Assault on Skettis

[Sting]

Can go fuck itself. Who even designed this?

[Deleted]

I instantly cancelled the quest, once I figured what you've to do.

[Zenfoldor]

Ah Sketty. Did you ever do it before they nerfed the key drop rates?

[Deleted]

really? ive found it to be one of the faster quests of the dailies

kill arakkoa > loot keys > free prisoners > turn in prisoners

[Jester Joe]

It is pretty bad out of all of them.

Like, so many people just farm the keys now and release the slaves, it was so much easier before they caught on

[Hellrime]

The trick is to free as many of the prisoners as you can then go around killing the Arakkoa until you have like 30-20 seconds on the buff then rush them to the guy in the front to free them. It's actually really, really fast compared to the other one in Spires where you have to kill the Shadow Council guys but there is like only 20 mobs and you're fighting with the entire server to get them.

[Sting]

Ah Sketty. Did you ever do it before they nerfed the key drop rates?

Today was the first time my server got it, I got 6% in 30 minutes, then I just abandoned it. My achievement hoarding inner spirit is crying tears of bitter sorrow. Really hoping this is going to get "fixed".

Shadowmoon Enclave was already pretty bad, but this is worse by far.

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The trick is to free as many of the prisoners as you can then go around killing the Arakkoa until you have like 30-20 seconds on the buff then rush them to the guy in the front to free them. It's actually really, really fast compared to the other one in Spires where you have to kill the Shadow Council guys but there is like only 20 mobs and you're fighting with the entire server to get them.

Well yea, I did that, but half my server was there so even getting the keys was a nightmare.

[Deleted]

I don't know, I got keys really fast and turning in 4 slaves with 100 morale made the bar go from 50-60% to 100% instantly

[Sting]

Hm. Might be a crowding issue then.

[Jester Joe]

Hm. Might be a crowding issue then.

It really is. High pop servers are going to not have fun with it at all, low pop it's going to be the easiest.

[Keilith]

Join a quest group
Hang out near entrance
??????
Profit!

[rayvio]

I actually quite like that one, although it's only popped once on my realm so far and was the first one I did. worst is easily the spires/smv border one and likely will continue to be until they finally fix the damn portal that, last I heard, is only working on Mal'Ganis (US), which means us europeans are screwed as we can't even cross-realm to it

[Bizerk]

Did it at 8am, both achievements + daily in 10minutes.

[Tziva]

It probably sucks on really high pop realms but it's actually one of the faster ones to do otherwise.

The problem is that how it's done is not oblivious and lots and lots of people do it wrong unknowingly (eg, they don't turn in the slaves to the NPC when morale is high). It take an insane amount of time when you're just grinding mobs which appears to be how a significant amount of people are trying to do it.

[Deleted]

I guess reading quest text was a bit too much.

[Slant]

This may not be suitable for everyone, but I've just done the achievements on the first try without even straining. The drawback is, it's 4am. You really need to have no other people around, then it's ridiculously easy. For the Fish, just wait at that one spot near the waterfall... and kill a bird, and loot a fish. For the escortquest, start at the bottom where the prisoners are close to each other (preferablyl with one or two fish buffs) and then just go and kill stuff on your most direct route to the exit. Some people talk about a special route or something... I dunno, I just waterwalked across the lake to those 4 bigger birds, other than that I just went straight to the exit.

Seriously, implementing this quest on high pop realms is probably bordering on sadism. I empathize with everyone not being able to just hop in during early morning (or late night). No idea what Blizzard had in mind with this...

Edit: 3200! I like even numbers.

[arcaneshot]

There's a trick to doing this even when the place is overcrowded.

Notice how there's groups of patrolling five birds flying around in circles? They come back fast enough that you can kill them over and over and the morale bar will fill up much faster than you running around with the slaves.