Shadows of Luclin
mage/cleric/necro
Necro started it by getting ramp, mage pet tanked, cleric healed........duh.
I would reccomend pulling the back mobs and killing those asap. Long fight dropped caster shield, helm and some spells.
Blindfoe
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This mob is do able with about 20 to 30 peeps. We aren't a raiding guild, so our max attendnece is between 25 and 30. We have killed him twice, took us 15 mins to kill him, but he didnt cause too much trouble. Make sure you have a good chain on the MT and a RT healer. Also have an RGC'er because he ae curses. If the healers are behind the pillar they dont get hit by it. he also drops RGC btw, he dropped it both times. Also a nice ranger/rogue item, but cant remember offhand what it was.
Nice fight so long as you have patience, it is a long fight cos he has alot of hps. he rampages ALOT too lol.
Ubah sword, our only sk got it =)
Nice fight so long as you have patience, it is a long fight cos he has alot of hps. he rampages ALOT too lol.
Ubah sword, our only sk got it =)
Well, gratz me, I won one of these on E'ci 2 nights ago. Even with all the PoP weapons dropping off gods and such, this weapon rules. It procs so often that you're basically being fed 60hp/tick as long as you've got a mob in front of you. Great DPS and nice stats too. It really pays to be the only shadowknight in a guild! =D
Fellowship of Brothers rules =D
Fellowship of Brothers rules =D
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Dropped for us last night. Made our SK very happy :)
18 posts
The weapon just flat out pwns~
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We killed him yesterday, guildfirst. (seems to be farmed on our server, looking for him for a time now and never was up). The key for killing him is to controll rampage (and have a good second ch line for rampage tank). if that's ok, you are ok too, did this with 38 ppl.
One more surprise, it has an (seemingly) unavoidable knock back on MT.
One more surprise, it has an (seemingly) unavoidable knock back on MT.
The knockback is why you ought to have the MT behind him with his back on that box/wall. Can't go anywhere, then. The rest of the raid can be at max melee by the steps. I've heard of folks doing this with mage pets as rampage, just for giggles, but it's simpler to have 2 warriors build up aggro with arrows initially.
How many people can take on this thing? Is it around 30-60 people? And do they all have to be 55+? Just wondering. Btw, one more thing, could it be ONLY Dark Races doing this? Like Ogres, Dark Elfs, Trolls, and Iksars? I mean, maybe a bard or 3 also, but how many people do you need to do it? The Sword is a sweet thing to have, hopfully my Guiold and Evil Legions shall someday be able to do this and do it enough times to where most of the Sk's have one =) All help is helpful; Ty.
evil camp can do most, you got you're warriors ,clerics,shamans,chanters, and enough dps classes as well.
above 55 ? hmmm not sure there, but with pop gear now, maybe 40 will do (starting at 55 that is ) at 65, 30ish for easy kill
hunter Roxas Nitehowler
forest stalker of illumanati
MM
above 55 ? hmmm not sure there, but with pop gear now, maybe 40 will do (starting at 55 that is ) at 65, 30ish for easy kill
hunter Roxas Nitehowler
forest stalker of illumanati
MM
hunter Roxas Nitehowler
Plainswalker of illumanati
MM, EQ
hunter Roxas
WoW retired
Plainswalker of illumanati
MM, EQ
hunter Roxas
WoW retired
10 posts
This mob can be owned by 2 Full groups of 65. Seen it down a couple of times on Bertox. But to be safe we do it all the time with around 20 averaging 64.
Its easy to kill with no deaths. Usually the only people to die are over zealous Wizards who are pumping out too much DPS.
Its easy to kill with no deaths. Usually the only people to die are over zealous Wizards who are pumping out too much DPS.
10 posts
nalelan is a ock star, to fight him is to invite the horror show...
is this sword better than black bastardsword?
discuss
is this sword better than black bastardsword?
discuss
Does anyone know how rare a weapon drop this is off Arch Lich? Something to compair it to is how Emperor has dropped at least 1 Sword of Ssra every time my friends' guild has killed him. If anyone can share their experiences, I'd appreciate it. Thanks
-Krikk
-Krikk
Scholar
19 posts
I can't verify anything, but from personal experience this dropped once in four recent(within a month) AL kills.
