Burning Woods

Does anyone know if you can force Ixiblat Fer to spawn in BW without having to turn in your Cleric Epic Items? I see people with Cloak of Flames now and then and I just find it hard to believe that these people only gain this item by assisting in a Cleric Epic raid. Nonetheless, Ixiblat Fer must die, so any of you with knowledge of this mob, I would really appriciate it. (i.e.) Level of mob, resistances, hit points, damage it deals out, where it spawns, etc. Thanks in advance

Hakaf Stonesplitter
49 Cleric
Rathe Server

Couple of notes to know about Gullerback before you ever decide to engage Gullerback.

1) It's nearly 100% Magic Resistant. Meaning, Snares, Dark, Lifetaps line of spells do not work.
2) Gullerback's fire and poison resistance is extremely low. Even level 34 mage fire spells can hit is sometimes. Necro poison dots work too.

One tactic that we used that did work for sure.
2 necros and 1 mage, all 3 low 50s bring up pets and have a fire shields on all the pets. We killed Gullerback at least 5 times, with no deaths.

FYI. If anyone wonders why you even bother to kill Gullerback, it is because Gullerback is a PH for Azadalin, who drops one of the scales needed for the Wurmslayer (Ie Staminaslayer)

Anyone got any ideas on how to do this?

I started hunting here around lvl 44 with my druid. But I found that hunting here with my necromancer is the way to go. At lvl 48 I am able to camp the giant fort with relative ease. Facing the giant fort go to the left of the ramp follow the crest of the hill just around the bend. I usually don’t camp any closer to the ramp then this when soloing, there are some statics that spawn at the bottom of the ramp and there is a pathing issue with a wondering wurm that cuts right though the giant camp that would put an end to any fun u are having. I park my pet and pull a mob when I reach my pet I lay a fear and he just walks down the hill to the giant fort making my life easy. The exp here at this lvl is ok but the chance of grouping and taking on a Gorgul Paclock is where its at. IMHO a shaman/Druid/Wiz with a necro combo works best.
Hope any of this helps happy hunting !!

How to kill a level 51 Gullerback that summons;

First off, you can't root or snare them, so you'll need several people to do them, Ice Comet lands full damage most all of the time. Make sure you hav jboots or sow on, and it's ideal for the wizards to have manaskin and or an HP buff up.

You'll want a healing class, a tank and 2 wizards ideally. Heres how it works;

Tank pulls, let tank hit it for a minute, wizards take different positions from opposite sides of the Gullerback, wizards watch each other closely for ping-pong nuking. Healer, stand ready to heal.

(Round 1)

Wizard 1 - Ice Comets, Guller will chase, kite around until Wizard 2 gets a nuke off.
Wizard 2 - Ice Comets, Guller will chase (same as wizard 1)
Tank - Chase guller taunting and hitting, occasionally will be taunted off one of the wizards, and buys time for 2 simultaneous nukes, last one to cast off is winner of the next chase.

(Round 2)

When the Gullerback is low on health, it will begin to summon, at this point the nukes from the wizards must be cast closer together. repeat the ping-pong tatics until the Gullerback is dead.

It can (and I have done) it with 1 Wizard (myself) in a group, so long as it is occasionally taunted off.

(Other mob's)

Wurms/Named Wurms can be solo'd by Wizards at 52+, figure on 6-7 Ice Comets. They will resist draught of fire, so don't bother using it.

Forest Giants can be easily kited, some of them have very little HP's. Gorgul Paclock and Ancients have significantly more HP's, and they also have a fast regen. The typical tatics with them is to pull left or right of the ramp at the fort, Druids appear to run around the fort while kiting, while purecasters run partway around and then back again (just an observation).

Ember/Scornai Hornets resist fire, so have Ice ready, but they can be snared/rooted, thus easily kited.

Greater Barbed Skeletons (etc.) can be snared/rooted, but note they hit hard and fast, they can occasionally resist snare, but I've noticed that they yield a nice chunk of XP.

Sarnaks (all kinds), can easily be snared and rooted, thus kited. But beware that they hit hard and very fast (enough to constantly stun you), and they run quite fast as well. I did not notice any fire resistance with them, so draught of fire kite them.

As mentioned in another post, there is a valley that leads to Skyfire, this is actually an ideal hunting spot for newbies to the zone, as they can zone out to safety if they did not guage the enemy correctly, and bit off more than they can chew. (TIP: Zone it to the extreme right or left, so you don't run into a skyfire train head on.)

I always bind myself to the far right or left corners in BW right before the skyfire zone when I hunt in BW.

