Veksar

Hi

Merchants pay about 475 plat for the cap, by the way.

I believe this relates to the following commentary from eq on the new experience zone revamps:


"The first and most obvious source of items in the new zones are the new named NPCs to be found in all of the Hot Zones. Some zones have more new named npcs than others but each zone should have at least one new npc. These NPCs have brand new drops that should be a bit more level appropriate for current day EverQuest than some of the items that might drop elsewhere in the zone and are older.

"The second source of items are global rare items. A number of the Hot Zones have new global rares. In some zones nearly any NPC can drop these items. In other zones the global rares are restricted by race so only certain types of NPCs drop these items.

"The final loot mechanism I used in the Hot Zones is something new I came up with for these zones - feedback is welcome! I did something I call the "Call for Help" mechanic. Basically it works like this....

"Some (not all!) npcs in the Hot Zones will, during combat, realize they are in trouble and are not going to win. If they decide to call for help at this point a new NPC will spawn somewhere nearby. This NPC will be the same race as what you're fighting but will be just a little bit stronger. This new NPC will then run over and, well, start hitting you. Obviously a new NPC hitting you isn't fun so the up side to this is that the new NPC is a Named npc with loot that essentially spawned just for you and your group.

"The chance of this happening is about the same as the chance to get one of the global rare drops found in the Hot Zones.

"I'm hoping that this will add a bit of excitement and danger to normal experience grinding while offering a chance at some nice items in the process."

My group and I experienced this 3 times; got the cap of the Raging Bloodgill Goblin each time. And yes, each time they were an "add."

BV

Meant New Mob not Explorer Gamus

/agree it needs to be added.

Location +97, -289

Level 70, hits for 890ish max. Does not regen, cons indifferent. Monk tactics for solo is to get him down, FD and clear aggro, regen up and reengage. He runs at low health.

Edited, Tue Jul 19 16:48:34 2005

Simple, Veksar is a pretty new zone, it didn't exist when Kunark was released five years ago. So when Kunark was the end game there was no Veksar to farm. Most Fables are mobs that were insanely contested when that era was the top end. (Except the Fabled Fippy Darkpaw off course.)

I so, so, so look forward to next year's fables. The Fabled Aaryonar! *roar* The Fabled Avatar of War, the Fabled Derakor the Vindicator, The Fabled Wunshi, The Fabled Foreman Smason and what not. :)

Dropped "Aged Piece of Meat"
Lore/No Drop

There is a way to add new mobs (and, if you look closely, you will see that quite a few OoW mobs have already been added). I'm not 100% it works the same way with mobs (since they are part of Illia's site, and not part of allakhazam), but items can certainly be sent to allakhazam@allakhazam.com along with screen shots (cropped and in .jpeg or .gif format).

If allakhazam@allakhazam.com doesn't work, try emailing Illia.

Asteatotic Highborn seems to be part of the new Ranger Epic.

Veksar is an indoor zone, so no horse here. I wouldn't try to solo, the stuff here has ALOT of hps, and as cool as Dogdog is, it will take a LONG time to kill most things (quadding 60 a hit). Grab a melee partner and you could do prolly the first 1/2 of zone without much difficuly. I duo with 65 pally / 65 shaman through the entire zone. I soloed the shaman up to 60 (not here... I did 52-59 in Katta Castellum killing snobby human guards), so I know his limits.

The mobs in this zone have high hps. When you zone in, kill a goblin... you will see what I mean. I also used to hunt the skels in UP (SU3 paladin with 65 shaman); many mobs here have higher hps... probably closer to 25k. A 5155 Slay knocks off about 18% from the biggest ones (highborn commanders and noble crusader, level 63). The other undead range in the 20k area; the revenant / wraith ones and the ones before the shop dropoff are in the 12k-15k range. You will learn fairly quickly which mobs are nasty casters (the sks have a vicious tendency to FEAR, which would be hard if they didn't summon you back instantly when it wears off). One word of warning; avoid the sewers... ever since Directx9 came into effect, all of Veksar has holes in the world that drop you to the entrance... the sewers are the worst for it. I have fallen through the floor, summoned into walls, and fallen through walls. Despite the coding irritations, I think you will love this zone, especially with your super intelligent combo!

So far in my experirnce everything past the goblins at the entrance summon.

i havent seen a map but i havent really looked hard hehe. but no this is not an all underwater zone. it is only underwater in a few spots so u dont need EB. but when going into the zone it helps to have EB in LOIO if u dont know exactly where the entrance is.

Yes, you would probably be able to kill the Bloodgills at the entrance.

Well, in my opinion they were Iksar, after all they have the typical Iksar ranks and names. Most likely they are Iksar that were captured in the town in its ruin and underwent some weird transformation or mutation. No idea what could have caused it though, probably an effect of the remains of the healing well that made the town popular.

i've farmed this guy also, i got that earring that mande mentioned as rare drop
common drop was MNK BST claws

14 / 21 8wis str sta 35mana hp PRIMARY ONLY

its 'a Swifttail' killed him too. just a monk mob. they spawn in the a Kylong crusader area. Very possible they can drop rare loot; but I haven't seen any out of about 25 kills or so.

Edited, Sat Jun 28 19:04:34 2003