Went in solo with my 52 shammy and pet, both fully buffed. Went through, killing all the greenies along the way, killed the DB guard outside the room with the fire in it, and the guard inside the spawn room, settled down for a nice long camp... and the bastich poped right on top of me. Easy kill, hard DoT, but nothing you can't handle. No HT, no healing, and I couldn't find the blasted snakes either...
Hadn't been in PAW for a long time, but a friend made a Nec alt, so I told him I would help him get it...we go to paw, get to the room, finally, couldn't remember hehe...all morning and afternoon, NO Ishva Mal...some Ishva Lteth kept popping in his place! I was stunned, coz never saw this before, but apparently he has a PH now, and is not a common spawn. We left the druid I brought along in the room to watch fer spawns, and went and killed snakes, and yes, we got the spell off of a snake, waste of time camping the Ishva, imho, just kill snakes.
Guessin this is one of the zones they redid in the recent patches. (?)
Sage Skydawg Deathangel Arch Lich and Officer of Hallowed Pestilence Quellious
I killed Ishva Mal last night. My friend needed the summon corpse spell so I took my 48 warrior and 51 druid to try to get it for him. Most of the greenies along the way did not aggro. I just ran straight to the water and jumped in at the spot marked underwater tunnel on the eqatlas map. From that point on I killed all the mobs on the way Ishva Mal. A few of the rooms had multiple mobs including healers. I didnt single pull any of the rooms so a few of the fights were pretty close. The guards just outside his room were pretty tough. I parsed the fight afterward and found a ninsch val guard had 2453hp and did 8dps, and a tesch val guard had 3029hp and did 13dps . I took 3311 dmg fighting both at the same time and had a dps of 25. After the guards were dead I needed to med a while, the druid was at 10% mana and the warrior was nearly dead. The ishva mal had 3131hp and did 8dps and the tesch val guard with him had 1888hp and did 16dps. I took 2828dmg fight both of them together and did 23dps. The druid took 573 dmg. Ishva Mal dropped summon corpse, the robe of ishva, and the brain.
[Tue Jan 21 09:51:04 2003] The Ishva Mal hits YOU for 60 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:04 2003] You writhe in the grip of agony. You have taken 401 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:06 2003] The Ishva Mal was hit by non-melee for 38 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:06 2003] The Ishva Mal was pierced by thorns. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:06 2003] The Ishva Mal hits YOU for 64 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:06 2003] You writhe in the grip of agony. You have taken 401 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:07 2003] The Ishva Mal begins to cast a spell. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:07 2003] YOU are tormented! [Tue Jan 21 09:51:07 2003] You slash The Ishva Mal for 29 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:09 2003] The Ishva Mal regains concentration and continues casting. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:09 2003] You resist the Root spell! [Tue Jan 21 09:51:11 2003] The Ishva Mal was hit by non-melee for 38 points of damage. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:11 2003] The Ishva Mal was pierced by thorns. [Tue Jan 21 09:51:11 2003] You have slain The Ishva Mal!
Sorry if this post is a bit lengthy but I thought the only way to prove what happened to me was to post a log. What you are seeing above is me being harm touched by the ishva mal twice in a row for 401 points of damage just before he died. Anyone else ever catch a harm touch or two from this guy? I reported it as a bug since I thought he was a necro and only sks can harm touch...
Yeah, I"ve been HT'd twice in a row by necros. When I was way younger (when I actualy played Harnak) I was in Nejena and was HT'd twice in a row by the necro chick who lives behind the locked door. Didn't think much of it, but now that you mention it. . .
