EverQuest 2 Brigand Guide
6. Raid Instances
This last section of the guide will give you an overview and general strategies for the endgame raid instances and the excellent loot you can get from them. This is by no means a end-all strategy that will make you win everytime, nor is it the only way to complete these zones. They are just strategies that I have used and that have been successful countless times over.
As a scout your primary job is to do damage and debuff the mob. By level 50 you should have enough practice to know what you are doing and have a general strategy to do the maximum amount of dps in the shortest amount of time. Each section of this raid overview will also list the resistances of each raid mob. As a scout you need to have two good slashing and piercing weapons for the various mobs you will face. Also make sure you have both piercing and slashing arrows which you can buy from NPC vendors, and even crushing arrows as well, but you need to find a crafter for these. On some of the harder contestable raid mobs it’s also a good idea to save your stuns for when the tank is getting low on health. This way the healers have extra time to get the tank back up because every second counts in situations like these. In the case that you do pull agro on the mob this is also a good time to use your stuns and interrupts. Your primary focus is keep yourself and the other melee classes alive when you do pull agro and the mob targets you. To do this you want to turn the mob 180o so that the back is facing the majority of players as to avoid riposts. At the same time you also want to turn your back to the mob to avoid riposts as well, which could very well kill you in one hit. If your main tank (MT) is good he should have the agro back on him within a few seconds and you can go back to doing dps after he has adequate hate.
6.1. Zarvonn’s Tower: Echoes of Time (Commonlands)
Encounter: King Zalak the Ancient
Immune: Cold, Slash
Specials: Summons 3 patriarchs every minute that heal King Zalak and do AoE damage.
Scout Items: Earring of Disintegration (Bracelet Slot), Uktrl’s Shield of Stealth
This instanced raid zone is a good learning zone for some of the newer guilds. You need to be organized and have good communication to complete this zone, which is a building block for many of the other harder raid zones and contestable raid mobs. In