Phinigel Autropos  

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Phinigel is the last known knight of the Kedge, loyal to Prexus to his last breath.

How to Get to: See post below

Epic Items:

Robe of Kedge (No Trade) - Rogue Epic
Kedge Backbone (No Trade, Lore) - Bard Epic 1.0
Blue Crystal Staff (No Trade, Lore) - Wizard Epic
Staff of Elemental Mastery (No Trade, Lore) - Magician Epic

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Spawn Cycle
# Nov 19 2012 at 9:47 PM Rating: Decent
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So far killed:
11/19
- (19:00 - 22:00) 3 rounds of 4x"a swirlspine seahorse" and 2-4 "Swirlspine Guardian", no phyni
11/20
- 6:46AM (CST, GMT -6) 2x Wand of Mana Tapping, 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Fusible Coral Ore, and 3 merchant trash items
- 6:36PM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Blue Crystal Staff, & 4 merchant trash items
11/21
- 6:37AM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Staff of Elemental Master: Water, 1x Blue Crystal Staff, & 3 trash
- 6:30PM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Robe of Kedge, & 4x Trash
11/22
- 6:52AM (CST, GMT -6) 4 trash
- 6:30PM (EST, GMT -5) 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water, and 2 trash
11/23
- 5:36AM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Blue Crystal Staff, & 3 trash
- 4:20PM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water, & 3 trash
11/24
- 4:54AM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Staff of Elementary Mastery: Water, & 4 trash
- 4:20PM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Robe of Kedge, 1x Staff of Elementary Mastery: Water & 3 trash
11/25
- 6:57AM (CST, GMT -6) 1x Kedge Backbone & 3 Trash



Edited, Nov 24th 2012 5:21pm by goldbishop

Edited, Nov 25th 2012 7:58am by goldbishop
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# Oct 04 2012 at 4:40 PM Rating: Decent
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Greetings, I used the video listed in the post below and it was spot on!! TY for the video.

I camped Phinny for 7 days after getting the spawn time figured out, before I got the drop for the Mage epic. I play on Erollisi Marr/The Nameless.

7:11pm PDT when I broke into the spawn cycle (9/26/12)
7:00am PDT (9/27)
6:30p
5:45a (9/28)
5:24p
5:54a (9/29)
5:47p
6:00a (9/30)
5:20p
5:25a (10/1)
5:20p
5:00a (10/2)
4:11p
??? - Lost cycle 910/3)
???
??? (10/4)
3:07p - dropped the mage epic piece. He was wielding it.

I notice that the time was moving back around 11hrs 30min. so I believe the spawn timer is 12 hours +/- 60min since there were a few times he did not hit the 11:30 hrs timing.

Hope this helps those on EM/Nameless server in figuring his times.

Good Luck
How to find him
# May 13 2012 at 4:03 PM Rating: Decent
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I was looking to kill him today...

found this great video on how to get to him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-TGrJTQuw
First Kill - Staff ftw.
# Feb 10 2012 at 3:20 PM Rating: Decent
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First attempt at getting my Mage Epic piece today. Waited 8 hours today for this bad boy to show up. Didn't keep a constant camp, just popped back now and again - but usually just killed a couple of sea horses for fun.

Anyway, went back at 8.40pm, and there he was, swimming around. Cleared two of the swirlspine seahorses, and made my way carefully down, so as not to aggro the 2 remaining horses or Phinny. Waited until Phinny swam to the side of the star that I'd cleared the seahorses from, and it was game on. Pretty simple, using single target Firebolt of Tallon x 8. Cleric merc healed. Pet did a bit of tanking. No aggro from any other mobs, and one minute later - dead Phinny.

Clicked on the corpse and there it was!!! My Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water! I couldn't believe my eyes, after reading a lot of the other horror stories of 25 kills with no success, etc. Phinny dropped backbone and coral too.

One very happy Mage on AB tonight!!!

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Phinegel
# Dec 15 2011 at 9:45 PM Rating: Good
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Jemisini's directions to Phinny from 2006 worked great for me today:

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How to GET THERE ----- It took me over two hours to find him, cuz of one secret door. Here are the directions.

From the ENTRANCE, go out into the first room. Go Down, facing South. Click on the grate. Go into the room, and go down again, still facing south. Do the same thing in the next room you hit. When you get to the bottom (you will have gone down a tunnel twice), turn EAST and head through the door. There's a shark in the next room --- head straight past the shark. Enter the grate on the bottom at the end of the tunnel. You can't miss it; all tunnels lead to the same place.

