Traldor's Oracle

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Traldor's Oracle

Created for those who carry only a staff into battle
Confirmed classes: friar, mentalist, eldritch, mauler
Other likely classes: cloth casters
Artifact XP: Mainland Dungeons
Two handed staff: 100% Quality, 30% Bonus
Base DPS: 13.5, Speed: 3.8, Damage Type: Crush
Comments on Solo, Grouped, or Battlegrouped: This has been soloed.

Artifact Level	Abilities Gained		Comments/Pictures
Artifact Level	Pure Caster	Friar	Comments/Pictures
0	Intelligence (or Piety) +15 Focus All Spell Lines 50 levels Casting speed 5%	Piety +18 Melee combat speed 4%	close up picture Eldritch
2	Dexterity +15	Dexterity +15
4	Heat 6% Cold 6%	Heat 6% Cold 6%
6	Arcane Siphon (5% chance)	Arcane Siphon (10% chance)
8	Reduces enemy target's resistances versus all magic damage by 5%. Only resists gained from items are reduced.	Style damage 4%
10	Arch Magery	Arch Magery	Mentalist Spiritmaster

Arcane Siphon: Chance not to use any power when casting a spell
Arch Magery: Grants target additional spell damage and ability to penetrate target's resistances.
    Damage bonus: 5%
    Resist piercing bonus: 5%
    Target: Group
    Range: 1500
    Duration: 5 min
    Casting time: instant
    Timer: 30 min
    This spell is cast when the item is used.

Traldor's Oracle - The Friar version of this artifact has had the melee haste and style damage each reduced by 1%. The piety bonus has been increased by 3.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Credits: Whiskered, Senkan, Columbos, Alithravielle, Bringon, Calamos

Leveling the Artifact

Strategy: (6 methods here)

leader loc is 38.5k, 15k Hesperos
horde loc is 20k, 63k Boreal
temple door is 13k, 59k Boreal

The quest is not up if the doors to the temple are open.
A shot of the encounter down (doors open)
A shot of the encounter up (doors closed)
A shot after camping inside
and a shot after the swarm comes through the walls Mar 23 2004
- Phylon

There are so many methods listed here because some people have figured out how to do this without farming for faction. Some figured out how to do it with faction, but to do it solo, and that takes more time. Then of course there's the more normal setup where you have a group of people, and you try to get faction.

After you complete the encounter, the doors will take about 7 hours or so to reclose and traldor to repop, but more importantly, the mercs will carry the treasure back to the hoard for the next hour before the leader repops. THERE IS AN HOUR OF TIME BETWEEN WHEN THE DOORS ARE CLOSED AND WHEN THE LEADER REPOPS. Apr 13 2004
- Majere

To do this with a Pet class, use Pet to get faction once, skip the Horde:

i did this encounter with me (41 sorcerer) and a 50 reaver.... (a level 45 Sorcerer soloed it this way, too - Garbannoch)
you can do this without faction, without sneaking in, and without gtae... go to the gadarian leader with a pet, put the pet on passive, click on the gadarian leader, then click "go target". once you have gadarian leader aggro, pull the pet away from the leader's spawn point..... once the gadarian leader kills your pet, he will walk back to his spawn, during which time you can talk to him (without getting aggro) to start the encounter. then we just swam to traldor's palace and waited for the traldoran mercs to come bash the door, we killed traldor, and i got my traldor's oracle at level 41. Feb 18

I tried to follow the this method and there should be a note added into this, warn people that try this to NOT come near any of the mobs as the gaderian leader summons his army to him to go to the temple. they WILL aggo, despite being on the way to something, and they then procede to chase you till you make it to land. Mar 22 2004
- Calamos

First of all, I did this with my level 50 supp SM, and a 50 supp RM and his healer bot helped me. It is easily soloable, but it went much faster and more efficient this way. Camp your character at the Leader and check back until you find him. Talk to him if you have faction, or if you are a pet class, set pet to passive and use the "go to" button so your pet goes to the leader and gets aggro, then call pet back with follow mode so you get far enough away. stick to leader and kill pet. talk to leader as leader swims back to camp area. woot! you have just started the encounter.. go right to the temple now (skip the hoard, the closer you get the more mercs pop) great! now it will take anywhere from 12 to 18 minutes and you will see tons of mercs coming to beat on the front gates of the temple. Wait and watch from a safe distance.

