Phinigel Autropos  

Get him of my 1st time, cleaned all and soloed him at the end, full dispeller :( take care with EB if is a buf. You can go easily invis to its lair :). Also tryied to group with a necro, and while i (mage) am waiting at the ZI he DoTs the fish an just after it CoTH him to the ZI, wait some tme and Phinny comes alone to there :) the safest way ;) GL
Vektrat - Magician of Antonius Bayle

Edited, Wed Jan 5 18:53:17 2005

Can Phinny be tracked from the zone in with a ranger?

im not sure if he got lucky or not but i saw a 65 monk in my guild solo pull phinny without getting the seahorses, and he solo'ed phinny with no prob,he lost about 46% life,without mend so i know it is possible to solo him

Was downed with a 65 monk/cleric and 61 wizard, Dropped my blue crystal staff on first kill woo, and some wand/pearl or coral.

Naminia Everhate 61st Wizard - Mith Marr server

There are in my experience many diff ways to pull and kill phinny but I'm gonna share my favorite. It's my favorite method because you have to kill nothing else BUT phinny himself. 4 swirlspine seahorses are guarding the entry to the room holding phinny. sometimes one or more of the horses will see invis so find out which ones do and kill it/them. once you've killed the horse(s) one or two swirlspine guardians will spawn in phinnys lair below which will despawn eventually. now you wait for the horse(s) to respawn and when they do they won't see invis. now hopefully you have a tracker in your group...have them check the guards and wait for them to despawn...as soon as they do have your entire group invis up and run down phinnys lair past the horses running straight for the west wall...do not swim into the lair any more than you have to to get down through the horses...there is a cubby hole in the west wall that is a perfect spot to set up camp....now it's just you and phinny all alone...the seahorses won't aggro down here. if u get killed by phinny you are screwed on CR but don't worry about that unless you are crazy outclassed group you have nothing to worry about phinny is a piece of cake:-) good luck hope this helps

Question is, my wiz needs staff... Will my 65 pally be able to pull him solo and kill him solo? dispell not worried bout, I have click items and can stun his **** the whole fight, but about this solo pulling and solo killing thing, any knight/mellee try to solo him before? Also, how hard does he hit/nuke? Saying he nukes hard isn't informative, saying he nukes for 1k is. Plz be specific. (can 65 solo pull?)

killed him tonite dropped mage staff wiz staff 2 chanter wands rune plus sometin else very surprised did not xspect the 2 staffs off same drop maybe was because new phinny after pop who knows but very happy heh

Went after Phinny on the Seventh Hammer on the weekend, this is what I learnt from the exp.

Our group did Phinny quite easily, a mixed bunch 53 necro, 55 Warrior, 56 Pally, 62 Enchanter, 65 Druid and 55 Mage (me). Unfortunately he died in the middle and we got wiped when I looted him.

Pull him to the sides and force him towards the outside.

You will also need MR of around 160, with that I resisted Vortex (of the Swirlespine Guardians) and Dispell (of Phinny) at least 12 times. He also appears fairly MR himself, although I landed a malaise, but he didn't resist any of my fire based burns (I was using Char mainly).

He and Undertoe (our other target) appear to be on a timer, and dont have PH's.

I would be very interested to here other peoples views on my comments and of there experiences in KK. It is a very interesting place.

Pugismagic
Hi Elf Magician of the 55 Season
The Seventh Hammer.

Phinny is indeed the last of the "Kedge" race... and being a wizard, he has all of the usual wizzy tricks up his soggy sleeves. The major thing to watch out for when fighting him is being dispelled, which he seems to do almost immediately. This, more than anything else he does can get you killed, unless you are properly prepared...

Do not rely upon EB buffs down here. It is fairly easy to get an EB when WORN item these days, and no one should be bopping about down in Kedge (or any other airless zone or area) without one. Especially if you are going to be fighting caster mobs like Phinny... who will most definitely try to dispell your EB buffs. Leave the fish scales on the fishes and go farm some snake guts in the Grey for an EB amulet. It is one less thing to be worried about and distracted by down here.

