a frost giant scout  

one dropped words of haunting

Everything I have read indicates you can NOT stun giants or giant family mobs like cyclopses. My level 38 pally didn't even try to stun them, why waste the mana? I went in with Temp and Brell's Steadfast Aegis on. I only had to use LoH once when I got aggroed in a snowstorm and didn;t see him coming, started the fight around 75%.

Using a massive dragonclaw shard my high elf pally with strength pushing 200 was hitting around 90-110 with fairly common double taps. Still, starting each fight with 100% health, the highest I ended with was 50% and the lowest was 7%. These are serious undercons. All were dark blue to me and several came close to wiping me. Good news is I hit 39 on them and go tonight for my new spells, including a 300 hp heal which should make things go better.

I also bailed a level 35 ranger's butt out of the fryer last night when he took on a wolf that conned yellow to him. Burned half my mana healing him as he took the wolf out. Good news is I got to practice my rezzes quite a few times last night on people who likely read this thread and figured, yeah my level 35 can solo the scouts no problem.

at 39 air pet with DS and using rain/nuke its mana consuming (180 int) but still not really in danger of dieing at any time.

I'm kinda surprised the Shamans are having a hard time with these mobs. I was soloing them at 37 without too much difficulty - and I'm anything but a power gamer. The trick is SLOW, as always. Pull them with slow, let the pet taunt them enough so you can cast scourge, and cannibalize for safety, At about 70%, cast envenomed breath and wail on in there. With Fury and quickness up, they could hammer me down to about 40% health, but I haven't really felt in danger yet. I'm level 40 now and these guys are a piece of cake. Beserkers are another story though.

do these guys drop a lot of money like the hgs in rathe? just wondering

Will the ones in Iceclad Ocean drop toes?

I can solo them there pretty easily as a 35 wiz. BOF, NUK, NUK, Repeat. OK exp, but i'm after toes. Just wonderin if I'm wasting my time.

Updated

Ok ... I killed about 50 giants in ICO and saw no toes, heads or anything nice like that. Zoned over into EW and got toes on the first three kills.

I don't believe that toes drop in Iceclad.

Edited, Wed Jan 15 00:09:52 2003

I've been soloing the Scouts the last few days since lvl 36+ and haven't found them to be that tuff. I make sure my pet's taunt is OFF then approach the desired scout making sure no wolves or other scouts are close by...getting an add is bad news but I usually pull to the little plateau near the PoK book or plateau near the giant fort close to the zone for quick escape if needed.

I pull with Scourge then hit him with root as he runs at me...if root resists I send in pet to block him while I try to reroot...the pet can take 3-4 attempts before it dies but it usually sticks...if not either way I hit it with envenomed breath [venom of snake at 39 works much better] if root has held then I hit it with one Shock of Tainted to speed things up and cannabalize as much as possible before root breaks which is not long usually. By then it hates me big time so I run circles with regen/chloroplast going [make sure its up before u pull] and pet nipping at its heels when it gets to 2 bbls of health I turn and reroot it. It's hitting on me but I can usually cast through the blows till it sticks without too much danger and back off to shock it agn to get it to the "flee" stage then mop it up. The only reason I turn to reroot it with it hitting on me is to keep up my defence skills. Once you hit 39 it's a breeze and I found that if I get a quick C3 fix before I start [paying about 50p]then what I make off the giants in cash and wepns easily more than makes up for the c3 cost.

Now that I'm 40 it's all gravy and can kill them back to back...if only I could find them that fast all the time. One word of caution, the beserk giants are a lot more challenging...they hit harder/faster and can run as fast as my sow pretty much so once they get a hold of me it can be tuff to get away.

Hope this helps some of you shammies.

Wrynn 40 seasons
Vallon Zek

I am level 36 enchantress atm, and I can solo Hill giants easy with charm, then after my charmed HG kills one, I break the charm and root nuke it when it is down to about 20% health... so I get 2 solo kills fast and easy with about 50 plat in loot... when it comes to the frost giant scouts, I can not even take them with one other(healer or paladin little less in levels than I). They break charm way to fast, HG I can keep charmed for 5-8 min, FG... only about 2-3 tops out of 5 trys. My cha is 158 and they give hard time... will not come back to here to solo for some time

Ulani

I've done some experimentation, and found that FG Scouts have about 2100-2400 HP, give or take a hundred for the level range.

Rinalthelis Wolfbrother <Ancient Adventurers>
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Wood Elven Druid of Tunare from the Realm of Karana

Edited, Fri Aug 30 11:58:47 2002

I am a 31 bard on Lanys server and I started charm kiting these today. Did it most of the day with no problem. I would say that on the red mobs charm lands roughly 75% of the time perhaps a little less but with selos up it's no big deal. I also have done both of the elites at the bridge. cha is only 102 so they are pretty easy.

