a shadow guardian  

The shadow guardians in EW may drop the ring and shoulders but the ones in Iceclad outside of TOFS drop the Chill Dagger, Snowball and various words and runes and even then somewhat uncommonly. Killed the ones outside TOFS for 3 levels and never gotten a ring or shoulders except of the named.

These things now drop Runes & pages , and even got Frozen Mantle from one.

BUT

be warned , when they are under 20% , they now port themselves back to the tower ( same spot you pulled em from ). Only good thing is aggro is wiped when they do.


Magon Carys
36th Season Druid
Venril Sathir

Iceball also drops from them.

I am a level 34 Necromancer on Tallon Zek and I hunted these guys solo last night.

Here is what I did:

I put on all my buffs (Shield, Steelskin, Resist Cold and Disease [last two because, as I said... I'm on a PvP Server]). After my buffs are applied I meditated to full and cast gather shadows. I then approached the tower and moved around until I heard the "swosh swosh" sound, and located the Guardian. (They will be around the outside of the tower moving around.) Do a quick check to see if any others are around, and attempt to root it. They seemed to have very low MR so I was able to land a root almost every time. If root fails, run toward the waters edge and try again. (No mobs roam around the water edge.) Once root sticks, apply Dooming Darkness, Venom of the Snake, Boil Blood, and re-root. Then sit down to meditate pretty far out of its range so if root breaks you can stand up, and recast it again before it gets to you. The DoTs should kill it, but if they don't just life tap it (if you need to) or cast Acid Blast. After it is dead move into the water to Meditate.

It is important to stay out of Melee Range of this creature as it will kill you quickly. If things go badly, cast Feign Death. Pulling them Solo should be easy, just try and pull them away from the tower incase more wander by.

I had the following spells memorized:
Highest Version of Life Tap
Venom of the Snake
Tobalts Acid Blast
Dooming Darkness
Boil Blood
Root
Gather Shadows
Feign Death

I used Gather Shadows as my "Switch" slot. (Meaning I would drop that spell to memorize a buff to cast, or sometimes replace it with Call of Bones.)

I also used Breath of the Dead so I could meditate underwater safely. This really isn't necessary unless you play on a PvP Server. This should allow you to meditate without fear of being attacked by a Player or NPC. (Just swim to the very bottom and a little ways away from the island.)

I am level 36, however about four kills can give me one blue bub. These guys also gave me allot less trouble than the snow cougars using the same tactics above.

i was just killed by one of these waiting for the boat. lost my level!!! it was green and i only knocked it down to 80%. not sure whoes cruel joke this stupid thing is!

ok its pretty odvious to me whats going on. Its not that there arent lvl 27 to 31 guardians. I myself have killed a few blue ones with my lvl 30 pally. But the wanderes around ring are WAY outa my league. They seem to be about lvl 35+ by the way they hit compared to the others. One even hit me for upper 80s twice.

Shadow Guardians are monks. Most of them have a max damage in the mid 70s, though the highest level ones max for as high as 80. They kick in the 60s (Flying Kick, I imagine), and have other monk secondary attacks as well. Their melee damage output is tremendous for their level range.

However, because they are monks and not warriors, they seem to have lower hit point totals then, for example, Snow Cougars. They also seem to have lower resist rates than the Snow Cougars, but I may have just had better luck on the Guardians than I did the Cougars.

I am a 39 druid and some of these still con blue. But then there are two distinct creatures that look very similar; the shadow guardians and the snow dervishes. And they both make that "whoosh whoosh" sound as they come up on you. They are the reason I hate porting into Iceclad (my body is 'visible' for a good 2 minutes or so before I actually zone in, and am usually under attack by that time).

I'm a 30 Necro and I've been soloing these for pretty much the whole lvl 30 level. There are fairly easy to defeat, just use dooming darkness to slow them down. Add some DOT's and just keep out from their hard hitting arms. At 30, it takes about 15 even lvl to raise one yellow bubble. Oh...I've been doing this without a pet too. Easy, if you know what you are doing.

What lvls would you say could/should camp these buggers, good exp and any loot?

These things hit like a ton of bricks. Mult 80s are not uncommon.

Also Im guessing they do range in lvl up thru 30 or so. Some have conned yellow to a lvl 33 mage.

One wanderer near the Dragon ring in Iceclad seems to be the tougher of the lot.