a bloodgill goblin  

Could a 36 Druid Solo one of them?

I am soloing these at lvl 45 for fairly good xp . There easy to pull cause they spawn far enough away from each other ot safley pull one to the bank or in my case if you have enduring breath (camp glubbsink in the faydwer port to get a spear with unlimited charges of enduring breath much easier than carrying around fish scales)you can melee them underwater if they resist snare alot. I cast call of sky / str of earth / feet like cat / firefist and sow swim down snare one swimup to shore melee it heal my self and repeat till OOM .


Megdidar Lothlorian
Lvl 45 ranger of tunare

Bloodgillls in lake are incredible xp due to:

1. Their very low HP for their level

2. The fact that their warriors

3. Gimpy city...they hit for upper 70's to low 80;s...there are mobs in OT who hit harder than that and have more HP and are actually a lower level than the BG's

4. Each pillar comes with a convenient double spawn, no adds if you fight them right then and there

Now, when I fight BG's, I NEVER pull them anywhere. Reason for that is that I'm a mage, and I don't see any advantage to it. Scout out the area underwater sometime invis (they don't see through it) and see what I mean. The main construction with the dome on top is safe at its top, then the ledge halfway down it with a pillar at each of the four corners. This is basically a merry-go-round of phat xp. You just go from one spawn point to the next, and if you kill them and take a bit to med, they don't take very long at all to pop if your the only one camping them.

Info on BG's spawns: Each pillar has 2 BG's who spawn at them. at many of them, you will only see one. DO NOT BE FOOLED! Always remember, young grasshopper...crouching bloodgill, hidden gobby! There's ALWAYS one around the corner unless somebody is camping it and intentionally ******** up the spawn. The chance of there being only 1 at ANY spot except the 1 pillar out from the beach near the sarny fort is zero to NONE. Many people I know have found this out the hard way..they pull one with snare and try to kite underwater, then the other one agro's and seems to "come out of nowhere" to kill them. BG's do not roam from their spawns, they simply have a VERY far assist radius. An AOE snare if you line it up right and their near each other will work, but if you only see one, again, DON"T FALL FOR IT. When you attack one, the biggest chance is that the other will come prancing in and start hitting you too. BG's HP's are always not very high and they don't hit too hard, but 2 can hurt on anyone unless your intentionally pet tanking like I do. That said, here's what I do to take them.

Mage strategy: Get out an earth pet. High HP, and sometimes it will root and you'll find your pet only fighting 1 gimpy BG while the other one sits a few feet away out of range and whimpers to himself. I suggest you have the 44 spells before trying this solo. Anywho, burnout 2 the earth pet, DS it, and then send it after the nearest BG. Now sit down and watch. Pet will be taking a mild beating but if your lucky, it won't be dying outright. Btw, did I mention ALWAYS FOCUS THE PETS! I can't see any reason why you wouldn't have your focuses at this level...but I digress. So the pet is tanking 2 BG's now. Hit your /pet report health Hotkey. If its health is around 50 percent, now is your time to cast a heal on it. 1 heal should do it, 2 if you feel you need it. Next, hit the /assist hotkey with your pet targetted. This BG's HP should be very low because it's been concentrated on by the pet the entire duration of the fight. One Shock of Swords, and bam, its on DM or dead. Next, turn to the second spawn that your pet is now focused on. If its HP is 30 or so percent and your pet isn't about to die, give him a happy shock of swords and now you have another DM or dead BG. Other mages I know have done this with elemental maelstrom and chain healing the pet, I'm just suggesting what works in my view. I like to do these with another mage as a partner usually, but its not required. Just be careful. And once you've killed one spawn, move around the pillar to the next spawn point, med up, let the pet regen, and do it again. You can get some pretty nice xp doing bloodgills. On my server, at some times they'll be camped, but usually I'm one of the only, if not the only, person down there.

Anyway, have fun with this. The BG's are probably the easiest clump spawns I've seen for a long time, and the loot isn't too bad. 4 orange in a hell level and 300 pp in 2 days isn't too bad in my book.

Live a little!

Xer-xer
Magus of Povar
of the formerly known as ZH

I'm a 43rd Level wiz and these guys are the bomb for xp. Here's what I do:

Jboots, Lev, Steelskin, Greater Shielding, and invis. Swim my happy butt down and SoTF a couple... Swim up real fast and bunch those 2 up... Move to next pillar, swim down and do it again. Now bunch all 4 of them up. Run them to the shore and then it gets pretty easy. BoF and CoF till dead. I see close to 1 1/2 blues per pull, and still have 2 blues of mana left. med for 4 mins, rinse and repeat. You can level VERY fast this way. Just remember to shout for Iksar SKs when those scales drop. They appreciate it.

Rashakra N'Faria
Wizard of the Tribunal

Any solo Monks had any luck with these guys?

Quick question...could anyone tell me if melee classes around 45 can solo these pesky gobs? Or if there is a strategy that any Paladins have come up with? Any help is greatly appreciated 8) thx

i played a 35 cleric and a 26 druid on my two computers. I figured it would be a breeze. well, with my cleric i pulled with a DD swam striaght up and with levitate from the druid i floated to shore. where i was saddened to find all on my druids spells were resisted and my cleric was half dead..i sat my druid down and memmed healing and used all the mana to heal my cleric whilst using the last of the clerics mana to cast wrath and finally a fear spell....well the fear lasted a LONG time and it enabled me to get enough mana to cast one more wrath which in turn persuaded my wet smiling friend to limp towards the Iksar city and all the while I prodded it forward with a few bonks of 5s to 10s about its pointy ears. well 10 minutes later it just died of old age i guess and i rifled its pockets for a hefty sum of ten silver..now to try the barracuda

Just a warning to those camping the shore and pulling from the goblin tower. While you may never see them on land they do appear there rarely. I do not know if this is because they like to "stretch their legs" occassionally and wander from their spawn spot or if it is the result of a pull gone awry. Whatever the reason be aware that what looks very much like any other land Gob is an ENTIRELY different beast. My group of low 20s was methodically churning out xp when one of these joined a pull. Needless to say the "Loading Please Wait" quickly followed.

I managed to get 2 coins from these gobs and I was wonderin how much to sell it for... =)

OK I killed these for about 7 lvl's with my wizzie. From 44 to 51. At 51 only about 1 in 3 is still blue, but solo some greens still give xp.

On the subject of XP they are awsome. In lvl 51 I still made about a bub every hour and a half. Prior to that a bub an hour is about right. They are very easy to kill for casters due to there low HP.

One Icecomet and they are running and can be finished of for about 300hp nuke. THus I would say their HP are about 1400. For melee types they do hit pretty hard, and thus they are a much easier camp for casters.

My tactic was always to pull with proc of staff or temporate flux, alowing only one to be pulled from each pair. Then head for the submerged platform in the north east part of the spawn area which allows you to fight on land. (Lev and SOW are good for this as then you can surface and run on the water thus avoiding getting hit, they swim pretty fast but with swim above about 150 you can just stay ahead of em). On reaching the platform root the mob in place. Icecomet and its running then finish off with a lower lvl nuke for about 300 dam.

This is a very fast and safe way to lvl, only problem is that its boring as solo gets lonely after a while. Good new is if you get bored you can always head to dread for a bit of grouping )