Took me like a 1/2hr to kill this thing, she resisted all my attack spells save for tough of night, i must have hit her 50x and no crits, and too boot she had no loot save for a couple pp. For a 1/2 hr fight you would hope she at least would drop shard, how annoying...
UNDERCON!!!... Seriously... it is not suposed to take 35min to kill a LB mob... and if i hadn't had a healer with me i would have died... Stoopid wurm resisted all but a hand-full of attack spells... but at least it droped Shard of Power aug (+2 all atributes and +25 hp)...
Solo'd her on 70 cleric out of curiousity and boredom. She is OMG magic resistant. She even resisted the aug procs in my weapon and usually resisted my Ward. I whipped out my handy journeyman's walking stick, and I got it to proc several times but the tash it casts is apparently not enough to make a dent in her MR.
She dropped wurm meat. Blasted fight took 20 mintues because without my Ward/Retribution/Kings the best I could do for dps was skinspikes VI and spank her with my hammer. My pet missed -- a lot.
Fight took 20 minutes but it was fun and I had a 22 minute timer on the dain anyway lol.
Soloed her today, she's got nearly 65 000hp but for a ranger who have the EQ AA it is just a time probleme, for me it took nearly 30mn to make her down.
She either has more or less than 24hour respawn time.
i tried to do quest Sunday at 2am and by 3 she never showed up at dwarves. suspect to be player murder.
I return 1:50am monday. wait til 3. still no broodmother
Edit: checked back every hour until 7am still no mother. I dont think she is a trigger spawn because if she was she would have been up the first time i tried.
Unless she was killed again, her spawn time is over 24 hours. I've been waiting for her to spawn so I can do the wristguard quest, but she's been down for over a day.
Anybody know if she despawns after doing one of the quests? Also Spawn time would be helpful if anyone knows it.
I did the wristgurad quest yesterday and the Broodmother stayed there outside of the cave for at least 10 minutes before we decided to leave. I went back later in the day and she had returned to her lair.
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did this quest today afeter getting all the stuuff you need for then went and found out that whille i was getting this stuf a group of ppl killed her wow was mad yes
Why do people wanna kill the broodmother? She has a bucketload of HP and high MR. Isn't that just a fair indication that the designers have twinked her so people dont attk her. She doesnt drop anything of significance, and I believe gives low xp..............so why bother? She is a spawn that is there for a couple of quests. It is rather annoying when u do all the hard work for a quest then go to GD to hand in to broodmother and she has been killed. Then you have to wait another 12 hours to try again, and prob find that some other idiot has killed. If you play EQ to go around killing anything that moves then you may aswell go and play Doom or something.........it may be more ur intellect level :)
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I know exactly how you feel. After getting the rest of my coldain military wristguard quest done I fight thru all those damn caster shardwurms to her cave only to find some tard has killed her. Good work noob, must make you feel like a man to kill quest mobs. No bother, even people with no life have to sleep eventually, so Ill just come back and get her later.
As you said, if you want to kill anything that moves play Doom, it may be better for you ( and definatley better for us ) if you leave EQ altogether.
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As another reply noted, not everyone researches every mob that they kill. I came across this mob while looking for glowing wurm biles and tried to kill her to see what she would drop. Due to the large amount of HP and regen rate that she has, I only got her to maybe 90%.
Later I checked here just to see what she might drop if I were to revisit the area. Now that I know she is a quest NPC of course I won't attack her again. But it's easy to make the mistake of thinking she's another named wurm
LOL! Not all characters are on coldain faction (who care about coldain quests), and believe it or not some players role-play evil types. I get mildly annoyed when ppl pull Bvellos in Kael but I don't whine about it - I get my satisfaction watching groups get wiped in the back of the arena.
If I were high enough I'd kill broodmother for the hell of it. Would be even sweeter if someone stood by with a turn in and watched. Muahahaha!
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well, fine, play evil types, that's great, noone really cares. Second, the broodmother can be used in a kromrif based quest as well. The idea isn't that people playing evil types are killing mobs for good quests, it's that people are spending time and effort on a critter that ends up not being worth it and ruining another players fun. Don't you think it's possible to play an evil type without goingout and ruining things for other people? It seems to me that you are selfish and inconsiderate and should play doom as previous posts say.
no everyone researches mobs, they see a mob they kill it
also why is your fun (turn in) more important then somone elses fun (kiling somthing)
sorry to break it but alot of people like to kill anything and everything that they run passed be is quest mob named etc, they don't do it from spite they do it because they like killing things, don't take it as a personal affront to peoples rights to struggle through quests
Gee, can you get a little more self-centered? You sound like a complete idiot... this thing drops nothing in particular, has twice the number of hitpoints to take it down, and is relatively magic resistant... and to this, you assign the word "fun," where others ascribe it to "harrassment." Used to be the GM's would kick you in the nuts for killing quest mobs repeatedly while people were trying to do the quest, don't know how it is these days.