As soon as the gates go down all the mercs get wtfpwnt by traldor. swim on through and you will find 8-10 oj/red con loylists. In a group of 3 occasionally 1 will add, but they are not difficult to even solo (beware, there are two loylists on the extreme sides of traldor himself that you may miss if you dont look in the corners closely. Ok, so you have pulled them singly and killed them all and only traldor stands in your way. (providing he didnt aggro with any of the loylists. Traldor is only Oj con, can be soloed no problem. Once you have killed traldor, he will drop staff and usualy some rog item with 2% casting speed and so such. First time killing him I recieved a rog axe, dont remember stats. After you complete the encounter, the doors will take about 7 hours or so to reclose and traldor to repop, but more importantly, the mercs will carry the treasure back to the hoard for the next hour before the leader repops. THERE IS AN HOUR OF TIME BETWEEN WHEN THE DOORS ARE CLOSED AND WHEN THE LEADER REPOPS. Note that encounter credit is given on the staff drop, so anyone outside of group can talk to the leader orignally. Also remember NOT to go to the hoard if you use this method, or the mercs will pop and destroy the leader and his raiding party. I have found this to be the easiest way to do it. Total time taken... about 30-35 minutes. Apr 13 2004
- Majere and special thanks to Drai

To do this Solo with Gaderian faction, Skip the Horde:

Plot summary of the artifact:
Traldor is in possession of one of the oracles described in the scrolls and has a bunch of loyalists and mercenaries at his disposal. The Gaderian citizens are sick of being raided by the Traldorian mercenaries, so once you get neutral or friendly faction with the Gaderians (achieved by killing Traldorian mercenaries), they offer to help you. Once you start the encounter by talking to the Gaderian leader, the raiding party makes it way to Traldor's treasure horde which is guarded by many mercenaries.

The "proper" way to do this is to take out enough mercenaries so the raiding party can win and take the treasure horde. The rest of the mercenaries become angry when they think Traldor will not be able to pay them once the Gaderians take the treasure horde. So they all bash the temple doors where Traldor resides, but he kills them all once the doors are opened.   You're not going to do it this way.

As of this time, you can totally skip going to the treasure horde platform. Do not go to the Treasure Horde platform at all. After talking to the Gaderian leader, simply wait outside near the temple out of the way of any nearby mercenaries. After 15-20 minutes, the mercenaries will open the door for you (do not interfere).   It seems to be the case that if you go to the horde platform, then the mercenaries will pop, and if you don't kill some of them with a group of players, they will wipe out the Gaderians, and then kill you. So if you do NOT go to the horde, it seems to be that the mercenaries don't pop or something. Whatever is happeneing, it works if you do NOT go to the horde. This method has been done a few times, so it wasn't just a one time glitch.

All that remains are Traldorian loyalists which are orange and red to a 50. They do not BaF when pulled solo or duo. Be sure you are not near the temple walls since random aggro can still attack you from outside. After the loyalists are dead, Traldor is easy (orange to 50).   Feb 3
- Manigaech

I'm a 50 enchanter... There were 7 oj loyalists and 1 red. Pulled them 1 by 1. Take note that the red con can be quite tough if you're unbuffed, thankfully my mastery of concentration was up and burned that on it.

Traldor has 2 loyalists next to him, I wasn't sure about Traldor's strength and thus decided not to pet pull the loyalists next to him. Loyalists dont baf but not sure if Traldor bafs or the loyalists baf when you pull Traldor. So I used heat debuff to pull them out 1 by 1.

