Thrackin Griften  

At level 63 (no AAs, mediocre/bad gear), I failed my first attempt to solo.

He resisted root once, then slow twice. I switched to chain-casting Arcane Rune as my health fell to 35%, but I had to Gate when I ran out of mana.

Went back with a druid partner and killed him easily (landing slow on the first try). With better luck & tactics I probably could have soloed him, but beware that it may be close at 63 and below.

Reading some of these posts saying how easy he is and how he doesn't resist and how easily he can be soloed and generally scoffing at those who try to warn others that this mob can be a challenge.

One of things I notice about these braggarts is that they're all in their mid-sixties. Well, duh! If you can't beat a level 55 Monk when your toon is level 64 or 65, you need to /log and /delete your character! (Yes, it bugs me when people belittle the difficulties experienced by others by saying how easy it all is.)

Go make a new Enchanter and start your epic at level 50, when you're supposed to. Then tell us all how easy he is.

I just did him at level 50. I did not solo him, per se. I used a tank Merc. And I also threw Shiny Bob (nickname for summoned Enchanter pet) into the mix for some extra DPS. It cost me quite a bit of plat, but it worked.

First I runed up myself and my tank merc, haste for Shiny Bob and tank, and Boon of the Garou on tank. I then medded to full. (You will need KEI for this fight. At level 50, your best mana regen is Clarity, and it won't be enough.)

I Tashed him, and let him take a swipe at me. My runes held, but that was all the provocation my pet needed. And Shiny Bob was on the job. Merc was already charging him before he even hit me. Knowing, after two tries and failures, that his resists are high (when you're a 50th level Enchanter), I simply spent the entire fight casting Runes on my Merc. For a while, it was a close fight, but eventually, my runes gave the tank merc the upper hand, and soon, Thrackin was staggering away.

Bob and Merc finished him off, and that was that. I probably used about 11 peridot. (I also threw on the Berserker rune for some added, no-cost protection.)

For those players who aren't aware of how to use the loc system, this mob spawns towards the top middle of the zone, marked on the map with NPCs Nenika Lightfoot just north of the "bandit camp"

He was light blue to my 68 SHD and put out a fair amount of damage. Dropped the white paper.

On to the turn in!



Mongoster 70 Paladin ~ The Nameless
Vongoster 68 Shadowknight ~ The Nameless

We had a successful hunt last night with this lil nasty. We had our 55 chanter parked at the turn in point, and a 55 Paladin, 67 Mage, 63 Mage, and a 67 Cleric at the spawn point (pos 800, neg 11500). Enchanter did the turn in and Thrackin immediately popped in the bandit group in front of us. Mage used Call of Hero to poof the chanty to the fight. Pally pulled the mob and proceeded to get beat on heavily. Chanter was able to tash, all others resisted. Mage pets were very helpful, but the mages were almost completely resisted (67 mage landed a 3k blow). Cleric kept the heals flowing. It was an extended fight, but felt pretty safe with this group. Another tank would have really sped things up. Chanter looted his white paper. everyone cheered, and then gated out...except the poor paly who had to run half way across one of the longest zones in the game, hehe.


Irris Bloomingbrite 55 Paladin <Unquenched Valor>
Vamok 55 Enchanter <Unquenched Valor>

The Tribunal

Is There Lvl Req For Spawn?

Did this tonight, 2 of him spawnd one near Cleet the brewing merchant and one near the bandit group on the north east side of the zone. approx neg 1416, neg 5870 (Cleet) and the pos 880, neg 11570 (bandit group) both locs look to be correct.

For chanter epic we took down Thracken today. DB to 56, hits for 140-170 and DW's fine steel swords.

Had 62 RNG, 65 CLR, 56 ENC. Ranger hacked him up, took a few CH's. Only spells I saw land were tash (unresistable), 3 out of 6 chanter DDs and 1 out of 3 or 4 cleric DDs. Highly resistant but not immune. Didn't say was slow immune, but I couldn't land slow. Tried about 5 or 7 times 'till mob was at 30%, then went to chaining Dementia. Should have done that from the start LOL. Got one full damage and two partial lands on the DD. I bound myself just south of Thracken's spawn so I could gate in to help cleric and ranger. Kinda fast, but doesn't hit hard enough to need a plate wearer. Spawn point is near spawn for some regular green con bandits, so no worries about anything adding. Did I miss anything? I think that covers all the questions I had when I went after this guy.

