an ice giant  

Ornate Defiant Glowing Shield just dropped.

Just got Ornate Defiant Plate Vambraces.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2009 1:13pm by insanitywithapencil

Just got Ornate Defiant Leather Gloves.

need to add to drop list:

Ornate Defiant Harpoon

dropped from an ice giant in everfrost on 08/15/2008

Cenen

need to add to drop list:

santug's gift

dropped from an ice giant in everfrost on 12/13

IS IF YOUR A DRUID AND 46+.. You can Kill all 3 of these at once@!

Well I only decided to try these ice giants at lvl 50. It's mnot hard to get the ice giant camp, but i could see it being more competitive in the past. As for my experience, I can solo all 3 of them and be at 100m by the time the first one spawns again with the help of KEI. I start out with a slow, and let my pet tank while I put on listless power debuff. Once that lands I go into melee the first one. By the time the fight is over I'm anywhere from 50-60% health left. For the next fight I slow and debuff again, this time letting my pet solo while I heal up to 90%+ health. Once that is done the 2nd one will be down to maybe 40-50% area and I melee it down. My pet sometimes needs a heal after I have healed myself all the way up, but if its around 40% I wait. When I start the next fight I slow and debuff while my pet is hitting, this is when I throw him a heal, and myself if I'm below 60%. Then we melee it to death. When the fight is over me and pet will probably be 50% health each. We then go wait near 1st one's spawn and I heal my pet once. Then he will be good to regen the rest of the health before spawn. I heal myself up to about 95%+. All in all my mana after this cycle will be about 85-90%, leaving me just enough time to med it back to full before first spawns again.

Diamond dust i am almost positive doesn't drop from the guys outside. It is either made up or a 1/100 thing. Just trying to save some people trouble-from expierience since i used to kill these everyday

Ok this is for 44+ beastlord to solo there way 49.You want get Mage girdle of magikot 500 hp pet belt,muzzle of mardu haste mask,fist of ixiblat 50 hp fists 150 nuke proc,phantom chain armor.Eight summoned mage bags 10 slot.Summon pet and fully buff with everything but the kitchen sink.Now once you full mana fire off your 20 nuke to ice giant.Send in pet and slow,once hes slowed just stay back and play cleric on pet we have 580 heal so heal away you cant melee these beasts they will smash you into the ground and your here to get exp and $$$$$$$$$ so you dont want waste mana healing yourself when soloing here.Pet will take a beating and you will sit back and laugh and just heal as needed.Rinse and repeat and watch $$$$$$$$$$ come in and exp to 49 for new pet and spells.Good luck and may eq gods protect Van Shir beasts.

I think they changed the spawn time on these critters, i know it use to take around 5 to 7 min to spawn, seem to take twice as long now :(

with 51 earth pet and clicky burnout III and horse, mage can solo these very well and hold all 3 spawns. pet up, BOIII, send in, nuke (i used char each time, 44 shock would work too), after battle reclaim, pet up again, go after next giant while you fight. sometimes pet dies in the end of the fight, just resummon the next pet and use him to finish him off.

end up getting nice exp at 52, 6 packs of crap to sell, and about 900 in plat and a few thousand of gold silver and copper. adds up nicely, and a horse is almost a must here (that or good sow/selos).

I can definatively say that the Ice Giants in Everfrost have just under 5000 hit points. Been killing them for the past few days and running the battles through an analyzer. My approach (level 51 ranger) is to root, dot, then shoot like crazy, root, dot, shoot, etc until dead, (the IG's dead of course, not me).

In every case, the amount of damage they took was in the 4900-5000 point range.

Loot can be maddening of these guys. I've gotten plat as high as 46pp but once I got 2 gold, 3 silver (Boy was I ticked off at that one!) Good amounts of gems and FS weapons over the course of 8-10 battles. Of course there are the occasional Ice Giant Toes and about 4 or 5 different kinds of 1-2 plat jewelry.

Edited, Mon Jul 28 13:08:53 2003

i killed one before when i was about 34, with two other shamans within a level. we all just sat there dotting in and sending pets in. it was hard, it took a while, and i did die once (stupid groupmates didnt heal me as i was running around while gettting whacked). at that time, they hit for at least 100, and they hit pretty fast. i went back at about 37, grouped with a 53 ranger, and we took them out pretty easily (although he did most of work hehe). now im 41, i been meaning to head back and try to solo one, with a kei and temperance/virtue. it shouldnt be a problem, my spells would probably stick a bit more now. theres only 3 areas they spawn, and they are regularly camped, try the hill giants also in rathe if you looking for nice plat drops (and much easier to solo - my first HG solo was at 37)

how much plat do these guys drop?

