was sneaking around in DN, scoping the area out for a possible group raid when i triggered one of these traps. Being a druid, HPs aren't really a strong point and needless to say, got wasted rather fast. Highest i got tagged for was 137. and there was at least 7 or 8 that popped from that trap. Bad EQ, bad bad bad.
These things are level 50. yet only hit for 50-80 and have 2,000 HP dear god.. sounds about twice as easy to squash one of these as it is to take down your average everyday hill giant. lest of course they hit rather fast. Either way I'm wondering something. Say you take one group of high levs in to kill, and one group of mid 30s in to kill one or two of the extras *if they could survive the trip in*. the xp from killing a lvl 50 mob is rather substantial at those levels. I mean think about it. Killing one trap full gives a full group of 55-60 visible change. what would they do for low levs LOL.
Please feel free to add info on why this is/isnt a good idea. I've never really thought about it althought now it has caught my attention.
how rare is the drop, and what level should a warrior be to get in there, im 52 atm not kos to dragons, and have almost 1060ac with 2700hp, think i could survive?
Its a cute trap, but its even better experience! Do you know anywhere else level 50 mobs have 2k hp and spawn 10 at a time? Get the wizzie in your group, and its huge visible gain every time the trap springs :)
omg 2 weeks ago we hunted in DN as a guild with like 20 people... when we were heading out (tov next day so we didnt gate most decited to go to zone in) and when we left the building suddenly a huge MASS of these appeared i dont know how many but i think at least 20 omg thank god that I'm a 60 warrior with high AC (i had for a minute 5 on me u can i can tell you that HURT) only like 1 group of us survived this horror, including me hehe well was easy CR though u could see the zone out from that spot hehe
hunted there last night, we tripped the trap a few times. The second to last time I think about 10 beetles spawned. AoE! Our wizard AoE'd and I found a use for Upheaval...it was over pretty quick. Easy, visible xp. If you got an enchanter, a cleric, wizard, anyone who can aoe/aoe stun and just worked this trap the xp would come in!
These things are excellent exp when you're ready for them. Although the last time we trigged a trap, we got between 15 to 20 beetles and needless to say we had to do a lil CR on that little incident. Averages beteen 4 to 10 spawns a trigger.
They drop a NO DROP.. not magical 10/19 "pincer". They only hit me for about 50-80 dmg. The problem is about 6-8 of them spawn on you at a time.. and of course they aggro on the medding caster first. Either that or the healer.