Fortunately, people with your mentality don't last long in the game, simply because they can't find anyone to play with them after about six months of their brainless antics.
And I am Quoting "If I were high enough I'd kill broodmother for the hell of it. Would be even sweeter if someone stood by with a turn in and watched. Muahahaha!"
I was replying to someone who was doing, or wanting to do it, for exactly that reason. Also, same person made a comment about quests, to which he obviously had done a little reseach to know a little about it, but not enough to keep from making an uninformed comment. I will however give you the questors or killers arguement, my oversite. And as to "taking it as a personal affront to peoples rights to struggle through quests", as he wrote, it was, so that is exactly how I would take it. And one more thought; when I am playing, I typically try to have fun without it happening at someone elses expense, I guess it's too much to expect that of others? If you took exception to my comments, i apologize, for it was meant for a particular person and not to you. ;)
Well I know how to answer ur post simply matsumurak.............you're an idiot plain and simple. Don't bother playing doom or unreal..........you won't understand it...........I'm surprised you can read.
If you play EQ just to enjoy watching other people suffer and to act the fool then that is very shallow.
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I didn't know this was a quest turn in mob when I helped kill her tonight. So sorry peeps!
A guildmate thought she dropped a certain spell and asked for help taking her down, so off we went.
This mob does have a ton of hp and obscene magic resistance. I tried malosini, fire based and magic based nukes. All resisted. We ended up Bst and pet tanking her, keeping my DS on everyone. A few pets, and one dead bst (poor Kitca) later, she went down.
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As previously stated not everyone researches every mob as for the comments from you who down others, I would have to say ignorance must be bliss. The game is here for all to enjoy not just the ones with 20+ IQ. Why kill her, some for the hell of it, some through accident and some purely to prove a point to others or for payback from coming across her and hitting her by accident during large pulls. Be tolerant of others and you will get same if not maybe games like WoW are more your speed. Everquest was created for Adults by adults based on a roleplaying table top game made in the 70's. Have respect is all i can say
Ok ok I must know ...there was a guy up above who said the BM was up and blah blah...go down further and he says she has 25khp....ok that cant be right lol ...Naggy has bout 32khp
Thats what Ive been told
Does she really have that many?...hummmmm I was also told some planes mobs have bout 14kHP normaly.
There were a group of 5 of us - all low 50 casters/hybrids. Forget exact makeup but 2 shammys a pally and a druid and one other. We all beat on her, expended ALL our mana and drained her for about 25%. Then we all bravely rand away!!! She has a bucketload of HP - at Dk Blue to us and a good hit she's a bit of an undercon I reckon!
I don't know if she has 25khp but she does have a BUTT LOAD. I decided to attack her as a 65 Beastlord and like 20mins later she dropped or something. The first time I engaged I blew so much mana on slows (none of which landed) I had to camp out and come back and try again. So I came back, basically sat and med the whole time and kept healing the pet.. after almost falling asleep she died and dropped 6 gold. I was so psyched that I immediately went to the bazaar to see want kinda uber equipment I could buy afterwards!
I fought her with a group a few days back, MR was too high for nukes so all damage was done melee, and i didnt get a count but ill just say this, We had a 56 warrior, a 54 warrior, and me 45 ranger pounding on her for 32 minutes for her to drop, thankfully we were grouped with 3 KEI'ed clerics. But i can state with absolute certainty that I alone must have pumped out over 10k damaged during the course of that fight, bare minimum, and the warriors evern more then me probably by a good amount, so do your own math.
It is not uncommon for wurms to have very high hit points. Level 43 wurms have 8k'ish hitpoints, 50+ easily hit 18k. Don't compare mobs my hitpoints, because when you can negate the mobs attack, hitpoints are just how long you gotta hit the thing. The difference between 32k hitpoint dragons and these wurms are that the wurms only double melee, while Naggy has his fun AEs.
hmm not sure on BMs HPs but some planes mobs that arent named do have 14k hp which isnt alot for a raid. named raid mobs (dread. teerror, enraged golem CT, named junk in ToV and SS ect) above 50 have alot of hp...24k is nothing
The other night we were killing Cyrstilines to get the Pally spell Flame of Light when a Shardwurm Matriarch spawned. We had a full group of levels 45-52 and she was not really a problem except for the fact that she CH'd herself twice, doh! But with some perserverence we killed her and she dropped the Bracer of Scale, Flame of Light spell, and one other spell (don't recall what it was). Anyway she conned dark blue to me at 49 and hit about the same as the crystilline wurms. Is she the same mob as the Broodmother, with just a different name and a bit lower level?
