a Sarnak revenant  

Camping Reventants for my Iksar Necromancer skullcap series quests, and wanted to share that "Sense the Dead" spell will find the revenants' pet if they are spawned.

Where do these guys spawn? Do they have a placeholder? I cleared the whole fort out including the chancellor. The only room I didn't touch was the one with the blacksmith (conned red to my 41 necro). I need the two parts of the candlestick for my necro skullcap quest.

His spells:

Slow (Not sure what variety)
-----Tanks really hate this. That's why we try to fight him last. Then the tanks aren't slowed for the rest of the mobs.
Fear
-----It isn't good to lose your tanks to fear. That kinda causes a problem with killing.
Malise
-----Lowers *A LOT* of stats. esp MagRes.
Dispel (Not sure which variety)
-----Buffs will disappear. Really bad to lose those CLR shields.
Tainted Breath (Poison DoT)
-----Hurts a little bit, not too bad though.
Heal (Not sure which variety)
-----Heals fellow mobs. This makes for a long fight if he's not mezzed.

The most memorable fight I had against him was as an ENC. We had a party of 5, Ranger, Rogue, Cleric, Mage. On the pull (warrior), he said he was rooted. As the ENC, I went to help. As we ran up, the CLR went LD. The warrior died, and we were left with 6 mobs. 3 Recruits, 1 Legionnaire, Rev & Pet. Looking pretty bad, they asked me if we should run. In a split second, the ranger was rooted, and the choice was gone. I AoE Mezzed; 1 resist. Cast again, no resists. Sat down, and pulled out my other 4 sec PB Stun. Ran into fight, and started chain stunning with Color Flux & Color Shift. 2 rounds of that, then back out for an AoE Mez. Back in for chain stun. Kept doing this until only 3 mobs left, 1 Recruit, Rev & Pet. Single mezzed the Rev & Pet, and sat down...mana was quite tight now. They killed the Recruit, and Rev broke Mez. Of course, now he's very, very pissed at me. He ran for me, I rooted, backed up, and then was feared. Ranger and rogue were beating on him, but their HP was quite low. When fear ran out, I remezzed the pet and went in and chain stunned again. HP stayed good for the two melees cuz of stunning. He finally dropped and pet was easy to kill. Cleric came back from LD, rezzed Warrior, time to kill again.

My 2 cp =)

Edited, Fri Oct 18 15:50:50 2002

I was in a group at the backdoor when I ran in as a 21 war to pull something for my group (21 cleric, 20 pally, 19 wizzie, 20 enchie), I shot an arrow down the hall at him (not knowing he was any more dangerous then the recruits we had been fighting) and he followed up with a DoT spell and I ran out to pull him to my group. I ran all the way back to me group and found he hadn't followed, so I shrugged my shoulders and went back in, to find myself running smack dab into him around a corner......he cast and his pest bashed, but I managed to pull him out of the fort and almost got him all the way to my group when he hit me with a spell that made me lose control of any actions, and I just went flying back a good ways from the fort, so I waited impatiently for the spell to leave and ran my butt back to my group who was still working on him....I just started bashing, the Sarank first and then his pet, he hit me with quite a few spells, and I only lived because my cleric had full mana, but we did successfully take him out without any casualties with no one above lvl 21

I took him on with my 28 warrior. I thought, hey he's blue to me, and I've never seen this guy before. What the heck. He feared me three times. On the last one, I was running so I ran off a cliff for 160 damage. That stunk. Then he cast two evil dots and dispelled my sow. Maybe I was just unlucky that all his spells hit me. But then I went back for revenge with a 30 druid and took him to school. He can be quite tough as a solo so beware.

I am a 36 SK killing sarnaks for an earring or bracer of the hidden.... still haven't gotten one yet but i did happen to pick up a candlestick base (something like that) from a revenant. I had never seen it before... and i dont even see it posted here so i thought i would tell... maybe it was part of a broken quest, dunno, but now i know know what do do with it.... sigh.

PS. it was NOT the candlestick stem

Quick note on the revenant.

