a frost giant scout  

Monster

Minimum Level: 34
Maximum Level: 36
Expansion: Scars of Velious
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-09-08 21:23:34

Known Habitats:
  Great Divide
Factions Increased:
  Coldain +5
  Claws of Veeshan +1
Factions Decreased:
  Kromzek -2
  Kromrif -10

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Sologin as a 35 Druid
# Apr 12 2002 at 12:11 PM Rating: Default
These guys are soloable by a 34-35ish druid. I admit I am twinked (a little bit). Got 200 wis in total. Make sure you SOW yourself, buff yourself with SKIN and BABRCOAT, cuase most probably you will get hit at the beginning.
So, be4 u kite a giant, find a spot near an ocean where nobody will disturb you and your "friend" (i hate the damn snow dervishes joinining in our private chat). So the first thing is SNARE of course, most probably they will resist (resisted 4-5 of my first snares till it finally stick on him) - thats when u will get bashed couple of times - giants are big, with long hands and feet, so they reach far.
so, snare till it sticks, DOT, nuke
Dont try to root unless u have a lot of mana, also I dont recommend using FURY of the AIR spell. sure it does almost twice as much dmg as combust, but it gets resisted more.
I soloed only one per mana bar, maybe i can solo one giant and a wolf if i dont get that many resists. But basicaly speaking be ready to spend your whole mana bar (I actually ran out of mana, but the giant was low on health and was standing still snaring so it didnt cause me much trouble).
Good luck soloing them, and try not to kite them in the open, find a place where there is something behind your back (ocean or a wall that nothing can climb)
Peace and good luck fellow players
Jullius
Level 35 druid
Vazaelle
Drakkel Icereaver
# Mar 29 2002 at 4:07 AM Rating: Default
Been waiting for one of these to drop. Who exactly drops it?
Hard?
# Mar 28 2002 at 4:14 PM Rating: Default
Would this be hard for a 38 Warrior to solo? i have some decent weapons (Centi LS and A Wurmslayer) and some Crusty Armor and i have 200STR i have some ok HP and Dex and what ever soo... I think i might be able to...
RE: Hard?
# Apr 03 2002 at 2:03 PM Rating: Decent
I have soloed them with my pal since lvl 37.
They are VERY tough and up until 39 required me to heal (and sometimes LOH) myself in combat. (Thank Quellious for stuns)

Granted, I am suited in quested armor of Ro (not twinked or purchased) and weilding the Arbitor's Greatsword. (30/43). With 200str and those weapons you should be able to solo them without a problem.

Good luck :) and bind close just in case.
RE: Hard?
# Aug 25 2002 at 12:20 AM Rating: Decent
ummm... what do you mean 'Thank Quellious for stuns'? As far as I know you CAN'T stun giants, including these. My 30 pally is in GD killing these a little, and when my Stun spell hits it says 'your target was not affected my the stun portion of your spell' or a similar message, can't remember. I may be wrong, but that's what happened to me =)
Non-woven beard
# Feb 18 2002 at 8:32 AM Rating: Decent
I, also, have looted a frost giant beard recently, and it is not woven. Does anyone know what these beards are for?
scout beard
# Feb 06 2002 at 1:40 PM Rating: Default
I picked up a frost giant scout beard (not sure of exact name but that is close) off one of these things about a week ago. Anyone know what quest it is for? its a no drop beard not the woven one.
RE: scout beard
# Mar 21 2002 at 6:37 AM Rating: Default
Part of a long gruesome quest involving many trade skills for the runed prayer shawl which gives you good stats with Flowing Thought 1 i believe.

Shadriak-Shadlok
Terris-thule
Necro Soloing
# Feb 01 2002 at 9:16 PM Rating: Decent
do not even try to solo these with our lvl 34 spells your pet will die fast and your mana will run out even faster i tryed it at 35 and i casted dark,vamp,fear,pet,call of bone,venom, med,acid blast, was left with about 1 and half bars left all my dots run out and nuked him again and he still had half life left so i just FD i might try again at 38 but i think it will be the same(
RE: Necro Soloing
# Feb 17 2002 at 3:58 PM Rating: Decent
Not easy to solo with lvl 34 spells but it is possible. Just keep him rooted and dotted and send pet in with fear near then end of the fight. Takes the majority of my mana but they rarely resist anything. Good Hunting Fellow Necros :)! Oh and watch those elites by the bridge. When fear kiting they will vanish and re-appear back at their posts.
RE: Necro Soloing
# Nov 15 2003 at 11:59 AM Rating: Decent
Are those the frost giants by the Great Span? I thought they were scouts... is the Span (bridge) a good place to pull these guys too, i.e. is the pathing for fear ok? (lvl 40 necro here btw)
Heads & Toes
# Jan 01 2002 at 12:02 PM Rating: Decent
These guys con blue to 37 Warrior. Myself and 37 druid can take them down, but it's tough. We were able to get 4 toes for the shawl quest and 6 heads. All in GD. Plus a beard and several weapons. Money loot ranged from 1pp to 5pp. You gain faction with the coldain and Claws of Veeshan.
Toes
# Dec 09 2001 at 10:04 PM Rating: Decent
49 posts
I have killed 40-50 of these scouts and have not seen any toes drop (or anything else except meat and occasional velium weapon)

