a black reaver  

Well I decided to go back and see if the reavers would still chain spawn more than 5 or so. Back in the old days I remember my guild at the time spent one night in City of Mist and had 2 fun chain spawns. One for like 76 and one for like 125. Exact counts I forget. But it was a blast back then. Now of course we can solo this and not have any chance of death but I thought I'd give it a try. I read a post below from a Takil dated 2004 and thought I'd see if it helped. I can't confirm that any of that worked but I did get 77 reaver in a row tonight.

What I did. . .

I went and got the key for the elevator from Neh. Killed all the other reaver but left Lord Rak up. As suggested in that post leaving Neh up so the reaver that spawns Neh either isnt correct or has changed since 2004. The reaver that spawns Neh will stil pop even if Neh is up. But I tried it and got my elevator key from Neh and since it's no rent I just waited in the guild lobby for a day.

Before I went to wait in the guild lobby I killed all the other reavers but didn't kill the Lord Rak that spawns from the reaver room up top.

But then you have to wait. Came back next day and killed the reavers but no chain spawns more than 5 or so. All the reavers included the reaver that spawns Neh even though she was still up. But then no respawns. I don't know the respawn for them.

So I wne to the guild lobby again to wait a day.

Then the worst (ok, it's just a game) but my power went out, so my PC logged me, so I lost my no rent elevator key.

So today I started over. I killed the reaver at Neh, Killed Neh for the key. No reaver in the throne room so I went up the elevator (Lord Rak was there - left him alone) and started killing the reavers. Had 76 in a row.

So it still can happen
So you don't need Neh`Ashiir up since I just killed her/he/it
Lord Rak was still up from before - left him up

if you have lev and a pet, you can /tar a from top of reaver building and pull them by sending pet in and calling it back.

I went after one of these for my druid. 67 cleric and a 68 pally, both decent+ gear. No problems, we killed just about anything we could find. The dark reaver itself was easy, blind can be a pain, but most priest casters can cure it once they are 15+ or so. After the original kill, 2 more poped on death, after that the Lord came out. He was cake for the 68, took about 20% health down total, no heals. We got a reaver on the second spawn. The rest were empty. At 67 i couldn't land a single spell, but weapon spells seemed to hit fine. The pally wasn't watching his procs, so i dont know about his, but my 61 hammer was casting fine.

EDIT: bring a rogue with pick lock if you dont want to wait the 2 hours for a respawn.
Edited, Jun 24th 2007 6:54am by ForlapThorninfoot

Edited, Jun 24th 2007 6:59am by ForlapThorninfoot

I went to CoM to get a Jade Reaver for the Ranger Epic. Cleared the bridge and entrance of all of the trash mobs and pulled the first black reaver out. Killed him fairly well, with 40% HP left, expecting another black reaver to pop after he died, well it turned out that the Fabled Lord Ghiosk was next...

Didn't last long... and the black reaver corpse didn't have a Jade Reaver on it... EDIT: He did drop a Sunshard Pebble. And the Fabled Lord Ghiosk was left up, so I couldn't get another Black Reaver at that time. Oh well.

Got to go back and do it again, and this time I hope to get a normal pop chain.

Edited, Mar 24th 2007 12:19pm by bschenk

I'm a 56 bst with 5k HPs and 1088 AC and 1.2k atk. Think I can solo one of these puppies?

Can a 66 druid Solo the Black Reavers? 1 at a time

Killed one of these guys lastnite with my 59 bst,solo, found him behind stone door.
pulled him past golems, they didnt agro, np, wrong, this dude hit me for between 300 and 600 dmg, being a BL with a measly 4600hp buffed, ( im poor cant get the uber gear), got him down, not knowing something else would spawn, so up pops Lord Ghiost, a couple wacks, and pet was dead, I had less than 20% life left, and only one in zone, so I ran, lol.
Anyway, hit alot harder than mid 100's dmg.


