Glykus Helmir  

Solo'd him today; despite his ability to summon, he can be killed with Headshot via Arc of Arrows. I shot him with my bow, got a few shots off before he summoned me (inc one successful Headshot), and then I hit him with the Arc of Arrows. Took three successful Headshots in total (I guess he has more than 65000 hit points... maybe somewhere in the 200k range) but once I got the third Headshot message, he went down.

Total fight time around 25 seconds. Dropped the wand.

Edited, Dec 14th 2010 10:19am by Beauman

solod him with 80mage pet and merc, easy fight merc on efficient doin complete heals took a minute or two, started running but nuked it and no adds. dropped battle wand gonna try again for splitblade

Done with 3 and a merc. 65 Ranger 200 aas all defensive and offensive avaiable at lvl, Bst box with about 40 aas mostly on double attack and spell casting reinforcement nothing spectacular and 60 shammy with about 200 plus aas with a tank merc. Took about 2 minutes and looked a bit shaky at first. Ranger tanked at first until about 50 percent popped weaponshield then fell back and popped true shot. Shammy said was chain healing merc to keep alive and bst was just dpsing. The ae is nothing to worry about except its 25 minute snare and has 72 counters so need 2 casts of greater remove curse. Goodluck guys.

got robe pattern today. was hoping for blade

Saw him up at end of boar pen. Soloed w/ 80 Druid Demi+ geared. Was bored killing stuff in zone and saw him up. Had the Split Blade of Destruction in his hand. Died pretty fast and I had ZERO adds/boar spawns. Perhaps the adds are timed to pop if he doesn't die in a certain amount of time? /shrug Cannot be snared at all and will run when low on health aggroing any mobs it passes by.

Soloed by 75 cleric tss geared, pulled to overseer room to try to avoid adds but they came anyway. Was a shock when i found they evolved and ched till they got to An Enchanted Warboar but aoed them to death eventually anyways then disced named with pet and avatar, damn named runs but cant be snared ><

Dropped the wand spec parch and a glyphed

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Gabool

Duoed with mage 75 and warrior 73, pet tank almost chain heal and a warrior send arrows, can be soloed by mage thought

And dropped:
Blood Runed Battle Wand
Glyphed Rune Word
Spectral Parchment

Duo'd him with lvl 75 warrior with 19k hp and lvl 75 cleric with just over 10k mana. Cleric didnt even go below 75% mana

No Real strat, i just stayed on him and at 38% or around that he's Summoned 4 Enraged Boars. I really didnt want to kill the add's. So when this mob dropped so did his buddys.

Oh btw, i kept the cleric right next to me b/c he cast "Gravel Rain" which snared me.


He dropped the Glyphed Rune Word and Ornate Silk Robe Pattern

saw somone duo him with a cleric and warrior... warrior is almost 18k unbuffed... cleric around 14k mana unbuffed

Ok, listen druids, u can charm the boars, ive tryed it, it workes, after the 5th or so cast, u get it

Killed him with my ranger, cleric and chanter. Was alot of fun experimenting till I got down the right tatics. Dropped silk robe, rune and spec.

Leric
Bloodcult
Xev

Why do people post "Yea, we used so and so tactics on this guy but im not going to tell you. i just recommend u use 65s" its pointless, you're uber wow, stfu

Spelweaver-
I'm not an enchanter, rather a cleric, but I regularly duo this guy with an enchanter (and sometimes trio with an added ranger or druid). It's taking us an average of 5 casts to land slow after tash. Once it took something like 8, other times it'll happen on the first cast (rare). I'm usually the one pulling Glykus with Mark of the Righteous (neg 55 resist adjust, so similar chance of landing as slow with Howl of Tashan) and I usually get in 3 MoR casts before we have him pulled in to the pet. About half the time I get MoR in before tash. So, his resistance is right up there, but he's by no means immune.

What are you planning to do about the boars? They'll come running in at you after 1 minute or so. Are you going to kite them (or enchanter after slow?)

Also, though his DPS unslowed is a pain, it is possible to outheal it with the right AAs. I'd encourage your cleric friend to max out healing adept first (including advanced under the POP abilities tab) and then healing gift. I can keep a war boar or zek initiate up with just CH until slow is in or I run out of mana. Each CH is doing 8925 instead of 7500, with a 16% chance of crit for 17850 that way (war boars have about 30k hps, zek initiates about 25k I think). Anyway, just doing max adept gives you 19% more healing on every cast of Complete Heal, which increases your Healing Per Second by 19%, very nice. But throw in a 16% crit chance and it goes up even more. I'd not say another 16%, becuase some of the time the extra healing in a crit heal is wasted, but let me tell you, when you land a crit CH with a zek initiate at like 20%, and you were falling behind, it feels GOOD to watch its health shoot up to over 90%!

