Eindride Icestorm (Tower)  

Downed Eindride today with my 3-box crew of 67 Warrior, Cleric and Shaman. Dropped rune, shield, plate BP mold, quest ring and junk. All have 300+ aa's with warrior at 9400 hp and 1675 ac with virtue/FoS, leadership aa's and tribute. Cleric and shammy at 5k mana each. Tried twice within an hour and, obviously, wiped the first time from a big spike and slow reaction.

Was a 15 minute parsed fight and cleric left at about 10% mana with ft 14, clarity potion IX and the 58 self buff. Cast hot on engage, did DivArb once on late heal and CH the rest. Shaman had mana to spare and mainly cast disease dot, highly resisted magic slows after initial disease slow, malo and disease debuff. Shaman spot healed a few times and healed fido a couple times.

I was nervous after the first attempt that either the cleric would run out of mana or repops would occur due to cleric being even with Eindride in mana vs hp with kei and only getting him down to 60% in 7 or 8 minutes. I didn't buff cold resist the first attempt and the warrior's buffed CR was only 200. I'd say he resisted less than half of the ae's on the second attempt.

The key to winning was avoiding the ae on the priests and sustaining dps before repops. The cleric has a moonstone ring bagged for such instances and didn't receive one point of damage while casting CH. The shaman added level 61 fido at ~30dps and panther between the two at ~100dps. He would step in to cast panther but was lucky enough not to get hit. Shaman used spirit call 5 twice to add an additional ~120 dps for the duration of the aa. The difference in the two attempts was the liberal use of the shaman's disease dots (only Pox and Plague) which added another ~40 dps. Total DPS to Eindride was 270-300 due to separate logs needed to compile.

Used defensive twice and in between used an offensive and resistant disc's.

Great fun doing this and camped around the corner to try it again another time.

GBoS is a decent upgrade for my gimp warrior.

Edited, Aug 1st 2008 7:07pm by sprucecln

camped out an alt warrior right near this guy and killed him with mains, 70 ranger, 70 bard, 70 pally and 70 shaman, took about 10 mins...dropped ornate bp, GBoS, spec parhcment, and ring of torden

Went in with 6 and Owned this guy 65 sk tanked (thats me) Had a 67 cleric to keep me healed had a 70 necro for sum dps had a 70 chanter for slowes and mezes for ne adds had another 64 necro and had a 64 wizzy we owned him

Well we went in with 16, MA down at 55 (66 war), SA 50 (67 war) and then me a 64 pally tanking from the 50 to 34, died, and then the raid went with me. =)

One groupable for non time-geared people. We dropped him a few months back, but since a few guildies have tried since I thought I'd give a little background to add to the posts below.

First our group ake up was Warrior, Bard, Druid, Enchanter, Cleric and Cleric. Enchanter did not have his CoD so he was effectively a low dps option.

Clearing needs to be efficient, as respawns will kill you if you take too long on this guy. Make sure you bring the pulls in singles on your clear so that all the dps can be on the same target. Once the path is clear to Eindride Icestorm move to 100' (easy to test with clerics and ext range items). Ignore mobs in the cubbies they will not aggro. Buff max cold, his second spell is NOT manastorm (that is Agnarr's) but it is raging blizzard ** (PoS and CoS), get the clerics on their horses and elixir tank to go in. Our warrior was 8800 hps or so, clerics alternated CHs as they landed (so 10sec recast) druid patch healed the bard and was primary dps and enchanter wasted his mana trying to slow before we simply told him to go full dps.

Keys to winning: mob placement (pin him so the clerics do not need tomove and can concentrate on healing), bard song for resists meant minimal damage to both our melees; DS (as he is unslowed) to aid in DPS (2 of the bard song have DS component to make it about 100 damage per hit from the DS).

Keys to remember, his dps spikes and lags based on the recast times of his to spells. one is 22 seconds the other is 40, so eventually he will cast both back to back, slowing his dps. Do not let the clerics slow their heals, as then they will get a rude awakening when he goes full out dps for 22 seconds and his dps output "spikes". Warriors make the best tanks here if they have any form of EB, Knights with high resists can also tank well as they will, for the most part, resist his mana drain. Bard is nice to have but does hit you hard on the DPS. This fight came down to 2 clerics with solid manapools (4600+) and good mana regen (nine + voq + horse + ft10+)anchoring the fight. Took 24 or so minutes (2 SotW).

Nice fight overall, feel free to /tell me if you want more.

Mailithin Weighwatcher
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Druzzil Ro


**http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=1050&source=Live

Edited, Mon Dec 29 14:22:57 2003

the tower version of this dude is much different than the regular, the tower version does a AoE mana tap, it sucks, just stay out of range and you will do fine!

We killed the 65 version today. Didn't drop anything at all.

SW tower btw

AE is called Raging Blizzard
http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=1050&source=Live
Does 600dd and 400 mana drain times three waves every 42+ seconds. It's a targetted AE with small radius so not hard to avoid.

Dropped:
Glyphed Rune Word
Unadorned Symbol of Torden
Mantle of the Rainmaker
Twice Forged Steel Bulwark

Has the same model as the normal giants leading up to it, which surprised me.

Slowable - by shaman anyway. Had no need for an enchanter to try.

600pt cold based AE that also drains Mana! It appears to be 3 waves. Based on my mana pool I think each wave drains 600 mana on top of the 600DD.

You can land spells from outside melee range which helps, so just back off your casters. Cleric CHeals work from just outside the AE too. Druid ones do not appear to. Next time I'll take an extended range item and see.

He wiped out 17 of us, all around level 64. Had we known about the AE it would have been fine.

He Flurries and hits for 876 max - quadding.