The Leviathan

[EQ-Raiders]

The Leviathan is a rather easy encounter if properly setup. First you will need to clear the zone of all the Fishmen in the zone. The fishmen body drops are skins that you will use to defeat the Leviathan.

First you will need to decide on who will enter the Leviathan. The best candidates to enter are classes with fast cast time, enchanced reuse time, and alot of spell crit. Coercer, Illusionist, Wizard and Warlocks are some of the best but really any class will do that meets the above criteria.

Give one fishskin to each of the guys who will be killing Leviathan. The other fishskins will be given to the high dps melee members of your guild. If you have not been in the zone before pay attention to this part. You will need to farm the bombs before you take leviathan down. The bombs are found on Corpse drops from Gnashers inside the Leviathan. (Be sure when you are ready to farm the bombs that your loot options are set to free for all so the people inside can loot the bombs from the corpses).

Your first time in the zone you should harvest as many bombs as possible to lessen the times you need to harvest them again. The bombs are stackable and can leave the zone.

The safest way to farm and then kill is to farm as many as you can in one pull, wipe, then do the kill pull.
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Time to kill him. When you have enough bombs, give them to the 2-3 people who will be entering. The bombs are clickable from the hotbar as well.

The leviathan has a reflect availability that can be removed periodically by Furies and Wardens. This is important to dispell as often as possible so you can get debuffs on him quickly as possible.

The leviathan has a poison AOE that ticks pretty hard and fast. It is best to have group cure's in every group but if you cant field that many in a raid, you will want to have cure pots. The poison AOE will also hit the people INSIDE the leviathan as well, so be on the ready to cure yourselves inside.

When you engage the Leviathan (do it from his backside where his two eyes are because the people who enter get ported out on this side), his current target must be in melee range of him. Generally your tank can hop into the water and be just fine, otherwise you need to be on the inner rim of his bowl to avoid a massive AOE that damages gear quite badly and wipes your raid. Just have everyone rush in. Your only gonna be debuffing him anyways as his Thick Hide ability reduces all damage to him quite effectively.

The only way to kill him is to enter him and blow him up from the inside. When you engage him, one of your designated bombers will activate the fishskin and turn into a small fishman. Every minute the Leviathan will swallow a fishman, if you dont use the skin, he will AOE the raid down.

Once inside, spam the bombs to your hearts content. A way to maximize the bombs effectiveness is to wear items that increase base spell dmg, the RO miracle that increases heat dmg and causes 100% crits will as well. You will want to setup a cycle for entering as well so you can spell haste whoever is going in to help cast the bombs faster. A Chanter with decent reuse and casting speed should be able to get off close to 10 bombs per entry. The bombs will take off anywhere between 2% and 8% of the leviathan's health.

Your raid might have noticed a large globe in the zone just to the side of the leviathan. A member of your raid must have a Greenmist orb on them at all times for each attempt on Leviathan. At 10% of the mobs health the globe will become active. You will see a event dialog on your screen as well. To get to the globe you need to track along the wall and come at the orb from behind. Be careful because the tentacles flying about can kill you or knock you away.

It might be best to sent your Greenmist orb carrier over to the globe at around 25% health because the health of the mob drops rather quick. You cant attempt to kill the Leviathan until the Greenmist Orb has been activated. If you get to 0% he will heal and AOE the raid. Do not bomb him until you see the text event that the Leviathan is now vulnerable. When you see this you can kill him safely.

Enjoy the loot.

[wullailhuit]

Another thing that makes him AE is if one of the vial-bomb carrying Gnashers inside Levaithan isn't killed every 2 minutes 30 seconds, so one (preferably more if possible for extra vials) has to be killed at least every other time someone is swallowed.

Sometimes you are just unlucky and 2 or 3 of the Gnashers are stacked close enough to the port in point that the person being swallowed gets mobbed and killed , when that happens the next person in MUST kill a gnasher.

[Sharpteath]

Sometimes you are just unlucky and 2 or 3 of the Gnashers are stacked close enough to the port in point that the person being swallowed gets mobbed and killed , when that happens the next person in MUST kill a gnasher.

false...You do not "HAVE" to kill anything. Just have the next person cycle in and blow up pots. Rinse and repeat.

[EQ-Raiders]

Sharp is correct. He used to be bugged, but this is not the case any longer.

[EQ-Raiders]

Video of Leviathan Added To Information.

Also The Leviathan's Thick Hide Damage Reduction Shield was reduced quite dramatically. It is possible for for a raid force with pretty efficient dps to kill him in about 10 minutes without using any bombs at all. But practice using the bombs, its alot faster and your raid will be better prepared teamwork-wise for awaits you in Veeshan's Peak.

[BigMaxx]

Couple of Questions...
I am a RL on Vox server that has been doing these mobs by trial and error. Reading strats and learning how to execute them while developing our own nuances in the process. We have a "Raid Alliance" of four guilds and are chomping at the bitt to get into VP.

Firstly -
We have been havig some trouble with Leviathan "auto-healing" (not related to player deaths) - seems to be about 4% (not exactly sure of the frequency or cause). We have been doing some research and are not 100% certain, but we believe it is related to the fact that many in our raid aren't auto-attacking. Can anyone confrim?

Secondly -
I read the replies about his hide resitance being nerfed and he can be burned down... Does this mean the reflected isn't transferred to the MT anymore? Or are you only DPSing when he has been DeBuffed? Any additional info would be appreciated.

See yas in VP! & Thanks for the help!!!

Pyle - Lvl 80 Coercer on Vox

[EQ-Raiders]

Reflects are still there. The hide is now 10% absorb instead of 20% that it used to be. The reflect can be taken down by Druids with the proper AA Debuffs. The reflect is seen as a Black Shadowy Figure with a Gold Thorn Outline. Just look for that to pop up and stop DPS until your Druids remove it. Two-Three Druids can alternate removing it, the debuff will go back onto Leviathan after about 10 seconds. So you have 10 seconds to burn. I believe Leviathan can heal if no one has a Fish Suit on to enter Leviathan and use the bombs too many times go by and he AOES massively. I have not entered the encounter for some time but you do not want to melee him too much because he also Ripostes nearly 75% of the time so any melee is just gonna hit themselves. Just make sure everyone is close enough to Leviathan and in combat, standing on the gold bowl is close enough.