a cobalt drake  

I have been told they dropped Flawless diamonds as avery rare loot...Is that true or once again total myth?

Watch out when you are killing wyverns as these things will help them out.

OK, unless you're after hides, the Drakes aren't very good game (lvl 44 spell drops, though, seem to be a common occurance). Gem drops seem to be exactly the same as Wyverns.

At lvl 53, about 50% of them turn green. I first started hunting them at 51, but only when the zone is packed full of Druids, Wizzys and Necros and not a Wyvern to be found. If you know what you're doing, Drakes are very easy to kill.

Pull with snare, and cast it from the farthest distance away as possible. Immediatly root and dot. The important thing to remember here is to KEEP YOUR DISTANCE! If you stay near the fringes of your spellcasting range, they cannot cast their AE spells on you. Only when you come relatively close will you get hit, but if they're snared, it's fairly easy to stay beyond their spell casting range. Also, don't worry if snare is resisted the first cast, these things seem to be even slower then unsnared Wyverns. If you do get hit, cold resists help a lot. Unbuffed cr hovers around 56 for me and I get hit for max with these stats. However, buffed up to about 100 cr, I've never been hit for more then 200. Again, the trick is to KEEP YOUR DISTANCE!

Also, out of kindness to fellow players...pulling these things to the beaches to hunt is very bad. The Drakes will cast their ae to any CoV KOS person who happens to wander too close, especially if the Drakes are rooted. The Drakes and Wyverns are spaced enough on the ledge where you can kite them there without the worries of adds. Just make sure you stay center ledge to avoid entering into any Wyvern's aggro range. Also, watch for any PC(s) pulling Wyverns accros the ledge near you! Hope this helps. Happy hunting!

Spuzy, 53 Wanderer (Regression)
Vazaelle

I here they are for tailoring, but what do you make, whats trivial, and whats recepie??

New change - Othmir no longer aggro on the Drakes after being hit by AE spell =(

These guys dont have a lot of hp maybe 4 or 5k was an easy solo with my 52 shaman...dont close in on em'...root dot ..and they are dead.

Yawind
52 shm

First off...aye, dont hang out at the portal, even if you are not KOS, someone will and agro the drakes, and catch you in the AE.

When drake(s) agro in CS, if you are not prepared to fight them, there is a recourse. If levi/dmf/safe fall is still up, or you can take the 250-300dmg for the fall to the beach. HEad to the beach where the Othmirs are. Immediately ooc/shout DRAKES TO OTHMIRS! (if you are going to give warning, please stop reading and just die in place)

Run through and just past the othmir camp to the waters edge. If you have an invun shield, throw it up quickly, if not you'll take one more AE hit. The AE has a LARGE radius. When the drake AEs again, all the Othmirs of that camp will agro on it. They will kill it, tho it will take a few moments...so as soon as its AE goes off...begin running away from the othmir camp, to escape the lastAE it might get off.

And once again...please ooc/shout DRAKES TO OTHMIRS (or the like). Give ppl warning. Those without good resists/HPs may die, or you'll agro pets.

If you can kill them but need a moment...train the the far end of the beach, furthest from Skyshrine. It's relatively othmir free...and player too. Still give a warning tho please. There should be room there to root/dot, kite the drakes without getting KSed by othmirs, and without ruining other ppls' day. =-)

Good hunting and safe travels.

Talionis Mischiefmaker
55th Defiler
Prexus

If you can solo dracs in SF, then you can take these without any trouble. At least if you are a druid. Just root, dot, repeat. Stay out of the casting range. It has a normal casting range unlike everyone is crying about. But, the blast radious of the AE spell in enormous.

A warning to any that feel safe around the Cobalt Scar teleport circle:

Due to the nasty AE on these drakes, you can easily be killed if someone who is NOT on friendly terms with them comes near you. A friend and I were sitting near the teleport circle discussing plans for the evening, when another druid teleported in. He was immediately aggroed by a drake which used it's AE. I thought someone had cast on us, and looked around for the PK. We restored the buffs the AE had dispelled and healed. Then the druid teleported in again, and two drakes blasted this rather foolish halfling, catching us in the AE. We had even moved out much further from the opening, but the druid ran out of the circle before aggroing the two drakes. My friend died, and I barely managed to stay alive, probably due to my high CR at the time. It took us a little while to figure out what had happened, but we finally figured it out from watching this rather insipid druid get himself killed again.

AoE is a ***** - does about 500 damage AND has a chance to dispell one of you buffs. It's not a spell so you can't mana sieve them away, its a proc like the dry bone skeleton's fire.

Sitting with my usual 110 cold resist (unbuffed and not in pvp gear) one did about 1/2 - 1 bub damage to me...which is nasty

Verant has acknowledged accidentally giving these drake's Lady Vox's AE ice spell, and not ice comet (IC isn't AOE :P) It's going to be taken care of in a future patch. But till then, that's one helluva bug, lol.

The Ottmirs are enemies to the drakes, so if you aggro a drake you don't want or can't take, jump down to the ottmir camp and let them kill it. It goes fairly fast, as the drake has few hitpoints.

There are 3 of these that patrol within aggro range of the Dragon Circle - you have been warned!