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Thread: Guide to killing Vartonis ( Jedi Defender Edition ) V 1.0
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Meatpuppet1987
Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:57 pm
#1
Area you will be in
Killing Vartonis is the final step in your quest for Obi Wan. I successfully killed him on my 5th try using the template of Master Defener/Master Lightsaber, Healer 3/x/x/x and Enhancer x/x/x2. Note I am using a crummy post-cu saber so it's entirely possible for post-cu Jedi. Note: This quest is repeatable once every 50 minutes if you fail. Only you alone can go inside to face him. No group members can help.
Foods used :Synthsteak X 2 - You will need to keep the damage down you sustain (Can't heal fast enough)
Accarragm X 1 - Health, Action and Mind regen bonuses are hugely helpfull.
Corellian AleX1 - You miss him ALOT so the melee accuracy boost helps
Pikatta Pie X1 - Again, due to healing not being efficient, dodge bonus is good
DO NOT USE ANY SPICES- More on that in a minute
Misc Items used: Standard Holocron X 1 - If you're a Defender, this will let you do more AI's (Helps alot)
Jedi Padawan Robes - The extra 250 force is a factor here. Bio clothes are good too
Wild Force Shard - Increased Melee Speed
Shard of the Serpent - Mitigates Damage
Wild Force Shard II - Increase Defensive Bonuses
Quest Sith Holocron - Armor Break Immunity (Val AB's)
Helpfull but I did without: Squad Leader and Doctor Buffs
Jedi SEAS. I don't own any
A pre-cu Saber
Roots
The fight is broken down in to5 stages:
- Val sends a CL75 minion at you. Kill him.
- Val sends three minions as you. Again, easy pickings.
- Fight Val. He has around 40k Health.
- Fight 5 minions.
- Fight Val again when he has 75% of his original health.
Now the walkthru...
When you first enter the new area, take a quick look around and note your surroundings. The room is small with a large rock and Gazebo, with the Force Shard in the center. Most of the fighting will be in the middle.
As you enter, Obi Wan will appear and give off some dialogue. Read it carefully. A few moments later, Vartonis will enter flaunting his FRS robes. Shortly after, he will send a minion at you. He is easily defeated. Won't take more than 3 or 4 attacks. A moment later, he sends 3 more.
Please note, do not at any point consume spices. Doing so could resort if you failing the quest. Once you defeat Val, you go on an automatic downer. If you had avoid incap on or very low health, it will incap and eject you from the dungeon.
Now, time to munch down on your food. Val will engage you in combat a few seconds later. Before he can do so, highlight the glowing red force stone and select the buff option. You will receive 90k buff, which does not make things easy as it sounds. Having that much health means you will have virtually no way of healing all of it. The buff also only lasts aroudn 10 minutes. If you linger too long recharging force or health, it will run out, allowing him to 1 hit KO you.
As you begin fighting him, knock him down. When he's armor broken and standing I did around 3k damage with a power attack, but 5k when he's down. Here, that counts significantly. Your goal in the first fight is to take him down as quick as possible since you can't heal in between to any major degree. Just KD, AB, Power attack and saber attack. Wash, rince and repeat. Do not bother with Force Infusin/Stims or Forceheal unless you have total heal (Got I envy Master Healers now). Force is scarce int his fight so that will just waste it. Do however use Force Shield and Force Absorb. His saber does nearly 6k damage, as does his force lightning. You can reduce the lightning to about 1k and absorb the attacks to boost your own force pool.
Your goal here is to beat him here with about 30k health left. Once he's down, he will retreat into a corner and send 5 minions at you. Your uber saber damage will remain so you can kill them all in a hit or two each. Don't! Pick off 4 of them and let the other aggro you. They only do 50 or so damage. If you run around in circles and around the rocks, you can loose the aggro so sit and regen for a few seconds. Don't take too long or you'll buff will go out.
