a death beetle  

The 'Death Beetle' spawn in SOL B is rather rare. I've seen him once in probably two dozen trips, but I didn't specifically look for him each time.

He can easily be solo'd by a 49 plus paladin, with a root and heal technique, just have to be careful with adds. I can take him out at lvl 54 in about 90 seconds, and the black chitin dropped for us last night. Plate armor look is very nice for many classes. I think everyone but Iksar can wear these. The beetle spawns with the rest of the beetles in SOL B, next to the one that is in the little shallow cave.

-TerreFeu
54th Cavalier of Saryrn

The enameled black chestplate (25ac no other stats) matches the chitin legs perfectly for the black plate look. Have both on my bard. Too bad the legs are only 7ac, I would keep them on in battle but instead have my bright red dyed fine plate leggings for that.

Hi all, i'd like to know the spawn time of this crapy bettle plz )

Fahylon Freesoul 46th season druid

Thx for those who'll answer and all the other, peace )

Man,I just noticed that these beetles are WAY different than the ones my Warrior fought in Unrest.The ones there were green to me at lvl 15,maybe less,i dont remember.The main reason that i want to know is why are they such a big LvL diff?I mean,of course they don't have the same Lvl in each zone,but like 13 Unrest beetle Vrs a 42 Death Beetle is just wierd.

Pyrsami,Azolyon-----20 Cleric-----
Lodarf (sec. char)-----15 Warrior-----

Just to dispell any random thoughts, we are talking here "the death beetle", not those puny things in unrest like the pic here, but the king beetle, the top of the range bug. His disease DoT is quite potent, but nothing to worry about in a good group. In my experience , you dont even worry about canceling this dot, just sit it out with chloro and a heal or 2. Like all beetles in solB, hits fairly hard, double attacking for 100+ dmg, but get a chanter or shammy to slow it down and incap it, and its just as easy as an ordinary lava beetle, LDC's have a lot more hp's IMHO.

Tarudan Maclir
shaman of 48 winters
Prexus

The death beetle will infect players with a terrible DOT called Burrowing Scarab. I am not sure what the exact damage of this spell is, but I'd assume it is in the 700-1000 point range....very nasty stuff. Common loot: black chitin legs. Rare loot: death beetle gland which has 1 charge of, you guessed it, Burrowing Scarab.

funnier yet is I remeber really low levels forming groups for death beetles in unrest those things are so green yet THESE death beetles could kill my gnome before he could say holy flying halflings!