Traldor is easy, my pet aggroed and I fire my pbaoe. Got encounter and the staff. Also a Quality 97 staff dropped with 2% powerpool bonus, 15 int and power regen charges. May 7 2004
- Jeroen

GTAE or Trebuchet from back of temple method without faction with a group:

Have a solo GTAE caster go up to rear of temple while group waits at slope a little way sbehind. GTAE inside and run back toward group. If its loyalists, its only a few - group kills them. If you hit Traldor, swim at group, have group target and take down Traldor while you (GTAE caster) keeps going with the whole Traldoran Navy after you. Traldor dies, GTAE caster dies - and thats it. Group has staff, goes and res's GTAE caster. Then thumbs their nose at the poor saps farming faction as they boat away. Feb 17
- Saxxon

We have used GTAE to do it, but also lacking GTAE we brought a treb. The treb user or GTAE'er was outside the group, hit Traldor through the back of the temple and then ran. When the mobs agro'ed through the back of the temple, the person wanting the artifact picked Traldor out and killed him.
A half hour at the most from leaving time with treb to finished artifact. Mar 14 2004

To duo this without faction:

Method I used - no faction farming or anything:

Parked an alt at temple and kept checking until doors were down, then logged my Darkcarver and Bot in cieling area, you can still get the odd arggo from outside the temple so be alert.

Log back in few hours later, doors are closed and Traldor is up with gaurds, this is nice as its less likely anyone will kill steal Traldor on you.

Buff up and takedown all his gaurds first, this buys you a little more time to kill Traldor himself, he is just an org con mob.

Then go at Traldor, best to hit him from floor in middle of temple, you will have about 4-5 seconds to finish him before mercs from outside temple make their way in and zerg you to death. For my Darkcarver with fast casting gear was pretty easy though did not have time to pick up loot before dying. keep bot ungrouped so he gets no arrgo and can then rez you to pick up (or repeat if you failed to get him down). Jan 28
- Galois

I ended up logging out inside of the temple after someone else did this as i checked winged helm with a friend. This is quite easy to do with a spiritmaster because of the pet intercept, i just pulled the guards 1 at a time and then at traldor, used MOC and finished him and grabbed the staff before the 20 other mobs got me. (i think this would also be quite easy with chanter stun/pbae or sorc confuse everything then moc/lifedrain on traldor). Mar 22 2004

Be careful if you try this trick... this player reported:

I was working on killing traldor mercs when someone logged into the game while inside the temple. All the mercs nearby swam at the temple, swam through the walls and a few seconds later there was hibbie death spam. Door was closed still so they couldnt have swam in. Feb 4
- Jairlyn

To do this with a group, with faction, and going to the horde:

So here is the thought behind the new patch. It seems mythic wants the ENTIRE group, or at least whoever is attemping the encounter to have good faction with the Gaderians.. I say this only because when an actual person is hovering over the horde area it stops the repop.. I would only assume they are hoping that you stay and actually join the frontlines to fight with the Gaderians.

1. person talks to the Gaderian Leader (38.5k, 15k in Hesperos) that has good galdorian faction. tells them that they would be such a person to help.

2. they head to the location where everyone else is 20k, 63k Boreal where the Traldor's Horde set of Traldoran Mercenaries are.

3. the person with confuse starts using confuse on the 30 some odd mobs that are densly packed around the "horde" (traldors loot to pay the mercs with) and the rest do nothing... that is right... nothing... unless there is a mob that gets on the person casting confuse. once the Mercenaries beat each other senseless to the point that there are <8 then the rest of the group can help BUT... if the galdorians show up you can actually hurt them (they are still regular mobs, not realm members) as they show up to get the loot that was stollen from them by traldor. thus... no ae and no hurting galdorians. if you hurt them the quest starts over. if the leader dies then the quest starts over... so... our job is ... once they get there, which takes about 20 mins, that there are no Mercenaries around to have to worry about this.

