Advancing on the Blighting Towers

Advancing on the Blighting Towers

Location

Dragon's Stand
(Heart of Maguuma)

Event type

Map meta event

Level

80

Followed by

Dragon's Stand

Advancing on the Blighting Towers is a map meta event that occurs in Dragon's Stand. The Pact has finally entered Mordremoth's domain, and are assaulting the dragon's defenses in order to reach and finally deal with the jungle dragon itself.

Objectives

• Map closes in: 2:00:00

Walkthrough

The map meta event consists of three separate assault lanes, each with their own event chain. A minimum of 15 players are needed to begin the assault, with 5 players gathered around the Pact Tactician for each lane. The first phase follows the below pattern thrice:

• Complete simultaneous events to reinforce the Pact troops with unique allies and weapons.
  • North: Skritt, Mushrooms, Wyverns and Enchanted Armors (Help Spleecta turn the Exalted machine back on)
  • Central: Itzel, Pact troops, and Pact Airstrikes (Destroy the Mordrem prisons and get the soldiers to their chopper alive)
  • South: Ogres, Beetles, and Charr Weapons (Escort Dolyak to the camp before the assault)
• Escort the reinforced Pact troops to the next staging area and defeating the Mordrem Spitfire there.
• Defeat the Mordrem Commander advancing towards the Pact troops.
  • North: Adryn, the Stavemaster (Crowd control focused)
  • Central: Diarmid, the Blademaster (Melee and ranged focused)
  • South: Hareth, the Axemaster (AOE and heavy damage focused)

This phase only requires escorting the Pact troops to the Blighting Towers to progress; however, each completed reinforcement event strengthens the Pact escort troops and spawns two additional Noxious Pods at the nearby camp.

The second phase begins once all three assault lanes reach the Blighting Towers:

• Disable and prevent the three Ley Energy Collectors from regenerating
• Defeat the Mordrem Commander

Players in each lane are split into two groups: a small group takes down the boss, and a larger group circles around the tower to disable the Ley Energy Collectors and prevent the Veteran Mordrem Preservers from restoring the Collectors. The Mordrem Commander will be invulnerable if any Collecter is up, making it imperative that they are not restored by the Mordrem Preservers. Furthermore, a defeated boss will revive to full health and needs to be killed again if one of its Collectors is restored. The event will not succeed until all three Mordrem Commanders are defeated. This means the main group must continue circling the tower to ensure the Collectors stay down even if their Mordrem Commander is defeated.

Event schedule

Previous 2 hoursNext 2 hours

00:00 UTC

Meta events

Northern Assault

[Group Event] Gather around Tactician Jazmei for a head count (80)

Bring Chakata shiny wyvern crystals to get the skritt to join the fight (80)

Glide up to gather Mordrem vine pods and return them to Briallen (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Defend the planted mushrooms until they reach maturity (80)

Bring meat from the saurian nests to build a pile to attract wyverns (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Help Gammalon Vineripper destroy the brambles and clear a path to the Exalted (80)

Help Spleecta turn the Exalted machine back on (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Northern Barbed Gate (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Hold the area while the Pact prepares to breach the gate (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat Mordremoth's Commander (80)

[Group Event] Stavemaster Adryn approaches (80)

Central Assault

[Group Event] Gather around Tactician Dutch for a head count (80)

Retrieve engine parts to keep the cannons online (80)

Help Grumlukl create his bombs (80)

Defeat the mushrooms to rescue the trapped Itzel (80) (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Toss salvaged scrap to Overseer Braeden so that he can build barricades (80)

Destroy the Mordrem prisons and get the soldiers to their chopper alive (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Climb up and retrieve the flamethrower supplies (80)

Defend Alara the Wolf as she builds turrets (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Central Barbed Gate (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Hold the area while the Pact prepares to breach the gate (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat Mordremoth's commander (80)

[Group Event] Blademaster Diarmid Approaches (80)

Southern Assault

[Group Event] Gather around Tactician Ranara for a head count (80)

Defend Splort as he activates lasers (80)

Destroy ley-line collectors to gather energy for the Rata Novus device (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Escort Dolyak to the camp before the assault (80)

Kill the chak preventing the pets from returning to their ogre masters (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Mordrem spitfire (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat the Mordrem Spitfire (80)

Protect Skeln Razorfist while he builds thumpers (80)

Calm angry beetles down by stomping nodules inside the chak nest (80)

[Group Event] Escort troops to the Southern Barbed Gate (80)

Failure: [Group Event] Defend the camp (80)

Success: [Group Event] Hold the area while the Pact prepares to breach the gate (80)

Success: [Group Event] Defeat Axemaster Hareth (80)

[Group Event] Axemaster Hareth approaches (80)

Map Meta Icons

• - Indicates a Pact Camp and how far into Dragon's Stand the Pact's assault has progressed

Map Meta Rewards

Percentage	Tier 1	Tier 2
Tier Text		The blighting towers have been destroyed! Push on to the Dragon's Domain
≤ 25%	?	53,340 Spirit Shard Bag of Rare Gear Machete Noxious Seed Pod
50%	?	53,340 Spirit Shard Bag of Rare Gear Machete Noxious Seed Pod
100% ≤	?	53,340 Spirit Shard Bag of Rare Gear Bag of Gear Machete (3) Noxious Seed Pod (3)

Notes

• If the meta event is not completed within the 2 hour time limit, Mordremoth blasts the entire map, killing and pushing everyone back to the Pact Base Camp on the north-east edge of the map, while also wiping all progress made by the events across its domain.
  • Viewing the cinematic for the meta failure counts as a vista for the Daily Heart of Maguuma Vista Viewer achievement. It also completes the vista in Central Barbed Gate for map completion.
  • The map timer is paused after the Blighting Towers phase succeeds, allowing the final battle to take place without the pressure of a timer.
• Noxious Pods will also spawn at each base claimed, with additional pods spawned for each of the bonus events successfully cleared.
• The theme for each lane corresponds to a previous Heart of Thorns map zone: North (Auric Basin), Central (Verdant Brink), South (Tangled Depths)
• The Northern Lane is slightly more forgiving for players new to the meta after saving the exalted, as Exalted Sages will revive downed players.
• The Southern Lane is generally the last group to reach the Blighting Towers due to several events requiring to wait for NPCs or enemies to spawn before progress can occur. Event scaling therefore has a much more noticeable effect in this lane, with some events taking significantly longer to complete due to event upscaling.

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