RWZ = Rikti War Zone. It is what was formerly the RCS or Rikti Crash Site.
The "normal" entrance in Crey's Folly was sealed up for obvious safety reasons. There are several ways to reach it though:
For heroes:
Atlas Park
Peregrine Island
Founder's Falls
For villains:
Cap au Diable
St. Martial
Grandville
Both heroes and villains can also access the area from a base teleporter.
How to bring down the shields
Bringing down that old mothership's shields is relatively easy. Take out the pylons surrounding it (all 18) and the shields will drop. I've seen as few as 3 8 man teams accomplish this without much effort.
I suggest a good tough tank for each team. Let the tank stand on the opposite side of the pylon from the rest of the team and draw aggro. Pylon's do a decent amount of damage and it's explosive AoE style damage so staying away from the tank if you're a squishy is a must.
Once the pylons fall
This is where things get tricky. Lots of Rikti will appear on the outer hull of the mothership (all level 54). You're gonna want 4 or so teams kinda spread out along the hull to take out these guys as much as possible.
At this point determining everyone's motivation is a must. If they're just there to plant bombs or fight the GM you can get that out of the way rather quickly. Charge the grates and plant the bombs. One sticky spot though is the fact that, when the grates go boom, more Rikti respond...
Planting bombs will buy you more time before the shields would normally return in addition to eventually summoning the GM (U'kon Grai aka "You Con Gray"). What this means is you have more chances to get merits!
A good haul on a Rikti Mothership raid will net you around 200 merits give or take 25 merits...
Any Rikti that you do even 1 HP of damage to while on the ship hull gives you a merit upon death. Making Mothership raids a fun an easy merit method!
Ok. Let us begin with the basics:
What and where is RWZ?
RWZ = Rikti War Zone. It is what was formerly the RCS or Rikti Crash Site.
The "normal" entrance in Crey's Folly was sealed up for obvious safety reasons. There are several ways to reach it though:
For heroes:
Atlas Park
Peregrine Island
Founder's Falls
For villains:
Cap au Diable
St. Martial
Grandville
Both heroes and villains can also access the area from a base teleporter.
How to bring down the shields
Bringing down that old mothership's shields is relatively easy. Take out the pylons surrounding it (all 18) and the shields will drop. I've seen as few as 3 8 man teams accomplish this without much effort.
I suggest a good tough tank for each team. Let the tank stand on the opposite side of the pylon from the rest of the team and draw aggro. Pylon's do a decent amount of damage and it's explosive AoE style damage so staying away from the tank if you're a squishy is a must.
Once the pylons fall
This is where things get tricky. Lots of Rikti will appear on the outer hull of the mothership (all level 54). You're gonna want 4 or so teams kinda spread out along the hull to take out these guys as much as possible.
At this point determining everyone's motivation is a must. If they're just there to plant bombs or fight the GM you can get that out of the way rather quickly. Charge the grates and plant the bombs. One sticky spot though is the fact that, when the grates go boom, more Rikti respond...
Planting bombs will buy you more time before the shields would normally return in addition to eventually summoning the GM (U'kon Grai aka "You Con Gray"). What this means is you have more chances to get merits!
A good haul on a Rikti Mothership raid will net you around 200 merits give or take 25 merits...
Any Rikti that you do even 1 HP of damage to while on the ship hull gives you a merit upon death. Making Mothership raids a fun an easy merit method!