The Fabled Lord Inquisitor Seru  

We (81 ranger, 95 druid & 95 sk) killed Fabled LIS last night around 2330 4/16/12 on Prexus/ Rathe. He dropped the Fabled Sword of Truth, Fabled Bow of Storms, Fabled Glowing Amber band, and each of their non fabled equivalents, plus 3-4 spells off the normal Seru's loot table, and most importantly (to me) the Ornate Chain Bridle (woot!!). He also dropped additional loot off the normal Seru's loot table. Safe to say the loot list here can be lengthened to include everything the normal Seru drops. I think I might have caught the last spawn for him this season, which makes this ranger pretty stoked. :)

During this Fabled season I wanted to try my luck to see this guy up. Used the key, ran to his room..lo and behold - he wasn't up. So, as the goonies from the hallway and in the room attacked me and as I fought back...I see the non-fabled version shout, "Who dares enter my Sanctum?" Puzzled and panicked, I backed up as he rushed me. I gated out and thought this to be very odd. I gated back in using the key and brought my husband along (who is a Bard) and he checked track; The Fabled Lord Inquisitor Seru.

I'll be damned.

Excited, and I'll admit, still a little panicked, I finally found him up! So we both buffed up and went for it with our T5 mercenaries. 30 - 45 minutes go by, a few lucky rounds, and the mercenaries casting complete heal at the same time, I (the tank/paladin) hit the ground. First attempt got him down to 88%. No Bane weapons used. He just used his fabled pet weapon and self procs to get him down THAT far. Mercenaries were not hurting for mana.

Attempt number two. I brought in my brother's warrior. Also no bane weapons. Just his fabled pet weapon. He had a T1 cleric mercenary. So it was:

85 Paladin (me) 41.5k hp, 5.4k AC (with warrior aura and bard songs) 30/33 in both defensives, max shielding/avoidance and geared in T5 SoD group armor
85 Bard (with fabled pet proccy weapon and dressed very similar to me)
80 warrior (also with his fabled pet proccy weapon.
And 3 cleric mercenaries. Two T5, one T1. One T5 was on reactive, the other two were on efficient.

Seru's hit range was lowest 760 and ranged all the way to 3600 with a LOT of flurries and lucky rounds. If he would've rampaged, I don't think this would've been possible. All mercs were at full mana the entire fight while the bard pushed the Damage shield as far as it would go while pumping Grubbers. I was also patch healing myself, kept up Preservation of Tunare rk. II and popping my third spire every chance I got. It was a rough fight that lasted two and a half hours, but we finally dropped him and a very happy warrior got his fabled sword.

Hope this helps anyone willing to try him with no nuker and no bane weapon wielders =)



Edited, Apr 1st 2010 9:28am by omegamagni

Edited, Apr 1st 2010 9:30am by omegamagni

Took out Fabled Seru today with 85SK and 85 Mage plus 2 T-5 cleric mercs.

SK has 5K AC unbuffed with sword/board max shielding/avoid and is combination of SoD gear, OMM raid and SoD cultural + last bloods equipped. Mage has ~ 24K mana and was essentially OOM by the end. For some reason mage's cleric merc did not seem to be doing anything - tried switching her between modes to no avail, but fortunately SK's merc did fine with a combo of efficient, balanced and reactive modes depending on status of the hp bar. SK never got below 30% HP; sorry forgot to check for Seru's damage hit range.

Fight lasted about 30 minutes, had one trash add at the beginning.
SK's pet/pets and mage's pet/pets were the primary damage dealers. Landed tash but no malosinete (or variation thereof, forgot to cast Malo). Fire occasionally landed, didn't try much magic.
SK's poison dots usually landed along with disease, but no dice with HP taps including Bond HoT. Magic highly if not entirely resisted by Seru.

Dropped Fabled Sword of Truth (what I was after and had been working myself up for since last year when I could not take down Fabled Seru with 1 T-5 cleric merc and 1 T-1 (same Mage's)), Black Ornate Bridle, and other miscellaneous. The defensive AA's from latest expansion seem to have helped, along with 500 increase in AC, and increase in mage's pet power with AA's.

Hope this helps. Best of luck to everyone who is hunting Seru!
/Salute Fabled Seru, my final 'epic' EQ goal

Dropped regular Bloody Berserker Blade for us tonight, too.

i did him with 2 groups of friends the other day and he did not have rampage. just flurry. I'm 100% certain. we even set up ramp rank because of this webpage but he never once ramped.

maybe something changed since 2007 fableds

I tracked him to a building that I can't seem to enter. How do I get to him?
Is there a raid I have to request to get in and if so which quest?

The old sword wasn't equipable for a reason.
It was way overpowered.
Put that in the hands of a PC, and everyone would complain, and it would get nerfed.
So guess what?
They slightly pre-nerfed it.
Still best look in game, IMHO.

Casts:

Fabled Stunning Strike

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=12014

Fabled Torturing Winds

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=12017

Does the Fabled Seru drop the bridle as well???

Fabled Sword of Truth
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 55
DMG: 75 AC: 50
Cold DMG: 10
Bane DMG: Humanoid +10
Skill Mod: 1H Slashing +5 %
STR: +20 DEX: +20 STA: +20 CHA: +20 Wis: +20 INT: +20 AGI: +20 HP: +50 MANA: +100 SV FIRE: +20 SV DISEASE: +20 SV COLD: +20 SV MAGIC: +20 SV POISON: +20
Required level of 75
WT: 0.1 Size: LARGE
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG
Race: ALL
slot 1, type 8: empty

I think this may need an update too...

I really, really hope there's a Fabled Sword of Truth.