a bloodgill goblin  

I recently had the pleasure of tangling with these critters while doing a medium length task, and I'd like to share my experiences.

My character was a reasonably well bazaar equipped level 43 enchanter. My pet animation was armed and equipped with summoned items courtesy of my level 62 magician.

I would cast illusion: water elemental to take care of breathing underwater. I would engage the goblins that I found at the corners of the big sunken building. One goblin would be pacified, and the other pulled via shiftless deeds followed by tashania before the goblin reached me. Then I would chain-stun it with color flux, color shift, and color skew, in that order. After casting color skew, I would sneak in suffocate and then resume chain-stunning. Suffocate was reapplied when it ran out, when necessary.

To sum it up, each battle usually took a few minutes while my pet and suffocate spells gradually wore the goblin down. Overall, these goblins were significantly tougher compared to the undead critters that I had previously fought on the beach in the Gulf of Gunthak, primarily due to the goblin's abundant hit points and increased hitting power. They are not too tough, but they are not pushovers by any stretch.

One final word: Beware of where you fight the goblins near the sunken building. They are a number of stationary barracudas that stand on guard near the building, and you definitely don't want to fight too close to them and risk having them join the battle at an inopportune time. Check all around you (as well as up) before you select your fighting spot!

These are a great camp for Mages in the low-mid 40s.

Fire pet, Burnout II, full set of plate, 2 swords. Take the "top level" with the 4 spires of 2 goblins each. Send pet in FIRST (don't pull with a bolt or malaise, or you're dead!). Start healing pet immediately. /assist, low aggro nuke (shock of spikes), heal, repeat til dead. When the first one dies, target the second one. It should be around 60-75% life just by hitting on the pet's damage shield. Heal, /assist, Blaze or Cinderbolt and it will be about 7%. You can let pet finish off, or nuke. Pet will beat low health, but they regen like crazy after 39.

At lvl 42 and 43, I received from 1-2%xp PER goblin. At 44 it gets even better because of the improved pets, and improved pet heals.

Their max hit is around 75, but average in the high 40s, and they have approximately 1200-1400 HP. They drop anywhere from 5 silver to 5pp. Destroy the coins, because they sell for junk at merchants, and nobody wants them at bazaar. Destroy the scales unless you are an Iksar and want to get the armor they provide.

Note: If you get one with the trident spear, go sell it at the windmill immediately. They sell for 55pp to the vendor there, and they are lore. The drop rate (for me) was 1 in 20.

Yeah, sure, as long as your not a gnome, halfling or dwarf.... You big people are always discriminating against us!

Went back there tonight for a bit of safe exp and found that they've now got a new graphic. Their trailing hand is now webbed, they are sky blue in colour with pink fins on their back and arms, will post a screenshot soon and see if it gets in.

bloodgills top out at 39.

I started kiting these at lvl 43 as a barb shammie and did 'em till lvl 49. Exp was great and lvling was peaceful. Anyway, just wanted to write a helpful beginner's guide with a very safe approach for learning to do these guys (for Shamans). If you're more of a dive right-in type of person (no pun intended) then you can just skip over this post.


Prequisites: 1) Gotta know where the sunken temple is obviously. 2) I also recommend you max out your swimming. At 200 swimming with SOW you can maintain the distance between you and the BG in the water but you can NOT increase it. This means that if you let him get within melee range, he will stay there the WHOLE way to shore... if this happens, get ready for the most frantic swimming of your life.

Getting Your Feet Wet: Facing out toward the sunken temple from the shore, invis. up and go scout around. You'll notice it's awful dark down there and easy to stumble into something you don't want to... that's why you have invis up. What you want to do now is locate the 2 seperate pairs that are the closest to shore. One pair will be out and to the left, located between 4 pillars. The other will be out and to the right, also located between 4 pillars. Found 'em? Ok good, now get comfortable with getting back to shore from those locations.

Pulling: Ok get sow up and any other buffs you want. Also, make sure root and your preferred dots are up. Where's you pet? Don't use one. 3 reasons why NOT to use one:
1) If you get hit on your way back to shore, the pet will dive in and start fighting it under water (unless you've parked it way the heck out there), you don't want this.
2) You can't invis for finding/targeting the BGs if you have a pet. Yes, it's possible to target without invis, but remember what I said about this being the "safe" approach.
3) Pet gets chewed up very quickly and increases your downtime dramatically if you have to resummon, rebuff, and med. Believe me, I tried pets for a while, it just isn't as efficient as going without one.

Ok, so lets start with the pair that's out and to the left (from shore). Invis up, head down and get one of 'em targeted. Now, if you slowly head back toward the shore and stay deep underwater, you should spot a lone pillar that's out a little ways from the BGs. The pillar is completely submerged so you can stand on top of it and use it as a casting spot for pulling. Ok, when you're positioned on the pillar and facing toward the shore, go ahead and cast root... yes, you heard me right, root. We're doin 'em one at a time. If it says you're too far away then most yourself closer to the edge of the pillar toward the BGs. Soon as you get root off, start swimming like hell for the shore. Do NOT surface, you swim slower when surfaced so make you way to shore submerged until your feet hit ground. Once on shore keep running a ways and wait for the BG to emerge from the water. Don't forget you gotta target him cuz the one you had targeted is rooted down below. (Note: If your root was resisted underwater then root again when you and the BGs are both on shore. Then run a ways along the lake with one still chasing to put distance between the two BGs. If you put enough distance, then the other will forget about you and return to his pull spot.) Ok, so now you're dealing with one BG. Root, dot (malise if you like), and make them remember why they phear us!

