Krekk Brimblade  

Killed today with 85 War full HoT tier 1, and 85 tier one cleric. Warrior was buffed to 42khp and 5100ac. Fight goes a bit like this.
He will con ready to attack, but no worries he will not until you do hand in.

I ran through and aggroed all 5-6 mobs around him (conned light green). Killed them all no sweat.

Medded end up a bit, then rebuffed all my clickies and slapped on lev+ spider's bite potion.
Double checked cleric mana then turned in, immediatly aggroed.

I fought with my back between the wall/pillar thing almost directly behind him.

All my resists are 600ish so this is how it went.

Whirling smash (the FD spell) never landed, completly resisted throughout fight.

Whirlwind slice hit about 1/4 of the time only hit for full dmg maybe once. I did get spam that I was stunned, but it was maybe for a half sec if anything.

Death strike was the issue. This will knock your dps into the dirt. Esp since he resist's spider bite pretty regularly. It will cut your swing speed, other than slashing my dps, didn't do much else.

This is basically how the fight went. He did cast his other spells pretty regularly but since I was resisting pretty consistently, I didn't really concentrate on it much. I was too busy watching merc cleric hp/mana. You do have to try and rubberband the merc out of the way, otherwise the rampages will eat their mana up. I've noticed when fighting old raid mobs solo that you have to learn to do this, cause they will burn mana for every tiny smidge of hp they lose it seems. The cleric did get knocked by the whirlwind from time to time, but at least they don't aggro more mobs back.

Started fight Duel Weild with Blade of Tortured Souls Primary and Fabled Obsidian Battle Sword Secondary. Burned Discs Punch Through, and Mighty Strike also spammed kick/knee strike/Maelstrom Blade rk2.
Krekk at 90ish.
Continused with DW but started to notice swing speed drop, spammed everything that came up Kick/Knee strike/rampage/Maelstrom
Krekk at 85ish. Clmerc mana at 70ish.
Didn't like those numbers so started to scratch my head at this point. So I swapped to Fearless Bulwark Shield and Tort blade primary started burning defensives at this point. (Armor of timeworn runes, Final stand).

my lowsy merc let me die on thi mob... does that mean i have to restart the epic all over again?

This fight is actually pretty simple. Here are some tips:

1. Make a Hotkey and call it FD or something. It should look like this:

For Healers:

/stand
/target <insert Tank name here>

Continue heals

For Melee:

/stand
/assist <Insert Tanks name here>

For Casters:

/stand
/assist <Insert Tanks name here>

Your Tank should also have one setup to imediately aquire Krekk and continue attacking.

2. Ensure the WHOLE RAID has some form of lev on. This is probably the most important aspect of this fight. Without Lev you will be thrown very very far. I have seen folks get thrown completely out of the room Krekk is in and down the path a ways. This is where the numerous adds come into play.

3. Clear all trash mobs around Krekk even the ones on the paltform and be ready to start the Krekk battle immediately after all trash mobs are dead.

4. Keep Krekk near where he is standing and DO NOT get him near the walls. Keep him in the open as much as possible.

5. Group members stay close to each other for group heals. We have had folks get spread out and die.

You obviously can put a bard in the MT group to help with resists but we have done this fight without a bard in the MT group and still pretty simple. Healers used Group heals when needed.

GL all on your quest to your 1.5 :-)

4-boxed krekk this morning. set up by the wall to the SE of krekk after clearing the trash mobs. High end group geared cleric (9.5k mana/11k hps buffed), GoD geared bard (13k hps buffed), demi/DK beastlord (17k hps buffed), high end group geared warrior (16k hps/ 2.5k AC buffed -- only defensive aa's up through omens completed). Bard didn't melee most of the time, just twisted warmarch, veeshan, storm blade, manasong (in retrospect, storm blade was useless considering how resistant krekk is, use song of dryads instead!)

Pulled him near wall and boxed him in (you can push him through the wall, so be careful!). beastlord attempted to slow for about a minute, resisted every time even with bard debuffs so just fought unslowed. Once I was done spamming slow, had warrior take aggro and hit defensive. Cleric CH was easily enough to keep warrior up with defensive, just have to watch for KB interrupt. Lots of aggro bouncing due to KB, cleric had to use several group heals, celest regen, beastlord paragon. Cleric ran oom at about 40%, so popped last mana potion (full mana restore -- claim reward for OoW box I think). With fresh bar of mana, using more mana intensive heals wasn't a concern, hit offense discs on beastlord and burned it down. Krekk fell several minutes before trash started respawning. If i had to do it over again, I would enlist the aid of a mage for more damage shield and a second healer to keep group healed. Resisted the AE most of the time, wasn't really much of a concern.