I soloed this guy tonight. I do not have dire charm and wont be getting it unless they make an upgrade that lets you get higher pets. I'm a 65 chanter with kinda crummy gear, FT1, and 38 aa, including gather mana and MC3. I summoned illusion pet and buffed us both. The only non-self buff I had was PoTC. I used scarecrow illusion on pet and scaled wolf on me. I did the parchment/quill hand in and ran to the spawn point. The approximate location 800, -11570 given on the quest page is accurate. There are 4-5 low level bandits near him, but they were too low level to aggro me. He was up when I got there and I aggroed and raptured him, then tashed, slowed, crippled, weakened and broke mezz with asphyxiate. Be prepared for close to 50% resist rate even at level 65. Then I tanked him with my pet providing DPS. I kept both arcane rune and rune of zeb up as much as possible. I reslowed him when he was at 50 percent hp, and then gathered mana. Continued runing myself and refreshed other debuffs as they wore off. He ran away quite slowly at around 5-7 percent hp and pet finished him off. Total fight was about 6 or 7 minutes. He is mezzable and rootable although root resists a LOT and I definitely recommend using rapture to mezz. He summons a LOT. If you get more than a few feet from him you will get summoned back almost instantly. If you are going to solo him this way either gather mana or high FT is neccesary. Hope this helps everyone who likes to do it the hard way :D

Kylanria 65th Chanter of The Caer Cadarn
Good Team, Sullon Zek

i am a 65 chanter. i managed to do this with a dire charm pet and a 65 necro. i DC'ed the rouge epic npc vilinus the small as suggested here. vilinus pops at 10pm game time at +175 -6700. there will be a ph in his spot that depops at 8pm game time. i charmed vilinus without mezzing first..i figured if he resisted dc he was gonna resist mez and i was going to have to run anyways . then i walked back to the spawning point of thrackin. i binded at the spot and put my dc on guard there.( the necro waited there to engage the mob when he popped) i then ran to the turn in point ( chrislin) and handed her the parchment and quill. she depoped, i gated back to the bind point. the necro had his 65 pet, he could have soloed the mob. my dc pet could have soloed as well due to the amount of hp it had. the mob was tashed but resisted slow the whole fight. the necro reported the mob is poision resistant. it was easy as cake.. a chanter can do it on thier own with the DC pet, but the necro with his pet heal and 65 pet could have soloed it as well. good luck to you

On an impromptu trip, myself (52 Chanter), a 63 Shammy, and a 51 Cleric decided to go see what we could do with this guy. Shammy & his pet were buffed with Shammy buffs, SLTW and Temp only. By the time I ran from the turn-in to the spawn point, Thrackin was slowed and down to about 52% (long run even with SoW!). I tashed when I got there, threw in a couple of nukes (highly magic resitant) and kept the Shammy Runed to help the Cleric out with mana. At 20%, the mob turned and started walking away, so we chased after him (don't bother rooting, or he'll either resist or turn to fight, so just fight him on the run to make life easier for everyone). Not long after, he dropped and I got my White Paper. A monk who summons and carries two swords....interesting....

Edited, Sun May 30 23:28:52 2004

63 enchanter, 65sk killed him, sk has around 6k with v

Killed him yesterday: 61 Necro, 65 Cleric, mid-50s Warrior, mid-50s Druid, 61 Beastie, 61 Chanter. Not a hard fight at all, but about the only time I saw his hit point bar go down was each tick when the >600 damage per tick from my DoTs hit him... Funeral Pyre, Vexing Mordania, Pyro, EBolt and something else, AFAIR.

Every spell I used stuck other than Neurotoxin, which he resisted (not sure if the Chanter debuffed his resists). The odd thing is, he didn't care at all about taking over 100DPS from DoTs, but the instant I nuked and he resisted it he summoned me...

This mob also summons just to let you know. But I dont understand how a monk can summon.