a wurm  

I see Pearlescent Fragment listed as one of the drops for these guys. Is this, in fact, the same fragment for the cleric epic, and if so, does the drop rate from these wurms seem about the same (ie, abysmally low) as it is in Skyfire?

This are not hella hard at 50 i was taking them with ease. Dooming Darkness (or Cascading if you have focus items), VoS, BoD pet atk (taunt off), asytole then when it's at 40-60% re snare and fear. so its kinda semi fear/aggro kite. I usually have to refresh BoD and dooming only once before its dead but with my mana pool it doesn't seem much.

I have been fighting in BW for awhile now as a 52 Shaman. I have killed 30+ Wurms, 30+ Scoriae hornets, and prolly another 30+ Ancient forest giants. All together i have not seen one drop of a spell of any sort.

As a 46 Bard, I decided to chant kite one of these after asking the zone if they cast (and trusting the answer :) ).

Bastaad was tough! Of course, I started kiting before I wondered about their ability to resist Chant of Flame (hmm, inhabitants of the Burning Woods resistant to Fire based spells... ya think?!). Of course, no time to sit and mem Furtail's, so I did Snare, Chant of Frost and Chant of Disease with Selos Drum. I kept trying Chant of Flame. It kept getting resisted. Took 7 minutes. Got stunned once and hit twice, the second time for 144... that didn't happen again.

My first, and so far, only soloed "A Wurm" dropped:

- Spell: Pillar of Frost
- (2) Phosphorous Powder
- (1) Wurm Meat
- 4pp

The exp was ok. Maximum 4% was granted on a dark blue (which means a high dark blue). Probably better off sticking to Greater War Bone skeles for XP and straight cash.

Edited, Tue Apr 22 13:41:36 2003

I see alot of Necro's posting on how to solo these at level 50 or so, but just to let any younger Necro's know that are looking for a good fight, I am currently solo'ing these at level 40.

The tactic is the same essentially.
1) Augment Pet
2) Pull with Dooming Darkness
3) Fear!
4) Repeat Fear and Snare when necessary.
5) Let pet bash on them for about 5 minutes.
6) Enjoy about half a blue - 3/4's a blue per kill.

The only thing that makes this harder at level 40 instead of 50 is that your meditate isn't quite high enough to continually gain mana faster than your spending it. I might be two bubbles down on health (CoB) and at about 50% mana when done with one of these.
Another thing to watch out for is that they resist more at this level~ be sure to snare/fear soon enough that you can repeat if it is resisted.

I personally like to pull them to the wall near the giant crater in the opposite direction of the giant fort. Here their pathing makes them run around in one spot mostly when snared. Near the edge of the wall, their is a spot where they flat out stop moving if still snared (even with full life).

Have fun Necro's.

Just a quick note on kiting these babies as a druid. Don't. They have quite a large amount of Hitpoints, and don't give enough experience for the mana it takes. Takes me all my mana (or used to at 52ish.) Thanks :)

I'd like to know if these things count as animals or not as far as druid charm and fear go.

WURMS

I ben fighting for about 2-3 months now. i have exp. I have NEVER seen a spell drop off a wurm in BW. and also in CS. they say the wyverns drop the spells too.. but they DON'T.. PERIOD, THEY DONT dROP SPELLZ

I bet that's Drain Soul being cast on it

Could I solo these as a lvl 41 sk?

At 40 I could solo lvl 37 stuff useing about half my mana an loseing about 1 bub of hp.

Any chance I could solo the lvl 39 wurms at lvl 41 or are they to darkness/fear resistant?

Where do all the wurms for this quest spawn?

It now got changed to a 1H Slashing weapon now from sort of patch.