Field of Scale

I pull with Malo, send in main pet. Then hit Twincast and use that up. Heal pet and nuke as I can or need to. I keep this up until he hits 20% ( enrage range )then I send in Rumbling Servant and Host of the Elements. I always keep an extra buffed pet suspended. If named enrages and kills pet the Host of Elements usually keeps him occupied until I can unsuspend extra pet and send him in. That usually does it. I'm an 85 Mage with around 2500 AA's. Fluttershade is the exception. I normally have to have another tank with me to win that one since he silences a lot and ruins my program.

i zoned into fos and was like what are these tumultuous mobs i keep seeing... dont recognize them! they are undead, see thru invis, banshees were level 85 others were dark blue to 85... easy kills and only dropped trash! iksar mask did NOT have effect on faction. i uploaded pictures. courtesy of 420 crew on zek... knights of shadowhawk!

Edited, Oct 25th 2009 7:29pm by Wimbold

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Edited, Jul 26th 2009 6:05pm by fcoty

After the patch yesterday, the nameds enrage at low health. We killed Darkcoil, Festersting, Fluttershade and Bonegrinder yesterday, and they all enrage now, noticed it when we started to loose pets at the end of the fight. They never used to enrage, no biggie, but have no clue why they changed it.

Also, the nameds are now immune to changes in their runspeed, didnt use to be, but that was also changed yesterday. In the December patch they changed (nerfed) the droprates of essences. It is very noticeable, we average 1 essence every 7 named kill now, quite pathetic. And the hands/wrists are the most rare now, arms/legs the most common, before the December patch it was the other way around. It is time to change that again, people need wrists/hands.

Mrtiny
CT

a chokidai elder, even con to 85 (not on the list as I write this).

Popped as one of the four spawns at the tent in the south valley.

Immune to snare, didn't enrage.
Only dropped a Battle Fractured Diamond.

Immune to snare, summons under 50%, casts like a shadowknight. Max hit on a gimpy wizard was 5200.

Parsed my warrior's log file. This is all based on many fights. Warrior fought from 81-83 with 3500ac and used defensive most of the time.

 
Named                      AvgHit   MaxHit     Special 
 
An ancient bonegrinder      1998     4936      Summons 
Battleguard                 1755     4502      Summons 
Blackblade                  1869     4428      Summons, Rampages 
Darkcoil                    1904     4428      Summons 
Festersting                 1873     4428      Summons 
Fluttershade                1544     3963      Summons, Silences 
Jracsza                     1738     4428      Summons, Flurries 
Naskado                     2006     4460      Probably summons 
Oracle                      1827     4428      Summons, Slows, Malos 
Slact                       1725     4415      Summons, Dispels slow somehow 

Note that my simple analysis didn't get into dps so some of this info is misleading. Slact is a monk and hits very fast, probably explaining why his average hit is lower, but anecdotal experience tells me he's a tougher fight than most of the others.

For you kiters and root-rotters, the only trash I saw summon were a Sebilisian hierophant, a Sebilisian crusader and a Sebilisian lich. Summoning is affected by how well the tank holds aggro and maintains melee range with the mob so don't blame me if something else summons ya!

For comparison, some trash averages:

 
A Sebilisian messenger      1427     2846 
A Sebilisian ironfist       1480     2961 
A Sebilisian battlemaster   1488     2961 
A Sebilisian haruspex       1570     2961 
A Sebilisian bonetrooper    1385     2734 
An iksar alchemist          1577     2953 

Edited, Nov 15th 2008 9:48am by Sippin

FYI nameds seem to have multiple placeholders. I've seen a specific named spawn in different places, sometimes quite far apart. They do seem usually to have placeholder mobs but there isn't necessarily any pattern: I've seen, for example, the named snake spawn from a spawn that is sometimes a trash blackbird PHer. Humanoid model nameds, like the Oracle, have spawned from animal PH spots.

That's good design since a group can set up almost anywhere, clear all the nearby trash and have good expectations of eventually seeing a named pop locally.

Overall, a great zone, well-designed and lots of fun.

Festersting the Diminuitive

Add this guy. Red con, wanders near the port-in. Small but firey scaled wolf.

Max hit on my 24k/3.3ac warrior was 4428. When he killed the warrior max-hit on the paper casters was 4828. Hits fast, like all nameds here. Probably a warrior, I would think level 86 as my toons are 81 and he was red.

Can be snared and rooted. Slowable. Summons. Summoned my butt across the whole zone. LOL. I missed escaping him by zoning out by "that much" <holds two fingers a 1/4-inch apart.>

Not sure about mez. But I shall find out as we will meet again on the field of honor. And THIS time I will be properly prepared!

Edited, Nov 1st 2008 10:20am by Sippin

Got these last night: From a "Scaled Wolfhunter" Dropped a "Diamond" and Chokadai Meat.
From "an escaped sarnak oracle" got "Fine Steel Tachi, Battle Fractured Diamond, and sarnak meat".
From "A Scorpion" got "Fine Scorpion Meat and Urticaceae".

small dinosour model, looks to be a 4.2k quadder on 81 mage. slightly slowable, ran at 7%, no enrage, no ramp.

dropped distorted seminal incandessence and a clr dru sham neck item, stats to follow.

Collar of the Tamed

req lvl 80

AC 26
HP 485
Mana 500
str 22+1
sta 33+1
int 13
dex 10
wis 30+5
cha 9+1
agi 11+1

mag 22
fire 30
cold 22
dis 22
pois 14

atk 3, hp regen 3, mana regen 2, spell shield 1, combat eff 3, shield 1, dmg shield 1, dot shield 1, dmg shield mit 1, avoid 2, accuracy 2, heal 2, spell dam 3, clair 1

45% heal focus to lvl 85 firiona's revival III

Killed a "Scaled Wolf" last night. It dropped a "Taaffeite".

This is a roamer as well. Doesn't seem to have set Ph's. We have killed him twice so far. The first time he dropped ear - Aquadescent Stud Pal, rng, shd, brd, bst Ac 29 Hp 490, Man 480 and end 490 sharpshooting 4 and Jaled Dar's Implacable tenacity 3

The second time got Blackblade Epaulet shoulder item - War, Monk, Rog, BER Ac AC 35 Hp 500 End 495 41% Haste

Edited, Oct 21st 2008 9:55pm by SaknWhyz