thehole 1.0 - Master Yael  

He is back on Fippy...

Dropped him a couple of weeks ago, he dropped Earthshaker (which I won) and some other junk for us that I didn't pay attention to =)

On Al'Kabor.

Please someone tell me that the piece of rock that Yael used to drop can be found elsewhere... This is the only piece I need and was just waiting till our rangers needed to go to The Hole for their epics. Now this?!!!

Yep. After the revamp, whole zone is changed. Nearly all the elementals are dead, and so is Yael. Some new erudite named The Protector of the Ruins tells the story of how he created an army of magical constructs and laid waste to Yael's forces, then after Yael killed what used to be Nortlav the Scalekeeper, the Protector went into a rage and created the ultimate construct, named Guardian of the Seal, and set it loose on Master Yael, who fell quite easily. Now Guardian of the Seal and his two gargoyle buddies will kill anyone who touches the door to Underfoot, but are initially non-agro and con indifferent.

Edited, Sat Aug 9 21:50:32 2003

how many hit points does this guy have .. and is it possible to kill him with 2 sks having HT of 7200 1 65 druid and a 65 bst?

been to the Hole 4 times now and have never seen him up. We just killed the keeper for pally epic and he wasn't up. So i think this guy likes to stay hidden.



Fredster Spiritheart
High Council of Norrath
Drinal Server

Well, after some trial and error, I can outline a relatively easy way to get a force into close proximity to the epic mobs that spawn deep within the Hole without having to clear through the city (which is a complete pain in the arse). This method does work while Yael is up.

First, you need to powerlevel a brell cleric to level 14. The cleric needs the three spells divine aura, invis to undead, and reanimation, if you want to go totally barebones.

Get the cleric to paineel, bind him right at the pit that drops you into the hole. Have the cleric divine aura and dive in, he'll land in the middle of a bunch of elementals, golems, flighty fiends, and master yael (if he's up). All these mobs should ignore you since you're a brell worshiper. Run up the passage that leads to the castle full of undead and epic mobs. ITU so none of the undead will aggro, run past the entrance to the castle, around the corner, and you'll be on a ledge overlooking master yael's spawn. Park the cleric here, we'll come to him later.

Next, you'll need to have a 55+ mage in your raid party. have everyone in the raid party zone into the hole, no need to fight the entrance mobs, just sit around. Have someone duel the mage to kill him without exp loss. Now, take a level 1 brell worshiping halfling rogue, use sneak/hide and drag the mage's corpse all the way down through the city and to the spot where the level 14 cleric is parked. Have the cleric reanimate the mage, get the mage grouped with the halfling rogue, have the rogue sneak back to the entrance, or even easier make sure he's bound right outside the Hole entrance in Paineel and just have him run up to a mob and ask it for a free port to bind, any way you do it, have him in the entrance to the zone so he can invite people for Call of the Hero. CotH your entire raid party into position, assemble your groups, and presto! You're right near all the epic mobs, you're really close to master yael, and you didn't have to kill a thing. In the event that you don't have a mage that can cast Call of the Hero, it is possible to simply corpse your entire raid party and drag all their corpses through the zone. In this situation, I strongly reccomend that each person at the raid bring their own level 1 halfling rogue, because I had to drag five corpses through the Hole last night and it was not only extremely difficult (ended up making a ton of macro keys to target and summon corpses) but it also took about an hour and twenty minutes.

Hope this helps, and good luck.
(note: copies of this post will be placed in the discussion of the important epic mobs in the bestiary section, as well as under the main Hole strategy discussion. I'm not trying to spam, just trying to make it so anyone looking for info on their epic mob can find this strategy quickly and easily)

Where would a druid have to be to track Yael? If I have to kill things and invis all the way to the spot, thats ok. Any info would help

can a ranger track this guy from the zone in? i need him for the strength of the elements quest and dont want to go all the way to his room to see if he is up

double post =/

Edited, Mon Aug 26 14:49:41 2002

Yael is indeed level 56 and his class is wizard. He's KoS to all, even Brell worshipers. He spawns on the little mound right in front of the locked door.

I just killed him about a day and a half after patch. His spawn time after patch is most likely random but it's not the full 7 days. His spawn time after death everyone says is 7 days. Guess I'll get to find out if that's exactly 7 or roughly 7.

