a suit of sentient armor  

Hits for 150-200ish, repops every 15 mins. 6 mob camp at +1700, -2250, and 4 mob camp at +1400, -2965. Drops alot of crushed gems, but armor pieces are fairly rare, Have cleared 5 or 6 times and one sentient bracer so far, just here for axe for SK, but thought I would update a bit of info

Edited, Oct 5th 2008 12:53am by RoninWare

for a level 65 mage using a pet to tank them and Firebolt of Tallon/wrath of the elements for damage... most were green by this point, but was here to farm crushed diamond dust...
so far no CDD, but got flame of vox, rune of al'kabor, couple of velium weapons, and the sentient greaves... =\

These hit my so-so twinked 45war for 150ish max(1150ac), relatively fast but nothing insane. They seem to run slower than normal, and can be easily aggro kited with a snare even if you don't have sow or the like. They have a pretty low aggro/assist range, as even pulling from the little house with 4 of em I'd get only the front two every time. They do not run, so be prepared to fight them to the end. Loot was so-so, got 2-3 empty ones then one with an item or two, rinse and repeat. Only got two quest gems in about half a days camp, rest was vendor fodder. Never got a sentient piece. Easily done with a 45war and dru.

Edited, Sun Jan 2 18:21:47 2005

Recently I tried soloing these, me being a 59 SK, for the Sentient 2hd Axe, but found that there's almost too much downtime once even a darkblue goes down. I'd be down to 20 mana and have to sit for 5 minutes before trying again, so I called my 54 SK friend, and with both pets, pulling with Cascading Darkness, DoTting with Boil Blood, and kiting them around a small area on the hill next to the wall, they went down rather easy. All my Spears were resisted, with a small portion of them landing for very little dmg, so I didn't bother trying Spears as it's a waste of mana. Also, unless you have a chanter or shammy with you to haste, the trip to Wakening Land is so long, that getting high chanter haste in PoK is sure to run out not long after you get there, so Darkness kiting with a Boil Blood, (if you have it), is a good way to do it. Also, I haven't got the axe yet. It apparently is a rare drop, unlike the semi rare armor

As a bored 65 nec, i decided to go farm some sentient gear for my twink sk/work on CoV faction. These mobs still hit my pet (LoZ) for low hundreds (somewhere around 90-117s) ,quad,and sometimes wield velium weapons (which proc a low dmg DD. the wandering mobs can sometimes be more than annoying (stupid panthers dual me for 90s), but thus far can be feared/mezed/ect. oh, and suits can't be feared, but can be mezed/rooted and the like, but like to resist my disease and poison spells nearly everytime (especially poison). Also, they seem to have rather good MR, cause they break root (petrifying earth) early sometimes. Well, hope that helps someone some.

Thus far, I have seen 2 posts dexcribing the actual difficulty of these mobs. One said that they had around 6k+ hp, the other said they have around 50% FR/CR. Please define, "hits hard and fast". Doe shtis mean that they hit in the neighborhood of 150 or 200, quad-hit? Or merely 100 tripple-hit?

My interest in this is I would like to know if a level 53 BL/Enc combo will do well against them.

Bourne
Barbarian Primalist of the 53rd Winter

today I, then 48 SK, a 45ish shammy, and a 51 bard took them down fairly easily once we figured out how. The bard pulled, shammy rooted, tashed and slowed, then doted. I debuffed and dotted (heart flutter would not stick-spear of disease was essintally useless but good for when the adds came, keep debuffs up). The bard had 3 damage songs playing. When it was slowed and i hasted i went in and tanked and it went down easy. Lotta hp's, hits hard and fast but not when debuffed and slowed. Also they are immune to fear.
When the bard pulled 2, he would charm one and tank it, and we would do as above, with me steppin in on the non pet when charm broke

hope that helps once i am finished there!