Go up the looong tunnel and you'll see 4 grates on all sides. Doesn't matter which you go through; All open, and all are in the same room. There's only one door in the room --- It has two grates, meaning you have to click on one grate, and when it opens, click on another to open the second. They are on top of one another.

SECRET TUNNEL to Phinny: Past the two grates, you'll end up in a room with two "blocks" in it. There are a lot of fish in there. The blocks look like plantholders; They're about nine feet tall, and have little plants on the top. It looks like they're part of the walls but if you click on the one to the right of the door you're entering the room from, it will move, revealing a secret tunnel. Go through the tunnel to Phinny's room. It's safe to uninvis/buff/etc anywhere on top of the little star cut-out in the floor, but I wouldn't get any closer than I have to.

Note that my directions may not be perfect; I typed it from memory. It's pretty straightforward though, I think. Good luck!
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# Nov 12 2011 at 8:22 AM Rating: Decent
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I brought my level 80 druid to this mob to get the backbone for my level 60 bard's epic. I sneaked them both to the proper room using Nelyan's directions as listed below---they take you right there! I recall killing this mob with guild 10 years ago, so knew it was a confusing pain in the ass and that the swirlspines were highly dangerous. They complete heal repeatedly and can sometimes come in pairs---but, they only have so much mana and are an easy kill once they go out. The first attempt was disappointing with PA dropping the coral of course, some sulphur and the wand of mana tapping. However, knowing he'd be up again in 12 hours and reading here that he dropped a piece for the mage epic, I moved my level 53 mage to the same room, just in case! I was settling in for a long stay with multiple attempts---having read here some of the posts and how long some have waited. Yesterday morning, my second attempt, I logged the druid in and took care of the swirlspines to give me an opportunity to look down into the star cutout and quickly noticed AP was holding what looked like the water crystal staff in his hand---so was hopeful this was at least the mage epic piece! I cast a dot and got quickly summoned, swam back out and AP followed to the top and the rim where everyone was parked. It was a very easy kill, just be aware that AP will remove most of your buffs. Popping him open, I found to my amazement that he did indeed have the Mage epic in hand but also had the backbone for the Bard epic as well! Knowing that this was the last piece for the bard I quickly logged him in for the loot, then wasted no time to log the mage in. She came in with only 15 seconds left on the mob----just enough time to quickly get her own piece. Happy Bard, Happy Mage, and happy me because I don't have to deal with this particular zone again for hopefully another 10 years!
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ITs one thing to make people kill a npc that is on a long respawn for a quest but for the love of all that is right every time he dies he should have the loot you need! I am very close to just saying F-it on the mage epic.

4 kills now and hasn't had the mage epic.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2011 1:41pm by fronglo


Make that 11 f^%&ing kills and no mage epic. Every single time he has had at least one (sometimes 2) shaman rods and either the kedge robe or enchanter wand.

This is just ridiculous!

Edited, Jul 27th 2011 3:09am by fronglo
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# Jan 30 2011 at 8:37 AM Rating: Decent
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Blue Crystal staff first kill woot
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# Oct 07 2010 at 2:53 PM Rating: Decent
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Just came back to EQ after 5 years and found the bard, the mage and the rogue quest pieces from phinny in my bank. willing to MQ all 3, send me a tell on Aamieli on Xegony if you need.
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My minor report during my lil camp here :)

Phinigel Autropos 2010 june (Blue Crystal Staff for Wizard epic)

14/6 20:30 none
15/6 07:23 Phinny (mage staff drop)
16/6 20:36 Phinny
17/6 17:03 none
17/6 22:55 Phinny
19/6 23:05 none
20/6 10:17 Phinny (mage staff drop)
20/6 22:16 Phinny
21/6 21:40 Phinny
22/6 22:14 Phinny
23/6 19:57 none
23/6 22:17 Phinny <wand of mana tapping & ore> (getting sick of this sh*t)
24/6 12:10 Phinny (rod & kedge backbone)
24/6 00:36 Phinny (Turned into a cliknar scout) and dropped:
1x Blue Crystal Staff
2x Wand of Mana Tapping
1x Fusible Coral Ore
1x Trident of the Seven Seas
1x Pearlescent Fragment


june 2010
Drops during this time

2x Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water
2x Trident of the Seven Seas
4x Robe of the Kedge
1x Flawed Combatant's Hoe
1-2x kedge backbone

ores and rods very common
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Drop Rates
# Jun 18 2010 at 8:51 PM Rating: Decent
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The Blue Crystal Staff seems to drop about 20%ish of the time I've killed Phinny and I've been killing him once or twice a day for almost a month now trying to get the Kedge Backbone for Bard epic, in 30ish kills or so he has yet to drop it. I'd venture to say the Blue Crystal Staff is just uncommon, not as rare as people believe.
hot zone Cliknar scout
# May 21 2010 at 6:38 PM Rating: Decent
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I had Phinny morph into a Cliknar scout today jsut though i would pass that along
hot zone Cliknar scout
# May 21 2010 at 6:37 PM Rating: Decent
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I had Phinny morph into a Cliknar scout today just thought i would pass that along

