Dack Tiktopper  

Dack is found in Echo Cavern by way of secret entrance next to Soul Binder in Sh. He hangs out in the mutants area. He pops in all the rooms so kill everything. O don’t touch Crazy Pete or Roy both are under con. Best way to kill is single pull if you can. If you have a pet and can fear you own this area. Casting fear spell makes these guys run back and forth right in front of guard to SH. Just keep fearing and nuking or melee up to you. I lvl myself from 28 to 37 doing this. Killed this guy 70 time before I got tinker tool. Enchanter

Edited, Wed Jan 22 17:43:38 2003

Note of mutants: all name mutants can spawn ANYWHERE with few excptions: Crazy Peet, Preacher, Pristess and little Amonzo(sp?) have fixed location. Pristes (and Amonzo behind her) and way back in the cave so chances are you will never get that far before cave start respawning.

The dem gnome is a hard nuker and have one hell of a fear resist.

Killed him a few times with my 32 SK. While using fast weapon and bash will sure do a few interupts, but it seems he can chain cast his lighting spell, which does about 110-250 dmg, faster than i can swing my Noct blade (18/26). He eslse quite good at recovering from interupts, best tactics to deal with him and not be with silver of life left at the end of fight is:

1. fear kite him. He breaks fear about evry 15 seconds, but otherwise he can nuke you for about 600 dmg in those 15 seconds

2. leave him alone. After puling from mutant caves i finaly got him spawn way out of the main path - realy far away from general agro range - so i left him be. Now i can safly kill mostly anyhting from the cave for same XP/loot and not worry about dem 200+ hp nukes from the dem gnome

Took my 34 Ranger here and killed him along with a 26 Monk. Dropped the tools but this was after many attempts and it seems to be a very rare drop.

This guy is a wizard and casts all the appropriate spells. He nukes you hard to start the fight, then roots you, then resorts to melee when he gets lom.

/agree i found this guy to be one of the harder mobs in the mutant area.

heh, don't pull any mobs standing right near him too. He buffs em with dd shields and some other things i don't know what they are.

Umm, he almost always aggro's with a few other things, usually mutants. And he can root, so keep a guard up and group against him.

I've now killed Dack some 40 (thats right, 40) times on Tarrew Marr trying to get the Tinkerin' Tools. It suffices to say my main and most of my alts have delux toolboxes, but NOT ONE DROP of the tools.

On Crynthia, I get the ring 1 in 10...

This is not a rare drop, its an ultra rare, or I am really unlucky.

Sklarcakes Macfish 49 War
Sklinker Del Tinker 32 Wiz
Tarrew Marr

He has about 940hp or so and punches for an average of 20. Hits you with mana shock that does 140-180 a hit, also dispels - took out my symbol of transal buff. Hard to take him out solo with 34 pally despite chain stuns and bash. OOM and on 15-20% health at end of fight. Think respawn is 15-20mins and mutants are sometimes placeholder.

I popped the preacher with a 444 DD spell and he disappeared and no longer on track...any one know why?

Edited, Mon Sep 22 05:19:11 2003

me and my friend both lvl 29 im an SK and he is a necro were huntin here and killin the named mobs like crazy and he pulled a mutant and this guy came along necro mezzed it not sure how he does that but anyway i killed the mutant and just as the mutant dropped the mez wore off. well htis guy blasts me with his nuke spell which hit me for 179dmg twice in a row before i could finish killing the mutant and click on him well i was already pretty low and this hurt a lot. i was unconcious and the necro feared him and we took off maybe him alone would be pretty easy but not this time. but revenge will be mine
oh and these named mutants spawn extremely fast BTW

If you want to hunt this guy you have to enter Echo thru the secret wall in the room behind the Soulbinder in Shadowhaven.He can be found in the outcasts and mutants area.As for level he cons yellow to my 27 monk.He hits for mid 50's,but it's the nukes that get ya.Most don't land full for damage,thank Cazic for decent resists,but the most he hit me for was 141 cold based.Hope you get luckier than I did spent a week in here solo'ing from 20-27 with my monk,but also parked my 52 ranger in there to drop Dack when he spawned.And in 30-40 kills never seen the tools,does drop tons of toolboxes though,great for filling your bank with 10 giant slot containers.Happy hunting all.

Edited, Sat Mar 30 20:30:48 2002

I have killed him since level 39. Put your resist gear on because you'll need it. The best way to tackle him is to have some way to bash to interrupt his casting. Of course, as a paladin, I have my sheild and three stun spells at my disposal.

His nukes are cold, magic and fire based. He has a damage shield on and a damage absorb shield of about 200 hitpoints to begin the encounter.

If you time it just right, he can be slaughtered quite easily. Just wait until he begins to cast then bash him to interrupt casting. When he starts to cast again (and if you are a paladin), just cast a "cease" on him. His next cast will come at the same time as your bash button refresh, so repeat the interruption.

I've killed him so many times that me and all seven of my alts has the 10 slot toolboxes filling up all 8 inventory slots. He drops the toolbox all the time. I've let them rot and have given some to the guards. I must have killed him no less than 80 times and he has NEVER dropped the tinkering tools. Three straight 10 hour days hunting here and not one single tool. Soloing mutants, boglings, and needlites from level 37 to level 40 in Echo caverns and all I have seen from Dack are toolboxes.

I hate gnomes.

Edited, Mon Feb 25 22:02:30 2002

The gnome spawns by "Roy" in that little area he is a wizard and he spawns by the other name guys so just kill everthing where roy spawns and he will spawn i killed him like 6 times and he drops the tool box ever time good luck

I ran into him in echo caverns in the second "room" you pass after you go through the curtain and pass the guards. Hunted this room three times and ran into him only once. He hit me with a DD that landed for 161 damage. The message said something like "You are chilled...blahblah" so I am quite sure it is cold based. I had an endure cold buff on that gave me 60 cold resist and still got nailed for 161hp. The festering hags in unrest cast cold based DD's. Without the resist buff they hit for like 200, with the buff, about 80. So this guy's DD is potentially much more damaging with a low cold resist.
I would like to know what, if anything he drops. I got trained and had to feign death so I never got to kill him. If anyone has any loot info on this guy please post it.