Do the Pillar boss as many times as you want (Eternity vault!)

[kdarkiee]

Theres a "boss" in Eternity Vault where you have to activate two pillar puzzles, after clearing the "encounter" and taking the loot, do not progress further.
If you go outside and reset the instance, then go in again, you can do it over and over again for more loot and technically gear up everyone

Tip; On Hardmode this encounter drops the Rataka pants which is Best in Slot.
Tip; To prevent this encounter bugging, always finish the South pillar before the North one.

[cdmichaelb]

I was going to post this but was too lazy and didn't think it was worth it. But I totally didn't think of farming hardmode patterns (does hardmode drop a better crafting material? or is it still just biometric blahblah ugly blue thingy)

+2 rep anyways.

Edit: Oh, I can confirm this works as of Saturday. You don't get extra loot UNLESS you have not been to the boss yet (we brought in a guy and he got two pieces of gear all to himself), you do get patterns and tradeskill mats that can be rolled on by all.

[Snackbar]

Nice, good job! Il test it out later but +1 REP anyway ^^

[darkrocker]

Yea this works, you can do it on nightmare and farm the mats patterns and loot. You can also do it even if you have killed the next boss. Not sure if it still works after soa is dead though.

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Oh, you can also do this with like 4 good people, dont need a full raid. As a sorc and merc (dps and healing spec) we were able to kill the strongest wave of adds (2 elites that are CCable but hit hard, just whielwind one and stun kill the other)

[xerexlord]

Confirmed, been doing this the last couple of days.

[Deakron]

Fixed with this update 1.0.2d

[jimmyleet]

Fixed with this update 1.0.2d

You didn't actually test this or you would not have posted.

[thatone]

Tried. all three times bugged out and didnt allow us to rotate top teir of north pillar.

[Blista05]

Today's Patch notes

1.0.2d Patch Notes 1/12/2012

Flashpoints and Operations

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  Operations
  
  
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    Eternity Vault
    
    • Using "Reset All Active Operations" no longer causes Soa and the Ancient Pylons to respawn even if the player is currently locked out of these encounters.