Keeper of Souls  

Does not see invisible. Deathtouches visible people sometimes before they can see him, so invisi up.

Edit: Also dropped White Satin Gloves, Light Woolen Mantle

Edited, Jan 8th 2010 1:01am by Torgayeth

Lifetaps work great. Was hitting him with highest level tap for 3K. No problems.

He summons.

Did this with a mage, another necro and myself. Mage (Svar, thanks man!) initialized and was instantly dropped. KoS deathouches on initial agro with a huge agro range. He does not see invis. I tried Soul Reaper's pyre, didn't stick. Tried Dyn'leth's Grasp. Didn't stick. Started lifetapping. That stuck. The other necro hit him with lifeburn for 11k. I should've lifeburned..(26K) and we could've had him without my death. Got him to about 12 percent with 85 rogue pet with EM1, mage weaps and mask, and a few taps. I died and other necro finished him off with taps.

Pop mercs. Mercs take DT's, as well.

I ate the death touch while my group took the Keeper out in about 20 seconds. The cape dropped on the first kill. Drop rate has been upped imo.

My Necro got hers first time, keep trying

Spawns after all mobs on the Island have been killed, DT'ed me for 94k HP, must have a group that can do enough DPS to minimize the times KOS can DT.

KOS DT is no longer just a 10K dt, it is an instant death hits for 99K. Also it comes now about every 30 seconds

Edited, Jul 14th 2008 11:00pm by SpiritwalkerGuild

Does he also DT pets? The reason I am asking this is pets are immune to being banished by the 4 guildmasters in Sanctus Seru. So, I was wondering if the Keeper of the Souls could not DT a mage pet for instance due to some game bug or something similar to pets not getting banished in SS.

Today we attempted to get as many keys as we could for Plane of Sky.

Tried to kill Keeper of Souls with 62 warrior, 70 paladin, 74 druid, and 68 mage.
Got it down to 48%. Not enough DPS to handle the 45 second death touch refresh.

Interesting fact and why I think it happens.

To spawn this mob, you have to kill 1 "A soul carrier" or "an essence harvester".
Upon the death of the first these, Nottap Ekim spawns out of your reach somewhere in the center of the zone. I have a theory why and it IS related to KoS.

My guess is that he is a timer mob. It goes like this.
1. A soul carrier or an essence harvester is killed. At that moment, 3 things happen.
EQ Checks. Is Nottap Ekim in zone?
---------Yes -- Don't do anything.
---------no ----Start timer for KoS to spawn, Spawn Nottap Ekim.

So timer starts that counts down to when KoS spawns. Also Nottap Ekim is given a Despawn timer and that starts to count down, say 150 minutes.

2. Now you kill a 2nd mob, either A soul carrier or an essence harvester.
EQ Checks. Is Nottap Ekim in zone?
---------Yes -- Don't do anything.
---------no ----Start timer for KoS to spawn, Spawn Nottap Ekim.

Since Nottap Ekim is in zone, EQ doesn't start a 2nd timer for a 2nd KoS to spawn.

How do I test this theory? Easy, I killed only 1 of the 6 mobs, waited for KoS to spawn, killed him. Then I killed a 2nd mob while Nottap was still in zone and waited. No KoS spawned.
Afterwards I waited for Nottap Ekim to despawn on his own and killed a 3nd mob. Then waited to see if KoS spawned again. He did.

The reason Nottap is out of range of any islands is so that raids can't spawn multiple KoS's by killing Nottap and farm KoS's drops easliy.

If anyone wants to sit it out and spawn 6 KoS's. Here's how to do it.
1. Kill 1 of the "A soul carrier" or "an essence harvester"
2. Park a cleric out of range of where KoS spawns and not help in the fight with KoS.
3. When till KoS spawns, kill him and die. Have cleric drag bodies away and rez. Loot up.
4. Wait till Nottap Ekim despawns.
5. Repeat step 1.

This requires most of your raid/group to have keys already so they can move on. If they have keys, they can just move to the next island instead till Nottap despawns, jump off, jump down or wizzy port back to isle 1 and run back and repeat.

I a betting Nottap Ekim is on about a timer of 150 minutes. KoS's random timer is 65 to 100 minutes and another 30 for despawning. So the wait time is gonna be long if you want to do this.

**on a side note, nottap ekim is spelled backwards. Mike patton is a singer who has an album called "the wrath of the easter bunny" Maybe sirran, who says :What?! Now you've done it! The bunnies are angry! ANGRY I TELL YOU!" listens to his music?

