Anyone have insider info on 5th Anniversery?Follow

goto your home town and talk to the new guy he will give you the stuff for the scavanger hunt, this is all i know at this point

Not to hijack the post but after reading your signature Thunder, all I can say is thank the gods we can't smell in EQ. This is not the first time I have been grateful, nor will it be the last.

The skeleton armies spawn each night time in BB, and I heard also EC, Steamfont, and QH. The mobs are green to blue at 50 and are basically soloable. They would be very tough for people normally exping in these zones. They drop no-drop loot that has no level requirements and would be suitable and even upgrades for many people pre-50.

The Fabled mobs which have replaced named spawns in old world dungeons are being described as 'BoT named' in difficulty and are dropping no-drop 'Fabled' versions of old world loot - like Fabled FBSS with 36% haste. These Fabled mobs are not soloable...

It is basically a level 65 gank and KS fest that is sure to bring out the worst in people - I haven't been so blatently KSed in years. Hopefully these people will sequester themselves in SolB and LGuk and leave the Skeleton army events to people that can benefit from the loot. With the exception of the Fabled named mobs, this is very reminiscent of the Halloween events of a few years ago.

Makes me wonder what zones have the skel armies, and how much of the stuff will end up rotting / going to lowbies. Since I'm a lowbie, it interests me, of course :)

Why yes, I can read the post. See where it says 'and I heard'? That's why I'm checking for confirmation. Right now I've got BB, Qeynos, Feeroot, and EC confirmed from /ooc chat.

Try playing on a PvP server. Vallon Zek was the Mecca for gang rape and 65 PvP today. I've never seen so many people from lvl 65 guilds in Castle Mistmoore in my life!

I was in Oasis last night picking up an old spell when I bumped into the Fabled Lockjaw. Not having heard anything about the Fabled mobs, and with FLJ conning green, I thought "cool, let's see what he drops!". Well, what he ALMOST dropped was a 44 enchanter. Hit hit max for 135 on most occasions, and chewed my new 44 pet up and spit him out like so much scrap metal. Had I not just gotten my Illusion: Scaled Wolf spell I would be a nice high elf-shaped stain in the swirling winds of the desert.

I have soloed the old LJ many times at much lower level with my chanter, so the Fabled guy is definitely MUCH tougher.

That being said, I did land a few Discordant Minds on him (~500 DD) and it dropped him by about 20% health each time. I was kinda LOM at the outset and quite unprepared for his uberness, but I don't think it would have mattered if I had been 100% mana. Yes, my girlish screams echoed over the dunes as I fled for my very life.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I might have better luck with my 44 necro, as long as FLJ doesn't resist too much. I think he would be easily fear-kitable and will probably give it a run tonight. Hopefully those won't be my famous last words...

/em rethinks fearkiting plan

Now that you mention it, I did try to root ole Fabled Lockjaw, and I *think* he resisted (even after Tash), but it might have said that he couldn't be effected by the spell. I just glanced down and saw red text and assumed a resist. I only tried it once.

Perhaps my time would be better spent getting my cool new fireworks wand from the scavenger hunt...

The skeletons are also spawning in East Commonlands and possibly West Commonlands. The only thing I saw them drop was bone chips and rusty weapons. They gank like crazy, come out only at night. I was on my level 30 Cleric. The skeletons were blue, light blue and green to me. It wouldn't have been so bad and I could have taken them if they hadn't ganked. Unfortunately, when you have 8 of them on you and some of them cast, it's hard. My poor cleric lost her level from that and she wasn't even there to kill them, she was there to farm some items for my lowbie char.

The dragon in dagnors cauldron is the epic mob for berserkers and not related to the anniversary.

I recently started a cleric on Th. Paells and ran into The Fabled Mooto in Misty Thicket. Conned yellow to him at level 8 and had some pretty nasty dots, but not sure if he is harder than before.

I would like to see some info on the scavenger hunt tho. Some of the clues are pretty cryptic. but sometimes i'm no MOTO.

Yanari is correct - there are easier Fabled mobs ranging from Fippy Darkpaw to the Frenzied Ghoul. I was hearing so much about how the mobs in guk hit for 1K and the Fabled Efreeti hit for 2k that I assumed all Fabled mobs did.

I can also confirm that these zones have skeleton armies each night: Qeynos Hills, Feerott, EC, Steamfont, Butcher from 7pm to 5am. Steamfont seems the least populated. The loot in all these zones is similar if not identical, dropping mostly from the Skeletal Commanders.

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Thats cool that they have a different one for each year of character creation. Empyre was created in early 1999 and I think I have toons spread throughout most of the other 4.

At least they are doing some entertaining things for a change.