Phurzikon  

I am also posting this on Nez's page.

I camped Nez/Phur today on Vulak(progression server) I lost the camp once to link death, and had to restart the spawn cycle. This is a quick write up on what I did, in case anyone else is still doing these quests.

I zoned in from Frontier and proceeded to an older loc, -450, -2250. I was the only person in the zone, which meant that unfortunately there was no tracker available. Assuming that neither Nez or Phur was up, I proceeded to slowly circle out from the previously mentioned loc and kill everything in sight. This included Skeletons, Sarnaks, Giants, wurms, and gorillas. I kept my Necro box seated on the position and monitored for spawns. Once I killed the place holders, it began a spawn cycle.

I can confirm that spawns on the loc listed above (-450, -2250) approximately every 80 seconds. I can also confirm that according to what spawned on the loc, skeletons, Sarnaks, Giants, Wurms, gorillas, and wasps are all fair game to be place holders, so do not rule out ANY mob around that loc as a place holder.

In four hours of camping the loc once I had the cycle running, Phur spawned approximately one out of every ten mobs (1/10th), and Nez spawned maybe one in 25 or so at best. Nez is definitely the rarer of the two wurms, but he always dropped the red wurm gut. After about five or so Nez spawns, he finally dropped the Burning Embers.

From the standpoint of taking out the named wurms, I had a Magician and a Necromancer, and duoing them was no issue. I would say that both were easily soloable on my Magician (level 59), although I would recommend that you chain pets. Phur is a push over, and runs at 20% health. Nez, on the other hand, seems to want to nuke you till approximately 5-10%. Still, not an issue as long as you are at least half to full mana and are careful. The biggest problem at this camp is adds; my recomendation is to take along someone (Another Mage, A Necromancer, or a Shadow Knight would probably be best) in order to help out with them. While they are not dangerous in and of themselves, they do tend to gang up on you fairly quickly.

I hope this helps any Magicians or Bards in their quests. Good luck.

Ran to this area and he wasnt up on track, so started killing wurms roaming the area. Three wurms later and he popped spot on -470 -2500

Perfect loc thank you

The loc works for generating a quickly refreshing spawn, but this guy can spawn anywhere in the zone apparently, as I've killed roamers at that spawn point and later seen him walking by, rather than spawning on the point.

It might be a good idea not to kill roamers and just focus on the one spawn point.

The previousely stated information about -455 -2550 is correct. I went near that loc (Solo, no tracker) and killed everything i could that roamed by - Hornets, gorillas, giants, sarnak knights, and paying special attention to wurms. A Sarnak Zealot walked by but he managed to slip away. The spot I was at had a building on either side of me in the near distance.

In the midst of fighting a Giant Arbor I saw Pherz off in the distance, approaching me from the building to the north... Popped just between it and myself. Phurz Con'd Light blue to my 57 mage. Dropped at loc -602 -2706 with embers and other misc fodder. 1 and done. Pet had 40% health but just got finished killing a few mobs in a row. I resisted all nukes with only 150 resists, had 80% health after getting hit a few times for roughly 120ish max but more around 80 avg... and had 70% mana as I unloaded shock of steel (scoring one crit of 2300 or so) out of concern for dirtball which had just taken out a few mobs in a row. I was there for roughly 20 min.

By the way... Phurz made no attempt to gate or summon and tried to walk away at about 10%

Hope this helps.





Edited, Nov 10th 2007 6:08am by PinnacleofRallosZek

Level is wrong, conned yellow to me as a 45 Necro.

Found him by the crater and solo'd him without too much trouble, me and the pet were both Temped so (after i realized he was a caster) i just went easy on the DoT's to let the pet take some of the nuke's before i got aggro then i just moved out of range when he tried to cast on me and used LifeTap's to stay alive when he hit me with root, he must have gone OOM trying to chain nuke because he never did gate. finished with 78% HP and 29% Mana.

-455 by -2550 is a GREAT loc

And yes 80 second respawn.

just stand there, mobs drop out of the sky, kill as they drop, and she will spawn.

Horrible drop rate for mage item tho.

Hope that helps.

