I was hunting the caves for rockhopper hides because that was the suggestion I found. After about 10 rounds, I happened across this fellow and killed it. Didnt think much about it until respawns started and Sambata showed up. I looked it up and saw some comment their frustrations with looking for hides and now Sambata are up... I was going to take their advice and go camp the PH til I got the named to reset it back to Rockhoppers. However, while on my way to the location, I noticed that my inventory had acrylia which I had also planned to go farm for the same Tailoring. Instead, in one location, there is a chance to get all the materials needed...no complaints here.
Was able to pop the Age Old Rockhopper with my lvl 64 sk in the hopes of it dropping gants remains so I could camp,pull up my lvl 30 ranger, and loot it.(All before the corpse decayed)To my luck,after casting gather shadows several times,going into the room where he pops,killing his ph(a rockhopper) and casting it again,I am able to say that all that was on the corpse was a bracer and a pelt.I can try again but it doesnt seem to hopeful.BTW: It was green to a lvl 64 so I am glad that I didnt try it with my lvl 30 ranger. Hope this helped!! Good Luck! :)
Please do not kill An Age Old Rockhopper. It causes all of the rockhoppers to despawn and the Sambatas to spawn. It can take hours and hours of killing placeholders until the rockhoppers come back.
Rockhoppers provide hides for tradeskilling, including all acrylia-based armors.
If ya do kill this guy , basically ya have to kiull all the cavenem placveholds until the caveman named comes back rofl and thats always fun but took about 4 hours the other day
fought this mob today as a 47 Ranger and he conned even to me. used calm animal and snare no problem but I wasnt expecting the blind spell so it was hard to actually tell what was landing and what wasn't until the fight was over and i was dead lol.. I think I got him down to about 25% before I died and I was using steadfast servant for heals.
PLEASE, dont kill this mob. Kill all the hoppers around him, in the caves what ever, but not this one. If he aggros, FD, gate, memblur but dont kill him. When he dies ALL the hoppers poof and then the cavemen are in (alla owlbears and sonic wolves in Hollowshade). Getting rid of the cavemen is a true bummer, so let us skin hunters in there and dont kill this guys PLEASE!!!
I was with a group and well I believe Age old Rochkhopper decided to blinde me. I ended up running in circles with him on my tail while being screamed at to run out of the cave sadly I didnt know what way to run to. yeah fun fun! hes not a nice mob and casts real nice spells LOL I Always was told that this mob was necro but.... as far as I know necros cant blinde ya.
Been camping the caves for 4 hours till this guy popped. Killed him with my pet and all the rockhoppers stopped showing, 2 mins later, the sambatas showed up. Killed one and looted The Shard piece for VT key. Then I killed the leader because people wanted the rockhoppers hides.:)
The Shard drops off of normal rockhoppers too, so you don't have to kill this guy and then kill Sambatas till you get a lucid shard. All it does is really mess up things for the tradeskillers. Killing one tribal leader to " make it all better" shows a misunderstanding of how this works. You have to kill GARN, who is a very rare spawn indeed. Tribal leaders are placeholders for Garn, but most of the time you kill one and 15 - 20 minutes later, you get another of the same. It can take days to get the rockhoppers back.
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You would be better of just invis'ing down to his room and then dropping it, although when I last went down to pay him a visit he had a friend in there with him,but I was 59 at the time and some of the mobs were a bit more of a hindrance back then.
What I did not realise is that this is a bit like Hollowshade Moor warevent,in as much as when you kill boss rockhopper the Tribals will then take over. Not sure which of the Tribal peeps is the boss to send it back to rockies but I killed the level 60 nec erudite named that spawned and that didn't seem to do the job???? But that is one of the reasons that people don't really like others coming along and killing since most will be farming rockhopper hides for their tailoring.
Instead of arguing about it, consider that maybe the root/snarability is a random issue with the spawn. I've pulled the big yet unnamed hopper a number of times. Sometimes snarable, sometimes not.
different classes have different kind of root snare and it also depends on if the mob is higher lvl than you, your spells wont stick very often if at all :)
Killed him earlier today. Snare, root AND panic animal all stuck without issue. Sad fight really, didnt drop anything but a pelt and eyeball :/ My beastlord friend was disapointed.
Big blue dino dropped last night with the following loot:
Gant's Remains A Centerstone A Crushed Skull Galorian Remains
Ranger plooted Gant's remains. I know that the centerstone is for another gimp weapon in DP (Wolfslayer quest). I still don't know what the Galorian remains are for, but some people think they are quest related (while others like me simply sell them to vendors for 4pp).
What I'd like to know is what the crushed skull is for? Does anyone know?
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