Icharyd, Grave Lord of the Tribunal
Icharyd, Grave Lord of the Tribunal
9 posts
Just got this weapon , took us at least 5 minutes to kill this guy with 40 lvl 60-65 people. If you get Speed of Valon (70ish % haste buff) you will roxxor with this weap. Slashing fast and hard, keeping very good aggro.
If you have a 42 % haste item and that eye patch of plunder (some bard haste song effect around 20-25 % haste or so) you will be able to solo rather nice. Still it is hard, at lvl 65 there arent many good places to solo as an SK :( we become more of a group class at lvl 65.
If you have a 42 % haste item and that eye patch of plunder (some bard haste song effect around 20-25 % haste or so) you will be able to solo rather nice. Still it is hard, at lvl 65 there arent many good places to solo as an SK :( we become more of a group class at lvl 65.
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considering EPoP is not a bard song, its 20% spell haste( no not the focus effect flamers) but haste from a spell, not a bardsong, this is why monks get it, get a 41% item haste, epic 40%, and then EPoP - 20%, all of which stack together - item,spell, and bard haste - which reaches them to the 86% normal haste cap easily. Please post only if you actually know what an item does or have the item, there is not really room for speculation becuaes people might actually read your post and believe it....
so what if you 2 boxed a shaman with it ..??
congrats btw
congrats btw
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Posted: Sep 11 2002 at 4:43 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) no joke.. this weapon is crazy for sk.. they will nurf this for sure..
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Just picked up this puppy on a raid tonight. All I can say is you guy's don't realize the power of this weapon because it "STACKS" with the epic proc. Blindfoe proc is 60hp per tick, Epic is 50hp per tick. That is 110 hp Per tick. I toggle between primal/epic/blindfoe non stop. Lets not forget fungi tunic and Shroud of death (up to 175 manaless heal per tick, more depending on your aa's). I get C3 and Aego and go to velks, I solo till the buffs go (bout 37+ spiders depending on how many people are in zone) without medding once during the hole fight. If by any chance you get below half health your leech disc is up and your back to full health. Who needs quad kite? Enjoy this while it lasts, I have a feeling they will nerf this.
Xzibbit 60 sk
Rallos Zek
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Xzibbit 60 sk
Rallos Zek
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here is the deal with the epics vs drops. for the most part, you need an epic-equiped guild to get to these uber drops, such as blindfoe. not only do you need the epic weapons, but your guild needs to be organized enough to get epics in order to handle the places where this sort of sword drops.
OK, so this post is over a year old, but it seems that you were forgetting that Velious ever existed. With primal/prismatic and NToV weapons, the "epics" aren't all that necessary for a guild to go straight from old world to kunark to velious to luclin and skip epics.
Nowadays, pop weapons shatter the utility of epics, I bagged my epic as soon as I got a black bastardsword, but still use it every once in a while for soloing.
And yes, you want to use the sknight epic in tandem with blindfoe and our dot tap and mental corruption for maximised healing when soloing.
Nowadays, pop weapons shatter the utility of epics, I bagged my epic as soon as I got a black bastardsword, but still use it every once in a while for soloing.
And yes, you want to use the sknight epic in tandem with blindfoe and our dot tap and mental corruption for maximised healing when soloing.
i'll give you a small example, the members of my guild are nicely decked with epics, but we are nowhere near killing arch lyche, and other fun luclin mobs that drop these uber weaps.
epics atm are just a nice step to get closer to killing the real big mobs in EQ, but they are by no means the last weapon someone will wield.
(although swiftwind comes close.P)
Roxas Nitehowler
57 outrider of illumanati
MM
epics atm are just a nice step to get closer to killing the real big mobs in EQ, but they are by no means the last weapon someone will wield.
