Black Dire  

I "Duoed" this guy with my level 36 Shammy friend (Someone had to cheer me on) :)

To spawn him I had to sneak inside the castle and kill the advisor, once he died black Dire spawned.
The fight with black dire was fun, Ended up seing all my Discs. THe best part was when he started running away the level 36 Shammy landed a slow on him. Was a fun time :)

I have read all these post and will tell you all this, I got the boots for my Shammy when he was lvl 5, and had alot of pissed off Shammy in my guild. Thats right lvl 5, and here is how you do it.
Zone in invis and head to his spawn point, if he not up go kill Advisor and the 3 chicks he hangs with in that room. Invis back up and head back to Black Dire spawn point. Pull him to zone and zone out. wait 2 min and zone back in, only mob you will see is Black Dire, he will stay at zone line for a little while before pathing back. After zoning back in, wax him. Did it with my lvl 51 Warrior and a lvl 53 Shammy friend. Logged to Shammy and looted. Headed to RM did the piddly crap there, headed tp FP then OOT, then to NK, then we were off to EJ, did turn-in in EJ and got killed about 4 seconds after I got the Boots, Shammy friend gated out we met back up in EF and I had my clicky sparkle boots. But they do not work till LVL 9. was mad so I had to go out and kill some bears for an hour and get lvl 9.

Overlord Bustauff
Dwarven Godfather

Mystic Preecher
Shaman of the Tribunal

Flame on for me cheating the system!!!

Zoned into MM today to find a 52 shammie there at the ZO, with this guy sat rooted..trying to solo him I guess. So decided to help out a lil..debuffs didn't last long on him at all...so had to keep recasting. Other than that, mezd till we were ready, both brought pets up...kept him rooted. No problems at all in taking him down. Think I lost about 100hp when i had to get aggro to have my pet join in. Didn't resist a single spell of mine once tash'd.

Arrelar - 52nd Enchanter, Order of the Raven's Tear, belonging to Tholuxe Paells.

Wiped out the yard trash, the blood wolves, then cleared out the castle and advisor. Blood wolves can be single pulled if BD isn't there, if you you use a range/spell attack and don't get too close. Found Black Dire by himself at the spawn point, and took him out with a 58 Paladin, 50 Druid, and 44 Shaman. Black Dire resisted every shaman spell thrown at him, so only good for healing. The Druid nuked for about 9% of BD's life each cast, and the Paladin didn't have too much trouble tanking and keeping aggro. Got a few adds during the fight (blood wolves popping again) and so the Paladin was at 40 health when BD died.

I wanted to get the Shaman Epic boots for my wife's 41 Barbarian shaman. I went to Mistmoore and saw that the Black Dire was up. I buffed up, summoned a pet and cleared the ledge outside the Mistmoore entrance. I told my wife to get there fast and wait invisible for me at the ZI once she got there. I cast Invoke Fear on the wolf on the front left corner. He started running and so did the Black Dire. I started for the zone, shouting warnings as I went. I got to the zone and a group of 20's to 30's was standing there and got hit by the huge train I was pulling. I FD and then seeing that they were dieing, stood up to help. Only the Blood Wolf was there, no sign of the Black Dire...this was my only mistake. The Black Dire was on his way, he was currently busy killing my pet DOH! I was fearing green mobs to help out the lowbies, when the Black Dire attacked me and killed me. I had a little over 1000 hit points and he hit for 145 and fast. One of the lowbies rezzed me and then we preped and killed the Black Dire. The lowbies grouped with my wife and I was on my own. My pet was MA, with my wife playing primary healer. Mr. Bojangles (my pet) never got below 60% health. I fired off some spells: Insidious Retrogression, BOD, Drain Soul and Ignite blood were the only ones which would stick. I outdamaged the lowbies and got the kill. Two minutes later, my wife looted the fur. The only reason I died is because the lowbies didn't take my warnings and move away from the zone and then I tried to help them... He never hit for above 145 or harmtouched. Overall, he was about as hard to kill as a Forest Giant Ancient from Burning Woods. Me (49 Necromancer) and wife (41 Shaman) could have taken him easily.

Learned something important, when you agro him, you do not agro the ones around it. Put if pet attacks when he attacks, then the ones around will get aggroed, so if you have a group, have them wait in next room, and leave pet at home. Then, when he attacks, pull back and your ready to kill him. My group did not understand and they agroed all of them....

