Quest:Protect the Horses

Protect the Horses
Level	100
Type	Solo
Repeatable	Yes
Starts with	Landscape
Starts at	Helm's Dike
Start Region	Westfold
Quest Group	Helm's Dike

Quest Chain

[100] Epic Battle: Helm's Dike

Possible side objectives for Helm's Dike.

Walkthrough & Notes

General Mechanics

The incoming enemies will focus primarily on the horses, making it a good idea to swap Soldiers into Two-handed stance to help take them out as fast as possible.
Horses will flee when they become critically low.
You will not lose merit for releasing a horse, but it will affect your merit gain.

Strategy

Without planning and preparation before the quest is active, it is difficult to get platinum. The overall idea is to bottleneck and slow down the waves of mobs before they can reach the horses. The mobs spawn across the stream from the stables, and are usually tightly grouped when they spawn. Before the quest begins, have one player set up barricades in front of the stables. If you can locate the place where the waves spawn, concentrate barricades there, and maybe even build and aim a ballista at that spot. All players need to move immediately to the stables once the side quest starts. Engineers should place trip wires, caltrops, and bear traps in the lanes where waves run. In a 6-player fellowship battle, there will be a few mobs attacking horses behind the stable sporadically, so one person will need to stay back there. There are no real bosses, so the goal is to survive the waves of enemies.

Runekeepers and Minstrels can heal the horses. A single healing spec'd Runekeeper can easily solo this quest simply by getting three tiers of Writ of Health going on the horses that are being attacked.

Rewards
Legendary Item Experience Steed Experience Epic Battle Reward Points

Quest Text

Background

A small group of enemies has made their way to the stable behind Helm's Dike. They are trying to drive away the steeds and placing traps to prevent riders from retreating back to the Hornburg. Horses can be commanded to run free, but will be unavailable to assist any retreating Rohirrim.

Objective

Defend the horses from enemy waves (0/6)

Protect the horses at the stables from invading Orcs. If necessary, the horses can be set free to prevent them from being attacked.

Merit Rating

This quest starts with Partial Merit Rating.

Moderate Merit Gain
- Horses' enemy attacks survived

Major Merit Loss
- Rohirrim defender defeated
- Horse attacked to the point of fleeing