It just requires strategy and capable characters. You need to have someone on trash full time, and without an arcane to dancing ball the reavers and Finger everything else you're going to have issues. Mind flayers go down easy to Finger and can't do anything to the undead so PMs are great.

Much like TOD part 3, you can't have anyone die. Staying alive is a huge priority, he heals like 20% with every death.

Control the trash, make sure casters are getting mana from the pods bursting, beat him down when he's vulnerable (non-casters may want DR bypassing weapons), make sure to kill the gravestone pods ASAP when they're up, and don't die.

I soloed this a few times with a cleric hireling on elite with my dex rogue at lvl 17 not long after it came out. So unless they stealth changed it a ton....where and how is it going wrong?

Grace wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2012 at 11:49pm:


Same here, we decimated it last life using freakin' hirelings.  Mainly, the mind flayers, & the amount of stuff that spawns.  Before, each round of mobs consisted only of 2-3 reavers, a flayer and an occasional beholder.  Now, each wave of mobs consists of 4-5 reavers, 2 flayers and a beholder.

Shit goes south in this order:
1- don't zone in buffed because a beholder is waiting on you.
2- FOM after beholder dead - pop sack
3- jump on flayers, make them pop quickly - pop sack
4- start on reavers, pop sack, DPS yaulthoon
5- Beholder spawns, FOM gone, get held by yaulthoon, reavers close and start raping whoever is held
6- kill beholder, save held, pop sack
7- kill flayers, re-fom, rez member who had brain eaten because mind flayer stun lasts 12 seconds, pop sack
8- start on reavers, pop sack, next wave spawns on top of old wave even though virtually all the bubbles he has thrown have hit sacks, get held, disintegrated, raped by reavers
9- scream for KY

1st part is flawless, from zone in till the 2nd wave is fine.  Our DPS doesn't change as all my fusillades go into Yaulthoon. After that, it is like the flayers and reavers in the rest of the quest were just a giant lie. Beholders con out in 2-3 trigger pulls depending on crits with a WOP repeater always, then die 1-2 rounds later. Mind Flayers before the end room con out at about half life then explode from there in a shower of SA dice and gore, in Yaulthoon's room they die most of the time before they con out, reavers in there I can't remember any con'ing out before they've died.  I even tried rolling my banisher.  Worked great on the beholders, may as well been throwing coal at the reavers/flayers, they just seem to save everything.

I would like to add, that we survived nearly 30 minutes in the last fight alone before we took our first death, he was at about 30%.  No pots used, no scrolls, still virtually FM.  We dropped him about 15% before the 2nd wave came in.

Well, PLIS should stop mind blast... but it might run out in there pretty quick.

cdr wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2012 at 12:57am:


Last time I ran this chain, my PLIS was not stopping mind blast.

I ran this with Leira and Jen back when it came out on Elite. It wasn't too horrible 3 manning it, but we did almost wipe at one point due to the Psionic Blast he shoot across the field.

Aeolwind wrote on Mar 4^th, 2012 at 10:26am:


We did it on Live. It was tough, but we manged with 2 DPS and a Bard.

Azuphle wrote on Mar 11^th, 2012 at 4:55pm:

I had 6 reavers and a mind flayer stoned and we got the next wave still.  18 now, just gonna break out the panthers after the last fight starts put them on aggressive and

When we first ran this on live, You didn't get the beholder on elite, you got 1-2 flayers, 1-2 reavers and a half dozen or so taken.  Dead Pyxzyl used to be harder than Yaulthoon, not now though.  This is one of those 'doesn't scale well for shortman parties' quests it seems.  2nd quest in the LOD series is the same.  CR28 drow in packs of 12 kinda suck.

Gasoline wrote on Mar 12^th, 2012 at 2:45pm:


Yeah, to the point that it is rather silly.  Should a level 15 quest on elite, be harder than Mindsunder on elite or SOS elite w/ Sorjek?  Both are 'end chain' quests and should be more difficult.  This is one of those 'punch your DM' quests.

Aeolwind wrote on Mar 12^th, 2012 at 3:10pm:

Charm the beholder

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Yep that's how I soloed it. Just charm the beholders that spawn (I did it on a WF sorc life so my DC coudn't have been more than 30 if that lol) and let them keep rest of the trash busy, and dot Yaulthoon up. Once those 3 cocoons spawn in front of him nuke them ASAP and you're pretty much in the clear.

You can try to charm the flayers also but they have some SR so that's 50-50 at best.

Altho, looking at your party makeup I can see how you have issues and I don't really have much constructive advice