Quest: Challenge: The Town of Stoneheight

Background

Defeat all of the bosses in Stoneheight, without removing their corruptions.
This quest will be cancelled if you leave the Northcotton Farms before completing it. This challenge is only completable on Tier 2 Difficulty.

Objective One

• Defeat Gundúl
• Defeat Búbhosh-grat
• Defeat Dale Truitt
• Do not remove corruptions

World Instance: Stoneheight

Quests
Quest:Challenge: The Town of Stoneheight
Quest:The Town of Stoneheight

Walthrough

First Boss - Gundúl
Gundúl has two goblin adds that love to put multiple wound DoTs on you. Either focus fire and burn them down quickly or kite tank Gundúl and one add while burning the other add. Pot wounds immediately as they will stack and be reapplied constantly. After the adds are down, tank and spank Gundúl while interrupting and removing corruptions.

Gundúl will periodically (about every 30s) call out someone's name, at which time he and both adds will attack a random party member. If he calls your name, immediately run as far away as possible. They will give up the chase after a few seconds.

Sometimes the goblins will throw multiple caltrops down at a time that damage and slow. Since you cant see them on the ground, watch your debuff bars for them and run for a bit when they start laying them down.

While the goblin adds can be CCed, any CC will break every time he does this coordinated attack and they will be immune to CC for the next 10s.

Sleeping Wolves

When you get to the sleeping wolfhounds, if you are careful not to step on one, you can walk through their midst without fighting any best to go into walk mode for this (press 'insert'). Otherwise, you have to fight them in groups of three or four (or all 12 in T2). There is an stealthed goblin that paths through the latter half of the sleeping wolfhounds, so to be safe wait to kill it near the top of the first stairs.

Second Boss - Búbhosh-grat

Straightforward tank and spank with interrupts and corruption removals. A missed interrupt applies a curable heavy wound DoT. The main thing to watch out for is his AOE attack that does lethal damage. He mentions something about showing you a trick right before he does it. Búbhosh-grat runs away (at about 8k morale) when he's about to die. He reappears when Dale Truitt's encounter is started. Remove corruptions in order to reduce incoming damage.

"Come closer, children! Let me show you a trick." Right before his AOE. Move away.

Third Boss - Dale Truitt
Búbhosh-grat tells Dale that he wasn't able to kill the PC's and he pleads for help. On Tier 1, Dale kills Búbhosh-grat. Another tank and spank. When he throws caltrops down, pull him to a clear area and continue fighthing. Occasionally he'll stun and disappear into the fog, then reappear a few seconds later charging for an attack. Interrupt and continue fighting. Rinse and repeat.

Tier Two
Challenge Mode: Don't remove any corruptions on the bosses. On Tier 2, players must fight both of them. Búbhosh-grat's trick does twice as much damage with every slash as he did the first time. Occasionally, he random aggroes somebody. Dale will also periodically go into stealth and then reappear at a random location in the room (he does actually walk to this location). When he gets there he will do an induction which will cause a random party member to be stunned and receive approximately 2k damage - interrupt this if you can (but not with a rune-keeper's interrupt if you don't want to fail the challenge!). Dale's caltrops do significant damage on T2 (incurable wound), it is important for your tank to move out of them.

Loot

Threkskold Bind on Acquire Heavy Shield   1,863 Armour -2% Evade Chance +10% Ranged Defence +1380 All Critical Defence Ratings +552 Block Rating +552 Melee Defence Rating +112 Maximum Morale +23 Might +101.4 in-Combat Power Regen   Tought Durability 100/100   Worth: 14  70	Footman's Leggings Unique Bind on Acquire Medium Armour   792 Armour +75 Agility +47.1 in-Combat Morale Regen +23 Vitality +100 Maximum Power   Tough Durability 65/65 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 16  98	Padlock Bracelet Bind on Acquire Wrist +23 Vitality +23 Fate +23 Will +225 Maximum Morale +100 Maximum Power   Normal Durability 80/80 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 3  90
Dead-breaker Unique Bind on Acquire Bow   139 - 252 Beleriand Damage 88.7 DPS +8 Damage to The Dead Wield: +1% Critical Hits Chance to ranged auto-attacks. Greatly reduces threat during ranged combat. Wield: Chance of lowering your target´s Armour. 15% chance to apply.   On Use: +30 Vitality Duration: 10m Cooldown: 15m   Normal Durability 100/100 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 15  45	Boots of the Light Step Bind on Acquire Light Armour   255 Armour +56 Vitality +23 Fate +23 Will +100 Maximum power   Normal Durability 30/30 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 10  30	Filigothigil Bind on Acquire Dagger   102 - 170 Beleriand Damage 71.8 DPS Wield: 1% Auto-attack Critical Hit Chance +23 Might +23 Agility +50.4 in-Combat Power Regen +23 Vitality +109 Maximum Morale Wield: Chance of lowering your target´s Armour. 15% chance to apply   Normal Durability 90/90 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 6  80
Black Onyx Earring Unique Bind on Acquire Ear +75 Will +138 Ranged Critical Rating +23 Agility +23 Fate   Tough Durability 60/60 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 5  10	Emerald Signature Ring Bind on Acquire Finger +138 Parry Rating +23 Might +23 Vitality +56 Will   Tough Durability 50/50 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 3  90	Brilliant Gold Ring (Level 65) Bind on Acquire Finger +23 Agility +23 Might +56 Vitality +23 Will   Tough Durability 50/50 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 3  90
Gem Teardrop Earring Bind on Acquire Ear +92.4 in-Combat Morale Regen +194 Maximum Power +136 Melee Critical Rating +23 Fate   Normal Durability 60/60 Minimum Level 65   Worth: 3  40

