Phinigel Autropos

Please stop farming Phinny - you cannot MQ the blue crystal staff - I have tried it after many weeks of camping to log in and find no phinny, I eventually caught up with the farmer who has a rotational alarm clock set to kill him and offered to MQ it for me (for a "reasonable" price) - exhausted with weeks of camping I conceded, and the MQ FAILED - "Sorry "farmer", I have no use for this item - you can have it back" - and this was on the epic npc not dargon which i spawned with my note and another staff part - hope i don't need to go get those again!

Also - beware camping alts and Bots to kill him and bring your wiz down to loot - despawn time on corpse is 7 mins.
Blue crystal staff is a PITA!!!!!

12 kills with my bot - finally a bcs - bring wizzy down and corpse is decayed.

I am never coming back to phinny again, for anything, when I finally get this feckin staff!

Ok... level 73 wiz, little over 11k mana, 120AA's or so....

Phinigel Autropos in 1s, 36k @36000dps --- Me 36k @36000dps


Mana Blaze. One shot. One kill. No fight. Dropped staff, single evac to avoid adds, fight done. Getting there took SOOO much longer than the fight.

EDIT: Dropped the wrong staff... i've been doing too many epics /sigh

EDIT2: Also note that the only reason i had adds was because i didn't want to agro Phinny, so i was floating too close to roof.

Edited, Apr 16th 2009 2:33am by ForlapThorninfoot

there is info out the ass on this mob except his @#%^in loc lol, anyone know the loc of this mob?

I remember helping my friend with the Rogue Epic and the Mage Epic at the same time and never being able to get Phinny to drop the Robe of the Kedge and having to kill those dark elves for it. I just killed Phinny today trying to get the mage drop for my guildie and he drops 2 Robes of the Kedge. Needless to say I now have 2 of them available for MQ on the Luclin server. Send and in-game e-mail to Tauvina if you need one.

We are trying to get the Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water. So far Phinny has dropped the Trident and the Blue crystal Staff along with a number of other items, coral, robe, rod of malaisment, etc. . There was a nice defiant quarterstaff for fighter type classes that one of the sea horses that guards Phinny dropped.

As far as tactics, I have my Wife assisting with a 75 level Cleric and a 65 level Ranger and I have my level 58 Mage. Her Ranger has enough AAs to be sturdy. I pull a seahorse and then we beat on them after I call my pet back from playing with them. The seahorses eventually run out of mana and we are able to kill them.

After the seahorses are dead I mana back up and then pull and kill Phinny. Phinny is much easier to kill than the 4 at a time seahorses. We tried pacifying the seahorses but the paci dropped almost as soon as it was cast.

I have heard of tactics where you can invis and slip past the seahorses and drop down into the chamber where Phinny is and then take him on without agroing the seahorses. I did not try that due to having the healing capacity of a 75 level cleric at our disposal. The seahorses are light blue to my Mage and Phinny is dark blue.

I have a turtlebone ring for EB and the Ranger has a very nicely statted earing. The Cleric has innate EB.

I have noticed that my fire base damageshield gets dispelled quite a bit more often than my other spells. I keep that spell memmed so I can recast it often. I especially keep it on the pet and ranger.

I am using an Earth Pet. He is the highest level pet I have. I may try a fire pet just to see if it can do more damage quickly in this environment. The fire based spells seem to work best. Magic based works but not spectacularly. I have heard cold based spells are not useful here.

We have killed Phinny twice so far and I hope that 3 times is the charm. The long spawn time of 12 hours makes it a bit more tedious. We are talking days and possible weeks instead of hours to get a rare drop. The only thing Phinny seems to drop consistently is fusible Coral.

Once the Staff drops I have only one more item to obtain, that is the Crown from the plane of Air. Yes, I have the drop from Quillmane.

Davidoz

If you're after his robe save yourself
some time and kill the named Dark Elves in the
hut in Kithicor Forest. It can drop from any
one of them instead of just one shot camping
Phinny.
Its where I got my robe and Robe of the Ishva
for my Rogue.

Killed Phinney @ 2:30am 5/13/08 and he dropped the Blue Crystal Staff for Wizzy epic

He has a spawn time of about, if not exactly, 11.5 hours...at least on The Tribunal server. Have camped him a couple days and can pretty much count on him spawning when I log on.

Is backbone MQ`able?

And does he graphically show WIZ/MAG staves as he does shammy Mala toy?

Started to camp him for the backbone on FV server.

3 kills, no backbone....weeeee

My mistake.

Edited, Apr 1st 2007 5:10am by Dranikos

Fusible Coral Ore
Wand of Mana Tapping
Nilitim's Grimoire 416
Jacinth
Sunshard Pebble

Hi all,

I did Phinny this morning with my Main (Lvl 70 Pal, average gear) and with my alt (lvl 67 Wiz, not as good geared as my main :) )

I swam (invis up) down to Phinny's pit, aggroed the fish by convergence, and pulled him to the ledge (got all 4 seahorses as add). I stunned each seahorse 1 time, casted my ward of tunare and focused on Phinny then. I changed to wizard, nuked Phinny twice with White Fire for 3,3 k each, then did Manaburn. Phinny down. No wizard drop :(

Phinny is easy if you are quick with your damage. If the seahorses can cast their complete heals it may happen that you run out of mana before Phinny runs out of HP :-) I appraise that this fish has less than 18K hp.