Edited, May 27th 2010 9:04pm by bigrooster
respawn confussion
# Jan 24 2010 at 9:07 AM Rating: Decent
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ok this mob spawns every 12hrs on the dot i have been camping him now for over a week and still no blue crystal staff. However it is rated as a very rare item. I am starting to believe it!!!! I am camping him with a lvl 81 wizard with less than 300 aa's I can solo him without any problems at all really dont even need a merc once camped.

Hope this helped happy hunting.

Spellbound level 81 wizard 256 aa's
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# Feb 25 2010 at 10:43 AM Rating: Decent
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If you go down to page 2 of these comments and check my posts from ... Mar and April 2004 (omg almost 6 years ago), you'll see that the wizz staff is not so rare (well, at least, didn't used to be ...) and that you were able to solo him at 65 with the technology of those years so ... I guess a level 81 with the stuff of today shouldn't indeed have too many problems ;-)

As of the Phinigel's respawn itself, if I remember correctly, it varies between 11h (shortest I ever noticed was 10h50 or so) to 12h (longest I've noticed was 12h30 or so). But maybe they've changed that ...

P.S. now don't ask me why I just checked this page today, I don't know myself :) )
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Phinni Triggered no timed?
# Dec 31 2009 at 8:21 PM Rating: Decent
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Ok so this is my rundown on the spawning encounter. It seems that the timer here listed is way off. It is not 5 hrs, or 12 hours , or 24 hours it looks like the encounter has to be triggered.

From what I can gather, when you kill one of the 4 top seahorses (a swirlspine seahorse) one of the bottom Seahorse Guardians will pop ( if the timer is set and ready ) upto 4 guardians. If there are no Guardians down at the bottom it seems Phini will not pop. Now before I continue remember this is just a theory and could be totally false.

Last night I killed Phinni at 1am when I came back reading he pops in 12 hrs @ 1pm, no Phinni and no one has killed him, Zek server so its dead no one comes down here barely. Didn't see any Guardians nothing, so I started to kill the top seahorses. I killed one ( point of view is at top on ceiling looking down to see if Phinni pops ) and a Guardian at the bottom popped . Killed a second one again another guardian at the bottom popped, killed 3 and 4 two more guardians popped. So I went down there killed the 4 guardians and all 4 of the normal seahorses repopped at the exact same second the last guardian died. So I killed the 4 top seahorses again, again 4 guardians. So instead of going back down to kill the guardians i left them, and in 5 minutes Phinni popped.

Now again like I said this is all theory and could be coincidence but if not then it is a new look on how to pop the boss. I hope this helps someone cause it sure helped me.

Goodluck on the Epic Hunting!!!

Zhang Sanfeng of Zek
Phinni Triggered no timed?
# Jan 05 2010 at 3:42 PM Rating: Decent
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I have proven this "triggered" idea incorrect today. did as the post said for 4 hours and nothing. the spawns we not completely tied death to pop. the top horses are 20 min timer and they almost every time pop a lower one upon a death. not every.
STOP FARMING PHINNY - MQ DOES NOT WORK
# Nov 17 2009 at 4:40 PM Rating: Decent
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Please stop farming Phinny - you cannot MQ the blue crystal staff - I have tried it after many weeks of camping to log in and find no phinny, I eventually caught up with the farmer who has a rotational alarm clock set to kill him and offered to MQ it for me (for a "reasonable" price) - exhausted with weeks of camping I conceded, and the MQ FAILED - "Sorry "farmer", I have no use for this item - you can have it back" - and this was on the epic npc not dargon which i spawned with my note and another staff part - hope i don't need to go get those again!

Also - beware camping alts and Bots to kill him and bring your wiz down to loot - despawn time on corpse is 7 mins.
Blue crystal staff is a PITA!!!!!

12 kills with my bot - finally a bcs - bring wizzy down and corpse is decayed.

I am never coming back to phinny again, for anything, when I finally get this feckin staff!
STOP FARMING PHINNY - MQ DOES NOT WORK
# Jan 01 2010 at 8:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Sorry but I have to disagree. MQ has always worked for me.
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spawn time
# Apr 16 2009 at 10:57 PM Rating: Decent
[Thu Apr 16 12:16:37 2009] You have slain Phinigel Autropos!
[Thu Apr 16 23:52:47 2009] You have slain Phinigel Autropos!

looks like 11 hours, 34 minutes. Give or take a minute... he was beating on me for a few seconds before i realized it.
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# Apr 16 2009 at 12:59 AM Rating: Decent
Ok... level 73 wiz, little over 11k mana, 120AA's or so....

