Royal Scribe Kaavin  

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Uploaded July 24th, 2007

Cleric

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2008-01-02 15:04:06.

Level: 49
Expansion: Scars of Velious
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-09-07 22:03:03

Known Habitats:
  Icewell Keep
Factions Increased:
  King Tormax +50
Factions Decreased:
  Coldain -50
  Dain Frostreaver IV -50
Quests:
  Tiny Savages

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Faction hits
# Sep 03 2019 at 2:30 PM Rating: Good
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-50 to Dain and Coldain, +50 to King Tormax
easy
# Jun 08 2011 at 1:31 PM Rating: Good
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Heals were annoying but easy kill for 67 nec+67 pet+t5 clr merc. dropped head
easily soloable
# Jan 28 2007 at 11:41 PM Rating: Decent
Just melee him down to about 40 and he will complete heal but only twice unless you agro dain frostreaver when he runs you will get banished down the well the you'll have to fight him back through the complete heals, the way i did it was melee him until he was done complete healing and the when he hits about 20-25 % hp nuke nuke nuke until hes dead but he ran soo i simply feign death and stood back and no longer ran then he was /dead easy as idk somthing thats easy and im a 70 sk which makes it really easy doesnt hit had i would say 200 about was max hit i took ~mealin starpyre~
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# Oct 11 2006 at 5:33 AM Rating: Decent
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While doing dain missions and waiting, someone came in who had forgot he was kos to these guys, so just watched him kill him. He also dropped the cleric spell "Celestial Healing".
53ranger
# Jun 10 2005 at 2:16 PM Rating: Decent
Would a 53ranger with maxed stats be able to take him?
Ranger Notes
# Apr 26 2005 at 11:30 AM Rating: Decent
65 ranger took him down easy. Make sure you have kei, and virt, and VQ doesn't hurt either. Apparently, some of his MR is inherently high, since after twenty or so annul magics (as recommended below), I was still was unable to root or snare him. Frost, fire, & dots landed 90% of the time however.

You might also want to bring your DoN cheal potion, in case Kaavin cheals more than once. He singles for low 100's, and nukes between 200-300. I have found that he has a total of 3 cheals in him, after which he is oom and RUNS. If he starts down the hall, gate immediately - don't even think twice. I tried to land a snare on him as he ran off, and the Dain banished me to the top of the pit. I somehow managed to click my Vial of Swirling Smoke as I was falling...still trying to get my heart to stop racing….

An important note however, is that if you interrupt his cheal, and he does not get enough of them off to run out of mana, he DOES NOT RUN. I have killed him 3 times, and this has been true every time. The moral: save your nukes until he's under 20%!

Arayus Inarien
65th Season Ranger of Tunare
Vazaelle
RE: Ranger Notes
# Mar 22 2006 at 10:05 AM Rating: Decent
Keep in mind that these types of caster MOBs (the ones with mana but not bottomless mana) meditate constantly, unlike players. This includes while they're fighting and casting; kind of like they're always mounted in a respect. This means he does not have a preset number of CHeals, at least, not based off his mana pool. How much he spends in nuking and the fight duration will both go into how many times he will attempt a CHeal.
Drops?
# Jul 04 2004 at 6:18 PM Rating: Decent
Just killed this guy and he dropped "Head of the Royal Scribe" and Lvl 44 Wizard spell "Enticement of Flame". Anyone know what the head is used for? May want to update his loot table here.
Druid Solo
# Dec 14 2003 at 5:09 PM Rating: Decent
went and solo'd this guy earlier today. my advice for druids looking to solo this guy is to load up on buffs. Put on your best DS and have your DoTs ready. Don't forget the regen, he doesn't hit that hard, but he hits a lot.

i started the fight with an Annul magic then landed WD, Immolation and the epic dot. I have a Tanglewood Shield and although ensare didn't stick once, i used the click over and over to keep his aggro focused on me. He never ran.

i couldn't land a Moonfire on him after trying twice, so save your mana.

he tried to CH near the end of the fight, but my stun took care of that. lucky for my faction he dropped the amulet first time.

and never forget to have egress and chloroblast up!
Faction
# Dec 05 2003 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent
When killed, this guy will increase your faction with King Tormax. (No Kromriff and Kromzek faction gains are given)

This guy is VERY high MR. I was able to and MD (unresistable disease debuff) and a Cloud of Grummus (a disease based slow).

