Talk:Dreadnought's Drift

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After Vanquishing this area with Heroes and Henchmen, I felt like sharing my experience, since I found the area unexpectedly challenging and surprising...

Entering from the South, heavy patrols of Tundra Giants will stone to death their target extremely quickly. Frequent knockdowns will ensure nothing can be done about it if the chosen one is not protected. Using obstacles is the best course, since the AI will never understand why the projectile cannot go through them. Your heroes do the same, so fair is fair, heh ? As for me, I pulled and dodged like a rabbit :-] They may appear stationary, but don't get overconfident, as after I killed the first group, the remaining two changed position. If you're in their way, you won't have the luxury of choosing their target for them...Of course, the groups of Blessed Griffons are always a pain with Spell Breaker and their AoE can quickly slaughter a cornered party, which is the case when you enter the area with no room to move.

As for the Stone Summits, some stationary groups will generate vengeful Azure Shadows once decimated. Don't let your guard down, as they like to trigger their Signet of Judgement on the same target, which can be already weakened by the previous fight. Coming from the south, a very tight group of 4 Dolyak Masters and 3 Stone Summit Heretics patrols the northern entrance, a formation that is extremely difficult to crack without enchantment removal (my case). What worked for me after a couple of quick kills thanks to my initial payload of minion bombs, was to hold and damage them until they were on their energy reserve. Of course, switch target as soon as the current one receives Mark of Protection.

Overall, I think this zone is very interesting in Hard Mode : small, with diverse foes, and requiring good tactics and/or preparation. Congrats to the designer ! I enjoyed it (well, past my initial "welcome wipe", that is). Coming straight from Vanquishing Snake Dance, I had had the time to tune the most efficient tactics for my group in front of the same kind of opponents. It required even more tuning in Dreadnought's Drift ! It looks like entering from the North is a completely different situation, as all Stone Summits are gathered and split into their respective patrols right in front of you... 58.5.245.251 05:27, 8 August 2008 (UTC)Aliabastre

Thanks for sharing. Quite interesting considering I'm vanquishing atm. I know no one in their right mind would enter from the North unless they liked vanquishing in a party of 6. – josəph 16:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

When Vanquishing, I deeply recommend to keep on to Lornar's Pass while you have a full party of 8... At the time I did not, and I just failed Lornar's with 6 coming from Beacon's Perch. The first half was doable, but things get ugly when you reach the dense Stone Summit groups. My downfall was the big group with 2 Dolyak Masters that begins its long patrol once you go near them on the bridge. Looks like I'll have to go through Dreadnought's Drift again *sigh* 58.5.245.251 03:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)Aliabastre

My thoughts on vanquishing this area... patience is very much a virtue here. The stone summit groups in the north-western side of the map are very large and very tough, and chances are good you'll wipe. The wipe itself isn't too much of a problem, since the summit go down eventually with enough brute force, but it's vital you don't get too close to the northern half of the map, where you'll res at the northern shrine... right in the middle of 2-3 massive groups. I was able to kill them all eventually, but if it wasn't for my stash of rainbow candy canes we probably would have been kicked out of the instance. (I say "we", but really it was just me and some hench.) So when attempting this, enter from the south, pull from the southern end of the circular path, and don't risk fighting within the circle until you're down to one 1 group. This may all sound obvious, but all it takes is one mistake and you'll be trapped at the northern res shrine, and if you have no means of removing DP... you're pretty much screwed. --Mme. Donelle 10:23, 25 January 2009 (UTC)