Tokaath
59 BL
Bertoxxolous server

just finished killing them... all of them died easily, no respawn. then got to the last one from the far island and had 143 spawn one after another... :(

hah found 3 of theese guys up at once

"known to be immune to any magic or fire based attacks"

They aren't immune, just resistant. I was helping a druid friend get a reaver and I was hitting for full with my lvl 69 fire nuke and lvl 70 ice nuke.

I got resists with magic based dots though.

Edited, Wed Mar 30 20:29:18 2005

The trick to getting the Black reavers to spawn is pretty simple.

Step 1. Kill all the black reavers, including the one up in the tower that spawns Neh.

Leave Neh up so you don't have to worry about her reaver respawning and having to go back up and kill it next respawn.

Leave Lord Rak up. Do not kill him

Let all the reavers respawn. Kill the single reaver in the throne room. Then procede to kill the reavers in the room you take the elevator to. You have to kill the reaver that spawns Lord Rak LAST!!

Once lord Rak's reaver is the only one left (Make sure that if you killed Neh, you kill the black reaver in her tower before killing the reavers in and past the throne room.)

Find where you want to make your camp, and pull the reaver that spawns lord Rak's reaver there. Kill it. It will respawn another upon death. Continue killing for 1 hour and 45 mins or so. Depending upon how long it took you to kill the other reavers.

Two hours after the first reaver died, you will get respawn. Once that first reaver respawns, Lord Rak's reaver will stop spawning. No ghost will spawn, it will just stop like after you killed a regular mob. Wait 15 mins or so for all the black reavers to respawn, and do it again. Lord Rak's reaver's respawn timer is set after the first reaver in the chain dies. So it will respawn shortly after the rest.

There is no limit to the amount of reavers you can get to spawn. The only limit is the amount of time you have to get them to spawn.

Pushing Lord Rak's reaver into a wall will respawn it in the sewers of the city. Pushing it into the wall more than twice will totally despawn it.

So corner the mob, that will stop it from getting pushed, and then put a tank who is botting another character on it to keep agro. As when the mob dies, and the tank is blind, the tank has to know when to switch.

( To get to Lord Rak's reaver, you go into the throne room, out the right hand side door, turn left, and go up the Elevator. Once up, go up the stairs, there will be one small room with 3 Black reavers, Two on either side of the door, and one behind them with his back to the wall. The one with his back to the wall will Spawn Lord Rak.)

Narmiie 66 Shaman
Dragonbait 66 Monk
Retired. Tarew Marr.

My guild Crimson Steel (Zebuxoruk) raided CoM today and had 207 Black Reavers spawn. We speculate that since Rak'Ashiir was already up, and this was his chain, that maybe they dont stop until he's down, so that he can pop from them, instead of another reaver. As soon as Rak'Ashiir was killed, the chain stopped. We got around 13 Jade Reavers out of it. The moral of the story? Dont single group this chain if Rak is up, it's gonna be exhausting.

Edited, Sun Dec 5 15:26:12 2004

pendant is for Sk epic 1.5

Anyone know what this is for? Lhranc's Pendant. Two dropped from different Black Reavers today.

Me 59 Ranger and my 61 Shammy friend wanted to get the keys to the tower of the reavers so later me him and this big bad 65 warrior friend could come back somenight and get my Jade Reaver for my epic. So we went to CoM. After killing to Guard Captains back to back we were like that was easy enough, what now. When I suggest well we're already here lets check out the tower and Key ring our keys. So we headed off to the tower and cleaned house to it, opened the door and to my surprise there was a reaver looking back at me. After much debate we grew a pair and said like give it a shot so I Harmony of Natured the Golems and Single pulled the Reaver. The fight began and my screen went black. after sometime going by with me pounding hot keys to make sure I kept the Agro, The reaver went down and my Screen saw light again. I turn around to see this Iksar Ghost Banging on the shammy so I engaged him little did I know at that time it was part of the shammy epic the guy that drops the 3 books. While I distracted him, the shaman looted the Reaver and Wha la there it was my Jade Reaver. So we continued to fight this Ghost it looked bleek alot, I tried gating and kepted getting interupted I try running and kept getting summoned, so We stayed and fought and after like 15minns I killed it in the water by the tower... So this goes to show dont run dont ever run cuz you my friend could take out an epic mob

Joshuan Adaron
59 Soldier of Tunare
Tunare Server

Had a 44 chain spawn tonight off the one upstairs in the back tower. Unfortunately they only dropped a single Jade Reaver.