Edited, Fri Dec 5 14:00:09 2003
Tough duder
# Sep 11 2003 at 9:21 PM Rating: Decent
Attempted this guy solo as a 56 shaman. Well, I got my disease resistance debuffer on (cus its unresistable) which let me get my disease based slow on him, but my pet wasn't doing much dmg. I gated when he was about 75% cus I knew he wasn't going to go down. I had about 40% mana left and pet was taking too much dmg.

Oh yeah, since when did cleric's get bash? he was interupting me a lot with bash.
RE: Tough duder
# Nov 07 2003 at 2:15 PM Rating: Default
That would be at lvl 25. I actually was using it a good bit last night in a dungeon adventure. Had plenty of mana to allow me to melee so was using bash to keep help interrupt the cleric's ch.
He is easy
# Jul 16 2003 at 10:31 AM Rating: Default
Took him out with 53 monk and 56 cleric easy as pie. We shoved him up into the corner and he never ran and never did CH either, so dropped fast. Cleric never even had to heal me. Hardest he hit me for with 1100ac was 133. Biggest nuke with 160 MR was 516. He only landed two nukes on me, other was for 400. Only dispelled one buff. Unfortunately he only dropped stupid head. Oh well, will try again later.
Soloed
# May 30 2003 at 10:39 PM Rating: Decent
Well as a 60 Cleric I can melee solo him, dont bother casting on him.

While I CAN melee him, regretfully at 20 health he ran and agroed all the guards... writing this as I scrape my corpse off the ground. Very tough to root him.
Solo, as a monk
# Apr 24 2003 at 4:05 PM Rating: Good
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It took a few tries, but I found out how to solo him as a monk. I'm KoS to Dain, warmly to other Coldain at the moment. First step of course, is be a good enough monk to solo a level 49 cleric mob. Then be a little stronger ;-)

Get yourself into his room. I use a Larrikan's mask to invis myself. Attack him and stomp him down, he'll nuke, he'll heal. My first strategy was to try to interrupt his complete heals, but that just doesn't work. Eventually he'll run out of mana, and at 20% health he'll run. Feign, FAST. If you feign successfully, and before he runs too far, the rest of the throne will not aggro.

Stand up in a moment, and invis yourself again. Run out of the throne and towards Thurgadin. At some point, he'll regen enough hitpoints, or mana to heal himself, and he will not be running any more. He'll be far from the throne though, and regular Coldain do not assist him, just Dain faction mobs. Keep heading towards Thurgadin zone and he'll eventually follow. Now, smack him down again! Hopefully won't have a lot of mana left but he will probably have complete healed himself in the process. And once he runs, he won't be five steps away from the Dain and his guards =)

Edit: I've since realized there's better ways to kill him but this still works =)

Edited, Tue May 13 14:34:25 2003
only 2
# Jan 30 2003 at 8:59 PM Rating: Decent
took him out me 55 chanter and 61 Necro. Mind you all i did was cast recant magic on him and try to stun and root in corner. well only recant and tash took, so i played decoy while necro and pet killed. Oh yeah i died :) but I have an amulet to show for it :):):)
Scribe info
# Aug 22 2002 at 12:39 AM Rating: Excellent
The scribe is 49 every spawn and is a cleric. I'm not exactly sure what buffs this guy casts on himself, but he definitely does buff himself pre-fight now. He has alot of hps(10-12k) and extremely high magic resist. Alot of the same rules apply to this guy similar to the huntsman. Cannot slow with many spells, and magic DDs are pointless. Fire DDs were connecting on this guy easily even with him being red con.

I'd reccommend stripping his buffs with nullify magic/pumice stone at the beginning as it does seem to moderately help. The key to this guy is his DDs and complete heals. After all of my encounters, I have only seen him complete heal a max of 1 time a fight. Unlike the Huntsman, resists are needed for his Retribution and the key is to surviving through his chain of dispells/nukes and prevent him from CHing. When his mana is gone, he is easy as pie. Also, make sure you stack buffs well. There is nothing worse than symbols/haste/dmg shields being disspelled mid-fight. I couldn't imagine many classes being able to solo him, however a decent duo definitely can. Personally have killed him with 2 lvl 45s.

