easy to solo them now, with mag 66 450AA and with druid 70 100AA. I used healer merc for mag, tank for druid. just avoid add. It's been more easy with druid than with magician. Note : i was buffed, focused air pet (/cons yellow to me ), with credence and me with a mana regen. DrOOd was just self buffed, mostly DoTing them and healing merc, can handle up to 3, not more.
I'm not sure how it is for other casters but this can be pretty easily solo'd at 71. I'm 71 now and with the 71 air pet I just solo'd one with 25% mana and that included healing the pet twice to keep him about 50%. I probably could've just nuked instead of healing though. I'm ok geared with about 6.5k mana and have most of the pet defensive aas.
I soloed one of the gnolls at 70, am decently geared and have almost all pet defensive AA`s. took me about 10 minutes to drop one after the long wait of getting one i could single pull. Cost me about 70% of my mana too, so I must say its doable, but would be very slow going.
Dulcify Rk. II (cleric lvl 71 pacify spell) spell dropped from the gnolls for me yesterday, and isn't in the list. Unfortunately I was there trying to get mage spells, and after 5 hours this is the only spell I got period....I really hate Sony sometimes. Farming mobs for hours and days on end for a spell that can be obtained no other way, and getting jack for it really ticks me off, it's one thing to have to camp for spell UPGRADES via rk2 spells, but I do not consider base level spells (ie: non-ranked mage spells) as upgrades. The damn mage spells habitually sell for 100-300k apiece if, and/or when they ever show up in the bazaar which is virtually never.
I have camped the gnolls many hrs. Ave. camp 1-3 hrs a shot. I have gotten as many as 3 spells in 1 camp as litle as 0. Something else i have noticed is this camp seems to only drop lvl 71 spells out of 15 or so spells all of mine have been lvl. 71 RK There is a possibilty that any 71 spell can drop here also a few still not listed that i have seen from this camp.
I have been in groups and solo here for 10+ days now and not only have I not gotten new pet toys spell or new plate spell I have only seen 10 spells in 10+ days I think the drop rate needs to increase on spells to get any use out of them.
It is pointless to have a spell drop so rare you waste weeks trying to get it as it takes away from over all game i can see not getting one every kill but in over 700 kills you would expect at least 1 or 2 of every spell they drop instead it is takeing me longer to get a 73 mage spell then it did to get epics on 4 tooons. what are they thinking?