The following guide explains how to farm T4 essences easily. Thanks to Mapfiend for the map outline and to Allakazam for the links to the quest info. I chose to farm essences from the instance Hiding in Plain Sight for a few different reasons:
- I don’t have to compete with other for the camp site/named
- Unlike uninstanced named in T4, this guy has some predictability to his spawning. He either spawns after you kill 15 mobs or he doesn’t spawn at all.
Prerequisites:
- Quest: Times are a Chainin’
- Faction: Kindly with Toskirakk Slaves.
If you need to raise your faction I would recommend the following tasks.
- Find Your Allies
- Whom The Frogs Destroy
- Wraith of the Korascian
- Champions No More
- Disrupt the Siege
- Retinue The Frog-God
The first three tasks must be completed before you can do Champions no More and Disrupt the Siege. Alla says that Champions/Disrupt the siege gives faction, but I was unable to confirm this. I stuck to the first three…plus the camp is easier and more named pop there.
Get The Task:
- Talk to Trilyaris (located right when you zone into Toskirakk from the void) and say “meet him”. She will give you the task, Hiding in Plain Sight.
- Say “ready” to zone into the instance.
Getting to the Camp Site
- Upon Zoning in make sure everyone in the goup is invised
- Using the above map as a guide, make your way to the green dot near the center of the map. This will be your camp spot for the whole process.
Killing 15 Mobs
- You need to kill 15 mobs before Borskar will spawn. It doesn’t matter how long/short this takes you – he won’t spawn until 15 mobs have died.
- Swarm pets do count (Wizard’s Call of Xuzl for example), but swarm pet procs from weapons do not count (SK swarm pet sword for example).
- I have found that the warboars have the lowest about of health and hit the lightest of anything in the zone. They spawn all around your campsite and I have pointed out some of them on the map above.
- When pulling boars be aware of the Rallosian mobs around you – they will social agro if a boar gets to close to them. They have signicantly more hp and hit a lot harder.
- Note: With an 85 SK with 4.2k AC/26k HP and nearly maxed out defensives I am able to tank 15 of these at a time. Don’t be afraid to pull at least a few at a time.
- Personally, I used a log parser to help me keep track of how many boars I have killed so far. When you pull a whole bunch at once, it is easy to lose count.
Checking For Borskar
- According to the Allakazam page he shouts “Lazy fools! None of you deserve to be in Rallos’ army. I doubt any of you are worthy of the heroes death you are soon to enjoy.” when he spawns, but I haven’t experienced this.
- Check along the his path I drew out in the above picture or have a tracker look for him. I have found he does spawn within 20 seconds or so of the 15th kill.
Killing Borskar
- He has nothing to special about him,but can hit for up to 7k. This can cause problems if your tank doesn’t have high AC or HP.
- My group makeup is Enchanter,Druid,Wizard,SK and 2 cleric mercs. I was able to do all this boxed (SK/Wizard on one computer and Druid/Enchanter on the other).
- Set one merc to balanced and one merc to reactive so they don’t heal on the same cycle.
- Used edict of command with the enchanter to charm one of the guards for extra dps.
- Hit my deflection displine with the SK and pulled with harm touch (to ensure good agro). While the disipline was active I tashed and slowed him with the enchanter.
- Sent the chanter’s charmed pet for dps.
- I then began constant spam heals with the druid.
- I then used twincast/other displines with the wizard and burned him down (while continuing spam heals with the druid). He went down quickly.
Rinse and Repeat
- Once he is dead and you have looted have everyone drop the task.
- You can keep repeating this until you get all the loot you are after.
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