Credit to http://lotro-wiki.com/ for the loot table

Quest: North Cotton Farm (Daily)

Background

Thadúr has recently taken over a small farm to the north-west of Oatbarton. He has used some foul type of poison to alter the local flora and fauna. You must defeat him and his minions and foil his plot to poison the Shire.

This quest will be cancelled if you leave the Northcotton Farm before completing it.

Objective 1

• Defeat Legbarthil
• Defeat Úmheryn, the vile cauldron
• Defeat Thadúr the Ravager

Thadúr the Ravager has begun to settle into a farm near Oatbarton. He has begun preparations to release a powerful poison known as Darkthorn into the Shire's water. You must foil Thadúr's plans and defeat him and his minions.

Quest: Challenge: The Unquenched Flame

Background

While attempting to destroy Úmheryn, the vile cauldron, you must not douse the fire that stands below the cauldron.

This quest will be cancelled if you leave the Northcotton Farms before completing it. This challenge is only completable on Tier 2 Difficulty.

Objective One

• Locate the source of the noxious fumes

Within Northcotton Farm, there is an odour most foul in the air. Discover the source of the foul odour.

Objective 2

• Do not quench the fire while defeating Úmheryn

Thadúr the Ravager has nearly completed his fiendish experiments within the remnants of the Northcotton Farm.

The virulent poison that he has concocted would be devestating to the hobbits that dwelll below the farm. You must refrain from dousing the fire beneath the cauldron with the bucket in order to ensure that every remnant of the poison is destroyed.

Objective 3

• Defeat Thadúr the Ravager

After successfully destroying the remains of Dark Thorn, Thadúr the Ravager now awaits you deeper within the farm.

Seek out Thadúr the Ravager and drive him out of the Northcotton Farms.

World Instance: North Cotton Farm

Quests

A Little Piece of Home in Evendim

Challenge: The Unquenched Flame

North Cotton Farm

Walkthrough

NCF is all about the poison, if you can avoid that and the boss special attacks you can complete NCF without a primary healer.

The 'trash' mobs in this instance come as (part one) spiders, (part two) wolves/dogs, (part three) boars and (part four) goblins.  These are all manageable and come in groups of three or four, though the spiders do have a couple of wandering mobs to watch out for.  Remember to loot the boars for the 'A Little Piece of Home in Evendim' quest.

First Boss - Lengbarthil

The tank should start this fight by grabbing aggro and then running to the back wall since Lengbarthil shoots a poison cloud immediately after. The animation for the poison cloud looks like a white line spit attack towards the tank. Be aware of this animation the whole fight so you'll be able to move away from new clouds before they appear. 

The same animation is used to root players who don't have aggro. If a player gets rooted, pull Lengbarthil away so that player doesn't get stuck in the poison cloud that Lengbarthil shoots soon after. The tank should also try to tank away from the ranged players so that they don't have to move much during the fight. 

Three egg sacs with about 3k morale appear during the fight at set morale levels (approximately 80k, 45k and 15k) which need to be dealt with quickly or they hatch three spiderlings that will heal Lengbarthil for about 10k each if they reach her. The tank should run away from the egg as soon as it comes out so that a poison cloud won't be dropped on it. If spiders start moving toward the boss you can stun them which apparently disrupts the heal, or try to kill them. 

Second Boss -Úmheryn

 Thadúr is up on a rickety wood tower with Úmheryn (a vile cauldron) in which Thadúr is brewing a poison to put into the shire's water supply. There are four elements to this fight:

• One player will have Thadúr's eye on them (big green eye above your head) and will drop damaging poison clouds wherever they move to. This is one of only two sources of damage in the fight and the player with the eye should run in a designated area away from the rest of the group to avoid dropping puddles on them. The eye will first appear on the player who gets initial proximity aggro to the cauldron and will cycle through the two players who do not currently have aggro on the cauldron for the rest of the fight. If one of those two players dies, the person who has aggro can get the eye which makes the fight significantly harder.
• Hobbits will run out and try to eat the poisoned pies and will need to receive a /slap -- bind that to a hotbar with "/shortcut ## /slap" where ## is a number. 1-12 is your regular hotbar, 13-24 is your Ctrl+ hotbar, 25-36 is your Alt+ hotbar, etc.
• The fight is a DPS race, as if the Thadúr is given enough time to concoct his brew and poison the well, you lose. Thadúr will give two warnings that you are about to run out of time, one with approximately 2min and then he will say that you have one minute remaining. For this reason it is important, particularly on tier 2, that you have one player designated as DPS and that they do not get the eye throughout the fight. If they do get the eye they will waste time running around instead of damaging the cauldron. This means that this person should not be the first player to get aggro and also they must be allowed to build aggro on the cauldron early in the fight (and not lose it). Other players should contribute what damage they can without interfering with the primary DPS player by dropping puddles in inconvenient locations.
• The cauldron will periodically bubble over, giving any players in melee range an eye similar to Thadúr's eye. There are two warnings for this happening, first you will be warned that the fire is lit and the cauldron is getting hot and then Thadúr will tell you it is about to bubble over just before it does. After the first warning appears, a bucket will light up which you can pick up and douse the fire with by running past it. Alternatively you can just run out of melee range briefly after Thadúr gives his warning to avoid the spillover or stay and take the damage as long as a healer has time to keep you alive.

