a twitching swordfish  

I finally got this guy yesterday after three fails. First time I went in fully buffed, had aggro on several other mobs since I swam past them and over the waterfall (he's in the water at the bottom of the falls on the only route from CS to WW) At any rate, I swapped in my net and beat him down... to death. Fail. Went and did other stuff for a couple hours.

Second try, I carefully killed my way over to the falls, swapped weapons before swimming over, engaged him, beat him down to 13%, then stopped attacking and stood there for about 15 minutes while he slowly healed to 30%, beat him back down to 15%, waited, beat him down to 9%, waited, then got out of the water, went and zoned out to WW.

Came back, now the fish was floating in midair along with several other mobs. I killed all the others, then beat down the fish, which took damage but never hit back once. Did the whole "wait for a while with attack off and mob under 20%" for a bit, then just killed the fish and went away for a few hours again.

Fourth try, I again killed everthing on the way in, then at the base of the waterfall shaft I stripped all buffs, got rid of merc, logged out and back in before swimming over the top. Engaged with the net, fought him the whole fight using no spells at all. He despawned and popped on my cursor when he got under 20%, no stop and wait necessary.

Anyone know the respawn time on this guy? I know someone said 70 minutes, but I have already waited for 95 minutes and still no respawn.

edit: 2 hr respawn after fail.

note: went and killed mob needed in western wastes while waiting for respawn.

Edited, Sep 26th 2008 1:37am by Jyyn

Edited, Oct 2nd 2008 11:28pm by Jyyn

Went with 75 druid and cleric, 71 randger and myself 72 ranger. Found him easily in the location..hit the fish with net first but when got down to 20 ..nothing kept going. Waited for respawn two more times. Second and third time I was the only one hitting and with just the net..nothing died each time..I know there is a 20% chance of not happening and knew no DS (had done chokidai and worked earlier). Thought this was weird so petitioned and waiting to hear. Any thoughts?

OK so last night I finally got this capture done with my ranger. I had a level 21 druid guildie succor us to WW side of zone and jumped in with no DS on and started swinging my net. Druid was healing me along with the pots I had but I was not fairing well being level 62 with a 21 druid healer. Then A mage that was in zone has his pet attack it, guess he thought I was in trouble or something. Anyways his pet assists down to 30% and stops and I keep on hitting with the net. 25% it despawns and I have it. Not sure how this works since everything I read says not to have and damage dealt to mob but it worked and I am fine with it. Has anyone else seen this happen?

Edited, Jan 23rd 2007 1:58pm by ThisGuy

got this today, hopped in the water from the WW side, and aggroed hi, 5 min later at 20% health, despawned, and appeared on my cursor. I went in with Conviction, KEI, and alacrity potions, and health potions, only used 2 health potions, no adds.

My wife's level 70 ranger (wearing a gear ranging from t2 PoP to Qvic Boots) with no buffs and a starting skill of 5 in 2hb soloed this, so it's not that hard. She left the water and the fish reset twice. She found a corner to back into and heal herself while fighting. She got the captured fish. So, if you have to jump out to not die, it's OK.

welll this thing takes along time to respawn grr

killed him tonite, er captured anyho. had SK assist to 30% then i took over and captured at 25%. hit for 30-120 and went pretty fast. Fought in water and had cleric HoT 6-7 times.

Good luck friends

Beadil