I don't know exactly how hard he hits for because as long as I had aggro, he just chain cast crappy spells that I resisted until I ate a death touch. Someone mentioned somewhere arround 600 but I can't confirm that. His melee is probably the least of your worries anyways.

Edit: A guildie confirmed. His melee is 630 max. Double or quad, I don't know.

The initial posting of this mob says that his death touch recycles every 30 seconds. When we went to kill him, we had some early aggro and I got 3 DTs logged. There was exactly 49 seconds between each DT so either it recycles every 49 seconds or there was some really good timing there.

We had about 2 groups jump down the waterfall but a few people missed the pool in the bottom and died so we probably killed yael with about a group and a half of 60s and high 50s. Having a chanter there is important for mezzing the adds that you will get. You should get about 3. A flighty fiend, an elemental channeler and an elemental warrior. If you use the waterfall, you must move to your left to fight. Nortlav the Scalekeeper is to the far right and WILL assist. He has a 1500 point lifetap proc and if you're not ready for his aggro, it'll just mess you up. If you move too far left, you'll get a rock golem add too but that is better than getting Nortlav to add.

Hope that helps a bit.

Edited, Mon May 13 14:57:23 2002

How many lvl 50+'s does this guy take (approx)... More importantly how many hp does he have? thanks

Hmm I was thinking this might be a quick way to kill Yael (even though it could be considered exploiting). Have 2 groups ready to kill Yael, send all but the CoH able mage into the normal entrance. Have the mage lev himself over the hole.. go to the waterfall area.. and drop. If you drop in the correct spot you could zone in, then /quit out right before you land in the water. Come back, land invis in the water. I have done this before with a rogue btw. Then simply have a wizard follow suit with the mage. Then have the wizard abscond to the entrance, invite people, then have mage CoH them down. I think you could quickly get 2 groups there and begin pulling the few wanderers in the room, them move out to the tunnel entrance and pull yael. Just a thought, I am going to bring this up to my guild sometime.

-Trowlie Oagur, Gnomish Warlord
-Desolate Destructor, Evoker of the 58th level

If u ever wanted to just not want to fight your way down and try somthing knew i know how to get into yaels room straight from fall. I just did thsi today cause wanted to explore zone for epic to know areas and stuff. All you have to do is drop down into the hole........ but no matter where u jump u always zone in the same exact place so there is no way for you to hit the watter, what you have to do is /q right before you hit ground and log back in and ur safely in the room on the ground. however there are 4 mobs in the room one being yael if he is up. but for a jael raid this is very quick if it works right. Also if you /q right when u zone u will still die because it will keep you wehre u are when u went LD. I dont know if it would work so well but seems pretty quick and easy and its ok if u can take the room.

Anyone know the base hp of Master Yale and class type his is??

Master Yael has a drop not listed above, it's a no drop item named Fusible earthen ore. Here's what it's for:

Indeed there is a background story on the fusible ores in the Journal of Al'Kabor it can however be a bit difficult to see their uses from that alone. The ores are part of a quest for an item called Strength of the Elements, which I didn't find listed at the Allakhazam site, therefore I will give a short recap of the quest here.

Go to WW and find a roaming npc named Makil Raron, I believe he is mentioned in the Journal as one of Al'Kabors assistents. Hail him and answer all the prompts and he will give you a container in which to combine all the different ores. There are 4 different ores, fusible coral ore (drops of Phinny in Kedge), fusible earthen ore (drops of Master Yael in The Hole), fusible velium ore (drops of Guardian Kozzalym in WW) and fusible igneous ore which is a ground spawn in Skyfire at loc pos900, neg1500. The igneous ore looks like red lumps of glowing matter. All ores collected, combine them in the container and hand in the end result.

Quest reward is a shoulder piece called Strength of the Elements, AC15, STR15, SV COLD 15, SV FIRE 15, HP100, ALL/ALL. Amazing shoulder piece, the ores go foremost to melees though and plate classes primarily

http://eq.castersrealm.com/data/item.asp?Id=5076

His loot seems completely unreasonable considering the difficulty involved in taking him down. You're better off taking the ammount of peeps it takes to get down there and doin kael w/ a chance at a defiance.