Thomus
53rd Channeler of Brell Serilis

Okay, so I create a level 2 iksar monk mule to go exploring around the zones. As I explore I somehow accidentally sneak through the invisible zone barrier (that wall that prevents you from running up a mountain and off the edge of the geometry to your doom). So now I can run along the very edge of the zones with no fear of monsters noticing me. I make it all the way through to the Burning Woods, a blazing accomplishment for a level 2 character ^_~. As I'm up on the mountain ledge I can see infinity below, but I noticed that there's a LARGE tunnel system underneath the Frontier Mountains zone that isn't in the maps -- this is your cue as mighty adventurers to find out exactly what this leads from. So anyway I keep on running along the wall's very edge until I hit a point where the wall slopes too steeply and I slowly and steadily slide down until I'm back through the invisible wall and back on the ground. This is unfortunately INSIDE the gates to the Sarnak City... Well, I'm glad the Sarnak's have pretty ordinary aggro range, but how to get OUT of the city since the entrance is guarded by (duh) Sarnaks. My only hope is to jump over the wall and continue my voyage... which results in me taking about 64 points of damage, 20 more points than my monk had in hit points. SPLAT. And thus ends my grand adventure ^_^.

hehe, i seem to have this obsession with doing a zone at lower lvls than are recommended. anyhow, it is possible for a full, well balanced group to hunt in this zone at around levle 35. you gotta know how to work together though.

i recomend hunting from the zone line at frontier mountins. yes it is hard to see the tunnel coming up from outside, but the handiness of a virtually unused zone line should not be ignored.

ok, i recomend goign after the giants, undead, and bees here at this lvl. save the wurms and sarnaks till a bit later - the undead are obviously weak to cleric's and pallys, but just in case you are wondering the bees are SUMMONED mobs - yes thats right, you druids now have a VERY useful nuke in your ******** also, mages... hehe runeswords proc that nice little summoned dd as well - hows that for being equiped to deal with this zone?
the wasps drop no cash to about 4plat, the giants drop some VERY nice things, like loops and tunics, and the undead are just good xp.

for a puller i recomend either a ranger with track, or monk / shadowknight. (feign death is REALLY useful).

btw, the most effective pets i've seen in here, for mages, are air pets.

siacay
cazic-thule

A good strategy I have found is to bind fairly near the sarnacks castle on the left side of the zone border when facing north. You really need a map of BW to see what I mean.

No sarnacks or other mobs stick to the left wall, as they do to the right. You could bind a ways before the "neck" of this area which goes to the rest of burning woods. What my 52 druid does soloing, is run down the neck getting a creature, and bringing it back up the neck afterwards to fight it along the left side ( of course a ways away from her bind point. No creatures wander here making it a great way to solo once you get the creature (you will have no new creatures jumping you)

There are several trees that if you click on them you get that message. one of them is on fire near the crater. apparently you have to be near the top of the tree. anyone got any info?

Ingreedients:
1 Level 49 Mage.
1 Level 49 Mage Pet. (Earth Preferably)
1 Giant of varying strenght.


Start at the Forest giant fort, near the ramp, stand back as far as your spell range will go.(Pull with SOS (shock of swords)) The giant at the base of the ramp, have your pet parked a fair ways back. This will only pull the giant on the side closest to you if you are at max spell range.

Then med up and pull the other. Arbors will still be some xp. With a DS your pet can finish with minimal dammage. With Verdants use one SOS to pull, malaize, and two (well spaced) lava bolts. With Ancients, you may have to pet kite. Simply start like you would with a verdant, nuking till your down to one bub of mana, then run about a quarter of the way around the fort. Target your pet, soon as it dies cast summon, then dammage shield, then run for the giant, putting the pet on it. Return to about the same distance sit, and keep pet targeted. Usually 1 pet is enough but sometimes 3 will be necessary.

For Gorlugh: Eithour avoid or if you have a half hour to kill pet kite him, dont bother to nuke just summon, summon, summon. Oh and for gorlugh switch to water pets. Be sure to dammage shield them. Dont even try if you dont have jboots. He drops the TreeWeave (ac 25, str 10, wearable by druids and melee classes) which sells well, his common drop is an opal.

When its extreemly camped use the same pulling technique, on whichever giant is closest to the ramp, (Use lev to get far enough away.)

NOTE: PULL THEM DOWN THE RAMP.. otherwise they will be stuck on the wall and drop on your head when they break through.

NOTE: Arbors DO drop the forest loops so even when they turn green at 51 kill em. They are not pulled as often, and are easier to get.

XP rocks here and the Loot is kiler too. Giant lord tunics sell for 75-80p to merchants. Same with the giant foremans tunics. Xp should last you to 55 by which time you will have several forest loops to help offset the fact you couldnt get groups in sebalis :)

Serves 1.

Simple. There are 2 ways to hunt in BW. One requires Fear Kiting at the base of the slope near the Skyfire zone. There is a bit of a pathing error there, nothing that could be an exploit as the mobs do not get stuck but they do tend to folow a sertain path when feared, when fear breaks however they follow another path.. .right to you.

The other way is Root DOT. This is more dangerous but effective. Root the MOB then DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT. Keep it rooted because when it breaks its gunna be MAD and its gunna be FAST.