Shield of Striding  

 

It's the weekend, i have no life, so i decided to try and get this levitation shield for my wife's cleric. I have been here 17 hours, have gotten 3 enraged disciples to spawn, and all 3 dropped the STUPID bowl. In fact the last spawn was one, and i was so pissed i figured i'd put a comment about it.

I think these drop rates are horrendous for the average spawn rate of this mob. So you figure just about every 6 hours this freaken mob spawns, that's if you're killing every cycle which takes 20 minutes to respawn, and the bowl which nobody will use drops just about every time.

I suppose since the wifes at work and i have nothing to do anyway on my weekend i'll continue to camp it, if i wasn't camping this for her i'd probally be camping some other mob i'd suppose, so actually I dont know what the hell i'm complaining about :) oh yeah the drop rate, it blows hard!

Excellent /loc Thank you, got the shield second spawn.

Must be my lucky day cleared all from door up 1 time and pop ... had the shield ....Yay SoE luvs me again total time less than 1 hr...=-)

I know you're all going to hate me for this stoke of luck:

was in CT for about an hour, killed 3 ph's... then AED popped...

dropped the SoS first time :) So total time in CT: little over 1 hour

I hope you are all blessed with the same luck, no one should have to waste hours of the precious life camping a POS item.

my 2 cents

only clr dru and shm can click from inventory others cant use

once you're in the upper throne room, there's 2 parts to the hallway: the first behind the first door on the left, which holds 2 justicars and 1 protector usually. the middle mob is the only PH for AED. the other part normally holds 2 necros and 1 protector. the way myself (70 rogue) and 70 cleric did it was to clear once to get to the hallway for camp. then instead of clearing, use Eyes to target and paci then pull instead of clearing everything. easy camp imo.

this guy spawned on first clear today and dropped the Shield for me - talk about great luck - makes up for the whole night I spent camping the mob who drops barbed rubicite pauldrons but didnt spawn all night for me - its boring if these guys dont spawn but I got real lucky I guess.

Update: Spawned twice in a row - this time dropped bowl of viscious ooze

Update: must be my lucky day - just looted sanguine tome minutes after looting the shield (from tae ew bloodfiend) :)

Edited, Wed Oct 20 04:15:17 2004

Yo, Okay. So I've heard alot about this shield...I was told its worth 300k+ On Tarew Marr...Only because there was only 2 in game, and they dont drop anymore...I got cheaped out of a deal, so can anyone tel me a price for this ??

this item is -Tradeable-

Okay I've read all the posts and nobody has explained if the effect is useable by all classes from the inventory.

As a monk this would make for a nice junk buff, if we can click it from the inventory.

Now before I get 10 replies saying "Why would a monk be able to use the effect? It's CLR/DRU/SHM only." certain items can be used from the inventory (where your bags are) even if your class can't use. Example: Amulet of Necropotence.

So does anyone know?

Last night I went in with 2 guild members and killed An Enraged Disciple. He was up after the most recent patch. He dropped this shield.

/Happy Cleric.

I've owned this shield for awhile, but just now posting some info on it...mainly the effect.

The stats are ho-hum quite frankly. The Tae Ew Shield that is smithed is better than this, and there's tons of em being sold in the bazaar by tradeskill folks for roughly 7k nowadays. What makes this shield better is, of course, the Levitation effect.

This effect is self only, requires no bat-wing, and is insta-click. Best of all? This doesn't need to be equipped to cast. Just like J-boots, you can click this in inventory, making it much, much sweeter. If you're a cle like me, this also means you gain the ability to LEVITATE freely /cheer.

I cannot price-check this, but understand that this is the mobs (it's been so long, I forgot name but it is an Upper Throne Room named) very rare drop, and these are NEVER sold on the Nameless. The effect is not "godly" but make no mistake...just like an Eyepatch of Plunder for melee, you can't really appreciate the convenience of the effect until you have one yourself.

p.s. The graphic in inventory is a smooth-rounded shield, but on your character it's a dark red shield w/ a skull in the center, just like the aura of battle shield from PoFear. I wish they would make the graphic the smooth-rounded one instead of the skull-shield.

utr is upper throne room in CT, i went there once since the patch and it was pretty hairy, lots of lizards close together, probably other nameds up there as well but we didn't live long enough to see any. gonna have to try again soon, i just got levitation scroll for my shammy so this would make my cleric wet her pants.

*warning: hearsay*

Word at EQCleric is that this drops off of a Enraged Disciple in UTR. Second hand info though.

Edited, Thu May 2 10:06:46 2002

A long time ago they removed instaclick levitation items by adding a casting time to them to remove certain exploits. Either the latest changes to levitation removes that exploit or they forgot when they made this item to put a casting time on it.

What dropped this?