northro - Frankel the Pirate  

I was headed to Velious two nights ago and was merely trying to hail the little pig to hear his gibberish and instead I hit him (CLASSIC STUPID NEWBIE MISTAKE). Although this little Gnome conned green to my Level 48 Ogre Warrior he kicked my azz in nothing short. As a reminder I left my stupid carcass on the shores of North Ro (Pointing towards So Ro cause I tried to run like hell and lost LOL) for a day. Man, I was beaten like a red headed step-child. I will give him plenty of room next time and suggest you do the same :(

Frankel is a SERIOUS mis-con. I collected together a group last night just for kicks to whoop him. This group consisted of TWO lvl 53 mages and the pets, a lvl 57 wizard and a lvl 55 enchanter.

First off, the ONLY spells that stuck were the wizard's highest level lures. Just to clue you in, the wizard was able throughout the course of the fight to smack 16 lures on him, for a total of 10,200 dmg (give or take 500). 16 casts you say? He had Clarity II and Gift of Insight, and the fight itself lasted about 5 minutes.

The enchanter was unable to stick any spell except Tashanian (which is unresistable). Slow didn't stick.. nor did root or anything else tried. BTW, that Tash got him killed when the first pair of pets died.

The mages relied upon chain casting pets. Playing my 53 mage, I made and lost 8 pets--all using the lvl 51 earth pet summoning. For those who don't know, the 51 earth pet spell summons a BEAST of a pet with tons of hps. We threw lava shield on every pet summoned. The other mage did likewise, but I don't know how many pets he went through. I'd guess 6-8 also.

Anyway, point being, this freaking grass-green con has about 20k hps. Yes, this is in the neighborhood of some serious boss-mobs in the dungeons. He double and triple hits for 177 max. He backstabbed my pet for 517. Yeah, 517!

This type of damage is lvl 55 mob dmg that I've only seen on dragon raids and the King/Juggernaut area of Sebilis.

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We killed him again soon after, but this time had a 52 cleric on board. We summoned our hardest hitting earth pets (lvl 45 pet) which he buffed. Once the fight commenced he used his cleric vambraces to do intermittent healing, and CH as he needed to. This reduced the overall number of pets summoned to about 8 total. Again, pets were Lava Shielded, and wizzie was using his lures. The fight went a lot smoother, but still proved he is a serious **** kicker.

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DO NOT attack Frankel thinking you'll get any experience. The reason I say this, is that with 5 lvl 50+ players, we were able to take him, but it was not a cakewalk. He gave zero exp, and did not even drop a single copper. We gave him a variety of crappy weapons hoping it would slow him down (2hs, 2hb, etc). He did not equip any of them, but DID drop them when he died. Any lvl character that would actually get exp for this kill will need an entire guild to do so.


As a final note, although he is listed as being on Pirates of Iceclad faction, neither of my characters (mage and the enchanter) did not receive any faction hits. Not exactly sure why, but I will post later after I con the gnomies in Iceclad.

Good Ole Frankie is a BLAST to fight...Me, and my group havent had that much fun in a while!!!

today mt guild killed him. It took an extremly long time but we managed to do it. He does hit around 170's. He only dropped i believe just some veggies or something of that nature. Nothing big. BEWARE he is a rogue he does backstab extremely hard.

Well, i have been in Nro TONS and seen him since the last patch many times empty handed. However, today i saw him holding 2 septres, kinda like the Wu batons, so me and a buddy figured we'd kill him for the loot... DOH

We are both 30 one SK and one Wiz, he resisted everything, even my HT, he hit me for 240+ damage per shot, we evaced, I had only 12 HP left.... DOH

Another wrong con. Thanks Verant.. I can afford to spend hours recovering all the experience. Why bother having a function that allows us to con if they are wrong?

LOL, Why do people insist on saying he is lvl 35, I saw him wipe out three high lvl necros and lose no HP