Dunedigger  

In all my everquest life, I had never seen this thing, nor really heard of it, but last night, while playing a newbie character of mine, he spawned. We were camping derv 2 and all of a sudden, on the hill behind, he popped. He only dropped armadillo hide though.

Does anybody know what the hide is used for? ANY information would be greatly appreciated.

From what I've seen, the shield can sell for up to 3k plat. I didn't belive a shield with these stats (15ac +9sta) could sell for that much but judging from how rare it is, it probably really is worth that much.

I come to you as a level 17 pally who spent much of his time in NRO. I have only seen and killed Rahotep once, and that was only because of my sense the dead spell. I worked and I worked and I worked on searching the desert for this beast Dunedigger, but to no avail. Sometimes I believe this beast to be retired as so many things that are worth your time and effort are in Everquest. I have asked about Dunedigger, and been only left with blank stares. I have befriended rangers to track the beast, and have never found it. As with a lot that I find the more I play the game, I believe that the only way to get a scute shield is to buy one, and they aren't auctioned commonly. Sometimes I think that they make the game too unrealistic. I finally was able to kill a guard, and all he had was a rusty short sword? How many characters can hit for 175 points of damage without something better? And the loot that some of the NPC"S give os ludicrous for the damage you take.

I heard a rumor that Dunedigger and Rahotep spawn at midnight game time. I decided to check this out myself. I went the the area between the scarab tower and the other two buried grey towers there south of derv 2. I killed every orc warrior and mummy/zombie I could find until 12:00 AM game time. Bang !! Dunedigger pops right on top of the ridge between the two grey towers. I killed him and looted the hide : ( I have since tried the same tactic a couple times but no spawn of either MOB. So here I am with a hypothesis that seems legit but dragging a 'useless' hide around forever. hehe oh well

I had this shield once. Someone gave it to me when i was lvl 3. Its stats are 15ac +9 sta. A very nice shield. I got offers up to 200 pp.

Saw this beast and thought: never seen one before think I'll kill him! Dropped the shield. Wonder how much it's worth??

In a year, I've seen him once by Derv 3 North Ro. A bunch of people promptly surrounded and pummeled it.

Never seen this guy, but I just killed Rahotep last night (the other rare N. Ro spawn) and all I did was run around like a maniac killing every creature in the zone, then POP, there was Rahotep. I've hunted both these rare spawns for awhile, and the only sound advice I've gotten is that they both have placeholders that are common mobs and both will spawn near the Scarab Obelisk when they do finally pop. Clean that zone and you might get lucky....I did.

The shield dropped is called "scute Shield" it's stats are AC +15, +9 Sta.