Though I ve never encountered him myself to confirm it, it might be possible that he can Charm. There are wierd hybrids in the game even odd Class/Race combinations, like NPCs that are Barbarian Monks (Dervs) and such. That s just Verant for ya...
My guild is gonna raid him so one of our rangers can get an ivy etched tunic. This gnome looks hard but most of guild is 35ish and I am 26 and I just try and keep breeze and haste on the guild. Oh well this gonna be fun.
Gola Enchanter of the 26th Level Royalty of Norrath
I was helping a friend get Meldrath's head yesterday and I actually ended up killing him 3 times (I was bored and having a bad-connection night so no real fighting).
One time, my pet got killed early and I was a little lom. So I loaded beguile and charmed ol Meldrath.
He hits pretty well. I had him tank against his own pet and then kill as many minos as I could.
Ended up nuking him, but it was funny to watch the lowbies come check out the werewolf with Meldrath as a pet.
1) My druid buddy was level 51 when he went into the Mino Caves to kill Meldrath. Meldrath had killed both him and my magician once upon a time, and it was payback time. My buddy killed Meldrath finally, but he was at half health when he finished.
2) As noted, there are minotaur guards in there that I've read are up to level 40. Druids are good, but not good enough to take a blue Meldrath, his pet, and one or two yellow guards.
Couldn't take him because of the others in the room.
I'd doubt that a any one person would be able to take him solo at that level without risk of dying.
btw. I went to go look to see if he agroes even if he's green 2 days ago. Bah! I wound up dead. Pretty funny a 50 wizard lying dead on the groud haveing to make the trip back to SF agin. btw good luck finding a rez.
There are many odd items carried or worn by NPCs but what upsets me is you don't get them. Elven necros can get full enchanted elven chainmail so I don't see why a gnome necro can't have something similar. It would be cool if he had a rare drop of small necro chain just to make him worth killing. I stumbled on him as a 25th level wiz and died so fast it left me stunned. Aerondil Wizard of the 30th circle of enlightenment Saryrn
Yes charmed! As in fighting the rest of my party charmed. Why he had me firing my bow at people is beyond me though. Guess he bought the crap that rangers are masters of archery.
Maybe you were just unlucky. The game does have a good-god/bad-god cycle. If you worship a bad god during the good god half of the cycle, you'll have a hard time. Vice Versa too. I used to think I would have a hard time occasionally cuz I wasn't doing something right or the game was being moody...
#Anonymous,
Posted:Aug 18 2000 at 6:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Skull isn't on him. It is on the floor of the room he spawns in. Just get past the Mino guards, his pet and him and it's all yours. It is in the corner behind the pipe looking thingy.
The skull is ALWAYS on him, i have killed this little bugger at least 20 or 30 times and the skull has dropped EVERY one of those times. As for the skull in his room, i dont' know what it is for. If anybody knows what it is for, reply to this.
The skull IS on him. The skull you referr to is for a quest for a level 49 paladin spell. The skull on the ground is a dusty skull, the ivy quest requires the skull of meldrath.
So far, I have had this little punk killed 6 times in a row and he has yet to drop a skull. I have gotten rat ears off him twice now. What's up with that?
This guy has a MEAN fear, made me walk up a mountain and jump...350 DMG...hurt pretty bad luckily had a lvl 50 encahnter on him..lol needless to say he got me pretty low(lvl 29 druid) and then Enchanter killed him luckily. this guy hurts a lot.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Jul 26 2000 at 8:33 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) mister make fun of meldrath your way of puting it is a bit stupid but your main mesage that he is a fat stupid little wimp is good.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Jul 22 2000 at 1:37 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) ello im meldrath the wuss that could no take being a redulr gnome necro so i ran off and made minos that r even uglier than me!!!!!! im short bald and fat and
#Anonymous,
Posted:Jul 06 2000 at 2:49 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Oh, forgot this was patch day... =) hehe
You need his Skull, ( Meldraths of course.... =) and you need 2 Rubys ( If you already know, don't read.... =) and you need a Rune of Ivy from Thistle underbrush or what ever rune he drops
i am a lowly 8 mge on Prexus nad some a$$ trained the bugger on me...3 pops for 80 after a fear and I was sooo dead...cant wait to come back and kill that filthy bugger :)
Erudite necros con indefferently to him only if u havent killed any minos u con indeff to all mino related in mino caves with that class/race except the lord
when i was just lvl 2 or so, i met him. even though i was a necro, he still double hit me for 475 or something like that. he was standing in the newbie area, i think his pet was in a guard or something
Meldarth does not charm. Its fear. Your not his pet doing anything for him right? Its fear, you just run, pathing has been fixed now you run out the cave towards the Windmills, although I never made it all the way to the windmills before the fear wore off. He is lvl 35 and he use to spawn pretty fast too but seems that has changed. Hits 7x's
Meldrath hits like somthing 5 levels higher, and has the hit points of a giant. He can be pulled through walls, and no matter how much you do to him, if you run him by someone he'll pull onto them
I wandered through the Minotaur Caves into Meldrath's Room... he charmed me through the walls, and charmed me all the way outside the mino caves.. Lucky?? I think so.
Yes, once again, someone is confusing Fear with Charm. If you are charmed, you will fight for him, attacking his enimies. If there are no targets for your master's hatred, you will stand faithfully beside him.
This guy means trouble for lower levels. One night, while I was wandering steamfont, I encountered him. The old Gnomish necromancer, though blood of my blood, attacked me without mercy. I was dead in a few seconds. Make sure that whenever he appears, that you call for the higher levels. They just may save your life.
Back at first release, he used to kill players by charming them and making them walk into the walls where they got stuck or fell to their deaths. Corpses were lost without GM intervention.