Tarbul Earthstrider  

Did this today with my druid friend. Killed 3 rogue lions and he spawned in the village below hill.

was a joke compared to the rest of this epic so far. tracked down two rogue lions, ran up the hill again, tarbul spawned right in front of me and dropped the rain.

Just spawned Tarbul Earthstrider 6 times in 4 hours for Mage guildies. Initially killed everything in sight for 30 minutes and got nothing. From then on killed only the "a Rogue Lion" on a 39-40 second spawn and Tarbul started popping.

confirmed loc

-1531, 59

thats south of the western houses in the SW quadrant.

highsun ftw!

Tried killing all lions and nada so added spiders nada.
Started killing crawlers and he spawned fast.

Killed the Rogue Lion and not even 5 minutes later he spawned right at
-1308,-1477...with prime gear on my pet didnt need my help at all.

2 hours of killing rogue lions. By that point i said screw it, im just going to kill everything around me by the southeastern side of the zone on the hills. Sure enough, as soon as i start gathering a mass amount of mobs... he spawns. Was a total pushover. Killed him in seconds with my 75 cleric.

The rogue lion is on a 39 sec spawner, can spawn anywhere in the zone... 39x2 is... 78... hello quillmane!


Got him to spawn killing only the rogue lion, 38 lions after and he spawned.

solo'd him with 49 mage, used steadfast servant for heals, tanked down


hits around 30 - 101


So conclusion


PH/Giant is on 39 sec spawner.
Can pop anywhere in the zone.
Hits max 101
Soloable with 49 mage useing servant AA.

Edited, Apr 28th 2007 4:24am by Boladas

Killing "a rogue lion" is definitly the trick, took about 20 rogue lions kills, but I was the only one in the zone and he finally popped, yay for completing my mages 1.0!

I came to East Karana with a 55 mage and a 54 ranger. We tried the rogue lion routine and did not get any Tarbul spawns in 2 hours. We came back the next day and leveled a large area in the south east over and over. We got Tarbul to spawn in about 25 minutes but he spawned right near the human camp at -800, -175 and while I out DPS'd the humans they got the kill shot and his corpse poofed. We were unable to taunt him out of the village also. We were about to log and decided to level for a little longer and sure enough Tarbul repoped in about another 15 minutes of leveling.

Ok - after asking time and time again for help and getting nowhere, and these posts are not good for this info - here is where it popped for a friend I was helping.

First we killed any and all Rogue Lions and just about anything else we could find on the hill just to the right of the path to Highpass Hold. Just on the right before the path there is a level area where usually 3 named Gnolls appear - if you see them there you are in the right area.

Now the Rogue Lions did not appear all in one spot - some where near the gnolls, some appeared on far right side of that hill I was talking about by the small farmer village, some on top of the hill, some from all over the place. Other people (like beastlords) were killing all lion types for high quality skins, so if you can get anyone else to help kill anything and everything, do it!!

After 4 hours running our @$$es off killing anything that moved, Tarbul Earthstrider appeared on the far right side of the hill (if you are at the named gnoll camp, turn right and head over until you see the farmer's houses) and he was facing towards Highpass Hold. Level 49 Magician with the pet bought at level 48 Fire Elemental, both with Virtue and Koadic's Endless Intellect - took him down, alone (I wasn't there when he popped up), and ended up with about 10% life and mana left (on both player and pet) but he dropped the Mage Epic item also.

Can't guarantee he will pop there all the time but this is the best information I have and we have found while trying to get him to pop for 3 days. Once I get the location I will re-post where he spawned for her. This was on The Rathe server by the way. -=))

Hope this helps!

Hi I am a 55 Mage and I have been camping the EK for 3 days now, and he wasnt in sight. Its frustrating me by now, especially cause I am playing on the german server and those Idiots don't know how to translate from english to german correctly. So I am killing all kinds of crap here and hope to see that dude.....


Sorry bout the "idiots" but I am pissed off by now camping Sol A for 10 days and now that crap!

Edited, Tue Feb 8 10:49:32 2005

I was running around farming silks with my mage and just happened to see this punk. He was just roaming around threatening to ruin my day. My mage is lvl twenty-five at the time of this post, so I did what many would have done in my place: logged the mage off really quick and logged on the Main: a lvl 65 wizard.

I did not attempt my fire nukes since this forum says he is all but immune--did not want to experiment. I just snared him with Atol's Spectral Shackles, rooted him, nuked with Draught of Thunder and Ice Meteor. He kept breaking root pretty easily (most nuked giants seem to have this in common) but he did not resist any of the magic or cold based attacks I cast on him. Like most giants he was immune to the stun portion of the Thunder spell, but I was just trying to kill him, so that was no really a concern for me.

I ran a log parse program after wards. I had to deal around 14k damage to bring him down. This takes into consideration he does regen rather quickly and I had to run a little to reroot.