Finally got around to finishing the quest for the pants tonight... just a tip... it helps to have more people to take down Fergul faster or the Broodmother can come after you after she finishes the other giant... almost died hehe :)
Have an eye on eqatlas.com for a decent map. If u enter caverns from south, take first right opening, follow passage, pass next right opening, then follow right wall and she's in the biggie cavern.
Edited, Thu Jan 24 04:32:44 2002
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#Anonymous,
Posted:Nov 02 2001 at 6:26 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) these things are tuff i tryed to attack one but he killed me that i had to run to get me corpse
Don't go killing the Broodmother for that bracer. SHE DOES NOT DROP IT. The Shardwurm Matriarch does. People are always confusing the two and doing stupid stuff like killing the quest mob. The Broodmother is for NOTHING but the two quests (Kromrif legs, Coldain bracer), but the Matriarch drops the bracer of scale, spells, and a whip. If you feel you must be an ass and kill the Broodmother go ahead; just don't expect the crappy bracer.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 19 2001 at 9:41 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) don't killher yousay? umm.. why. gm can't stop me. she have a phat loot bracer.if a mob has loot u can kill. will always repop. >8)
#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 27 2001 at 4:55 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Can you tell this person is a complete idiot his I.Q. must be less than his age. He has not mastered the English language, wich leads me to assume that he is most likely a child under the age of 18. (with a bad identity problem, Note the word phat.... sigh) I still can't believe I have to share a server with greedy trivial little creatins like this.
#dumbluk,
Posted:Oct 31 2001 at 2:46 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) i agree with you on the idiots and such comments you made but.....you yourself have a slight english problem as well. you see it is not "argo"
#Anonymous,
Posted:Oct 18 2001 at 12:33 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Hehe good job, that druid deserved it! im trying to get my KML right now, and am siting here in GD waiting her arivel becasue some one killed her and i have a bnad feeling its gona be a long while.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Oct 05 2001 at 11:55 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) You spelled which wrong idiot
I just got out of VL and saw someone shout that Broodmother was up so, I grab a cleric friend and head over there to beat her down. Seriously, she gave me a good fight. If it wasnt for a couple of bystanders, i might have died. She hits for 155 max and she can lay them quick. She has a 120 DD (AE? if it is, its a small radius) she casts as well. I would say at least 25khps. I was buffed around 4400hps and 1240ac, with the cleric CH'ing and medding right after, he went oom eventually and i got assistance when she was at about 25% health left. Was hella fun though, would do it again anytime if i had a little chanter haste :))
Great place to raid if your guild is under 50. Go and clear out the shardwurm caves in GD and top it off with the Broodmother if shes up, should give your people a good time with a nice ender.
last night we were raidin GD. its wasnt a real raid just a raid with low pressure so that we would know what to do in high stress situations. well we had 13people and our highest lvl tank was 47. we were gettin bored w/just pullin wurms to the outside so we went in and took on the broodmother. we kicked her ass but bye the end 2had died and all casters were oom. well a few from the guild shouted WOOT BM dead. well tons a peeps started yelling at us gettin all pissy at us because they left for 1hr and were doin the quest. i knew it dropped sumthin but no one would listen. lol o well. btw this guy can b pretty mean. took us bout 20min to actually kill her.she was hittin about 155 and our main tank got a lot of heals.
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Well i did my leg quest and got lucky that she was up....but been waitin bout a week to finish the wristguard quest....this morning bout 11 i helped someone finish their leggings quest...i had heard she was 12 hour spawn so i was pretty sure i could get her that night, 9pm roles around and i get on to claim her and everyone is laughin that she is a wolves pet...anyone know if her spawn time changes, cause by my watch she was at least >10 hour spawn time....? BTW the quest can be done even in her buggy state....i soloed giant at 52 with my es arms it was easy, if you dont melee the giant, the bm wont even bother you....good luck ~Drinkyn
I am not 100%certain but when i turned in the harness broodmum walked a few feet and depoped, (i was tracking her) is how i know) anyway, after she depoped i went to the giant fort and found out that peeps were killing them( so i believe that if the guard that broodmum attacks during the quest is not there it jeperdizes the whole quest.. after all broodmum is going there to kill them anyway.. i have seen this happen twice so be careful when you turn the harness in)
#Anonymous,
Posted:Jun 11 2001 at 6:36 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) damn, its a pain in the @$$ when some idiot attacks her, she de-spawns and the ppl doing the quest have to wait 12hours to finish it
#Kalenith,
Posted:Jul 21 2001 at 1:16 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) gee mayby the people who attack her are doing the quest too? ever think of that?
That's an easy one Vuuyan. You buy the game when luclin came out, get a friend who introduced you to PL you up a ways, then get PoP and shoot up to 65.
Now you can fancy yourself an expert to all the "noobs", who, while they may have played for 3 years,and done a host of researching and questing, are not yet 65.