Greetings, Fay

Edited, Jan 18th 2007 9:43am by Fayendyr

first kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, staff of elemental mastery: water, Fusible Coral Ore, Rune of Impetus, Trident of the Seven Seas, Kedge Backbone

second kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, Fusible Coral Ore

third kill: staff of elemental mastery: water, wand of mana tapping, wand of mana tapping

fourth kill: fusible coral ore, wand of mana tapping, wand of mana tapping, Blue Crystal Staff, Trident of the Seven Seas, Fusible Coral Ore


Finally got the Blue Crystal Staff
Thanks again Gord and Fumbik/Minten of Whispers of the Wind Sword! Could not have taken him without you!

-Spellcrafter Limitin Kumiru

Killed him yesterday with some NCG members. He dropped two Mage Epic staves, rouge epic item and ranger epic item, but not wizzy epic item. I needed the wizzy epic...
He wasn't that bad, but seahorses even resisted my lures!

Ok so, i had to kill this guy several times, my first kill i got the bone, BUT some bug where it didnt get looted yet was gone off the body... makes no sense to me but that's what GM's said, and didn't replace it go figure.

So anyway, Before the Patch on Tuesday, the guards were spawning in the bottom, so at 70 you could stand above him top of the room and pull him solo.

After patch they went back to their old spot, and no matter what I ended up with him and 4-6 guards.

No biggie to solo them, beat 1 down they all ch until their oom, dead, easy, but makes the fight take 10minutes instead of 1.

Dropped the bone today again for me, and i got 2 robes, 2 mage staffs, 2 bones(bleh one bug), 1 wizzie staff and all kinds of CRAP, sometimes dropping no epic stuff at all.

Really really easy like an orc in EC honestly at 70.

At level 70 Phinny's guards con green and light blue. He wanders around the pit of the 'star' room.

As an SK I never got below 80%, hardly bothering to cast lifetaps. My gear pretty plainly Sucks, and I was completely unbuffed, as he dispells like a hundred times per fight. He doesn't cast it --- it's a proc, so it's unavoidable. He is light blue, and pretty sad. No harder than a light blue in OoW+, and prolly easier.

Strat to kill him: If 70, a straight nuke or bow or something and you got him pulled, usually single. Something that does no damage is prefered, because if you do do damage to him while pulling, it's possible he'll summon you into the middle of his buddies.

His guards are clerics at least in part, so you're going to want to pull him near the ceiling so that they don't cheal him. He wanders around in the pit, so he's not a static spawn (ie- doesn't just sit). That should make it significantly easier to single him if that level. Just wait until he's near one of the green-con seahorsies, and then tag him. If none of them at the time are green, wait till he paths through the center and pull him up, hoping his buddies don't come. If you get an add you're gonna wanna kill it first, or split it with FD if it's an option. They cheal so much though, you may wanna consider back-up plans before you start, ie- binding outside and gating out.

If less than 70 (guards all con blue) I imagine normal pulling rules apply.

****PS- I dunno what the deal was with someone saying his guards see invis now, but no they don't**** (EDIT ---- I've fought him several, several times over time and have never seen them see invis but apparently it's possible. Phinny does for sure. Going down there's not a good idea anyhow. :D)

How to GET THERE ----- It took me over two hours to find him, cuz of one secret door. Here are the directions.

From the ENTRANCE, go out into the first room. Go Down, facing South. Click on the grate. Go into the room, and go down again, still facing south. Do the same thing in the next room you hit. When you get to the bottom (you will have gone down a tunnel twice), turn EAST and head through the door. There's a shark in the next room --- head straight past the shark. Enter the grate on the bottom at the end of the tunnel. You can't miss it; all tunnels lead to the same place.

Go up the looong tunnel and you'll see 4 grates on all sides. Doesn't matter which you go through; All open, and all are in the same room. There's only one door in the room --- It has two grates, meaning you have to click on one grate, and when it opens, click on another to open the second. They are on top of one another.

SECRET TUNNEL to Phinny: Past the two grates, you'll end up in a room with two "blocks" in it. There are a lot of fish in there. The blocks look like plantholders; They're about nine feet tall, and have little plants on the top. It looks like they're part of the walls but if you click on the one to the right of the door you're entering the room from, it will move, revealing a secret tunnel. Go through the tunnel to Phinny's room. It's safe to uninvis/buff/etc anywhere on top of the little star cut-out in the floor, but I wouldn't get any closer than I have to.

Note that my directions may not be perfect; I typed it from memory. It's pretty straightforward though, I think. Good luck!

Edited, Sun Apr 23 05:22:45 2006

all are talking about how many times they killed him but no one can give LOC or tell directions why?

Anyone know what skill lvl is req'd to track Phinny from the entrance?

What is the minimum level requirement for a bard to solo this guy...any ideas?

-Vayln

I wonder if Phinegel Atropos ever tires of fish.

have the blue crystal staff on D Ro if any need for mq. send a tell to Kaise

I camped Phini for a couple of weeks... getting all of his spawns but one... trying for the mage staff.

As a result... out of approximately 23 kills I have the following

11 Kedge robes
2 backbones
1 wizzy wand

before he dropped my mage staff...
Actually i had not seen the wizzy wand or mage staff in all of the kill until the last one... and he dropped 2 mage staves and a wizzy wand.

several of the spawns he didnt drop any of the 4 quest items.

Give Pugette, Mangie or Poket an ingame email if you need a MQ

I've been farming this guy for over a year now. Just over 70 kills total and he has NEVER dropped Yaeth's pg. 73 (right side). Can anyone confirm that he really drops this?

And just FYI from all my kills he's dropped:
Robe of Kedge x 17 (a couple times dropped 2)
Staff of Elementary Mastry: Water x8
Blue Crystal Staff x5
Kedge Backbone x4