Not sure I can really revive this thread, but I came back from a mini-break this weekend and knocked out a couple mobs for fun. Nothing major, but they were mobs that I was interested in.
First, I did Black Dire for a friend's shaman. For those unfamiliar with the fight, he is totally magic resistant, hits for 200's but is lvl 45 so he doesnt summon. My plan was simply to sow my pet and kite him around.
This fight went worse than I anticipated, and I attribute that to my mistaken belief that BD was a warrior. I began the fight without resist buffs, regrowth, or a fungi (had transferred it briefly). He HT'd me and hit me a couple times. Then he dispelled my top slot (again I didn't expect dispells so I had tali on top). I was at about half health already. Being that SK spells are nearly mana free, he proceeded to dot me up for the remainder of the fight, and because the plan was to kite him, there was not much I could do to heal up. In the end I was able to time some heals during his casts and my pet won the fight for me. Had I prepared better, this would have been an easy fight.
Priest of Discord. Hardly worth mentioning, but I wanted to fight him for nostalgia's sake. He had a reputation, at least prior to Kunark, as being a bad ass. Unfortunately this was not the case, as he does not summon and was easy to slow. Neat mob none the less.
Last, and perhaps most interesting, was a lvl 61 mob in Erudin named Nolusia Finham. I think she is a trainer or something. Anyway the purpose of this fight was simply to test whether or not a lvl 61 mob could be killed without any special items. I suppose it is common belief that even con mobs are simply not possible to kill after lvl 55ish, and certainly yellow mobs would be out of the question.
Another thing about this fight is that she is not an overcon, she hit for 184, which falls in line with what an "average" mob would hit for at 61. This makes her unusual, as most 58+ mobs are named and overcons (spore king, emp chottal, tola, seb protector, etc).
So the fight: I pulled with malo, and tried to kite her around while casting slow. Had a few resists, but finally landed one. Then I used journeyman's stick to tash, and spent some time working on malosini. By the time that landed I was at like 10% mana.
I then chained canni/jbb/epic - epic really did not want to land so I eventually gave up on it. Jbb landed about 50% of the time, but most were for partial damage. I imagine my pet did most of the dmg and was lucky to have summoned the highest lvl one.
In the end I had about 20% mana by the time she started to run, which means that she did not hit hard while slowed and I was able to gain back mana.
She had a lot of hp and I had to reslow twice. I imagine the fight took about 15 minutes or more.
Did not use any strong clickies. In the end, it was an obscure mob, but the fight was notable to me because of her lvl @ 61. Might post the few screenshots I have later.
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