Chief Goonda  

... for a druid of 40 summers in Wolf form.

As other have mentioned here, Chief Goonda was the only one KOS to me in wolf form. The other ogres conned dubious and the cyclops indifferent.

The first time I pulled both the chief and a blue priestess. Rooted the pet and the priestess, snared everyone and pulled the chief over the hill (out of aggro range of the priestess) to get him alone. After he was dead, I went back and repulled the priestess.

I didnt use the cyclops (never even thought about it) but found that if I nuked from the beginning of the fight, I ran out of mana far too soon. Instead, if I dotted him (root and snare), and sit back till he is below half health and starts healing, then nuked him a few times, he went down easily and left me with about half mana (less if he resisted a few times). Plenty of time to kill the clops and shamans (never saw another priestess) before he respawned.

I kept a few random buffs up for the dispells (after the first fight), then resist buffss and wolf. He never dispelled more than two of the buffer buffs.

Alas, a couple hours of this and I only walked away with 2 turtle shell helms.

Kaedwen Wolfenrose
40 Druid of Tunare
Bristlebane server

I am a 35th druid on sullon zek and I camped Goonda for awhile until my faction was KOS and I couldnt pull him alone. For druids there is a fairly easy way to kill him that should only cost about half your mana or so. The secret is that while wolf form you can pull Goonda alone with no adds, you pull him to Froon and Choon who for some reason are indifferent to me in wolf form and they dont like Goonda very much so they will aggro on him immediately. Well to show you how tough Goonda is he kills both Froon and Choon and still has about half health due to his heals! But the good thing being that you only have to kill a half dead Goonda, snare and root pet, snare goonda while he fights the cyclopses and dot and nuke till hes dead. Make sure you finish him before his pet breaks root because if he has pet he will chase no matter what health and he may heal himself and that creates a big problem. You will notice a huge difference if you can pull before he summons pet and buffs himself. Killed him 4 or 5 times and all I got was turtle shell helm. Now I'm KOS even in wolf form and he pulls most of the camp with him when I come near, <sigh> I really wanted some CBB's.

I am a 50 Cleric not especially well equiped, yet can kill a hillgiant using all my mana. Previoulsy I have wandered into camps like this and wiped them out. So when a Knight of my Order was wasted, I rezzed her and was eager to strut my stuff, so to speak.

Round 1. Didn't see Goonda, decided to start wiping camp by taking a shamaness out. Hehe found Goonda and pet immediately while trying to finish off shamaness. Was half health before I was able to successfully cast enough Retribution to kill her and then started on Goonda. Soon thereafter informed Mate she had better start running and gated shortly thereafter to Freeport with a sliver of life left. Goonda wins by default. score 0-1

Round 2. Nearly back to full health by the time mana has returned, I am patiently waiting an extreme distance from the camp nearly to the top of the hill for the last bubble of health. Slightly more learned now I do con the bugger and he is light blue. Umm giants light blue, close fight, but I have won both against them. Still weighing my chances when lookie what is coming up the HILL! Now just previously a person was camping the group, but I had already spoken with him, making arrangements that I would get revenge on Goonda then leave. However it looked like two ogres were involved and I do not know if he pulled a shaman or if it was Verant's oft lag effect. Tried to target and root pet, too many interruptions. Turned attention to Goonda could not root until after the stun. Root breaks with first Retribution. Was hit frequently interrupting my casts and felt 'dispelled' a couple of times, hence losing my two AC buffs. Still half mana and soon sobbing for mercy and bleeding profusely as pet and ogre finish me off, turning their attention immediately to the Fair Ranger and placing her prone on the path in seconds, again her losing 31 to them. Goonda wins outright. score 0-2

ummm. I am Raid Officer the camp has some nice Int. and Wis items for my young casters and clerics. What will be the final score? Thanks to the 49 rez Enderi is once more for the third time in level 31.

This camp should not be taken lightly unless you can DoT and run like real fast! Just my opinion of course since I am a weak armed cleric not especially adept at battling live opponents but can easily work Spectre Island and not get hurt in the least.

Had my 50 warrior out here one day to see if I could pick some earings for my alts. This thing is a pain to fight. I would get him down to half health pretty fast but he would then heal himself backup. Could never stun him to interrupt his heals. So after he healed himself for the fifth time I gave up ran towards Qeynos Hills. He will not follow but his pet will. Took out my anger on pet :0). He hit me for 80 a few times so watch out for this guy.

I took him out easy until I got bored waiting on *just him*.. Started killing the regular shamans, because they conned low green amiable to me, and seemed to be much better than Goonda.. I resisted all spells, they went down with 1 dot.. Then when I got to KoS I couldn't single pull any more.. When I finally got the spawns broken up, got Goonda solo, I could take him until he spawned with a staff. Didn't get to see what the staff was, as he doubled for 84 along with his pet getting the occasional hit in. I had him down to a sliver of health then he started chain healing himself, oy.. He's easy when he punches for 40, but watch out for the staff.. Gated out with 7 hp left and I had a chloro up :P


(btw, loot was:

Goonda, after 5 kills, dropped 1 turtle shell helm
Regular shamans, estimated 10 kills, got a sheer bone mask and 2 batskull earrings..)

sorry about the spelling

45 Monk here. There's a reason for the conflicting reports on what it takes to hold this camp. Goonda. When I fight him how tough the fight is depends on how much he casts. Strangely, the more he casts the quicker I drop him. That's because he hits like a ton of bricks and almost every spell he casts slides right off me. The guards HT for about 191-221 dmg each, which is painful, but not deadly at my level.

