Talk: Crystal Caverns: Collapse

Questgiver inside: Baenek Frostaxe, gives repeatable quests for (white) primal velium shard and City of Thurgadin faction. For instance, he may ask you to free trapped coldain.

Named 1: Herbalist: debuffs your poison mitigation and attacks with poison (roughly 250k attack if mitigation is down), cure the debuff, and use the red and blue potions on his workbench to replenish power and attack him.

Named 2: Life Leech: after herbalist is dead, tentacle horrors (moving trees, ropers) are active, except a large one. Kill the small ones to spawn Life leech. Heavy damage AoE, may be best to keep merc inactive to keep up with cures/heals. Killing him opens a path opposite from the Herbalist's alcove. That's as far as I got. I can update if I complete it.

Next two named mobs Edit

Foreman Smason V - I tank/spanked him with my merc active and did some kiting just for fun since it was the obvious thing to do with a huge crystal in the center of the room. He is in the shard chest room, and after you kill him, you can walk past the collapsing wall.

There are geonid patrollers and some inactive geonids down that path. The three inactives will attack when you get close, they must be killed to spawn...

Gem Collector - After the three inactive geonids are down, a blue circle appears, it bounces you up to the ledge where the Gem collector resides. He seemed easy to me compared to the others, drops the shard chest key and a collection shiny. If you have the trapped coldain quest, the last coldain is next to him, but you still need the last mob beyond the door.

Queen Drachnia Edit

After the Gem Collector, you can go through the "crumbling" door, but it's a one way trip until the Queen is dead. The door reactivates afterward, or you can take the escape portal offered by the coldain next to the queen. There are some snakes and spiders on the way, but in the room with her are two drachnids that can be taunted away from her and pulled separately. Tank can use a non damage taunt. If they do come along, they go down quickly enough with aoe. She spawns snakes and I took some time to kill a few, mostly I stayed on her. Make yourself a macro for /scratch so you can get out of the web whenever she casts it on you. I was zerker with inquisitor merc and it wasn't difficult. Kiting her around seemed to reduce damage to the merc.

Don't forget to go back through the door and get your (nerfed now) plat chest with a shard in it. Hey one plat is one plat.