Oh yeah, also, have the enchanter give the pet a charisma buff, and have the cleric cast Divine Intervention on it just before you pull. Duration 10 mins (more with AAs/focus) and decent chance of the pet healing to full (yes, full, not 7500 hps healed) if it drops below something like 20%. That way, if the cleric isn't able to keep up with heals until slow is in, or Glykus flurries several times in a short duration, you at least have a chance of not wiping. I'd guestimate the chance as 50% with Divine Intervention on a pet with Overwhelming Splendor, if the cleric doesn't have any Unfailing Divinity skill (AAs). I've seen it work on pets probably about 6 or 7 times out of 10. I have a suspicion that when developers create high level trash mobs, they give them good stats in everything. I mean, I imagine when they are populating a zone with NPCs, they have some sort of NPC creation tool, and they set a level and it creates "recommended" stats for the mobs. I would guess that stats on level 60+ mobs are all fairly high, vs fairly low on low level mobs. I would not be surprised if all the NPCs in tactics (and other high level zones) had around 250 charisma (and str/dex/agi/sta/int/wis) give or take 50.

Finally, don't worry about DPS too much, even a war boar (can't dual wield) hasted will do enough damage with enchanter nukes tossed in to easily kill him before a max charm duration. However, personally, I would bring in a couple rusty 1h weapons, and use a zek initiate for a pet, dual wield and haste it. It has around 25k hps instead of 30k, but does a lot more damage, resulting in a quicker fight and less kiting. The main thing is keeping the boars that spawn every minute or so away from Glykus and the cleric (instant aggro if not). Sacrifice DPS to deal with them, because dead clerics don't heal, dead pets don't tank, and the rest is about how fast your Exodus finger is. :) The spawned boars despawn after Glykus is dead, by the way.


AE is a curse, radiant cure 1 will not get it, about 8-10 castings of Remove Curse will, or I think 2 of Greater Remove Curse. If enchanter is slowing then kiting, stay clear of him. If there's no way to get past him without getting in AE range, have cleric Bestow Divine Aura on enchanter for 18 seconds of immunity with which to run right past.

Rune/nothing seems about 75%/25%, Spectral/nothing about 75%/25%, Wand/Robe/Blade about 75%/20%/5% or so, I'd say (maybe 70%/20%/10%).

-Gravely

P.S. fowll (post subject: Chump) is right, he's really a chump with the right tactics, but fowll's post is a bit of an exaggeration. Dual wielded hasted zek initiate DPS is probably over 500 but not quite up to 1000. I'd say the fight duration with pet DPS, enchanter kiting, and me nuking between heals is maybe 3 minutes. With a war boar it's probably 5 minutes with no enchanter chain nuking. Maybe 2 minutes with a dual wielding zek initiate if a druid is kiting and enchanter is nuking hard, too. Someone said Glykus has 200k hps but I'd put it more like 100k. I almost wonder if Fowll is someone I know, because I am sometimes two boxed by my enchanter friend, who can actually do the encounter by himself with 2 machines hehe (kiting plus healing... I'd say he has 3 arms, but I've met him IRL, and he only had 2).


Edited, Wed Sep 10 14:34:47 2003

Is there a trick to landing slow on this guy? 65 Chanter, 65 Cleric, 65 Wizard (me) were trying to trio him but the chanter couldn't get slow to stick. He had like 12 resists in a row and Glyk was tashed. Cleric couldn't keep the pet (war boar) alive without slow and we died on every attempt. I'd appreciate a response from a chanter who's been able to slow Glyk with how you got it done.

Thanks in advance.

Olurin Spelweaver
Arcanaist
Virtute et Armis
7th Hammer

listen you guys tend to over think an encounter.This guy is a chump.I trio him all the time with me a 65 druid a 65 enchanter and 65 cleric(btw cleric is bein 2 boxed by chanter rl friend).Anyone can do it a druid is best for kitin the pets oh and btw to the guy that said rangers are best because they have innate invis wow man wake up druids have that too)we use a frienzied initiate for a pet and own him in about 30 seconds pet has 1000dps

Anyone know the spawn time on this guy?

every time someone is placed in this guy's aggro list will he spawn another boar? or is it just the initial aggro that causes him to summon boars (i.e. one time thing).

also how successful are enchanter mezzes on the boars and is this guy slowable/partially slowable?

thanks

He is doable by 1 group with the right tactics and classes. I however recommend 8-12 people with the right tactics. We got him down in 4 trys, having no idea what his abilities were before we started.

Handle the adds and you can own this encounter. There are several method. We found mezzing did not work as well as we would have liked and tank mezzing didn't work at all.

In the end he dropped and left us a rune and the wand. We had 0 deaths on the winning attempt.

Congrat AW on sticking it out and nailing it!:)

This cutie spawns at the Boar farm zoneout

Last night dropped a spec and robe pattern for us

If my guild killed the Vindicator in Kael do you think they are able to kill this mob??

I want his Split Blade of Destruction he drops.

the pic is the battle wand it has same grafix...we got one last night..we killed him with warr, cler, dru, ench, sham, bard and 3 wiz all 65 all approx.150 aa, he spawns pig pets to his left that will atttack you. and has a snare ae so you cant kite...ona good note..there is a zone out right behind him.../shrug