Introduction
A Berserk Manticore requires a form of 5 or more people and killing 3 mobs around Sigil before hand for orbs to enable you to reach A Berserk Manticore. The mobs are:
Preparation
Usual preparation, check mem's, reagents, couple of calm mixes if you have someone who can use them are always helpful too. Once you are ready first thing to do is collect the orbs:
Baron Pileus
Send one person who has a toy to kill Baron Pileus, its a solo room and will unform them and the toy, very easy fight though. He is located in Ilandrama Library, enter the 3rd mirror south, east, southeast, east.
A hulking frogocerous
Send two people to kill this mob, the room is no regen and it does minor emote spells and damage, again pretty easy fight. He is located 5 north from Sigil south gate, 2 west, down, 2 southwest, all west, up, follow path until dark west entrance, mob is inside.
A muscular hill-dwarf lookout
Send the rest of your goup to kill this, and have the other two groups join as they finish, this is the hardest of the orb bosses to kill. Located from Sigil south gate, east, up, 2 east. The dwarf will throw spears that do pretty massive damage, tanks will need to flee and heal constantly, you can dispel and slow the dwarf to make it a little easier.
Note: Have someone who isn't going to die hold onto existing orbs or hide them some where, they are vanish death.
A Berserk Manticore encounter
Once you have one of each orb, from Sigil north gate head all south, all west, all north, west, south. Down will be NPK, in the down room hold the A dirty orb of excavation and use it, this will drop you down into another room. Next hold and use An even dirtier orb of excavation, followed finally by The dirtiest orb of excavation in the next room. The last orb will drop you into the same room as a Berserk Manticore, have someone calm and have your designated tank attack. The tank will be bolted occasionally so keep they topped up health wise using only cure light, they may also be unformed so be prepared to calm and allow them to form.
The Manticore will script heal if poisoned or plagued, so ensure these two debuffs are not cast. This includes WEAPONS which have either of these item attributes. Additionally, the form should ONLY cast CURE LIGHT - do not HEAL. A druid tank is best for this run as the druid can cast earth invocation to heal him/herself.
Lastly, your form should contain no more than 4 people - once you go beyond 4 form members, the boss becomes increasingly more difficult.
A Berserk Manticore carries:
Item 'valkyrie's gear' is type armor, alignment 0, made of bronze, has keywords 'stormvalkyrie valkyrie gear'. This item weighs 0 stones and 29 pebbles, and is valued at 135,100 gp. This level 241 item has the attributes: identified nodecay no-dispel unique level-adjusted Valkyrie's gear is in excellent condition. Armor resistance is 0 pierce, 0 bash, 0 slash, and 0 exotic. Affects courage by 2. Affects damage-kick by 9. Alters knowledge of 'riding' by -10%. *Your archon-level must be greater than or equal to 75 to use this item. *Your Mark of Valkyjra must be equal to True to use this item. *This item may be repaired 4 times. +++ Valkyrie's gear has a chance, when its wearer is wielding a weapon of the same type or damtype as their PC opponent, to heal its wearer for 11hp/11st, at a rate of 50% per combat round. +++ Valkyrie's gear may be manipulated to be worn in different wear locations. Item 'a solid gold sphere' is type treasure, alignment 0, made of gold, has keywords 'solid gold sphere'. This item weighs 0 stones and 96 pebbles, and is valued at 131,300 gp. This level 241 item has the attributes: identified nodecay A solid gold sphere is in excellent condition. This item has a default lifespan of 8 days and will expire on Wed Jun 2 09:26:44 2010. *Your archon-level must be greater than or equal to 80 to use this item. *This item may be repaired 5 times and renewed 4 times. This solid gold sphere looks like an artifact dug up from the ruins of Old Decara, but its sheen looks like it was forged yesterday. Ripples fall down its surface like a static waterfall, flowing symmetrically from the top down, like riches flowing into your lap. A small cap on the top keeps it together, and if this is only a container, one can only imagine what riches lay within. Item 'a solid gold sphere' is type treasure, alignment 0, made of gold, has keywords 'solid gold sphere'. This item weighs 0 stones and 96 pebbles, and is valued at 131,300 gp. This level 241 item has the attributes: identified nodecay A solid gold sphere is in excellent condition. This item has a default lifespan of 6 days and will expire on Mon May 31 09:26:44 2010. *Your archon-level must be greater than or equal to 100 to use this item. *This item may be repaired 5 times and renewed 4 times. This solid gold sphere looks like an artifact dug up from the ruins of Old Decara, but its sheen looks like it was forged yesterday. Ripples fall down its surface like a static waterfall, flowing symmetrically from the top down, like riches flowing into your lap. A small cap on the top keeps it together, and if this is only a container, one can only imagine what riches lay within. Item 'a solid gold sphere' is type treasure, alignment 0, made of gold, has keywords 'solid gold sphere'. This item weighs 0 stones and 96 pebbles, and is valued at 131,300 gp. This level 241 item has the attributes: identified nodecay A solid gold sphere is in excellent condition. This item has a default lifespan of 4 days and will expire on Sat May 29 09:26:44 2010. *Your archon-level must be greater than or equal to 120 to use this item. *This item may be repaired 5 times and renewed 4 times. This solid gold sphere looks like an artifact dug up from the ruins of Old Decara, but its sheen looks like it was forged yesterday. Ripples fall down its surface like a static waterfall, flowing symmetrically from the top down, like riches flowing into your lap. A small cap on the top keeps it together, and if this is only a container, one can only imagine what riches lay within. Item 'the top bit of a massive, complex key' is type house-key, alignment 0, made of iron, has keywords 'massive complex key locking part mechanical'. This item weighs 0 stones and 8 pebbles, and is valued at 250 gp. This level 10 item has the attributes: identified The top bit of a massive, complex key is in excellent condition. This key may be used an unlimited number of times. *This item may be repaired 5 times. It's difficult to tell what this is, exactly. It looks like a piece of an unusually well-defined piece of scrap metal, but for the big engraving, 'KEY', on the long, flat part. It doesn't look like any regular key, or even any kind of uncommon key, for that matter. Perhaps it will all come together, later.
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Note: Looting a giant human's skull will award you Mark of Order. Also note, the corpse explodes, so ensure you have loots on or are spamming get all corpse. Also note that alliance notes in the corpse will prevent autoloot or get all from working.