4. once that has been done then the Traldoran Mercenaries get upset cause they suspect that Traldor can't pay them. they all head to Traldor's Temple (13k, 59k Oceanus Boreal) and start bashing down the doors... WE... watch them do that... they get wiped out... every one of them... once they destroy the doors.

5. now the more difficult part happens. there are 9 red or orange Loyalists and Traldor. also off to the west side are orange alagators that will agro if you get to close to them thru the walls. what ever you do... DO NOT attack Traldor. once you attack him ALL the traldorian loyalists mob the person that attacked... even if you just mezed them... traldor must have group purge. the only thing that i found that worked well here was ... confuse. you can pull the first two with just 1 add each but the rest seem best done with confusing them and Traldor will just sit there and watch them agro each other. once you have dealt with the Loyalists. you take Traldor down and he drops Traldors Oracle... the useless version, which you then have to get the scrolls to activate. Dec 4
- Hamingju

When two people did it with faction and they went to the Horde:

I just soloed Traldor's Oracle. I am a 50 suppression runemaster.

First, I spent a few hours getting good Gaderian faction by killing Traldorian Mercenaries over and over. Yeah it boring as hell, but the xp isn't bad for my new bot.

Second, I went to the Gaderian leader talked to him etc. I swam ahead to 60k, 20k Boreal where the Traldor's Horde is stashed. Big concrete platform covered with pots and like 20ish yellow/oj mercs. Confuse came in real handy here. Instead of picking them off one by one and taking forever to do so, I confused a crapton of them. They all fought. Over and over. I was able to reduce that 20ish down to about 3 when the Gaderian raiding party showed. At that point it was pretty darned easy for the leader and his posse to mop up. Anyways the leader dicks around for a few minutes before picking up the cash/horde so you may wonder if something is broken. He leaves and now you have a short swim to Traldor's temple.

Up to this point this was very easy and just took a lot of time.

Traldor has 10 guards inside. 9 oj loyalists and 1 red loyalist. Again, I used confuse against these bastards. Took em all down no problems.

Traldor was the hard part. He can't be snared or rooted. Well for a solo runemaster that becomes quite the problem because Traldor's got over 3000 hp. With 64 suppression and 292 pie my 50 spec nuke hit for 392 dmg. Oh, and Traldor had no problems interrupting me while I MOCed.

What saved me was pbt and my lil shammy spamming me with heals. Every so often the bubble would stop Traldor and I'd get a cast off.

Is this soloable? If you have a bot, sure. If you don't have a bot, you better be a pet caster or have wild power 5000 to ensure you crit every nuke. Nov 19
- Kerin

Tips:

DO NOT charm the traldorians... (and i am asuming the galdorins just not going to try it for the sake of science..) if you do, then the horde part becomes broken and spawns before the galdorians have been credited for the steal of the horde and kills them... thus you start over. as soon as i dropped the traldorian pet and got a tritan from right over the zone line in meso it went past that step.
this has happened to me twice in the 3 times that i have successfully gotten it completed. someone charms a traldorian... it won't move on. not scientific. but, seems to be correct. Dec 6
- Hamingju

Traldor has something that seems to be like group purge. if you mez his loyalists, and then attack him... they all come unmezed and attack the first person that attacked traldor.
If that person attacked with a pet they IGNORE the pet and go for the pet owner. that or they were attacking the person that mezed them... which with a sorcerer was the same person...
Thus, i felt that this is heavly biased to deal with the loyalists first and then traldor.
Also there are some orange con gators that if you get too close to the walls they will agro you. Dec 4
- Hamingju

There is another way to do it, however it ensures death to your group...
We had two clerics, one pally, two mercs, a minstrel and a sorcerer. (Seven of us) We knocked the door down, then rushed inside and targetted Traldor, put BoF up, killed him (sorc mezzed those coming in) and then got swarmed and died. Just don't panic. Spam f7+g when he dies... wouldn't want to die and have the artifact decay.
As for Hibs/Mids, I assume with decent CC you can still take him down (just ignore the loyalists and be quick to target him and /assist whoever has it) but you will want two good healers with instas and perhaps MoC if some even cons makes it through. (Or heck, just PBAoE them to death) Nov 26
- Keffa

