an undead slave  

Interesting, though they are undead they will run at low health.

These guys are very easy for a 49+ Necro provided you can single pull: I don't know what level that becomes possible, but they all came singly at 52, including the taskmaster.

I wandered in here just to take a look around, so most were light blue, but all I had to do to kill them was pull with Shackle of Spirit (undead slow), send the pet to kill them and then drop on Engulfing Darkness (low-level, low-mana snare DoT) to stop them running too far when low on health. That was it... the lower-level skellies would typically knock the pet's health down by 2-4% in the course of a fight, the higher-level dark blue cons maybe 10%.

When I was lucky and the cave spawned mostly dark blues, the XP here was decent and easy. Unforunately about 2/3 of the time they were light blue by that level, in which case the XP was slow and trivial.

Edited, Sat May 10 16:15:48 2003

I solo'ed my way from 49 to 50 (and a few blues of exp at 50 and 51 as well) just hunting these skellies. It was so easy, I felt I was cheating. They were (mostly) blue up to 52, so I rekon they are higher than level 35. They hit really hard if they are level 35 (unless you are fearing them - haha), and have about 2-3k hp.

If you are a pally, mem your level 9 fear spell, hot-key it, and slaughter these suckers at will. Undead fear is all of 10 whole mana. Once you get the timing down, you won't need to stop to meditate, heal, or buff yourself. They never agroed on me, even when I attacked the Taskmaster.

And the best part is that they all drop a pick worth 6.5pp to vendors. If you keep the skellies feared at all times, you will kill them right as you reach the zone to SH. Loot the pick (they are lore), and run up to the nearby gnome vendor to receive your 6.5pp reward.

Oh god another bunch of mining picks that feel like a quest item with no quest found. :(

Evening

The list has these as "monsters" with the name and look of undead.... do undead spells that Clerics/Paly's use effective vs them?

Thanks in advance
Norwolf
50 Ranger
E'Marr Server
Norwolf@ourhaven.org

I fought these with a 49 Cleric and a 53 Necromancer, I myself is a 46 SK. They were no match at all for the Necro pet and she walked right through them, when I taunted and allowed the pet to backstap. It is also true that to some these are friendly or indifferent, or simply don't aggro, however on our little party they did. I don't know if it had something to do with religion, race, class or whatever, but to some they aggro. That meant that if we pulled more then 3 and I coulden't hold aggro on more then 2 the pet was a goner and the Necro had to make a new one we triumphed, but with a cleric OOM. Also the Necro pet vanished 4 times so this place still has a few bugs in it.