There are no place holders you can kill your way into the room and then kill Ishva and not kill nothing for 30 min and she will still spawn notice when you walk into the zone with a tracker and jump from bridge it will be on track almost everytime even if no one has been in ther for days )
Just camped this guy 2 nites in a row, due to taking your advice the first nite. Firts of all, if you are going to camp this guy read ALL the threads before you try, too much Bad advice. Second, get to Area #5 on the EQ Atlas map and jump into the water around this penninsula and swim around til you see a hidden underwater tunnel and take it, note you must swim up higher than the area you entered the water from. The area you are now in is not on the map. There are alot of knolls in the area, but pretty easy to single pull most of them, bring a healer type as they will heal themselves or eachother as you fight em, so a greenie may end your life if you get too cocky. There are 3 areas in which greenies will pop, and some lt blues as well, to my 51 SK. first room on right may have 4 pops in it, and they are not easy to single pull, room on left has 2 green pops, easy pulls; and room to the front is the one you want, 2 pops may be by the door as you come through door, greens. Once through the door, a room on the right may have 2 pops, one is lt blue, and a healer, he may be healing those door pops which jumped you when you came in.Clear all these guys out, as they may become unwelcome adds to your next fights. In this forward room you will find 3 pillars on your left and a room with a fire in it to the left of these pillars. the fire room is where He pops, the first nite i was there we set for hours in this room waiting for him to pop, only got his wimpy little brother to pop. The next nite we sat in the main Forward room, killed the three guard knolls which popped, Dark blue, and rough (remember those adds I mentioned?). killed 4 guards in all before the ischva mal popped. Actually his wimpy brother, Ischva something (not mal) popped after killing guards initially, 30 min after we killed wimpy brother, Mal popped, he healed himself and hits hard. Some say this is a quick camp, but be prepared to burn up a C3 before you leave the zone. Also, killing all the knolls while you wait helps to relieve the boredom, adda exp to any lower than 51's which may come with you, and they drop alot of fine steel weapons. If you can get a druid to go in with you and a mellee, if you are a necro, you should be fine, provided they are high enough in level. I went with a 47 ranger, and another 51 SK, we both needed the spell. I won the roll on the first spell and was too excited meming the spell, that I forgot to check if it was a no drop spell.
After been waiting for 3 respawns of ishva mal we were so bored that our druid charmed a gaduladian widemouth, one of those snakes in the water, our chanter dispell the charm of the druid and we kill the snake. and imagine our surprise when we loot the snake and get the summon corpse spell. WE get a lot of laughts hehe, thx to our druid for charming the right snake LOL.
i killed all the snakes on the way out, after getting the spell from the ishva, and the first snake i killed dropped summon corpse as well. none of the others dropped anything of interest
i did this yesterday i made pet right before door u open to go back to him slowly cleared my way back sent pet in on him and mezzed other with st he went down easy he dropped spell robe and brains i looted all dont know what quest the brains are for
I soloed the whole room today. Pulled with splurt, sent pet, Envenomed bolt, and Ignite bones when it was low on health so he couldnt heal himself. If I got 2 I mezzed the other because they will heal eachother and it was difficult with others healing them. Im pretty sure you have to kill the guards at the door to get him to spawn (after you clear the room he spawns in). The ishva mal seemed easier than the the guards. He didnt heal himself. He spent his time casting fear2 on me which I resisted all. He dropped the spell, brains and a robe of the ishva.
I'm a 44 Necro and i went here with 5 other 51+ guild members to get summon corpse for me and another Necro. Ishva conned Dark blue to me, so he's definately not lvl 45. He is on like a 30 minute spawn like others have said, and we killed him 3 times and the other guards still hadn't respawned. First time he dropped Summon corpse, second time nothing good, third time dropped summon corpse and robe of the ishva. He drops other minor things too like his brains and some herb thing and FS sometimes.
I just soloed the room with my 49 MAGE. All I had was my focused Water pet and my 600dd spell. It was soo easy. The Ishva aggroed as I was trying to take the guard by his room out, I killed the right one with no problem. When the guard came to me, my pet started to wack him, then The Ishva aggroed and I just kept hitting him with my DD's. My pet chopped through the guard so fast and started to take the Ishva. The pet had about 1/2 health and I had 80% of my health left.