Aluuvian Bard of the 31st season
Jaidin Ranger of the 33rd season
Wentin Magician of the 31st season

Just had a no-drop "Kromrif Bones" drop from one of these last night, but can't find any information about it. Anyone have any idea?

These are easy for a 44 Necro with any level pet. I keep Call of Bones up full time and keep pet augmented and spirit armored.

Pull with Dooming Darkness, Send in Pet, Fear, Tap as needed to keep health up. Sit until FM. I'm getting about 1/3 to 1/2 blue per kill.

Toes seem to be dropping rarely, though, so I may have to upgrade to the berserkers for those.

ok i was lvl. 36 Ranger at the time and i soloed one. will tryed to solo one but it was hiting me for like 60 to 100 HP. i got it down to 20% and i was at about 15% and i don't want to die so i zoned

i think i will try it at lvl 39 and see i will let you know

firstly yes they do resist root 1in 3 times i cast
secondly they will kill your pet quickly.Thirdly they do hit hard. Fourthly don't worry about u'r cold nukes hehe a 270 nuke hit for 13-36. That's the bad news. Good news u can cast 4-5 poison/disease dots& debuffs in the time pet dies they are a bit slow to respond. NB should be soloable at 38 but had bard group & were pretty
easy kills just be carefull to only take on 1 at time.

These guys are soloable by a 34-35ish druid. I admit I am twinked (a little bit). Got 200 wis in total. Make sure you SOW yourself, buff yourself with SKIN and BABRCOAT, cuase most probably you will get hit at the beginning.
So, be4 u kite a giant, find a spot near an ocean where nobody will disturb you and your "friend" (i hate the damn snow dervishes joinining in our private chat). So the first thing is SNARE of course, most probably they will resist (resisted 4-5 of my first snares till it finally stick on him) - thats when u will get bashed couple of times - giants are big, with long hands and feet, so they reach far.
so, snare till it sticks, DOT, nuke
Dont try to root unless u have a lot of mana, also I dont recommend using FURY of the AIR spell. sure it does almost twice as much dmg as combust, but it gets resisted more.
I soloed only one per mana bar, maybe i can solo one giant and a wolf if i dont get that many resists. But basicaly speaking be ready to spend your whole mana bar (I actually ran out of mana, but the giant was low on health and was standing still snaring so it didnt cause me much trouble).
Good luck soloing them, and try not to kite them in the open, find a place where there is something behind your back (ocean or a wall that nothing can climb)
Peace and good luck fellow players
Jullius
Level 35 druid
Vazaelle

Would this be hard for a 38 Warrior to solo? i have some decent weapons (Centi LS and A Wurmslayer) and some Crusty Armor and i have 200STR i have some ok HP and Dex and what ever soo... I think i might be able to...

I picked up a frost giant scout beard (not sure of exact name but that is close) off one of these things about a week ago. Anyone know what quest it is for? its a no drop beard not the woven one.

do not even try to solo these with our lvl 34 spells your pet will die fast and your mana will run out even faster i tryed it at 35 and i casted dark,vamp,fear,pet,call of bone,venom, med,acid blast, was left with about 1 and half bars left all my dots run out and nuked him again and he still had half life left so i just FD i might try again at 38 but i think it will be the same(

I have killed 40-50 of these scouts and have not seen any toes drop (or anything else except meat and occasional velium weapon)

BUT, I have killed 5 FROST GIANTS in EW and looted 2 sets of toes. My guess, nothing drops in Iceclad

Do the giants in any particular zone have a good drop rate on toes?

I have tried (successfully) to solo thes as a lvl 39 and 40 druid. Root/Dot works fairly well. But for the same mana I can quad dire wolves for much more xp.

Also the Frost Giant Scouts in GD seem to con the same, but are much tougher for me. Snare is resisted more, and an angry giant is almost SoW fast. Root, if not resisted, only lasts a very short while. I haven't yet found Ro's Firey Sundering which may help with the debuff.

48 rogue twink... you are dogmeat for them, no matter how twinked you get you can't solo. 1300 Hps is nothing, my shaman has more lol they are way undercon, L33 hitting for 90? hmm, just count how many 90 hits can you take. You get hit for max a lot, rogues suck defending. No matter how much AC you have I can bet a warrior in banded can tank better. Unless you do 2x more dmg then them you dead, they have 2ce your HPs.

level 48, 1300hp, 850 ac, 934 atk, runed bolster belt, blood point, fungi tunic

Think so?

I got a ring off one that was +3int +10mana usable by casters plus more - not bad.

Can anyone kindly tell me, currently a lvl 43 Druid with his lvl 44 spells in the backpacks, that if at lvl 44, can I solo/kiting these giants?


Thanks & Safe Huntings!!

Cool, these guys also drop velium weapons and I got a Drakkel Forged Bastard Sword (20/45)..not bad.