a protector of growth  

Yea me and a buddy of mine like going to older zones and seeing how well we can do. We are both 66 monks. Anyways had thought about playing around in here till wee seen the part about these things being after you the whole time.

I went to PoGrowth last night with a small raid to do some hunting on the west side of the stream, and we ended up with a very messy CR and three deaths each before a non-KOS cleric and druid rescued us with a nice, long rez-loot-port dance.

Like these posts state, the PoGs do not see invis and do aggro zone wide. We were able to kill one before getting wiped by the second, the Named unicorn, and several other adds. I thought . . . not good, but at least we will only need to deal with one next go around and set up a solid camp. We gather, buff up, and finally get back to the zone about 30 min later. We use the one minute plus before the PoG arrived to loot equipment and prepare for the PoG. I was surprized/dumbfounded to see 2 PoGs coming for us! From this, I assume their respawn is based on the first death not the second, like I read in an earlier post. All said and done at the end of the night, we killed one PoG and got PoGs down to below 20% two other times.

Information wise, the ones we encountered were either 53/54, they cast druid/ranger spells, ran at SoW speed, duoed for up to 275, summoned a lot, and ran at 20% and never tried to gate. They are very magic resistant and unmezzable. Dictate can work, but the magic resistance and long recast time makes that difficult to use. Our necro even had trouble landing her snare.

My rant: I really wish SOE would return these PoGs to a more normal aggro range. This zone would be so much fun to hunt, if it were not for these two pains attacking at every turn. It is not like this zone has a waiting list for people to hunt there and the drops are not as stellar as they use to be. The faction hits keep all of those goodie-goodies away anyway. ~grin~

these things attack me even if i am invis as soon as i zone in, i have been trying to get my corpse out of here for 5 hours and i cant, i have died 5 times now and when someone drags my corpse they get attacked too, i HATEthese things

Edited, Sun Jul 27 17:13:15 2003

Did POG tonight.. had in interesting break in. We were doing our normal break in by the south temple that overlooks the lake. We took the first normal death or 2 from people dropping invis and then running to south west corner to die and not trian the raid setting up camp. well the odd thing was we droped invis and waited for pog's.. and wiated.. and waited.. so we gave them 25 minutes and resed up the 2 dead. then we start killing thinkin maybe they are broken.. well our skillful monk managed to find them.. running like all hell at our group, but they were traped in the south temple and could not get out of there.. so they had been runing for about 2 hours into the wall. Anyone have any idea how they got in there? or how to stick them there like that?? this would be most useful information to have, because the first 1/2 of POG went REALY easy with them happily chuggin into the wall trying to get to us.

I've led many PoG raids and still lead, I'm a bard so I do all the pulling, and these guys are up here and there. My suggestion is just treat them as Sylvian Protectors really, not that hard, and they have no drops

F8
/cast shroud of pain
/shout Tank Mezzoring a protector of growth
/pray the healer doesn't forget me

weeeee

Only other methods of control I've seen for them is a lvl 60 chanter try to charm them-which didn't last long, and someone try to kite them around until the raid was ready for them.

P.S. look at the faction hits above and take a wild guess which faction they are on

10cp says Protectors of Growth

Edited, Thu Jun 6 08:09:12 2002

so when you kill enough things here and get tp'd in they get pissed and come after you? personally what verant should make them look like are bunnies or somthing along that line... nothing worse than zoning in and being attacked by bunnies hitting for more than 250 dmg... being killed by them would'nt be as bad as these goat things i'd actually get a laugh out of it but thats just me

Bahh these guys will gate and boy is it fun when they do. Many mobs in this zone can gate. the worst ones for it though are these and the treants. If a Treant gates u better camp fast =) cuzz in the Big tree camp they gate to some see invis. Thats a ugly CR my friend.

There is a easy solution to all of this. It works to. Just get a druid or ranger in the guild who has nuthing better to do, and put him on the pog spawn. First this is what my guild pale riders does, and 2nd it WORKS! Now Ive never actually seen it with my on eyes because I dont go close to the pog spawn. I promise this works. I dont know exactly if they dont spawn or argo but all I know is when we do it pogs dont track people down. If you cant do this just time there spawn its around 23 and a half minutes and takes 30secs for them to argo you and attack:)

First off, they are on a 29 minute timer. Like clockwork. Have someone timing them, make sure you stop pulling in time to be ready to handle them.

A decent raid party can handle 2 at a time by having one group tank one while the rest of the raid takes out the other. That's worked much better for us than trying to kite them around.

They seem to be about 50/50 melee/druid mobs, but I've never seen one gate. However, they will try to run and like many mobs in SoV, they will occasionaly hit a pathing bug and unable to run they "port" back to their home spot.

IF this happens to you, camp out immediately. The pog will begin to summon your party one by one across the zone for some personal attention. Go to a chat room, give it a few minutes to heal up, then all log back in together and be ready to quickly grp up for the fight.

Gotta love these guys. Pain in the ass from what I hear. Tip for you all though: make friends with 51+ SK's. Sk can invis, zone in, hide, and wait. After some other sucker kills em, call your corpse and bail.

Of course, it's expected you port them out...

Might wanna watch out for these. I went in there (agnostic high elf enchanter) just to look around. Everything there was indifferent to me, so I walked around havin' a great time. I walked all over the place, then I ended up near the south wall temple where the guardian walks around. Suddenly, out of nowhere, two of these came at me from the north and beat the dog sh*t out of me for no reason whatsoever. I couldn't figure it out. I went back in, dragged corpse, looted and gated. I have no idea why these things picked me out when none of the other MOBs did. I was the only one in the zone so they weren't aggro from somebody else either. Very wierd, but these guys are obviously on some faction that the others aren't.