Edited, Mar 31st 2007 4:28pm by shadowsedge

When KoS spawns, buff up your DPS, use only damageing buffs that proc or add attack first then what ever you want afterwards. Have cleric stay back, send in rest with invis up. Circle KoS and have everyone target him. !st person Eats DT, 45 seconds to max damage. 2nd person Eats DS if kos not dead. Now...if all wipe, cleric is still out back with Invis up. Run his little behind over, drag corpses away and rez, rebuff and try again, why? Cause KoS can't see invis and HAS A SLOW HP REGEN.

did a 3 man, cleric in back, ranger for dps and shaman to eat DT, 3 deaths and KoS down. Cleric rezed shaman 3 times, ranger 3 times for a loss of 12% xp each but no biggie. A full group should be able to kill in 1 shot.

Belt of Concordance
Belt of Virtue

Edited, Nov 21st 2006 10:18pm by Halox

Well we cleared the island down to two mobs, did know he would spawn early ( it didnt take us 80 mins to clear the island) Ofcorse we wiped, no one was alive to hold agro or kill it fast enough. I tried my best to get the group back up there to try again, needless to say he despawned . now i return and kill the last few mobs, will he respawn ?if so how long ? any ideas ?

noticed something is not up there he drops he also drops bracelet of exertion mag only tiny 75 hp 35 mana 5 str anyone know hwat its for??

I've just finished version 1.0 of my Plane of Sky guide. Hope you find it useful.

http://home.comcast.net/~drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html

Drexxell
Wayfarers of Veeshan

Edited, Feb 28th 2011 10:09am by DrexelNecromancer

can KoS be stunned and is the bsc mqable.

Killed this horsey with 7 tonight. 70 cleric, 60 cleric, 70 wiz, 70 chanter, 70 monk, 67 war, 70 shaman. Was still a tuff kill though. and at the end only one person was standing.. luckily it was a cleric to rez us back up.

KoS has approx 25k HP give or take. Does DT every 30 seconds, and hits for approx 300-400. KoS can perform double hits in one round.

Not sure how long it took us, but as soon as the 4th island was clear...KoS spawned.

Edited, Thu Mar 24 06:18:52 2005

how many hitpoints does it have

We killed it tonit
Droped wut is listed above, and he poped after we cleared da island, only mob still up wuz da Overseer of air. We just sited and waited, so dunno if he pops after da first mob, or after da last wun. no idea as no wun timed.
Tried pet pull wid sk65 and me war 61, but sk got CT wid dis method, so not sure if pet pull work.
Mobs tend to land a hit or 2 before ct or ht. In dis case mabe it wuz enought to kill pet and switch target.
Anyway he ct 3 or 4 times before he go down.
Nothing special about it, just need 2 tanks and cleric wid clicky (prefered hehe) and dat s it.

Edited, Thu Sep 30 02:10:25 2004

8/20/04 He Dropped a Blade of Abrogation for the Sk Epic


Vorr

First I thought this thing was bugged but our stubborn asses stayed there 10 minutes after we wiped the whole island.

All I can say is that CT is no joke, if you have a low amount of people this guy can be done easy though with 1 cleric and another healer and some dps. In our case it was 1 War, 1 Beast, 1 Necro, 1 Mage, 2 Clerics, 1 Wiz. Beast took initial CT by sending pet so nobody had to drag his corpse.

On CT Warrior and other Engaged with pets, 1 Cleric dragged corpses OOR and rezed, while the other healed the tank at the time. After about 3 or 4 CT's the mob was dead. -_-

Also drops Fine Velvet Cloak for the coveted Dark Cloak of the Sky (Ranger) PoS quest. Frustratingly rarely, naturally.

Have you tried using a Paladin with divine stun to tank it? divine stuns and pop stuns should hit this mob np and prolong the period of time between death touches. I have seen this technique used with a few DT capable mobs that were unstunnable except for divine stun pre-pop, the pop spells also hit them now as most have a lvl limit of 65 or higher. Divine stun is an AA ability paladins recieve. 400 is not enough dmg to need defensive skill for if your tank is a fairly high level with decent gear.

Killed the Keeper on Sunday after a long ass raid
-- no Cloak-- camped there and spent an hour and a half summoning ppl up on Tuesday-- Killed the Keeper-- again no Cloak.

/rude VI

Why do other classes have epics that are Twinkable when necros have to go through this sh*t?!?!

Frustrated necro,

Cnut

He dropped 2 black silk capes for our group yesterday, of course me being the only necro on the raid. *bright smile*

Loot includes Black Silk Cape for the Scythe of the Shadowed Soul quest (Necromancer Epic) And some sword for Shadowknights :)