Very dangerous pull if you are pulling inside the fort. Many times he will cast FEAR on the puller. Ten seconds later you are lost inside the fort while he nukes you for 140+ and his pet beats on you, and you've probably aggro'd two other sarnaks. If you see him inside either pull him with an arrow or spell.

Outside, go ahead and kick his butt, but let everyone now what you're about to pull and that they should be prepared to back you should he cast Fear.

X

After multiple encounters with sarnak revenants while playing my 25th level ranger and 27th level warrior...my advice is to hit him hard and disrupt his spellcasting as soon as you see him. His pet is really a secondary consideration and I consider his pet to be a joke.

If he doesn't get off too many spells, he's a cakewalk. My tank took him apart rather easily after recovering from the intial fear spell which stuck. She was using a Wurmslayer and Crystallized Blade and had Bash/Slam as a secondary attack which helped disrupt the revenant's casting. It went down faster than even a dragoon.

Note however, he is a bitch to any unfortunate puller who aggros him. All I can say is that if you pull him, better pray you make it to your group (and healers) in time to survive.

He also warped a party member twice to the other side of Ill Omen, near Cabilis border, but each time that's occured, we got no xp for killing the revenant, so I figure that if he warped someone through a wall, we get no xp for killing the revenant. Not sure. However I did send in a bug report about it.

I can only repeat what I've just said..the minute you see him...hit him hard before he does too much damage.

Lvl is a bit off. Ran into one last night and he was Red to me at 23. Feared just about everyone in our group. I rooted him. He apparently was not pleased so he DD'd me 3 times and killed me. I had 450+hp at the time. Not fun.

Yesterday, our puller ran into two sarnak revenants (AND their pets...) plus a recruit or adherent. We were in a room near the back entrance and saw our puller's health dropping really fast and went to investigate.

Bad idea. I ended up getting feared and I think warped too and they scattered the party to the four winds and I know me and the puller died along with one other.

The way things went, not a whole alot I could do but tell the others to RUN.

Definitely need to be careful with those things and hit them before they get off too many spells.

i got these no drop quest items of of the revenant,it was a farsight crystal and a stem of a candlestick? no drop lore does anyone know??

I was in a group of lvl 21-25 and we were camping the fort, and were attacked by a few sarnaks, a rev., dragoon, and the normal guys, we slaughtered them all... We took down a buncha rev.'s, and it never casted fear on anyone... wierd, eh?

Hmm.. I've fought this guy twice in a decent group of 24-27 people. The first time I died. The second time someone else in the party did.

I was lev 26 monk first time, he cast some stupid DD (poison?) that did at least 200 dmg on me twice, and repeatedly casts a cold spell. Though its the big DD that wasted me.

The pet should be ignored until the big guy is dead.

The second time, wiser, we beat on him and the casters chain nuked til he died. The cold DD was mitigated somewhat by a bard song too. (NB - If you pull him deliberately - not accidentally - make sure you buff everyone up with resist colds first)

Herrick
27 monk - Saryrn

Just handle these like all spellcasters you encounter in EQ. They dont have to much HP's but can still mess your group/or yourself up quickly.

After fighting a few of these I noticed that they like to fear people, and then dispel. Sometimes even root. So if you have only one tank in the party make sure he keeps his Bash/Slam for when he starts seeying the spells go off. Else he will be running over the plains with a pet after him.

He then tries to fear the other members of the party and melee. All in Send in Tanks, Nuke em and Bash em.. Safest way.. Clean up pet afterwards..

I never took out the pet first, but there is a possiblity that he summons a new one if the original one dies. Anyone else ever tried that?

Had one of these drop a sarnak Eitchatka in the sarnak fort. Nice off-hand weapon
-Riny

has any other necro got his pet instead of a normal one? Twice when I would cast a pet at the windmill it would con as "Sarnak Reaver pet" just wondering if this was a common thing

Come on hes not that tough.I was a member of a 6person group level 21 and 22 and we killed him although he had a recruit friend with him.Had to nuke it though ).One shaman died and no one had full mana when he was pulled.Pet was level 20.Be careful and youll kill him.