85 ranger with HoT T1 (Bazaar) gear. Under 1500 AA's. T1 healer merc. Sucker does hit fast. Used WS until epic slowed it then just Dotted with 3 fast DoTs and burned as fast as I could. Was close a couple times. Just wanted folks to know a very casual toon can take him out. GL :)
Just killed him with a couple friends for my SK... dropped the shield and the fabled wep... the first time we killed him for another guildie's SK.. dropped the fabled wep and the Sharkspine Club
85 war wit t5 merc.... these mobs have gotten much easier with age. took him out fairly easy still hits pretty hard but t5 merc had no trouble keeping up
This guy is one of the tougher mobs of the swarm pet weapons. He generally hits between 4-6k, which doesn't seem that tough until you throw in the flurry factor. This guy flurries like crazy... Probably every other swing brings forth a flurry. Even when I slowed him, he still seemed to hit really fast. I'm a 4.4k / 33k ranger and he pwned me about 4 or 5 times before I finally got him down.
This is one of the swarm mobs that benefited from the hotfix the other day ago. We spent a good 3 hours camping this mob for 3 nights in a row. After the hotfix, had him spawn twice in two hours. He does indeed spawn in the first big room from the zone in. What we did was clear everything in the room then waited..
As far as I have seen so far, this mob is the toughest out of any of the "soloable" or "groupable" new mobs. He hits for generally between 5500 and 6500, and flurries like crazy. His speed, even when he is slowed, can drop a 32k ranger from 100% to about 30 or 40% in about 3 seconds. I have yet to solo him successfully, though I did drop him to 9% last night.
Tried him with lvl 82 necro and lvl 72 shammy ,merc. cleric lvl 72 rkI and merc. tank lvl 82 rkIV , got fabled razorfin to 46% and cleric couldnt keep up . malo and slow landed with no prob. necro dots all landed with no prob. had 7 of my highest dots on him at once. fight was about a min and a half. before i had to FD.
Personally, I have camped this guy for about 8 cycles AFTER the patch went live to fix the spawn rates, and I had no issues soloing him, as a 85 SK. Then again, im 27khps and 4.9kac unbuffed. So it's a gear thing, probably.
On me, he hit for 3.5k, max, MAYBE (didnt really pay attention, honestly). With a T5 cleric merc and my gimpy pet, I managed to make sushi. Found the spawn rate to be really nice too, and so I stayed down there and helped 4 other SK's get their pet proc swords.