Draupnir Cave

[Gryffes]

Updated OP w/ new glide shortcut images.

[Meresgi]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned, but that center group by the Instructor..is all linked. We tried to just snag a few and clear to boss that way...yeah.

[MrSamuels]

Has Anyone killed the last boss yet? We tried and got him to 50% but then he spawns 3 4 dot level 50 elites along with his 2 aoe stuns and their AoEs is pretty fucking insane. Saw a video of people kiting them but that seems impossible those things are fucking quick. What is the range of that AoE by the way, our casters were at max range and still got hit, and you cant Focused Evasion or Aethertwisting it, so its pretty fucking annoying.

[aers]

You used to be able to kite and reset the adds in 1.2 but it was fixed in 1.5.

Someone posted this:

Its pretty easy. First adds arent bad at all for anyone I think. The 50% adds are a bit more rough. All we did was run the Templar(myself) off with the chanter. He just kept me alive on his own and we kept the boss AEs away from the adds/cleric. There are no adds at 25%, just extra AEs.

[MrSamuels]

Yeah we were thinking that tactic last night but we didn't actually go did Dredgion instead.
Some of the things we though of were either:

Have the Chanter main heal the tank with the templar and him on one side of the circle, have the three dps take the adds seperately with the cleric healing them.

Have the templar pop his cooldowns all the time so at 75% pop empyrean armor blahblah. then stop dps untill they are back off cooldown and do the same at 50%. Templar level 50 shield of immunity doesn't lose threat either so pop that at 50% also.

Kite the boss to the ramp near the top, have the templar tank the boss at the bottom of the ramp and all dps/healers go up there at 50% with the adds. Not sure how AoE and height are factored into this game but could avoid it all if there is a height difference?

The Adds at 75% are really easy and not an issue at all. The ones at 50% just seem to spam AoE with the bosses AoE making it really hard to survive. I really like this place though, it is the first time we have really wiped on something that wasn't impossible at the level (lookin at you hutkin)

[Meresgi]

The cave is pretty nice, I hate the time it takes to trek from the 1st boss to the 2nd (Instructor to Kind) since my group fails at jumping and will never do it.

We have had some pretty good drops though. Plate gold legs off Saam last night, Gold leather boots off instructor a few nights before and a handful of chain blues from the rares and mid bosses.

[Katlan]

So i guess there is now an easy way for Elyos to get to Draupnir cave, anybody know where the corridor is? lol

[niwaar]

Same planet, different dimension, I've found the gateway.

Draupnir Cave Abyss Gate

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/530/dcagb.jpg

My paint skills are fail, marked it with a red dot. Go up the ramp towards the cave and you will see it on the ledge to the left. There is one outrider patrol that patrols right up to the gate, but several safe spots to wait for your slow poke friends. Extremely easy to get there without ANY aggro whatsoever from the Waterfall Teleport if you know where the stealthed mobs are along the road. This will give Elyos a lot more things to do between mid 40s and Dredgion/DP.

Only problem is that it sounds like this gate is only up for a certain amount of time like a rift. So be on the lookout for the zonewide announcement ala a rift pop.

Edit: You can also very easily just glide to this location from the waterfall teleport.