Nastiest Elite Quests per Level

[CaptainPurge]

17 Accursed Ascension

[sirgog]

17 Accursed Ascension

Not a chance. PUGgable if you have two people that have a Ventrillo/Teamspeak/Mumble voice chat connection (they do Phasing Chasm, it's easy with 0 latency voice). The rest should have no trouble with Ice and Asteroids.

Can be done with all level 14 characters with poor gear as long as you have the 0 latency voice chat.

[Archmage49]

level 9, church and the cult on elite is MURDEROUS. Awhile back, my level 12 fighter, along with 2 level 13's, and a couple 10's, gave it a whirl. Was going great...then we got to vampire boss. We got simply owned, no matter what we tried, must have died a dozen times, with a few wipes tossed in for kicks. That vampire, nasty.

Whisperdoom is the same on elite, evil, evil spider.

[sirgog]

level 9, church and the cult on elite is MURDEROUS. Awhile back, my level 12 fighter, along with 2 level 13's, and a couple 10's, gave it a whirl. Was going great...then we got to vampire boss. We got simply owned, no matter what we tried, must have died a dozen times, with a few wipes tossed in for kicks. That vampire, nasty.

Whisperdoom is the same on elite, evil, evil spider.

Church and the Cult is a pure DPS race (kill the Vampire faster than he regenerates).

It was *ridiculously* hard when first released (the Vampire had an AC of about 55, noone had +5 silver weapons, and there was no Firewall). He's been nerfed since.

Now, it's easy to solo on Elite with a level 7 wizard. Firewall.

[Archmage49]

Church and the Cult is a pure DPS race (kill the Vampire faster than he regenerates).

It was *ridiculously* hard when first released (the Vampire had an AC of about 55, noone had +5 silver weapons, and there was no Firewall). He's been nerfed since.

Now, it's easy to solo on Elite with a level 7 wizard. Firewall.

Yeah, oddly, did the same quest with my wizard a little after that, she trashed him in two or three spells. No firewall, she was 11. Partly was that first time he kept attacking our casters and cleric right away, and they never got any real chance to unload on him, and while my fighter could do good damage, wasn't enough on elite.

[AyumiAmakusa]

I forgot the name and level of the quest (it's a lowbie quest located next to the Scorpion quest somewhere on the east side >.<) but it had something to do with Troglodyte Stench. That one on elite is hard for players at level in a PUG.

[shadowsaun]

For a CC-speccd bard with twinked gear, it is a cakewalk.

my wife (bard) and I (wiz) duo-ed that at level on elite...I was so proud of her! She is very very new and totally fascinated everything! I was impresses! Couldn't have done that without (her) a bard...very hard quest!

[Persiflage]

Can I throw my hat in the ring for Faithful Departed at 8th level, please? I utterly loathe that quest on any difficulty, but Elite is especially horrible.

As for L16, I'm surprised at the majority of the responses... I can, and do, happily solo Coal Chamber and Running w/Devils at level, but have a fairly miserable time in Sleeping Dust (although I confess that SD is an anomaly due to it actually being *easier* on Elite for many classes because it's harder to accidentally kill a spider). It might just be that it's easier in a group though; I don't get to group up often. I actually haven't tried soloing Spinner of Shadows on elite yet, but I could imagine it being a pain.

Disclaimer: I haven't played any of the above on Elite since the update. From what I've read (and experienced in other quests), I'd probably have the life expectancy of a glass ping-pong ball if I tried soloing them now!

[Lonnbeimnech]

I disagree but fine.
The hero can range the elite Ogre and run away from him through the entire dungeon without being hit by the Foe.

or stand on top of the crates opposite the door he enters from and range him, he makes no attempt to melee you.

For a CC-speccd bard with twinked gear, it is a cakewalk.

Or ranger or barb with sprint boost, or rogue with sneak, or caster with invis, or anyone with a few invis clickies or...



Actually the only one below lvl 3 that is remotely difficult is redemption, if you have no way to grab agro and no way to heal hayton, otherwise that's a cake walk too.

[Truga]

Level 19: Bastion of Power

Sins is much harder than BoP as far as I can remember...

[RandomKeypress]

Another thread necro.

Hasn't been updated for new content in a while.

[glouky]

Just a few modifications...

Level 3: Swiped Signet
=> Kobold Assault (hard to handle mobs carefully one by one)
Level 9: The Shadow Crypt
=> a real joke with firewall
Level 14: Inferno of the Damned
=> The Reaver's Fate (elite at level it's not that easy)
Level 15: Acid Wit
=> in the flesh (due to final fight)

Hold for Reinforcements is not here ?

[Ivan_Milic]

Did running with the devils elite bb yesterday,it was a nightmare,mobs hitting for 200+ dmg per hit.

[EpiKagEMO]

I've just ran a few low level quests on elite... not much problems except this nasty one-WW pt.3 was the number one killer. That acid trap man! You need like +20 saves for that(esp at level 5-good luck achieving that)... or super fast toons or to be extremely lucky...

Level 1-Redemption was another hard one without a healer healing heyton. Otherwise I would put Stopping the Sahuagin in the threat list.

Level2-That one market quest if you didn't have a detect secret doors item/clikie or high enough search... those lightning traps would screw you.

3-No problems there
4-Definetly goes to proof
5-WW pt3
6-Elite Chrono... GG
7-Pit? w/o a someone who knows the quest and a good party...