Phinigel Autropos in 1s, 36k @36000dps --- Me 36k @36000dps


Mana Blaze. One shot. One kill. No fight. Dropped staff, single evac to avoid adds, fight done. Getting there took SOOO much longer than the fight.

EDIT: Dropped the wrong staff... i've been doing too many epics /sigh

EDIT2: Also note that the only reason i had adds was because i didn't want to agro Phinny, so i was floating too close to roof.

Edited, Apr 16th 2009 2:33am by ForlapThorninfoot
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# Jan 21 2009 at 11:51 PM Rating: Good
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Best info on this page to how to find Phin is lower down which states:


How to GET THERE ----- It took me over two hours to find him, cuz of one secret door. Here are the directions.

From the ENTRANCE, go out into the first room. Go Down, facing South. Click on the grate. Go into the room, and go down again, still facing south. Do the same thing in the next room you hit. When you get to the bottom (you will have gone down a tunnel twice), turn EAST and head through the door. There's a shark in the next room --- head straight past the shark. Enter the grate on the bottom at the end of the tunnel. You can't miss it; all tunnels lead to the same place.

Go up the looong tunnel and you'll see 4 grates on all sides. Doesn't matter which you go through; All open, and all are in the same room. There's only one door in the room --- It has two grates, meaning you have to click on one grate, and when it opens, click on another to open the second. They are on top of one another.

SECRET TUNNEL to Phinny: Past the two grates, you'll end up in a room with two "blocks" in it. There are a lot of fish in there. The blocks look like plantholders; They're about nine feet tall, and have little plants on the top. It looks like they're part of the walls but if you click on the one to the right of the door you're entering the room from, it will move, revealing a secret tunnel. Go through the tunnel to Phinny's room. It's safe to uninvis/buff/etc anywhere on top of the little star cut-out in the floor, but I wouldn't get any closer than I have to.

Note that my directions may not be perfect; I typed it from memory. It's pretty straightforward though, I think. Good luck!

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Really helpful when swimming to Phinny's room, can't go wrong. Thanks :)


Nelyen wrote:
Best info on this page to how to find Phin is lower down which states:


How to GET THERE ----- It took me over two hours to find him, cuz of one secret door. Here are the directions.

From the ENTRANCE, go out into the first room. Go Down, facing South. Click on the grate. Go into the room, and go down again, still facing south. Do the same thing in the next room you hit. When you get to the bottom (you will have gone down a tunnel twice), turn EAST and head through the door. There's a shark in the next room --- head straight past the shark. Enter the grate on the bottom at the end of the tunnel. You can't miss it; all tunnels lead to the same place.

Go up the looong tunnel and you'll see 4 grates on all sides. Doesn't matter which you go through; All open, and all are in the same room. There's only one door in the room --- It has two grates, meaning you have to click on one grate, and when it opens, click on another to open the second. They are on top of one another.

SECRET TUNNEL to Phinny: Past the two grates, you'll end up in a room with two "blocks" in it. There are a lot of fish in there. The blocks look like plantholders; They're about nine feet tall, and have little plants on the top. It looks like they're part of the walls but if you click on the one to the right of the door you're entering the room from, it will move, revealing a secret tunnel. Go through the tunnel to Phinny's room. It's safe to uninvis/buff/etc anywhere on top of the little star cut-out in the floor, but I wouldn't get any closer than I have to.

Note that my directions may not be perfect; I typed it from memory. It's pretty straightforward though, I think. Good luck!

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Epic Kill
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I disagree. of course it's been a while since they were posted, but when you go down after the first grate, there is no other grate to click on. grrr
Epic Kill
# Sep 18 2009 at 12:59 PM Rating: Decent
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Good memory. Directions were perfect.
Epic Kill
# Aug 31 2009 at 8:31 PM Rating: Decent
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Spot on directions, thank you!
LOC
# Jan 05 2009 at 2:09 PM Rating: Decent
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there is info out the ass on this mob except his @#%^in loc lol, anyone know the loc of this mob?
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# Dec 13 2008 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
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I got into the zone at 11:30 PM. Killed of the seahorses one by one the Took him out in four white Fire spells. And He died. Too bad he didnt drop what i needed. I soloed with a 69 wiz.
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# Dec 12 2008 at 9:11 AM Rating: Decent
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I remember helping my friend with the Rogue Epic and the Mage Epic at the same time and never being able to get Phinny to drop the Robe of the Kedge and having to kill those dark elves for it. I just killed Phinny today trying to get the mage drop for my guildie and he drops 2 Robes of the Kedge. Needless to say I now have 2 of them available for MQ on the Luclin server. Send and in-game e-mail to Tauvina if you need one.
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class?
# Dec 08 2008 at 5:43 PM Rating: Decent
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What class is he I heard a wizard
2 kills, no Mage staff yet
# Nov 03 2008 at 5:29 PM Rating: Decent
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We are trying to get the Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water. So far Phinny has dropped the Trident and the Blue crystal Staff along with a number of other items, coral, robe, rod of malaisment, etc. . There was a nice defiant quarterstaff for fighter type classes that one of the sea horses that guards Phinny dropped.

