dry bones skeleton  

Ok this guy is tuff, whenever I get attacked by him I have to run for the zone or docks, and I'm lvl 21! I'm saying this so that the rogues are warned, while all these other bone heads are bragging about how easy they are b/c they're casters and have pets and all these tanks saying they are so easy, rogues will need to run from them up to about lvl 24+. I want to help the confussed rogues out there that arn't tanks or casters b/c they need help too. so if your a rogue, don't attack it. Rogues maybe the best meale damage dealers in the game, but that dosen't mean they can solo one of these things. (a matter of fact, rogues shouldn't solo at all) Know I'm not sure about a Barbarian Rogue, he might be able to solo it with a little difficulty but if u ask me, Barbarians don't have a right to be called "rogues" anyway.

Good luck fellow rogues!

(Incase you failed to notice...yes I have been killed by these things many times. That nuke of theirs is really annoying)

This level is wrong. I had a 24 enchanter and i put him on just the other day and i conned a dry bones and it was black. WHo posted this anyway?

as the post before i am a 16 mage and think that dbs are the most rewarding thing in oasis. they are great for xp and easy to kill. with my new air pet and 2 bubs of mana i take out the ones that connes yellow to me. and as soon as i see a red one i will send him to the other world as well.

I can solo white DBS as a 17 wizard 85% of the time, and yellow ones probably over 50%. Their fire spell hurts, but I pump up my fire res and cast Radiation on myself before the fight, and just root-lightning bolt-lightning bolt-lightning bolt-lightning bolt-lightning bolt-dead DBS. They don't appear to have very much magic res. They do hit pretty hard though and I can see how tank classes would have trouble with them.

Playing my Troll Shadow Knight, hunting solo in South Ro, I run into these often. At level 19 their "spell" can tear me up. Trolls have a disadvantage with their very low fire resistance. The "Spell" is either insta-cast or a ultrafast cast, since I have NEVER been able to interrupt it with slam, and with other casters types I have gotten quite good at waiting for "X begins to cast a spell" SLAM!

I can manage a blue with my pet and a full mana burn, but on an even, it is about a 50% chance that I need to run to the zone.

Uh it's not a rumor.. I'm a level 17 paly, and I soloed one that was white to me. Sure I had to use my LoH but I soloed it. Geez, they're not THAT hard..

These things are all red to a lvl 16 monk. Though these thing i can easily solo. with the aid of one mend i can usually beat them down to a bloody pulp (that is assuming they have blood, heh) wothout loosing too much health. Their stupid spell, the fire thing is a pain to work with, and its hard as heck to interupt them. Other than the spells, they cant hit for beans. Well, they cant hit ME for beans...

I havent tried this but I would think druids cans solo them with their lvl 14 or 19 spells that do a lot of dmg to undead things. Ill have to try it out, I never bought the undead spells.

I'm an 18 Paladin and soloing these easily with very little health loss.

Spook, whack whack whack. Spook, whack whack whack. Rinse. Repeat.

Of course, my Ghoulbane might have something to do with it...

My experience just last evening:
The problem with DBSs solo for me (Level 18 Pally, equipped with mostly Bronze armor, a 1H Silvery War Axe, and a Crested Mistmoor) was, first, the little beggars hit quickly, if not inordinately hard, making Warding them difficult. Second, while you can "Spook and Nuke", even striking them from behind results in lower than typical damage from physical strikes. With a full load of mana and, what I thought, was a reasonable ratio of hits to misses, I still wound up having to LoH 2 of the 6 times the DBSs and I went around. Obviously, they were not the ONLY thing I was fighting, but I felt the cautionary note was in order.

If you are a necro level 16 or higher, there is an easy, mana efficient way to beat these down:
Engulfing Darkness (60 mana)
Spook the Dead (10! mana)
Pet beats on it.
Refresh Spook every ten seconds or so to make sure it doesn't wear off (it WILL be resisted some of the time)
Refresh Darkness as necessary.
Stay a little bit away so it can't jump you immediately if it does break Spook.
Oh, and of course, make sure you know which way Spook sends it, because you don't want to run into another one :)

If the bones are between level 15 and 19, there's a lot of variation in them. The ones I've seen in Oasis are usually 18-19, and often come with another bone or ghoul in the neighbourhood. Even I as a level 25 mage can get in trouble with them -- if my pet is distracted with another, or if I hit it so hard that it ignores my pet. The ghouls are easier, and have as good or better loot -- I'd avoid the bones and stick to ghouls / others (lots in Oasis) unless you're so high level that you get no experience from the others.

Have been chasing around South Ro for a couple of levels now and have many bronze weapons of all types that i have looted from dry bones.
Belaz 18th cleric/ tank wannabe