Eldrig the Old  

Eldrig the Old:

Exact spawn Loc is +560, -4010.
He and all PH will aggro on you if you sit there.

Spawn time is 13:00 min, give or take a tick.

Placeholders are not all level 51 as another post suggests.

Once you find that PH and repeatly kill him, dont give up becuase finding him can be the hardest part i was there for 5 hours and right when i was about to give up for the night he spawned right at 500 , - 4000.

Notes on Eldrig (recaps and updates)...



placeholder spawnpoint loc: pos 581, neg 4014

list of verified placeholders: "a chromadrac", "a mature wurm", "a skyash drake" (these three showed up repeatedly across approx 10 spawns, so there may be others)

placeholder respawn time: approx 13 minutes & 8 seconds



The mob itself appears to have a few more hit points than a mature chromadrac, and similarly (and annoyingly) debuffs & dots like they do. As previously mentioned he is immune to mez... but note that he can still be charmed ^^.

Since you can charm him, you can DoT him up with a shaman or necro and then charm him while the DoTs do their work. Soon after, when he is at low health, break charm and finish the kill.

Max hit from Eldrig was under 150 points on the tank at the scene, and he appears to double attacks only. His MR seemed to be the standard low value of other Skyfire mobs.

Killed him easily yesterday with a group of high 40s/low 50s, think my Mage was the highest at 52: we'd just ported in to go looking for the named wurm drops in Burning Woods and saw him from the druid portal. The only problems we had were the three adds we picked up during the fight and his dispelling of useful buffs.

After coming back from Karnors from an unsuccessful 1hour mini raid to get my petrified werewolf skull i came thru skyfire in hopes to see Eldring on track.
After wondering for a while I saw a named drake, i think for the monk epic. I began to kite it for fun. Then i saw Eldring on track and i couldn't belive it.
I raced toward him but then realized i probly should try to solo him as a 57 bard alone, after all he summons. With the other named rake on me I charmed it andput it on Eldring who ripped thru him.
I tried to fear kite but it wasnt working, and when it failed i got summoned and my selos and lev stripped, very annoying.
So i just charmed Eldring, didnt think i could but he can be charmed with the lvl 39 charm, and grabbed some mobs to beat him up with.
He got his dot off it seemed everytime charm braked, as well as summoning me and stripping my selos. He doesnt run at 20% either, mind u so i kept charming him.
He was getting kinda low and so i invised to break charm. It went thru when Eldring reach 0%! So i hit him with a dot and ran like hell. It finished him off and i looted the guts with only 17% health left and a fire dot still on me.
That was an experience i dont get everyday from EQ.

can be killed with a 48 bard chanting/charming and a 47 Cleric

Can be killed with a 65 wizard and a 56 bard.

Bard constatly fears Eldrig, Wizard casts Atols Spectral Shackles, and nuke's Eldrig. If you engage Eldrig at his spawn point (North of the entrance to the Over there), you should have no problems with adds or killing him before he adds.

Wow lots of spells on that list, whatever... Killed him twice, both times he had gut and nothing else; No coin, no drops, not even wings or essence like normal chromas. Immortals is rare off lots of skyfire mobs so I could see that dropping off Eldrig too but I didn't see it.

Tactics, these are assuming you are a bard since he's for bard epic:
He is charmable, he is mezzable, he WILL summon you when charm breaks even if you just charm him to keep him from dispelling you on the pull. Someone mentioned being out of cast range I have pulled many chromos and have yet to find that "sweet spot" that is out of it's cast range but close enough they won't give up chasing you. He casts a dispell that is target AE so stay away from your group members so you all don't get dispelled he also casts a magic based DoT that can be dispelled.

I did this in a duo with a druid but my guess would be a bard with either a druid or cleric or a chanter or wizard or necro would work, preferrably the healers but I could see it being done with say a wizard. Basically you split snare and fear up between you and your partner so if its a wizard he keeps BoF up and you fear if its a cleric you drop chains and let him fear etc. I wouldn't try more than 2 song twist just because he likes to resist and also like many "flying" MoBs has a tricky range for AEs like fear so I went in with provocation and fear while my druid kept ensnare up. If you aren't doing fear then keep fear breaks coordinated and when you need to pull him back charm him and let him follow you, if you are the fear guy watch how far you let him get into the zone and charm him to get him back. From there I meleed I'd suggest that over DoTs because you can't keep enough DoTs on him and still do fear or snare plus it keeps you in range for bard AEs. Another general chroma tactic that works with Eldrig too is to bring a non chroma add in with you, even a normal chroma can munch an unnamed skyfire mob so just keep Eldrig charmed till the add is dead that should soften him up a little.

Two pull tactics, one is to tag him with a no damage spell like snare song then keep selo's running as you pull, this works OK but watch out for hills if you get levitate dispelled and you can usually stay ahead of him for the 3 second recast time of selo's. The other tactic that I prefer is charm, simply charm Eldrig with 39 charm song then run back to pull spot avoiding adds. If you get only one non chroma add thats fine, use pet Eldrig to kill it which will knock a few HPs off him before the add dies (mature wurm barely phazed him but it was 20% of his health we didn't have to deal with) if you get a chroma add zone and try again.


Solo tactics that didn't work for me:
Chant kiting (regen3 no run AAs) he summons too much and hits too hard before you can get away although you can outrun him with no speed buffs.

