Vhaksiz the Shade  

75 sk easy solo no merc just lots of hp

You can check without going through the caves.
On the far side of the hill, (away from river towards hedge) you can float up the wall, then run over to the ledge and check. You can't go up on the ledge, but can get close enough to see.

Killed him tonight - with a 73SK 10kHP's and 2k AC - and a 71Shaman 9kHP's and 6.9kmanna no special gear just all baz'd up and fight took bout 10min or so dropped sword and shoulder piece. lot's of fun!

Soloed him today. I only had one dot and one nuke loaded and used them sparingly. I wanted to melee him down more than just kill him. Took a little time. When he died I was at 75% mana.

Anguish geared Necro, I tried him last night and got him down to 7 percent before going OOM. Today, I went back and soloed him after going with a much more mana efficient (though not as high DPS) spell line. Slowed him on pull, dropped him with 33 percent mana left. His max hit was 1132 on me. He did about 110 dps slowed against me. I did about 377,000 damage, but my log parser doesn't tend to get all my pet damage, so I suspect he has about 400K hit points. Fight took 7 minutes and 4 seconds.

3 boxed him today for laughs took me 16 minutes to kill as a 70 shaman 70 shadow knight and a 58 cleric

70 Mage
70 Shammy
62 Cleric

3boxed him in around 10 mins, didnt really time it closely. Get him slowed and pace youself. Mage pet stayed above 90% with just cleric HoT on. Didnt have any chanter buffs on only buffs that the 3 toons I have could provide. Mage(7K m) and shammy(6.5K m) nicely geared(OoW, DoN and Don cultural) and cleric(4.5K m) moderately geared. With Kei would have been a much faster since a lot of the DPS came from shammy canni more m and adding on dots and proc buffs(leopard). Overall, no scares during fight, just took sometime. Pulled him away from spawn point to where i had just killed a nightmare but ended up spending most the fight near his spawn point cuz of pet push(pet hold and repositioned him several times) and the fact i didnt want a nightmare to spawn on top of me. So get him slowed have an alright tank and healer and hack away, sounldn't be a problem.

Edited, Sat Sep 24 05:52:02 2005

70 mage, 68 bst,66 ranja, 58 bard, 57 cleric, 54 sham, deaded him, no deaths, 15 minutes. Dropped heart and 2 shoulders.

Long fight through the caves to get to him. Killed him with 1 group, long fight about 30 min, but easy.

65 FT15 150+ aa cleric
65 Ench 12aa
65 Shaman 70aa
65 Berz 40aa
65 War 8500hp 70aa
65 Rng 2100atk 275aa

We're casual non-elemental toons, mostly LDoN high-risk drop gear and 1492 gear w/augs on Maelin.

Sham malo'd and kept him slowed and Q on the war.
Ranger did trueshot then melee'd with the Berz.
Chanter debuff and nuked.
Cleric sat on the drogmar ch'n war when down to 60%. Only went slightly low on mana once when slow wore off.. but once reslowed.. the cleric with FT15, armor of the zelot and C5 regened it back pretty fast. He was near FM when we finally finished him off. 2 shoulder plates.

He does warp on CT - did it three times to us.

Almost three groups, no elemental gear, no time gear, don't think any VT gear, and only a small amount of Omens gear. avg level of raid I believe was 63. Took about 15 minutes, took longer to get to him.

And he comes and beats me up at 5% - what a bully!

I was the only casualty, and I believe after he warps, his hate list clears. With tanks slowed, my pet got to him first as well as an already casted FoT. Guess I made him mad. Still one cool fight, highly recommended. CH chain your tank(s).

I gotta say - those horses around him should be an SK epic horse! flaming feet - how cool would that be for an SK?!

Sunnova!
The Templars
62 Arch Mage - <-- sometimes accused of shouting odd things in zone - unconfirmed.

Leejen what are you doing, I need his heart!!!! He is going down very soon...as I get a group to bash him!

Ngok

Mob stats:

HP: 300k - 500k
AC: ~1400
Hits per round: 3 or 4 at 1200 damage per hit
Rampage: Yes
Enrage: No
Harmtouch: Yes
Slowable: No
Can be crippled: Yes
Undead: Yes
Perma-rooted: No
Gates: No
Warps: No

Killed him with cleric, shaman, druid, monk, 2 pallies, and a warrior (tanking). only 1 pally had Slay 3, and other was rampage tank. worked pretty well, actually, but it was a long fight without nukers.

the 'dragging corpses above the ledge' thing still works perfectly, I had a guildmate who walked up the ledge somehow various times, no one else could do it, must be some sort of bug as was mentioned earlier.

This mob has very high regen rate, is almost always up(at least on my server), hits for 1100 or so and rampages very often.

You cannot pull him away from his spawn point, as much as we tried to do so, he would gate back every time. He isn't particularly resistant to magic from what I saw, all of my spells landed(enchanter), he is immune to slow.

I would doubt that he can be duo'ed, he could probably be trio'ed but it would have to be people with ungodly good gear.

His regen is insane and he rampages frequently.

10 people just took this out on Saryrn about a half hour ago. I honestly think myself, the tank, and the ranger could've done this alone as a long fight. Our tank had 11k HP and 2k AC and 2 clerics healing. Others there were 2 rangers, 1 druid (myself), 3 rogues, and an enchanter. It rampaged probably 3 - 4 times and we killed it in 5 - 10 minutes. The hardest he hit our tank was in the 400s. Pretty easy fight. Less than what was expected. =) Got my heart for Secrets of the Planes. It also dropped 2 of the Horn Spiked Shoulder Plates. Fun fun.

