Risen High Wizard event
There are two ways the fight with the High Wizard can occur. the first is to go through the Gates of Arah event chain; the last event is fight the guy himself. Otherwise, if the gates are already captured, the earliest convenience (on the same server shard) is when the defence event for the gate runs (this could be up to an hour). While the Wizard shows up again, you only need to successfully run down the defence clock to unlock the trait.
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There are two ways the fight with the High Wizard can occur. the first is to go through the Gates of Arah event chain; the last event is fight the guy himself. Otherwise, if the gates are already captured, the earliest convenience (on the same server shard) is when the defence event for the gate runs (this could be up to an hour). While the Wizard shows up again, you only need to successfully run down the defence clock to unlock the trait.
The problem with the defense event is that the wizard doesn’t always show up. It only seems to show if you get enough people to show up.
The Gates of Arah event chain starts with the Escort Warmaster Chan event on a fresh new server, or if all the defense events fail, which basically never happens nowadays with Megaserver.
The event seems to start on it’s own from Meddler’s Summit every 15-25 minutes incase the escort fails. If it succeeds, you’ll have to Secure Shank Anchorage which is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Unless there’s a number of people scaling the event up, you can safely ignore the mobs and focus the cauldrons up in the towers, before taking on the rather weak champion to take the camp and waypoint.
After about five minutes of downtime as the NPC’s clear the camp, the next three pre-events to secure reinforcements will start – Crusader Angaria, Scholar Didi and Ballistician Dexa’s events. Note that technichally none of these events have to succeed to continue – they only spawn additional NPCS for the remainder of the chain.
Angaria frequently bugs out after the event has been run a few times, preventing it from being completed. Didi’s event often gets stuck due to risen Rotmouths spawning inside a nearby downed airship related to an event not part of the chain. (You can still kill the Rotmouth to continue the event)
After these three pre-events run their course, you’ll be tasked with storming and securing the steps and hall of the Promenade of the Gods, where you’ll fight a Champion Giant and Eye (and possibly upscaled champs) in that order, which finally spawns the Risen High Wizard himself and the meta-event’s associated boss chest.
After the Gates of Arah are taken and the Wizard is slain, it will be between an hour and a half to two hours before the defense pops up. However if the gates were previously defended, the time will be an hour instead - I’m familiar with the timings as I used to pretty often farm the pre-events.
If you wish to rerun the events to get the daily boss chest (per character), you must not defend the Gates of Arah. Instead, you can safely defend Shank Anchorage, and the event chain will restart from there with the three pre-events before marching towards the Gates again.
One of the April/May patches post April Feature pack was supposed to have made the High Risen Wizard spawn during the Defend the Gates of Arah event, and thus making the defense eligible for the trait. However for whatever reason, sometimes the older version in which the Wizard does not spawn happens instead.
Either way it’s considered pretty common courtesy to let the Gates themselves fall – Wizard or no at the defense, everyone benefits by letting the gates fall. If Anchorage is defended instead, there’s no event down time, and everyone can get a chest and trait.
The Arah Waypoint now remains uncontested regardless of the meta status, so defense to keep the dungeon waypoint open is not longer valid as an excuse even.
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For the toast!
For the toast!
I Really hope that in the future they’re gonna change the way to unlock your traits again
The Risen Priests are no problem but the Risen High Wizard takes forever to respawn or I’m doing something wrong which I can’t seem to figure out :S
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I Really hope that in the future they’re gonna change the way to unlock your traits again
The Risen Priests are no problem but the Risen High Wizard takes forever to respawn or I’m doing something wrong which I can’t seem to figure out :S
Good news, they are. A complete traits revamp is coming before HoT. It’s been the subject of live streams and forum threads.
All you need to do to be ready is make sure the character you want the traits on is a) level 80 and b) has completed at least 65 skill chevrons in the open world. (65 is the current projection, it could change). When the new system goes live, you will have enough Hero Points (as Skill Challenges are turning into) to unlock everything for all the core specializations (the new name for trait lines).
Enjoy!
The problem with the defense event is that the wizard doesn’t always show up. It only seems to show if you get enough people to show up.
And the thing with that, people that are in the zone are not so much going to be willing to do a defense mission, not when it can fall and 10 minutes after that assault mission chain begins. Often by the time the final assault begins, there will be 100 people there all in glee of the gold, karma and possible high level exotics that can drop out of the chest. Or at least I can sometimes walk away with 20+gp worth of TP stuff that you pretty much cant get from a defense mission.
Best advice, let it fall and broadcast it over map chat that assault will be starting soon. You’ll get the object of your desire, pretty much guaranteed. Everyone there is always ready to do an arah assault, seriously fun stuff, and can be rewarding. Wish they would just remove defense missions quite honestly.