We probably killed 150 traldor merceneries to make them neutral and another 100 to make them (Gadorians) friendly. Dec 15
- Quintarus Halsa

Drops:

Traldor's Belt
Crush 6%
Slash 6%
Thrust 5%
Heat 5%
Cold 5%
Bonus to Casting Spd: 2%
Still has the 10 charges of 75 acuity charge.   Feb 24
- Serenity_Arrow

silksteel Traldor's Robe   Mar 28 2004
- Kalare

Scroll pieces: Traldor's Oracle

Piece 1 of 3
Skyros sky mages, Skyros guros

off a Skyros Guros Nov 13
in Mesothelassa 12.6k, 33.3k in Skyros Territory Nov 13 - Ddw
off of Sobekite Khem Komo on Treasure Island. They conned Yellow to a level 50. Jan 24 - Pendra
found near 13k 33k meso Mar 23 2004 - Phylon

Piece 2 of 3
Skyros spearfishers, Skyros harpooners

on Lonely Island in Hesparus. - Rysyl Kelmarr
Island in Mesothalassa around 24k, 60k - Alcara Argenta
Hesperos 57k, 27k off of Sobekite khu ragers - Murcaeus
sobekite khu rager Hesp:60000,20000 Lonely Island, Hesperos
off a sobekhite khu rager on the island at 20k,55k Mesothalassa Feb 2
Farming Khu Ragers in Meso at 55X55 aka Tritonia: blue-org con to 50. Mar 20 2004 - Kendara Bladesinger and Kallah Dreamsong
off Treasure Island (think it was sobekites but not sure) Mar 23 2004 - Phylon
off a Skyros, think it was harpooner but not terribly sure. Apr 21 2004 - Saca

Piece 3 of 3
Skyros deepblades, Skyros peltasts

in Kithara Sanctuary Nov 27 - Haiden Dhiamon
With this last patch Skyros peltasts and deepblades drop them also. They also drop them MUCH more often than razorfins. The camp is at 12k/23k in Mesolethasa. Dec 24 - Yohko Mano
off a Skyros Deepblade at 10.2k, 21.8k Meso Jan 1 - Mevi
I spent over ten hours camping Skyros Deepblades/Petalists for scroll 3/3. I actually found it off a Skyros Nullifer. Jan 29
off a Skyros peltast Mar 23 2004 - Kallah Dreamsong
off a Skyros peltast Apr 3 2004 - Ragathol
While hunting Sobekite's straight west of Areus I killed... a khem rager and got a traldor's oracle 3 of 3 May 15 2004

The combined scrolls read:
##The Completed Dichorotory's Dissertation reads, "From Dichotory the Gamesman's journal: The Oracle is a functionary item that many dignitiaries and commanders of Atlantis used. It is a multi-purpose item. Why they were ever brought to the planes I will never know. The creatures of these planes covet the oracles. Four in Oceanus have been reprimanded for attempting to use them against champions in the trials! Always the same troublemakers! I dare think what would happen to the trials if we were not here to keep them in line. I am suggesting that the oracles be banned from the planes altogether. They can be held for visitors in the Hall of Heroes. "

##The Completed Dichorotory's Dissertation reads, "From Dichotory the Gamesman's journal: All the oracles have been removed save one! It seems that an oracle has been removed from one of the temples. I suspect that it has been purposely removed, not merely misplaced."

##The Completed Dichorotory's Dissertation reads, "From Dichotory the Gamesman's journal: I have to leave the planes! I have received strange rumors. I've been instructed to close down the trials for now, and send all Atlanteans home, but I haven't time to reach the orbs. I have decided to leave them. I'm told there is a chance the planes may be destroyed. I can no longer worry about the missing Oracle. It is only a functionary item, what harm could it do here?"

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