a scoriae hornet  

The spell Dementia dropped from a Scoriae Hornet today.

These guys are cake as a 52 Necro. 2 methods of fighting, one with KEI (usually), the other without.

With KEI: Pull with Splurt or Darkness. These things are pretty slow anyway, even slower with Darkness. Sic pet and fear. They have buttloads of HP (as stated earlier in this thread), but once slowed and feared they are cake. You'll probably have to recast fear, and maybe Darkness... but I've only had to recast Darkness once. I dont reccomend letting pet tank very much at all... these things hit pretty hard, and fast... pet will go down quickly. You can cast other DoT's on the wasp if you want to speed up the fight, but you don't really need to.

Without KEI: Only thing that changes is that you're in Lich and you cast Bond of Death on the wasp. This makes the fight a tad shorter, and keeps you good for health while regaining mana.

Give good xp and decent loot. I've gotten up to 9pp off one. Have yet to see any spell drops yet, though.

Since my last post on these I have obtained a few levels and one very key piece of gear for shaman--Jaundiced Bone Bracer (JBB). The way I do them now as well as all the other hornets is this:
1. Set up camp, buff the pet up with everything I have.
2. Pull the hornets with Walking sleep ( ash and cinder hornets ) or Turgurs Insects ( ember and scoriae hornets ).
3. Have pet taunting on, and as soon as I send pet after hornet it engages pet.
4. Start nuking away with JBB, alternating Cannibalizing when HP>mana.
5. Once in a while I will get aggro from all that nuking, just root the hornet and back off and nuke until dead.
I can chain pull these guys and their lower level brothers non-stop practically. Once or twice an hour I will heal pet and re-buff me and pet. If you dont have a JBB, make sure you can melee very well and have a good 2hb, haste item, and alacrity/celerity up, and if you can afford to make them a damage sheild as well ( potion ). Non-shaman will obviously have to do things differently, but these are still great XP at 55 for the effort ( all are dark blue still ). They also drop gems up to sapphires not mentioned on the loot table, and are almost never camped on the server I play on.
I underestimated their HP earlier, I know that if just using spells that 3 E bolts will not kill one, so Id say 3600-4000hp, maybe a tad more.
No hornets run from you, and tend to hit very hard and for max damage alot when their HP are 20%~ or so, so make sure your pet isnt too low on health.
If 2 scoriaes are side by side and you pull one, the other will aggro on a 55 character.
The spells Id say still drop about 7-10% of the time, and they also drop fire opals, fire emeralds, sapphires, mithril necklaces and emerald rings, but they seem to be dropping much less frequently since I first wrote on these many months ago.
Lastly, and for some time now, they are NOT summoned creatures, so anti-summoned spells will not work on them.
55 Ogre Luminary on Luclin server--Chaotic Winds --Baron Aggrok

I was in BW last night and decided to blast a Scoriae with one of my ward summoned spells and it says this will only work on summoned creatures. Did I miss a patch message?

hell no need for 4k in DOTS me as a 52 necro just pull with chilling embrace which works well against these then dooming darkness just so snare him (already have a good pet up with augment death fear possibly refear as needed hes dead in about 30 seconds.

I am a 44 druid with 200 wis. Soloed a one of these (white con) using banished summoned. Took about 15 minutes because I ran out of mana and had to med-kite for while. Got 5gp for the trouble. =P

Aderel / Knights of Valour, Drinal

ya i am a 52 druid and i quad these hornets i try to avoid these guys when pulling because they have a sh*tpile of hp 500 to 1k more then ember hornets they are great exp quading the hornets that is if you dont have 200 wis and ES arms i really wouldnt try them i go oom every battle and i have 202 wis and Es arms and it seems i have to sit and ES arm one at the end of the fight because i am oom they are completly resistant to fire it seems had one drop a mithril amulet havent seen any gems or spells yet

Not much cleric can solo nowadays. At lvl 56 when I am tired of servering a group and being begged for my res in a crowded zone. I go here and hunt these and greater warbones. Clerics forget that our Summoned DD line is very good. Also I got yaulp IV off one.

I use banish summoned and snare on these and they are easily dismissed, though time consuming....

IMO, these mobs can be classed in the PITA section, which stands for "pain in the a$$". They share this distinction with the Bloodthirsty Ghoul. Anyone who has fought either of them knows that the effort needed to slay one of these is not worth the exp or loot ( no matter how easy it is for you to slay it ). I have never looted any gems from them and have even had a couple "duds" on occasion.

These hornets, as well as the wurms resist fire. My level 49 wizard had to use rend rather than draught of fire on them (he had not yet researched ice comet at the time). Prepare to med a little during the battle. If you get a resist you will have to root and med back the mana lost. They used up every ounce of mana to kill at that level. Also note that I have killed about 50 of these and have yet to see any of the mentioned high level gems. Loot is typically 5 or 6 plat. I'm guessing they have roughly 5000 to 6500 hp.

All I know is my group and I (57 war, 52 necro, and a 47 ranger) tried to avoid these, while we were taking out wurms with ease, these seemed to cause more problems. Probably with our strategy