an odd mole  

Also drops:
Sullied Silk
Sullied Animal Pelt
Grade E Gormar Venom
Alkaline Loam
Pliant Loam
Grade E Nigriventer Venom

Edited, Jun 22nd 2010 10:15pm by Karlea

Me (Aumdayr the Wizard) and my buddy (Schadenfrude the Necro) ((both Dark Elves)) duoed this guy earlier today, just to say we could. Now, he was level 12 and i was level 11. So what if he was twinked out the hoozah, with 1k hp 1k mana 15 mana regen. We still did it. MAJORLY high magic resist on my Shock of Lightning spell, but Cold and Fire did fine.

Edited, Aug 12th 2006 at 1:46am EDT by Ulawen

this guy is pretty tough, and doesnt drop anything worthwile. He will not agro if you leave him alone. He is not worth killing for the xp.

found on 4th floor in kt, tried with 2 toons, both lv 18, both with maxed skills and twinked with gear selling for under 100 pl, warrior had no chance, forced to zone, cleric nuked him to death, ended with 2 bub health and 2 bub mana, he seems to be placeholder for thick boned skel.

I would recommend you try this guy at lvl 21. It cons blue. If you are lvl 20 or lower, It will kick your butt.

Slain by my lvl 14 monk, with the help of a lvl 40 druid muahahaha!

No, I really kicked his ass tho, horrible loot, but I looted a FS warhammer off a nearby skellie....
SCORE!

i attacked with my lvl 19 today and he beat my butt.
he hit me for around 65 to 74 yikes killed me in about 5 minutes but i got him down to 76 percent lol

nt

Edited, Wed Nov 19 21:16:01 2003

Took me a temp and an cloroplast and a cuple other smaller buffs but i killled the dam thing at 16th lvl, just got to get there and run (sow) right up to the top and kill the stragglers that follow, rest up a sec then go at it if its there (i checked first), you will get pounded on as it trys to run away but if your not alone (i was) then the others can clear out the skeles while you do your thing or befor (dont take too long dont want your cloroplast to fade befor you get the job done) and hay,, it was a close call with all that solo,, but worth it.

I love this little guy. He used to worry me when I was a little enchanter but now, at 52, I make him pay.

I cast Discordant Mind and bring him down to 13% and he starts fleeing. My 49 pet takes care of skelly adds as I follow him downstairs. Every now and again I whack him to keep him on the run. When he passes in front of the entrance, I mez him, blur him, Incapacitate him, then give a lower level character a chance to beat the snot out of him.

They love the xp and the collar and I love the vengence. Win/win. :)

Edited, Wed Aug 27 03:37:10 2003

im a lvl 21 sk totaly twinked and he wiped the floor with me even after i hit him with harm touch

I have 3 characters that have played in Kurn's from levels 9-20 or so. Only 2 of those characters have seen the odd mole. My Cleric was level 19 when she encountered the Mole. She was in a full group levels 19-25. The Mole was the smartest NPC mob I have seen so far. It promply rooted the Warrior, Shadowknight, and Monk in our group and went after the Wizard. It was triple and Quad hitting for 45-65 (most were 65). The wizard dropped quickly. It then turned to the Monk and against my best healing quickly dropped him too. The mole was at about 40% health at this point, although I don't know how because he resisted almost everything we threw at him. At this point he healed himself up to full health. This is when we all got really nervous. The SK, War, and then our Shaman dropped soon after. I was still at full health and had about 30% mana left. The mole had about 5% health left. Convinced I could beat it, I started casting on it. It resisted and ran into the hallway where it promply GATED out. Needless to say it was disappointing at the least. My second experience was last night was when it got trained onto my 13 Ranger and company. As you can guess, it went a lot worse, not to mention quicker. Be careful when messing with this thing folks. It may have the hitpoints of a level 20, but it has the spells and power of something much higher.

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Everhope 37 Cleric
Lilsbear 34 Warrior
Hitnrunxx 14 Ranger

Does the pathing of this guy take him down the stairs?
I was looking for Solists Ice Wand together with a Ranger friend, and at one point, we were whacking some skellies on one of the stairs, we suddenly see the little guy scoot by. My friend yells KILL THE MOLE!, so we ignore the skellies, Snare&Root the little critter, and a few quad hits and nukes later, I was wearing a Tiny Collar on my waist, instead of raw silk ...