The tricks I learned. All mobs have enormous aggro ranges. However if you're able to, you can use this to your advantage. Approaching directly behind one of the 'gravestones' until you aggro a single guard (aggro pulling) will let you pick the guards off one by one. Just make sure you can kill a single guard after taking a couple hundred points of damage. Then repeat with Goonda and the shamans, Goonda has a larger aggro radius, and can be pulled singly from the shaman next to him, though I suspect this is lvl dependant (ie I can do it at lvl 45, lower lvls may pull the whole camp).

Facts I've learned. The two unnamed shamans are on a slower spawn cycle than Goonda and the guards. Keep that in mind to avoid double-teams. Goonda will not run away if his pet is alive, so if you can catch him before he summons it he's an easier fight (he doesn't keep swinging till he's dead). I've had Batskull earring drop from one of the shamans, so it seems they have the same loot options as Goonda. If you're a feign-capable class, ignore the pets, kill the master, then feign. Pets will suicide. They're no exp and no loot. No reason to take extra damage killing them. Also Choon and Froon hate the ogres. If you want to just nuke the guards, you can train them to the cyclops and feign.

Good luck and happy camping.

I was there as a level 27 enchanter, along with a 32 druid, 27 druid, 26 druid, 25 paladin and a 27 wizard. This was a hard camp to break with the above people so we enlisted a 40 druid and 40 cleric to break it up for us. Once broken the guards and shammy's fell very easily. We ensured that we got Goonda and his pet by themselves. First time we took Goonda we barely killed him. Be aware, even with Tashani, ONLY the level 32 druid could land a spell on him. Combine that with the fact Goonda has a very good heal spell, we were barely able to polish him off. It took us about 10 real time minutes to kill him. Be aware, as you are fighting Goonda, the guards and shamans will start spawning and if you get too close to the spawn, you'll get a huge aggro and mob. We were lucky in the two hours we were there, we got one chipped bracelet and one mask. Very nice items. We survived but it was difficult, we plan on heading back there once everyone has gained about two more levels. I recommend a full group of very high twenties at the minimum to control this camp. Good luck

OK, I got attacked by this guy at lvl 27 and lost a lvl, but this is how it happened.

I was walking along the path and saw a bunch of ogre guards way in the distance-I conned the ogre gaurds-I am a halfling, and they were indiferent to me. Ok, I didnt see the cheif. BUt I had sow and I crepped up one more step-I knew I would be safe because they were a VERY VERY long way away. Each one of them was about the saze of a bixie when your a foot away from it. But little did I know, apparentally the cheifs aggro range was about a half a mile, and he is the only one that I was KoS to, but then they all ran in my direction, but i had sow, so I figured I could just run to Qey hills, but his crappy pet is a dog, so, well, I just wish he was an sk or something, but, his dog can outrun SoW, but he wasnt doing much dmg, so I still thought I would be safe with 850hp....

But then came the stuns, the dmg wasnt bad, but when a Hord of 10 ogres and a cheif all came and beat me up, They all hit me for about 25dmg, some missed, but the cheif wasnt so weak, he liked to hit for 80dmg. I could outrun everyone but the dog after stun wore off, but after 10 stuns, and massive dmg, I was walking....then lying on the ground......then....*sigh*...dead on the path.

And I was bound in fp, but who knows how I did it, but after 5 minutes I was looting back all my crafted armor. (Actually, I had to go to the bathroom and when I came back I was in the middle of the west karanas, back to lvl 26 for the 3rd time by a halfling warrior's corpse named "Taiddas's corpse" :p)

Well, there it is, my whole story....but now I am stuck in Qeynos waiting for a tp, because I am afraid to go back in that disgusting plain of green sky.

Just a note to everyone: THESE OGRES HAVE VERY LONG AGGRO RANGE AND EVEN IF THE OGRE GAURDS AROUND THE CHEIF ARE INDIFFERENTLY TO YOU DOESNT MEAN THE CHEIF IS TOO.

Taiddas Kavilion
halfling warrior of the 26th (yet again) season
Xegony server

i camed the ogre's for 4 hrs and never got a drop, are they broke??

Can a 28th Paladin, and a 30th Druid be able to take this camp? What levels are the guards and the 2 that spawn near him? Thanks for Info!!

I'm a level 34 Shaman I'm thinking of stoping here on the way back to Halas. Will I be able to pull a Shaman or Priestess alone? Or do I need to be a higher level so they went aggro on me?

Not sure there are plus and minus killed like 3 times then saw faction changes