We killed him by 12 characters/3 souls. We have no EP/Time/Qvic/CoA armor or better, we have many DoDH task's reward and chest drop.

Group-1 are WAR/PAL/CLR/CLR/DRU/SHM, Group-2 are WIZ/WIZ/ENC/BRD/MNK/ROG.
All character is level 70, WAR has 2900 ac and 14k hp, all casters have 9k-10k mana.

1st try, we wiped at 50% hp, caz CLRs couldn't keep to heal by Krekk's Whirlwind Slice and Whirlwind Smash.

2nd try, BRD sang AE SvMPD up song with most boost by percussion instrument, CLRs used HoT and QHeal as their possible.
Once a WIZ had been slained by Krekk, caz WAR got Death Strike and Whirlwind Smash same time, then he couldn't keep hate.

But we kept Krekk as it is, and slained. Our fight lasted 9min 30sec.

Finally got this guy last night, 1st attempt had around 20 peeps and 3 clerics, got him down to 8% before Re-pops decided to join the fun. 2nd attmept it was no contest had about 30 for this run and just pulled him closer to the wall and beat him down, MT so long as leved will not have a problem with G-flux he summones you right back. At about 50% he hit his FD AoE, had another War and SK for aggro control. Only deaths came from his Enrage the last 10%. Chest Loot was the Sicly Glowing Earring.

Dormak Fearnoevil of Saryn 70th Warrior
Order of the Anciant Dragon

basics for this guy.
clear the area around him then do turnin. He is slowable, his ae will knock you around so be careful. another ae can FD you so stand up if you see everyone else layin down. I'd suggest get magic resist 250+ so the effect isn't as severe. must lev or the knockback will be your raid killer. get 2 or 3 tanks to keep aggro. if he FD's the raid you want to make sure you have someone fast enough to get up and get aggro again. other than that just dps the crap out of him and the end result is a nice toy for your tank.

If you get a few war's who are up to this guy just wait 30mins or so and he respawns. so you can get war epics all night if ya want

Edited, Mon Aug 15 00:45:41 2005

Recently, I saw a link of "Raging Sword of Eternal Power." It has the EXACT same stats and look as the Champion's Sword of Eternal Power. It even has the same proc. But there was no info about it on this site. Has anyone else seen something like this?

Your progress is saved so if Krekk resets(wipe, server crash) after you handed in your items a simple hail would set him back at your stage.
although i cannot comfirm this, luckely got him without wiping.

Portions of the AoE seem resistable, and portions of it seem not.

With resist well into the 400's, I got hit with it in some fashion on every cast. Damage seemed reduced to non-existent, but I did seem to get the stun most if not every cast. Overall damage to the group wasn't a huge deal from what I saw, so it implies that others were resisting the damage portion well too.

The AoE started with a slight grav flux that moved everyone slightly to one side (so a bounce and shift). All had lev, so the effect was pretty much limited to the stun and whatever damage wasn't resisted. Somewhere below 50% (going to guess at 40%), the AoE added a FD component that was not there to start with - make sure you're people are informed and ready to stand back up as the stun wears off.

On the raid I helped with, there were something around 25-30 people for the Krekk kill. He seems very doable with less than that assuming that you get down to business when his area is cleared and that you have the DPS to get him killed (get respawns during the fight, and you're probably going to have a tough time). Our fight lasted approximately 5 minutes.

Brief overview:
You can find him up the hill to the east of the Laborer camp and Tiorpat. Clear roamers from below, buff, and be ready. When ready for the fight, clear his room including the snakes up on the platform near him in quick sequence. Move in to the right (he is no aggro until turn in). Get any dead rezzed up and buffed FAST and people to FM. Do turn in and fight as soon as possile - keep things moving or you'll wind up with repops in the end and all sorts of trouble. Get him down, and start rezzing - have your tankage ready for repops in the room there.

That's all from this go around on him - maybe more if I see him again.