There are quite a few posts here regarding the "best" way to pull Phinny, and all are good ideas. Since Phinny can be a long camp, you may just wish to pull the swirlspines all day until he pops... decent exp if you are the appropriate level. Otherwise, to get Phinny away from them (or vice versa) I personally favour the following:

(1) Have a wiz target Phinny by casting Eye of Tallon, and sending it down to where he lurks. The rest of your group can target the wizard who did so, and then hit "assist" to have Phinny targeted.

(2) Using "pacify" type spells on Swirlspine Guardians is unreliable but has been known to work. They are not always up, either. There are various ways to get them out of the way, however. Frankly, I feel that fighting *them* is a lot tougher than dealing with Phinny himself.. they love to cast a "whirl till you hurl" type of nuke and it makes everything rather hectic when they do. One option is to have a monk deliberately aggro the Swirlspines, drag them to the opposite side from where you will be pulling Phinny, and then FD (and stay FD'ed) once they are out of the way. They will slowly swim back, which is when you should pull Phinny.

(3) With him still being targeted, nuke him from above (with a PBAOE which normally would be a no-no in Kedge) to pull him, or you can send down a pet and then pull pet back (or even better, to save time tell the pet to get lost... Phinny will then come after the owner). A Bard can sing an AE sort of deal, etc etc. You can grab him in all sorts of ways, just pull him up to the ledge near the enterance to his big room.

(4) Do not mana sieve this guy; Phinny nukes fairly hard but frankly his melee is worse IMHO. He is not especially difficult without his guardians, so simply take him on face to face and rely on your MR gear to help against his nukes. Also, have casters use fire based nukes on Phinny, as down in Kedge, most other types work poorly or not at all.

(5) He is a short and sweet fight, and be sure to note the time after you kill him. If you are trying to get Epic drops, you may be returning and repeating this battle several times. Hopefully, you will get lucky on your first or second try. Last time I checked, Phinny was on a 12 to 14 hour spawn timer.

Not much more to add that has not already been posted by others. When the fight is done, you can get your monk back by running (well, swimming) over to where he is still FD'ed (the nasty seahorsies will have returned to their "roosts" by now) and just evac or port everyone out.

Many combinations of classes will work fine for single-grouping Phinny. I suppose the easiest time I have had with him was with a Monk, Paladin, Bard, Mage, Wizard (me) and a Shaman. Again, anything relatively well-balanced works, but be sure to have EB when worn gear, and also someone who can target him before the pull and evac or succor you all out afterward... it is a big time saver.

~ Kj





Edited, Sat Sep 27 10:07:44 2003

There is hope! I got staff on first kill on Tarew Marr.

Now there are gates and doors!

And Phinnie's guards are harder and do not stay pacified.

Well i camped this Phinny four days.killed him 7 times straight ... I never logged ..even when i was sleepin .i was still there campin with my 63 wiz...he droped the fusible coral ore every time.the drops went as follows:
kill #1 wiz staff <for someone else>
#2 kedge robe
#3 some crappy ench wand
#4 trident <vendor trash>
#5 shammi malosi wand
#6 mage staff and shammy wand
#7 blue crystal staff ...whoot

I will tell ya what ..if you want this piece from Phinny lose a little sleep camp him consecutively...and you will get it otherwise ...Hope you get lucky !!

Questerr Thews
63 WIZARD
Xev server

What a wimp mob. Took him today with group of 5 - 55 cleric pacified seahorses, 61 druid pulled him single (no guardians up or at least the didnt agro), a 54 pally, 55 pally, and myself, 55 wiz.

by the way - neither myself or Druid had C lol.

Fight was about 3 min. 2 CH's from cleric, mostly for drowning hehe.

Second time taking down phinny - second time no epic drops at all - not even a robe lol.