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Uh, question, what did you guys do to kill the guards in Halaa to get the Steady Talasite recipe off of the quartermaster? I can't dual box a high level toon to kill them, so I tried soloing on my 20. I can kill them on it, but one kill takes an eternity as they have lots of HP and also respawn after some time. I also tried the wyverns to bomb them from above, but that also seems to be super inefficient. Is there anything else I could be doing?
 
You turn halaa to your faction, they become friendly?

I havent done it in a while but i think you just take over all 4 outer areas PvP-style... is there actual NPC killing?

edit- if that's not the case, sorry, i forget. I know the center flag has to be turned too (coming back to me) are the guards skulls? I feel like there was a special solo spot or something... to get credit for the flag out of LoS.
 
Gandara said:
Uh, question, what did you guys do to kill the guards in Halaa to get the Steady Talasite recipe off of the quartermaster? I can't dual box a high level toon to kill them, so I tried soloing on my 20. I can kill them on it, but one kill takes an eternity as they have lots of HP and also respawn after some time. I also tried the wyverns to bomb them from above, but that also seems to be super inefficient. Is there anything else I could be doing?
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Warglave said:
edit- if that's not the case, sorry, i forget. I know the center flag has to be turned too (coming back to me) are the guards skulls? I feel like there was a special solo spot or something... to get credit for the flag out of LoS.
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oh buddy, lemme tell ya how its done! This was such a cool event when it was introduced.

There are 4 paths into Halaa and along each path is a spot with what looks like a horde flightpath mount (I forget what theyre called) that you can activate and then hop on for a flying mission where you drop bombs on halaa to kill the guards. You'll probably need to use 2 or 3 of the different flights from the different paths to get all the guards. Once you've killed all 15, you go sit in halaa as the flag turns (ever so slowly) to your faction.
 
Yeah!

Is there a spot near a hut near the flag you can sit LoS so you only have to kill a couple guards instead of all of them?

Or you have to kill them all?
 
ewwwww...

So have you done it since the squish? Is it something he should ticket (lol 14 days wait on mine currently) as bugged?
 
LOL, forget about what I asked guys. Someone just dropped by and murdered all of the horde guards lmfaoooo. The alliance is currently gaining control of Halaa.
 
yeah i meant that he said the bombers weren't really getting it done. I could see that being an issue with scaling.
 
Warglave said:
Probably multiple people doing it at once, too. The design i mean.
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Yea, they were really hoping to juice world pvp in TBC, which is why like 4 of the six zones have wpvp objectives and vendors attached to them. And it really was a lot of fun at the time. I do remember getting guild groups together multiple times to take halaa and it turning into A Thing. tons of fun, like the TBC version of Tarren Mill/Southshore.
 
Yeah, the bombs were not super helpful. They do 18 fire damage upon contact and then an additional 1% of the total health of the guard over the course of 5 seconds. They have around 110~120k health, so each tick of the bomb dot dealt like 1152 damage per second. The full dot damage was 5k and something. It was chipping their health very slowly, albeit faster than when I tried killing the guards myself. It took me a whole 10 minutes to kill a single guard. Then it respawned after like 15 or 20 minutes...

Anyways, I got my steady talasite recipes, so I'm done with Halaa. I wanna point out though that the quartermaster quest for tokens is repeatable ad eternum and it also gives 4g on top of the research tokens, so if you have a bazillion amount of https://www.wowhead.com/quest=10074/oshugun-crystal-powder (which you should if you've been slaughtering ogres while mining adamantite veins) you can dump them in for some extra cash. Of course it is not some sort of groundbreaking goldfarming, but it is free gold if you don't know what to do with your remaining powder, so figured I would toss it here.
 
Gandara said:
Yeah, the bombs were not super helpful. They do 18 fire damage upon contact and then an additional 1% of the total health of the guard over the course of 5 seconds. They have around 110~120k health, so each tick of the bomb dot dealt like 1152 damage per second. The full dot damage was 5k and something. It was chipping their health very slowly, albeit faster than when I tried killing the guards myself. It took me a whole 10 minutes to kill a single guard. Then it respawned after like 15 or 20 minutes...
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oh yea, thats for sure busted
 
So i just went there on one of my realms and it was neutral, doesnt it reset on maintenance or something? Might be a good thing for others having trouble to check it on reset so no guards to worry about. No NPC at all anywhere until you cap it.

here's the spot i was talking about, guess it was to LoS other players lol...

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Chops said:
oh yea, thats for sure busted
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For sure it is, but honestly I imagine a raid group of level 20 twinks invading it would make for some really silly fun stuff. They have a lot of health, but don't deal too much damage (I could fight 5 of them with my pet at once, but took an eternity to kill even one), so the group could mass pull and AoE them down for minutes straight just for the hell of it XD
 
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