Trap Map: Hidden Power (with video link)

Hidden Power is one of the missions of the Troy mission set.

Name	Hidden Power
Minimum level	120
Maximum number of participants	4
Size of a party	main + 2
Time limit	60 minutes
Total number of vehicles allowed	1
Entry fee	5 M
Total upgrade cost	14.5 M (after Spelltower patch)
Catapult cost	5 M
Reward	12 x Troy Victory Treasure (“120 Gold Coins”)
XP victory bonus	363 M

This mission is quite possible to solo after you have passed the level 120 upgrade quest. There is a really fantastic video on youtube with a spoken commentary by angster40 which should be easy to find. It tells you all about positioning, traps and such. But ignore the comments about the mission being hard, because due to several updates they have watered down the mission greatly.

Here some hints:

There are nasty groups of mobs waiting for you. It is most important in this mission not to rush forward but be as careful as possible. Better remain just out of aggro range, heal up, seth up, and then do a full onslaught on your next turn than to risk a hoard attack on you.

Fighting your way up the ramp

This is most important in the area of J9 and westward of it. You climb up from J7. You can attack with your gunner the two mobs on the right side of J9 (see picture). Don’t forget the net trap in the middle of the ascending ramp. Then two others (in the picture you see only one so far because of the sight range) will rush at you down the ramp. Kill them, too. Don’t attack the venom commanders west of you. Repeat the last sentence loud and clear. Don’t! What you should do instead is carefully bombing away the mystic stone from as far a distance as possible. Then take out the venom commanders with your sethed cannon main. You have no cannon main? That sucks…

The plateau you enter after climbing up the ramp contains 6 venom commanders and lots of other nasty mobs, not to speak of the mobs coming from the summon portal west of Dark Alexandra. So be extra careful there.

The next crisis are the said stepping stones with Dark Alexandra (A2 in the map) behind them. Take out the mystic stone if possible but the mobs standing around there will take it personally. I find it most effective to lure them over the stepping stones to the East (where you came from). If you are very lucky Alexandra stands on the stepping stones when the flood comes…

After Alexandra the rest is easy. Before the gate after which you find the final boss, in H13/H14 I lay 2 net traps after clearing away the hostile ones (which you can do with only 1 scroll if you stand right between them). Then take the gate down, lure the enemy out (bomb the mobs just before the boss) and debuff and snipe the boss.

I have updated the map (see comments). And there may be traps inside the boss chamber itself but you should never ever be forced to enter it.

Here is a video of a run with Fritz, my musician main alt, then level 123. I did not use a blessing potion/license to compensate for my good (but not uber, no +10 weapon or such) gear.

And here an old video of Claudia:

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZyrjX53nos

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXLzoz5g5gM

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-g5udMTTo