a golden haired mermaid  

Just in case anyone wants to revisit this old quest, I easily molo'd the Golden Haired Mermaid as a 43 Ranger with a Tank Merc. Zoned into Kedge and saw her up on track, so I swam down to her room to see if I could take her. Conned either LB or DB (I can't remember, this was a month or so ago) and only had 1 piranha with her. Don't know if that's been changed or I caught the room at the right time. Just wanted to share the info and keep the quest as current as we can. It can probably be done at a lower level in my estimation.

Zandalf's directions are better than my memory:



Cheers!

I was camping her tonight on Fippy the Time locked server and it is a 17 min spawn timer...

Camped her for 4 hours tonight with 0 spawns. We kept the room cleared out the entire time.

can a 41 ranger, a 41 druid, a 37 druid, a 43 SK and a 38 necro take the mermaid? any suggestions appreciated. thanks

It had to be the easiest fight I ever had. I had myself ( 51 Ranger) and a ( 50 Shaman). I buffed up, and swam into her view she came out to me with out the other fish in her room. Shaman threw a slow on her and I began killing her... She lasted 1 minute tops. Looted the lock of hair and now I am the proud owner of a Rain Caller Bow. If you have a Shaman around it makes it very easy (His slow just rocks).

does anybody know her spawn rate ?

She can be soloed by 51 druid. Make sure you are invis when you approach the last corner in the hall leading to her room, or else she will aggro immediately even if you stick to the far wall. The Pirahna PH will not.

Cast DS on yourself and invis. Look around the last corner, if GH or mermaid PH is up, root/snare/dot/nuke her. The other 2 Pirahna in the room never assisted the mermaids when I attacked. Eventually the root will break and she wil close to melee, let her come to you and root her again while she beats on your DS. Move to the back of the hall and continue nukes.

If the Pirahna PH is up, then just charm it. the other 2 pirahna will attack it immediately. Cast a DS on charmed fish and he will win the fight. Root the other two in case charm breaks early. When the charmed fish kills the other 2, cast DS on youself and invis to break the charm. The last - very injured - fish will attack you, root it and finish it off.

One last thing, be sure to let MOBs completely into the longer hallway approaching the GH room before rooting. The line of sight rules are REAL picky in here and you will get "cannot see target" problems a lot if you try casting around corners - even when you can see 80% of the target.

Went in there with a 48 Ranger, 48 Paladin, and 52 Cleric. Was pretty easy. She was easier than some of the other spawns that are in this room. Stilletto Fang Pirahna being the worst. A lot of the mobs conned blue to me at 52. We saw her spawn twice in about 2-1/2 hours. 1st time she ended up getting blown up by a shimmering sailfin that happened to get targeted by our paladin. It blew up and did aoe of 400. - i was hit for 250. Anyway pretty decent camp and we did without much problem

Jayare
cleric 52 sol ro

I killed her and you do not need 2 full groups of 40+. We did it with a tight group of 4. Warrior, Druid, Enchanter, Cleric all between 38-40 level. You must have an enchanter here to do it with this few people at this level. Things her are not very magic resist and I was mezzing things 5 levels above me regularly.

Get your feel for fighting underwater in the top room. Keep you crap buffs up top and your enduring breath at least 8 buffs down. Get a timer and refresh it every 24 minutes. Once you have the feel for fighting underwater then you can move on.

Invis the while group and swim down the pit in the first room. Do not go all the way down, get off halfway down. Head into the south room. If you do this while visible you will get a mess of nasty fish agro on you so go invis. Once in the south room dispatch of any fish that are there. Re invis and go UP. You will make your pull spot in the hallway just before going into the mermaid room.

Goldy will probably not be up. There are 3 spawns in the room. Send puller in invis and have him target the highest con in the room. Have your enchanter assist him. The chanter will mez the high con on pull. Before pull have the tank switch to any mermaids, kill these first.

Have tank attack and make him stay in room while casters are in hallway... the mermaids to a nice AoE spell that goes thru casters fast. Let the tank take it all. After pull mez the high con, mez the 2nd fish, then have enchanter strip enchantment on the mermaid. Just keep mermaids away from casters and you should be ok.

Once room is clear med and wait on spawns. We would kill first spawn quick, kill 2nd, then keep last spawn mezzed for about 5 min before killing. This spreads out the respawn so you don't ever have to deal with 2 after the initial break.

Now just wait for Goldy to spawn... if you can handle breaking the room you can handle her.

Zandoff
43 Enchanter on Karana
proud wearer of a toupee (sp?)

ok finally got talked into helping hunt her down... we needed 2 hairs for 2 rangers.... room is down 1 then up -- our group handled her pretty easy 51 ranger 47 ranger 50 rouge and a 55 chanter...
She has a ds so dispell her right away... there are 2 other fish in her room one to the right and one above...
She is about a 20 min spawn give or take I wasn't really timeing and has a fish place holder...
the first time we killed her we pulled her out and got a hair... second we attacked her in the alcove and she poofed... third was a ph.... 4th puller her out to hall and she died... I think she doesn't like dieing in the alcove... just my notes any way :)

Hoku :)

How hard is this mob?how common? is the lock of hair no drop?

A piece of her hair is needed to repair 'The Mane Attraction' used in the Raincaller (ranger bow) quest.