Gorul Longshanks  

Okay, I'll check in my logs as I have time. Probably keeping it to the past 6 months would be best as they have changed over time as you mention.

I logged my 55 Druid in Sunday morning and found Longshanks on track, he only had the Shield. I sat down, clicked on track and there were 3 others there too!!!!! I do not know what caused so many to spawn but the nice thing is that the last one had the leggings! I sent out shouts to the others in the zone that the shields were rotting and free to a good home (or and evil one) and gave the location of the corpse. They still give great XP to a 55 Druid.

Gorul has close to 10k HP, as compared to the Elite giants which have 5k, scouts have about 2000-2500, berserkers are around 3000-3500. I have hunted Gorul about 25-30 times, he always drops either the buckler or the ice weave pants. My drop ratio is 1/5 or 1/6. Cannot say what the price is on my server, as I have equiped alts and passed the rest on to guildies.

I took him out the other day. Nailed him with Tugurs, plaugue and envenomed bolt. Sent in my fully buffed puppy. He breaks root whenever I casted a dot, otherwise stayed put. (yes I use root, try it and you will see why). I did have c3 and 2 44 cleric buffs plus self buffs. used alot of mana blasting him with dd's. He can double for 125. Had to heal puppy once and recast Ebolt 1 time. Chagred in and beat him with Barbarian Spiritualists Hammer, 2 procs in that fight. Lost 2 bubbles of health. Dropped velium weapon, and shield. Fight lasted about 5 minutes
Tssord 51 Mystic
Povar server

I was passing by the giant fort when I picked this guy up on tracking. I already had the Iceweave on my wish list to pass on to my lizzy SK so I couldn't miss the opportunity to take a swing at him. Turned out he was roaming around just south of the fort, close to where the velium miners can be found. No-one else was trying for him so I refreshed my SoW and went after him.

I am a 52 druid, with 200 Wis and my trusty ES vambraces. I pulled him clear of his chums with Ensnare then added a Ro's Fiery Sundering. Once he was out in the open, I used Ensnaring Roots, Breath of Ro and Drifting Death until I was down to just under a blue bub of mana. By this time, he was at about 60 pc health. I then resorted to my vambraces to keep nibbling away at him while I medded up enough for a new Ro's.

All told, the fight took about 20 minutes. Gorul broke root a few times, although never enough to become a concern. I think only 1 or 2 DoTs were resisted. When he finally dropped, he had Essence of Rathe, a velium weapon, a few plat ... and the Iceweave. I was one happy lil' druid. I'd say that Gorul is a fairly easy, though lengthy, fight - just make sure you keep your SoW and his snare refreshed. He hit me a few times for 130.

Good luck with him!

Tisky Goodlove
52 Wanderer of the Seventh Hammer

Longshanks was the King (British), obviousely not a friend of Wallace. Just thought I'd fix that =)

He drops the ice weave. They are leather pants they are Ac 9 Str+8 but to heavy for a monks liking.

I have solo'd him many times as a level 53 druid. He is VERY magic resistant. My root fails probably about 20% of the time. Root also wears off very quick on him. He can resist Winged Death also.
He is a tough fight.

Gorul Longshanks drops the Rune etched stone buckler (or is it stone etched runed buckler.. whatever, its the large race only shield) and rare drop is the Iceweave pants.

Decent loot