Bone Cracker

Solo'd 80 Cleric

Just duo'd him. Ranger and Shammy, both around 12k unbuffed hp. Fight took under 10 minutes. Ranger pop'd infusion, Shaman didn't, neither resisted the FD a lot.

ae is nasty to caster who get hit with it taking them down fast. casters should run in cast run out. dont engage him on wall or he will not lose hp and stay in that spot

Conned even to me, Lvl 70

Theodr Soulscar
<Drinal>

Yes the Qvic+ folks may be able to one group him such as Benthern and crew but anyone else its raid ONLY.
You must keep him in the center of the pit. Further from the center he has massive regen and will either tether or simply 'reset' as if it had tethered.
The AoE of 1500 is generally not resistable, no matter what anyone thinks. Primatic is kind of broken rt now so means if your average on resists is not over 400 you have basically no chance of resisting. The range on this is based entirely on if you have agro. If you have no agro, you take no damage. If you are at the maximum range for an Ext range Bolt you will still get hit.
His rampage is AoE and since the stealth nerf it is exactly the same as his hitbox which means everyone in range to hit him WILL be taking it. The new AoE is also a combat round. In most cases this is a triple hit now. I haven't received a quad since the Nerf.
Bonestrike IS resistable as normal, is single target only and if your tank doesn't have extreme agro will generally lose it during the stun.
I recommend group or MGB heals and have everyone at range fight within range of the MGB's or the AoE will destroy them. Appears timed to 30seconds.
Loot is worthwhile as a good rough raid and will prepare your Raid group for some of the harder mobs in Elementals+. In many ways he's actually harder since the rampage nerf. Honestly should have a chance at Glowing Runes considering the new difficulty of the mob. He's fun tho ;)

Definately lvl 70. Turned yellow at lvl 68. He's also pretty nasty if you don't have very good resists. The melee part is not a problem, the AE is. I would suggest bringing 3-4 groups for your first try, stick a bard and a pally in each group if you're pre-EP for resists and group heals. If you're post EP, 2 groups will most likely suffice, and Qvic people 1-2 groups would work fine.

This mob is not level 80, he is level 70. He can be killed with 1 group.

How they give only lv 70 to this beast?
This is a hard raid named, it should be changed to cons red red to a lv 70 so people are warned it is not something 'groupable'
This undercon is costing lots of deaths to groups.

This guy also AE RAMAGEs

We tried this guy last night.

To start with we pulled him to the side of his pit - wrong answer. He regens so quickly that we never got him below 98%, and we beat on him for over 5 minutes. While this was going on there was some discussion about positioning him, so we moved him back to the center of the pit. DING - correct answer. Once we got him in the middle his HP started dropping quickly.

Unfortunately ours started dropping even quicker. On the side of his pit he continually dispelled anything cast on him but that was all he did. It looked like a straight up melee fight. However, back in the middle he showed us that he had 2 different AEs/spells that wiped us out fast.

The 1st gave a message "The ground trembles beneath you. You have taken 1500 points of damage" and caused everyone in melee range to FD. Ouch. When all the melee fell down he quickly moved onto the healers and took them out before we could figure out what had happened and stand back up.

The message from the 2nd AE was "Decaying bones crush your body. You have taken 4000 points of damage."

Melee wise he's no pushover either. Our MT (level 70 with all defensive AAs and 10.8K HP) only got hit for about 1K, but us lesser mortals got walloped for 2300 (tops anyone reported.) He rampages and enrages. On the side of the pit we couldnt get slow to stick, but in the middle tash and slow both hit with no problem.

We had about 48 people and decided to try again. Basically the same thing happened, although we did last a bit longer since we had an idea of what we were up against. During the second battle he got off both AEs a couple of times. Noone in the raid reported resisting either of the AEs. Casters were able to nuke from outside melee range, but still got hit by the AEs.

Good luck ya'll. He's lotsa fun!

Edited, Wed Sep 22 10:07:53 2004