Max hit of 65 eh? He must not be level 20-22, He might have the hp of one, but 65 dmg at level 20-22? my bard was soloing stuff at level 21 in LOIO and most he ever got hit for on a yellow con was 45! So this guy must be high 20's, but underconed

Ya the little Furby's freakin pop time is 5 seconds or less, i walked into the room saw the little furby come outta the hole in the rocks * tried to sharuken him and get attention but 2 far away* then he waddled his butt down a preset course to my right against the wall where he spawned, and it seems that when he gets near the second rock covered wall he despawns, so id suggest gettin him away from that.. Gl2u warriors lol. and one thing Is the collar no drop??? lol. id figure itd catch a nice price if not correct??

Dont pick on the little guy :) Its not his fault that hes so elite.. Anyways, he whupped my butt so oh well :) Truly a David vs Goliath moment.

When i was grouped with my necro friend we were sitting next to the spawn spot and didnt know and he arggoed my necro friend right away when we were in a fight and nailed him 50-62 each time. didnt arggo me though. Then he despwaned right after my friend died. Then i got my lvl 60 friend a waited for him and that midget got his butt wooped. HAHA Payback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i"ve took on the moleand died.i've seen him a number of times but it very fast like haveing sow on.The mole hits for 30 to high 40.So i would say to all have a group and a cleric.I made the mistack i was 20 at the time and it coned(blue)
Its fast and it hits hard.So beware.And have fun

For all the Iksar warriors out there, this guy needs to be dealt with for the easiest trooper scale armor quest (trooper scale helm).
Don't even attempt to solo this guy below lv 25 or 26. Most ppl i know did it at about 28.
You need to sit in the highest room in kurn's tower (dining room) and he spawns once every 60 mins in the first alcove at the far side of the room (directly in front of the hallway).
First off, you need a magical weapon to even hit him.
Second, he WILL hit you for 40+ dmg every time. And his attacks are fast.
Third, you will hit him less than he hits you.

The easiest thing to do is go in with either a grp of lv 20+, or get some high lv casters to root and nuke him while you attack, because his HP aren't really that high. But if u plan on soloing him under level 25, have someone there ready to drag your corpse. He may be small, but he packs a hardcore punch. I watched two lv 23 warriors get man handled by him. Good luck )

-X

Well, I finally managed to pick a fight with this little so and so. He was blue to my level 24 (just dropped from 25) iksar warrior. He didn't despawn or anything during the fight, but stuck around til the bitter end. Dual wielding a wurmie and crystalline longsword I went toe to toe with him until we both got to about half, then he seemed to have opened a six pack of can o' wup*beep* and layed me out at his feet. I'm back to 25 now and will be heading back for a rematch when I get all my skills maxxed for the level.

This guy provided a tough fight for a 30 monk with a cane of the tranquil, but gave nice xp and dropped a collar in the end. I let a guildie run upstairs and loot it.

Xaruliz Lethalshadow
Officer of the Reptilian Empire

so what is the entire quest please tell me sumone!!!!!

I was camping the 4th floor of Kurns today and saw him spawn 3 times within a 2 hour time period. The strange thing is he was only around for maybe 5 seconds each spawn. He would appear, take 4 or 5 steps out of his cubbyhole turn and despawn. From what I saw today if he's not atked he doesn't stick around verylong.. I did however get a chance to con him before he despawned. Indifferent so he is not on the same faction as the other burynai in kurns. I'm VERY KOS to them.

This thing doenst look like a mole. Its obviously a midget burynai! The weird thing is that he runs like no tommorow. He is incredibly fast if you watch him. Maybe he has a spell called "Spirit of a cheetah on steroids"?

is the collar lore or no drop, just curious.

I am 36 warrior and I have camped the little mole for myself and several other Iksar warrior friends and guildmates lots of times and on lots of occasions, so I know what I am talking about as you will see as you read below. My best advice is to study this and take a printed copy with you to the battle to go over the tactics and decide for yourself what you want to do.

He spawns in the dining room on the top floor of Kurns. Get a map of kurns from eqatlas.com so you know your way around. If you look at the picture of the mole you can see some rocks behind him and a small piece of broken slab at his feet. When you walk into the dining room from the hallway on the top floor, and pass between the two skele's on each side of the doorway inside the dining room; those rocks are the ones STRAIGHT ahead.