After he went down, I logged back to the mage and she is now the proud holder of a drop she cannot use for may levels LOL.

Soloed with a lvl 54 Bard with no problem. Hit with a 3 chant kite and down he went. Didn't loose more than 2% hp.

Ihad been hunting this guy for about 5 hours when he finally spawned (had a ranger guildie with me Warbass your the best!!!!!)this is the loc i was at -849,-1022....he hadnt been on track prior to this so this is prolly close to his spawn spot.(he showed up and he was dead less than 2 mins later)

It is possible, indeed straightforward, to solo Tarbul with a 52 Mage.

The basics:
Level 52 mage, mostly Bazaar-equipped, 2900 mana, 1500 HP with self-buffs.

51 Earth Pet, with 2 daggers, 2 lev rings, elemental defender, coldstone, plate armour (basically, as much AC as possible).

Pet was buffed with BO3, Shield of Lava and expedience (so he generally keeps up with my Jboots).

Tank Tarbul with your pet, play pet cleric.

I had HoV, but you don't need it.
I had a KEI.
For most of the fight I was sitting on my drogmor. (You can probably get by without KEI if you have a horse/drog to sit on because I had 51% mana left at the end.)

The full story
I went to EK to recce Crag Hill intending to come back another time to get Tarbul. With pet-zoning now in, I already had a fully equipped pet in tow. I also had a HoV and KEI up.

As soon as I got to Crag Hill I saw the rogue lion, so killed it. I started farming silks and pelts from the spiders and lions, and killed the rogue lion twice more within about half an hour. Shortly after that Tarbul showed up, conning DB. Since I intended to come back, I initially just followed him around on Crag Hill for a while, carefully staying out of aggro range.

After a while, I plucked up courage and used a low level bolt to aggro Tarbul from as great a distance as possible. I then set off at full Jboots speed towards the NK-zone bridge intending to fight there so I could zone if needed. When I got there and looked back, Tarbul was nowhere to be seen, although he was still showing as my target. It was odd. Pet was with me, so not fighting Tarbul. I waited... nothing.

I went back to the hill but couldn't find Tarbul anywhere. I carried on killing spiders and various lions. I'd just set my pet on yet another crag spider when WHACK! Tarbul aggroes me from behind! I'm heading for the bridge. WHACK! Nearly 500 HP have gone, but now my Jboots have got me clear and I'm just running, whilst my dumb pet is still toying with the spider as far as I can tell.

I'm getting near the bridge, when I see 'Taunting attacker, Master' and Tarbul's health starts dropping. YAY Goneker! I double back and my pet is fighting Tarbul near the village at the foot of Crag Hill. Pet is at about 70% health, Tarbul about 85%. I get in position, throw a heal at the pet, summon my drogmor, throw another heal.

I keep throwing heals at the pet. I have no problem at all keeping my pet's health up, I don't even have to alternate heals. All the while, Tarbul's health slowly but steadily drops. I get no aggro.

A few minutes later, Tarbul is dead and the Rain of Karana is mine, all mine!

Having read this board before heading off to EK, I really wasn't expecting it to be that easy.

I've been back to Crag Hill farming silks several times since, killing the rogue lion maybe a dozen times with no sign of Tarbul. I was obviously lucky to spawn him so quickly.

Of course, you don't need to mess about like I did. Once Tarbul is up, just pull him to a suitable spot using your preferred method, set your pet on him and play cleric. If you like chaining pets, that might work too, but I'm no expert on pet-chaining.

Go get him!

Ythan
52 Human Mage
Saryrn server

RUMORED to regenerate accelerated?

I stuck drones of doom, a 34 point dot on him, and his hp continued to rise, rather than fall. He therefore regens over 34 per tick. It's insane.

I was in EK killing the Broon / Droon / Proon gang in hopes the AC would wander by. I am a 53 level mage who has yet to even see the AC. Needless to say, I don't have Jboots, :) .

Anyway, I was also keeping an eye out for Tarbul due his dropping Rain of Karana which I needed for my epic.

I was using my new 53 level air pet and he was able to kill Proon, the father cyclops, with only a few heals and with me left at about 30% mana. Proon was dark blue to me. The other two smaller cyclops were both green.

I was in between spawns of the 'oons' so decided to see if I could find Tarbul. I killed rougue lion after rougue lion. All I got were more rougue lions. I finally noticed a willowisp sitting up on craig hill. I thought, well, why not, and killed the wisp. Tarbul spawned about 20 seconds later. He was DB to me. I was expecting him to die like Proon did. No way. The air pet had Lava Shield and Burnout III on. I cast Malosi and elemental maelstom and tried to med. I had to repeatedly heal my pet. My air pet got down to about 8% and I was OOM so I ran for the bridge. I did not make it. I died about a half a bridge length away from the bridge, after being hit a number of time by Tarbul, who was now at about 36%.

