Some observations and suggestions...

[Mean Gorilla]

Ok, so around a 2 weeks ago I was checking out cmal. I was enjoying the loot, but I noticed an imbalance if you will between paladin/SK bracers and the warrior bracer. Both the paladin/SK bracer had 16AC with stats while the warrior bracer had only 10ac and stats. Maybe there is a reason for the large difference, but I would like to know why.

Also, I was attempting ring 4 with two other 64 and myself 65war/65sham. When we got to the end of the little journey of random aggros. I hailed the guards and got aggroed by the wave. To me the waves seemed outta control as nearly 20 mobs came in under a 15 second period who were all LB at 65. I was curious If I encountered some kind of bug or if this is supposed to be a raid quest as I dont see a group killing 20 mobs that are LB to a 65 at once since you cant even do AE CC since you would mez a helper guard who would in turn tear u up.

 

[Birlic]

Not a bug. We tried the same two nights ago with a group of six (50 nec, 56 enc, 56 war, 60 bst, 60 wiz, 61 dru).
After two PC deaths and some zoning we finally slayed all zombies but two of the guards had died. This was probably the reason for not being able to complete the quest.
I'm interested in hearing strategies that worked for this part of the Ring IV quest.

 

[Maimai]

I'm interested in hearing strategies that worked for this part of the Ring IV quest.

When I did it it was only three of us, we killed and mez'd as many zombies as we could until we eventually (bravely!) all died. Then ran back and found the guards had finished off the rest. I believe the fight is almost balanced but tipped in the zombies favour to some degree, you just have to tip it to the guards then it doesnt matter what happens.

When we died 2 zombies were stuck in a wall though so the quest couldn't be finished so maybe that happened to you, though we got them out and killed them eventually after trying every possible dodgy thing we could think of to agro them (no GMs were on )

 

[tinkaa]

I know there were mini raids for the ring IV each friday about 7 months ago.

I have done my ring back then. We did it about a month ago with 4 players (but all 65). The point is to kill them as fast as possible, which is of course easier if you are higher level.
The ring IV is level 40 or 50 requirement? I think it's impossible to do it with one group at that level.

On the other hand - more players can do the quest at the same time. Ring V can be done with far less players very easily (imo), but each player has to take all the steps to obtain the ring.
So I think it's not unbalanced.

I suggest you ask in /ooc for help and make a mini raid. Most probably you will get the help needed. Good luck

 

[Thorgrym]

I owuld also imagine this being easier if you had a cuple of snare casters wityh fast run speed. Just snare and run as many as possible and have the rest of the gorup pick them off one by one if it will work.

Just a thought.