an ice burrower  

It took me around 12 hours to get the 4 meats from the ice burrowers it almost drove me crazy trying to get them but i finally done it...... Magician lvl 75 244 aa's

Edited, Apr 10th 2010 3:52pm by DoseOakwynd

As far as tailoring goes, these are not good for farming.

First off you have to deal with the spawn rate. There are about three to four of them up max at a time and so you have to kill off velium hounds and bronto's and rhinos as their PH's to get them to spawn.

The drop rate on the silk according to 78 recorded loots on Magelo is 30.77%. Although they drop 2 silks each time its still one swatch per three kills. If you are making the 295 ice silk bracers it takes one swatch per attempt but it also takes a platinum thread and a vial of purified mana which uses the rubies to make. This means that you are still outputting the pp in ingredients even if you farm your own silks for swatches.

So after zoning into WW you get about 1 maybe 2 skillup attempts per clearing and that is with planning on purchasing the ingredients. Its just unpracticle unless you are there for farming the velium hound furs for the Sebilis mask quest anyway, and then plan on paying extra for the ingredients.

Its much easier albeit more boring, to farm othmirs in Cscar for the 295 cloak. You need 4 furs for that combine but it only takes a silver thread and a cheap 20p vial from the bazaar that is always available to buy from somebody. Since you get on average 4-5 furs per clearing of the shore from othmirs you will get that each clearing. PLUS the pp you make from the loots off the othmirs will be a glad help to your tradeskilling budget. This step of tailoring from 260's to 295 will actually make you money as you farm the ingredients instead of the other way around.

Has anyone been able to determine what mobs to kill in order to increase the spawn of an ice burrower? Have seen no more than two or three up at a time on Luclin server lately..
Bartimaeus
64 Necromancer
Luclin Server

Went to WW to help a fellow guild member with an epic mob and was so glad I did. Aggroed one right from the ZI but didn't score any meat. Bleh. Without even moving, another walked right past me, aggro and dropped a meat. By the time we found the guild member's mob I killed four others, some right near each other, and got my last pieces.

Still it was wierd that on Terris-Thule they're rare but on Prexus you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.

Coddington



Edited, Mon Jun 6 07:05:52 2005

mage with 66 air pet can kill these easy
send pet in heal a few times and nuke = a dead iceburrower
don't need good gear to do it
a mage with 4k mana and lvl 64 heal can take these guys

Nearly took one with my 56 necro until the phone rang and I turned too fast. Didn't even have demilich and mana wasn't an issue.

Just pull to DN valley so you have plenty of distance to kite and use rogue pet. I started off by getting dooming on it to slow it down, then stack ignite/splurt/CoC/bond on it and let it get down to about 90-95%, then use pet for a bit. Once splurt fades, back off pet and chain dooming until it lands.

If you are lucky, it can land right off, for me, I had up to 8 resists in a row. Once you get it resnared just stack on the 4 DoTs again/send pet in and just keep wearing it down keeping pet aggro in mind. If you get hit, you are dead, so make wide turns using the valley walls to your advantage.

I am a 58 Ranger on Quellious. I just soloed this guy - pretty much just cuz he surprised me and pissed me off by killing me when i was hunting Velium hounds for the last Coldain Prayer Shawl. Basically, just used kiting tactics. Ran him around in a big ol circle.. going clockwise if it matters.. between the spire right outside of the SG zone in, and the wall shielding DN. Used Snare, my wimpy little dots and of course lots and LOTS of arrows... took me about 2 hours to do it, and make sure you NEVER let him get near ya... 1 hit and I went from 100% down to 18% Health. Just my own experience. :o) Good luck, all.

These are a very nice test of your solo'ing ability as a shaman once Lodi gets too easy.

Good old fashioned toe-to-toe slug fest, make sure puppy is positioned behind and he will avoid the dispel (it is front arc only). Recommend opening with Malo or Malos, once slowed they don't hit too hard and once crippled the dispell proc doesn't go off so often. Use epic-clickie-boots from inventory and acumen (nice fast cast) to re-junk after dispells.