This is how to be so clueless at 60+. It comes naturally to the new breed of Pl'd noobs.
:P :P
PS-aye, i get a bit annoyed by those to whom i refer above, and hope they DO get a clue someday. :)
The hand in is to the broodmother, so if you don't hand-in the wrong NPC will spawn and killing the giant or dwarf is pointless. After you do the quest.
The Quest Can Be Done... just Hand in The Harness, And SheWill Go Attack One Of The Giants, The Other one You Gotta Kill Before it hits tHe Zone. That Giant Is Level 45 At Repop Instead of his Usual Lower Level. I Took Him Down With Some Other Druid I Got Whom Was level 51 to 53, and I Was 47 to 49, or around that range... I Would Have To Say, That If You Can not Kill A Bulthar Solo, In CS, then You Cannot Solo This Badboy When He's Got The legs In His Repoped level... Bulthars Might be A Little Harder, but Maybe Not.. They Are Both Difficult hehe Imfusio Fortissimus 52nd Tunarian Wanderer Bristlebane, BoH
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#Anonymous,
Posted:Mar 01 2002 at 2:40 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Neato! Is Your Caps Lock Key Stuck Or Is It Linked To Your SpaceBar? Just In Case You Didn't Know, You Don't Have To Capitalize Every Word In A Sentence. But If There Is Some Way To Force Every Word To Start With A Capital Letter, Then I'd Love To Know About It So I Can Annoy My English Teacher.
I am L47 and have the harness for the quest. why does it say ya have to be L50 or 50+ for the quest when in the quest you do not kill her? I have to kill a giant and they con blue to me. Just wondering.
duh, she is for a quest, dont kill her morons! And as of today the quest is working perfect!..also the blood wolf is on a timer of about 30min, give or take. Spawns on the wizard spire side, on left side facing ent to fort. Hope helps, i got mine!! WOOT!
She is for the Military Legs and Bracer... The quest is long enough without stupid morons killing her... She is a 12 hour spawn.. not triggered... So after you hunt for the Wolfs and camp the queen, you have to sit for 12 hour till she spawns. Why bother killing her??
I heard from many diff people and seen on a few posts that she drops some Ancient Coin... I think it could be used in one of the Realm of Heroes quest, prolly to whichever hero worships Veeshan (if any do). If anyone has more info, or can tell me if the coin is used for something different I'd very much appreciate it =))
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Was kiting Kodiaks when someone pulled the Broodmother out for the quest. Afterwards, she started to wander around the zone. She saw my pet (necro) attacking a Kodiak and jumped in to help. She then spent the next two hours following that kodiak around like she was its pet....So keep an eye out if someone pulls her out to do the quest.
When either the Kromif Leggings or the Coldain Military Wristguard quest are done, the broodmother is supposed to walk to either the giant fort or the dwarven cave. She is then supposed to kill one of the two dwarves/giants that spawn there and despawn.
The quest has never worked that way though. Before the last patch, she would wander to the appropriate place and then become the pet of the dwarf/giant you are supposed to kill. And that was fine because you could simply root bomb them and she wouldn't leave their side to come attack you. When they were killed she depopped and then you looted your quest item.
As of the last patch, she wanders out and becomes the pet of anything that she happens to walk by. I've seen her become the pet of a coldain tracking wolf!
So if you do have a harness of control, for either quest, be sure to save it until the broodmother is fixed.
I was with a group in the crystalline wurm cave (had to get my Monster summoning 2 spell) when I suddenly look up to see the broodmother standing over me! Luckily I didn't just hit attack right away. Well it sat there for awhile, we all wondered what she was doing in the wrong cave. The next spawn pops, I send in my pet (my pet was a dire wolf, thanks to the MS2 spell) and the broodmother follows it.
After the battle, I'm running around the cave, my pet following me and the broodmother following the pet. So it looked like the broodmother was pet. We finally decided it would be better not to have her around and accidently target and attack her. So I hit reclaim energy, my pet poofs, and she disappears.
She's involved in this quest. The reward is "Kromrif Military Leggings" upon completion of the quest. It starts in Thurgadin with Erdarf Restil. She always cons indifferent it seems, though all the other shardwurms are "ready to attack" me.
Does anyone know her spawn cycle or trigger?
<edit> As best I've been able to ascertain in-game, she is on an 11 hour timer. There seems to be a range of an hour or so either way.
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#Anonymous,
Posted:Dec 28 2000 at 8:33 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Solar Prexus, on Prexus server, killed her last night with the help of some very good fighters. She dropped a Lava Rock, Ancient Coin, and Shardwurm Stinger 10 40 crappy piercing weapon. It took us about 30 minutes to kill her. No kidding. She hits for 150's. Can't tell you anymore about that...