(although swiftwind comes close.P)
Roxas Nitehowler
57 outrider of illumanati
MM
hunter Roxas Nitehowler
Plainswalker of illumanati
MM, EQ
hunter Roxas
WoW retired
Plainswalker of illumanati
MM, EQ
hunter Roxas
WoW retired
ha.. hardly anyone on the server i have switched to and am playing on now could take ss temple ne way lol.. i think theres only been one guild on the seventh hammer thats held the temple .. could be wrong.. getting items like this takes very strong guild.. not much of an option where i am =P
Anybody else think they're eventually going to allow you to quest for an upgrade to your epic. I mean, I'm sure some people are completely giving up on their epics, figuring they can get one of these NO-DROP booby prizes on a raid.
Understandable, this is a billion times better than my weapon and I would love to have one... but do you really think the Risk Vs. Reward for the epics is the same with Luclin? and what is Planes of Power going to have??? I mean, can these items get THAT much more powerful?
Understandable, this is a billion times better than my weapon and I would love to have one... but do you really think the Risk Vs. Reward for the epics is the same with Luclin? and what is Planes of Power going to have??? I mean, can these items get THAT much more powerful?
Pain Lord Darknyss Grimscale
92 Iksar Crusader of the Greenmist
92 Iksar Crusader of the Greenmist
13 posts
Some epics are great even into this skill level of Guild play, i.e. cleric epic, rogue epic, ranger epics, (red warrior epic is a nice MT weapon for agro till you upgrade to BoC, hategiver, bloodfrenzy, etc.) shaman epic is nice, and most epics are useful for their effect even after you have a better one, just switch around weapons for the procs is what a lot of people do, and btw with Planes of Power now out, there is supposedly epic v2.0 coming out, not sure, but i would love to upgrade my rez noodle
Hakammer 60th cleric
Nisumbus 56th mage
sol ro
Hakammer 60th cleric
Nisumbus 56th mage
sol ro
Hehe, picky side of me had to say something...
Sweet weapon, no doubt. In fact, is one of the best SK weapons out there. Only thing wrong with it is the proc...
I'm a little weary wielding anything that procs a dot... Heaven forbid a train comes, and you riposte something, hit it with the proc, and the chanter starts mezzing everything... Your riposte just dotted the mob, now mez won't work ;)
Not that it really lasts TOO long, but there always is the possibility. Now that's out of the way...
Gratz to any worthy SK who can get his/her hands on this. Definately, one helluv an accomplishment to be proud of
Edited, Mon Jun 24 20:43:45 2002
Sweet weapon, no doubt. In fact, is one of the best SK weapons out there. Only thing wrong with it is the proc...
I'm a little weary wielding anything that procs a dot... Heaven forbid a train comes, and you riposte something, hit it with the proc, and the chanter starts mezzing everything... Your riposte just dotted the mob, now mez won't work ;)
Not that it really lasts TOO long, but there always is the possibility. Now that's out of the way...
Gratz to any worthy SK who can get his/her hands on this. Definately, one helluv an accomplishment to be proud of
Edited, Mon Jun 24 20:43:45 2002
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Quote:
and you riposte something, hit it with the proc
Can't proc on a Riposte.
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Actually, its a bit confusing to others around you, because the emote on the proc says you are casting 'Vexing Mordana', which immediately causes all the Necro's in the area to freak out, ROFL! (VM is a 1k DoT Tap, ROFL!)
Nice Sword, has a nice graphic, too... (think they updated the graphic recently, not sure)... Looks very hardcore, hehehe (not a pretty sword, more of a used deadly hardcore look to it =) )
Numbok.
6 posts
They Changed the Proc message on this sword it now says Target cackles manically. Lot less confusing.
Adayven
Gravelord of Saryn
Adayven
Gravelord of Saryn
33 posts
This is actually one of the best shadowknight weapons in the game. It procs more often than the cudgel of cowardly death. My favorite weapon, of the ones I have. And yeah, the proc is a 180 pt lifetap in 3 ticks of 60 each, and was changed recently in the luclin drops upgrade patch.
Prior to the patch, this sword wasn't even worth looting, because the darkness effect supposedly checked vs. magic each tick, and would wear off when a save was made. It was also a bit of a death trap because if you proc it on a high end mob a few times, you're going to wish you hadn't. Looks like VI did something right when they made this weapon.