Dropped the scroll, I went into the room and The Ishva popped about half an hour later alone. Killed him and he dropped the robe, and scroll.
all you have to do is wait by that gate until a leth gnoll will come wandering by and he opens it himself to walk thru.. im a rogue and could not open this gate. i just stayed against wall so he would not agro. i did this to see if other ppl who didnt have sneak or hide could do it too. WHen it opens it stays up for a bit after he goes thru.. so dont rush it,. there is a tesch gnoll on other side after him your ok for a bit.but not far :D
I'll assume you were usin' an EQAtlas map. (If not, go get one, 'cos otherwise this'll make no sense! *Grin*)
It's not immediately obvious from the map, but you don't have to follow the path around to point '5'. Indeed, as you discovered, there is a locked door on the way that makes life difficult. However, you will notice that there is a platform that runs over a lake at +800, 0. If you jump off and head East, you come to the area behind the locked door. (You'll be jumping right into the water fall. But you should be able to see the platform you're heading for, before you jump.)
The water is filled with [link=eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=3780]Gauladian Widemouth[/link] snakes, but these will not attack at level fifty-one. There are two gnolls on the platform coming out of the water however. One of these did attack me at level fifty-one. (This would be no big deal, excepting that he charmed me, which knocked out my pet and bugged me, so I couldn't summon a new one!)
The Ishva Mal doesn't spawn at point '5' on the map, however. Point '5' is just the entrance to another small area, which doesn't appear on the map! You jump in the pond and have a look about. The area is much like the region in which the Tesch Val Deval'Nmak spawns, just to give you an idea of what to expect.
I would strongly recommend clearing this area out, since I have seen Ishva wipe out a level fifty-three necro, who thought it'd be a good idea to walk in and set up in his room. (You can do this, because nothing will attack you in the corner of the room to the left of the door. Don't ask me why, but I have seen it done.)
(My last port was made, while I camped out, after the charm bugging my pet. I thought I'd have a look and see if there was any useful information, before charging in all gung-ho. *Grin*)
From the exit of the water, you'll be in a round'ish room, with one exit. One gnoll spawns in that room. He's green, but probably not too far green. (And a caster!) But, the L49 necro pet, with Augment Death has no problem with him. I really recommend killing this guy off, since I used Englufing Darkness and pulled to this room.
The exit is a crossroads. Green gnolls spawn in the rooms to the left and the right. (Two on the left and three on the right, I think.) I killed these before proceeding, but in retrospect, this isn't necessary. The door on the middle leads to a larger room. There are two large pillars on the left hand side, behind which there are two guards. (These are dark blue at level fifty-one and hit for up to ninety-nine points of damage! However, they are fairly easy to single pull. (As in I managed it every time, without problems.))
More immediately, there are two light blue gnolls just inside the door. Single pulling these two wasn't a problem. (And, if you get them both, they're low enough level that rooting one shouldn't be a problem.)
There are two smaller rooms off the larger room. One to the right, which has three green gnolls and one further to the back, on the left. The Ishva Mal spawns in the room on the left. After killing the gnolls at the door, I pulled the guards to the round room. (Pulled with Engulfing Darkness and followed with Asystole and Envenomed Bolt. (And an Insideous Retrogression to finish the job.)) Each guard took the pet to about half life.
Inside the Ishva's room, there is another guard. (I thought it was two, from my previous visit. But it sems there is not. Probably one of the guards outside had run in.) My first attempt, was to cast Screaming Terror on the guard, expecting The Ishva Mal to run after me. (I had parked my pet in the round room.) The Screaming Terror stuck just fine, but Ishva didn't come after me. *Shrug*
My second attempt, I cast Screaming Terror on the guard again and immediately followed it with an Engulfing Darkness on Ishva. This worked just fine. Both spells stuck and Ishva followed me to the round room. (He immediately cast Invoke Fear2 on me, which happilly, I resisted.)
The fight lasted precisely seventy-four seconds! He soaked up an Envenomed Bolt, an Asystole and an Insideous Retrogression. Further, I made two attempts at castimg Screaming Terror on him. One stuck; one didn't. At the end of it, my pet had 76% of his hitpoints and I had full life and two bubbles of mana. (Although he did chew through my Steelskin.)
He dropped the Summon Corpse spell, (which is what I went in for,) a NO DROP brain and the robe. I was hunting up the spell for a friend, so I'm working on the basis that the robe is my reward for bein' nice! *Grin*
Anyhow, there ya go. Hopefully, that should give you a pretty good idea of what you face. If you're a necromancer, he's certainly very solo'able at level fifty-one. (With a little care.)
hehehe, i (51 magi) went in there with a 46 magi and a 36 warrior, cleared our way to the bridge where u drop off to the ishva. cleared our way and killed him and he dropped the Robe... the other mage took it, cuz i was just there for the metal for the Pheno focus quest... he was an easy fight for the 51 Vocarate pet, the focused 44 Fire pet, and the 36 Warrior.
