I got one of these on my 70 Monk a while back when my guild was killing this guy. The item stats are a little bit weak by today's standards, but the 41% haste is sweet!
Fawnii has led the raid over 50 times (seriously) and hasn't won this yet... Last I heard she retired Fawnii to go play on Sullon Zek. Fawnii rocked this raid ;)
Actually, he aggroed my cleric last night. the ONLY spells I cast were heals. He started attacking IMMEDIATELY after I used a group heal. I assume it was something about using a group spell that did it, although I have used group heals in the past with no problem.
When our guild does this we have a chanter babysit him by mezzing him and keeping him away from the action. Then mem blur him if we need to go on. Nice especially when you need time to med.
The reason the gnome is attacking people is most likely mis-targeting on their part or AE spells. My guild's done Xana at least 10 times, with no problems with the gnome attacking anyone =)
Tyrrann 61 Grave Lord of Paradigm Nocturne Tholuxe
nice item. finally got something to free up my cloak slot :). 1st time we killed, gnome died coz it eat enrage, 2nd time we tried pulling away and mezzing. he stayed alive but we couldnt get flag from him. dont try this at home kids
We killed the dragon twice today, couldn't get flag either time. First time someone said they thought the gnome might have been memblurred after he created the dragon, so we were extra careful the second time, still didnt work. GM showed up and took all our names, said he would manually flag us all.
I recently participated in a Grummus raid that was successful, but I unfortunately fell through the floor when I got killed, so no one in the raid could get my body rezzed in time for the flag.
I submitted a petition and was told that in order for a GM to reimburse flags, they need a report of the mob death message in which you get experience, and a report of the Planar Projection being hailed. If you were witness to the one in a million event of a GM responding while you were still at the corpse instead of 48 - 72 hours after you submitted the petition, then there would be no problem getting flagged.
Well, if a server gets about 20 petitions in que and the GM shows up to Xanamexh's corpse with araid saying 'Why can't we get flagged?' that is a little bit different. ALL FUNCTIONS in the game on any one character can be done manually by a GM.
This includes however is not limited to, AA points (number in que), Skills (tradeskill or weapon, and other things that pertain to your individual character. Remember, all that is stored serverside. All you have is a GUI to USE thier stored information.
We did a Grummus raid and for some reason, we hailed the PP and didn't get flags. The GM did not magically award us flags. I have to say that you are extremely lucky to have gotten your flag and is by no means the norm.
Keeping the gnome alive during the final battle is a royal pain because he wants to attack everything like he's some kind of berzerker. On at least one occassion, he ended up fighting some of us. I never found out why.
The zone is very prone to training, especially near the zone in/zone out areas. We had three wipe outs due to massive trains before we even got to the gnome! We suspect the trains were deliberate acts however, so maybe you won't have that problem.
The lag is horrendous, or it was when we did it. I don't know if it was the size of the force we brought (which was a bit excessive), or something about the zone itself.