Finish off the final guard and move in for the battle with Val. As the fight progressed, I lost most of my enhancements by this time so I had to fall back on Avoid Incap. The second fight his defenses seem lower, so he will go down quicker, not to mention he has less health. If you kept around 50% of your health fromt he first fight and don't have avoid incap, it's still possible. If you have AI, the holocron will come into play as your force will be getting very low. Remeber- keep KD'ing! When he is down not only do you do more damage - he won't be doing any. This fight will be very close so be sure to ration force.
Once he is dead, heal imediatly. If you had avoid incap on and pixed, you could die from it without a heal. With his recent death, loot his body. You will loot the lava skiff, the platform Obi Wan and Anakin fought on. He also contains a second loot item that's random. The reported items so far have been:
- Holocrons
- SEAS
- Crystaline Clothing Treatment
- Other Junk
With him dead and theGalaxy safe for the moment, Obi Wan asks you to destroy the crystal. Highlight it with the radial menu and select either to Destroy it ( Badge for helping Obi ) or keep it ( Badge for betraying him ). The latter is my personal favorite for it's offensive boost. The light side one has been reported as not working at the moment, so dark is a safer choice for most.
You will be givin 5 minutes to walk around before being ejected.
Congrats! You just won the title quest!
Message Edited by Meatpuppet1987 on 10-29-2005 11:03 PM
Message Edited by Meatpuppet1987 on 10-29-2005 11:08 PM
Major_Winters
Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:02 pm
#2
I am MLS/4040def/4100hlr/4004enh and I didn't need to go through all that. Kill the mobs he first sends at you. Use the crystal buff. Kill Vartonis the first time around as quickly as possible. The next part is key. Kill all the mobs he sends at you but ONE. Tank that one until you heal back up to at least 3/4 health. You have enough time to if you killed Vartonis quickly the first time. Then kill him again. It only took me two tries and I got him. The first time I didn't let my health heal up enough between fights and that was the problem. Btw, I am a post-cu jedi. Good luck!
Dackrendarck
Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:06 pm
#3
I was able to do it with MBH, MRifles, 0003 SL, and 0200 medic... had to use my DOT resist crystal against choke, and heal like crazy during the break to get my heath back from 1/2. Was a very challenging and fun fight. I thought I was going to die, because next hit and I was dead... thought I had to get two off on him, but using advanced critical shot, I took him down 6K hitpoints with one shoot for the win. This was the most fun I have ever had in game in PVE
Meatpuppet1987
Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:07 pm
#4
It's true that you can take the time to regen more, but it all depends on how much damage you can dish out. This guide is more geared atDefenders without Force speed and average sabers.
I'd agree though with your way of killing him. I might whip out an enhanceredition later with your tips if you don't mind
p897t98
Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:31 pm
#5
My Template is MLS. Defender 4040 Enahancer 3402, Healer 4000. If you have a similar template, I would suggest NOT turning on FA unless you have a Holo. I did it without FA it was extremly easy. It will kill you FA when you are taking 6k damage a hit
JediMobius
Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:56 pm
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LOL i didnt do anything fancy....Just my normal Blob Candy....Spiced Tea....And Kanalli waffers.....
MLS 2030 Defender 4100 Heal 2402 Enhancer.......
Kicked the snot out of him.....with 7 mins left to wander around that room....
xstormbringerx
Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:27 am
#10
excellent guide meatpuppet1987 !
RATED: 
I just got done with this, and the guide was a great prep. thanks very much. As this quest will no doubtedly change difficulty slightly as time goes on, i didn't have quite as close of a fight as this guide suggests but luck favors the prepared 
at any rate, jsut thought i'd report. power hitting for 5606 when normally bout 1900
regardless of the size of his health, its all about the debuff. if u can get some type on him it will help you, applying states was surprisingly easy compared to some other npc's we've all fought in game.
i used the three shards and the sith looking holocron buff thingamajig, canape, mando wine, breath of heaven, crispic and the lave buff rock in the center of the room when it came time (be quick on the lava rock after the 4th minion you kill to buff. if u miss it, ur done before you begin)
I was also using force absorb, force sheild, aura, force speed, no infusion and no healing, no spices
hope that helps someone
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