One thing I've noticed about these is that they seem to be a bit resistant to blunt weapons. Can anyone confirm this?
The venomous parchment these guys drop is a component for the Mystic Scaled Gauntlets, which is one of the pieces of the Iksar Shaman Cultural Armor quest. Pretty useless to anyone else.
Dont pull these to the guards in FV, they wont attack it. I've helped more than one unfortunate soul who ran to the guards to find solace, but discovered only a cold shoulder and the choice of a long run through spider infested woods. They root easy and nuke even easier though. But not much fer loot, never saw much more than a few silver off them.
I was on my way back from a corpse run ( damn spiders just made my list ) and saw one that was yellow. So I though, I'll pull it to the gaurds and watch it die for a quick laugh. Found out guards don't aggro on them. My bad. I got it to about 1/2 life befor I went down. Went back for the body again, and I saw it, still 1/2 life. So I hit it again, this time I had it, a druid ran by and rooted it, and healed me a couple times which only sealed its death. Made a rude gesture at its corpse, thanked the druid, and felt a little better for diein twice.
Just looted a venomous parchment from one of these. Has the same graphic as a spell, and is lore, no drop. Checked the quest database, as well as poison recipes, but didn't see it in either place. Anyone have a clue what this might be used for?
Questions of biology aside :), does anyone know if the "scowls at you, ready to attack" /con on these lovely fellows is real? I know that the sabertooth cats, tigresses, etc in the Lake of Ill Omen do not KoS regardless of their "scowls" message, but I've only seen these from a distance and didn't care to approach, for good reason.
One thing I noticed was that a number of mobs like those you listed do not aggro on players even though they say 'ready to attack'. What instead happens is that these mobs won't flee when at low hitpoints. The various cats you mentioned are a good example of this but there are others.
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The scowls ready to attack message on these is very real. I got attacked (and chased for quite a while) by one of these last night. On other item of note... The guards seem to not bother killing these for you too. Good thing I'm a druid and was able to fear it to gate.
I noticed that as well, upon arrival in FV I wandered a bit looking for anything i might be able to kill. One of these things crawled so close to one of the guards they almost meshed and yet the guard did nothing. not sure if that's due to guard reaction or the creature faction tho. in misty thicket those halflings get hyper chasing down anything that strays too close. but unless the guards in FV don't attack anything that's not aggroed on a CHAR, then i don't know what's up.
I would have to agree that all playable races in EQ can be defined as animals.
On the other hand, some supernatural entities such as (for example) gods and wisps seriously strain the definitions of an 'animal', inasmuch as they appear to exist purely on magic, rather than physical, biological metabolism. Just food for thought.
Lampreys are fish, they are at least vertibrates, whereas spiders are arachnids, which are invertibrates. At least they can figure out the phylum even thought they can't figure out the kingdom.
They can't see through Camo. I'm fairly low lvl for FV (18th) so I obviously have Camo going non-stop when I head to LOIO. I only ran into one of these guys once, he must have wandered off from their usual spawn point (maybe pulled by someone who then had to Zone). I had camo on, and he conned indifferent to me, which implies that either he saw me and didn't care (unlikely) or that he couldn't see through the Camo spell.
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