Gaukr Sandstorm  

Thought I'd impart a short story on killing Gaukr under less-than-ideal circumstances.

With an... odd party (65 Rogue, 65 Rogue, 65 Beastlord, 65 Monk, 65 Enchanter, 65 Cleric), we took down Gaukr yesterday. No big deal, and he didn't drop anything but the ring (please), however we had an interesting time killing him.

Our SK Tank went LD and decided not to come back, so our monk and BST were taking turns tanking while we waiting for him. No luck. It was 3am, and there were NO tanks LFG, so we picked up a chanter to fill his spot.

Gaukr is just sitting there waiting, so the Chanter CoD's a Militis and sends him in, figuring to suicide the Militis on Gaukr while we got him slowed, then the rather averagely geared monk would tank Gaukr... the Militis stays charmed for all of 3 seconds into the fight, summons the chanter and he dies.

Everyone gets back to camp after a short run to zone, cleric rezzes the chanter and reclear the mobs. Gaukr, again, is staring us down. We gave up on the CoD, and decided to DC and buff a Lesser to tank the mob while we slowed him.

Fight starts with DC mob on Gaukr, resists slow 13 times, both from BST and ENC, even with Tash) and the Monk tanked Gaukr to death with the cleric tossing 1800pt heals on him AND going OOM at 25% of Gaukr's life. At this point, Gaukr starts HEALING himself with his crappy spells. After his 25% life, he never hit the monk again and we sliced thru him with our massively DPS heavy party. As if that wasn't enough, RIGHT on the pull, one of his guards popped and we had to mez him also.

Sad part was, all that work, and he dropped the lame ring that nobody needed. :(

Edited, Thu Jul 24 02:25:43 2003

Ok question, in the personal/scientific opinions of people, which is better to use for Gaukr, Defensive or evasive? Because Gaukr has 1500 point DD proc, I would assume evasive, but is there some random thing I'm missing? Also because he is only partially slowable his hit's for 400 would build up fast ( in defensive) so evasive would seem to be the route to take to avoid all his added DPS in procs. Our tank used evasive and did a damn fine job of not dying through the fight (he had 7400 hp at the time). But before the fight and even after he got /glares from 2 grp member's because he "used the wrong disc". Pretty bad thing to tell someone how to play thier class in general, but if he really was wrong in using the disc, well I personally would like to know. Other grps I have seen where warriors use defensive don't go so well, especially with chain procs.

Edited, Wed Jul 2 04:35:41 2003

Dropped <a href="https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=17984">Greatstaff of Thunder</a> for my group last night. Grats Shielddums on staff and lvl 65!

hit me for like 800-900something ( dont remember max i got hit for exactly ) in defensive, procs 1500 DD...didn't resist it once, got unlucky first 2 pulls and got smoked real fast from procs. Took 6500 hp off in about 3 seconds, third time he decided to stand around and cast on me while we tooled him around like biotch. Shammy tried prolly 15 times to stick slow, never held. this guy is no joke if you cant get him slowed, dropped spec and ring only =\

He also dropped this for a group I was in that killed him:

Mask of Thunder
AC 8, Dex +5, Sta +10, Int +10, HP +45, Mana +85, Sv vs Cold +5. Nec/Wiz/Mag/Enc only.

Recommended Level 56

Edited, Tue Feb 25 03:30:17 2003

Droped Ring of Torden , spectral perchament and
eye of sendstorm - shield 35ac 35hp/mana 15 saves to all , 56lvl recomended

Random proc 1500 damage currently unknown resist type proc (he kinda pick up a rock and throw at you)
our MA died once from 70% to 0% becuz 3 procs in a roll.