the ghoul arch magus  

I soloed him as mage at 54, was lucky when i broke the room, he was not up. For a mage, he is far to be a piece of cake, does not really resist but takes a long time to kill, used air pet for him.

Even breaking the room when he is not up is quite difficult, u have to maintain 2 aggro on ur pet, no chance if 1 come on u, u re dead unless u can gate. Let pet build aggro and nukes the first one when really low hp, when dead, take care of the second. I did not take the chance to chain cast pet for magi or the 2 others, prefered heal pet.
Even with 200 int, magi will eat big part of mana and pet too.

this guy is cake man i have soloed him with my 54 monk for hours apun hours =P

The SMR drop rate is just like FBSS. Pretty random. And VI did NOT up the rates. I have camped lguk with both my chars (Frenzy and LAH camp) and the pop rate of the 2 mobs are real random. I have seen 4 sash drop in 6 hours,2 SMR in a hour and I have also seen days that it does not drop. Maybe it drops on the 10 hours I dun play (I play 14 hours a day) but I think the drop rate for this items and pop time of mobs are pure random luck and chance =)

51 wizard
49 cleric
The Nameless

Soloed it yesterday for my epic, I'm a 54 enchanter. Most mobs where greens/low blues so breaking the 2 spawns room was cake, I just charmed one and let them fight, helped my pet to win then killed it. Just beware if you can't snare, when frogs are near death the will run through a secret wall and eventually aggro a frog there (happened to me, but I killed that frog easily).
After that I had 1 PH, and next I was sitting outside the room when I see "the ghoul arch magus" begins to cast a spell. I rush the room, but ack no frog in it. ******* cast invisibility on self, so I needed see invisible. I could pull solo as other frog in the room was already dead. Buffed myself with resist magic and rune 3, and pulled the frog with slow (was really careful not to die). Arch magus started trying to nuke me so I had time to land a mez. Then I know it would be just easy. I tashed and theft of thought the frog, then sat to be FM. Nuke, remez, nuke, remez, rinse and repeat... When I was low on mana I just kept the frog mezzed for a minute to med a bit, and eventually theft of thought. After 10 mins the fight was over and I looted my SMR :)

I soloed this guy the other night and he only seems to have around 5500 hp. It took 8 of my 715 damage undead nukes to put him out of commission.

Camped this guy last night for the better part of 5 hours and the Mage/Magus never even spawned once. Was hoping to get my hands on the robe for the Rogue epic but no such luck. We also killed the Lord while down there and he dropped, of course, the skull shaped barbute which we rolled on. Anyway, this guys spawn is COMPLETELY random. You could get 7 in a row or none at all. We happened to hit this room on a bad night I guess. He'll probably spawn a million times tonight because I wont be on, hehehe

OK first off, his name is
"the ghoul archmagus"
He's about lvl 44 or 45 and has about 8k hps so unless yer lvl 53+ you would have a very hard time soloing him.

Magus, frenzy, and supplier are the three camps that you can count on being camped, 99% of the time. So don't count on being able to swoop in and solo magus camp, because someone else will be there.

Magus is also the best area to pull mobs in the area to, and it's not that uncommon to be able to pull lord from this camp if you have a good tank or two.

Yesterday we camped all spawns in the area including lord and magus consisting of this group.
50 monk with 942 base ac - me
42 cleric with just cheal and superior heal.
41 enchanter
38 paladin - dunno his exact level but he sucked =)

Long as your killing exceeds your downtime and can consistantly pull, you can camp the 20 or so mobs that make up the magus / lord camp.

Only problem you'll find is when another group forms and moves into lord room and takes half yer spawns. then the exp goes into the toilet.

Anyway magus is 1 / 5 spawn directly in front of the book case in his room. Drops the robe about 1 / 6. Robe worth about 6k on my server at the moment, so camping for yk's and robe usually makes group happy.

Plan on getting a magus every 2 and a half hours on average and a robe only twice a day if yer lucky. Of course, some people get more than one a day or not even one. Average would suggest you to get 1 to 2 a day though.

Magus hits for 117 and casts lvl 44 wizard spells like the ae fire rain and gravity flux, which can be detrimental so keep resist magus up when its close to his spawn time.

He also casts invis on himself if he sits still long enough, so if you run into his room and dont see him, just wait a second; he might still be there to attack you.

The Shining Metallic Robe is required for the Enchanter Epic Quest.

his real name ghoul arch magus, rare spawn bout 1 of 4, and drops smr bout 1 of 6 times good luck rolling =) i have seen 3 of em drop and never won the roll.
40th wizard

The call him the arch ghoul magus now cause magus is latin for magician(magi)

hail all i have seen some of the conversations regarding robes and int i am currently lvl 25 with 190 all i need is a plat shapfire nexlace,gator scale arms and a braided cintch cord to max int so i have a question should i try to get this robe for the int + or try to get the kk robe for its mana addition cause i can prolly max my int without a robe item