Update - 4 hours one session then another 2 hours and the Burning Ambers finaly dropped but they dropped off Nezekezena not Phurzikon.


Edited, May 27th 2007 11:28am by Uuggerr

i am camping the named wurms for my wifes mage epic 1.0. spawn timer is 80 seconds or so...once you get the cycle going. after that...its a patience game. be ready to wait a long time. i have heard others that got the burning embers in a matter of hours, as opposed to days or weeks. either way, like all epics its a matter of wanting it. don't worry...you will get the drop.


side note: its true...all mobs around the area could be PH's. so go to camp spot..pull and kill all in immediate area...and wait for cycle to start.

Just passin it along.....I hunted these embers as my last epic item. Soloing Phur at 57 wasnt too bad, but had to box my chanter for CC. You will get adds, unless you plan to pull each mob to the hill that surrounds Silix. That seems to be pretty safe up there.

I had 6 different groups and about 10 solos there before I got the embers.

Took me 2 weeks, 30 named kills (Nez & Phur)to get embers.

I had nights where we couldnt even get the spawn started, in this case go do something productive.
You should be able to get the spawn going in about 20 min of killin every 'CLOSE' wondering mob to the spawn loc.

I'd like to shout @ Kroxim, Tenlayen, and Katonix/Sylann. Thanks for helpin wit dis one guys!

Also, All in all I probably killed 12 Nez's and 18 Phurs. I got my embers off of Phur and 20 min later Kroxim got his embers off another Phur.

Hope this helps with you upcoming Mages

Some guildmates and I decided to do this camp tonight (thanks everyone) for my burning embers. We had a full group and simply killed everything in the area until a scoreia hornet spawned exactly on the "spot".

I announced the cycle had begun and we just stayed put and killed the mobs where they spawned, with our pets and the odd group member keeping the wandering mobs busy. There are lots of wanderers in this area.

A few spawns later (less than 10), Phurzikon kindly coughed up the burning embers and the red wurm gut.

Judging by the posts here, I got very lucky.

I'm a 59 ranger and was trying to help a 52 mage friend get the burning embers. I first tried bow kiting it to the camp we had set up. BIG mistake. A few falls (lev wore off), couple hornet adds, a sarnak, and a skelly along with the overgrown wurm nuking me got me down to 8pct health before I got everything rooted. Healed myself up, snared all the adds, and had to retrack Phur since I had ran outside his agro range. Once I got him back, I rooted, backed up, and bow shot him and gave loc to party members. It did gate once it was down to around 20 percent, but tracked it before it healed another ten and we took it down before it tried to gate again. So if you can get a rooter, a tracker, and an archer (or get a ranger to do all three), it can be a pretty easy, although long, fight.

I have been out here helping my mom on her mage killing everything here since 9am trying to spawn phuzikon it is now 7pm and we have only had nekezena spawn 1 time. talked to gm was told to report it to eqbugs so i did but it looks like al you mages are going to have to wait for this epic piece :/

Was a pretty interesting fight. I had already looted Red Wurm Gut off Nez weeks ago when someone called in OOC that it was rotting. I didn't even know who Phurzikon was tonight when I saw him on track. Decided to give it a shot-- not knowing he was a caster.

I had 4 chants up using Drums of the Beast which do 78/tick each. Fire did not land, as it normally doesn't on wurms. As soon as he cast the first spell, I swapped Chant of Flame for Elemental Chorus. My resists with song are around 150.

My technique was to keep Elemental Chorus up at all times and also to run out of casting range everytime I saw him begin to cast. Then I'd run to within chant range and land a couple on him. I resisted most of the stuff he got off while I was in range. Thankfully I resisted all Immobilize attempts. A couple of fire based nukes landed on me for 100-250 so I'd play Chorus of Replentishment w/o strings for a bit while still keeping EC up.

Got him down to less than a bub twice and each time he gated/shadowstepped and healed about an extra bub of health. I did not know how long he could continue gating since I ran out of range for many of the spells.

Finally, he went OOM and hit run mode. I was elated as I chanted him easily to death.

I had to refresh Selos about 4 times so I estimate that the whole fight took about 15-20 minutes.

Dropped Wurm Scale Coat, meat, and Flame of Vox.