I believe his spawn time is around 6 hours (same spawn time as huntsman). Not absolutely positive of this, but I am sure that it is between 5-6 hour spawn time. The faction hit is fairly significant. I believe faction went from Threatening to Dubious in 6 kills and coldain faction dropped fast. Also remember, there is no +Kromzek faction which is needed for the quest. The head is a commond drop(around 80% ATLEAST). His amulet is a little more rare. I believe I normally see it 1 out of ever 3 or 4 spawns. In my experience, the Bindings of the scribe is atleast as rare as the amulet if not more so.

The scribe is in fact to the right room when facing Dane. If you are KoS, you can go to the corner of the room(Scribe's room) directly to your right when you enter the room without being aggro'd even if KoS.
RE: Scribe info
# Oct 06 2002 at 10:39 PM Rating: Decent
this scribe and the huntsman can be soloed by shaman. i did run in room invis, fully buffed with aego and kei(needed)then summoned first a pet,can take some time with him interupting you ,then both dr debuff and the disease slow landed well.bane of nife,pox,plague,root wont land on him, so i did stacked epic dots and had some resist on it then melee it with pet until dead. TORPOR is a must and its a long fight,didnt CHed but did much better heal like 3 time.i had 150mr buffed and his nuke didnt hurted me bad.

he dropped the amulet,a cleric spell and his head
Also need better than dubious to turn in the head in kael =(
RE: Scribe info
# Apr 16 2003 at 3:29 PM Rating: Decent
61+ necromancer can also kill him very easily

sic pet, shadowbond it

vexing scribe - i know he's very mr but i never had a problem with landing it

funeral pyre, or whatever dot(s) you like to use if you don't have FP

watch him die

once he is at about 20% hp i chain cast ToM to speed up the death

- he has roughly enough mana for 4 cheals, if he cheals over 4 times he will run at low hp, aggroing the entire room nextdoor
Clarifying
# Jul 17 2002 at 7:31 AM Rating: Decent
He spawns in the room to the right as your looking at Dain's thrown correct?

That would be the room with ice floor with all the gold coins under it.

Thanks for the info.
RE: Clarifying
# Aug 22 2002 at 12:46 AM Rating: Decent
Yes, the scribe is to the right and the huntsman is to the left when facing dain's throne.
Can't quite solo yet
# Jun 11 2002 at 11:14 AM Rating: Decent
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Tried to solo this guy as a 53 shaman. He is a cleric type mob, but doesn't buff at all while I was sitting by him (so may use REALLY long duration buffs, but nothing like Yaulp).

Wasn't able to land ANY spells on him, except for my disease debuffer (tried poison and disease DoT, Malo, slow, root and poison Nuke). He hit for up to 130, and had standard Velious insane Hp. If I didn't have to straight melee, or if I could have landed a slow, I would have gotten him nicely, but if I moved much, I aggrod the guards around Dain, and the councilmen below me, so root nuke/rot was not an option. Will try again when I get disease based slow and epic DoT (plus better pet probably).
Head
# Apr 12 2002 at 3:14 AM Rating: Default
Is the head common? rare? or what?
RE: Head
# Aug 22 2002 at 12:44 AM Rating: Decent
Definitely quite common..atleast 3 drop out of every 4 spawns on average in my experience
Repop time ?
# May 16 2001 at 7:51 AM Rating: Default
Any idea about the repop time of this guy ?
I think it is 12hours, but not sure

Olivier Laguerre
Kanara serv.
Vicar of Innoruuk
RE: Repop time ?
# Aug 22 2002 at 12:43 AM Rating: Decent
5-6 hours. You may not see him up often as people on a few servers(especially blue servers) constantly have this guy camped. And often on rotations between a couple of people that made some agreement though a ridiculous cartel.
Head
# May 16 2001 at 2:03 AM Rating: Default
Is the head of scribe No drop ??

Gardaor Strongpawz
Guardians of the sprits
RE: Head
# Sep 09 2001 at 11:24 AM Rating: Default
The Head is no drop, as is the bindings of the scribe. The amulet is only piece of droppable loot.
Ancient Tarnished Plate
# Feb 01 2001 at 8:05 PM Rating: Default
Does this guy drop the Ancient Tarnished Plate for Kael Drakkal Armor quests?
RE: Ancient Tarnished Plate
# Mar 22 2001 at 2:27 AM Rating: Good
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Ancient tarnished drops from temple of Veeshan, but not off its entrance guards any longer.
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