a thought stealer  

Heh killed on Zeb also, on Sep 26th, must be popping alot =P

Anyway, did him with just 60 ranger, 46 mage and 53 chanter - actually him and 3 adds. got kinda dicey for a while, but ranger had good aggro and was able to snare-kite till we got all mezzed, rooted, or charmed.

fun 10min fight, has helluv HP, dropped gloves went to an alt P

Btw, popped right to right of AR, was roaming around there

Thats right.. if druids can do it wizard can =p i parsed the fight for all you wondering..

A thought stealer
Attack Start End Duration Dmg Dmg% DPS Hit Miss Hit% HPS MaxH MinH AvgH % 1 % 2 % 3 % 4 % 4+ DLY Dmg Taken
kick 14:47:44 14:47:44 2 100%
hit 14:47:12 14:55:26 0:08:14 119 100.0% 0.24 2 15 11.8% 0.03 110 (1) 9 (1) 60 50% 17% 33% 823
Total: 14:47:12 14:55:26 0:08:14 119 100.0% 0.24 2 17 10.5% 0.04 110 9 60 32,788


he has 32k~ hp... long fight

How much HP do these things have? Also, are these things spawned by triggered effects like the mind burrowers, or is it a rare spawn? Any info would be Helpful, thanks

Just killed him and this mob does not summon.

Aloha and well met ~

I recently returned to the land of Norrath after a 3 month AFk, and I resumed my hunting where I had left off: Maiden's Eye.

Struggling through Level 54 and the all-too-frequent trains, I often serched the track in search of more exciting beasts to hunt to spice up the slow leveling process. After a total of about 26 hours in zone, alas, a strange beast popped on trck that I was not familiar with ~ the famed "a thought stealer" As I traditionally hunt in a fear kite group close to the DSP zone edge, and ranger tracking is currently maxed giving me a range of 3500 grid lines, I can only surmise that he spawns once in a 24 hour perdiod, or tht he normally spawns at a distance greater than 3500 radius from the DSP zone (perhaps towards the UP Zone line) But I wander from the tale ...

Forewarning my group as head puller that I was NOT bringing another tolier, but something special. Little did our pickup group know the battle that was to come. At this point, I should outline the composition of our group:

54 ranger, 54 bard, 51 warrior, 53 druid, 52 rouge, & 51 mage. Please note that the group was designed for snare fear kiting lower level mobs in zone, with a druid as the primary healer.

Well, to prevent the post from exceeding post length limitations, suffice to say that after the ranger nearly died while landing the snare on the mob (fourth attempt) and failing badly in aggro kiting across the front of the DSP door area, the young mage was able to land a debuff on him and ranger rooted. Then it became a battle of will and mana. Casters huddled closely to the bard, ranger rooting, mage nuking, the druid applying those powerful DOTs, and the melee class expending all range ammunition they could scrounge. The battle raged for a good 30 minutes between the lowbies and the lumbering level 60 worm. Melee class would go in from time to time to attempt to apply damage (warrior and rouge) and several nice backstabs were laned, but without a dedicated cleric to CH the MA, this option quickly fades with the health bar of the tank and the mana of the druid healer. The great beast coughed up a ring of great power, but sadly my dice were not during the rolling for the ring. I have since thrown them out.

Lessons Learned:
1. Mob has an infrequent spawn time, perhaps on the order of 1 per 24 hours, and spawns away from the DSP zone.
2. Although a pickup group, with the levels you might normally find available at the door, can kite this mob, tactics have to be quickly deterimined and ruthlessly exectuted.
3. Without a dedicated cleric-MA relationship with heightened mana, the average pickup group will not be able to "tank" the mob.
4. If tanking Slow is an imperative (a given)
5. Regardless of whom is fighting themob, it is gaurnteed to draw a crowd. (Perhaps people hoping that we all go LD and they land the killing blow to snatch the "phat lewt") of the 35 people in zone, 29 were watching us. The 6 man group at Akehava was not interested apparantly.

I hope this posting of our tale will help fellow hunters of this great worm of destruction.


55 seasons of sniffing trails ...

We took this down with a 54 war, 53 cha, 52 clr, 55 ran, and 54 mag. Long fight, exhausted all our mana. Only issue is the agro, as long as melee keep agro your fine. Dropped gloves

This chump is easy for a level 60 druid to solo. Having killed it 8 times so far, I've come up with a good way of killing it. Here's how:

1) Pull the thought stealer to a safe part of the zone (I find near Akheva Ruins to be pretty good)

2) Ensnare the thought stealer (duh)

3) Find a spectral wolf and charm it with Call of Karana (feel free to put a leesh on it, ie snare it).

4) Get pet back to same area as Thought Stealer. Have it /pet guard here and kite the thought stealer away from it.

5) Soon as the thought stealer is far enough away, buff your new pet with Savage Spirit and, if you feel like it, a damage shield.

6) Send in your new best friend to attack a thought stealer. Kite it around till you can land epic snare on it.

7) If you have ES Vambraces or Velious Bracer, use it to dot so you can keep agro better.

8) Repeat 6 and 7 at every chance, even if you just cast it. Keeping agro is important.

9) Should your pet get agro, invis to break charm and recharm your pet. Why? Because the hate list is cleared everytime the pet breaks charm, so he has to start all over to regain taunt.

10) Keep doing all the above till the thought stealer drops. As an extra option, feel free to put Winged Death on it, but save 30m to 40m for charms and recharms.

Basicly, you want the pet (which doubles for 145 and kicks for 50+) to bite at it while you kite it around. At first, the pet gains agro alot, but as you break charm and reapply it, all the damage your pet did gets applied to your hate list (ie, mob hates you for what your charmed friend did). The longer the fight goes on, the harder it is for your pet to gain agro, especially when your putting wrath of nature and drones of doom on it repeatedly. This takes 10 to 15 minutes, but is very mana effiecent compared to trying to keep it rooted (you will go OOM if you try). The hardest part to doing this is pulling the thought stealer without bringing adds. If you get adds, just snare the thought stealer and zone. It won't get far, but the other mobs will wander away leaving it alone for you to take again when you come back in.

Edit: For those who are wondering, 5 rings, 3 gloves, no earrings. Quite a few happy tanks out there with thorn rings along with a happy druid and beastlord running around with new gloves.

Edited, Sat Mar 23 04:37:09 2002

I was in a group with a Lvl 60 Druid and 2 Warlords, (and my self 51 war) we took it out without any of got killd. but it too about 20 min to kill the Mob. so it aint that hard!!

My group killed this huge worm last night.. droped slighted gloves lost roll /sigh
Group was 54 druid 52 cleric (me) 52 war 51 monk 50 war (me) 50 cleric and 40 enchanter (outside group fer buffs) Max melee dmg for me was 192 was not main tank only got hit a few times. Dru won roll gratz ;) Looks like a huge mind borrower spawn area was near fort I believe (wasn't on pull duty monk best puller for this zone lots of adds posilble) Long long long fight heh.