Hello all. Im a 47 Shadow knight and is thinking of giving these fellas a try. Solo that is. Now many of u might say that Sk cant solo very well. Maybe thats true but i can be done all u have to do is get a shot of Kei. In my guild we have some chanters with Kei so getting one isnt a problem. But what are my odds of taking them down? Sk do have fear so thats what im gonna try.... Any comments would be appriciatet. Will be back tho and tell ya how it went!

Vaash Darkfiend 47 Sk on KB
Proud memeber of Counsel of Elders

I think that there is alot of great information in here about IG's for anyone who would consider fighting one, these posts are invaluable, though, no one seems to have mentioned the damage that IGs average, FYI its commonly over 100. I was reading the post by the 29 Nercro, I assure you that if the IG that they fought had been a duel weilding IG, and the first de-buff spell had been resisted, that would have been 2 corpses at IG's, 55+ charecters do not die there for fun. an unslowed duel weilding IG will kill you faster then you could imagine.

A friend and I decided to give it a shot. He is a 31 ranger named wrektum, i am a 29 necromancer. It took us a half hour and a lot of boil blood and arrows. We each made hotkeys for when we needed the other to take the agro, when we needed to resow (we knew the fight would last longer than our sow), when we were low on hp and mana and so on. They resisted about half my boil blood spells, wrektum made 14 stacks of arrows for the fight and used them all. He saved all his mana to heal me so i could keep up my hp->mana spell, I would pull fly bys when i had the agro so he could heal me. Then he would take the agro and bow kite it while I medded. Neither of us had any outside buffs or heals. Only one blue of xp for all that work... But this has to be a new record or something!

Hi im a 51 mage and i just have to say that these are fairly easy, BO3, DS, sick pet, nuke twice and bye bye mr icey. As for the lvl 20's and 30's groups wanting to take IG's, theres no way. The loots nice and the XP is just as good at 51, if you can solo these i highly suggest you do so


Shallow Shadowlurker
51st Elementalist of Neriak
Rodcet Nife

er... about how much health do these guys have? and how much PP do they drop at rhe most, aaaaaaand whats the minimum recommended level for a necro to solo one of these guys?

Inside Ice Giants are level 38 to 52.

Good luck all !

Ulmwe Chevalier de la Licorne.
Mage 46 MT.

Me(Sham 42) and my lvl 42 monk friend can take these pretty easily.

Monk has Jade Mace.. and Staff of shielding. Can take a blue one down with about 2 bubs of mana left.. and a white con is real hard but totaly possible with FM.

THe sham DOTs and the speed of the monk eat HPs like nothing. Slow keeps them from putting out to much dmg.

the posted level range of 38 - 42 is only correct for the outside giants in Everfrost.
Inside giants between the throne room and Vox can be as high as 50+. We pulled the first two spawns behind the diplomat last night during a little coronet farming session, and at least 3 where red to our 47 warrior (=50+), all blue to a 53. Without tash, several resisted multiple attempts to be slowed, rooted or snared. So don't be fooled by the low level "yard trash" outside, the perma frost giants are of a different calliber. Also, their aggro and assist range is level adequate, don't try to pull the lair giants without a FD puller. You will get 3-4 (unless you can handle that :)).

Edited, Thu May 2 11:22:19 2002

This is the same level 16 as you see below. I am level 31 now, and my grouop and i (32 warrior, Me a 31 Rogue, 33 Cleric, 30 Shadowknight, and a 31 magician) were able to solo one of these guys one at a time. We had buffs from a level 48, all of us, and we all had SOW to zone into Perma. The first two there was a lvl 55 there who conned them for us, they conned light blue to him, so we tooke them rather easily. Then the third our warrior died as he was a dark blue to the lvl 55. We killed 3 all together with only one death, not bad, and the war constantly taunting. I looted a fine steel shaft, 10pp, an ivory, and some toes. dont know what else they got was too busy celebrating.

Hiya im a level 17 rogue of the tribunal and just logged. For the past three hours i have been sitting outside the camp for these things as high levels killed them. When they killed one, they didnt always loot all the items. I got about 10 gold rings, 15 topaz crystals, a fine steel warhammer, and 13 jade earings. You can sell the jade earings for about 10-20 pp in east commons i was told. The topaz crystals are sold to merchants for 4 pp or to jewelcraft people if you can find them for about again 10pp. in the process i got about 25 of their toes, all for about 8 gp each. While waiting for Snow orc shamans and other calfs to pass i sat and practiced my sense heading sense traps sneak and hide. went up about 5 in those. I was about a low 16 when i started and now have 1 bubble into my 17th level from killing shamans. If things are looking bad just yell for help and with luck a high level will help. You can get nice buffs from the high levels too if you if you ask nicely. Just thoguht id share what i did today, from all the shaman loot and ice giant toes and whatnot i made about 50pp. A good day for me today.