Sirenetti, 58th Troubador- Fennin Ro

Marys vs the Dragon: a bard song

Here I sit a broken hearted bard,

Who tried to solo Phurz but was ripped to shards.

They said he was pure melee
but they where wrong,

I turned and ran without delay,
because i had not meded my resist songs.



Was told by a 60+ something shammy that mob was pure melee, so charmed a wurm for a lil help and went at it. Phurz ripped into pet, ripped into me, killed pet and nearly killed me with fire attacks ranging upwards of 600pts damage....turns out shammy had never experience the magic of Phurz because his 60+ pet is pretty uber and takes it all. After my near escape, the said shammy helped me to kill (killed for me) 4 Phurz that spawned one after another , all the while managing adds as well.......unfortunately no guts, though 2 wurm scale coats did drop. not bad

Killed this guy by myself yesterday. 55 mage. He was easy. With 120 mr i resisted everything he casted on me. Got him twice. Embers dropped second time and no Nezekenza spawns. He did not gate or summon.

55 conjurer
Bristlbane

I need to know if he summon so i can kill him for my epic, thanks for any who respond.

Was helping some friends get some exp here, and noticed this guy on track, thought a named would be fun, as I had hunted him before, and wasnt that tough, about the same as your usual wurm with some more HP, and casts a little. Since the patch, he can and will Chain cast Ice Comet on you. I was pulling, and got tore up by the IC, first one took down about 1/3 of my HP, he cast again, another 1/3, and then a third IC took me down.
Next pull (after rez) I put on my MR and CR gear, and got resistance buffs (MR = 153, CR = 141) and went at him, and made it a bit easier. Also brought a bard along to charm him off and on the whole way back to prevent the chain casting effect (it worked btw). Got him to the group and proceded to own him. (Lvl 57 Bard, 54 Pally, 54 Wizzy, 51 Wizzy, 45 Necro, and Myself 54 Ranger).
Just be careful of the chain casting of high level nukes, makes a very tough pull, goodluck.

Neze and Phur are on same cycle.. 90 second spawn at exactly neg 500 , neg 2500 Spawn is any number of random BW mobs, once you have the cycle you can just sit and kill the PH one by one. Need a good group to complete. Tanks and clerics included as Nezekazea will summon. Neze drops the red wurm guts EVERY TIME, as is extremely common.. average one Nezekazea every 12-15 spawns i.e. 20 minutes.. Phurzikoin a bit rarer at about 1 per 1/2 hour Drops suck tho currently for me and my guild 37 Neze, 12 Phurzkion.
1 Wurm Scale Cloak
37 Red Wurm Guts
0 Burninng Embers

After sitting at this camp for 2 hours with no named pops we were getting frustrated. Eventually we must have killed the PH once that is accomplished this camp is very easy. We had a full group here trying for mage and bard drops making it very easy to kill them if you fear kite and a chanter mezzes the adds. I just want to stress here the spawn time really is 2 minutes at the above loc but the PH can be ANY mobs not just wurms. Skellys,hornets,sarnak, wurms, among other things all were PH. Once you kill them though you can get named to spawn repeatedly. Within another 2 hours we had 20+ named pops, 3 bard pieces dropped 1 cloak and FINALLY a burning ember.

Sorry about last post =P

But anyway was just curious if anyone knew if this dragon still dropped the guts for the bard epic?

Ive soloed this kinda easy as a lvl 53... With Es arms and lumistaff i only used about 2bubs of mana, and with 150mr, those forceshock nukes are fully resisted most of the time... when they occasionally lands it is for a max of 100dmg...
cape didnt drop though, and i really need that. Scouting out this site i now know where they pop (500,-2500)and think im gonna camp it out...
Prolly should bring some friends for nekezena, but i think im gonna try her solo once first just for the kix of it, havent been creamed really good for a really long time now, so i think i kinda need it just to keep on my toes :)

Happy huntin'

Menthal
53 dr00d
Vallon Zek

I got the Burning Embers for the Magican Epic off this guy.

Im a 45 Shaman on Luclin, and this conned RED to me, and resisted atleast half the time. Unless the level varies, it was red 4 times in a row to me.