a mutant dreg  

NM found them

Edited, Wed May 4 17:53:06 2005

Just a little info about these things for all those bards out there who would like to try to swarm kite them. The best place I have found to pull them to is over at the empty huts near the bandit camps. Just pull one with any song of your choice while keeping your flute on then run back toward the camp. Make sure you scout out the path first though as there are a few lotus buggers in the way. When you run back to camp, I have yet to find a path that would not aggro a lotus so just remember to relog to lose aggro before you go back to get more dregs.

Now, mob info. The level range of 52-53 is wrong. Some of these can be up to 54 therefore uncharmable by a bard that would be swarm kiting them for exp. My normal swarms here consist of 7-10 mobs and usually 2 or 3 out of the bunch are uncharmable. The best thing to do is just cycle through them with auto target and keep trying until you find one that is charmable or just kite around the lead one until its dead then move to next target and try to charm.

Loot rate on these is pretty gimpy, not sure if the 1/200 is correct but I killed about 50 today and got nothing. Also, these mobs are UNSNAREABLE and WILL NOT run at low life so do not turn around expecting there to be no mob chasing you.

Well I hope this helps all you bards out there who are trying to farm some cash (they drop about 7-10pp per and acrylia grubs, not sure what they are for) from the belt and cloak drop. If all else fails, the bandits are 53 max and ALL are able to be charmed =)

As of tonight, 6-10-02.
Info based off of the following group:
55 Enchanter
53 Warrior
57 Pally
52 Monk
50 Cleric
56 Wizard

Mobs all con blue and white, meaning levels are about 53 on average.
Low MR, casting without add of tash is possible, though not smart. Resist are few either way.
Lots of HP, rough guess is about 8k to 10k, but this is a very rough guess.
No need to root/snare. These mobs do not run. And, these mobs are easily mezzable (though, GoK was primarily used).
They are slowable, and other forms of debuffable.
Lure type nukes seem to work best, though wizard grabs aggro very easily if he cast to often.
FD pull does NOT work for these mobs, they all instantly return to spawn points. Breaking this camp can be VERY tricky.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: The Aggro range on these mobs is INSANE. I'm talking HUGE. Sometimes, we would get adds from out of sight spawn points. God-like aggro makes this camp fun, but very dangerous.
Loot is as listed, and is rare. 1/200 is about right for both parts as it seems. No way to be for sure though.
EXP was decent here, shrooms may be better exp.
Mobs here seem to be on a 26 minute timer. We tested this on about 10 of them, and seems to be accurate. There is about 30 mobs in the camp, but we only cycled 10 - 12 of them.
Watch for the local Deep Cavern Lotus's.. they nuke for 600's now since Caster Patch. They are Perma-Rooted, so avoiding them isn't a problem.

Hope this helps out.

Verjion Dreamweaver
Mithaniel Marr Server

"The only thing worse than a Cleric without a Clarity, is an Enchanter without a Rez."

about how many Hps do these things have?

As stated before, these are not 43-45. About 1 in 3 conned even 53 to me, the rest blue, so i would say 50-53.

Also, it is sometimes hard to pull singles as they are close together. Tried FD splitting, and didn't seem to work.

53 sk
the rathe

We hunted them today.

They are 51 to 53 and hit for 149 max.
They are mezzable. No high MR.
We had no problem with a full group 51-56.
And no need for snare, they dont run away hehe.

they were all blue to me at 60 (killed like 50 of them) and they hit much harder than the small shrooms... i think 50+

But, what is the common drop? Belt or the back piece?

This dropped a belt for me, +8 Int +65 Mana +5 MR, I can't remember the name right now (at work) will try to post later. Anyone else have an idea?

Level might be off, fought several last night near the underbulk area, and every single one was dead even at level 51.

It looks like a buff zombie to me, lookin at all the mobs on luclin is makeing me want to run out and buy it just to see all the new things that designers have done, I think they did a really good job.