Captain Varns  

Did this tonight on the Mischief server. My 70 SK had like 13.2k-14.9k hps, and around 1k AC. I think I had closer to 15k at the start of the fight, but a couple gray-con adds added maybe halfway during the fight and I guess those mobs dispelled some buffs (including conviction). The SK has bazaar bought raid gear - almost all of it req lvl 65 (but most of it was near end-game in GoD expansion - weapon was only Cudgel of Venomous Hatred from PoP). No real lvl 70 gear to speak of other than Obsidian Cummerbund belt. SK did have 35% melee shielding and 84 avoidance.

The shaman was much better geared, with 2.0, Time's Antithesis, a few Demi plane items, etc. Though that wasn't really necessary, but the 2.0 clicky was handy and helpful.

I pre-buffed the shaman pet and the SK with panther and a HoT on both. I also clicked epic 2.0 on shaman then hailed with SK (starting the fight). First thing I did was use HT with SK to establish good aggro. I tried slowing immediately with Balance of Discord on the shaman but that resisted, so I then cast Malos. I then cast Malosini (from Pendant of) which landed the first time. I got a Balance to land "partially" after that, then Turgur's from TA landed. Poison dots from shaman never did land, but I did get Curse of Sisslak to land a time or two.

I mostly tried to keep Spiritual Serenity up on the SK, and that was probably all the healing that would have been needed. Shaman didn't have any issues with mana, and I did Canni AA once, but that wasn't really even necessary either.

Anyway, fairly easy fight. Clear the room first, just in case (Captain won't aggro till hailed so you can get as close to him as you want before that without aggro), get captain slowed (Malos, followed by Malosini or Malosinia will help), and keep 70 HoT up on SK and you should be fine.

Edited, Jan 9th 2023 1:45am by eqnvrdyz

Was in Dulak down where this guy spawns with my 50 BST and saw he was up. Came back with my 106 mage and could not engage the mob even after hailing him.

Solo'd with 83 BST with T5 Merc Healer.

I cleared the room before engaging. He was only hitting for an average of 250-300. Nothing much above that.

Would've died a lot faster if not for the atk speed slow he casts.

173k hp, max hit 1078 on an 85 sk with 5kish ac.

Very easy mob at 85 (no surprise there). He runs at 20%, so if he gets his snare off on you it can be a bit annoying chasing him through the cave system.

Its been awhile since this has been posted on but would like to add that me and my brother both lvl 75 sk's dropped him tonight with just our mercs. im 15k hps and 2600ac my brother slightly less hps and ac. took maybe 6 minutes. easy kill.

Breuen

I just Duoed him with 72 SK and 78 Shm, was a long fight. Shm couldnt hardly land anything even with malo line, so kept pets up, and champ/cougar, kept hot on sk entire time and reslowed constantly.

Took maybe 20 minutes and never got close to dying. SK was only 15k buffed with 2k ac. The hard part is once the mob hits around 7% it starts walking away and cant be snared. This is why peeps say wait to use HT. I ended up with about 7 adds on me before it died. It does enrage at 10%.

But needs to be marked duoable, I have no doubts there are som 80 SKs that could solo this if they had the right gear/leechability. My baby sk needed hots quite often.

it was easy with 70 rogue 75 necro 75 mage 80 cleric and 80 ranger and me a 73 sk so if you have enough people it doesn't take a raic force so if you would please change raid enncounter to groupable

75sk,73 mage and his boxed 62 cleric killed him....I(75 sk), easliy cleared room for pull, took about 25 mins but we killed him,....runs at last 5%...so i saved my AA'd leech touch for that....got a few adds...but easily handled....hope this helps.....Varn's to me can be duo'd NP =)

how long is the respawn time on this guy

Killed him with 70SK, 70Shaman, 70Druid, 70Cleric all Qvic-Anguish geared, dropped him with everyone at about 85m.

chain Nightmare stasis, don't bother curing
hits from 250-1300, piece of cake when slowed
he runs, unsnarable so be ready for that, buncha easy greenies will agro

It is a raid mob for 4-5 casual equipped people, Its a new expansion so mobs hit harder, look at teh gear being dropped in the casual player zones like WoS and Nobles Causeway, If you could walk into any new expnsion as a casual player and just kill teh mobs like this, teh expansion would be useless in a week. You need to gear up in teh casual player zones and then move to harder zones, once your guild gets some new OoW gear that is in teh casual player zones and mobs set for the casual player then the epics will be easily done with 4+ groups of casual players. I am a very casual player and since OoW has come out I am now a Wizard that can buff out over 7200HPs and 6200 mana which is not bad for a casual player. I have a whopping 41 days played on ths toon and still have those stats as a casual player in a casual guild.

If you play a few days a week and a couple hours at a time there is no reason in a few months your guild isnt killing any mob for epic 1.5 Just like 1.0 when they came out it was unimaginable for a casual person to get the epic. now its all one groupable for any epic by casual players. Any epic 1.0 is one groupable, mobs that were previous 2-4 group mobs are now soloable by many casual players.

The difference in casual players and full time hardcore players is they get it first. NToV used to be the hardest zone in game, now casual guilds wont even bother because its drops are so much junk compared to back then, and casual guilds have done it many times. Relax do not expect tojump in and get the epic in a month or two of release unless your dedicated to hardcore gaming. Just relax get geared then watch how easy it is to obtain, in a year or so it will be trivial for casual gamers.

Hi folks,

1. can confirm the max hit of 1300.
2. depending on your AAs max hit is even lower, I tanked him with ~8400HP
3. bring DPS, we did him with 10 peeps in 2 groups
G1: SHD, CLR, DRU, SHM, ENC, MAG
G2: SHD, SHM, BRD, WIZ
we needed ~ 4 mins to bring him down

4. dropped the flamberge and another scrappy item, no box spawned after!

gl all

Coerl