a hill giant  

I'm a human SK on the Ayonea Ro server and i've been able to solo these big guys since lvl 35 easily.

SK's RULE 8)

I am a monk on vazzealle. I was wondering if i could take one of these with a 35 Druid? I wish for a quick answer.

Hey everybody, Zomor 51 paladin reporting in here now. Just finished my 3 hour long time of killing HGs today in rathe, got over 1k IN 3 HOURS. Wanna know how?

First what you do is make sure you are levels 45-60 of course, buy 10 shot SoW potions so you can escape easily. SoW yourself, keep all of your own buffs on, including symbol. Then what you do is pull with either stun or Flame of Light whichever you have. Then commence the beatdown. Keep fighting till you get down to half health then root his butt and heal with your DW Helm-manafree healing. When you get back to full if you do before root breaks, just pepper him with arrows/nuke him with Flame of Light till root breaks. The start fighting, rinse then repeat till he starts running, now what you should do is NOT root, just keep beating his butt since its hard to miss from the backside anyways and you got yourself one dead HG. Easy startegy with almost no downtime.

PS-takes me 1 minute 30 seconds to kill one at 51 and i only lose 1/2 of my health. Very Efficient.

Casters shouldn't have much problem taking these guys out 40+. Partied up with a druid and soon to party up with a paladin. When partied up with a druid, make sure that you all have SoW (duh), bind yourself close by and in a safe spot. Then the druid pulls (track + snare + sow = beware HGs). Then I throw a few nukes, out agro the druid, we root it with the lowest level root, since its going to break with DDs anyway.Then proceed to nuke it to death. Root when needed.

With a level 35 wiz, 37 druid and myself (40 wiz), we took out HGs with 60 - 70m remaining on all of us. Granted, I was doing practically 400 dmg per nuke (384 I think) and totalling around 1200 - 1600+ dmg per encounter.

Great loot! A few pointers.

1. Destroy all silver and copper. This will just weigh you down. If its going really good, then destroy all gold too.

2. If you are a wizard, then bind yourself nearby. Loot until encumbered, gate to Gfay (if you are a good race), unload in kelethin/felwithe. Gate back.

3. Watch out for trains and kiters. Make sure you have your volume up and keep your eyes open! You will often see druids (and sometimes wizzies) kiting one or more throughout the area. They like to root the HGs and this can provide to be quite painful, if it's parked ontop of your group.

4. Rogues often pick pocket here. Make sure you have see invis on and keep track of those bastidges.

could a 35 druid kite a hg if not what lvl could i start?

I think so, you might try reverse kiting, have the giant chase the druid around while snared and have the warrior beat on it but not taunt.

I'm about to turn lvl 40 and thinking of going to Rathe for HG's. Since they are so solo-able by casting pc's, what are the odds that I'll be able to find a partner or group at lvl 40?

These guys gave me 3 blue bubbles last night at level 49, I am a shaman.Easy way to solo these as a shaman is pull with Togors, Have pet buffed with Alacrity,Str,Tuna buff, and Chloroplast.
As it comes in, use ENSTILL, 10x better then root, it holds longer, try it. Send in yer pet, let him hit it till hes at about 65% and cast an Ebolt, Enstill will most likely hold till its dead and if not the pet will keep aggro. Dont worry about healing your pet, it will regen faster then your mana.
80% of the HGs con blue still and you can take down about 5 before you have to med, I reccomend this for the level 49 Shaman till 50 then go hit up Burning Woods or the Ive Giants in Everfrost(if you can get a camp =) )
Just my thoughts on this trying to be helpful, and a couple of posts up I saw a guy whining about lvl 52s killing HGs... well bud, you sit and shout for a group where the good stuff drops for an hour and then do the math,,,, lets see, an hour at the HGs will weild about 150pp give or take a few, or I can sit here and yell for a group for 2 hours... hmmm. Just let it be bro its a game =)
Akiles Tendon 49th shaman of the Tribunal, Bristleband

Waxed my first one last nite. Guess that kiting thing takes practice. It got me down to two bubbles of health, but never any farther. Oh and total downtime? uh none. heh heh. Took me a bout 10 minutes to kill. Sucker dropped about 90 gold, some toes, and a lambent stone. And one half a blue xp. I want more!

Llewyen Aoide, 38th level bard
Tribunal Server
Proud owner of a shiny new tambourine

as a druid i have been soloing these guys since 36they still are blue at 40 and can kill me quick if it wasnt for snare and my right click root neck piece . one ques wtf with all you level 52+ cowards farming these guys they are by far the best mob to kill with good cash for group30 to solo 35to 45 ? you greedy fks you suk why dont you go to mistmmoore or velious? oh my level 60 needs cash what a bunch of bs your a lazy inconsiderate of other player piece of S----.any high level got a prob i am on zeb server you can find me in mnts talkin smack to you higher level cowards.nothing i enjoy more than telling a ks sob to fo cant say it enough your a bunch of cowards and weenies esp the ones that are in a guild d--- h--- are they ever gonna make them trivial ? i can only hope

I, a 30 shaman, was hunting giant skeles in rathe mnts. when I got a tell from a group hunting HG's aasking if I wanted to join. I said what the hell and found them. I hunted with them for 2 hours before they had to go. I made 225 plat in 2 hours!! These things drop between 36-48 plat each time. In a full group with split on the money just rolls in. Not to mention got half a yellow bubble in 30. Woot!!!!!!

As a 46 mage i find it quite easy to solo most of these guys with minimal down time. I pull with a low end spell like shock of blades lvl 24 I believe. Then bring to the fire pet and since i have probably been hit they are fast since ya have to turn arround even with Jboots ya still get WACKED quite often so pet is on auto attack he will get the giant off almost as soon as he gets there pets attack at this lvl draws the aggro of the giant and i just start casting renew elements sitting between castings till giant is half way down then one cast of shock of swords and poof he is running the good thing is that you get some medding time during the fight so less downtime takes me about 1 to 2 bubs of mana even if i stand the whole fightfire pets fire shield helps lots hitting in the upper 30's to 40 or so for each timer he is hit is nice addition


Sumten Else
Mage LVL 46
Prexus
Knights of the Aurora

What lvl do you think a Necromancer should be to kill these guys? My int is 180 so i dunno. I heard about lvl 34.
Jelinoker D'ethshade
Necromancer - 31
Tarew Marr

Me (37 Ranger) and a 34 paly drop HG easy, Dont even have to use LoH. Have killed about 5. Max loot was 40p, I was happy =)