a cobalt drake  

Dropped a Mithril Amulet and Jade Ring for me today.

Edited, Sat Oct 1 03:49:39 2005

Saw one that was white at 39

Would also be helpful to have C3 and some kind of Cold Resist spell up when fighting Drakes.

I was in Cobalt Scar last night (41 wizard) with some friends (upper 50's) being powerleveled as they farmed for their tradeskills. I was hit several times by drakes ( I had not seen these before and was unaware of what they did). The most I was hit for was about 500 damage. One almost killed me, (he hit me twice)but luckily the druid i was with saved my butt and attracted the aggro.

These also drop the spell Elemental Maelstrom.

I was soloing this dark blue mob when my druid was lvl 47. Ensnare to attract it's attention, followed by a root. Stack Drifting Death, Drones of Doom and Stinging Swarm on it - adding Creeping Crud if you want. Sit back out out its casting range and allow to cook for a couple of minutes, reapplying dots as required. Screech!...dead drake. One dropped Circle of Wakening Lands for me tonight - pity i already had it.

Salateen Sowkasterkaster <Vampiric Council>
lvl 49 Druid
Xev

got a nephrite off one

just wanted to add that i looted boon of the gorou off a regular old drake.
From the only paladin in CS soloing drakes for their nice pp, and vendor gems 42pp each, and quest gems (standard 250pp each). I solod a few levels here... and even dinged 57 here. I have made over 10k just off 2 bags of velious armor quest gems.. and now looking for another guild to buy my other 2 bags of quest gems. The drakes are the only ones wroth fighting now at these levels, rarely some are still blue, 90% are baby blues. Drop spells and gems/quest gems. Run to otters to sell them, or to Skyshrines vendor areas.

I don't think it is stupid to sit by the portal and get hit by the 500 AOE spell if you don't know any better. If you do know better then that is stupid.

This happened to me my 6th time porting there while picking someone up that was giving me C3. I got hit but I ain't stupid. I learned from that. Never again. Kids need to lighten up before calling others stupid. I would open hand slap anyone who called me stupid to my face, so don't hide behind a website and dish out BS that you would never say to anyone's face.

BTW the drakes are dubious to me. Wondering if I should kill them if it will drop to KOS. I'm thinking it will stay dub but then again never hunted in this zone.

Like the subject says, these guys are cake. I wish I had been out here at 47 and 48 instead of quadding dwarves. The going rate for the hides on Karana is about 200pp. A 44+ druid can easily kill them, just be careful of where you fight, and whatever you do, DON'T let them get close. I haven't died yet at 49 and 50, but I've been awfully close quite a few times. I have 2 dots, grasping roots, ensnare, and 4 buff spells loaded at all times. The extra buff spells are necessary to try to prevent myself from losing sow. btw, they are sow, str, SLN, and resist cold, for obvious reasons. The aoe is 500 max, and maxes quite often without decent saves vs cold. If you want to get exp on something out here with melees, go for wyverns. Drakes must be root dotted or chain fear kited, which is quite mana draining itself. I only have ever seen one drake tanked, and that was 4 pallies that chain stunned... oh what 4 pallies, a druid, and a shaman can do to mobs... makes you sick

these things seem to leave you alone once you put to big a psace between you and them, very low aggro range unlike the wyverns who will follow you everywhere after hittin them with a spell,so stay close enuf to keep but not to close so he can dispell you and knock out your levitation as your draggin him down to the beach(almost killed me once)

I have been told they dropped Flawless diamonds as avery rare loot...Is that true or once again total myth?

Watch out when you are killing wyverns as these things will help them out.

OK, unless you're after hides, the Drakes aren't very good game (lvl 44 spell drops, though, seem to be a common occurance). Gem drops seem to be exactly the same as Wyverns.

At lvl 53, about 50% of them turn green. I first started hunting them at 51, but only when the zone is packed full of Druids, Wizzys and Necros and not a Wyvern to be found. If you know what you're doing, Drakes are very easy to kill.