I am a 39 rogue, i was on a raid on mistmoore with a 46 or 46 ranger 54pally 45 pally 45 druid 37 warrior and a 46 shammy, after we decided to leave a group that tried it had gotten killed, it was at the zone alrdy. we started off with the 54 pally using his 28/30 sword hitting for the 100's mark then i just BS'd it for around 180-200 every time. i got aggro on some. it double attacked for 200, never HT'd or lifetapped. after it had gotten the 54 pally to around 40% health(had alrdy used LoH) he said we should zone. but we hung in and killed it.was fairly good xp for me and started the Shammy off on her epic


Enima Spinestabber 39 Rogue <Circle Agape>
Braeyll Unforsakened 29 Necromancer <Branded>

Torvonillous

Kill the guards first. They don't agro as you kill them one at a time and they go down quick. Then head in for a quick kill on the advisor. Black Dire spawns and your free to kill him in the pit. My group couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about, it was an easy kill.

Kill the guards first. They don't agro as you kill them one at a time and they go down quick. Then head in for a quick kill on the advisor. Black Dire spawns and your free to kill him in the pit. My group couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about, it was an easy kill.

When I was doing this part of my epic, I found a necromancer that was willing to trying killing the black dire, since it was up. His pet died after a bit and I had to gate because of aggro, and was bound far away. the necro trained BD to the zone.

Some time later I was still looking for help, and a level 60 shaman aggreed to help me. When he zoned in he said the black dire was right at the zone line(Note: A while after being trained). By the time I got there the black dire was taking it's last steps trying to run away. The shaman had killed it, with the help of a 30ish shadowknight :) I got my sow boots after all.

Currently, at level 44 I have almost all of my epic completed. I am at the part where I have to hand the icon to that high scale kirn guy in the hole. Gonna be trying to get a raid going soon. My guild isn't ready for that kinda raid I'm afraid, so I may have to try making it an open raid maybe? Dunno, I'm sorta new to the high level raiding situations :(

Chaotic Winds did a raid on MM castle last night to kill Black Dire for the next part of my epic. We had 14 people there 30+ including a 56 necro, 54 shaman(me), 52 enchanter, 45 warrior and a 52 druid friend of mine who helped get us there. We fought our way in and then pulled Black Dire. The plan was for me to pull him using Malosi and have the enchanter AE mez the other wolves if they added. His spell went off before mine tho and he mezzed all but black dire. Dont know if he got HT'ed but I got Malosi and Turgur's off but he went down quick, which was good in a way cause he cleared aggro from the mez that way. I led Black Dire to the party and we took him down easy ( we had to kill the advisor first to spawn him). Despite what has been said I landed 8 Ice Strikes on him for full damage ( 645 ) and had no resists. Went down in about 1 minute, I looted the pelt. Only deaths were enchanter and druid friend who went LD as the battle started. Could have been done easy by just one group but glad we had the guild there. We then raided most of the rest of MM castle and got some nice items for the 30 crowd. There are no DE faction hits here,and positive faction hits include League of Antonican bards and Ring of Scale and a few others Ive never heard of. Further in there can be some horrific pulls and having one or more people who can AE nuke, mez and stun is a must. Thanks everyone and especially Decivious ( chanter and guild leader ) for the help.

54 Ogre Battle Mystic on Luclin Server--Chaotic Winds--Aggrok

60 Monk and 51 Shaman took him out with ease, didnt even have to use mend...Popped my stonestance discipline in the first few mins of the fight and used a Scepter of Mastery and Whistling fists to kill him.

I love playing my bard, there really arnt many spots we cant fill in a time of need and I havent met a caster yet who didnt love my mana songs. Now to the point, Bards have some kick *** charm songs that will charm just about anything if its low enuf, Ive had just about everything 40 and below as a pet at one time or another, from frost giants to low lvl rockhoppers in dawnshroud, Im not high enuf to get to this guy yet and am hopeing a high lvl Bard could help me find out.



Elsongo Badnote 35 Bard of Erollisi Marr
There is no greater plesure in the world than watching two enimies kill each other off at your command.

Edited, Thu Jun 6 16:06:09 2002