a fierce cragwalker  

Fought him today, 52 ranger, no problem, but I thought I would mention this mob summons.

Dropped:

Breath of Ro
Damaged Turepta Shell

Most of the animal types around Natimbi are safe for kiting, this guy definitely is not. Summoned me and delivered a pretty epic beatdown. Lesson learned.

my manaburn (12 k damage) took him down to 10% ish. so about 13 -14 k HP all together.

Drop Update
Words of Requisition
Sapphire

soloed him at turtle pond with a 61 mage and epic pet. pet only had burnout iv with no hp buffs.
had to pretty much just heal pet ,had no time to cast any nukes. hits pretty hard from what i saw. but would be pretty easy if pet had virtue

Got aggro from this fella while fear kiting hynid fleshrippers. No, I did not aggro/attack any Tureptas. Been soloing this zone for a good while.
Not sure if this is standard now or some kind of one off thing?

Level 63 Necro, I can't kill this guy. None of my spells stick except Snare, and he kills my pet in record time, he hit me with something that did 1200 HPS damage. This is after the August 15th or so patch (2005).

I can't solo him.

Song: Dreams of Ayonae (58)
July 16, 2005.

Was bored lfg at like 5am and decided I'd come here since I'd seen these as green cons running through to KT on my monk. 43 wizard with 3.1k mana unbuffed. Got a C2 and since no temp was around, went down. Rooted a yellow one then snared it. Kited it up and down beach and used strictly conflagiration. With ID IV this was doing 1080-1100 damage. Got no resists, and lowest nuke was around 625. Finished fight around 60m and medded to 80 for next fight. Took a couple hits due to lack of practice with kiting and only had to refresh snare once. Second time I tried something a little different. I use root over instill/elnerik's so it's not much mana cost with a decent mana pool. I rooted then snared initially, then nuked ran a bit, rooted, nuked and repeated. Seemed to work really well with no root resists and a lot easier time managing the limited space I had to kite in. Got a couple full resists on conflagiration, but this one was red so it didn't come as much of a surprise. They were giving 3-4% a kill at 43. Third pull I didn't pay attention to what was around the turtle and caught a stonemite in my snare. Unfortunately the mite resisted and I was forced to gate at 12% health and 100% mana heh. All in all, what I thought would be a suicidal attempt at exp that was out of my league turned out to be a pretty nice solo spot if I learn to pay attention.

Has anyone tried Panic Animal on the Fierce, and if so, what impact has that had on summoning behavior?

I had been fighting the cragwalkers in that zone for a few minutes. They were conning dark blue to my Bard 58 with good AA experience from each kill. Then the fierce popped. I did not realize it was a named, it conned the same, so I hit it with a slow and then started the melody of dots.

It was suddenly on top of me. Not a summon, I also thought it was a pathing issue - I'd been fighting the wolves in Nedaria with my 24 Shaman and they are all over the board - you can be running towards the docks and see a wolf in front of you and think you need to run because you have drawn an add, and it is just the same wolf.

But then it happened again, and again. I decided to run, and that was the wrong choice, I could not get far enough away from it - I ended up dieing in the water, past the camp, it would come to me when it stomped.

Interesting theory that I should consider charming a tougher mob to kill this one, but I don't see it as a possibility for me - the charm would break at least twice and I would get aggro - With both of them hitting me, even slowed, I doubt I could get a charm off.

So (1) this is a serious undercon, IMHO, especially (2) have an escape plan. I will have Mez and Charm up as a possible escape next time I go to this zone and I will go to the zone, it is just too nice. I saw some of the narrow escapes and some of the non-escapes. Usually I can escape from a summoner - just by running out of range, staying and fighting will get me killed. This thing somehow stopped me from doing that. It has more range on its summons-like pursue than the typical summoner.

... Turepta Crush.

If you are a bard not enough powerful in tuyen's or gear to kite him and stand against all his attacks when he summons you...(so like me atm...)

Here is the trick i use...

Go Charm a Noc Darchlurch, some are charmable by our lvl 51 max charm, some not...if you pull one and see he is not charmable...slow him and run to the magus in order to zone.

If he is charmable, use him to attack the Fierce Crag or any Named mob of this zone

During the battle :
1)Slow song on the named mob, the charm will break
at a moment and if at least the named mob is slowed...it means less damage...as the noc darchlurch hits hard too !
2)3 Tuyen's to help the noc darchlurch

Then at each summon, recharm the noc untill he
win...or die...(if he dies...better charm another wandering mob to go tank the named)

Before doing this i always ask a cleric to virtue me or at least temp me...because it's perhraps seems easy, but it can be very dangerous if you have no luck with the mob damaging you during the summons.

So far killed 6 like that on 7 try...
Died 1 time...(was not temped or virtued)

Definitely summons ()This guy dropped the SHELL INLAID COLLAR yesterday; along with BER spell Tome of Leg Slice and Iridescent Turepta Shell and couple vendor loots... nice. Need the neck piece or DRUIDs next...anyone know if a mob has HIGHER tendencies to drop better loot. Heard this was OPEN LOOT table...but definitely seems to be leaning away from stonemites...LOL ()

Edited, Tue Aug 10 16:33:26 2004

Bla he has lower AC now but, i think they hit harder and summon now

Got a nice surprise from this guy with my 59 ranger. I normally kite him and my warrior buddy attacks from behind, not a problem. On 18th July I pulled him with snare and proceeded to pull him down from the main hill onto the flat plain just across from the river. Once I got him onto the plain he summonsed me and it stung quite a bit - I thought it was maybe just a bug/pathing issue but it happened frequently and I died swimming towards the camp. I also noticed that the Hynid Fleshrippers now assist each other in battle so perhap they have nerfed the zone a little.

dropped:

Spell: Circle of Seasons

drops:

Spell: Torrent of Fatigue

Regrowth of Dar Khura droped off this mob the other day.

IMUNE to charm.
Was the death of my 58 enchanter :(

cons db at 65

dropped mark of predator a ranger spell for me

Glamour of Tunare works on this mob. Druids soloing this need to cast Glamour of Tunare so snare and root will stick. Otherwise, it is possible to get up to 10 resists on ensnare and its not fun kiting this mob around when hynid fleshrippers are just waiting to have you for lunch.

I kited this guy as a lvl 48 bard, really easy. Went down in less than 15 minutes. Never hit me once. Just run around the bowl near the tower across from the camp, no adds, wide enough not to get hit. Dropped an irredecent shell and tome of bloodaxe. I also did Vimidon and Tumia Lehio this way, never got hit.

I looted 2 lvl 58 spells off this guy in the last few days. I received Transons Phantasmal Protection (mag) and Blessed Armor of the Risen (Clr)

to be 30 min of kiting. Guy is tough hits for a ton, very resistant to magic , i was unable to land a root and i can land a snare 1 of of 4 times, droped the veil a spell a dimond, so words, well worth the time it took