Ok heres what I found after 6 1/2 hours of camping the blazing elementals for my mage epic....
In 20 kills for the blazing elementals this guy only spawned 3 times and those 3 times were all in the first 1.25 hours of camping. He did not spawn again for the next 15 kills while I was there.
This guy cons indifferent to my agnostic erudite magician. Friendly fellow really, I am sitting here beside him medding right now. He doesn't seem to care much about me killing the blazing elementals either. Now if only my epic piece would drop..
Respawn time on this guy (and also his place holder) is 70 minutes exactly. I've been camping here through 3 spawn cycles so far trying to get an elemental to drop my mag epic piece, and he's been at 70 minutes exactly each time.
As a 45 Mage, I killed this mob without any problems. siced pet on it and nuked with Shock of Swords. Same for the Blazing Elementals. As a matter of fact, I'm here camping for my Mage Epic and need a "Power of Fire" from the Elementals. The all con green to a 45 Mage.
Sometimes another blazing elemental will pop instead of the raging efreeti, which is why you sometimes get three blazing elementals instead of two.
The efreeti (and his PH) are on a longer timer than the other two elementals. The two elementals are on a 19-minute timer, and every third or fourth iteration, either I get three blazing elementals or I get the elementals and the one efreeti.
My 53 earth pet isn't even dented by the damage shield.
I'm not sure of this guys respawn timer. But it sure as heck is more than an hour. I've been sitting here for several hours camping the elementals for my epic drop and I've seen him once. Course, this could be a bug and I'm wrong. But this is just what I've seen so far.
Himself, he isn't that tough...The thing is, you must worry about the elementals (and him possibly) and their damage shields they cast on them.
In essence, you could practically beat yourself to death trying to kill them. I'm sure you could solo the area though with bandages (plenty of them after each fight) and a 2hander for high dmg/less attacks. Or just bring along someone with cancel magic to make it cake.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Mar 12 2002 at 11:34 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) No one other then me and mah good ol pet was there when it dropped, so he was the lucky one to get it :-/
My little blurb on this guy. Myself (31 chanter) along with 30 druid and 30 cleric were camping the foreman one nite when Pandura got the RE on track. Since these are both our first chars, we needed the PA for drood. So we go inv and hustle on over. First encounter is disaster, cleric falls in the pit. We follow and get jumped by elementals and the efreet attacks. Needless to say we are unprepared (inv, no pet) and we need evac, all alive (PRAISE TUNARE FOR DROOD EVAC!!!), so we gate to sol entrance and recoup. Upon entering, we see he is still alive, WOOT.
So we inv once again and make it to his room, we drop thru the floor (on purpose this time to set up camp, good spot) and i commence summoning pet. Efreet walks around corner but no hostile. However, we were SOOO lucky that someone else just tried to kill (unsuccessfully) because his life is at 20%(we damaged him b4 evac, but not much)! Three simultanious dds and poof one platinum armband! Really sweet item if your not twinked. Pick it up and evac.
Thank god for droods.
Gedie Lee 32 Enchanter Socratic Method
Word to the enchanter: Keep that pet alive, if he dies, you die. Cats eyes and bloodstones can be bought, exp cannot.
Without a doubt....I am a level 43 sk and it is a easy job. Everything there and on the way is low green. Just remember to cancel magic on the elementals to take away the dmg shield. Btw, the sword is cool.
The spawn time on this guy is about 19 minutes. His PH is a Blazing Elemental. There can be up to three Blazing Elementals spawning in his room. Watch these things, they hit alot! My 44 pet was almost killed by two of these, and they are like 15 levels lower!
I spent a long time waiting for this guy, granted I spent most of my time waiting for Kindle. I would check on this guy every once in a while. When he spawned it didn't take much for me to take him out. He has about 800 hps.
He dropped the Plat Armband +3 Str +3 Wis. I wonder how much this thing is worth?
To my level 43 dwarven paladin this guy was indifferent, Same to most others, and he does NOT aggro if the blazing elementals attack. Best way to clear his room is to train the blazing elementals to the gnomes(head out the secret passage, take a left, through the two doors, Take a left, then a right, then a left again. Bingo, the gnomes will attack them and make very short work of them, decreases a lot of downtime. The efreeti casts no spells, except for a damage shield(more damaging that O'Keils probably a mage type), I recommend that you dispell this first, other than that very easy. His platinum armband is highly sought after by druids(and some clerics) in the mid levels, and though his flamberge is a nice weapon, it is of course, no drop.