I know it's been posted several times already, but just updating that she still drops both. My wife was killing the mob in Kedge Keep for several days without luck of the robe dropping. This morning I decided to look up her epic and ran here and killed this mob quick to see if she would drop the Kedge robe. Dropped both robes and the staff. Figured I'd post for any new rogues trying for their epic.
I just made a baby halfling rogue today to check the robe status on Coercer. I saw the ishva graphic, and still needing that, I figured I'd go ahead and try my luck at solo'ing her.
I used my 66 bard and warrior merc, although the merc probably wasn't even necessary as the coercer didn't really melee me and I resisted all her spells. I ran by the entire DE house, pulled them all near the Rivervale zone, and doted the coercer (she is unmezzable/charmable). Fading memories, and all that was left was coercer and war priestess.
Since the priestess was mezzable, I didn't bother to FM again. I downed them both quickly without loosing any health, and to my surprise I was able to loot both robe of the kedge and the robe of the ishva on my rogue from the coercer!
Back when kunark was new, I had a rogue and I remember checking this spawn on a halfling every day for that kedge robe graphic, and it took me MUCH longer then. Just wanted to confirm she is able to drop both robes even with the ishva graphic so it would seem worth it to me to kill her every time she is up.
She spawns on an 8 hour timer, the other dark elves are on about a 2 hour timer from what i can tell. I have killed her many times and everytime she was wearing the Robe of the Ishva she never dropped a Robe of the Kedge. Advisor also drops Robe of the Kedge but it seems to be more rare from him perhaps because his spawn time is much lower.
Use sneak/hide to get behind her and in trade range, then hand her the box. Hide will drop but sneak will stay up. Trade the box, hide again, and move away.
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pulled her from camp...mezed her friends as i ran away with my bard...once she was far enough i faded...rog did hand in...popped genereal...then i killed her and he looted robe fo kedge and robe fo ishva...killed genereal and he had the quill lol
The current picture of the Coercer is her when she's wearing the kedge robe. (Light blue white trim) ...killed her today when she had this graphic, and she dropped the robe. *dances*
I am a 65 Druid on Rallos Zek and I soloed her and Single Pulled her as well, I will explain how.
To start off the current buffs I had on were POT9,SOe,GOD,Mask of the Hunter,Symbol of Kazad, Circle of Seasons, Natures Might, C3, Blessing of Reverence,Replinishment, Bladecoat, Resist Posion, Resist Disease and Shield of Blades. My Hp was 3688 with 894AC with 207 Str, 175 STA, 108 AGI, 120 Dex, 280 Wisdom, 135 Int and 62 Cha. My resists were 112 Posion, 197 Magic, 115 Disease, 138 Fire and 145 Cold.
How I singled her was I summoned my level 30ish bear pet and gave him SOE, Pot9, Str, Regen, MR and Haste. I sent him on her and right when he attacked her I had him back off and she came to me singled. I started to back up and got 2 adds from behind and my thorns I had on got the adds to 50% health quite quickly and I used my DMGing root to finish them off. I did the same with her pet.
I started by attempting to snare here around 10 times until it finally landed then tried root which was hard to land also. She summoned me quite a bit but her hits for 150's and 180's were nothing really.
I resisted her fear 3 out of 5 times and she resisted my Vengence of Tunare (64 Nro Ldon Dot) 2 out of 3 times. What I did was waited for her to summon me and right when she did I would run a little bit for about 4 seconds, stop and cast my dot giving me just enough time before I would got summoned. When I got to 50% health I would use my 3 Second Casting time 2k Heal and I only had to heal twice the whole time.
My first dot Vengence of Tunare got her down to 80%ish then she resistsed my second one and third so I started to go with Swarming Death instead. My Swamring Death was not resisted once out of about 4 casts.
My first Swarming Death took her to about 65% and then I got a 2nd one off when the first one wore which took her to about 50%. I then casted Swarming Death again and and Wing Death as well which took her to about 20%. At 20% I casted one more Swarming Death and at 10% she stoped attacking me (If she wasn't snared she would of run). Keep in mind this whole time while I was casting dots I was waiting till I got summoned then took off and casted and finished casting right before I got summoned.
I hope this answers many of your questions on weather or not she can be soloed.
I tried this technique a few days ago. Worked beautifully. Great post Dreaddor!
Now today, I tried to get her using the same, and the entire camp adds now. This happened after this mornings patch. I tried 3 times, staying as far away from camp as possible and still have pet go in. Pet lived enough to pull him back to me, but along with the Coercer, all the others came too. Perhaps they nerfed the "pet fishing" method just this morning...?
So.. another way to do this, and a lot more hassle... is to harmony what you can, pull Coercer with Annul Magic. This will usually get rid of her Wonderous Rapidity (70% haste). Snare all the adds and pets while running around the North area above the house. When all are snare (don't snare the Coercer), just kite her near RV zone. She'll stop and cast sometimes. I usually go past the RV zone to the corner, and all the snared mobs lose aggro due to distance. Then it's just killing her. If she is hitting very fast still, hit her with another Annul. It makes big difference on her damage output. I get her snared around 50% health just so i don't forget. Swarming Death, fire debuff, then nuke her into the ground.
