Drums of the Beast  

 

I was lucky enough to see these drums drop on my last visit to Siren's Grotto. A 61 bard and I, a 55 cleric, were able to take down any placeholders and the named. It definitely wasn't easy, but with the bard tanking and twisting mana regen, slow, and melee buffs we were pretty safe through what proved to be long, drawn out fights.

Most mobs were very magic resistsant - at 55 I landed at about 40% success. The placeholders do ENRAGE, cannot be rooted, snared, or charmed, but can be mezzed.

Also, we were able to take out Fellspine (TOUGH fight in which we would have died if not for the fact that I had KEI). .. Oh, and we got the haste belt ;)

Embries
55 Dorf Cleric - Vazaelle
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the post about dire charming there. i went with 63 enchie and there were virually no dire charmable mobs. she tried on the lowest level mobs there(enthralled molkors, bulthars, watery servants) with maxxed cha and it being as MR debuffed as possible(no idea if that would help but after 4 hours of camping drum and 3 failed DC attempts we decided to try it). NO DICE guess they nerfed that like there like i did many other places so enchies don't become the best solo class in game after their direcharm level.

a level 62 bard has NO shot to solo him that i can think of. i am 55 now and went there to get my drum(still no luck after 2 weeks or trying got me a neriad shawl and lyndellns lute tho) The icy placeholders are MEAN they got nerfed about year or 2 ago but still mean. They have a dmg shield thats in the 50+pts per shot range, fair resits, TONS(didn't calculate but i am guessing 10-20k hp range) of hp. they never spawn alone on land, tho there are a few areas where you could pull single ones.

MIGHT, repeat MIGHT have a PRAYER to solo one with charms but i really don't see it. His dmg shield alone took our warlord(61 5500hp) down to about 60 life before enhie coudl disspell it and it was the first spell she cast upon pull.

No, if you can solo one it would be a miracle. might be possible but i dont see how. find a way, post it on here.

To Clarify: I am not sure as to the past, but as of now these drums greatly increase the effect of selos at a run. Considering with epic off hand, there is a very noticable difference in speed when I drop these drums onto main hand.

Also, On Elemental chorus, there is a 30 to 40 point difference when I equip this compared to straight epic.

These are hands down the best drums in game.

One other factor that many people are missing about these drums is this. The effect on the drums is right click targetable. This makes on hell of a dummy buff when fighting any dispelling mob.

Considering you stack this with lute of howler, and illusion mask, you are giving yourself 3 dummies against any dispelling mobs.

Edited, Sat Aug 24 13:29:25 2002

This drum lets you melee and easily switch out your primary weapon for the drum for a second while casting OOS and other resist songs, then replacing your primary weapon back in its spot. If you dont have this drum you have to either not melee if you are primarily doing resist type songs or switch out both weapons to put in a drum. Thats why this drum is so bad ass. Similar to lute of the howler and a couple other lutes out there that you can wield a weapon with, when i melee and am playing cantana of replenishment i can replace my primary with a lute just before the song is about to cast and replace it in about a second to get good effects from the lute while i continue to melee. I could give a rats ass about that EB thats not what makes this drum so desirable.

When i equip this, it looks like a tambourine. Is this right?

Bonecrak

The drum has been fixed and now lets u fly when u run..its the best drum out there imho..
The instant clicky of EB is awesome in pvp too Justy 60th level Bard if Iron Tower VZ.

Afaik, the speed limit has been patched, and this drum now allows you to run faster than anything else... I could be wrong though (not like it's the first time ;-)). Anyone tried it lately?

I am also responding to Presarc's post "Here is reason..." Presarc, you should read Psycoholic's post on Percentages (found in the posts on Alluring Horn, which is listed as having -0.99 percent to bard song). He does a good job of explaining how percentages work. When it is listed as 0% it doesn't mean it doesn't increase the song at all. Quoting Psycoholic's post:

The percentages that people give for instruments are usually using storebaught instruments as the base (so an unfinished brass trumpet from a merchant would be 0%). This doesn't mean that instruments from merchants don't effect songs, nor does it mean that this instrument makes songs less effective. It simply means that this instrument effects songs 0.99% less than a brass instrument from a merchant. It makes songs better... just not much better.

As for Celestieal, you said you run faster with no drum equipped. How so??? My bard is only 20 right now and with the Walrus Skin Drum equipped(said to increase bard songs 23%), she already runs way faster than SOW, whereas without a drum equipped she runs about the same speed as SOW.

As for the whole equipping a weapon and instrument at the same time argument, I can't say I know the answers to that one. So far all the instruments I have are equipped in Secondary Slot only and can not be equipped with another weapon (or another instrument).

-Symfoni Orkestra, 20 Bard

the reason they dont increase speed songs is because there is a speed hack out there, and with this drum + selo's song of travel it would be as fast as that, and the game would recognize as a hack...

So...

:-)

Vamp

Do people sell these? Who drops these? Is the camp easy? Can I solo these (enchanter 52)?

An effect on a bard instrument, whaddya know. I wonder if there is a percentage boost to bard songs?

-bort