Fist of Horn  

 

I have fought this mushroom guy twice now, first time he dropped an Ancient Sensate Shield, and then the Fist of Horn. Maybe I just got really lucky. IMHO as a non-twinked character, this was an EXCELLENT drop for the level. But what do I know.



Kuar
23 Iksar Beastlord
Maelin Starphyre

Edited, Wed Dec 31 02:15:27 2003

Just a few corrections. I camped this guy with my 23 beastlord hoping to get 2 fists because I have no h2h weapons as of yet, and there are only 3 shik'nars in the cave where the reishicyben spawns. At 23 they were mostly light blue to me with the rare dark blue. The owlbear cub in the water was green to dark blue. None of these mobs agro'd me while I was sitting on the rock in the center of the room where reishi spawns. These mobs, as well as the rest of the mobs in Paludal, have a very small agro range. When killing the reishi, I would swim to the back of the cave, opposite the side where 2 of the shik'nar spawn. From there, I would pull with drowsy and fight right there. It was a surprisingly easy fight, considering reishi was yellow to me. It was a long fight, but easy. As long as you don't try to rush it, you should be fine. All I did was keep drowsy and tainted breath on reishi, and my pet required maybe 2 or 3 complete heals the whole fight. I didn't try to tank him myself because he does hit pretty hard, and for a beastlord, healing my pet is far more mana efficient than healing myself, so I went that route. At any rate, he was easy, but after killing him 3 times, I've gotten 2 eyes and 1 shield. No fists yet. =(

He did'nt say he got them in one camp or that he carried the stuff out. Ever let something rot?

Edited, Fri Feb 8 11:58:09 2002

Reshy was yellow to a 22, took him out with a 22war and a 21 bard. Max hit was 56, and he had an AOE, but was resisted. I'm 1 for 3 on these drops, other two were eyes.

My experience was different. Killing the big shroom 6 times, I got two Fists of Horn, Two Eyes, Two Cloaks, and no Shields, which is what I was really after. Also got some lens things that look like a lightstone, and some beetle eye lookin item with 1 charge of see invisible, in addition to the main drop. Since they are all lore except the Fists of Horn, can only loot one of the Eyes and Cloaks. Still lookin to sell the 2 Fists of Horn, if you are on Bertoxx sent me a tell. Difficult camp because it spawns only every 90 minutes and there is often lvl 40-50 people waiting at the spawn site for him to pop. Easy kill for 30 shaman.

Damage bonus is based on level and class, the formula for 1-hander damage bonus for melee classes is as follows:

(level -25)/3, discarding ALL fractions.

Therefore, bonus is 1 on level 28, 2 on 31, 3 on 34, etc. Pretty easy once you think about it, and plus you can tell the approximate level of the person who posted it, provided they are a melee or hybrid. This was posted by a 43-45 level person. Hope this helps.

Just got 2 of these for my monk alt and bot mine were 8 damage 26 delay and have loads of stats. When equipped look like you have flashing red beacons on your hands which is kinda cool.

Very rarely camped on Bristlebane server everytime I went there over the course of 4 days no-one there but this big shroom )

fist damage/delay gets better as u level(for monks atleast) and is different for human and iksar(human being slightly better) for exact go here:
http://www.monkly-business.com/articles2.asp?ArticleNum=70

aw man :-) i wish i knew that when i sold mine for about 450pp )