Neh`Ashiir  

mages can open the lock door- use eye of tallon and than open the door using the eye. it works! dont need a rogue to pick locks- Am 61 mage and can solo the whole way takes an hr to fight all the way to him and than clear everything but duable. killed him 5 times and still no torch :(
Tellmark Spellmaker 61 mage Solusek Ro

Does anyone know for certain where the neccesary keys are for this place so I can complete my MAGE epic without a rogue? I could understand this type of complication is ROGUE epic, but being that I am a mage (as most people are who do the mage epic) I'd much rather face elementals or something more fitting to my class =P

Edited, Sat Feb 28 09:05:26 2004

Dropped neh'ashiir tonight like he was nothing..56 bard and 62 mage duo tryin for mage epic piece..neh and black reavers are ridiculously easy and can make some very nice pp off them. Me (56 bard) and my bro (62 mage) been killin these things for a while now and have funded most of our nicer gear. I'd say neh is even easier than ghiosk who is also very easy for an epic mob. Neh hits like max 200 but even with just bard 30% slow it hardly touches the pet and does ch but between bard mez and pet procs he didn't even land one. Not really any strategy like with ghiosk just heal pet till neh at like 55% then burn em down. Cake..... any questions on my strategy email me at JNHarada@msn.com

Does Neh drop the diary for shaman epic, says so on the epic print-out, but I do not see it listed on the known loot list

Note: there is a HUGE FAKE portion of the floor in the room where she spawns. This totally hosed our raid, dont let it happen to you!

I kill NEH for kicks every day. i used to solo her easy with 65 mage, but since the revamp...i have to box my cleric for heals. In a sense she is easier, then she used to be, because nukes now stick. However she now gets off about 3-4 complete heals, so in a solo situation, no matter haw fast you nuke, you gono run out of mana. With a cleric healing pet, and possibly stunning her, she is a fast kill .Besides complete heals, she likes to try to root, charm, dispell, and tash. i allways have my mr at 220 plus, so nothing sticks. Since the revamp the torch seems to drop one in three to four kills.
She doesnt seem to drop the ornate shield that much if at all, instead now she drops the wisdom caster shield, thats no drop. Of course, the ranger 2 hander and the no rent key to torsis still drops <elevator key>. If on the tribunal, and you need the torch, send me a tell, i have about 4-5 of them in the bank.... they are not lore.....and are MQ able .

Killed Neh Ashiir Saturday Aug. 9 looking for torch. I wanted to post (from personal experience) that torch was NOT visible, but was definitely on the corpse. There seems to be a lot of different stories about this, so take this as one more person who says torch is not always visible, but she might have it anyway. By the way, killed her five times (not in a row, on different days over two weeks) and she only dropped the torch the once.

I need to kill this guy for my magician epic. If you are lacking a magician for this raid, send me a tell, ill be more then happy to go...

Xaverri Shadowflare
Conjurer of the 56th Elemental
Ayonae Ro

On Vazzale server i wanna start a raid to kill this guy anyone up for it ehhehe

Seeing as the site doesnt seem to think that Neh'Ashiir drops the mage torch, I was qondering if anyone could give me its drop rate. Thnks!

Ok I see a lot of incorrect info here so let me clear some up.
1) Neh spawns in ONE place: the uppermost room (third platform)
2) There is a 15 minute spawn rotation consisting of 2 critters: a wraith, a black reaver
3) After killing the BR and however many more spawn, Neh will pop.
4) Neh does not hold the torch or the shield he drops, you have to loot to see if she has em.

Finally, we dropped her with a group composed of
50 warrior
62 rogue
53 magician
55 sk
60 druid
58 cleric

with little or no effort, however getting up there would have been very hard with just this group.

hope that cleared some stuff up

A couple of members of my guild joined another guild on a raid of CoM. We grouped up and had four full groups, mostly casters, but two solid tanks.

We got to the entrance of the castle and the rogue picked the lock (only a rogue with a 200+ lockpick skill can open the door - so, leave your bard for fighting). There were various creatures there and one black reaver just inside the door. The first strategy was to race the room, kill and then move up.

Unfortunately, the strategy is a killer for casters. The non-reaver mobs will attack anyone and the casters were dropping because there were just to many of them. The tanks were busy handling the reavers, so the casters had to try to handle the added mobs. After a new wipe out, we regrouped to do a different strategy.

Pull the mobs individually out of the first room until the room is clear. This is your safest way. You can fight them on the bridge, but your best bet is to have your puller bring them across the bridge, through the gazebo and to the walkway by the wall. Fight them there to be safe.

If you fight the black reavers on the first level or the level using the lift behind the first room, these will spawn Lord Ghiosk or Lord Rak. Neh'Ashiir will not spawn from the reavers in this area (hence the use of a tracker). After we cleared the area, we progressed down the hallway to the right. We got to the junction and turned right again. We then run up the ramp and cleared the room.

After this we pulled out of the room. Now just before the door to that room on the right side is a false wall. Go through it and you will walk out onto a translucent bridge that goes up quite a ways. Drop SoW and turn your toon to WALK or else you may fall and die because of the hairpin turns.

You then cross another bridge and enter a small room at the very top of CoM. In here will be various mobs and, if you are lucky, a reaver. If there is no reaver, start killing the mobs and one will pop. Killing the reavers will eventually spawn Neh'Ashiir. She is on TrueSpirit faction, so she should not attack anyone who is not KoS to Truespirit. (If you wish to check your faction standing, go to West Karana to neg500, neg5300. A wandering spirit, which looks like a willowisp, will path by you about every 25 minutes. Con him to check your faction standing.)

Now, you can med up, buff up and get your groups ready. Be advised that the room seems to repop every 5-6 minutes, so have your chanter ready with the AOE mezz.

I turned in the Engraved Ring I looted off the Kirn in the Hole. She instantly cast Tashania on me and then attacked the nearly druid, for reasons I am not sure of. The tanks got her aggro and we kept beat on her until she died. She did blind from time to time, so have a cure blindness spell ready and have your tanks have a hotkey saying they are blind.

She wasn't difficult, but she does have a lot of hitpoints and does cast, so keep your MR up as high as possible.

I looted the corpse and found the diary I needed for my epic, the Torch of the Elements (our raid mage was very happy) and the NO RENT key).

We then headed back down to the first level. We saw another black reaver and engaged it. Eleven times a new black reaver spawned when the old one died. The tanks were exhaused and I burned two full bars of mana on Cure Blindness on the tanks (bless you mod rods) to keep them seeing. The raid leader called the evac order and we left.

A very successful raid. Just be prepared and learn as you go. Most of all... HAVE FUN (we were in stitches about all the black reavers popping one right after another - but the upside was three jade reavers dropped, so the druid/rangers on the raid were very happy).

I hope this helps.