Phinigel Autropos  

I have lead 6 raids here, we've killed him with as little as 7 people (I am a 53 mage i solo'd, the rest were in a group. FIRST of all... he is EVEN to me at 53, so he is not 50. YES he does summon. He is a wizzy and Easy as hell to kill. the guardians are not a problem either. the reason I am posting this, is because out of all that i have done for my home server of Tunare(incuding leading planar raids, helping people finish epics, and leading a sucessful guild...) i cannot help but feel cheated by Verant. I just wanted my staff, and out of all this trouble EVERY TIME he dropped the PoS enchanter wand(wand of mama tapping), ok, i understand epics should be hard, so make the mob HARDER, but please don't make most of the items random drops off zone bosses. geeze just make the d00d's harder. Macix Magellan

Just got back from a Phinny raid myself... had 6 groups (35 people total) with a low of level 37 (my cleric) and a high of 54 (our only FDer, an SK). The SK was pulling; the problem was we did a good job of breaking the guardian spawn while helping paladins get the bone for their spell. So we kept needing to kill single seahorses, since they can see thru invis and our puller was having trouble getting to Phinny.

Nonetheless, with 6 groups the big fish lasted all of about 45 seconds. The puller had only 2 buffs left (starting from 14). The only casualty was myself, from healing the puller and being *faaaaar* too tiny to stand up to Phinny (and not having popped divine aura the minute I hit the heal key). We pulled him to the balcony, which worked well. The Swirlspine Guardians are easy to charm and mez, but the rest of the guardians have very high magic resist and need to be taken down by brute force.

Other good pull tactic is to use Call of the Hero, which we may in fact have done... not sure, since the text started spamming pretty fast and then I was asking for a rez. I won the lotto on the Abalone Gorget from earlier, so I was a pretty happy cleric when it was all said and done.

Maladamuk Heartmender
Gnomish Cleric of the 37th Ring
Storm's Justice
Karana Server

He now drops a backbone piece used for the epic particle weapon. :)

From what I read this is a one in ten drop off of Phin. SO you wizards out there wishing to get your Blue Crystal Staff for your epic quest will be able to max your swimming skill at least ;)

Any tips or tricks on pulling this guy or do you just have to work through all the guardians in within the 18 minute spawn time?

Well i went to Phinny for the first time there where 17 of us all 50+ and one level 48 but i think we had a bad puller kept on getting himself killed then he leed Phinny and about 15 guardians up to us and needless to say heh. we got waxed. I was the first to go and let me tell you i am a 51 wizard i am nothing but a speedbump in that situation. 8^( i would love to go with a great puller. our group's rocked up to that point of bad pulling nothing even touched us we even took out 6 guardians prior to our mass death.

Phinny is nothing but a sea bass in a robe. Two groups can take him and his 6 guards down in 15 minutes when done right.

He's definitely not the hardest pull in the game. Last night we pulled him by himself and didn't even aggro his guards. You just need an enchanter with werewolf form on and they enthrall him. Run back to the ledge and wait for him to come out of enthrallment. Bingo, you got one Phinigel and no guards.

Phin was killed 3x in one weekend on the rathe

Lol, do NPC's cheat or what?

Phinny dropped 3 rods of malisement last weekend. Theyre lore. They look sorta cool though together with a crude stein, sorta the 'shaman party kit'.