Killed her 6 times now. No Kedge robe for my rogue yet, but hopefully it'll drop soon. I'm at the "maybe i should just MQ the robe" point though hehe.
Learning how to pull and deal with this house is a good skill to have though. I have no fear now of that place, where before it was always this dark forboding evil death trap. The way you can get them all snared would be great to feed a group doing the General is a nice safe way. Just have someone over-aggro one at a time and the group can easily dispatch them.
very nice post. i just wanted to say that i found it a slight humorous that my 53 froglok sham (no uber gear at all) with just virtue has more hp than your 65 druid.. heh oh well, outstanding post
It's a bit involved, but can be one fun challenge. Getting her out of the house solo is the real challenge. Wake of Tranquility will hit most, but you'll usually end up with at least 1 add. Pull her with Recant Magic to wipe off her haste. I've just mezzed the adds with dazzle (Advisor is >55 and i think he's flagged unmezzable. He's the other one that drops the Kedge robe as a rare). You're going to have to run around a bit to get this all done. Then get the Coercer to near the RV zone. Then after you're sure she's single, and have pelled her haste, slow her, then grab a local undead 40 ish mob as a DC pet. All this while keeping rune up. You can rune tank, nuke, while pet beats on her. Get SoV or better on pet, of course.
It's best to do this at night, so you have a variety of 40 ish mobs to DC around RV zone. Keep ITU up while you getting ready to WoT and pull.
It's a real challenge, but a fun one. Once you locked into the fight, if you get in trouble best to gate, as she does summon. You probably could make it into RV zone after a summon or 2 as well.
Anyone please tell me if she summons? I saw another post here about how someone 'kited' all the DE, but I know for sure that either the adjulant or l'othos v'ghera does summon, cant remember which though.
I a 65 Druid, a 57 Bard, 58 Shammy, and a 61 Wizzard try to get her earlier. We couldnt single her. First try, I harmonied, had the bard try to pull he got all of them and we wiped. Second time, I harmoed all, snared the Coercer, and aggroed her and the Adjutant. Eventually we lost the coercer somewhere in the woods because I got feared to the RV zone, but the shammy stayed up with the adjutant and we all met up and killed him. The adjutant has around 15k-20k HP I would imagine, he took quite a few nukes to kill. The third and final time we tried, I harmoed all but the dead adjutant, snared the Coercer, and Im pretty sure all agroed except maybe 1. After that we all ran and decided not to try again for a while.
I just pulled her and snared all the adds...took her to west commons zone line and snare rooted her. Then I zoned aggro, came back over and started nuking her till she died. Yes she summoned me but spirit of the wood owned her. Solo kill by 65 druid
I solo pulled her tonite, you just gotta be fast on the harmony and pull with Burst of Flame or something like that, pullin with snare = bad.
Aside from a ranger that helped for a couple of seconds, i (65 druid) was able to solo her. Only thing that sucked was being annuled x 3 and having to zone to RV and rebuff real fast, that ate about 40% mana, heh. But even so, a 65 druid can solo her, takes a bit of time though.
ok 1 things for sure she aint level 55 all the time, she may spawn diferent lvls each time but i tried pulling her tonight, im lvl 55 monk and she was red to me, that made her at least lvl 58, we had a lvl 60 ranger with us and was dark blue to him so last night ( wearing the kedge robe) she was lvl 58-59
Turn off your models for Dark elfs and keep checking Kithikor for a non blue robe. The obe was brownish green. If she is wearing it get as many peeps as you can. SHe dropped both robes and the Staff for me last night.. Also the advisor can also have it but that can not be seen on him
If you plan on killing the elves in search of robes and not spawning the General then you don't need as many people as you may think. The mobs are hard, yes. But if kited and pulled properly you can take them down with as little as a single group.
A lvl 60 Druid to pull and kite. A high lvl Cleric A Mage/Necro/Wiz An Enc Two melee
Thats all it takes. A good 60 Druid can pull the elves single. If he screws up the pull he can run away a short distance and then L. Succor himself to clear aggro and try again. Thats how we did it. Took 3 or 4 tries to get the pull right but then the battle was a cakewalk. Pulled the elves one-by-one to the WC zoneline, Tashed, and then kited 'em around in circles until they died. It was effortless. We spent all last weekend killing the elves each time they spawned and haven't had a death yet.
LOL, dunno what you doing, she only 58, get a 65 ranger, and 65 Nec, later Coercer, and the Gen can be done with one group of 65s...try it, we did, it works =)
You still have to kill general. He drops 2 items, one always, and one very rarely. The whole point of the robe is in case he doesn't drop the rare item.
Killed her tonight, dropped robe of ishva, and a couple crappy items (SK stuff I think).
Could a lvl 60 mage solo her? hmm maybe if you have epic, and pet spam her. Hits round 200ish max, has a pet. I got agro on a bad pull, so I let her kill me (forget to mem egress doh). 2khp seem to take a long time for her to get through. With 150ish MR she was blasting me for under 200dmg. The impossible part for you would be pulling her. You need someone to harmony the cabin to singler her, and even then, you must pull her from the hillside to get a single pull. Very tricky stuff.