Okies, I see alot about Druids soloing here and Wizzies, but how about a 48 magi? Should I not try? I would love to try these tin traps for exp. Is this mob good to solo? Or when I get there am I going to need to get in a group? Will a person have luck on getting a group or are these mainly camped by people soloing? I know that sony supports the policy no camps, but I do respect other people if they have a camp set up. So, I like to know ahead of time what to expect. I hate to waste paying for a port out there and then find can not hunt them cuz they are camped ya know?

I know there are a ton of places to go, but I have not been here, and a guildie is wearing the armor that drops and was suggested to come here (she did buy hers though).

Thank you to all who post a reply:) Take care:)

Arriannax De Fury
48 magi ~~ Karana
Champions of Elysium

Why cant Sentient Armor look like it does on these guys. A lot more flashy than poo brown. Id love a set of armor like this.

Mundy coppertop
42 Shadow Knight
Silver Knights of Norrath
Fennin Ro

is this the sk velious armor and if so what is the pally velious armor and is it worth buying?

Played with these guys last night.

AS a 52 shammy leading in with an unresistable disease debuff I couldn't get wither my poison or disease Dot's to land. DD was about 50% effective. Slows and melee debuffs went down fine.

I wouldnt try to quad them as a 55 druid. Wizards get better DD's/AOE's so probably a Wizard.

The shaman asking about it, I would say root/dot or single pull them. I wouldnt reccomend quadding.(never knew shammys could quad though)

Anyone Got A Loc On A Suit Of Sentient Mob?

can a 54 shammy solo/quad kite these?

I have been soloing these alot lately. 54 now 55 druid. I sometimes have my chanter friend join me and we root/dot.

I pull and snare. He roots and dots or nukes. I lay down my dots and occasioanlly nuke and we can keep the 4 spawn cleared to one pop continuous pulling.

Solo I may get 1 armor drop every 3 hours or so of killing.

Not sure how the gems were before but if they were nerfed then they must have been a few gems on each mob previously. I get more gems from these guys then I do from wyverns.

My hunting to armor drops went something like this:
2 hours - nothing
5 hours - bracer
1 hour - arms
3 hours - nothing
3 hours - helm
2 hours - nothing
3 hours - Boots, Breastplate, Bracer (WOOHOO)

Just need legs and gauntlets and I got me a full set.

Tonight me and a fellow guildmate hunted these due to the fact he's a Shadow Knight sure they maybe he around level 46 or something but like everything from about 35 and up they are Undercon
These are Solo able... well if you have alot of time on your hands. Myself a 51 Ranger my guild mate a 51 Shadow Knight and a 56 teamed up and fought these things first fight had a few close calls seeing how I didn't know 55+ can single pull these. After awhile tho we were doing okie, then our group started to go a 54 Rogue Guildie came to help out and then a 50+ shaman buffed us all up shammies are the best buffers heh =) then a cleric traveling down the zone wall joins us for a few rounds with the cleric we were killing these mobs pretty quick and smooth barely losing hp really hehe not sure on everyone else but I had 3128 hp heh and 930 ac pretty good for a 51 Ranger I think heh thats buffed to the max remember heh ne ways with 5 people these mobs were fun to kill we basicly couldn't get enough the armor seems to be rare drop we had to have killed over 10 of them and nothing dropped at all just some runes and velium weapons

Reachee ThunderArrow
Pathfinder of the 51st Arrow
Server:Bristlebane

dunno bout the drop rates, We killed 10 of them and got one helm.

But it takes awhile. I soloed one with my 51 bard. Got alot of resists, but i chanted it down after about 20 minutes (i had a beast drum so good chant damage). The new SoL 2.5 minute run song is great for doing this, but a group would give better exp imo.

Can anyone tell me how frequently the Sentient armor drops.

These are all either blue or light blue at 60, hardly farming if your getting exp at the same time. Root holds fine at lv 60 and after ro's fiery, breath of ro will land about 75%, more often if you refresh breath of ro before it fades. Winged death gets resisted about 10% of the time at 60 without tash or malo. Solo druid's perspective.

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