steamfont - Watchman Halv  

Where is this halv. I have search in all zone and i have never find this halv. Anyone have the loc please ?

I ran through Steamfont today and noticed that Watchman Halv has been replaced with Watchman Grep. I guess Halv finally decided to retire. Grep seems to be of similar power and ability.

I just tried Halv. I am a druid level 40. I tried him right after a few levels in Jaggedpine Forest, hunting A Cave Basilisk and A Cave Basilisk Genitor in the caves to the West in the zone.

Frankly, I can't see Halv being such a catch. Cave Basilisks must be a much better bet for druids at least. First, you have several in the area: no need to wait for re-spawn. Secondly, at level 40 at least, the basilisks gave equal or better exp than Halv. Thirdly, you don't destroy any faction you may or may not need in the future :) Fourth, you can practise several tactics with the basilisks: quad-kiting (yes, possible :), charming, and DoTing.

The only thing that speaks in Halv hunting's favour, is that he drops better (more valuable) loot than the basilisks. Basilisks drops very crappy loot! ;)

--Druidh


Edited, Fri Mar 12 03:06:53 2004

You can take this guy at 25. Me and my husband did it, I was a 25 necro and he was a 24 druid. It's a long kite and a lot of resists, but eventually the poor little guy drops......


Nyssharr

This guy is a joke! Too easy for the experience. I only wish he spawned every 2 minutes!!

What I do is basically what everyone has suggested as a 34 necro. First, move further back down the path away from his older brothers (with fear, he sometimes goes over the maintain). Snare with dooming darkness, fear, pet, VoS, BB, and finally VC. Now, call of bones while he runs off. By the time he gets back to you, your mana has increase by half a bub and he's down to 30%. Usually, I can sit and wait for him to come towards me and by the time he does he its below 20% hp and starts to retreat. Been hit once (lucky hit), pet down at MOST to 70% health. Always full mana when he pops again, full health pet. NP!!

Edited, Mon Aug 4 13:03:44 2003

Anyone know what the shiny card is for on this guy? it is no drop just wondering

approximately 5 min 30 sec respawn
roughly 1200ish HP
nothing around him, plenty of kiting room
crap loot, but very easy xp

At 36 i tried halv. at first i found it difficult latter i tried a diffrent approach. it worked great. My first attempt involved rooting halv dotting sending in pet, healing pet. problem was i got to much agro and shaman pets suck. the strat that worked for me was this:

1) summon pet buff it with str dex agi sta
2) buff self with tails sheild and stam and sow of course
3) make pet not taunt (/pet taunt off) and stay in an area far enough away so that while u play with halv it doesn't run in. i found a nice spot where the rocky ground hits the road <on lfay zone side of halv>
4) haste pet
5) run over near halv and enstill/root. there is a good chance he will resist so wht i did is run towards mill till i got far enough away to cast again. it took me 1-3 tries to get him stuck long enough to conitue
6) once he is standing still malisment him
7) then targar <not a true necesity but helps just in case>
8) listless power him
9) my enstill ussually was close to breaking now as a note your pet should not be fighting at all yet.
10) if root is still holding dot <i used scourage and ebreath> if not run around re root and dot.
11)once doted run back to pet and sit till root breaks.
12) when root breaks halv chases u and when he gets close ... pet attacks if he hit u if not send pet in.
14) run around reapplying dots as needed. i ussually ran to lfay zone and back.
15) soon as halv starts to run ie almost dead sit down med till respawn. this ussually took me about 3 blues to do at 212 wis.

hope this helps the shamans since no one ever posts tips on soloing for us.

Me and a nec buddy killed him, I tanked, and he spanked him with spells, that ringmail your talking about is dwarven ringmail I think.

What would be the earliest a Wizard could kill him?

Some high char let me loot one of these guards' corpse, I think it was Halv. On it I found a shiny card, lore magic. There is nuffin on it in the quest dictionary, An I dun know what to do with it.

can somone please tell me how to Solo whachman halv im to scared to touch him. If somone would please give me advice i would appreaceATE IT PLEASE!

OK he has around either 2100 or 2300 HP, depending on if boil blood does 400 or 500.
At 30 with SoW my necro was able to solo him, though i did go oom and was low on life...i hit him with 3 shots of boil blood, 2 dooming darkness (200 dmg), 2 hits of 132 dd, a 120 dd, and then a 160 dd. He doesn't like fear from a 30 necro, and resists my 34 chanter friends version often, so fear kiting is hard. Also my pet died early in battle because i messed up, so if you keep pet from taunting you will do better.

Me, 30 necro, and a 34 chanter took him easy..i used dooming darkness to pull, then hit with boil, and heart flutter (just to throw another dot in) and chanter just feared and did a few DD's

If you have a choice between *ANY*guard in steamfont pick HALV! he has the LOWEST resists of ALL of them and gives the same exp, Dreeb is the hardest IMO