BUT, I have killed 5 FROST GIANTS in EW and looted 2 sets of toes. My guess, nothing drops in Iceclad
Scouts
# Nov 28 2001 at 7:57 PM Rating: Default
I have been killing the scouts alot lately and i have never seen toes or helmets =/

physh
torv
frost giant toes
# Nov 18 2001 at 4:45 AM Rating: Default
Do the giants in any particular zone have a good drop rate on toes?
easy fight for 37 Druid
# Oct 27 2001 at 11:02 PM Rating: Default
I've been a little worried to fight these guys since evrything in Velious is tougher, but they went down like any other giant. I just root and DoT and med back up. At 37, I end with 1bbl of mana.

Only bad thing is the loot. I have yet to get more than 2pp and a chunk of frost giant meat. It's like fighting cyclopses.
RE: easy fight for 37 Druid
# Nov 21 2001 at 6:43 AM Rating: Decent
Same thing for me at 40. Root-DoT works fine, I end up with 1.5 bubbles of mana. But every once in a while you pull a resistant giant ... my record is 14 root resists :(
RE: easy fight for 37 Druid
# Mar 21 2002 at 6:43 AM Rating: Default
Resistant creatures can be the worst have fought a wooly mammoth at lvl 33 that conned low blue and had him resist 6 out of 7 snares and 3 out of 4 roots wish verant would make this spells a little less resistable as they are the main part of a druids battle plan.. I feel like a loser when i get resisted 9 out of 11 casts or near a 90% rate on something that cons blue . Come on verant ...
RE: easy fight for 37 Druid
# Nov 24 2001 at 1:07 AM Rating: Good
Do the Cleric/Druid Warden of Tunare quest in Felwithe, if you worship Tunare. The final quest gives 7ac 2cha 3wis 15mana necklace AND right-click root!! It is only the lv9 spell, but it is a manaless root )
Close fight!!
# Oct 23 2001 at 5:35 AM Rating: Default
I (41 Mage) tried soloing some of these in GD (had killed a few in IC so wanted to see if they were any different here). I killed a couple (fairly close fights), and on the third one, he got my pet so I ran him around (have Jboots) gaining enough room to toss a Cinder Bolt at 'im. I was close to dead (about 1 hit left), gained a bunch of ground, and tried to cast another bolt. He got to me just as my spell wore off *BLAM!* he hit me and I bolted him at the same time. He went down...I looked up and saw NO red in my hit points. I immediately switched to inventory to see I had only 8 hp left! Man that was a good fight! >:D
Solo
# Oct 01 2001 at 9:32 AM Rating: Default
I have tried (successfully) to solo thes as a lvl 39 and 40 druid. Root/Dot works fairly well. But for the same mana I can quad dire wolves for much more xp.

Also the Frost Giant Scouts in GD seem to con the same, but are much tougher for me. Snare is resisted more, and an angry giant is almost SoW fast. Root, if not resisted, only lasts a very short while. I haven't yet found Ro's Firey Sundering which may help with the debuff.
Magician vs Frost Giants
# Sep 27 2001 at 9:36 PM Rating: Default
I used an earth elemental pet at lvl 41 to solo these... a little risky, but worth it.
Pull with malaise, send in pet already buffed with burnout 1, and barrier of cumbustion.
Cast rain of lava, AND rain of spikes... during the rains heal your pet. Cast cinder bolt, heal pet, cinder bolt again.

Lvl 44 is much easier... using a fire elemental, pull fg with malaisement, send in pet, cast Elemental Maelstrom... wait till fg is almost at half (or heal your pet) cast shock of swords.

Should be no problem if hardly any resists... if too many resists: gate!

RE: Magician vs Frost Giants
# Sep 27 2001 at 9:38 PM Rating: Default
er.. i meant burnout 2 :)
Rogues can solo
# Sep 10 2001 at 12:02 AM Rating: Default
46 Rogue here, I can solo them(yes with difficulty) I'm not twinked at all, except for a Fungi Tunic(good to have higher friends), and they take me down to 1 red bub or so. Sometimes, if they're lucky, they win. So, yes, its possible, but not really worth it.
Soloing...
# Sep 05 2001 at 3:02 PM Rating: Default
48 rogue twink... you are dogmeat for them, no matter how twinked you get you can't solo. 1300 Hps is nothing, my shaman has more lol they are way undercon, L33 hitting for 90? hmm, just count how many 90 hits can you take. You get hit for max a lot, rogues suck defending. No matter how much AC you have I can bet a warrior in banded can tank better. Unless you do 2x more dmg then them you dead, they have 2ce your HPs.
Solo'ing
# Aug 27 2001 at 10:47 AM Rating: Decent
I've solo'ed these pretty easily as a level 40 druid. Just make sure you don't aggro something else on you or you may not have enough mana.

I've also solo'ed the elites, but only with Gift of Magic and Clarity. Wouldn't have had enough mana otherwise.

The scouts have something just north of 2600 hp. The only two elites I fought were closer to 3000.

