I love, this mob.. he's always up, always drops either one of the ear pieces or the boots, and is an EASY solo kill.. 81 shaman T5 tank merc. At this point everyone in my guild who can use one of his drops.. has it.. lol
Cleric//Beast duo'd this, could probably be solo'd by a 20khp+ cleric if done right :) max hit with 3k AC bunch of shielding and 20CS was 2700 slow helped :)
Dropped him earlier today with an 80 mage with a tier 5 healer merc for support. Was in the pit near the village when I sent Fluffy after him and pulled him back to the buildings. Was a very close fight and left me with 25 mana at the end. Merc was more or less alternating between Cheal and promised renewal on the air pet.
Two things I found out. Claybeast counts as a summoned mob so anti summon spells will help lay the pain on him. Also, he doesn't enrage...at least he didn't with me, so no worries about eating riposte damage. Didn't get near melee range so can't say exactly how hard he hits, but I'm guessing around 2 to 2.5k.
Dropped the leather boots.
Edit: Confirmed 2-8-09 that he can rampage so use caution.
Killed today by a level 81 necromancer and a level 80 Magician. We both had Mercenaries(Journeyman cleric) Claybeast surprised us, Magician had 40% the Necro had 5% mana. mobs summons and hits for a fair amount.
My 81 mage killed this guy with the 81 air pet with the help of a tier 1 journeyman healer merc. My mage used 80% of his mana and the merc used 70% of his mana healing my pet and healing my mage and healing itself due to the knockback spell casted by this mob. Had to pop some AA's also. My mage is poorly bazaar geared and has about 350 AA.
Summons - Confirmed but didn't summon me untill I had him at around 93% health.
Max hit on Wizzy 2600'ish AC Max Defense AA's - 2684. hit fairly fast, but not too terribly hard. Didn't see any flurry. Didn't get him low enough in health to see if he Ramps before Exodus kicked in.
Doesn't hit that hard, could be kited at full-speed... not sure if he summons tho as I only got him down to 95% before skeleton adds made it not worth continuing, especially as I had no mana-regen buff...