Lord Gorelik  

As a 37 beast wandering through the cave killing mostly greens and the odd light blue, I was not prepared for this red con fellow.

I was killing warriors for my cultural armor quest. I lasted about five steps down the hallway and was then compost for the goblins to feast on.

At least I could summon my corpse to the guild lobby... LoIO not a corpse run I would have wanted to do back in the day.

I was just wondering here.... how is it that we can't equip anything at all if it isn't allowed for our class/race/religion or whatever, when it is plain to see that NON of the NPC's or Mobs have to follow the same rule?

Take this guy. He's a Shaman with a pet, carrying a staff that says it works for Warriors only. I'd love to hear the explanation for WHY these can use these things and yet we can't.

Seems to me this is just plain bad coding or thinking on verant's part. If you want ppl to not complain all the time, STOP letting the MOBs bend the rules while we are ruled under the iron thumb. If you are going to apply something to us, then please, restrict the mobs to the same rules!

Sparximus, lvl 22 Mage on Tunare

I haven't played EQ in about a year. Once I got my ogre SK to level 20, I couldn't shake the feeling of same ol', same ol'.

Anyway, right before quitting, I teamed up with four others who were about my level to clear out the goblin caves. (For an ogre, I had an unnatural fondness for small spaces. I loved Guk too.) We had a moderately challenging time dealing with the blue cons until we found I nice open spot (an alcove or something) for pulling. I was the tank, so off I wandered.

Bad idea, as I'm a really crappy player--I quickly got lost and wandered for about 20 minutes, spotting red cons around corners everywhere. I somehow made it back to the party, but in the process I'd lost my pet. "Skellllllly! Here, Skelly! C'mere, boy!" I yelled as I summoned him to return to me, figuring that he could home in on my signal even in a maze.

Bad idea #2: Skelly did come to me but brought the Big Bad with him. Worse, the bastid reached THRU THE FRIGGIN' WALL and killed the cleric with one stroke. None of us had seen what happened, as the cleric was standing behind us in the alcove--we just noticed that her health bubs had suddenly vanished, turn to look at her, and see her corpse.

Of course, a second later, my SK turns back to the hallway and barely has time to see this goblin gorilla dressed like the Chiquita Banana dancer before I'm instantly dead. Lucky for the rest of the party that I'd died first, because the Big Bad can't walk thru dead ogres as easily as thru walls--they all lived to tell the tale, while I had to die to do so.

After a few hours, I got my corpse back and then decided that I'd had it with EQ--many, many hours of sleep lost with nothing to show for it. I still miss my SK, but I'll someday revive him in an RPG.

Took him down tonight with 30m to spare. med till fom, cast wolform, spikecoat, sln, my 5 resists and str. med again to fom, cast regen, ds, and invis and went in. Snare, Ice, starfire, starfire starfire... dead. He hit me once melee for 77, I resisted ALL his spells and his stoping to cast gave me plenty of time to cast starfire. Buffed, all my resists were like 70-90. Never saw his pet but his pet dies with 1 DD vs summonded practically. Waited till he was in the back of the mine to snare so there werent any adds. Got my newbie warior a 2hb weap =)

49 Druid

saw him sitting at one of those tables eating some cake, so i walked up and said. Hail lord gorelik might i have that nifty stick you have there in those green hands. he laughed and replyed, you must pry it from my warm dead hands. i say No Prob! and began smashin his head in. about half fight, he pauses and says, Wait! my cake! i laughed, grabbed his cake crammed it down his throat. he begins to choke uncontrolably, i figure what the hell and chop his head off. he layed there twitchin abit as i slowly snapped his fingers back and removed his stick. walking happily outta his stink hole of a home. i see a cpl of his buddys, aka warlords blockin my exit. i roar at them GET outta my way or the same fate that befell your master shall fall upon you! the shock and disbeleif is their goblin green eyes made me wonder why gorelik was so easy.

53sk ruled that gobbie azz

Saw this guy up with the staff last night and figured I'd take a chance, I'm a 44 mage. I summoned and buffed up an earth pet send it in, it killed off it's pet fairly quickly but the fight took quite awhile on the lord, he has so much HP. I ended up chain casting 3-4 pets and nuking with shock of swords twice for 600+ dmg each. I'm just lucky the spells hit for full because by the time I killed him I was down to 40% HP and my pet was down to 50% HP while I was OOM. Tough fight but it was worth it, got a free mithril staff for my lvl 31 warrior. Just too bad his 2HB is at 0, heh.

Tried to take him down as a 45 SK. I had him down maybe one health bub before i had to feign at only a few dozen HPs left. He starts slow, but once his pet jumps in, its all downhill from there...

When i was still around lv 25ish i was hunting at the gobbie caves here in a pretty good group. I (being the uber puller that i am) was single pulling the warlords that pop just near the entrance, our group was getting insane xp. Then things went horribly wrong, i went in a little deeper to pull one of the gobs right at the end of the first corridor cause the ones at the ent were taking way too long to spawn and all i saw was "Lord Gorelik hits you for 95 damage" I screamed LORD INC to my group hoping they would run to safety, but they stayed and tried to save my sorry trollish ***** Big mistake. This guy started hitting 110s over and over and then the coup de gras he let loose on the 3 tanks with a 2 wave 154 damage poison AoE spell. AH THE PAIN! Our necro FDed and got wasted by the goddamn AoE so after all was said and done the only thing that we got was LOADING... PLEASE WAIT




Grobble Dagorkon now lv 35 troll SK (Brell Server)

Just killed this guy yesterday for a nice midlevel 2hb weapon for my sexy warrior. This guy is cake. I'm a level 54 Druid so apparently thats what kept the goblins from assisting their precious Lord - a goblin stood right near him and even tho I rooted and dotted the Lord he didn't come to help. His pet got stuck somewhere so it took it a minute to come help, missed most of the time. One round of Breath of Ro and Winged Death killed this Lord. I tracked him down and rooted as soon as I could, didn't really plan my attack on him as he's pretty fast and patrols around the caverns. Pretty easy if you use Druid root-snare-dot method. The lord was blue to me - must have been somewhere in the low 40s.

Edited, Sun Feb 10 00:51:43 2002

Well 49th level druid so this guy should be easy. Ran in invis, got far enough away so I could root twice if it did not stick. His pet was luckily in a side chamber and could not get at me. Rooted him, slapped on Drifting death and 4 starfires later (612 damage I think it was, just went LD so cant check log), dead gobby, he only cast on me three times, and for verrry minimal damage. Never even encountered the pet. The staff was visible so I guess that is a way to tell if he has it. Anyway, was nerve wracking being that far in (in and to the right). I see no reason why a well organized group couldn't take him out. Be well, have fun, and no I dont "Got SoW" :)

My 47 pally nearly got wacked by him today, friggen adds kept me from Helm Healing to 100% and wasted 70M of mana keeping root up...*sigh*. Killed him in the end when a 27 rogue guildee helped, hehe, you'd be suprized how useful he was, got a 107BS that cancelled his last Gheal, that if he got it off woulda finished me. Now if i went at him FoM and FoH i shoulda been able to solo him, got the Mith Staff. Hope I can grab some $ for it.

anyone know if he still drops the staff?

its listed as a common drop, so far ive killed him 5 times and no staff yet

just wondering what ppls xp is on this?

just killed him today 26/10