Once you destroy the cauldron Thadúr runs off. 

Third Boss -  Thadúr The Raveger

Thadúr does a distributed damage attack and he drops poison clouds that do AoE damage if you stand in them. This version of Thadúr has more morale/power than the level 65 version in The Great Barrow but he is only an Elite Master instead of a Nemesis. He will call out one of five things periodically throughout the fight:

• "Divided you shall fall." Distributed damage attack, group up.
• "I shall unleash a gift upon those that face me." Get behind him.
• "Poisonous vapors shall grant me strength." Remove this corruption ASAP, it will put a non-removable poison on the entire party.
• "You shall behold the power of Dark Thorn." Thadúr will drop a moderately damaging poison cloud on himself.
• "This poison shall have a most interesting effect." Thadúr will randomly select a player and cast an effect on them. This effect can include a stun or a fear. Note: if you get feared while standing next to the entrance door, the fight can bug and reset Thadúr. Stay away from this door for this reason or pot it immediately.

It is recommended that all party members group up close to Thadúr, with the tank in front and the other two party members right behind. This means you will not need to move at all for the "divided you shall fall" attack. The tank can simply run through Thadúr when he does his frontal "face me" attack. As the fight goes on, these effects will come more frequently and can come on top of each other. Watch out for a combination of the "dark thorn" and "divided you shall fall" effects as you might be running away from the thorn effect when you need to be grouping up. If you have a primary healer in your group, you can probably sit through the dark thorn poison cloud if you want to make the fight a bit less chaotic (it's not as damaging as the spider boss cloud). If you deal with all of these special abilities, you will take very little damage throughout the fight, Thadúr doesn't hit that hard with his normal attacks. 

An optional strategy is to have ranged players stand back out of range of the "divided you shall fall" attack for the whole fight, keeping Thadúr's back toward them at all times. Melee classes will take more damage, a trade-off for less players to heal. 

Tier One

In Tier 1 the damage done by the trash and bosses is less. You also have longer to take down Úmheryn and Thadúr has fewer special attacks and won't use them as often.

Tier Two

Don't use buckets on the cauldron. Also, the hobbits will run quickly toward the poison pies instead of walking slowly.

Loot

Avorcham Bind on Acquire Medium Armour Chest 889 Armour +23 Agility +46 Might +23 Will +23 Vitality Normal Durability 65/65 Minimum Level 65 Set: Discarded Keepsakes Worth: 11  48	Gem-studded Bracelet Bind on Acquire Wrist +138 Block Rating +23 Agility +51 in-Combat Power Regen +23 Vitality +23 Might +112 Maximum Morale Tough Durability 80/80 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 3  90	Amethyst Gold Silver Bracelet Unique Bind on Acquire Wrist +225 Maximum Morale +138 Block Rating +23 Might +23 Vitality On any Common damage: 10% chance to Reflect 25 damage Normal Durability 80/80 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 5  85
Rider's Leggings Unique Bind on Acquire Light Armour 559 Armour +75 Will +23 Fate +23 Vitality +100 Maximum Power Tough Durability 40/40 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 15  75	Túrchol Bind on Acquire Light Armour Back 383 Armour +46 Fate +23 Will +23 Vitality +109 Maximum Morale +97 Power Normal Durability 40/40 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 9  90	Sarenzer Bind on Acquire Ear +225 Maximum Morale +138 Melee Critical Rating +23 Might +23 Vitality +23 Agility Tough Durability 60/60 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 3  40
Hithlain Threads Bind on Acquire Pocket +828 Melee Defence Rating +138 Block Rating +138 Evade Rating +138 Parry Rating +23 Might Normal Durability 100/100 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 15  42	Many Gemmed Necklace Bind on Acquire Neck +136 Evade Rating +816 Wound Resist Rating +23 Vitality +23 Will +23 Might +23 Agility Normal Durability 80/80 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 4  90	Cloak of Urun Bind on Acquire Light Armour 390 Armour +56 Might +138 Evade Rating +23 Vitality +100 Maximum Power Normal Durability 40/40 Worth: 9  90
High-crested Helm Bind on Acquire Heavy Armour 351 Armour +56 Vitality +23 Will +23 Might +23 Agility Tough Durability 90/90 Minimum Level 65 Worth: 13  26

Credit for the bits I couldn't remember to http://lotro-wiki.com