill that pops people for 400. It strips enchantments. From memory the full skill is this:

Consuming Flames:
(Monster skill) Target touched foe loses an enchament. Deal 400 damage divided between touched foe and all adjacent foes. Consuming flames heals damage equal to the amount of damage done to a single foe.

It seems to be a .25 activation time, I tried over and over again to hit it with Cry of Frustration and failed. The Djin spams this and flourish, I'm guessing to recharge it.

Ways to kill this guy (I'm thinking):

Diversion - Close as you can get to an instant win button

Echo+Blackout - The Combo my Warrior/Mes packs, unfortunatly I fought him with with my mes/nec instead :/

Meteor Shower spam - It constantly interupts so that's good, only problem is that he seems to be resistant to fire.

Snares (Water Magic in particular) - since consuming is a touch attack... if he can't touch you...
Ahh okay if that is the description then I could add these ways:

Prot Spirit + RoF spam or some other covering spammable enchantment to protect the real protection.

Lure him to a crusher (what we did)

Lure him to a pack of other dwarves to help you fight him.

Fire ele + Winter?

stumpy

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2005

Canucklehead BC, Canada

Advanced Necro Undead Society

08 Sep 2005 at 17:02 - 21

i guess I really lucked out ... when I got that quest I had the summit monk and his comrades standing beside the furnace guardians ... I came running up to the bridge ... 'wtf is that? ... cool ... new red dot ... lemme go smoke it' ... it came screaming across at me ... ME not stephan tom or anything ... me ... my first instinct was ... 'oh cool looking enemy ... I'm gonna take a screeny so I can use it as my new avatar on guru ... so i hit 1 screenshot ... notvery good cause he moved closer and I cut off part of him cause stephan jumped in between the camera and the djinn ... and my interface was on ... so I ctrl shift h ... try to get a nice angle ... try to take a nice picture (all while the henchies are fighting it) ... and bam ... it dropped dead ... no SS ... no new avatar for me ... I was pissed.

QuixotesGhost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 17:11 - 22

Quote:

Originally Posted by stumpy

Wrane Latrobe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wood

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 17:45 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuixotesGhost

Consuming Flames:
(Monster skill) Target touched foe loses an enchament. Deal 400 damage divided between touched foe and all adjacent foes. Consuming flames heals damage equal to the amount of damage done to a single foe.
I want this for PVP.

Kula

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Coast, USA

Mo/E

08 Sep 2005 at 18:35 - 24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrane Latrobe

I want this for PVP. Planning on using it in Ascalon Arena? lol, j/k

KvanCetre

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Madison Scouts

E/Mo

08 Sep 2005 at 18:52 - 25

He was really easy for us...

Then again, he got trapped on a group of about 10 bone fiends...

Borealis

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Black Rose Gaming

Mo/W

08 Sep 2005 at 19:09 - 26

I wasted this guy no more then 1/2 hour ago with only henchmen.

n0b of doom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ascalon Electric Company

W/R

08 Sep 2005 at 19:14 - 27

For those of you who do not yet know you have to fight 3 of them at once at the end of sorrows. You reach what I assume is the final golem boss. I say assume because we were unable to kill it. Its the giant one all the guys talk about around the zone, and its the one in all the screen shots. One of my guildies got a shot of it which I will post as soon as I get. The golem itself sits in a room with furnace guardians and these flame barrier things. You have to kill all 3 flame barrier's in a limited amount of time or they respawn. Wile you do this there are traps in the room which dump flames on you. Also one which drops a giant spike ball which insta kills the target. Once you get the barrier's down the golem dies and the 3 fire guys spawn. That's about the time our group got owned. There was no possible way for us to do it with the group we had. We are going to go back down tonight and finish it now that we know what we have to face.

Just a friendly heads up for yall

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

08 Sep 2005 at 19:19 - 28

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuixotesGhost

Ways to kill this guy (I'm thinking):

Diversion - Close as you can get to an instant win button From what I've seen, Flourish just helps the Djinn to spam its attack faster. I spammed Diversion on the Djinn, but Div seems to have no effect on Consuming Flames. Div did take down Flourish, and the Djinn seemed to slow down its attacks. There might have been a lot of people around it too, but it seemed to be manageable.

n0b of doom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ascalon Electric Company

W/R

08 Sep 2005 at 19:21 - 29

Quote:
Originally Posted by QuixotesGhost

Ways to kill this guy (I'm thinking):

Diversion - Close as you can get to an instant win button

Echo+Blackout - The Combo my Warrior/Mes packs, unfortunatly I fought him with with my mes/nec instead :/

Meteor Shower spam - It constantly interupts so that's good, only problem is that he seems to be resistant to fire.

