Maligar's Enraged Dopplegangar

[Nineran]

I handed my "Note to Maligar" to him, and he just ate it. No Maligar's Enraged Dopplegangar spawn.

[falkun]

What was your faction? I had to use DE illusion and faction song to get out of threatening. You might try charming him (puts you to amiable) for the turn-in.

Even the oldest guide I can find suggests charming maligar for the turn-in:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010609223311/http://www.eqdiva.com/quests/epic/default.asp?part=page24bottom
When I killed Maligar and his Doppleganger, it was myself, a 47 bard, a 51 bard, a 53 wizzie, and a 45 druid. We pulled Maligar's friends first, who went down easily one by one. They do not aggro if you pull one by one. Then we charmed Maligar, ordered him to sit down, his Doppleganger spawned, and even though I was twisting resist songs, we still were blinded. I did resist the Fear spell though. I had my chants memmed, since I knew I was going to be blinded, so I had my target, and hopefully was able to get him a few times with my DoTs. From what I heard from the druid helping us, was that the Doppleganger was smart and blinded everyone he could. It was a very close fight, we brought him down though, and then charmed Maligar again, and got our second Maligar Doppleganger's head.

TL;DR: When in doubt, improve faction.

[Nineran]

Cool thanks for the info Deajay!

I used my illusion. I did not use the faction bump song. He was threatening to me, but did not aggro.

[nilbog]

Npcs less than dubious faction will eat attempted turn ins.