Faruek the Bold  

UPDATE: better way to pull this guy... Go behind the building and creep up to the wall approx on the opposite side of where he stands inside. He will aggro with one add.

The usual strat for killing these medallion droppers is to do a lot of clearing, and trying to do it fast to avoid respawns.

Here's how I did it to avoid all that slaughter!

He's always in the corner of his building with 3 adds close enough to aggro. Creep up to the door and tag him with a non-damage spell. Snare is fine altho, unfortunately, he's immune. He will come along with the three adds. Sometimes you might get an add or two from a neighboring building.

Run them all around the nearby forest and ensnare any of the adds. This spell will land on some. Others are highly resistant and it just won't land. That's OK. You just want to run some distance away from their spawn points.

Now get yourself CoH'd. (Did I mention this strat requires a mage? So make friends with one, or make one.) Absent a mage, evac might work but that takes a bit longer and the target may amble back to his spawn point before you can do the following.

As soon as you land rush back and find Faruek. He's unsnared so he will be sauntering slowly back to his house, along with any of his unsnared buddies. They usually are separated a bit due to all the running around. Harmonize the adds to lower their assist aggro range. Then tag Faruek and run him back to the group. He should come alone, or maybe with one add. You can root/snare the add, or if it resists, have your enchanter mez it. They mez easily. (Did I mention this strat can benefit from an enchanter in the group?)

Then just beat the mini-boss down. The adds he summons cause players concern but they are ridiculously low in HPs and will die to damage shields so make sure to DS your group.

Loot your medallions and move on the next medallion dropper.


Edited, Jun 19th 2022 9:30am by Sippin

Edited, Sep 6th 2023 8:36am by Sippin

MoB type: Warrior
Drops 3 esoteric medallions every time, use to drop just 1.
May drop other loot, semi-rarely.
Immune to run speed changes.
Immune to attack speed changes.
Sees through invis.
Does NOT proc FD like the trash mobs.
Procs "a tumultuous storm" in 4 to 7 multiples. They stay up for a few seconds and despawn since they are just a proc.
Enrages at about 10%
Not sure if he "rampages" or "goes on a wild rampage" (2 different types or rampage damage) but I didn't see any so probably not.


How to pull him if only him (single)

Bring Ranger/druid. Have ranger or druid get SoE up and level 51 (last 12 minutes) snare up. Ranger will stand on the outside of the east wall (-1755, +191) and aggro all 3 mobs thru the wall (they will act as if there is no wall and does NOT aggro olidan if he is up). Have the ranger run to the zone out (but not zone out) while snaring the 2 trash mobs. Once both are snared, circle around and have the MT tag the named. Ranger keeps aggro on trash and group eats Named alive. Everyone goes home alive to mom and eats apple pie! (once named down, have ranger just out run the mob cause with the new aggro forgetting rule, they will path back or port back to spawn spots and hurt no one)

Reasoning for using the 12 minute snare? With the new "aggro forget" rule that allows you to get far enough away to be forgotton, you can snare them, out run the trash with the named still on you and bring back to camp and kill it. Just remember to get far enough away before returning, say...the zone in area worked for me.

by the way, if I was illa, I would put these stats up by the named like they added the stats to items at alla's. That was a really cool idea.

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 6:55am by shadowsedge

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 7:08am by shadowsedge

Edited, Feb 28th 2007 7:12am by shadowsedge

I realize that he spawns with the rest of the ocean giants, but in which of the 4 buildings? If he is near Olidan, SK 1.5 epic mob, that will just blow. I am just about to the point for needing to take out the bosses for the medalion pieces. Any speciific locations, not with the ocean giants, would be very helpful. Thanks you all.

ok here's the deal, i've been doing my BoT key for past couple days, still need two pieces, the mob does proc mini mobs (which I might add only have 1-2 hps, just put a DS on all the grps, they were gone in miliseconds, as far as the giant, we had a time geared SK tanking for us, did em with 1 grp, 56clr, 65sk, 65necro, 65clr, 65sk, 65bst me being the clr ;-D

Fatal Anarchy
Tallon Zek

Anyone know what the respawn time on these guys is?

Every once in a while giant mini's will "proc" some wind storm things that seem to work as a rampage. After killing 4 of the mini's today, one which did not proc these things, my observations are that they hit for 100-200 max they always come in a bunch maybe 4-7 random? They usually attacked the priests and rangers (using archery) skipping right over all the other tanks. They stuck around for a few seconds each time before poofing and once or twice switched targets and they dissapear when the giant boss has died as well.

He hits for 984~ max.
He procs a 300 dd (i think) + FD effect nuke. Just sit/stand to get back up, its single target though, just on your MT.

He also summons about 4 or 5 thunderstorms (or something) that just attack the MT. Those hit for about 200 max, but very rarely will hit max. Most of their hits are between 50-120. These despawn within 20-30 seconds if at that. Not really worth worrying about. Just heal fast for those times.

Fun fight to be honest. If your MT a least.

aslo dropped tome of winds endless wisdom
+10 dex +8 wis +8 int +40 hp/mana +7 to all saves
primary/secondary recommended lvl of 53