As far as tactics, I have my Wife assisting with a 75 level Cleric and a 65 level Ranger and I have my level 58 Mage. Her Ranger has enough AAs to be sturdy. I pull a seahorse and then we beat on them after I call my pet back from playing with them. The seahorses eventually run out of mana and we are able to kill them.

After the seahorses are dead I mana back up and then pull and kill Phinny. Phinny is much easier to kill than the 4 at a time seahorses. We tried pacifying the seahorses but the paci dropped almost as soon as it was cast.

I have heard of tactics where you can invis and slip past the seahorses and drop down into the chamber where Phinny is and then take him on without agroing the seahorses. I did not try that due to having the healing capacity of a 75 level cleric at our disposal. The seahorses are light blue to my Mage and Phinny is dark blue.

I have a turtlebone ring for EB and the Ranger has a very nicely statted earing. The Cleric has innate EB.

I have noticed that my fire base damageshield gets dispelled quite a bit more often than my other spells. I keep that spell memmed so I can recast it often. I especially keep it on the pet and ranger.

I am using an Earth Pet. He is the highest level pet I have. I may try a fire pet just to see if it can do more damage quickly in this environment. The fire based spells seem to work best. Magic based works but not spectacularly. I have heard cold based spells are not useful here.

We have killed Phinny twice so far and I hope that 3 times is the charm. The long spawn time of 12 hours makes it a bit more tedious. We are talking days and possible weeks instead of hours to get a rare drop. The only thing Phinny seems to drop consistently is fusible Coral.

Once the Staff drops I have only one more item to obtain, that is the Crown from the plane of Air. Yes, I have the drop from Quillmane.

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# Dec 01 2008 at 9:19 AM Rating: Decent
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It took 25 kills to get the Staff of Elemental Mastery:Water to drop from this mob. Finally, no more sopping wet robes, :) .



Edited, Dec 1st 2008 12:21pm by Davidoz
Easier way
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If you're after his robe save yourself
some time and kill the named Dark Elves in the
hut in Kithicor Forest. It can drop from any
one of them instead of just one shot camping
Phinny.
Its where I got my robe and Robe of the Ishva
for my Rogue.
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Phinny Drops
# Jun 04 2008 at 7:17 AM Rating: Decent
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Killed Phinny 3 times looking for the mage staff.
1st Kill - Wiz staff
2nd Kill - Nothing noteworthy
3rd Kill - Rogue Robe, Bard Backbone, and Mage Staff of Water!

Willing to MQ the Wiz, Rogue, and Bard epic on Cazic Thule.
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# May 13 2008 at 4:12 AM Rating: Decent
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Killed Phinney @ 2:30am 5/13/08 and he dropped the Blue Crystal Staff for Wizzy epic
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spawn time
# Mar 30 2008 at 1:40 AM Rating: Decent
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killed him at midnight and again at 4:30am...thats less than 5 hours...i always thought he was 12 hours. still no mage staff, but lots of backbones, trident, robes and blue staff.
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Spawn time
# Jan 28 2008 at 9:09 PM Rating: Decent
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He has a spawn time of about, if not exactly, 11.5 hours...at least on The Tribunal server. Have camped him a couple days and can pretty much count on him spawning when I log on.
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I can confirm that the seahorses around the star corners do have a random chance of spawning a see invisibility mob. If you're invisible, just con each of them and the one that can see you will come back as "You suspect that this being can see you."

Phinigel Autropos does see invisibility so it could be tough getting down there if he has spawned without any calming effect on the adds that see invisibility. Waiting until he pats to a corner and swimming down the opposite corner worked for me, though I had my bard Calm the one that saw invisibility.

He summons so try not to pull with any damaging abilities, even DoT's.

As for killing him, it is very easy if you don't get the adds. Killing the adds around the star before hand spawns even tougher adds down at the bottom that only despawn when the top adds respawn so I would avoid killing the ones around the star.