Snares (Water Magic in particular) - since consuming is a touch attack... if he can't touch you...

Protection - Can work but you need cover enchants. Like put down Prot spirit and keep laying guardian over it everytime he uses a Consuming Flames.
Diversion doesn't work because its a skill not a spell, nice try tho hehe.

Echo + Blackout im not sure on because we didn't have one of these with us at the time. Perhaps someone else can elaborate on this idea.

Metor Shower Spam this works kinda, problem is metor does no damage to him and is to much energy to keep castin. Most likely you will be heavy dp. Especially when you fight the last 3 together.

Snares (Water Magic in particular) - since consuming is a touch attack... if he can't touch you...

Snares don't work because this guy flys and has a very strange agro range.

Protection - Can work but you need cover enchants. Like put down Prot spirit and keep laying guardian over it everytime he uses a Consuming Flames

Protection is a good idea but he uses flurry after every consume so its constantly removing enchants. Prot spirit works awesome as long as it stays on lol.

The best thing I have found is spamming heal party and using mantra of fire.

The undead Mesmer

Delphian Scribe

Join Date: May 2005

Holland

No guild ;_;

N/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 19:40 - 30

me killed it but it whas a mean little monster if you tell me first time our team got completely annihilated whe rezzed and lured him under the SMUSHERS or crushers its your call

but they kill you in only 1 RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing hit its yust insane.

n0b of doom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ascalon Electric Company

W/R

08 Sep 2005 at 19:44 - 31

Quote:
Originally Posted by The undead Mesmer
me killed it but it whas a mean little monster if you tell me first time our team got completely annihilated whe rezzed and lured him under the SMUSHERS or crushers its your call

but they kill you in only 1 RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing hit its yust insane. Well going for an eazy kill doesnt do much for you. Cause if your team cant take down one alone then no way you can take 3 at the same time lol.

Why not try and discuss options as a community then kills which shouldnt happen. I mean think about it. If the AI of the monster was good enough it would know not to go into the crushing machines.

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

08 Sep 2005 at 19:51 - 32

Quote:
Originally Posted by n0b of doom

Diversion doesn't work because its a skill not a spell, nice try tho hehe. Diversion - Energy: 10
Hex Spell. For 6 seconds, the next time target foe uses a skill, that skill takes an additional XX seconds to recharge. (Attrib: Domination Magic)
Diversion WOULD normally work, but for some reason it won't stop Flames. Perhaps some hidden attribute or skill of the Djinn's?

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 19:58 - 33

Djinn uses Flourish. So if you Diversion his Flames, he just uses Flourish to recharge it instantly.

Shusky

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Flying Purple Hippos

08 Sep 2005 at 20:14 - 34

I found him while searching for ores. Rather traumatic.

(Yep, I got helplessly lost. I don't know how, exactly )

Sciros Darkblade

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Ohio

Archons Ascendant [Arch] - Leader

W/

08 Sep 2005 at 20:15 - 35

Arcane Thievery!! STEEL IT!!

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

08 Sep 2005 at 20:21 - 36

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sciros Darkblade
Arcane Thievery!! STEEL IT!! You can't Arcane Thief it because it's a skill, and a monster skill at that. You'll never be able to get it no matter what.

Dazzler, I Div'ed its Flourish, then Div'ed its Flames. Yet somehow it kept on pouring the Flames out, yet not as fast as before with Flourish I think. I'll have to go back and try it again.

kleps

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/Mo

08 Sep 2005 at 20:34 - 37

we ended up beating him with the help of a bunch of siege ice golems. got rather lucky i guess.

sidepocket13

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

New England

Metallica Roadies

Mo/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 20:38 - 38

i saw Djinn and i was hoping to see "i dream of jeanie" there.........that didnt happen

Dazzler

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

E/Me

08 Sep 2005 at 20:39 - 39

Quote:
Originally Posted by Savio
You can't Arcane Thief it because it's a skill, and a monster skill at that. You'll never be able to get it no matter what.

Dazzler, I Div'ed its Flourish, then Div'ed its Flames. Yet somehow it kept on pouring the Flames out, yet not as fast as before with Flourish I think. I'll have to go back and try it again. He's a sneaky bastard. He probably snuck a Flurry in there to soak up your Div and protect his Flames. I head someone mention he uses Flurry...though I don't know how they know that.

QuixotesGhost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

08 Sep 2005 at 20:44 - 40

What about a healing ball?

Cluster everyone together very tightly, cast healing seed on the guy in the middle. The guys at the front body block the djin so he can't use his touch attack to remove seed, but the seed man still gets hit with damage to activate it. The damage from Consuming Flames gets spread out so he can't heal effectivley, and have your monks spam heal party or even better a ranger with healing spring.