Beasts of Sunderock  

One thing before I get into specific tips for working through this quest: Unless you're level 75+, bring full mana on any character who uses it to each of these fights, especially healer mercenaries. You'll usually need it.

Komodokin:

Hits like a truck, and whacks things behind him with his tail from time to time, so don't let anyone be directly behind him (the rogue mercenary could take it, though). If you have defensive disciplines, use them; I barely survived this fight as a level 68 Warrior with autogranted AA and Hero's Journey gear, with my 68 Shaman and healer mercenary struggling to keep me alive, because I forgot to do this--he would sometimes chop off 70% of my HP in a single round. His ATK must not be very high, because he didn't do this often--I would have simply been toast if he did.

Trideath:

Defensive disciplines make Trideath's melee hits almost trivial, and I see reports of 2300 max hit without defensive disciplines from his page (which should also be manageable for a tank in Journey gear with auto-granted AA), so the latter might be good to list here. Also notable is that pathing in the cave is strange; when I tried to pull him away from his spawn because his mate was uncomfortably close, he pathed to his room's exit before I caught him again, which caused her to add. Try to fight him where he stands and not let this happen, her melee is pretty light but she fears. This caused my Warrior to die, though my Shaman and mercenaries managed to win the fight. Trideath is otherwise a relatively straightforward tank-and-spank, and not a difficult one at that.

Tortugone:

He hits like a truck, so use defensive disciplines or bring a tank mercenary. You're not going to molo this one either way, due to how he swallows the first tank early in the fight; a healer merc will teleport to you if you're tanking him, and if you're alone with your merc, he will lose aggro at this point and regenerate to full health; if your mercenary is a tank and you're not, I imagine you'll just die. It's even worse if you're not mounted, because it's very easy to become stuck in the terrain in his belly and be unable to hit his gullet to get yourself out (you can still use Origin or Throne of Heroes to leave the zone, however). Bring a friend who either is a capable tank or has a mercenary who can do the job. A level 68 Journeyman 1 rogue merc was enough for me, though ultimately a level 84 Paladin came to help (thank you Darcet); a J1 tank merc would have been plenty.

Sandstorm:

As a 68 Warrior, his melee hits were mostly trivial, even though my defensive disciplines were still recovering after a successful Trideath kill. The adds appear to spawn based on Sandstorm's remaining health--one at 50%, two at 25%, and a set of 3 that I didn't check his health when they spawned. They will probably go for your healer/healer merc right away; the easiest way I found to deal with them was to mark myself Main Assist and switch my target them whenever they spawned, so the DPS merc would go after them. Their HP seemed very low, so I found this effective even though I was blind and unable to navigate to them myself. Switching all DPS to them when they spawned seemed the most effective thing to keep their numbers from becoming overwhelming.

Skyrake:

I saw he has a gravity flux ability, so I looked at my Shaman and thought, "Hey, I'll counter that with Levitation like in the old days, and be golden." Yeeaaaah, don't do that. The result is that he punts you into the sky and you have to run back down if you don't have enough aggro for him to summon you instead of switching targets. Also, if you're boxing this fight, be very, very careful about which characters are in his frontal arc. Any character who is tabbed out when the gravity flux hits them will die from the fall instead of taking about 700-800 falling damage (this will also kill the character's mercenary). I don't know why EQ can't process falling distance and damage correctly when the window is tabbed out, but it doesn't. Also, don't leave a squishy character in his rear arc; he tail lashes like a boss (which I suppose he is).

As far as tanking him, the damage he puts out isn't overwhelming if you have a defensive discipline, but his melee damage plus his breath attack can be a lot to deal with otherwise.

The fight itself aside, be a little patient in pulling him. If you're like me and are a Warrior without much in the way of crowd control (even on a boxed Shaman), you'll want to pull the drakes around him first; most of them path around the area enough that you can pull them without getting him as an add. The one closest to him you can't really separate from him without some form of pulling ability, but it can be rooted easily enough.

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Another mob for this quest is Komodokin.
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=23417

The drop is his claw.
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=52758

reward for this mission is Mark of the Sunderock Hunter , checked with preview reward.

Mark of the Sunderock Hunter
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
Slot: EAR
AC: 10
STR: +7 DEX: +7 STA: +7 CHA: +7 WIS: +7 INT: +7 AGI: +7 HP: +145 MANA: +145 ENDUR: +145
SV FIRE: +6 SV DISEASE: +6 SV COLD: +6 SV MAGIC: +6 SV POISON: +6
Recommended level of 60. Required level of 53.
WT: 1.3 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 7