I pulled him to the very west side cubby at the bottom of his pit and was able to avoid pulling adds without any calming effects as a 69 Shaman boxing a 52 Bard.

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See this post:

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=1852;page=1;howmany=50#m114499175930809

Very nice directions!

Hope this helps! Got my Backbone on the second kill!:)
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Are staves viewable?
# May 25 2007 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
Is backbone MQ`able?

And does he graphically show WIZ/MAG staves as he does shammy Mala toy?
Are staves viewable?
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Looking for backbone
# May 01 2007 at 2:34 PM Rating: Decent
Started to camp him for the backbone on FV server.

3 kills, no backbone....weeeee
Looking for backbone
# Aug 20 2007 at 10:50 PM Rating: Decent
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I had to kill him 16 times consecutively when going after teh backbone before finding one...

Then on me mage, I get 2 backbones, and no mage staves!! Evil evil fish.. Took 4 spawns to get mage staff, which he dropped 2 of hah.
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# Mar 31 2007 at 4:12 PM Rating: Decent
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My mistake.

Edited, Apr 1st 2007 5:10am by Dranikos
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# Mar 16 2007 at 8:27 AM Rating: Decent
Phinigal is extremely easy if you get him by himself. His horses CH though, which can be a pain in the ass for lower levels trying to take him, or toons that don't deal enough DPS.

Edited, Feb 9th 2010 7:29pm by Bethgin
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easy
# Oct 24 2007 at 11:24 AM Rating: Decent
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How can you say that when you can't even solo Sol Ro Tower?? hahah jk, Xaker here.
backbone
# Mar 13 2007 at 11:23 AM Rating: Decent
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hey all, im looking for a backbone for bard epic if anyone has one . on the RATHE. i pretty sure this can be MQ. contact Padil if u have one..thanks
drops
# Mar 03 2007 at 8:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Fusible Coral Ore
Wand of Mana Tapping
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Duo's him
# Feb 21 2007 at 12:08 PM Rating: Default
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Direction saved me a ton. I just Duo'd him with 72 cleric Placated the gurds <seahorses> then bow taged phiny with 73 war. Cake he went down in under a minute. I pulled him af far to the ent to his room as possible and not one heal was given to him. Was trying for wiz part. for alt drop man seive and coral poop.
Easy to kill, if you are quick.
# Jan 18 2007 at 12:44 AM Rating: Decent
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Hi all,

I did Phinny this morning with my Main (Lvl 70 Pal, average gear) and with my alt (lvl 67 Wiz, not as good geared as my main :) )

I swam (invis up) down to Phinny's pit, aggroed the fish by convergence, and pulled him to the ledge (got all 4 seahorses as add). I stunned each seahorse 1 time, casted my ward of tunare and focused on Phinny then. I changed to wizard, nuked Phinny twice with White Fire for 3,3 k each, then did Manaburn. Phinny down. No wizard drop :(

Phinny is easy if you are quick with your damage. If the seahorses can cast their complete heals it may happen that you run out of mana before Phinny runs out of HP :-) I appraise that this fish has less than 18K hp.

Greetings, Fay

Edited, Jan 18th 2007 9:43am by Fayendyr
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Phinny Down
# Dec 18 2006 at 1:57 PM Rating: Decent
Just took out Phinny with 75 Rogue help...Thanks so much Corka...dropped Trident of the seven seas and fusible coral ore...figures...will try again another day.

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# Nov 28 2006 at 8:06 AM Rating: Default
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first kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, staff of elemental mastery: water, Fusible Coral Ore, Rune of Impetus, Trident of the Seven Seas, Kedge Backbone

second kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, Fusible Coral Ore

third kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, wand of mana tapping, wand of mana tapping

fourth kill: fusible coral ore, wand of mana tapping, wand of mana tapping, Blue Crystal Staff, Trident of the Seven Seas, Fusible Coral Ore


Finally got the Blue Crystal Staff
Thanks again Gord and Fumbik/Minten of Whispers of the Wind Sword! Could not have taken him without you!

