Pet focus in UF and progression...

[Kshipper]

Well I can see pet focus being the next major hurdle for the Mages in UF. Since the mobs are considered Tier 6 and I assume most are like me (stuck at Minion II as non raiders) we could really use a better pet focus for UF content. I have found 2 Minion IV items that appear to be from the first tier: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=109011 and http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=109411 ......the Coldain ear comes from a named Goo in the Cooling Chamber (according to Raspers) and the Ratskull earring seems to be a global tier-wide drop (according to post on Steel Warrior). I was hoping there might be one available on the Brells Arena vendors, but so far - nada.

I have already run into a tough spot in progression in Brells Rest already. On one required task you have to kill multiple waves of mobs by standing in very small area between 3 posts. The first wave is 5 mobs and of course our current pet can't take them all (so im guessing you need mez or a tank of some kind), plus it's really hard to stand out of range to let the pet tank. I can see a WAR AE taunt with a mezzer (ENC or Bard) the way to get this done. I am going to try testing the limits of how close I can stand to being outside the posts but I ran out of time before the patch. The task ends as soon as you step outside the ring or your whole party is dead. Maybe a J5 Merc tank? I haven't been using him since pets have made such good tanks in SoD...hmmm

[Mendoros07]

Yes the focus of this expansion is heavily favoring the group aspect -- in other words trying (at least for the new zones), to force people to group to advance. I think it will be a matter of time before folks find a way maybe to solo effectively or 2 or 3 box. At the release of SOD it seemed impossible, and now I can easily walk through friends through the Void progressions -- at times just 2 of us... or I can 3 box almost all.

As you said at least they added EM IV to the first tier so that the non-raiding folks can get access to those.

[Danille]

Pet DA and other defensive/mitigation/avoidance AA's make a huge difference, but yeah these new mobs really tear up our Jobers.

[Aither]

First tier is em IV , and you'll be pleased to hear that em V and VI will be available to groupers this expansion on ears. I'll post info on what drops them as I find them

[Merlaina]

I'm amused to see sharpshooting on a mag/nec/bst only item. Time to start summoning those bandoleers of luclin.

[svenalo]

EMV ear drops off Envoy Finlar in Underquarry, an easily groupable mob which will have no adds. Just have to deal with her rampage. Item is listed on Raspers.

[Nimmage]

yes I got Servant's Bone from Envoy Finlar in Underquarry tonight - Neraforesta helped me kill with one merc so easily groupable without raid gear.

[Citik]

Can anyone confirm where Envoy Frindar spawns please?

I've been killing the placeholder marked on Rasper's map for many hours now, but I haven't seen her yet.

The spot i've been clearing is the lower of the two small dead-end passages in the eastern Burynai area.

[svenalo]

That's the spot. Common drop is the aug, the ear is the rare. Can also drop T7 wrist clay.

[Zatpus]

T6 petfocus "Coldain Phalanges Earring" is from Acidic Goo. Got mine yesterday (magelo not updated yet), takes almost an eternity to get it from that mob.
I presume that this Acidic Goo is one of those named who has ph allover the zone (probably anywhere where you can find more than 2 goos in a spot).
If I understand well, the likehood to get a named spawned at a specific spot decreases with the amount of possible spawn points.

The first 3 days we haven't seen any named there and started to doubt, if we where in right spot.

Rought guestimate: keeping one of its ph permadown you may get 1 named every around 6h on averange. He comes always with 2 "weak" add-goos each around 200k HP. We always head for "sessions" around 4 ours when we head out to farm stuff and the sessions where I have seen no Acidic goo may have been as much as those where we got one.

Mine has been the third earring I have seen dropping. Samplesize I would guess to be around 40 ours at this spot.
So not enought to really claim one named per 6 ours, could be as well just the RNG playing games with us.

In total we got 3 earrings and 3 augs so far. So cannot tell what's supposed to be the Goos common drop.