Prestidigitator's Robe  

 

Most mages that get this robe will be 55+ as you need to get the silk robe fron HoT in ToV. So most will have Cadeau of Flame. The only time I would use tis is if I'm power leveling a twink. Is Verant no advocating this? How is it that the Necromancer, Cleric, Shaman, and Druid Robe/BPs all have 54+ spell effects and the Magician, WIzard, and Enchanter's robes have a 49- spell effect?

Anyone else notice that the robe blank drop in temple of veeshan testing halls, to make this robe, seem to be broken. As a guild we must have been round there 40-50 times, and had at least 10 plate, 10 leather, 10 chain chest pieces. Not 1 robe however. In fact of all the pro dragon guilds on Cazic Thule, i've only heard of 2 robes dropping total. To me it seems blatantly wrong that the robe isn't dropping in proportion to the other chest pieces. I'd be interested to hear if there's the same sort of issues on other servers, as i've tried bug reporting it, putting it on the official eq forums, and even advising the guides so they can report it up the line. As of yet i've still to get any sort of acknowledgement that they're even looking at this..

I strongly suspect the idea that Frankel drops this robe is a hoax. I suspect for these reasons:

1. Frankel can be attacked and killed by players who do not own the Velious expansion. Do you really think that VI allow players who do not own SoV to procure this incredible piece of NO DROP equipment?

2. The risk vs. reward doesn't seem adequate. To do the Skyshrine quest you have to go farm rats in Dragon Necropolis, then kill mobs in ToV. Why would anybody EVER do that tough quest if they could just get 6-12 high level people together and kill this gnome a few times?

3. As game designers, VI usually does try to make equipment drops make at least a little sense from a roleplaying standpoint. Why on earth would a gnome pirate possess a magician robe that is granted only to those who've proven themselves to the inhabitants of Skyshrine?

4. Frankel cons green, kicks quite a lot of *** for his level, and is 100% MR. This is usually done to discourage players from killing certain mobs like guards in newbie zones. i.e. VI doesn't want us killing little Frankel.

5. Despite the points above, I've made two attempts on Frankel. The first time, I just attacked him with my wife (55 magician and 55 necro.) Neither of us could stick a single spell to him, and we both went through several pets just to get him down a quarter bubble of health. We realized we couldn't possibly beat him and gated out.

Our second attempt on him, we had a pretty strong crew gathered to kill Cazel for an enchanter friend of mine. I talked them into hitting Frankel as well. That was 4 55+ tanks in uber equipment tearing into this gnome and he held his own pretty darn well. The enchanter Tashed him and I still couldn't stick any spells on him.

When we killed him he gave zero faction adjustments, zero experience, and zero loot, not even cash. So Frankely (hehe sorry), I don't believe anybody camped this guy from level 55 to 58 because from what I've seen, he's darn near impossible to kill, and doesn't give any experience in that level range anyway.

That said, I'll continue to kill him whenever I get the people together, just because its kinda fun, and you never know, I could be wrong.

Nefarius Frobozz, Level 56 magician
Terris Thule

Can somebody really confirm this drop of Frankie the Pirate?

I killed him 3 times...and no robe

Ah yes...how can a lvl 55 mage solo him? You cant stick any spells on him...

Better check with VI again since now on the test server there is a shaman lure spell. Guess VI has decided that it only cares about certain classes not be touched and to heck with rest.

well its just alot easier to use boon to dmg sheild all the tanks then i use the robe effect to cast on any pets in the group. the only time i realy get any use out of the robes effect is when im hanging out at the tunnel . i wear the robe for the stat bonuses but atleast the effect isnt summon bandages or even worse reclaim energy.

I sure hope that the new expansion will bring some new robe graphics. The old ones are cool and all, but we certainly need some new ones. Every robe is simply an old robe texture with new colors, which is cool I guess... but I want new ones :P If I'm not mistaken, this is the same look as the Mage robe from the plane of hate (maybe a bit brighter.) Ah well... nice stats and all, slightly odd effect (good for all those mage tanks out there though) but sure coulda used a new look.

(looks at stats)

(prestigidates all over the keyboard)

ignore that last post, i was thinking of the wizard quest robes, this is magician.