Charred Guardian Shield  

 

Nope, I was gonna use it as a pet. Then it says uncharmable and can you believe it tried to eat me?

Okay, this may be a bit random, but this item was featured in the Ctrl+Alt+Delete comic strip. Pretty ammusing :D

Just been camping this mob on the Combine server (28/09/06). There is a 20 mins spawn time and it is the wanderer, it spawns in the pick and bucket room. I set up camp just across and to the left of the first bridge after that room in a small niche. Very easy camp, spawned on the third kill. Mob wanders between bucket and castle courtyard.

I went to Sol A about 10PM and EXG was camped. Came back around midnight, no one else in zone. I set up at the room with the pick and bucket, up the path from the courtyard. There is one wandering mob that goes back and forth between the courtyard and this bucket room. I just kept killing the wandering mob. First 3 were regular clockwork type models. The next 2 were clockwork spiders. The next 1 was the EXG model, which resisted every spell I cast, and I was using my main to get the item for my alt cleric, and my main is a 52 pally. Could not root it, stun it, etc. Just have to melee it. I was hoping to root it because when it got low on health I didn't want it wandering off into the lava or training all the other gnomies on me. 20 greenies adds up to a lot of damage heh. However, the other gnomies didn't aggro at all, just stood and watched, probably with horror, as I keeled their EXG model.

The EXG dropped the Charred Guardian Breastplate. Ack, that's not what I wanted, was after the shield. But hey, bonus, a decent item to sell in EC. Looking at this site, I saw they are priced about the same, the shield and BP. Anyway...So after 2 hours I was thinking I was going to have to wait another 2 for the EXG to respawn and hopefully it'd have the shield this time.

On the very next pop, it was the EXG model AGAIN. I was amazed. This time it had the shield. She (it's a she) obviously was equipping it so you could tell she had it. Woo-hoo.

So, the actual spawn point is somewhere inbetween the courtyard and the bucket room. It doesn't matter, just hang out somewhere along that path between the two. It wanders back and forth. The wanderer is sometimes a clockwork spider, a regular gnomie clockwork, and then apparently at random intervals, the EXG model.

I have noticed an Ability of the CGS that is not Listed on the Shield.
The CGS acts as A Light Source! Though I am not sure if it is equal to a GLS, it is pretty Close. After I discovered this, my druid stopped carrying a GLS and to carry another Backpack.

Maybe some of you other CGS owners, might want to test to see if the CGS acts as a light Source. Access tunnels to RV, SFG or BB are easy places to test it as a light source.

Teaddar Travelfar
52th level Druid
Tunare Server

This was actually the easiest camp I have done so far. Once you get into Sol, get to area 9 (goto eqatlas.com to get map). This is the place where it is SUPPOSE to spawn. It actually spawns up the path from the gate of the castle. My friend and I camped it for 2.5 hours 3 nights ago and we each got a shield. Not sure if it has a PH, but we wacked 4 cycles worth of "Pops". The area to camp is very safe, has a bucket and pick in the corner. Keep in mind, this mob is magic resistant. Seems only DMG shields worked against it. SO .. have a healer and slug it out. Estimated spawn time 1 - 2 hours (not sure when we first got there) but we only saw 2, and both had shield. Good hunting

Clerics can wear armor, and are thus designed to have a higher ACs from equipment. Clerics should use the CGS.

Druids are outdoors kind of people. AC isn't as much of an issue since you shouldn't be getting hit. Druids should use the ToV.

The +10 MANA makes up for the loss of AC.

WTF? How mature. Hope ya get grounded by you mommy and daddy.

ummmm, WTF is with the price, either someone screwed with the price thing, or this is one big joke...

Just a question. I saw someone mention that the CGS is better than the ToV, sans weight. Is this true? I'm just wondering. I was given a CGS for giving an Elf a Bind. Do I keep it, ot continue and Quest for the ToV? Any sugestions are certainly welcome. :)

I was looking to buy one of these on the Povar server, and have seen 2 offered at 1kpp...could this be true? Are they still worth THAT much? Everywhere else I've seen, they're much lower than that...am I crazy for not wanting to pay that much for this item, or is this the new going rate?