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Kromzek Captain needs a powerup?

We just killed this guy for Svenn. He's pretty much a normal L58 mob: hits for 172, moderately MR but slowed on the second try, and with 15k HP. Alla seems to suggest he should be quite a bit harder:

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had a LOT of health and hits hard so make sure you got a good group.. You might need 2 groups. But we did him with 1.

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We killed the captain with 7 people. 58 War, 56 Clr, 60 Enc, 60 Rog, 58 Dru, 54 Nec, 54 Shm. He is completely MR, none of my lifetaps would land. I ended up pumping the cleric with mana for CH's on the warrior.

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He's too MR to land slows btw, we came back 2 days later and did him otw to DN. Took 3 groups, we harmed the giants behind and to the side of the cap, ranger tried to snare pull, got resisted but pulled the cap anyways, i built up agro before anyone else engaged and used Def disc, they kept me healed, we killed him.

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captain is 100% MR cant be slowed
he can get nuked by ice/fire whatever just not magic.
he got mebbe 10-15k hp
all you need is a cleric, warr 59-60 going defensive skill, and warius other damage dealers and someone to DS bard/drood/mage and a haster

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They must really have been superbly equipped. Did the Captain with a 59 chanter, 57 sk (me), 60 warrior, 59 cleric, 60 druid and a 58 monk. Also got a heal from a shaman that passed by. The fight took 8 minutes total. Cleric went oom and the warrior went down. Monk tanked it for 60% of his (the monks) health and I blew a disc enhanced HT on him, 1366 dmg. It can be done like this, had we had one more CH we would have been ok and the warrior would have lived. The party basically had thurga quest equip or equivalent and no dragon haste, to give you a perspective of our equip. I imagine equipment and warrior race would make a big difference though (warlord was de). We had been told he was unslowable so we didn't even try it but I landed Torrent of Hate on the Captain so there may be a chance. On the other hand he resisted my lifetap procs.

Back of the envelope calculation: without dragon haste but with enchanter buffs and decent Velious gear (this post is from early Luclin) lets estimate dps like so: SK 25, Warrior 40, Monk 50. 115 total for 480 seconds = 55,000.

TL;DR: he should definitely be MR immune and probably have around 50k HP (instead of 15k). There are some posts which suggest he should hit for 260 as well, although they are from the Luclin era.

I guess he'll be done with 4ish on P1999 (War/Mnk/Shm/Clr or something similar).

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Originally Posted by Aeolwind

If you turn the robe back into her you get a Bracer of Benevolence. Its stats are horrendous and by far the greatest bracer in the game for a monk, and pretty much the best for any melee class. The bracer is NOT lore either. If you turn the Bracer back in you recieve a Talisman of Benevolence: 7ac 15wis 38hp 50mana 12mr/cr 0.1 weight CLR DRU SHM RANGE or Secondary slot. I am now buried in wis gear.

Is this our Aeolwind?!!

Modified, pending update.

Let me know how it feels after next patch.

From what I can remember he was MR immune and summoned some friends when he was engaged. You were still able to solo pull him with a good FD class though. He also had a good amount of hps and hit pretty hard.

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Originally Posted by Splorf22 (Post 1439494)

We just killed this guy for Svenn. He's pretty much a normal L58 mob: hits for 172, moderately MR but slowed on the second try, and with 15k HP. Alla seems to suggest he should be quite a bit harder:

Back of the envelope calculation: without dragon haste but with enchanter buffs and decent Velious gear (this post is from early Luclin) lets estimate dps like so: SK 25, Warrior 40, Monk 50. 115 total for 480 seconds = 55,000.

TL;DR: he should definitely be MR immune and probably have around 50k HP (instead of 15k). There are some posts which suggest he should hit for 260 as well, although they are from the Luclin era.

I guess he'll be done with 4ish on P1999 (War/Mnk/Shm/Clr or something similar).

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Is this our Aeolwind?!!

55k hp...odd that druids could DC charm a 9k mob and solo this guy...

you sure about your numbers ?

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Originally Posted by Crom (Post 1442194)

55k hp...odd that druids could DC charm a 9k mob and solo this guy...

you sure about your numbers ?