Prior to the patch, this sword wasn't even worth looting, because the darkness effect supposedly checked vs. magic each tick, and would wear off when a save was made. It was also a bit of a death trap because if you proc it on a high end mob a few times, you're going to wish you hadn't. Looks like VI did something right when they made this weapon.
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Proc was changed to Life Bind (180 life tap over 18 seconds) and added 1 disease damage.
Edited, Tue May 14 21:13:31 2002
Edited, Tue May 14 21:13:31 2002
3 posts
It now does a 500 dot with the effect, instead of darkness
WOW! Why bother with months of questing when you can get things like this one day.....they seriously need to upgrade all epics!!!
yeah, cus this sword is easy to get and everyone on my server has one, even peoples alts that they camp at the zone and...
shut up man.
epics were never supposed to be the best weapons in the game, theyre just pretty good. except for warriors. (sorry warriors)
shut up man.
epics were never supposed to be the best weapons in the game, theyre just pretty good. except for warriors. (sorry warriors)
shut up, you didnt play before expansions came out did you? if so not that long at all. When EQ first started the plate on merchants in newb citys was the best (very comparable to Fine steel) and Fine steel weapons were considered Very nice, not to mention BABS =0
which in the line of SK darkness spells is this? One of the better ones I'm assuming.
according to the description of "Despairing" Darkness, its closest to Dooming Darkness. Still, a DECENT proc to have on a weapon =).
13 posts
It is not actually one of the ones we get to cast. It closely resembles Dooming Darkness though which is the second last one we get. Quite a nice sword, not sure if I would take it over a Blade of Angles though, or a Cudgel of Cowardly Death. It beats either in looks by far if that little picture is it weilded.
Epic? What SK epic?
Scholar
30 posts
44 Damage 37 Delay? This is excellent. The only way you can say it's not end game is if you are in an Uber guild that will always be together and always raiding the end game haunts. Otherwise, this is one of the best in the game. It is NOT completely outdone by the Twisted steel BS, or the
Palladius Axe of Slaughter, While I agree that they are somewhat better I am sure that this weapon would make a great showing against them in pure damage output, although it cannot compete with thier ac boosts and other stats and proc.
Palladius Axe of Slaughter, While I agree that they are somewhat better I am sure that this weapon would make a great showing against them in pure damage output, although it cannot compete with thier ac boosts and other stats and proc.
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Twisted Steel is Warrior only, this is SK only, can't really compare the 2 since nobody can use both. This wep is truly sick. :)
Cragnor Soulcutter - 59SK - Mith Marr
Cragnor Soulcutter - 59SK - Mith Marr
9 posts
the weapon itself is good , yes ..... but by far not the end game status weapon. Axe of Slaughter and tunare sword are by far much much more then this. That is why I have it in the bank getting dusty. I would probbally never even use it again. Like all weapons there will be more to come and much better. Look it what Sword of Rile is now, Soul Leech and Dark Reaver.
Grimblades Reaver
Grave Lord of Quellious
Vis Maior
Grimblades Reaver
Grave Lord of Quellious
Vis Maior
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Darkling of Everfrost EQ2
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There are guilds that certainly consider this a booby-prize (in fact, it's in the grab-bag of No-Drop rotting items that can be 'bought' on my server) but it is indeed an excellent SK weapon. The proc is questionable though, perhaps very nice in exp groups but much less interesting in raid situations. In fact, some situations would make it down-right dangerous.
It is not the be-all and end-all of SK weapons but it is indeed one of the nicer ones and certainly has a spiffy name.
It is not the be-all and end-all of SK weapons but it is indeed one of the nicer ones and certainly has a spiffy name.
Scholar
17 posts
Kinda reminds me of the days after the game's innitial release, and everyone drooled over "A Dark Reaver."
Hehehe, how far we've come.
And in keep with the tradition, the uber SK only 2hs has a sweet name ;)
Hehehe, how far we've come.
And in keep with the tradition, the uber SK only 2hs has a sweet name ;)
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Dark Reaver was uber back in the day man
ITS BLACK DUDE!!!!!
ITS BLACK DUDE!!!!!
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