a manticore  

Trying to clock up kill totals for banestrikes but these are rare. I was roaming around the Western side around Great Divide, killing the odd manticore.
Stumbled upon 3 of them, stationary and newly spawned. Two were superimposed.
Loc -3210, 4760
AFK'ed for a few hours and clocked up a good few kills

Edited, Aug 16th 2015 10:43am by Chardlb

This is one tough cookie! Got my first and only kill of one of these last night. I think it was my 3rd attempt after running for my life on the first two. Was after the Mane and it dropped the Mane...yea! Needed this for my Prayer Shaw 6 quest, still on 4th but always looking for the items.

As a level 44 Ranger I found my arrows usless I suspect since they were not magic even though the bow was. Had to Snare, Stinging Swarm, Swarm of Pain, blast away with Burning Arrow and Flaming Arrow and repeat Stinging Swarm and Swarm of Pain once more to get this sucker down to about 50% before going head to head. He still had me down to about 25% when I killed him. Glad I got the Main so I don't have to worry about this guy anymore. Not worth if for the exp! :o These guys are Hard Core for there level and remind me of my first encounter with the Crag Spiders! Ouch! : (

Edited, Mon Feb 16 23:15:08 2004

These things scare the holy bejesus out of me. Looks like some perversion of a Plains of Karana Lion. Just that scorpion tail takes it way over the top. First time i saw one of these i nearly peed my pants. Thank Tunare I had wolf form on when it attacked. RUN DRUID RUN.

The manticore mane is used in one of the shawl quests. the quest might take awhile but the shawls get better with everyone... I think it is worth it..

Edited, Sun Mar 16 17:11:06 2003

Well this is a monster, so only really a bard or a enchanter can charm it. I have noticed if the beasty has ANY humanoid features at all, or is a monster of sorts... you can not charm it. I mean you would think a griffon is, but in every sense of the word a griffon is just an animal, just 2 animals combined.... This is basically a lion with a scorpion tail and the face of a man by mythology.... like I thought I could charm the badgers that walk in FM and I cant, you cant. They are humanoid... and wear armor and stuff... hense... a monster...I hope that makes sense. So you cant charm things with human like features, or that appear inteligent... in a sense.

For some REALLY weird reason I can not charm a Yeti (which I guess is also a monster) but I could nto charm a Towering brute monkey thing either. Ok, its a big freaking monkey... so what. I can charm a giant rino and a snake though.. Personally I think its weird I could only charm about 1 of 10 types of drake that I have come accross. The ones I can charm being the butherblock emrald drake, no others. And usually it helps to think MAMMAL when charming with a druid. but I CAN charm a crock and a snake. which are not much of a mammal type animal. Those are reptiles. I can also charm a Baslink which is actually one of my favorite pets by far, good damage

I personally would not fight this thing, If I had to, I would combine the root,dot,snare,snare AND pet. Or not root and do DD spells with a pet, so the mob chases me snared while my pet rips him up from behind, ALSO avoiding my pet being poisoned. So kite with a pet. or as I call it, reverse fear kiting.... where I run like a girl and my pet hits the mob.

perhapse a snow bunny, with feral spirit to make him mad powerful. And take out manticores left and right... right? maybe with thorns... and then hes the vorpal bunny from monty python quest for the holy grail.

The other thing people forget is that THESE mobs, a lot of them, were never really ment to be soloed. I mean I am sure they knew they would one day, but for the most part it was a new frontier and very dangerous without a group. I dont want to get flamed, I just mean originally.... they were supposed to be nasty.

Edited, Tue Jan 7 23:43:11 2003

44 Beastlord here.. I was soloing these things from 42 to 44 in EW and will continue to do it to I can't get anymore xp from them.. Alot of things in EW are pretty fairable to solo. STAY AWAY from RyGorr Fort.. hehe.. Those things are a huge under con if I have ever seen one. WOW... Great solo xp in this region from 42+ I am seeing. With the new mana/health reg'n spell.. Hardly any down time at all for us BL's. My 2cents!

Tygera Primalbane
44th Beastlord of Karana

For those of us charm crazy chanters and druids, these guys are the best pets in the zone. Quad for up to 113, lots of HP, kinda slow. Excellent pets, right up there with giants and griffons.

After charming and hasting these bad boys, you can tell since the landscape is soon literally piled up with carcasses

I was just in EW. Saw a blue one, and figured no prob being a 54 Mage. I buffed earth pet, and sat till full mana. Had C3 so it was not long. Pulled it using scars of sigil, it hit for 450. Sent pet in. I kept casting scars, and hit it 5 more times for 450 each. Pet must have been poisoned be cause he was down to 30 percent health by now. I cast char and that hit for 680, and manticore dropped shortly after that by pet. I was ok , just low mana. My pet was at 22 percent health after battle.. They must have a ton of hp. I nuked for a total of 3380 and pet was quading for around 56....

I won't attemp to solo another blue till i get my 55 spells..

I can quad them with 207 wis and C3 fairly easy.
Though they tend to break up at the end I just dot all of them with my ES vambraces and med.
Decent xp at level 51, where most stuff is light blue and green except manticores and a few rhinos, tundra mammoths, very few walrus' and the ulthorks are blue which helps the solo hunting druid on the move.

the most worthless mob in zone. Resists root a lot , has nasty poison, more hit points than a frost giant and has no worthwhile loot. Enough said

I'm a lvl 40 necro, these things have been easy to kill, just stick darkness then keep fear up and dot dot, redotting as necessary. Alot easier than snow griffins.

I'm a well equiped, lvl 46 Necro. and this is the nastiest thing I've fought in this zone yet. I made my highest lvl pet(multi hits for 47). He was hasted and had 2 velium weapons and barely lived with 3% life. 6 DOTs averaging 500hp each + 2 snares w/ 300hp each + a pet triple or quad hiting for 47hp = ? Pet also lifetaps and both his weapons seemed to be proc'ing velium shards. lol- totally not worth it.