Pull with snare, and cast it from the farthest distance away as possible. Immediatly root and dot. The important thing to remember here is to KEEP YOUR DISTANCE! If you stay near the fringes of your spellcasting range, they cannot cast their AE spells on you. Only when you come relatively close will you get hit, but if they're snared, it's fairly easy to stay beyond their spell casting range. Also, don't worry if snare is resisted the first cast, these things seem to be even slower then unsnared Wyverns. If you do get hit, cold resists help a lot. Unbuffed cr hovers around 56 for me and I get hit for max with these stats. However, buffed up to about 100 cr, I've never been hit for more then 200. Again, the trick is to KEEP YOUR DISTANCE!

Also, out of kindness to fellow players...pulling these things to the beaches to hunt is very bad. The Drakes will cast their ae to any CoV KOS person who happens to wander too close, especially if the Drakes are rooted. The Drakes and Wyverns are spaced enough on the ledge where you can kite them there without the worries of adds. Just make sure you stay center ledge to avoid entering into any Wyvern's aggro range. Also, watch for any PC(s) pulling Wyverns accros the ledge near you! Hope this helps. Happy hunting!

Spuzy, 53 Wanderer (Regression)
Vazaelle

I here they are for tailoring, but what do you make, whats trivial, and whats recepie??

New change - Othmir no longer aggro on the Drakes after being hit by AE spell =(

These guys dont have a lot of hp maybe 4 or 5k was an easy solo with my 52 shaman...dont close in on em'...root dot ..and they are dead.

Yawind
52 shm

First off...aye, dont hang out at the portal, even if you are not KOS, someone will and agro the drakes, and catch you in the AE.

When drake(s) agro in CS, if you are not prepared to fight them, there is a recourse. If levi/dmf/safe fall is still up, or you can take the 250-300dmg for the fall to the beach. HEad to the beach where the Othmirs are. Immediately ooc/shout DRAKES TO OTHMIRS! (if you are going to give warning, please stop reading and just die in place)

Run through and just past the othmir camp to the waters edge. If you have an invun shield, throw it up quickly, if not you'll take one more AE hit. The AE has a LARGE radius. When the drake AEs again, all the Othmirs of that camp will agro on it. They will kill it, tho it will take a few moments...so as soon as its AE goes off...begin running away from the othmir camp, to escape the lastAE it might get off.

And once again...please ooc/shout DRAKES TO OTHMIRS (or the like). Give ppl warning. Those without good resists/HPs may die, or you'll agro pets.

If you can kill them but need a moment...train the the far end of the beach, furthest from Skyshrine. It's relatively othmir free...and player too. Still give a warning tho please. There should be room there to root/dot, kite the drakes without getting KSed by othmirs, and without ruining other ppls' day. =-)

Good hunting and safe travels.

Talionis Mischiefmaker
55th Defiler
Prexus

If you can solo dracs in SF, then you can take these without any trouble. At least if you are a druid. Just root, dot, repeat. Stay out of the casting range. It has a normal casting range unlike everyone is crying about. But, the blast radious of the AE spell in enormous.

A warning to any that feel safe around the Cobalt Scar teleport circle:

Due to the nasty AE on these drakes, you can easily be killed if someone who is NOT on friendly terms with them comes near you. A friend and I were sitting near the teleport circle discussing plans for the evening, when another druid teleported in. He was immediately aggroed by a drake which used it's AE. I thought someone had cast on us, and looked around for the PK. We restored the buffs the AE had dispelled and healed. Then the druid teleported in again, and two drakes blasted this rather foolish halfling, catching us in the AE. We had even moved out much further from the opening, but the druid ran out of the circle before aggroing the two drakes. My friend died, and I barely managed to stay alive, probably due to my high CR at the time. It took us a little while to figure out what had happened, but we finally figured it out from watching this rather insipid druid get himself killed again.

AoE is a bitch - does about 500 damage AND has a chance to dispell one of you buffs. It's not a spell so you can't mana sieve them away, its a proc like the dry bone skeleton's fire.

Sitting with my usual 110 cold resist (unbuffed and not in pvp gear) one did about 1/2 - 1 bub damage to me...which is nasty

Verant has acknowledged accidentally giving these drake's Lady Vox's AE ice spell, and not ice comet (IC isn't AOE :P) It's going to be taken care of in a future patch. But till then, that's one helluva bug, lol.

The Ottmirs are enemies to the drakes, so if you aggro a drake you don't want or can't take, jump down to the ottmir camp and let them kill it. It goes fairly fast, as the drake has few hitpoints.

There are 3 of these that patrol within aggro range of the Dragon Circle - you have been warned!