Quest: Hack 'n Slash

Steps
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Stage 1; If there are many people playing, then the way to do this part easy is to gang up. Don't struggle alone one on one if you have a choice. Find a group and go together. Whenever a zerker bot dies, you all regain your power, if you are close enough.


 * 1) Find two smaller robots on the ground, click one, you receive parts, Click the other, you begin a crafting session (only Artisan level 2 is needed)
 * 2) "Hack" the robot until you can use it yourself by remote control.
 * 3) You as the robot now have a goal of helping destroy 50 of the berserk robots in the landscape.

Stage 2; This part is not smooth, but the goal is basically to craft bombs from the disarmed bombs that appear on the ground, and throw them at the MK-II robot.


 * 1) USe the command /target Kerser to help you find where Kerser is, look around until you see him, he is a small bot following the larger one. Click him (hand graphic should appear when you hover over him).
 * 2) You recieved several items needed for the quest.  Equip the magnifying glass.
 * 3) *At this point you often also get a message that you received another one. Maybe this is a bug or maybe it's a fix for a previous bug.  Anyway, there are two kinds of magnifying glass, one you equip, one that is in your bags and stays there. If one is missing, you will keep getting error messages. Unequip your magnifying glass and re-equip it to clear the errors IF they happen (not common).
 * 4) Follow the running bot until you see him bringing up three "bombs", clicking them disarms them and opens a crafting panel so you can craft one to throw.
 * 5) Success is not guaranteed, but if you succeed, get in range and throw the bomb at MK-II.  When he is at 50% health, the next stage starts.

Stage 3; This stage should be the simplest but can be very slow if you are doing it alone or with only a few friends. The goal is simply to destroy the protective forcefield called up by the robots. This takes the form of destroying 4 pillars, and fooling the targeting of the Ginormous robot so that MK-II gets hit 5 times. He can only be hit after the 4 pillars are down. So that's 5 rounds of 4 pillars to destroy.


 * 1) Destroy the 4 pillars/pylons in a roughly rectangular pattern in the PQ area.
 * 2) Everyone gather around MK-II (the smaller robot ont he ground), so that when Ginormous attacks, it "accidentally" hits MK-II.
 * 3) * Low level characters and tanks should travel with a healer for this part. The attacks of Ginormous aren't dangerou to high level characters, especially those who have health regeneration buffs from the Dragon Tree (tanks don't, but they get hit for only about half health at worst). Be careful that your healing merc is fully passive for this part.  He can get himself killed by following MK-II around, and that doesn't help you much.
 * 4) Repeat this process until MK-II is hit 5 times and emotes "I can't sustain another hit...."

Looting: Remember to loot both the body of the Ginormous robot and the Chest, and that bountiful harvest works for the Ginormous scrap metal mining. You must have at least hit one pylon once to receive the chest loot, but you can log in alt characters and have them all loot the "body" for ginormous scrap.

Rewards

 * Ginormous scrap metal (tinkering ingredient, not from the Chest)
 * Familiar parts for making Familiar: Spidermech Defender
 * Blueprints (level 65 temporary pet, detriment remover recipe with ward)
 * cosmetic pet
 * house decorating items
 * plushies
 * Sovereign (armor) items
 * Merc-only (armor) items
 * NEW Head armor with Accuracy stat, similar to Hydra Helm from Ill Omen PQ.