Phurzikon  

Popped on my way to the Sarnak temple. Got him down to 8% solo and it gated. It did take a lot of mana but it was easily done at 52. I recommend you hit it fast with mid level spells near the end to hopefully disrupt any attempted gate. Hope you have better luck than I did.

53rd Mage

Okay this is getting to be a real pain. I have been camping the named wurms with my 51 Mage for almost 2 weeks on and off. I am able to solo them - chain casting pets etc. Total kills of named wurms have been 22 and NO Burning Embers. For such a minor part of our epic, this is getting ridiculous. Anyone else been having this problem? Anyone find a better kill time - night/day?
Only good thing is i started at 12% exp..as of now I am 82%. Soon all will be green by the time the Embers drop:(
Thanks
LDat Thrall
51 Mage

Hunted the neg450 neg2550 location area with a group. We maxi-pulled everything till we could notice the repop.

Here are the stats of today :
PH's: 40
Phurzikon : 5 (not a single drop)
Nezekezena : 6 (5 bard guts and eventually blood emebers)
Gylton : 0

With my 45 bard. Didn't even know what he was for at the time but I charmed a normal wurm and then let it attack the nearest thing. It attacked this guy. So I soon realize he's a caster and beating the crap out of my pet. Pet dies. I decide to take the chance and try kitingh him. I get him down to 40% health without him ever even trying to cast a spell. Then I charm him (got him on first try) and made him make short work of the adds I aggrod. He kills them and then once uncharmed and at about 30% I kite him around again.

Then the big dummy finally realizes that he can root and does so. I try fearing him.. nope. He kills me.

After I get my corpse I wanna try again (seeing as I almost had him the first time) This time he completely changed his tactics and chain nuked the crap out of me in the 400-700 range. Ouch. Gonna wait a few levels till I try him again..

I find it amusing to see people talking about bringing groups to tackle this mob. Braukken, specifically. A bard sat there and sang mana song so some wizzies could nuke. What a twinky little mana battery. He could have been replaced by a couple castings of C3. I soloed Phurz today as 51 bard. Ended with 80% health and 85% mana. A 46 bard could do it. Go back to playing your druid main.

As I do some research for my Wizzie, it seems that a 50th-ish mob that drops a Coat with improved damage for up to 44th level spells is yet another case of stoopid Verant logic. I would expect that a 54th caster would be over using 44th level spells for the most part - doesn't that make it mostly useless? Or am I gonna get some flaming for this one?

Edited, Mon Nov 4 13:09:11 2002

Well I tried to solo Phurzikon with a 54 Druid. It nukes very fast about every 5 seconds, when you are in its casting range. It never did summon. My resist to magic is only at 60. Most spells did not stick to me but when they did 550 damage per shot (outch). Got it down to less than 1/2 a red bubble of health and it Gated. Maybe it Gated because I was out of its casting range. It did not resist the DoT (Drifting Death) and the problem I had was every time it wore off, I had to get back into the cast range and It would nuke me and interupt the spell, before I could get off the next DoT and Root. So if you are ready for the this mob you can solo it with a 54 Druid. Just buff up with regrowth, magic resist, cast Ensnare, Root and Dot, and stay out of the casting range.

Ok, I have been camping nez and phurz for a while now. This is what I know. I KNOW They spawn on a 90 second cycle at EXACTLY neg450 neg2550.

However, they may spawn also at a few other locations around here, because I have seen nezekezena spawn behind me while I was camping neg450 neg2550 (and no, it wasn't already up before i started camping the loc). PH can be many things in the zone, but not anything. PH will always be either:

Scoriae hornet, sarnak champion, forest giant verdant, sarnak zealot, moldering gorilla, greater plague skeleton, wurms or forest giant ancient.

THe most common seem to be sarnak champions, sarnak zealots, wurms and greater plague skeletons.

I think all of the PH's will con dark blue to a level 54. PH's are usually a pretty high level.

NEzekezena is always level 51, and she WILL gate and chain summon your group to death (did it to me 2 times). She does not gate to neg450 neg2550 either. If i remember correctly she gates to pos2700 pos1000, then chain summons you.

Phurzikon cannot gate and is MUCH easier. You still need a full group to take this spawn site, and a cleric and enchanter would be very helpful.

I would saw a named wurm spawns between 1/3 and 1/4 of the time, and PH's spawn the rest of the time. YOu need a good group, because nezekezena can easily spawn 2 times in a row in a span of 90 seconds.

Adds are also very deadly. Try not to root nezekezena because she will gate and chain summon you. If you root phurzikon, phurzikon will gate, but she will not summon you. Try to attack them as soon as they spawn because they damage shield themselves. Annul Magic would help.

Nezekezena drops Guts ALMOST every time. I know one time neze dropped embers and did not drop the guts. Phurzikon also dropped the embers once for me. I killed them both a total of about 25 times, with 2 BE drops. I also killed gylton about 15 times with no drops, so i dont know if he drops it, but i can confirm both neze and phurz do drop burning embers.

Nizzan
51 Elementalist, Innoruuk

I have heard much complaining about this camp and wanted to offer some feedback. Just did this last night (4/13/02). Was 3 mages, 1 druid, 1 bard. I know, we should have had a 6th - but didn't happen.

Don't approach this place as a chore - other than the insane adds, it's a nice xp and loot camp for a group of 47s-52s. With the 3 mage pets going bonkers, I (bard) sat back and did mana (felt a bit worthless). Druid added nukes, snares, and heals.

2 of the mages needed embers, I needed guts. I secretly thought it would be hopeless to get 2 sets of embers. However, in about 1-2 hours we had Neke pop twice and Phur pop 3 times. Neke dropped guts both times and Phur dropped embers 2 of the 3 times.

Honestly, I was a little bummed it dropped so fast because the xp was so good.

The moral of the story is, go there with a good group of friends and camp for xp - the drops will come.

Edited, Sun Apr 14 14:39:52 2002

Bah I jsut fought there with a druid 53 mag 55 pally 54 war 51. Even if Phurz poped twice in like 3 hours we got no coat, no epic piece.

The mag died once. And a druid could NEVER handle the camp alone. The repop is too fast, and that s assuming he can med avoiding all the adds...

soloing phurz is doable kinda easily at 53, but you can never keep the cam pwithotu a kidna good grp.

A full grp 50ish with either bard/chater or cleric to have enough mana to heal (our druid never went over 20% mana) should be ok.

I know why this item is so worthy, the camp is hard long, and quite boring.

I have been camping phurzikon for a Guilde Magician for a few days now. I have killed phurzikon solo 3 times. Phurzikon spawns at the cooridinates given, and walks a fairly straight path along -2500 going up and down on the first coordinate. A very easy solo for a druid 53+. Could be done by a capable druid 49+ with ES VAMBS, and some time to kill... If she gets rooted with low health, she will gate. So far she hasn't gated on me at low health, if I keep root off of her, and stay in aggro range. Soloing, it can be difficult to get a stun spell off(or unresisted) before she gates, so I recommend saving some mana for a little kiting at the end. After phurz goes down you have 90 seconds before Nez or another PH pops.

Nitezero
55th Druid
Tribunal

I think he is lvl 49 every time. I haven't ever seen him summon.