Zul' Aman little trick

[Xhaiden]

Couldn't find anyone posting this before, but it's a little trick I use these days to get a few extra golds on my ZA runs.

Zul' Aman has a timed-run system. Each boss downed within the timer grants additional loot chests after boss #4 has been downed.

Since alot of players have no clue what game they're playing, it happens alot that players forget about these chests. (like 7 out of 10 runs)

I finish the ZA run and wait till everyone has left the group, loot these chests (most of the times it's 3) and disenchant the gained loots.

Chest locations:


I guess it helps alot that I'm tank and I can kinda chainpull towards last boss, giving them no time to even think about the extra loot.

Use it before the chests become general knowledge!

[lagzinc]

will try, thank you.

[Tmorris37]

I would pay whatever ammount of gold you're getting to pug a group that gets 3 chests.... 90% of my groups the tank has never been there or has no clue how to tank.

sorry - irrelevant

[Xhaiden]

I would pay whatever ammount of gold you're getting to pug a group that gets 3 chests.... 90% of my groups the tank has never been there or has no clue how to tank.

sorry - irrelevant

Haha I am the tank

btw on another sidenote. Epic shards go for about 300G at my server

[demerda]

Where these chests appear?

[Xhaiden]

Where these chests appear?

The chests (and goldpiles) appear next to the cages of the NPC's you've saved. Adding map to mainpost!

[Unholyshaman]

This used to work at level 70, but I believe the system has changed now.

In order to get each extra bit of loot, you need to release the NPC in the cage DURING the timed event. That NPC then unlocks the extra loot. So you can't go and kill bosses then come back and free the npc/loot the chests because the NPC dies when the timer runs out (exception being if you actually clear all 4 bosses within the timer, but if you have a group that can do that they I think they know ZA pretty darn well now).

[Xhaiden]

This used to work at level 70, but I believe the system has changed now.

In order to get each extra bit of loot, you need to release the NPC in the cage DURING the timed event. That NPC then unlocks the extra loot. So you can't go and kill bosses then come back and free the npc/loot the chests because the NPC dies when the timer runs out (exception being if you actually clear all 4 bosses within the timer, but if you have a group that can do that they I think they know ZA pretty darn well now).

I think we are having a mixup in thoughts here. After time has ran out, the chests spawn for the NPC's that you did save within time (save meaning "to kill the boss that was suposed to sacrifise him"). The system gives you rewards even if you don't complete the ultimate goal(4 saves). People tend to forget that you almost always have saved like 1 or 2 (because, let's face it, the first 2 are piss-easy). I've found myself quiet some free epics, just because peoples memory usually sucks a bit :P

[LeetHaxor]

This used to work at level 70, but I believe the system has changed now.

In order to get each extra bit of loot, you need to release the NPC in the cage DURING the timed event. That NPC then unlocks the extra loot. So you can't go and kill bosses then come back and free the npc/loot the chests because the NPC dies when the timer runs out (exception being if you actually clear all 4 bosses within the timer, but if you have a group that can do that they I think they know ZA pretty darn well now).

I know for a fact that you DO NOT have to do it during the timed run, as long as you have killed the boss before the execution has occurred, you are still able to go back and release them and open the chest.

[Unholyshaman]

Yep I owe you an apology, I just did ZA to double check. We were on the 4th boss when timer ran out, so only just missed the bear (stupid paladin dps pulled less dps and overall dmg in the instance than me as a tank)

I just know that I've gone back a couple of times (mid run after loosing the timer to the third or fourth boss) and found the npc's not in their cages. Perhaps the npcs that you saved come back after you kill the 4th or last boss maybe?

[Xhaiden]

I think that when you save them they go to the entrance. But I also think that when you've saved an npc and timer runs out, the chest just becomes useable at that location.

[eldarion42]

In my experience it's no problem to quickly free an NPC from its cage, then mount up and follow the other players in your group. Normally no one checks or cares, if you are only a few seconds behind.
After the last boss was killed or the group disbanded, you go back to each freed NPC to loot their chests. So far, I could roll on the loot but have to wait around 3 minutes, before it was put in my inventory.