That's all I can recall so far.

Higher Levels-
17-Shroud-Blades tear you apart.
18 trhough 20 :P-Monastary... Mobs respawn... boss nearly unkillable... Scorps step all over puzzle...

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

This thread is a very good proof for me on what I suspected this forum population knows and cares about :

- almost no entries for levels under 8
- most entries for levels around 17-20

To me this is a good proof of my theory that this forum's population just doesn't care about low-level stuff - or otherwise there would have been more entries for the lowest levels.

Plus it is proof for me that most people in these forums are nothing but high-level players, or even Eliticists.

Thank you.

[FranOhmsford]

1. Cannith Crystal wins this simply due to the possibility {happens far too often} of a one shot Niac's on the Crystal - Annoying!
2. If doing all opts then I'd have to agree with TheNarc - Sunken Sewer is by far the hardest Lvl 2 quest - However it's an absolute cakewalk to Zerg so I'll go with Butcher's Path.
3. Swiped Signet without a doubt.
4. Proof is in the Poison beats Freshen the Air, Irestone and Bookbinder BUT I'd put Come out and Slay first for that ridiculous End Area.
5. Small Problem - Seriously this is an order of Magnitude Harder on Elite than any other Lvl 5 quest.
6. If counting raids then obviously Chronoscope - Otherwise I'd go for Gladewatch Outpost {even after it got fixed}.
7. The Pit!
8. Stromvauld's Mine for me.
9. VoN 3 - No brainer.
10. Hold for Reinforcements obviously but Slaver's of the Shrieking Mines comes a close second.
11. Any and all of the Necro III quests!
12. Wiz King - No I can't solo a tower.
13. Siegebreaker unless Sinvala counts - Then it would be Mired.
14. Gianthold Tor with Dragons
15. In the Flesh
16. Servants of the Overlord is the new champion here.
17. Monastery
18. Does anybody really run HoX on Elite without making certain everyone knows what to do? I'm going for Demon's Den here.
19. Barely know Amrath so I'd go for whichever one of the Flagging quests gets the most votes.
20. ToD's a Raid - Dreaming Dark is the only Lvl 20 6 man quest - Not really fair to compare.

[Persiflage]

This thread is a very good proof for me on what I suspected this forum population knows and cares about :

- almost no entries for levels under 8
- most entries for levels around 17-20

To me this is a good proof of my theory that this forum's population just doesn't care about low-level stuff - or otherwise there would have been more entries for the lowest levels.

Plus it is proof for me that most people in these forums are nothing but high-level players, or even Eliticists.

Thank you.

This has to be the worst case of confirmation bias I think I've witnessed in any public forum outside alternative medicine discussions

Really? This thread is really all about high-level quests? In the name of sanity, I've actually counted the following responses...

Of 55 posts (prior to this one, at time of writing) we have:

The initial post discussing ONE quest the author feels is most difficult at every level...

Thirty-nine posts either explicitly discussing or including a quest at 11th level or under (mostly under; majority of actual discussion has been about L1-9)...

Only NINE posts which mention a quest of above L11 without also discussing low-level quests...

TWENTY-ONE posts which are exclusively discussing levels 1-9...

In short, you've formed an opinion about the people who abide on the forums, and you've seen something you choose as evidence to support that conclusion even though it is patently, demonstrably, false. I'm a bit put out, actually; there are all manner of people on the forums who aren't crazy elitist uber-types, me included, I hope. It may be that the exclusively hardcore types are the most vocal in many discussions, but this thread has actually demonstrated exactly the opposite of what you maintain: people clearly do care about the low-level stuff, and clearly do talk about it!

The "majority", in this thread, have been discussing lowbie quests; even to the extent of rubbishing each other's suggestions as to which are the hardest... and that's the real test of interest here

[bigolbear]

hmm.. leme think



7. the pit.
8. von 3, maybe xorian.

18's gota be monastery of the scorpion or enter the kobold equaly challnegeing in different ways.

[FranOhmsford]

hmm.. leme think



7. the pit.
8. von 3, maybe xorian.

18's gota be monastery of the scorpion or enter the kobold equaly challnegeing in different ways.

VoN 3 is Lvl 9 - Tharaak Arena and The Prisoner are Lvl 8 - For me Xorian is harder than Both of those BUT I do feel Stromvauld's Mine is a doozy on Elite.

[DougGlyndwyr]

My own, personal list. Any opinions here are my own. All assume 4 - man, at - level parties, except raids (12 man):

01 - The Cannith Crystal
02 - Walk The Butcher's Path
03 - Swiped Signet
04 - Proof Is In the Poison (if no trapper, Bookbinder Rescue)
05 - Partycrashers
06 - The Chronoscope
07 - The Pit
08 - Tomb of the Shadow King
09 - The Jungle of Khyber (Into the Deep w/ end optional is pretty tough too)
10 - Hold for Reinforcements
11 - Tomb of the Tormented
12 - Against the Demon Queen
13 - Mired in Kobalds (Though none of the 13s really stand out as being exceedingly "hard")
14 - The Crucible
15 - In the Flesh (caveat: Never played "Acid Wit")
16 - The Coalescence Chamber
17 - Ascension Chamber
18 - Hound of Xoriat
19 - A New Invasion
20 - Tower of Despair

(addtional caveat: Have not acquired MotU)