Found Something New (to me) in Burnside

[Kaos Arcanna]

So tonight I was running around on Blue Battleape in Burnside, getting ready to save Withcraft from her evil sister. I was beating
up bad guys for the malignant stone mission when I came across some glowing graves and a gallows where some master villains were bubbled up and innocent living people were about to be hung.

Turns out there's a Legendary Baddie there called The Hanging Judge you can summon if you sanctify the graves and beat up the Master Villains. I had my Black Widow Hoverbike on Bape and he did that part easily enough .... the Judge himself proved to be too much for me, but someone from the COX Forums on got on their 40 and we duoed him. Got some Q for it and a shiny new Perk. :D

Anyone else done that mission?

[Brou]

That is one of many Open Missions scattered about each zone. They can be a lot of fun to do together, but have scaled poorly against new itemization.

[Xev]

Was in Burnside just the other night during a Q hour. Kept running into people farming desert zombies and ended up there with Senge and ended up doing that mish for kicks. The last fight was tougher than I thought it would be. Had to burn him down fast.

[General Idiot]

Yup, much like a lot of things in CO the challenge is not in doing it. It's in doing it before the time runs out.

[Kaiser Tarantula]

That open mission has 3 steps.  First, you have to sanctify the graves. scattered around the gallows on the hillside.  They're guarded by 2-3 of the weakest variety of Burnside Ghost each.  They're all henchman-level, so it should be no problem to take them down.

Once you've sanctified enough graves, the invulnerability shields on the Hangmen ghosts should go down.  Each one is Master Villain level, with not a lot of notable attacks.  If you fight carefully, you can take them on one at a time.  There's five or six in total, if memory serves.

Once all the Hangmen are defeated, Hanging Judge Henessy will spawn on the gallows platform, in the front corner on the side with the noose.  He's a Legendary-difficulty boss, using mostly Darkness-set attacks.  Be careful of his Lifedrain - unblocked, it can deal tremendous damage and restores a lot of his health, too.  His BAM schtick inflicts paralysis, so make sure you block that, too.  If you get hit with it, and don't Z-mash out of it fast enough, he'll hit you with a critical for big damage.

Unlike a lot of Open Mission bosses, Hanging Judge Henesys can drop Boxes of Questionite.