However, in my opinion, they aren't worth the mana (unless you want the faction -- though I only received faction messages on the scouts, not the elites). For the mana I have to use to bring one of these down, I could get 2 to three times the exp by quad-kiting the cougars (assuming I can find four blue ones).
soloable by rogue twink?
# Aug 24 2001 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
level 48, 1300hp, 850 ac, 934 atk, runed bolster belt, blood point, fungi tunic

Think so?
RE: soloable by rogue twink?
# Aug 26 2001 at 1:22 AM Rating: Decent
update by me...

no ****** way, they are mostly green and it isn't even sure you can kill them before they kill you.

wolves OVERCON
giants UNDERCON
Loot : ring
# Jul 11 2001 at 6:49 PM Rating: Default

I got a ring off one that was +3int +10mana usable by casters plus more - not bad.

I can solo
# Jul 10 2001 at 6:19 PM Rating: Good
ás a lvl 37 SK
either its a damn hard fight and i end up being half dead or i take them down pretty easy almost only using mana.. but thats common for SK solo
Can a lvl 44 druid solo these mobs
# Jul 02 2001 at 6:30 PM Rating: Decent
Can anyone kindly tell me, currently a lvl 43 Druid with his lvl 44 spells in the backpacks, that if at lvl 44, can I solo/kiting these giants?


Thanks & Safe Huntings!!
Scouts
# Jun 22 2001 at 2:57 AM Rating: Decent
Scouts are excellent experience for my 46 SK. In addition to the items mentioned here, they can also drop Drakkel-Forged Hammers and Drakkel Ice Reavers. The Ice Reaver is actually a fairly good weapon at 27/45 with an Ice Rend proc that works from first level.
other drops
# Jun 17 2001 at 7:26 PM Rating: Decent
Cool, these guys also drop velium weapons and I got a Drakkel Forged ******* Sword (20/45)..not bad.
What about us ?
# Jun 15 2001 at 10:19 AM Rating: Default
I hear alot about how easy a mob was to kill by a druid or necro..kiting. But what about us melee classes..we get no respect. We are sought after by casters only to keep them from gettin hit. Will someone please post how they killed this mob that is a melee class. Can a 36 Shadowknight or any other melee class solo this sucker or what ?

Darcwarlok Doomblade
Iksar Shadowknight
Harbinger of Death
RE: What about us ?
# Apr 16 2002 at 12:17 AM Rating: Default
as a lvl 51 human monk these still con light blue to me i hunt them mostly for faction they are tough for me i never had to fd to escape death but have had to use my mend and stone stance dicipline in soloing fights, as for me not twinked just a fbss, 1424 hitpoints,wu's quivering staff 23/28 2hb. also i do not fear them to increase my odds of them collecting friends while i'm beating the back of his ankles. on average i have 2 blue bubbles of life left from soloing these, but everyone knows monks are not made to stand toe-toe hope this info helps :-)
RE: What about us ?
# Jan 28 2002 at 9:20 PM Rating: Default
As a 42 Pally, with an Argent Defender and FBSS, I can solo these pretty easy, but the risk aint worth the reward. These suckers can be damn resisty when the want to be and they can sneak up on you when your busy with another. The point is - group your @$$ if your melee. You'll get xp faster, safer and have no boring down time waitin for those red bubs to go back up.

Aldur Roughdiamond
Mith Marr
RE: What about us ?
# Jun 19 2001 at 3:46 PM Rating: Default
Don't worry Lizzy SK. I am a DE SK 49th lvl and i solo these guys all the time. Some are still blue to me too. ;)

1. Dark them
2. Heat Blood
3. Another Dot
4. Fear em
5. Weaken Them
6. AtK
7. Dark again.... repeat list as nessesarry


Darkmoom
RE: What about us ?
# Oct 03 2001 at 8:34 AM Rating: Decent
I know that SK pets are not that great, but if a mob is feared, they add damage. So, don't let them tank for you, but do send them in when you you finally get your fear off.
RE: What about us ?
# Jun 19 2001 at 9:24 AM Rating: Decent
Me as 42 Paladin can solo them without use of LoH with a Mith2Hander.
But its very close sometimes, and i only hunt the giants if LoH is ready.
I kill them in Great Divide

Ringil Donnerfaust
Paladin of Brell
Thunder, Innoruuk
Sky-high sv magic
# Jun 05 2001 at 10:12 PM Rating: Decent
Either I had an incredible run of bad luck, or these things have extremely strong magic resistance. Or maybe it's necro-specific resistance, as someone posted that they were easy for a 37 druid. Fear and dark just didn't stick at 38. Mostly fear, as my 45 druid friend was doing the snaring and I only darked when we got an extra. I wonder whether there's a difference between zones, or if they've been changed, because the druid I was with got some resists on snare even at 45. The ones my spells wouldn't stick on were in GD.
RE: Sky-high sv magic
# Jul 11 2001 at 1:52 AM Rating: Default
40 sk with approximately 860 AC and Moss couldnt solo a scout with fear kiting--Can back up the higher MR, fear just did NOT land, and if it did the duration was pitifully short
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