a swarming beetle  

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These little things appear as the result of traps. Usually you get 6 to 10 of them at once.

With about 2000 hp each, they hit for 30 to 60.

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2008-01-02 15:02:53.

Level: 50
Expansion: Scars of Velious
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-09-08 21:19:35
Known Loot:
icon Swarmer Pincers

Known Habitats:
  Dragon Necropolis

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more HPs
# Oct 08 2011 at 2:09 PM Rating: Good
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They have more than 2kHP. I DD'd 'em for 2100 and it still had more than half HPs left
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# Jun 04 2008 at 8:28 AM Rating: Decent
Getting hit by these beetles for 137 dmg max, SK with 1510 AC
Swarmer Pincers still drop.
# Nov 23 2007 at 1:33 PM Rating: Good
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Pincers still drop :) a trap went off and after killing them, one had the Swarmer Pincers. Pic posted above.
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# Jan 05 2004 at 8:16 PM Rating: Decent
was sneaking around in DN, scoping the area out for a possible group raid when i triggered one of these traps. Being a druid, HPs aren't really a strong point and needless to say, got wasted rather fast. Highest i got tagged for was 137. and there was at least 7 or 8 that popped from that trap. Bad EQ, bad bad bad.
Hmm
# Nov 10 2002 at 11:18 AM Rating: Default
I wonder if you can quad these and get ubah exp :)

Edited, Sun Nov 10 10:57:47 2002
RE: Hmm
# Nov 15 2002 at 4:14 PM Rating: Decent
Yes but they run fast so single snare kida sux, I would Ima gine wizzies with BoF or Shackles would do well
LvL 50?
# Oct 21 2002 at 11:43 AM Rating: Decent
These things are level 50. yet only hit for 50-80
and have 2,000 HP dear god.. sounds about twice as easy to squash one of these as it is to take down your average everyday hill giant. lest of course they hit rather fast. Either way I'm wondering something. Say you take one group of high levs in to kill, and one group of mid 30s in to kill one or two of the extras *if they could survive the trip in*. the xp from killing a lvl 50 mob is rather substantial at those levels. I mean think about it. Killing one trap full gives a full group of 55-60 visible change. what would they do for low levs LOL.

Please feel free to add info on why this is/isnt a good idea. I've never really thought about it althought now it has caught my attention.
RE: LvL 50?
# Dec 16 2002 at 10:41 PM Rating: Decent
they hit fast and getting to most of traps you need to kill larger things also there isn't one fewest i've seen is 4 together usually at least 6
drop
# Jun 30 2002 at 3:40 PM Rating: Default
how rare is the drop, and what level should a warrior be to get in there, im 52 atm not kos to dragons, and have almost 1060ac with 2700hp, think i could survive?
RE: drop
# Dec 16 2002 at 10:38 PM Rating: Decent
If grouped easily
DN.Rules
# Nov 19 2001 at 11:41 AM Rating: Default
Its a cute trap, but its even better experience! Do you know anywhere else level 50 mobs have 2k hp and spawn 10 at a time? Get the wizzie in your group, and its huge visible gain every time the trap springs :)
can be very many
# Oct 06 2001 at 1:39 PM Rating: Default
omg 2 weeks ago we hunted in DN as a guild with like 20 people... when we were heading out (tov next day so we didnt gate most decited to go to zone in) and when we left the building suddenly a huge MASS of these appeared i dont know how many but i think at least 20 omg thank god that I'm a 60 warrior with high AC (i had for a minute 5 on me u can i can tell you that HURT) only like 1 group of us survived this horror, including me hehe well was easy CR though u could see the zone out from that spot hehe
AoE
# Jul 23 2001 at 8:05 AM Rating: Decent
hunted there last night, we tripped the trap a few times. The second to last time I think about 10 beetles spawned. AoE! Our wizard AoE'd and I found a use for Upheaval...it was over pretty quick. Easy, visible xp. If you got an enchanter, a cleric, wizard, anyone who can aoe/aoe stun and just worked this trap the xp would come in!
traps
# Jun 25 2001 at 12:52 PM Rating: Good
beetle traps respawn in 26 minutes
tactic
# Jun 15 2001 at 2:57 PM Rating: Default
A good idea for when you spawn these is have the warrior put defensive up then trigger the trap and have enchanter mez after that
Great XP
# May 01 2001 at 2:21 AM Rating: Default
These things are excellent exp when you're ready for them. Although the last time we trigged a trap, we got between 15 to 20 beetles and needless to say we had to do a lil CR on that little incident. Averages beteen 4 to 10 spawns a trigger.

Mentallo mistbane
54th Season Wizard
Rodcet Nife
drop?
# Feb 04 2001 at 7:59 PM Rating: Default
dont they drop a nice 1hs weapon? i think its no drop, can't remember the name though. how hard do they hit? are they underconned?
RE: drop?
# Feb 06 2001 at 8:08 PM Rating: Good
They drop a NO DROP.. not magical 10/19 "pincer". They only hit me for about 50-80 dmg. The problem is about 6-8 of them spawn on you at a time.. and of course they aggro on the medding caster first. Either that or the healer.
#REDACTED, Posted: Jan 22 2001 at 6:55 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I think Verant is running out of ideas for names.
look cool
# Apr 19 2001 at 7:39 AM Rating: Default
Plenty of time to look at them while they are mezed and getting taunted up.
They look cool :-)
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