I never played Live after Kunark, but I find it very hard to read his allakhazam page and conclude he doesn't have some serious HP. In fact I just went through and read the later comments from the PoP era and voila:

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Me 60 warrior and my 65 druid friend just killed him duo. According to my log he has around 55k hp and hits for 260 max, 70 minimum (di 10). Druid debuffed with him Hand of Ro and Ro's Illumination and he hit for 70-100 about 50% of the time. Was a 13 min fight.

(my guess is his real HP is 50k but he regenerated 5k over a 13 minute fight)

Also I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that druids were soloing this guy in Luclin/PoP.

Treeform + KEI + 20 FT + better heals/aas/damage shields + huge increases in mana pool etc

did they beef up Western Waste mobs/quests at all during later expansions ?

55K hps seems a bit much for this guy during this era

nearly double of Kunark/Classic dragons ?

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Nygaard, JeffOct 18, 2001
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Recently, a few friends and I killed the captain in WW for the scout quest
with only 5 people me 58 warrior, 60 rogue, 2 60 clerics and 59 druid. When
the scout pops on my server, the quest is usually done within 15 minutes or
so. No time to wait for more, just go for it.

If you don't know of this quest, it is really a great quest, and is fairly
easy. You first need to get a tool key from the quest giver in Skyshrine,
Commander Leuz. Then you head out to WW and track to see if Charisa is up.
Charisa is on a 12 hour spawn cycle. Handing her the tool kit spawns 8
giants on the shore line with 1 Kromzek Captain. I know this giant can be
level 58 or 59.

When I fought him this time, Kromzek Captain was level 58. He has a very,
very high Magic resistance. I know some fire base spells will land after you
lower his fire base resistance. Our 59 druid pulls him with harmony. We
don't pull it to the zone because the fact of a possible KS and we knew it
would be a long fight with our small group. I think Kromzek Captain has 32k
hitpoints and hits for 250 and enrages. The 2 clerics in the group knew
they'd have to time every complete heal to perfection if we were going to
win. As the fight went on we became worried about my defense discipline,
which lasts for 3 minutes. The discipline fell when the Kromzek Captain was
at ~ 30 % health. We ended up killing Kromzek Captain, but both clerics were
oom and were using low mana heals just to keep me alive. I know we would
have failed if I would not have had the full line of buffs I had from the
previous day in ToV. I still had speed buff VoG, shaman buffs AGI, STA,
Aucman, Focus, Pallys Divine STR. With my Ring and the druid damage shield
I had a 40 point DS which helped too over the 4 ½ minute fight.

Going into this fight, I really did not give us a chance having killed him
several times in the past with as much as 14 people. The fewest I've done it
in the past has been 8 people and I remembering that to be a difficult
battle.

Not a real type of a "brave" story, but one of odds was not in our favor in
my mind. If you are not aware of this quest and are level 50+ and can get a
group or 2 of level 55, you should check out this quest. The rewards are
good for all. Whoever wins can pick any of the following items:

1) Robe of Benevolence, 17 AC, -8 DEX, 15 CHA, 10 INT, -8 AGI, 25 HP,
80 MANA
2) Bracer of Benevolence 17 AC, 8 STR, 8 STA, 30 HP, 5 FIRE, 12 COLD,
12 MAGIC
3) Talisman of Benevolence 7 AC, 15 WIS, 38 HP, 55 MANA, 12 COLD, 12
MAGIC

The Talisman is really a great item, it fits into the range slot which makes
this ideal for the druids, clerics and shaman. The bracers are not lore, so
you can have 2 of them. The AC on the bracer is lower than my ToV bracers,
but these bracers are great for dragons/raids with the resists and AC combo.

Well, I hope I did not bore anyone!

Sistily
Gnome powered Warrior

I think I still have EQMac logs from this fight. I'll check when I get home.

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Originally Posted by Erati (Post 1442301)

did they beef up Western Waste mobs/quests at all during later expansions ?

55K hps seems a bit much for this guy during this era

nearly double of Kunark/Classic dragons ?

Found this, only one I found with any stat info on,

http://dankwow.no-ip.org/eq/npc.php?id=120115

makes me think he is a npc that will later be buffed, but wasn't at start.
would it be a coinsident that our devs and the page seem to have him on about the same number of hitpoints ?

I think what we need to look more closely at is his Regen rate. Most places note that he has an insanely high regeneration rate which will skew everyones numbers on his actual health the longer the fight takes.