Hatchlings in NToV charmable?

[Raev]

Alunova is a p cool guy.

Indeed. Also bumping this for the sake of Enchanters not being total buffbot whores in ToV. I don't know if the hatchlings are all flagged immune to charm or they are just L55. It also feels like they have really low ATK for L55 mobs somehow.

[Decad]

Maybe late in development to bring this up but doesn't all this hatchlings appear only in Luclin era instead of Velious era?

Everything listed in this post http://www.therunes.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=936 is in year 2003. That is already POP era which is released on 21 Oct 2002.

On the contrary, if you look at old patch notes and wayback machine you will notice the below:

December 18 2001 Patch Notes

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20011218.html

Notice the last section says

In the next patch, we are making a few changes to the monster population in Temple of Veeshan. Places that were previously safe to camp, may not be any longer. Please be sure to not camp deep within the Temple of Veeshan on Wednesday night, or you may be unpleasantly surprised following the patch.

This does imply that there are more mobs added to TOV because safe spots may no longer be safe. And then if you look at the patch notes of 28 Dec 2001, you will see this

December 28 2001 Patch Notes

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20011228.html

Some spots in ToV no longer safe to camp out due to New Drakes and Wurm spawns being added.


All this is after Luclin release which happened on 4 Dec 2001.

Also, allakhazam keeps a pretty accurate database of things. Which is why alot of us go to that site when we played EQ live.

Notice in all the images captured since velious release of the monsters listing, hatchlings are not among them. The last image captured prior to Luclin release ( where TOV is all but beaten by many guilds and tried/explored by alot other more guilds trying to beat the content ) the hatchlings still arent there

http://web.archive.org/web/200112111...shtml?zone=116

In fact after luclin release in Dec 2001, the first 5 images that was captured of the allakhazam site by the wayback machine still do not have the hatchlings. It was way until July 2002 before Allakhazam has an updated new monsters list of TOV. It does not make any sense for Allakhazam not to update the monsters listing of an expansion for a year if they do update other trash mobs of the entire expansion. And neither does it make sense for players not to report the monsters to Allakhazam for a whole long year.

Thus , it is very logical to come to the conclusion that all the hatchlings do not exist in Scars of Velious expansion and are only added during Luclin era.

[Ele]

NToV hatchlings are classic (and rich!) April 29, 2001 EQ Clerics post:

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2926

I have been doing only raids, no general groups, for two months solid. Veeshan's Peak, Temple of Veeshan west and north wings, Velketor, Klandicar/Zlandicar, Fear, etc. Not a single group night in two months.

Zero sellable loot on these raids. Negligable cash drops (the drake hatchlings in ToV North drop around 20pp each, richest of the mobs). Run through about 300 peridots a week, maybe 60 emeralds.