Doing the Dirty Work: Need Help

[Mononoke_Hime]

I read this thread and a few others regarding this quest. I used the medicine on the "marlboro" enemy and it did not knock his health down by 75% nor did it nullify his bad breath. I tried using the medicine before attacking, during attacking, before he cast his bad breath, and nothing, and no matter how far out of his bad breath zone I got, he still hit me. The only way I was able to complete this quest was some random level 54 player saw me struggling and helped me kill it. So just wanted to say this quest seems bugged still or people are still having problems with it.

The item doesnt bring it's health down to 75% in the way you might think, it's max hp gets lowered but it'll still be at 100% hp and the item also doesnt negate it's bad breath attack you have to move out of the aoe no matter what.

Hope this helps

[Elladie]

When you use the item, you have to be close to the thing you are fighting. Stay there and start fighting. When it uses Bad Breath, run forward underneath it out of the AOE. It's a long, conal attack so running away will pretty much ensure you don't get out of it and get all the debuffs. The Halistroper is easy to kill as long as you avoid Bad Breath. I've killed it many times with alts and I'm far from being a great player