Ixiblat Fer  

Sorry but it is true. After seeing all the post here I was quite worried about doing this part with success. We had 21 people there and we owned him. No pulling to skiyfire zone either. Just ganked him where he spawns at. Hell the clerics that were there besides the MA cleric all sent in their hammer pets at its back =P. But do note everyone there was 55+ and MA was a 60 epic Warrior.

If a raid should fail, like mine last night, where during the pull 10 people went ld, including me, does the triggering cleric have to re-do all of the steps to respawn Mr. Fer? or is there some from of "oops" way of respawning?

any sugestions would be great, if not I'll be a 200 swimmer for certain

thanks

About a month ago, while lfg in Velks a 58 cleric asked me if I wanted to help kill Ixiblat Fer. I was immediately stoked since he was next epic mob I needed to kill and I had never participated with Ixi and wanted to learn the tactics when my time came (my guild is still not sufficient enough to take him down). I stopped at Thurg bank to pick up my epic pieces 'jic' they would want to take him down a couple more times and ported to SF.
I zone into BW to see maybe a dozen peeps hanging around waiting for eveyone to show up when all of a sudden /ooc incoming ixiblat fer goes across my screen. I'm looking around thinking, "no fookin way!" I just arrived, nobody told me the plan, nobody also told me that I was the second cleric and last member they were waiting on!!! Oh boy,I thought: I'll get to see Ixi, toss a couple heals, watch my screen LOAD, and rez afterwards. By this time I'm thinking this is no longer such a wonderful opportunity for me. How was I to learn tactics against this guy if we wouldn't be alive long enough to implement any lol?!? I count 13 other people to help with this lvl 62, 32khp bad *** (13 other people to rez I'm thinking lol) when MA tells me and Mordof, 58 cleric, to chain DL on her until she goes to 50% health then to chain comp heal.
Here he comes... so I start chain bombing divine light until I am 40m and hold off since her health has been a steady 80-full health the whole time. Only the secondary assist went down and Ixi was gone in 60 seconds!!! 14 people! ( a couple of 60's with epics plus chanty/shammy tash/malo combo worked wonders) Gratz Mordof!
Someone then asks me what part of my epic I needed next and hopefully replied, 'Ixiblat'. To my surprise, they (Agony on Vazaelle) said they would kill him again for me!!! I never thought I would get a shot at this guy so soon so I was pumped.
We waited... and waited... and waited... <sigh> Naxot does not spawn at the stated time on the walkthrough (spawned at midnight game time) so peeps were getting impatient and I was losing faith they would stick around any longer to help a 54 cleric only one of them knew 8( They hung in there and Naxot spawned 27 game hours later at 3 am this time. I hand my seashell to Naxot and gate back to our camp while MA was pulling Ixi a long way back to us.
Here he comes, again, so I start the chain heals on MA only this time Ixi decided enough was enough and tripled me for 575 (not sure if it was a triple hit but it happened so fast it might as well been one) and ae nuked me a couple times for another thousand while being stunned. It was less than 2 seconds when all this happened so I dropped fast along with our 60 shammy ((( Thank Tunare for binding myself at the camp only to get smoked again upon reloading (apparently Ixi has a flawless memory lol ) Oh well, this time when I reloaded he was dead, along with half of us this go around due to myself(2nd of two clerics present), chanty and oracle dropping. I looted my scepter of Ixiblat Fer and was very thankful, and am to this day, to the folks of Agony who helped make my day!!!

P.S For those who have been following my epic walkthrough (all 2 of you that I'm aware of <smile> ) I have a doozy upcoming on my first encounter with the Overking lol



Edited, Tue Oct 15 06:20:03 2002

whats spawn time

if thats the mages pet i wonder how much his owner would nuke for.

Roasted 46th mage
Lenaleb 54rd warrior

Did him with 15 people last time.

60 shaman, 4 warriors (highest myself, 60), 4 clerics level 52 to 60. A 60 wizard. Ranger puller, couple enchanters and a rogue I think it was.

Cleric spawned him and gated to the skyfire/bw zoneline. Ranger pulled him (/snore... long pull). When he came in, I tagged him with melee soon as he got inrange and ran to his other side to face his back to everyone else (AOE only hits those in front, and 200 damage per AOE can add up over time to other people who shouldn't need heals in the first place). I then used defensive and solo'd for about 8 seconds while being healed. Clerics used DL to heal at start since he does hit fast and hard -- and you don't want to pingpong him, then switched to CH once ready. Called melee in, then after about 15-20 seconds of fight, had Tash from enchanter, Malo from shaman. 5-10 secs later, shaman can try to slow. Our shaman reported a few resists, but I'm sure if you added Malosini after the Malo/Tash combo that you probably wouldn't see resist. After he's slowed, he's total gimp and a single cleric can handle all the heals easily. 0 deaths there.

None of us had 'uber' gear, either. My AC is only around 1140 unbuffed as a 60 warrior, and I have pre-epic quality weapons.

Ixiblat really isn't that hard. If you want to do him easily with numbers like this make sure you have a 60 shaman with Malo. He can be done with the same numbers, but it's a lot harder without the slow. Clerics will probably be OOM or very close by the end of the fight without a slow, where as with slow 1 cleric can handle the heals on the warrior once he's slowed.

It does exist, we took out Ixiblat the other night twice, the first one dropped it.

So the item does actually drop, just gotta be lucky I guess.

PS - we failed the first time too, he drains the main tank awfully damn quick. He didn't get slowed the first time and he shredded a 59 warrior. Next 2 tries I think we only lost the chanter tashing - instant aggro.

Ciliz Scalebladez
55 Revenant ~ VZ

We took him down the other night and I noticed both times (failed once) that the warrior was the main tank for the 15-20 seconds. I was wondering if a high lvl pally could do the tanking for the first 15 seconds? I mean it is possible with Divine Aura, making the pally take NO damage whatsoever, but cannot be casted on either. He may not have enough HP but is it possible for a pally with Divine Aura instead of a Warrior with Defensive? Thanks

Santheb Moonstare
40 Paladin of Rodcet Nife
Bristlebane

We killed Ixiblat 6 times today, and he never dropped a cloak. Deepwater's respawn time was 23 EQ hours, and we went through 7 spawns. Unfortuntely, an tatterback ape killed Deepwater before we had a chance to turn in one of the shells, so we spent an extra 72 minutes twiddling our thumbs... I pulled Ixiblat to Skyfire zoneline each time and never got any adds. Good luck!

We had a full turn out from the guild of 45 and over people. Had about 6 clerics chain healing with CH on main tank (main tank was a warrior with epic weapon). Enchanters tashed and shaman and necros slowed him with Malo and Darkness. Pets where sent in and was ready to chain cast pets. But this thing went down and we had only lost 7 people in total out of about 20 people there.
He dropped the shawl for us and a iksar monk from our guild won the role.