Crusin' Croatoa: Hints/Tips requested.

External Since: Jun 05, 2007 Posts: 108

Well, Caliente Sam finally got assigned a string of missions in
Croatoa. Cool.

I know the main players, the red caps, the pumpkin-dudes, ghosts, the
were-deer, and the witches... (not their correct names, I'm a lousy
speller and I am writing this at work where I don't have access to the
game websites).

This should be a great mini-series of adventures since he is magic
based, he should be getting some sweet drops from the targets
(glittershrooms?). The were-deer seem to be the toughest so far, and
a boss I fought seems to have a lot of earth-based controller powers
(summon rock dude, make the ground bubble and slow you down).
[BTW, the last one was a surprise for Sam; he never gets held or
slowed, and this was doing a number on him. Thankfully he has burn and
also some break free inspires]

I understand that there is a couple large wandering monsters (Jack of
Irons?, Giant Pumpkinhead, Loch Ness Monster) around, and like the
wandering monsters in IP and Perez, its not someone you want to fight
solo, but hopefully I'll bump into them to snap some nice screenshots
or in a pickup team.)

Any hints or tips for this zone? Since its Halloween 24/7 in this
zone, anything extra-ordinary going on in the zone for the Halloween
event?

External Since: Jan 08, 2005 Posts: 1806

Amigoid <lbrown-amigoid.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>Well, Caliente Sam finally got assigned a string of missions in
>Croatoa. Cool.
>
>I know the main players, the red caps, the pumpkin-dudes, ghosts, the
>were-deer, and the witches... (not their correct names, I'm a lousy
>speller and I am writing this at work where I don't have access to the
>game websites).

>This should be a great mini-series of adventures since he is magic
>based, he should be getting some sweet drops from the targets
>(glittershrooms?). The were-deer seem to be the toughest so far, and
>a boss I fought seems to have a lot of earth-based controller powers
>(summon rock dude, make the ground bubble and slow you down).
>[BTW, the last one was a surprise for Sam; he never gets held or
>slowed, and this was doing a number on him. Thankfully he has burn and
>also some break free inspires]

They are a bitch at times - they can also drop you out of fly (and lock
you out of it for a bit) with their root throw.

>I understand that there is a couple large wandering monsters (Jack of
>Irons?, Giant Pumpkinhead, Loch Ness Monster) around, and like the
>wandering monsters in IP and Perez, its not someone you want to fight
>solo, but hopefully I'll bump into them to snap some nice screenshots
>or in a pickup team.)

Sally (the loch ness critter) is easily soloable - kill her twice for a
badge.

>Any hints or tips for this zone? Since its Halloween 24/7 in this
>zone, anything extra-ordinary going on in the zone for the Halloween
>event?

The only real thing to look out for is watching your aggro since there
are sometime multiple packs of baddies around and you don't want to get
caught in a crossfire.
The various groups do NOT like each other and there are some that move
around quite a bit.

No idea if anything happens there at Halloween since the only Halloween
event I was in was the first one and that was long before the Croatoa
zone existed.

Xocyll
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