Level 82 Necro with 21k mana & T5 Merc downed this dinosaur. Merc had approx. 80% mana remaining when fight ended. I used the 82 Necro pet, Bloodreaper's Shade, which was twinked with full Defiant plate and Painmakers.
lvl 85 Cleric with 1160 AA's, T5 group gear, and T5 Scarecrow tank merc soloed/duoed this guy, Darkcoil, bonegrinder, and couple other nameds so far with about 20% mana left over for each one. (about 29k mana pool self-buffed). If that helps any of yall know what kind of tank/heals you'll need, if have roughly around those stats, and especially if have some kind of DPS besides Cleric and Tank Merc DPS, then they should be easy as pie. =)
Edit: P.S. Also the PH's for him seem to be some kind of animal, not sure what kind, but i'm guessing "a scaled wolf" or "a giant tree boa" it seems he pops in there places most often. Have not seen him pop from any sarnaks or iksars. So that means that spawn timer of his is based off of whatever the animal PH's timers are. =)
Edited, Nov 19th 2009 5:20pm by dragonwhisperer
Edited, Nov 19th 2009 5:28pm by dragonwhisperer
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Gindli 85 Dwarf Cleric <Dark Redeemers> The Rathe (Karana)
Snared and tanked by a 80 SK, 4500ac and 27k-ish hps, with a ragtag PU group on EMarr. Dropped the collar of the tamed and a distorted seminal luminessence.
Just to add to this, 85 pally friend also soloed this mob. And yes he did have a merc up. There are a few people who for some reason consider a merc to be the same as a live player, for the majority who do not, this is indeed soloing. Was a long fight but never really in doubt, the damage spikes did require some self healing but easy enough fight.
don't you have something better to do, in fact the information that someone Solod the named with a merc is rather usefull to ppl that might be considering trying to do the same thing, what the definition of the word solo is, and your opinion on the class tuning of SKs is really not usefaull at all to me on the other hand so rather then clogging up the forums why don't you two go have you mom make you a sandwich and put you to bed =)
Connsider the trumenduos amount af aa's to get HT up, and SK's low dps and rethink what you say my friend, almost any class gets some ubah ability, or are dps in themselves enough to solo stuff. Plus a sk does not mitigate as much damage as a warrior does, so SK's needed the HT change, and it was about time too.
That being said, this particular SK is just stupid for saying SOLO when he in fact DUOED the mob.(paid hes way to making a real cleric suffer from not getting the exp on the kill too)
preachin up the wrong tree. I play a Paladin. Any group named mob is a joke with HT. Like I said ... you just gotta live long enough for full effect ;)
Took him down with a 83 Sk and 85 mage. We both had our merc clerics out. Was not really in danger the entire time. Dropped ac aug , yay another flameshield bites the dust. I didnt really notice a mana drain going on but then again fight was not that long.
I just meant the cleric had to use his entire mana bar to keep the tank alive. Not that the mob had any "manna drain" ability. He's a warrior so I'm sure he doesn't.
That first fight my toons were 80 and had not acquired any zone gear upgrades yet. The drops are so good in this zone that now at 82, with each having gained 2-5 pieces of gear and augments, the fight is relatively trivial. My cleric alone can keep the tank up through this fight and finish > 50%.
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Sippin 95 DRU Firionia Vie My crew: 95 WAR ENC CLE MAG WIZ SHD RNG
Spawned on west wall. He is rather nasty. Drained my cleric entirely of mana and my druid was at 10% when fight ended. Thank god he runs at the end, but it's like at 3%. Flurries so watch the end, fight isn't even close to over when mob is under 10%!
Summoned my overnuking mage and one-rounded him. Max hit on mage was 4840. On my 3300ac warrior max hit was 4200 but lots of much smaller hits.
He's a large animal so like with dragons it's easy to get out of melee range. Have to watch that or tank will lose aggro easily. Probably what got my mage summoned and killed.
Note: he CAN be mezzed with enc 82 mezz, Befuddle. That makes this fight even easier since you can park the mob if needed to regain healing mana.
He has a minimum of 4 and probably more spawn points. One I'm absolutely sure spot is close to the east wall, just south of an iksar camp (4 mobs and a campfire) just east of where "Blackblade (Roaming)" appears on the download maps. This spot has spawned him several times for me. Pher is probably a blackbird.
Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 8:00am by Sippin
Edited, Nov 9th 2008 12:37pm by Sippin
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Sippin 95 DRU Firionia Vie My crew: 95 WAR ENC CLE MAG WIZ SHD RNG
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