Zorbgot's Hive
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Zorgbot's Hive, more commonly known as 'Beholders', is a legendary area intended for small parties of levels 50 to 55.
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Introduction
This is the home of the Intelligence Artifact or The Eye of Vecna.
It is run by a Beholder who has succumbed to the will of the Eye of Vecna, ripped out its own main eye and replaced it with the Eye of Vecna. As you can imagine this has led to some very strange occurrences in Zorbgot's Hive.
For a more in depth detail of what has been happening with the Beholders I recommend an in-depth conversation with your friendly neighbourhood beholder Bob.
Requirements
The only pre-requisite for this run is Immortality. However the run difficulty is aimed at players 55+ and not recommended for lower level characters.
Immunities are Sonic, Acid, Fire, Electrical, Negative and Magic
This run consists of three maps and is fairly short if done properly. However if you go in unprepared then expect to spend several hours slogging through the run.
I would recommend a minimum of 50% Magic, 75% Sonic and as much Fire and Acid as possible and plenty of resists.
Negative Immunity is required throughout the run and the easiest way to obtain this is to drink Neg Pots purchased from Rips.
Electrical Immunity is mostly required for Non Dex based classes.
General Notes
The entire area of Beholders is covered in traps. These traps will do Electrical damage which can be avoided with enough reflex although they can also inflict a Magic Vulnerability. As magic damage is abundant on this run, Restoration should be used very frequently.
You should be aware of backspawn at numerous points in the run and of the special effects cause by one of the creatures you will face.
Beholder Devotees are Mages who will cast the Epic Spell Missile Barrage at you, so IGMS Immunity will not protect you from this. However they have quite a few casts and will use them all up before moving in to Meelee. These Missile Barrage will rapidly destroy your party without enough magic immunity. As each missile does 8d6 magic damage, being able to absorb 25, better 30, points of magic without taking damage is advisable. They are immune to death magic and mind spells, have rather low saves, but 85 SR. Greater Ruin works very well, as does Flesh to Stone if you can beat the SR.
Beholder Acolytes can produce various effects. These include a scripted Spell Failure attack that will also wipe your buffs, including your neg immune, your first action after this should be to immediately drink another neg pot. The spell failure effect almost completely incapacitates spell casters while Acolytes are present. Stoning and various other effects. They can be insta-killed with death magic and mind spells, having 56(?) Fortitude, 57(?) Will and no SR.
Deaths Kiss are miniature Beholders, more of a cousin to the beholder than an actual beholder themselves and will deal large amounts of Neg damage to you if you have no neg pot up. They will use the health they take from you to bolster their own health. I've seen numerous occasions with Death Kisses with over 10K HP. These can be domed via an Eye of Vecna or Cleric Conversion Epic. These, too, can easily be insta-killed, having 55(?) Fortitude, 53 Will and no SR.
Grubs are animals and can be animal emped to use as hardy pets. Feed them a neg pot and watch them go. For the ones you don't want to keep, death magic and mind spells work in principle but for the rather high 63 Fort and 55 Will save, although no SR. After curse and Eyebite/Aid, Weird works reasonably well. Firebrand works, although only physical part does damage. They do personal Kickback, 100 points fire and sonic each per hit.
Putrescent Orbs are green Beholders that will move in to melee you as soon as they see you. On death they let loose an area attack that does Magic Damage. They have 80 SR, 69(?) Fort, 46(?) Will. Immune to death magic?
Areas
The Beholder areas can be reached via the Drow tunnels to the Great Cavern, then through the Deepbat Cave. All three areas of the Beholder run are no-rest, no-port and no-fugue.