Edited, Tue Jul 6 02:10:32 2004

4 in group.

Me 56 mage, 65 Pally, 65 Cleric and 65 Ench.

Pally with bardspeed enter PoN and runs immediately to Vhakiz place, using DA after he enters gobbo underwater cave, then makes sure he dies at at the edge of hill, so he can be targeted by cleric and ressed, then Me, ench and cleric pull a mob below hill and make sure we die as near as possible to hill wall, after we are dead we consent the Pally standing on the hill and he pulls up corpses to Vhak´s hill (saving loads of time).

After we all are ressed and buffed we pull nightmares (the horses) and Enchanter charm 1, when horses are dead (except charmed) we pull Vhak, fight takes aprox 7-10 min. Being lvl 56 only, i played a minor part in this, although chanter was grateful for the malosi i casted on his charmed horse and i did close to 20k damage. The 3 of them are able to take this mob without any problem i think.

tried him today with a 17 person raid with an avg level of 61, tank went down in seconds, 2nd tank went down fast as well got him to 70% a few times, gated about 3 times and it CHed him.. all but a few died, depressing

Hello, Killed him today with 1 group of 65's Group was like this:

65 Pal
65 Pal
65 Clr
65 Enc
65 Dru
65 Bard (myself)

Paladins both had slay undead 3 and about 150 other AA points spent.

We got to the plateu and killed off all but one of the gloom nightmares which I pulled to the group and mezzed. Let one of the pallies build up strong secondary aggro with numerous stuns and then chanter Charmed it with CoD (probably wipes aggro list anyway but wanted to be safe). Sent in Pet to take the initial HT and take aggro as we Charged in. Cleric started CH and 4 seconds or so into cast Pally Tank went in. Cleric Chain CH'd on the Main Tank paladin with druid patch healing as they both /disc holyforge. Vhaksiz Rampaged, but very infrequently. after Crippled rampaged even less.

Fight took about 17 minutes and healers came out of it with 40% mana left. Charm from CoD only broke once during the fight, aggroing on the cleric instead of the paladin (LOL).

Keeping them with full druid Damage Shields and Lots of bard DS, manasong going around while watching on pet to mez in place if charm broke: the Fight went rather smoothly and with precision.

All folks in this group were Ele flagged with decent enough gear for the paladins to house about 8k to 8.3k hp in cleric / dru and Shm Buffs (had shm with us for buffs before the fight)

**Edit** Oh and at about 7% it warped back to its spawn point from which aggro almost could have been wiped and reset back to 100%, charmed pet remained on its aggro list and MT had to re-establish aggro during that short point. So be watchful of the warping.

Dropped: Horn Spiked Shoulder plates, Flame Engraved Torque, his heart and a Spec.

Edited, Sun Feb 1 22:18:06 2004

I tanked him the other night and had 3 different effects on me. Can't remember the names though one gave a message along the lines of: "You notice a pool of blood at your feet, you have taken 500 damage". Anyone have some more info on this?

Took him down with 10ppl, 2 rog, 2 clerics, 2 chanters, 1 mag, 1 bst, 1 warr and 1 necro.
All 65 except a 63 chanty.
It was quite an easy fight, a good ch rotation id needed though: 4 or 5 sec.

My guild killed this guy tonight. We had a 3 cleric CH chain and our tank (65 warrior) never got below 30% health. His hits on our tank ranged from about 120 to 1184. More mid 500's than anything. Tank went defensive from the start. We have 3 groups and the hardest part of killing this guy is the trek thru the gobbie caves.
He is located ontop of the hill where the glooms are but you have to go into the gobbie caves to get to him. There is no way up top. We cleared the gobbies at the cave entrance and went in under the water.
Dropped shoulders, legs, heart and spec parch.

Edited, Mon Jul 7 07:06:22 2003

Took him down recently with 10 ppl. We had a 3 person CH rotation going. cleric/ahaman/druid did the rotation. I think they ran about 3-5 seconds depending on if defensive was running or not. Total raid makeup was 60 druid, 65 cleric, 60 ranger, 55 monk, 63 shaman, 55 beastlord, 65 monk, 65 enchanter, 65 warrior, and 60 paladin. He hits hard (double 1100's max), but he's not that bad to take. If your tank drops, or if ppl are running LoM, just run for the dropoff wall. He'll pursue for a while, then he resets back to his spawn point. Drag any corpses, rez, rebuff, and go after him again asap. He doesn't regen hitpoint very fast. We had to use the rinse/recycle once. Had him at 45% when the tank dropped, when we went back in he was only at 55%. Deaded Shade =) He dropped the Blackened Metal Greaves, Flame Engraved Torque, and an ethereal parchment for us. Hope this helps anyone who's looking to try him in the future.

Not hard anymore. Once you get a good technique down, this guy can be farmed. We have a 2boxer with someone on top of that plateau. When Vhak is up, call goes out and we can get enough people on top and ready in about an hour.

Really need about 3 Clerics in 6sec CHEAL rotation, decent tank and enough DPS. We used a Gloom Nightmare to engage, let the Gloom get down to about 10% health while Shamans and Wizzy debuffed. Got Vhak down to about 90%, we moved in, 3-4 min fight, no losses with 18 people, can be done with less.

This was our 2nd time killing Vhaksiz, we've gotten 3 Horn Spiked Shoulder Plates, 2 hearts, and 1 Disemboweler.

Also, this guy's Regen is pathetic, so if you wipe, just regroup quick and hit him again.