a black reaver  

Hail

We raided Reavers tonight for epics, they were a pushover, we had 18 55+ people and trampled all the mobs we came across,2 reavers dropped in the first run, i think 2 more in the second,not a rare drop certainly, the second run was handled by a singl group of 55+,took longer to kill but not impossible.

Reavers are 100% MR,100% FR from what I saw, as a 56 Druid nothing stuck, not even my FR Debuff.

Good luck

I was on a CoM raid last night. I am a 51 ranger and had several 52 people with me. The reavers range 50-52. They may go under 50 also, I am not sure. most seem to be 51 and 52. We had 2 jade reavers drop and 2 moss's as well. Killed, I dunno 12 or 15 of them? they are 100% MR. I casted a lot and didnt hit with anything.

Then we killed Rak for a shammie's epic. and yeah... that AOE is unstoppable. pretty much need arch mage's to pet-tank it and just heal their pets nonstop, have everyone else stay far away. We knew this and still a lot of people died, including me :)

I believe or at least have been told that this is the dude who drops the green jade broadsword 11 25 1hs that goes for about 7kpp on drinal. Anyone know to the truth of this statement or have i been mislead again hehe

I don't know if one of the recent patches changed this or not, but as of 06/30/01 they are lower level than posted here. Saw one and it con'd blue at 51.

How big of a group is requiered to hunt these guys?

All Reavers on 2hr respawn. Btw dont think that you are gonna just kill one and med up for the next one. They spawn one after the other in the same spot where the last one died. Until you finish the cycle where the named or reg mob (depending on which spawn point is being killed) at the end of the cycle spawns.

the reavers also drop LOST STAFF OF THE SCORNED! 11/24 wiz only 2hb right click effect group port to nek!

if you want to cast on them, fuggetaboutit.

you needs to barsh em with tanks.

-twink bah-AAA-rd!-

The Reavers also drop the Shimmering Partisan.

MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM
Skill: Piercing Atk Delay: 39
DMG: 17
+10 STR, +20 DEX, +10 FR, +10 CR
WT: 6.0
Class: WAR
Race: ALL

OK, I am changing this message to reflect accurate information how to solo a reaver.

First off, I must stress that this information is to just be taken for what it is, an idea. This does not mean you should go out and try this because you will probably die trying.

Second, only a wizard (or other class with unresistable damage spells) with a lure type spell can solo a reaver without taking like 2-5 hours.

Now, there are two reavers that you can kill solo as a wizard. First is the ghiosk reaver in the center of the castle. Second is the neh'ashiir reaver in the sky.

1) Ghiosk reaver - Get ready to get yourself beat down bad doin this guy and get some damage soak spell on. This is the only reaver that is possible to solo that you can actually loot, but since reavers and lords have a blind+snare melee proc its really not worth killing this guy for loot unless you figure out a good way to do it.

On the left side of the castle (south side) where the water comes up to the land you often agro a reaver thru the wall. That being said, I'll add some other info; there is no pathing in the water and unless you start melee'ing the reaver he will just sit in the water and catch a beatdown from your lure spells. You could either pull the reaver into the water or pull him to the center of the walkway outside the castle and levitate off into the water a little bit so that the reaver stops on the walkway. Then just proceed to lay some damage down. Be careful however because if you get close enough, a reaver will follow you, regardless of pathing.

2) Similar area outside the castle using the water, but this time the reaver is almost directly above you in his own room and there is almost no way to loot him. You would have to be VERY talented with the gravity flux spell to float up thru the bottom of the pit trap in the neh'ashiir reaver room and run up and loot the reaver. You would probably die doing this unless neh'ashiir was up (shes non agro). This one is kinda pointless to solo since you could easily kill tons of blue con lvl 45ish mobs way easier than killing a lvl 52-53 reaver with lure spells, especially since you can't loot this one.
Same deal though, get over the water so the reaver doesn't move when you start nuking and you should be fine. I've casted on reaver about 200 times and I've never been summoned without doing melee damage on the reaver so it's relatively safe to cast lures and med all day on this reaver. The only advantage I could see to soloing this reaver is that when neh'ashiir finally does spawn a rogue could probably pick the lock, run up and loot the reaver, then go back out and wait till you kill neh'ashiir and loot her too. You must not have someone attack the reaver or neh'ashiir in this room or get in melee range or the reaver/neh might summon you up there and make a hell of a corpse recovery.

Some info you should know about trying this: reavers are either lvl 52 or 53, hitting for 155 at lvl 52 and 160 at lvl 53. As far as I can tell, they don't summon unless someone gets in melee range and starts to attack them, in which case they would lay some serious beatdown on whomever has their attention. Also since you really can't loot either of the reavers you kill without some serious creativity, it's kinda pointless to try this unless you are reaaaaal bored as a wizard. I suppose that once you got the reaver past half a 3rd party might be able to come up and loot the previous reaver's corpse but since lure spells are very bad ratio this would be very hard to do before before the previous reaver's corpse despawns. I solo'd a reaver as a shaman, but I got VERY creative with casting pets and the gate spell and I got killed 5 times before I figured out how to do it because of summoning. I also took over an hour to do a reaver as a shaman, so it was very worthless and I didn't even get to loot the corpse because another reaver spawned. This was right before one of the velious patches though so I didn't leave a reaver to kill everyone that came near the castle heh.

Remember, take this for what it's worth, an idea. If you get killed trying this, don't blame me; I didn't tell you to do it =P

Went on a Lord raid a few days back, got a kind of a bad pull, 3-4 reavers. Most of the tanks were dead out of our 3 groups when Neh'Ashiir spawned (we skipped Rak'Ashiir, he doesn't aggro, and he's the one with the Big Nasty AE Dot). Neh spawned, killed whoever was left because someone attacked him by accident. If you dont whack Neh when he pops, he shouldnt aggro (conned Dubious to me, Apprehensive after alliance :> ). After regrouping, looting etc, we killed him, and I managed to lose the roll on the Ornate Runed Shield (rolled 11 on 1 1000, I almost cryed). Very nice caster shield, 15ac, 8int, 40mana something something. Looks like a light-and-dark grey diamond, very flash.

Candaar
40th Enchanter of Tarew Marr
Dragonkin