I was bound in POK so I asked my wife for help and she said one of her friends, Valinor, was on. Val is a 65 level Cleric and a great guy. Val agreed to rez me and buff me and pet and help out with Tarbul.

After the rez and med and buff we found Tarbul still up. Val hit my pet with two non gem consuming cleric buffs and I had the standard LS and BOIII on him. Val also cast HOV on me. I had found a dot on Father Proon so was able to partially reimburse Valinor for the buff.

Valinor summoned a Hammer of Damnation and we headed out.

It was not a hard kill with a 65 level cleric healing the pet and occasionally nuking Tarbul. He had lots of hit points, as others had mentioned. He only took about 610 damage from my lava bolt, which is on the low side for that nuke. I mostly used elemental maelstom and medded.

When Tarbul died I did get the Rain of Karana, a fine steel greatstaff, and some other non descript item.

I am guessing the only way for me to solo Tarbul would be chain casting pets. The natural DS on the firepet might help, the caveat is that the 52 level firepet does not always cast his own DS, as he is a wizzy in firepet clothing. The 53 airpet is sturdy but would need a LS, same for the 51 level earth pet. A 49 level firepet might do the trick but he would die pretty quickly due to lower hps at that level.

I see where one 51 level mage with some buffs but no KEI and repeated casting of earthpets has taken Tarbul. Has any 51 to 53 level Mage taken Tarbul solo? I have considered that getting the focus pet item for the 49 level firepet might help. I have the broom and the shovel but need the torch if I want to summon a focused firepet.

Davidoz
Saryrn
level 53 Mage

56 warrior in EK (for what else besides spider silks). He conned DB and I decided I might give him a try solo (I can solo DB PoJ mobs, so i figured a DB oldworld HG wouldn't be any trouble). I was buffless, except for trusty ol Jboots, I started smackin on him and got him down to 94% while i was at about 90%. His life seemed to be dropping VERY slowly, so i thought i might weaken him just a lil with my Mighty Strike disc...I was smackin him for 50 damage a pop (duel weilding) with 41% worn haste item. I was hitting uber fast, as i always do with 41% haste hehe. Anyways, i got him down to 80% while I was at 70%. I knew it was going to be close, and I was probly gonna lose, so i just ran fer the zone. If he wouldn't have had such high regen I'm about 80% sure i could've soloed him. Alot of people underestimate warrior solo power, but at 54 I soloed rats in PoJ for fun while i was afk (No discs mind you). Anyways, to you warriors out there, this guy, even thought being an old world HG, isn't an easy solo.

Went to EK to check if Trabul was up with my 65 ranjur.I knew A Rogue Lion is his ph.The lion was up and killed asap.Trabul poped exactly 10 sec after on top on crag hill just north of shops.Drop Rain of Karana

Kicked this guys butt. Lvl 56 Mage W/51 earth pet. Buffed pet with DS, Burnout IV, and a bit o sow. I dual dotted him with Wrath of Elements and Elemental Maelstrom. Dots kept his HP regen down and i nuked him with char. dead in 2 mins.

56 Mage of Innoruuk

Was like most of the people in EK farming for silks and pelts when I a Ranger of the 39 season killed a regular lion that was running in slow motion by the mucktails. Thought nothing of it and went about my way like I always do, kill, track, loot, repeat.

Made it to the top of Craig Hill and turned around to see a named hillie conning red and was shocked. It was my first encounter ever with him and he was messing up my farming area so I gave a shout out to the zone that he was up and a lvl 53 monk replyed.

I snared him and tried to cast burning arrow on him to agro kite him, yea, snare held fine but the DD, which normally hits for 180, landed everytime for 21 damage. Needless to say he really did not like me and was trying his best to get to me, not even noticing the monk betting the crap out of him from behind.

He finally lost interest in me at about 35% health and then beat the monk down to 12% health and the hillie was still at 22% with me beating on him from behind. Monk FD, passed aggro to me and he beat on me till I was down to 15% health then the monk started back in. the giant did not even try to run away until 2% health. Took us almost 20 minutes for 2 plat and a cracked staff and the rain of Karana, leave this one alone unless you need the gem.

Really enjoyed the fight because it was close, fun and scary, and thanks Zankis you rock!

52 bard soloed him, no problem, just long fight because of his regen.
Got the epic item for a mage friend ;)

I was farming spiders with my lvl 51 Mage and saw this guy. I knew I needed him for my epic, so I medded to FM, buffed up Mudball (lvl 51 Earth Pet) and sicced him on him. I got him down to 55% by the time he killed Mudball, and I was OOM. Gated back to PoK, got KEI, picked up a druid (lvl 65) and ported back. I asked the druid to just kite Tarbul, while I sicced Fireball (lvl 49 focused pet) on him. She kited and Fireball followed pounding while I Lavabolted. Bingo got my epic piece.