Icecrack  

frostflake of the all-enduring

Edited, Jul 30th 2009 7:27pm by arkadykappa

I am looking at icecrack right now with my 80 rogue, and he cons dark blue, so maybe he is 79 or 78?

Icecrack is any easy kill. He wanders that ramp, on the east side of the large center room. See the mapfiend.net map. He stops just inside the rooms at each end and also pauses at spots on the ramp. I haven't tried to confirm an exact pattern to his meanderings. I suspect there's some randomness, i.e. every time he pauses a random decision is made as to which direction he will continue.

The problem with fighting Icecrack is there is one trash mob which also wanders this ramp. If your group can off-tank one FC piece of trash, then you're all set since Icecrack isn't much tougher. If you'd rather NOT have to cope with an add during the fight, here's what to do:

What I do is as follows. I run three toons, properly buffed with IVU, to the south room. I run one toon to the other end. I watch for Icecrack since he seens through all forms of IVU. (He also can't be snared or rooted.) Once Icecrack is temporarily paused in the bottom room, I run my 3-some into the ramp and lay down a campfire right before the ramp starts to drop. You don't want to be too close to the sliding door since mobs WILL aggro through the door. Ideally, I wait till the trash wanderer is also out of aggro range but in a pinch I just set down the campfire and take my lumps. Then the 3-some evacs.

Then I run back with my druid to the lower-side room. Either I have another groupmember watch for Icecrack to appear at the other end, or I watch for track's direction indicator. When Icecrack is "upstairs" I move into the ramp and ensnare the trash wanderer. The goal is to immobilize at the bottom of the ramp. So I wait till he follows me down and then evac or get CoH'd. Note that some of these trash mobs can and will disspell ensnare. So you want to run back and double-check that he's still where you left him. They won't disspell once out of combat so if he hasn't done it by then he won't afterwards.

Then it all comes down to timing your fight. Since campfire clicks have no delay and there is no zoning involved, you can bring in your group "blind" and be prepared to engage Icecrack upon landing. (Make sure everyone clicks simultaneously and make extra sure nobody's invis'd! You don't want the cleric appearing 3 seconds before the tank!) Or you can send a scout and watch his movements before clicking to the campfire. Like I said, Icecrack isn't that tough so if your group can handle zone trash and you've disposed of the trash wanderer, you should be fine. Max hit I've seen on a caster is 2498. Far less on a tank...

As mentioned below, the biggest problem with Icecrack is the rarity of that nice warrior ring. He'd actually be a lot harder kill if he spawned as an ordinary static in any of the crowded rooms...



Edited, Sep 1st 2007 10:11am by Sippin

Class specific items are normally the rare drop... but lately I noticed camping some mobs in FG and even AG, that the certain class specific mobs.... mainly icecrack, are dropping the warrior ring 9/10 times. I'm just assuming 9/10, I've killed him 7 times so far, and I've gotten 7 rings. Starting to wonder when the aug will drop, and how many will drop in a row once it does.

I've camped him before, and it was the other way around.

Paste this at the bottom of frostcrypt_1.txt for spawn location:

P 148.1401, -1246.9211, -154.4115, 0, 0, 0, 2, Icecrack

anyone know the respawn time on icecrack? I know it's longer than 30 min....

Dropped Pristine Granite Stone

MAGIC ITEM NO TRADE AUGMENTATION
Type: 7

HP: +90 MANA:+90 ENDURANCE: +90
SV CORRUPTION +15

Restrictions -
Slot: HEAD ARMS WRIST HANDS FEET
Required level of 75
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG BST BER
Race: ALL