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Took him down in about 4-5 minutes today with a group of 6, including lvl 82 necro, lvl 82 cleric, lvl 82 mage, lvl 81 ranger, and 2 tier 3 mercs for a group of 6. Necro used army of the dead spell, and ranger fired arrows (including trueshot) and blasted with spells. Ranger never got summoned. Feign death spell landed 4-5 times during the fight...nothing but a minor annoyance, and easily fixed by hitting "sit" (but need to re-hit autofire, melee, etc). Enraged (of course) towards the end, but not a problem. Not really a challenging fight, no good loot (except for enchanter epic), but satisfying nevertheless.

beat with 4 toons
80 monk . death knell ish gear
80 shaman deathknell ish gear
80 enchanter coa ish gear
80 druid < coa ish geared

chanter died twice when the FD landed on the monk .. but other than that .. 3-5 minute fight .

I'm sorry to be off topic and kinda noobish, but I was recently re-rolling and fought Krenshin, same Model. They look nearly identical.

downwed with 12 anguish geared people

3 clerics 1 druid 1 shammy (me)
2 good tanks 17.something buffed
some dps i can,t remeber (beer)

just the fd was anoying but most could take a hit
could NOT get him slowed

Dropped 2 greater runes and a really crappy sword for us.

This mob casts a FD spell and a 1500Hit Point nuke.

Nasty.

i'm a bit confused....do the chests pop only if there's an Enchanter there to loot their epic drop, or are they just a random drop?

Dropped the following on our three kills so far, one per kill:
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=71075
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=71103
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=71083

Edited, Tue Sep 21 17:19:18 2004

Once killed it is possible that there will be a chest beneath him. Whether or not the chest is on a timer is unknown, but what can be gathered from the chest would require a long "Time" otherwise.

http://www.dancingwithmyself.org/images/oow/oow12.png

pic of him

This encounter is a pain. Several tricks in his box and an AE u cannot hide if u got agro.
We tried to do him 2 times. Hard to land Turgur`s on him, a little harder on Balance of the Nihil. U can nuke him down to 97% but if he reaches 96% he will start to summon ... nasty trick. Further he has a knock back, so get DMF/FOE. His 1500DD/FD AE is partically resistable but only the DD .. FD AE never got resisted of some of us.
We took him down to 82% with 28 ppl then we nearly wiped (cleric camped). Rampages very often (i count 5 ramps in 6 sec on worst case). His HP isnt that huge but i dunno if he will get a nother trick out of his box maybe at 60% or less ;)

GL on him.

Edited, Fri Sep 17 06:25:24 2004

he IS slowable, but a serious PITA.

My guild attempted him last night for kicks to see how badass he was. Since he's perma rooted, We all stood out of melee and debuffed him and let him FD blur himself.
Malos stuck right off. Took several tries to land Malosinia (needed a bard to keep HoS playing).
We had a chanter tash him.
Then once we had Sinia, Tash and HoS on him and he was blurred, I got my clicky slow stick and took several tries (at least 10) before Turgur's Insects would land. NEver got Balance of the Nihilto stick. Yes, he IS hard to slow, but doable. I'd advise pluggin away at him til he slows.

If I am correct on this mob, he is the guild mob that guards the main castle entry into the courtyard. He is perma rooted and has massive dps, in the 2k range for each hit. He also procs a FD proc with a range of about 150' - 200'. We backed off him and he left us alone. He did not summon.