I stayed behind hoping to solo the Ishval after a previous group cleared the room and left for the night.
I had a good, fully buffed pet and was FOM. Unfortunately it practically chained a constant 15 second stun, and tried unsuccessfully to hit me with Fear2 a couple times. In the few chances I was able to cast a spell, nothing I used would land on it. It whittled my pet down to near nothing and I was only barely able to Gate out.
I camped him lastnight with 9 others from my guild.... I asked for a little help, a bunch showed up. We were all 50+ so it was a walk in the park to get to his spawn point.
We arrived and killed Ishva Mal's Place Holder, and then moved into his room. After about 35 mins we began to wonder why he hadn't spawned and then we moved away from the fire in his room, and then POP The Ishva Mal. We killed him quickly .... I dont think anyone took damage, it was so fast ... 10 lvl 50+ whacking on him .... LOL.
He dropped the brains, a FS weapon, and Summon corpse spell.
We set our timer.... 28 mins later he poped ( this time we were away from the fire) .. we killed again. Pretty much same loot as before.
We decided to wait once more...28 mins ..Pop .. Kill....WOOT! I got my Robe.
Moral:
1. The Ishva Mal or his Place Holder is on a 28 minute timer.
2. Do not hang out near the fire at the 28 minute mark... he wont spawn till you move.
3. 10 lvl 50+ people (1 of which was a 60 warrior w/epic) is overkill...LOL
After swimming through the secret passage, you will come to a landing. A Gnoll with a pet was there, did not aggro on group. But will killed him anyway. go through hall, there is a door to your right, an opening to your left and a door straight ahead. Go through the door that is straight ahead. There are two gnolls on each side of the door when you enter. The conned Light Blue to me at 50. The room that spawns the Ishva Mal is at the end of this area on the left. There will be two guards outside of the room. Both conned blue at 50. Inside this room is where the Ishva spawns. Once you kill the place holders inside, he spawns every 30 minutes. We were only here to get the spell for a Necromancer in my guild. We killed him twice:
1st time: Brains Emerald Fine Steel Staff Splitpaw preserved eye
2nd Time: Spell - Summon Corpse Brains Tanned split paw scroll Fine steel staff
Either my group got very lucky, or this spawn has changed. My group camped the Ishva mal last night, for about 3 or 4 hours. Got 4 Ishva's in that time, 3 brains, 3 summon corpse spells, and 4 robes. After reading these other posts, I'm thinking we got very lucky.
BTW, we had no deaths during the camp, with a 51 sk, 51 mage, 50 cleric and 36 cleric (me). However, i did drown once getting in there, because I got turned around in the water. Was my first time in Infected Paw. Luckily, we had our rez machine, and I got back the rest of my lost exp, on the first 2 guard kills.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 26 2001 at 2:25 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I got the robe yesterday. What makes it so valuable. I hear it goes for 3-4kpp.
#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 25 2001 at 6:44 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) You people suck. Your all afraid of one damn gnoll, how pathetic. Im a high 40s ench and I laid the smack down upon his *** with surprising ease. How does this make you feel?
Hes 30 minute spawn, Dropped the Summon corpse spell 8/10 times, he always dropped his brain, one of his Guards dropped the Summon corpse spell and a Gnoll Hide lariat, and I think it was a Gnoll hide Tome (Not exactly Sure I'll have to ask Nerwin he looted). Anyway we were Trying to get a Robe (Got lucky last two drops hehe..) and hes a Necro, His PH Can be a Wizard,Mage, Or Enchanter. (Trust me I recognize that Fly back 12 feet spell from any wizard), Saw him summon a mage pet, and I saw him Charm a lvl 57 rogue (who about finished me off hehe..) but thats just my 2 cents. Hope this helps Happy Hunting!
-Senofear Shadowreaver (50 SK) -- Karana server member of the Dark Oracles.