I need to prove a point to a clan member of mine, and the only way to do that is to level a crystal to stage 11 off Zaken's arse.

Problem is I've never seen Zaken, let alone kill him, and now I'm off to organize a raid. First stage of planning is gathering information, so here I am.

Can it be done with 2 parties? (players would be roughly lvl 65) If yes, what formation would you suggest? (tank+bd+pp+se+5 nukes)x2?

I've noticed he only has about 40k more HP than Rahha which we killed with just one party, but Zaken seems to have some tough skills on top of that...

Any info is appreciated

zaken is an epic boss which does various annoying stuff like teleporting your members or himself to other rooms

Ok, that's nasty of him...can he be killed? what does it take?

Yes. He can be killed. And it takes a great amount of organization.

I don't know all that much about him, personally, but I do know a little:

If you raid him at nighttime (nighttime ingame) you won't kill him. he's a vampire, so his HP regen at night is... insane. makes Antharas look weak, in a sense.

If u want to bring down zaken u must necesary have a BD to do silence dance all the time cause there are so many agresive undead moobs, second u musn' t bring in ur party close range type fighters, only mages or archers! Whn zaken have 25% HP left he will teleport into another room...dunno exactly below or above. When do u find him he will have 50% HP but the advantage is that u can kill him there cause he wont teleport again!! GL at hunting

hm...i've asked around and it seems BD only gets that skill as a SD, so after the third change, which means he's far too big. I was thinking of having some people outside the parties to keep the place clean, sort of like bouncers

but i'm still asking, will 2 parties be enough? will 1 tank be enough? etc.

thanks for all the info so far, it's slowly coming together now

cheers

p.s. thanks dark passion for the vampiric info, major effect

Tanking Zaken is not problem, you only have to take care of mana, it will be long to kill. The best 'mages' to kill are Bishops and EEs (Might of Heaven). These Bishops and EEs should often use Mana Burn on him too. Then he _may_ not port away.

Does anyone know a place where I could find a map to him? Cose' the damn place is a maze...

http://files.filefront.com/nabstract2wm ... einfo.html

a movie takeing zaken down on a romanian server ..

ok... killing zaken... first of all if you play in c4, better have nuker parties, if you have interlude better have dds parties (destroyers preferency) and u must always have people that can cancel zaken's teleporting... ( shield slam, shield bash, stun shot, switch, bluff) so he wont port anyone out... and ofc... you have to enter his room at 00:00 (ingame time) and wait 1 real life hour (untill 06:00 ingame time) so his regeneration will be much lower...

And w8 all in real time. Don't try to rr or disconnect, or else u will go "to village"

You can always fix the problem of teleporting your party members away with a summoner's Summon Friend (if implemented in your server).

And how many summoners do you need? As far as i know, the cooldown isn't low at all.

killing zaken is not a big problem at all ...taking the earring can be a DAMN BIG PROBLEM ^^

Zaken is a pain in the ass , AQ and Orfen are easy compared to him .. first of all you need 3 party's mainly nukers because some ppl say that melle class are often ported around and nukers less . Every party camp a floor and so on , Zaken need's a lot of organization you will enter in his room at 00:00 in-game time so you will have to wait till 06:00 in-game time ( when it's day ) so you can deal damage to him , everyone must be level 61 and ofc every party to have Main Tank / Secondery Tank rechargers and nukers . You can kill Zaken in 1 party when you have Zariche and party full of Destro with Frenzy On , only then you can kill him on 1 party . It's a pain in the ass when you deal some good damage he will start porting ppl around and then he will port aswell so you will run like idiots in those mazes to find him coz even in day time he has some regen . It's hard i can say ..