a giant anaconda  

Yther told you, 'a giant anaconda loot: Ornate Defiant Chain Sleeves, Tears of Karana'

Yther Ore.

Dropped an opal for me tonite :)

I charm griffons to handle these. While it is attackinig I DOT and nuke twice. Drops with using only 1 blue bar of mana and a still charmed griffon. Only get the anaconda meat to drop though.

As a 51 ranger, I love fighting these. Takes a bit of time to kill 'em, but with fear kiting them, I rarely take damage. The trick to fear kiting is not only moveing back when fear breaks to prevent interuption, but also time those fears! Get a rhythm going with fear, your DOT's and a few DD spells and these puppys will never hit you. Same goes for the griffs. They have low magic resist so the fear time is very predictable. Re-fear before fear breaks and its a cake walk.

A point I always make when soloing these or any other hard hitting animal, is as soon as fear wears off step back. Move far enough to to recast fear without being interupted (You did snare him didnt you?). Also the mob doesnt hit you and at the end of a fight you have very little healing to do. I usually end up this way at the end of a fight with maybe 10% hps down and 90 to 95% mana left so soon ready to go again
Also while hunting in JP make use of Wolf form as no animals aggro on you then (and your ATK rating increases), otherwise Griffs will, and you can end up dealing with two or more mobs at once

Edited, Sat Dec 7 12:04:31 2002

Saw one of these as a lvl 44 druid conned yellow used allure of wild on it broke charm 2 secs later had 110 charisma, recasted charm broke 15 secs later, recast charm broke 30 secs later, recast charm broke 5 secs later, recast charm borke 1min later, and so on, had to do it over 10 times, root and charm fades quickly on them at my lvl, wasnt worth the mana, just stick to Timber griffons as pets only 1.5k less hp and only had to recast charm once.

These bastards have a TRUCKLOAD of HP ARGH rofl I was duoing with my boyfriend and we ran into these things (since I needed anaconda meat). had to succor, he was DYING and the anaconda's HP was barely moved.

anyone know waht the giant no drop anaconda skin
is for ?

Does anyone happen to know what the no drop anaconda skins are for?

These snakes have about 4500-5000 hp. They double bite for 111 and bash for 33; the bash means that mistiming your fear recast can be an expensive mistake. The neat thing about them is that they are cowards (will turn tail with 20% health) and they are slow (immobile if snared and under 20% health). I've been fear kiting them down and then switching in a 2hb practice weapon to finish them off. Slow, steady progress so far... Empirically, I've had better luck using Swarmcaller on them than using my dual wield combo; the slow proc makes the snake so much more manageable that the 20-25% loss in DPS is actually worth it (of course you can switch out after the proc, too). This is the first creature I've found that I wanted slowed even when fear kiting.

For comparison's sake, timber griffons have ~2800hp and hit for 100. They don't have much left in the tank before they turn tail. So the griffons are a bit better for solo ranger XP purposes - much shorter fight. The griffawns only have about 1800 hp, but are light blue or green to a level 53.

I am a lvl 45 and some of this creature type still cons yellow to me... Would have used other link, but I don't use outlook so I'm not set up for it =)