Any shaman with a couple of pieces of ornate and 63+ should have no real problem.

Dropped Rune of Tempest for me today

Soloed it today with my 65 necro . Very easy fight, He didn resist anything.
I pulled him with embracing darkness and then aggro kitted him while castiong Saryrn Kiss , Funeral Pyre of Kelador and Blood of Thule

i m lvl 65 wizzard and went to camp those things for my beastlord ... well i thought it would be kind of hard with their resist to snare ...

lol i ended with not snaring them ,they are so slow .... i used draugh of fire ,was just a roun around nuking it ( don t run too far away ,they are slow .... ) was not hard at all ,i was never dispelled ,never summoned and never hit

btw i m max ally with CoV

Been reading all these posts about fellow druids kiting these. Sounds odd to me. The one time my friends and I tried to kill one of these, it was summoning us left and right.

Can someone pls confirm this?

they will agro everyone and they are common. as far as agro range im not certain because ive never intentionally pulled one.

I was able to solo this guy last night with SOME difficulties. I used a rogue pet, ignite blood, and splurt. Anything over 4.0 second casting time WILL get you chewed on as he's chasing you. It seems to work best if you do NOT buff the pet. I ended up losing 2 pets that way and used quite a bit of mana. After about 15-20 minutes of kiting him around, he finally dropped, no loot. :(

**Does not summon and never resisted those 2 dots.

Ikud Kikuraz
Inotded Yet


Edited, Wed Aug 20 09:15:31 2003

If you're a Ranger fear-kiting in Western Wastes, just keep your Track refreshed, sorted by distance, and if you see one of these close-by be sure to keep on the lookout. Their aggro range is very small and they are easy to outrun. They can dispell though so be careful and be sure to throw some junk buffs on first.

Ice Burrowers are animals they can be feared and stuff with the druid animalish spells that only work on... animals =8' )

You can solo these at like level 57 on a wizard if you have KEI...

Me (53 Ranger) and my bud (60 Ranger) Kite these all day long, take em down to the valley by ToV entrance to reduce your adds, and he holds aggro (snare alot, arrows, dots, nukes) while I follow behind shredding its arse.

Spilt the silks, get rich, and make a monk or two happy every now and again.

No Faction Hits
aprox 30K hitpoints
500 DD coldbased when it hits you + a debuff + whatever damage it does, usually 200+.
Kiting is the key here, to tank is stupid

Edited, Mon Apr 14 02:40:01 2003

ice burrower dropped "yaeth's compendium page 108" or something like that. cant find any info on this; closest ive found is page #70 having something to do with a chanter spell.... Been hunting these guys for awhile, never seen them drop anything except the silks and the monk bp rarely.

any ideas?

Myself, 60 druid, and my brother, 56 monk, take these out in 6 minutes. The process is very simple:

1) glamour of tunare
2) snare
3) epic, SS bracer, Winged Death, Breath of Ro
(mob is very upset at druid now)
4) monk starts beating on tail

note: you do NOT need to root these in order to dot, they have a very small melee range. It will look like he's going to eat you when you are finishing up epic dot, but trust me you are safe. just run until he is out of range of your casting then click as soon as he is in range. rinse repeat. It should also be noted that monk is wielding a t-staff. I am not sure how other monk weapons will affect the time.

Drops were as follows -
1st worm - nothing
2nd worm - 2 Ice Burrower Silks
3rd worm - Ice Burrower Skin (Happy Monk)

Xytrani Malendios
60 Heirophant of Tunare
Eternal Vengeance
Xegony Server

Solo-able by a 60 druid (without epic) in 12 minutes.

glamour, spam snare, WD, Flame lick (for agro control) - charm pet onto it. Manage agro on yourself and keep in casting range and pet will kill it for you.

If you let it agro on pet it will eventually dispell charm and snare on your pet - which is not good.

Any druid not using pets to kill outdoor mobs is working at 20% effectiveness ...