Fighting Malistaire

Yes, I have finally done it--I have defeated Malistaire! YAY! Now, this appears to be an incredibly scary task (which, I assure you, it is), but it is the dream of every young Wizard (if I can speak for all of you). Here are some important things to remember:

Bring four people!!! This is VERY important, because most of the fights include 4 monsters. Name one person the 'bait'. This means that the person will go into the fights that you want to avoid, then let everyone else go around the battle, then flee and teleport back. Make sure you all stick together, though. It's also a good thing if you're all friends, because in the case that someone dies in battle, they should be able to teleport back. So, fill up your potions, pack your decks, and get ready for a lot of craziness!

If your quest is to explore the place, you'll have that yellow questing arrow to guide you. Follow it past a couple of battles (this is where the bait comes in), and you'll go through a door. Keep following the arrow, which will take you all the way down to where a cool floating elevator is. Get on the elevator...

And step out of it onto a small platform. On your right will be Gurtok Piercer (Ice), and on your left Gurtok Firebender (Fire). Straight ahead will be a door--OH NO! It's locked, but behind it is where Malistaire lurks...


Fight the two Gurtoks (on Piercer for me, this required lots of ice converts, ice shields, and a kind Sorcerer friend), then you will have access to a crystal stand on one side. There is also a door (leads to Howling Cave), through which is a Myth boss (Tumok Gravelbeard). You don't have to fight him, but you can get some nifty grandmaster gear from him!

Anyway, you'll find four crystal stands in the area. If you press them all at the same time (because the crystals have to reload), the door will unlock! Glory be! Then you just saunter on through there, and you'll find lots of fun doors to walk through...lalalalala...AND THEN, you get to these two Draconians. Ice. About 13000 HP, Dragonspyre normal level. Looks simple, right? Well, it sort of is.

You have to kill them AT THE SAME TIME. Okay, so not EXACTLY the same time, but make it close. Because if you kill one, then go kill the other, the other one will regenerate. This happened to me and a few of my friends: we were all Ice, so it took us a little longer to kill them. If you are Fire school, this should be a snap.

Now, at last you have made it to Malistaire! First, just pick off four spirit-like Death creatures (again, Dragonspyre normal level, should be easy with four people), and then you get to fight Malistaire!!!! First, you witness a conversation between he and Cyrus Drake, his bro, which is pretty intense. You even get to see Sylvia Drake, Malistaire's wife in ghost form! Then you battle it out against Malistaire (10000 HP Death), and three more of those spirit creatures.

If you do beat him...congrats! :D This is a great achievement! Wear your Savior of the Spiral badges proudly!