Seeds of Destruction: A Council Divided

A Council Divided

Quest giver: Jaled`Dar
Requirements: An Impenetrable Shield (and its prereqs)
Request Phrase: great risks
Entry Phrase: *click into regular Kaesora Library zoneline

Your first goal in the instance is to make your way to the council. The zone's base pop is the same as the normal group zone so is quite trivial for a raid, but gets boring. You can bypass a lot of it with invis / sos / coh / mask illusion / guild banner if you want. While getting set up zonewide emotes will go off as the 8 council members discuss what to do, four of them in favor of joining discord, four against. Which is which is random and you'll need to figure out the four in favor by their emotes:

'With all due respect, you must be mad. Put your pride aside for a moment and consider the ramifications of this decision. Should we side with Discord, we will rule forever. Otherwise, we could doom the whole empire.'
'Yes, yes. They've showed us what will happen if we do not accept their assistance. Collapse, chaos, destruction, the end of our reign. I say we join them! Trust in these Discordians.'
'You speak of bargains but would not know one if it were laid before you like a silver egg. An opportunity such as this will never arise again. We should accept Discord's offer now before it is too late!'
'Rejecting their assistance is pride unless we truly need their help, at which point it becomes suicidal arrogance. You would doom us all to save face. Ask yourself this: is a tradition of arrogance more important than our survival?'

Once you've identified the four and are in position you trigger the event by speaking with any of them and saying "patience", all 8 will attack. They all hit for up to 10k, although not often. The four against Discord are pure melee and need to be simply offtanked for the entire event. The four in favor each have a specific 75 range AE (fire, cold, magic, or disease) dealing 10k damage with 2k dot and a single target debuff which amplifies damage of their AE. Every 25 seconds they cast the debuff on the tank followed by the AE. The debuff gets stronger each time it lands, +50% first, +100% second, +250% third, +500% fourth, and +1000% fifth. By the time you get the third debuff the tank is taking a 35k dd. If the tank changes (or dies) the debuff resets back to first rank.

The goal is to get all four of the bad council down to about 5% then kill them all at the same time. If any good council member dies, the event resets. If a bad council member dies but not all four, the dead respawns at full health and needs to be brought back down. If they are pulled away from the area, the event resets. If the event resets the order is shuffled and you'll need to listen to emotes to pick out the four bad before trying again.

When all four bad are killed in the proper window, the chest spawns.

Normal mode chest contains 2 spells, 1 piece of Eon armor, 1 piece of gear, and 1 randomly either Eon or gear.

Hard mode chest contains 2 runes, one Primeval (t3) Essence, and one random item from Rathe raids.