Charm/swarm kite he eats most skyfire mobs as light snacks I couldn't find enough mobs and keep him charmed long enough before I got summoned so much at charm breaks I had to charm/park/zone to survive.

Solo fear kite never tried it, too many resists you would be hard pressed to keep snare and fear song both up just twisting those 2 so your DPS would be too low to kill him before you died.

Hope that helps some bards, good hunting.

Edited, Sun Jul 13 14:37:16 2003

Where in tha zone this dude spawn ???

I got very lucky, and at 52, finally slew Eldrig. Now, mind you, in my first two encounters with him, he killed me once and almost got me the second time. I guess it was third time's charm. Anyway, I used to hunt just north of the OT zone. It is a good place for a soloing Necro as the fear pathing takes the mobs along the wall all the way to Ragefires spawn point.

Eldrig, fortunately for me, could be feared, if I couldn't have done that, I would have been necro toast. It took some time to kill him too.. I got a bit closer to Ragefires spawn point than I really liked. My hands were shaking for most of the fight too.

When I finally beat him, I was only summoned twice, because twice, fear broke early. Apart from that though, I didn't let fear break or wear, because believe me, by the time you've splurted him, plagued him, and envenomed him a couple of times, he really doesn't like you. I know he didn't like me. He summoned me quick as lightning each time.

Anyway, his pathing takes him along the wall, heading south towards the OT zone, so if you can catch him at that spot just slightly north of the OT zone, you can fear him along the wall without fear of adds.

Another point of interest too, if you have any kind of extended range item as a caster, you can pull chromodracs of any kind without getting dispelled or dot'd, as even with their new evil casting range, it is still smaller than extended range II (which I have). I also use spell haste II, as it makes a BIG difference when dooming darkness and invoke fear have that faster cast time. I don't get chromo dot'd anymore if I hunt them.

Au Revoir for now.
Lyrael Ardeqath
54th Heretic of Rodcet Nife

Yes, it was a very hard fight, about 9-10 minutes as slow wore off 2x. The first time I pulled him I tried just to pet kite him to BW pulling with Malosi and Turgur's, but after pet tanked for about 20 seconds I got summoned. Zoned into BW and medded back to full. Went back to SF and made and buffed pet ( yeah, big waste of mana ), and pulled Eldrig again. I equipped my epic boots for instant sow and again pulled him to BW with malosi. I was able to get far enuff ahead to cast slow on him before he reached me and sent pet after him with taunting off. Eldrig did not pay attention to pet after he debuffed him, and my second cast of alacrity stayed on him the entire fight nearly. Eldrig cannot be kited as he always summons, so I just JBB'ed while pet ate him up and I kept slow on him ( you MUST time it or you will die quick when it wears ). Eldrig did not dispell himself the entire fight and all I had on was SoW and pet had haste. I just healed myself with superior heal as hp neared 50% and ran oom and Eldrig turn and ran. ( note: after my mana dropped from full I switched out mana/WIS gear for AC gear to better take melee shots ).
Would have been much easier with a SGSE for another instant buff as he seems to dispell first then melee. He boil blooded me ( DoT ) , which was dispelled within a tick or 2 ( his dispells affect ALL spell effects on you , not just the good ones ).Also at 56 would have had a better haste spell for pet which would have helped alot. Not soloable without a JBB at this level I dont think, even though I could have Lifetapped 900 hp from him with my Ivandyrs Hoop ( assuming no resists ). Summoned me alot at the last 25% or so of his life even tho I was standing right beside him. Has about 15-20k hp, not sure as I didnt keep track and had pet's melee damage turned off for less lag, and hits for 140ish max. Dispell is NOT and AE effect, as pet was next to me the whole fight and didnt lose alacrity except when it wore off near the end. Hope this helps my fellow shaman. No idea if an non ogre shaman would get stunned too much to do this--I was in melee combat with no buffs for 10 minutes with a level 51 mob. Was able to JBB cast successfully thru most hits even with like 80 DEX, and almost all of them hit for full damage once he was Malosied ( both slow and debuff landed first time every time ). Dropped bard guts which rotted as it was early morning and only 7 bards on from level 40-60, 3 of which had their epic already. I have far from uber gear too ( and no epic yet ), aside from my JBB my other gear could all be bought for less than what the JBB costs ( only 194 WIS and was wearing a BS tunic at start for +4 WIS, switched to TreeWeave after my mana pool, dropped some for AC. Other equipment mostly JB gear, even used Totemic legs for AC ). It can be done, just is very hard. Good luck and better strategy :).
55 Ogre Luminary on Luclin server--Chaotic Winds--Baron Aggrok


Edited, Tue Oct 22 03:23:38 2002

level 40 monk and a level 53 shaman took this one down today, hit for 141, summoned constantly, and dispells everything repeatedly even it's own dots it casts on you. If your fully buffed it won't even attack for the first part of the battle just mass dispelling tell all your buffs are gone, if you have a gobby earring I'm sure this guy wouldn't be a problem he'd spend the entire battle just dispelling Grim Aura, I kept trying to cast haste on the monk and it would just dispell it. It had 20K or so hp and it fell at oom(must have cast JBB effect 15 times while healing monk). If a 40 monk can tank it I'm sure a bard with a gobby earring and a shaman to slow it shouldn't have a problem ;)