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camping for mage epic...
# Nov 21 2006 at 3:01 PM Rating: Decent
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first kill: Ruby, Fusible Coral Ore, Rune of Impetus, Trident of the Seven Seas

second kill: Blue Crystal Staff, Robe of the Kedge, Fusible Coral Ore

third kill: wand of mana tapping, wand of mana tapping, Fusible Coral Ore, Rune of Vortex

fourth kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, fusible coral ore, part of yaeth's compendium pg. 73 (rt), diamond

FYI He was weilding it. Very visible as the staff of elemental mastery

Edited, Nov 22nd 2006 7:42pm by fcoty

Edited, Nov 23rd 2006 8:22pm by fcoty

Edited, Nov 24th 2006 7:55pm by fcoty
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Epics?
# Nov 14 2006 at 9:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Killed him yesterday with some NCG members. He dropped two Mage Epic staves, rouge epic item and ranger epic item, but not wizzy epic item. I needed the wizzy epic...
He wasn't that bad, but seahorses even resisted my lures!
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# Oct 06 2006 at 2:35 PM Rating: Decent
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Just solo'd Phinny with 7.3k hp buffed - about 1 minute into fight I was totally de-buffed. I first used my level 65 spell Pacification on the 4 guards, then pulled Phinny - i got one add yet I stayed on Phinny. Used my Hammer of Reproach and epic 1.5. Add CH'd Phinny one time during the fight at about 43%. Used Pious Remedy as needed. Very fun and intense.
Got the Robe and Wiz wand - still need Backbone for bard alt.
70 Cleric Solo
# Oct 17 2006 at 2:30 PM Rating: Decent
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Solo'd Phinny at least 10 times with no luck on backbone - in fact 3 times he dropped NOT one epic item - just Coral and 2 shammy clickies. I have found out that if you con the guards and they do NOT see invis - just swim down the start and fight Phinny down there. Much much easier.

One main reason I tried to solo Phinny was because everyone I asked said it can't be done with my gear. This just proves that if you are willing to try and learn a strategy ~ Anything is possible

Trakanon is my next target !
Question on the guards...
# Aug 10 2006 at 3:55 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm planning on doing this camp on my next day off (all 12 hours, if need be). One of the options I'm looking at is, if I've been there close to 12 hours, clearing the guards prior to Phinney popping. It would help to know a little more about them.

1. What is the respawn timer on these annoyances?

2. If I pull one, with they all argo?
About pulling him after patch
# Jun 16 2006 at 2:16 PM Rating: Decent
Ok so, i had to kill this guy several times, my first kill i got the bone, BUT some bug where it didnt get looted yet was gone off the body... makes no sense to me but that's what GM's said, and didn't replace it go figure.

So anyway, Before the Patch on Tuesday, the guards were spawning in the bottom, so at 70 you could stand above him top of the room and pull him solo.

After patch they went back to their old spot, and no matter what I ended up with him and 4-6 guards.

No biggie to solo them, beat 1 down they all ch until their oom, dead, easy, but makes the fight take 10minutes instead of 1.

Dropped the bone today again for me, and i got 2 robes, 2 mage staffs, 2 bones(bleh one bug), 1 wizzie staff and all kinds of CRAP, sometimes dropping no epic stuff at all.

Really really easy like an orc in EC honestly at 70.
Phin's LOC
# Apr 30 2006 at 9:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Although the written directions to Phin's location is awesome, HERE IS THE APROXIMATE LOC. I'm not certain where he does spawn within the pit, but it's not overly large. Here's where he was last I saw him.
-33, 138.85, -258
Bring up your map. There is a very large star on it. Phin spawns inside there.

P.S. His guards were not SI this time either.

Edited, Sun Apr 30 09:34:05 2006
All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
# Apr 14 2006 at 1:21 AM Rating: Decent
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At level 70 Phinny's guards con green and light blue. He wanders around the pit of the 'star' room.

As an SK I never got below 80%, hardly bothering to cast lifetaps. My gear pretty plainly Sucks, and I was completely unbuffed, as he dispells like a hundred times per fight. He doesn't cast it --- it's a proc, so it's unavoidable. He is light blue, and pretty sad. No harder than a light blue in OoW+, and prolly easier.

Strat to kill him: If 70, a straight nuke or bow or something and you got him pulled, usually single. Something that does no damage is prefered, because if you do do damage to him while pulling, it's possible he'll summon you into the middle of his buddies.

His guards are clerics at least in part, so you're going to want to pull him near the ceiling so that they don't cheal him. He wanders around in the pit, so he's not a static spawn (ie- doesn't just sit). That should make it significantly easier to single him if that level. Just wait until he's near one of the green-con seahorsies, and then tag him. If none of them at the time are green, wait till he paths through the center and pull him up, hoping his buddies don't come. If you get an add you're gonna wanna kill it first, or split it with FD if it's an option. They cheal so much though, you may wanna consider back-up plans before you start, ie- binding outside and gating out.

If less than 70 (guards all con blue) I imagine normal pulling rules apply.