With your first BG dead, it's time to camp out. NO, I'm not telling you to go to bed, but if you swim back down there for the other one he'll come right after you before you can even see him and he'll stay on you all the way to shore (Take a wild guess on how I learned about this). Logging back in, with aggro wiped, the second one will be even easier since he won't have a friend. (Starting to see the value now in not having a pet?)

For the pair out and to the right, do the same thing. Select BG, move toward shore a ways to create distance, and then pull with root to seperate.

All good? Rinse, repeat, and modify the approach as you see fit.

A Note on Theory: Why not dual kite them? The likelihood of your petting getting killed (if you use one) or you taking damage goes up dramatically when doing two or more at a time (keep in mind I'm speaking to Shamans). Let me explain it clearer:

1) Since you're only dealing with one, you can easily keep it rooted and med in peace as those dots do their work. This means that when you're finished with the kill, you'll require very little medding to be ready for the next one. Try seeing how long you get to med doing two, little or not at all.
2) With no pet, there's no downtime for summoning/buffing and no mana wasted on slowing. Also, it's difficult for your pet to tank one of these (let alone two) while the BG's rooted. If you choose not to root the BG then you're not medding at all during the entire fight and probably wasting time pulling your pet off when it aggros too much... again, equaling less efficiency in the kill.

Yes, there's a lot of satisfaction in saying you did two at a time but compare the mana used per kill AND mana recovered during the fight (through medding) you'll find one at a time is more effiecient. But hey, don't take my word for it. Try both ways if you're gonna be so darn stubborn about it and post your thoughts :)

How much platinum do these ugly things drop??

Vanuskez Shadowfistz<Dragon Spawn>
lvl 22 monk
Luclin Server

hey all i was woundering if a lvl 40 monk with good gear and a adimantium bo stick could solo these bad boys??? and how i would/could go about doing it....thanx all

Jdog fastfist's
tribunal of norrath
saryn server

if you try to pull one thay are as faster than sow in the woter my skill in swimming is 188 nad i had a sow and thay still could cetch me im lvl 40 iksar sk and i can kick the bloodgills ass but if i get a add im @#%^ed all yes and the only way i can solo them is my AC with out buffs is 912 and i need a sow jest in cass and i only came out 1 time with a add and that was adds thay agro from a mile it sux so be carfol and if some one pulls them and runs and zones if your by the pillers you will die thay go back in that way well thats all i can tell you all yes and thay are in the middle of the like in loke of ill omen and good luck to you


i hope that helps every one :)

im lvl 40 and i can solo them so i went to pull one and i came out with three thay agro from a long distence and thay het for 75 max and thats like 2 time out of the battle and thay have up to what it seems to me 2000hp and thats LOW for a mod at that lvl

Funny how these little kooks swim in place with one arm gimping. Then I noticed one of them had a Harpoon he wanted to hand over! I whispered into his ear something about how my pet liked his shorts and he got upset and fell over dead! Sheesh, my pet was so embarrased!

what lvl could a shaman start solo'ing these? and how could one break the spawn,thanx :)

can a 40 cleric and 38 monk kill 1?

started em solo as a 45 druid. they have about 1k hp's as 2 drifting deaths take em out. Key is to harmony the pairs then root snare dot med rinse and repeat hehe. in maybe 8 kills got half a bub so no better xp up to about 50.

I solo this gobbies alot (lvl 45). They are very easy especially for an Sk to fear/kite. They are even easier for Iksars to solo when you got 225 swimming skill =p

Xanderein Shadow Knight of Greenmist

Im a SK and i can solo these easy at 47 and now 48 still good exp. Marauder drops a piece of the VEESHAN peeks key quest if u see him up and can kill him DO IT ! hes usualy camped 24/7 plus hes a 8 hour spawn.

can a 40 Mage take one? no JBoots...
if not w/o jboots, then can i kite them with jboots?to anyone who says a mage cant kite, i have kited specs in oasis...

Has anybody had luck quad kiting these things? I was going to give it a try when i found that it only took about 5 casts of lightning strike to kill one, but it's so damned hard to see clearly down there and backpedeling is impossible underwater, that it made me wonder if pulling all 4 might be impossible to safely do at level 45. If anybody has managed to quad kite these please post how it has gone for you.

They sure do look like happy little Goblins don't they?

I conned several of these guys, and at level 53 some of them were still blue... most were not. Even so, whenever running through the lake, I stop and kill all of the blue ones that are up... usually 2-4 goblins. They are just great XP.

Usually one Ebolt will finish them. Occassionally ebolt will drop with a sliver of health left on the bloodgill.

Ok, first of all there are 10 spawns. 4 pairs around the pillars, and and another pair to gaurd the entrance. dont bother with the 2 gaurds, simply go to the first 2 you want to kill, single pull one(requires a ranger, druid, or enchanter to single pull them) and kill it. then kill the other. to get to the next two, follow the hill of dirt on your right around. all 4 pairs are based around this hill. I could solo these as a lvl 45 ranger, but only keep 2 of the spawns. But when me and my 45 cleric friend hunted them together, we killed non stop with no down time whatsoever and made 1 blue buble each 30mins. remember this is in the worst hell lvl b4 your uber 51+. So basically we made just as good exp on a normal lvl in hell. Loot was up to 5p, the ancient coin, bloodgill scales, research items(runes, pages...), a few gems including the black pearl, and the incredibly rare harpoon of the depths.

Phacier of Tallon Zek

Does anyone think a group of mid to upper 30's take one of these things out? I think so.