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Author: neoelasticman
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I've seen and heard a bunch of different suggestions on how to beat the Thunderhead Keep mission. None of them are wrong, per se, but none of them are complete either. I'll start by telling you some of the things I've heard, then by making a complete strategy for making this as easy as any other mission. Also, this is only about the last part of the mission where you have taken the fort and are defending it. The key to being able to do this mission easily is what my first guide was all about: good teamwork.
First, in this mission more than any other time that I've encountered, the group MUST stay close together at all times. Secondly, the ground crew (more on this later) must be either in the center area or near the king. For the purposes of my guide, you must be in the first of the two locations, in the center of the fort.
As for my strategy, which I figured out when I beat the mission with a really awesome group, it starts before the cutscene with Vizier. if you run at the far south end of the fort towards its western end (I think... it's whichever end you don't come from, whether that's east or west), you will find one of the doors that monsters come through later, and without aggroing the current boss and his minions. You can make life a little easier by taking advantage of a bug that hasn't been fixed yet (but it may get repaired later, so hurry it up!). The door looks closed, but if you try to run into it, you will end up on the other side of the door as if it weren't there. Use this to your advantage by killing the set of monsters that are there, a little north and west of the door.
Now, before killing all the monsters that are already in the fort, you want to decide a few things about the battle that will occur after the cutscene:
- who will be the ground crew (fighting in the arena, as I will call the large middle area, for simplicity). Also this ground crew needs a ground leader.
- who will be the gun crew (2 people, preferably rangers or elementalists for reasons I will state later) and who of the crew will man each side. Also you need a gun leader. I will call siege weapons on the east and west sides guns to make it simple. Not everybody knows they're ballistas and gun is shorter anyway :)
After deciding these things, go ahead and kill the monsters in the fort, and then the cutscene will happen. After the cutscene, ground crew goes to the arena. Gun crew goes to their designated side of guns (there are two guns on each end of the fort, east and west, which I'm sure you've run across if you've done the mission before).
The job of the ground crew is simple: kill whatever gets past the gun crew. The gun crew are the key to winning this mission (besides good teamwork), since it gets difficult without a good gun crew.
The gun crew also have a simple job, if done right. They ping enemies whenever they see them, not necessarily to say "attack this guy" but instead they're just saying "be aware of this enemy approaching". The crew must use the two guns on the side they've been assigned (gun leader assigns sides) strategically. As gun crew, you must keep your eyes on the radar at all times, since its hard to tell if enemies are positioned for getting hit otherwise. Speaking of which, you can tell where each ballista will hit by a large brown spot on the radar. All you need to do is repeatedly pull the firing lever when you see red dots on or next to the large brown spots, but only fire the applicable gun, since only that one will hit.
Every once in a while a monster that made it past the guns will come up and attack the gun crew. This is ok, just stop gunning and kill the enemy threatening you. If a gun crew dies, replace or ressurrect him immediately.
Once the last group of enemies gets into the fort, don't man the guns anymore. Switch to ground crew since the guns aren't needed anymore.
This method of gunning efficiently then killing whatever's left over afterwards makes this mission as easy as any other, but only if teamwork is involved. If I find out I missed anything I will either gladly accept your input or just add my own input later.
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