****PS- I dunno what the deal was with someone saying his guards see invis now, but no they don't**** (EDIT ---- I've fought him several, several times over time and have never seen them see invis but apparently it's possible. Phinny does for sure. Going down there's not a good idea anyhow. :D)

How to GET THERE ----- It took me over two hours to find him, cuz of one secret door. Here are the directions.

From the ENTRANCE, go out into the first room. Go Down, facing South. Click on the grate. Go into the room, and go down again, still facing south. Do the same thing in the next room you hit. When you get to the bottom (you will have gone down a tunnel twice), turn EAST and head through the door. There's a shark in the next room --- head straight past the shark. Enter the grate on the bottom at the end of the tunnel. You can't miss it; all tunnels lead to the same place.

Go up the looong tunnel and you'll see 4 grates on all sides. Doesn't matter which you go through; All open, and all are in the same room. There's only one door in the room --- It has two grates, meaning you have to click on one grate, and when it opens, click on another to open the second. They are on top of one another.

SECRET TUNNEL to Phinny: Past the two grates, you'll end up in a room with two "blocks" in it. There are a lot of fish in there. The blocks look like plantholders; They're about nine feet tall, and have little plants on the top. It looks like they're part of the walls but if you click on the one to the right of the door you're entering the room from, it will move, revealing a secret tunnel. Go through the tunnel to Phinny's room. It's safe to uninvis/buff/etc anywhere on top of the little star cut-out in the floor, but I wouldn't get any closer than I have to.

Note that my directions may not be perfect; I typed it from memory. It's pretty straightforward though, I think. Good luck!

Edited, Sun Apr 23 05:22:45 2006
All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
# Jun 25 2006 at 7:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Thank you ...Thank you!! Excellent directions...right on! Saved me from wasting a whole lotta time! I ended up camping him for roughly 2 1/2 hours(though in and out throughout the day until I found out his last kill time). Weird thing was that, even though I had been there that long, only a couple of people popped in to track him. BUT... all of a sudden 2 peeps showed up and I decided to have a look down to see if he was spawned yet...WHAT DO YA KNOW?!?! They showed up within a minute of him popping!!! <yes, this is where I suspect 3rd party software>... nonetheless, they were kind enough to let me join them since they didn't need the wizzy epic piece I was after. 3 of us, a bard, shammy and 67 wiz took down Phini...with great ease! I found that you can invise down into his "lair" and not even have to deal with his guards at all.....made the whole thing that much simpler...I was amazed. Now...I just have to deal with VS =/
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RE: All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
# May 15 2006 at 2:47 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm pretty sure what happens is that phinny sometimes casts see invis on the guards. Tonight I was there, when I scoped out the room at first only one guard saw invis. Waited for about 5 minutes for a friend to help me take him down, and by the time he got there two of them saw invis.

So either phinny is casting see invis or the guards are casting it on themselves.

edit: forgot to thank you for your helpful post =)

Edited, Mon May 15 02:41:14 2006
RE: All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
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nice directions! this worked great i would have never found that secret lever
RE: All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
# Apr 25 2006 at 2:05 PM Rating: Decent
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great directions, followed them and got me to Phinny faster then I could have on my own.

Like your post said, none of the guards saw invis, but of course, could have been luck. *shrugs*

*really* great directions lol...Im sitting in BOT lightning tower and a mage friend is in Kedge...I talked him to Phinnys room with your directions =P

Edited, Sun Jun 4 18:40:51 2006
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RE: All about Phinny and how to Get to him!
# Apr 16 2006 at 11:09 PM Rating: Default
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I dunno what the deal was with someone saying his guards see invis now, but no they don't****


Maybe you just got lucky, but the guards randomly can see invis. I've been there when none could see invis and other times when 3 out of 4 could see invis. It's all just random.
LOC
# Apr 04 2006 at 6:35 PM Rating: Decent
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all are talking about how many times they killed him but no one can give LOC or tell directions why?
Wizzy Epic quest drop Rate
# Mar 31 2006 at 9:01 AM Rating: Default
I've been camping Phinney for a fortnight now with my wizzy camped nearby, it took me 9 - 10 kills checking everytime he was up, this gives you an indication of how often Phinney is still killled by people, sometimes missing 3- 4 spawns before I found him untouched. I found the easiest way to pull phinney was from above looking down on his spawn area, cast a non damage spell (Malo) in my case, then back into a corner of the upper floor lvl and wait for Phinney to come get me, obviously an over kill at my lvl but rarely got more than 2 adds which my pet took care of. So I now have in my bank 2 Kedge robes and a couple of elemental staffs to MQ as and when as well as Epic 1.0 on my baby wizzy....spawn rate is 12hrs btw.

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Edited, Fri Mar 31 09:05:26 2006
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