Estrella of Gloomwater  

Piece of cake, clear adds then pull with pet.

65 wiz here soloed her (39 aa). Self buffed, got Virtue. I came in on north side, singled the 3 mermaids in the north-side alcove so that none of them would add or heal Estrella. Single pulled her using Xuzl sword pet, but that didn't work. Since the pet damaged her, it triggered her summoning ability. Her 2 guards added, but I channeled through the gate. The technique that worked was to just approach the archway from the alcove to her room (didn't actually enter her lair). Right off I saw her turn towards me, so I swam back to the tube, (IMPORTANT!) nestled into a corner (to limit spell interrupts), and waited for her to come to me. If your resists are good, the first part of the fight goes well... until she begins meleeing. However, my stuns took care of that. She can resist, but if you've got a few loaded up, she's not difficult. When stunned, you ought to be able to get off a quick casting DD before stunning again. I recommending that you bind outside in case you need to regroup.

Um, as near as I can figure, at least the last time I went with my guild and fought her, she seemed to be an enchanter, not a druid. Her pet was a sword and shield pet, and the spells she cast seemed a lot more in character with an enchanter than a druid. Maybe she's been changed yet again, from a necro to a druid to an enchanter, who knows.

Edited, Tue Dec 24 10:16:04 2002

A level 30 mob in echo caverns on luclin summons, he killed me cause i was tyring to run lol

the general rule I've been going by is that any 50+ mob 'Could' summon you. This does not take into account Luclin because they have all sorts of weird summoning mobs up on the moon, take the other reply which said they had seen lvl 30 mobs that summon.

I don't know what the min level for summoning is, but lvl 30 mobs in Hallowshade Moor can and will summon you.

shes light blue not purple, the pictures lie!

You would be dead dead dead. And the last thing I'm going to do is trust my enduring breath to a bard who may or may not live through the fight.

-Amneth

Yes she quite will.

Feign Death works with every NPC as far as I can tell, including Estrella, no matter their level. Though once or twice in Maiden's Eye I've had odd difficulties feigning off the mind burrowers there, but I think that's because they have some sort of weird proc.

Estrella is tough to FD off you because she's a caster, and loves to chain cast. If a caster NPC of any level begins casting a spell before you FD, then you FD successfully, the caster will continue their casting and when the spell lands, it will ruin your FD (you'll get a message saying this is what happened).

This is why when pulling casters, I recommend turning a corner if possible, waiting for a spell to land on you, then feigning death. An NPC will not begin casting on you if they don't have line of sight, but a spell will still land on you when cast by an NPC if they began casting on you when they did have line of sight. So this way, you can be sure your FD won't be upset after the first spell hits you, because the NPC will no longer have line of sight.

However, the problem with this is that if you FD after turning a corner and you're using this technique to try to split pull, you may not be able to see the NPCs you were trying to pull, and won't be able to tell when they split. If you use F9 to play with the camera angles, maybe you will be able to get a peek at them. If not, you'll have to have someone else to come by and watch and maybe tag any NPC that stays behind. This is one reason why it's a good idea to have a "pull team" instead of just one good puller when you're attempting very tricky pulls involving one or more casters in a dangerous areas.

I believe Estrella used to be a necromancer, but somewhere along the line she was changed into a druid. The listing for her pet here apparently wasn't removed with the change. Last time I fought her she didn't have any kind of pet, and had plenty of time to summon one.

Kind a funny thing happened to me earlier today. I was in Kedge with a group to kill Undertow for my mage friend's epic, and we decided to hit Estrella afterwards. We didn't have an enchanter, and our group was (I believe) a level 55 cleric, a level 54 shadow knight (me), a level 52 monk and a level 49 warrior. A pretty strong group, but not capable of handling 3 or 4 adds.

So we get ready to pull her, discuss different strategies. I read guides like this one on how to pull her. I cast invisibility to go in and scope out the room. I was in the other side of the room from Estrella when all the sudden I get nuked. Uh oh. I swim back towards the balcony and try to feign dead... but it turns out, she came alone.

I found it kind of ironic that people have written guides on the delicate task of pulling Estrella, and I managed to single pull her with her room fully spawned just by swimming in and swimming out. ;)

And to make her (probably) the hardest single mob in the zone, she frequently blind/summon combos. Go blind, next thing you know you're in her lair dying. This blade should really be at least a wee bit better, some resists would be nice, at least.

No it weighs 8.5 i had one for a while.