His spawn time is EXACTLY 1 hour. When ever I camp him and we dont get him on the first pop or he does not drop the collar, I do a /time to see the exact time according to verant. Then I just make a note so we can be ready 5 min ahead of that time exactly 1 hour later. You need a 5 min cushion because you are always off a little due to the duration of the fight. We sometimes go to town, mess around with the skele's on all the floors, hunt in the basement, whatever. Just remember that you need to be back in position and have the dining room cleared of skeles, and be full str/mana/health whatever, all prior to the pop. I tell the younger warriors I am with that we need at least 5 min for all that. And if you leave the floor, plan on extra time to clear the room and rest to full health time prior to that 5 min too. (I say that you need to have the room clear because who needs a lesser icebone and two greater scale bones scratching your back in the middle of trying to pay your respects to the mole.)

His despawn time varies from 0.75 seconds to about 10 seconds. I mean this literally. Some times you just see a flash of him and he is gone in less than one second. This is why you must be in position. What we do is have one person standing out in the dining room with a bow ready and 1 person standing right next to the spawn rock, but off to the side a bit to allow the bow shooter a clear shot, rdy to swing. We keep our fingers on the attack keys because you dont know if you are getting the .75 second pop or not. Casters are too slow for this. By the time they target him and get a spell casted, he might already be gone. Especially if the caster chooses a long cast time spell. Necros and so on, can have their pet attack fast enough if they have a /social button set up to /pet attack as soon they target the mole.

The odd mole with pop and then run either straight out down the hall or to your right and under and around the broken tables in the room. The longer you take to target him, the more likely he is to despawn. If you can get him to fight, he will stay until the end. When he is low on hp's, he runs off and tries to go down the hall and down the spiral stairs to the right. If you are very low on HP's dont chase him. Just be patient, bind wounds, rest, and have faith that he won't just despawn and take your new tiny collar with him. He will stop and rest on the stairs before coming back to die on the end of your blade in the dining room. hehe. If you are doing ok, and you do chase him, plan on having two or three of the skeletons on each person in your group, since your being in a fight in the hall has a larger aggro radius and any nearby skeles will come to see what is all that noise. Plus the odd mole will run through the undead crusader spawn point, and all those other bonz plus this guys mace will cause you a little pain, and that is no good if you are already hurting.

His drop rate for the tiny collar is about 30 to 50% I think. The most I have gone is three empty corpses before getting a collar. This is regardless of his class. (see below.)

Now this is something not everybody knows. He is NOT always the same class and he is NOT IMMUNE to plain weapons. He does usually have that skin spell though. (This is where you do no damage to him until you do enough dmg points against the spell to cancel it out). Some people see the message " the odd mole is invulnerable to you" and get scared and think it is because they dont have a magic weapon. Listen, if he was truly immune to magic weapons, all those bazillion times I kick him during the fight, would always give the same message since I dont have magic boots. But guess what, as soon as you wear that skin spell down, your kicks start doing damage. This has always been the case regardless of what class he is.

At least two times I have fought him, he was casting poison, fear, disease cloud of some kind, and so on. PLUS, he harm touched me once. His lvl does vary between 22 and 26 I would say, but I cannot confirm this for sure. Most often he is just a plain old warrior type that does hit for 50-60 dmg per hit. If he is the SK his harm touch will take you down fast, but he spends most of his time trying to DOT you and not swinging. If he is a caster type, maybe a necro, he never swings at you. You just keep seeing lots of flames and sparks and stuff coming from your skin hehe.

His hit points are indeed relatively low for the amout of damage he does to you. If you keep slugging it out with him he will go down pretty fast. I think he has a bad armor class too. He takes damage from my swords faster than say, the iksar exiles or the Forest giants in WW. If he is a caster he really dies fast from low hit points and low AC, but you have to be able to live through all those DD spells and stacked DOT's. Also, if he is a caster, you will have to ignore my earlier advice of resting when he runs. You will need to keep hitting him until he is dead, otherwise he will stop down the hall and cast spells on you sitting in the dining room until you are dead. You make the choice.

As for when can you solo this guy. Some people have said they could at lvl 25 to 27, but I tried at lvl 29, and he popped as a 26 warrior or so and he wasted me. At 36 now I dont need to worry about any lvl or class that he takes. But then again I dont solo him anymore, I always have a younger warrior with me because I require them to be in the fight in order to 'earn' their helm. I dont just make the helm for my guildsmembers, I take them to the battle to wet their swords hehe.

Good luck hunting,

Seventh Hammer Iksar Warrior, Bosek, officer of Acursed Souls guild
(All TS armor worn was made by myself, and I only have boots and Tunic left to go.)