Well, one way I used to get the reaver from them was get the stone key from the captain of the guard and just keep killing the reaver in the western most part of the zone. He will double spawn the reaver sometimes but it's an easy to access shot at the reaver that most people can solo if you have a pet or are a wizard. Just remember to clear the heck out of the area before you try because you will be blind and then dead if you get near him...

Liveye (lvl 65 Wizard)

Dropped a Spell: Conjure Corpse last night

This is easily my favorite zone in the whole game....I'm a lvl 62 druid, I have 44aa, I never lvl'd here or even fought here at all until I was lvl 58, but I love it.

For the past few weeks, I've been PLing my fiance's warrior and a few guildies (paladin, chanter and necro) in this zone (they've gone from lvl 40 to 47 in just 4 days only playing 3 hours a night)

When the warrior hit 43, we decided one night after the rest of our little group had left that we would get stupid and try and duo a black reaver. Much to my amazement, he did it. We ended up having to succor afterwards when Lord G spawned because we started the fight on the reaver with me at 40mana and we KNEW he couldn't take on the Lord, probably not even had I been at full mana.

So tonight, after he dinged lvl 47, we decided we wanted to try the reavers again....this time we started the fight with me at 80m, dropped him fairly easy....took a little longer than a normal fight cause I had to only heal and couldn't nuke. Lord G popped and I was at 70m sitting on my drog, so we decided to try him....and we did it. It was awesome, that's all I can say about it.

As a side note....I've never had any trouble landing any spells on Black Reavers, ever. (I didn't even enter the zone until after the revamp though) Also, we have fought the first reaver at the base of the tower and had him chain pop 8 other reavers (9 total reavers) before spawning Lord G.....we got 4 Jade Reavers from it.
The record on our server (The Nameless) for chain popping reavers I believe is held by "Regret" (they are disbanded now, /cry) for over 200 reavers and somewhere near 28 jade reavers dropping. Also the 4 in the top of the tower can chain spawn as well, but the most I have seem them chain spawn is 3 or 4 before a wraith spawns.

Another side note......I've been killing the named cycle for 2 weeks now, and that Grand Bracelet of Eternal War is NOT common, /cry. I've yet to see it drop, and I've killed the mobs that drop it hundreds of times...

Valantha Stormweaver
Hierophant of the 62nd Season
Officer of Path to Honor
The Nameless

Group of 6 of us, levels 54-58 took out....2 of them in a row. LOL, I was the MT...54 Warrior...and was blinded about 80% of the time. Good thing only 2 poped before the lord did. If we would have known that many could have spawned, we prob would have left it alone.

killed one last night on bottom floor and lord ghiosk (spelling?) spawned directly after.
chain of one =/

had one drop Form of the Howler for me.

On the way to an Epic fight with Lord Rak'Ashiir , Tul Acharn and Junn Hoarde engaged your average Black Reaver.... 175 times. We finally had to get a Guide to get the spawn's to stop. We took 9 Jade Reavers though. Then moved on to get the epic finished in 30 secs. :)

Beltran on Rodcet Nife

our chanter tryed to lull the entire room so we could get single pulls, but he didnt have a good enough view, so he walked in a bit further and got 6 fog golems and 1 of these things, they compleatly killed our group, only the 2 people who ran the second we saw them survived, it was pitiful, but be ware

Just killed a string of seven before Ghiosk spawned. Though many times I've also seen him pop after one Black Reaver.