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As of early 2001 the ONLY loot drop listed here was the Tunic on alla. I suppose if the robe was common people would have listed it? But this is pre-pic, and the only loot they list for the mob is the Tunic. And they all say it is the common. I actually was down here in 2000 and Tunic was common. I only remember seeing one staff and robe ever when camping there, got my tunic first king. I understand alla isn't always the most reliable, but again the tunic being the only loot someone listed and the fact they all say it is common. 4 tunics to a robe? Here it is more like 14 robes to a tunic. I think at least one person would have mentioned something about it if in fact tunic was rare...

And I did not cherry pick. I used the wayback machine and some of what others have posted with bold.. maybe a comment or two more. I don't know that this will change anyone's mind, but I'll keep trying. Consider it a bump.

http://web.archive.org/web/200107190....shtml?id=6360 was the link.

Enter this site on the wayback machine, go as far back as you can if the above link doesn't work to the page. http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6360

RE: just a thought By: Anonymous
Posted @ Thu, Jun 7th 2:12 AM 2001 Score: Default[2.00]
Because it takes a group of 55+ and 58 or so + melee. King is not always camped either, and doesnt spawn to often. Though the fungi tunic is his common drop

King Tactics By: TheloniusMonk,
26 posts
Posted @ Thu, Apr 12th 10:44 PM 2001 Score: Excellent[4.50]
First off getting here is a pain. You can bypass the teleport room out tho.

Get into the Shroom area and move down the hallway to the right. You may or may not have to fight 1-3 roamers.

King and 2 others are on a platform. King spawns in middle.

You can set up opposite from the watery / open area against the wall. Be forewarned that sometimes MOB's will get healed thru the wall, so it is a careful balancing act to avoid fighting to close to roamers or in the wall.

* IF * the King is pulled you must get on him. Do NOT attempt to mez him. Perhaps a 60 Shaman or Enchanter could stop / slow him, we didn't have the luxury.

We had following party:
57 Enchanter
58/59 Bard
56 Paladin (Our tank)
55 Cleric
56 Mage
55 Monk (Yours truly)

Critical that the 55's con everything. Enchanter needed to know because of spell choice.

The Fungal is great for reducing downtime and combined with group / ind Chloro/Regrowth provides nice regen.

We killed King 4 times: 3 Tunics, 1 Robe.

Thelonius Monk

Shroom tactic By: MandicusLifescourge, Sage
257 posts
Posted @ Mon, Apr 9th 9:29 AM 2001 Score: Excellent[4.95]
OK, after killing this guy numerous times now I thought I'd help people out with a starting tactic. First of all you need to have a full group of lvl 54+ at least, with some members being closer to 60.

The weakest party I was in that killed this guy consisted of:
55 cleric
56 warrior
54 rogue
59 enchanter
59 shaman (mua)
54 druid

We pulled a mob in front of the king platform and the king came down solo, and everyone promptly turned onto the king. Druid was dumping dd, I was helping with heals, chanter brought down the king's reaver and priest buddy to mez so they would stop chealing him at half.

I suppose if we tashed this guy at 80% hps we could have got a slow off on him without dying, but since we weren't sure what level he was, we thought we should kill him oldschool.

So... if king ph is up when you start here, try pulling a slowed mob by the front of his platform (one with an open ledge). The king or ph should come down solo (dont know why). Then pull away to kill if there is a priest close. Should break camp so that their are just 2 warrior type shrooms on the king ledge and the ph or king.

Try to make sure your enchanter is 57+. At 56 and below things are just too annoyingly difficult because of resists, that you should just concentrate on leveling and pass on king group.

I have to say that the warrior / rogue combo worked pretty good here with the mobs staying on the warrior 95% of the time.

Only other times I've killed king were passing thru on way to trakanon area, so it's not fair to compare as more than one group doesn't constitute a camp.

You might have to evac ej after killing king if you have many adds messed because they will most likely just get you killed. Worked great for the group I was in above. Darn guy dropped a robe for us, Argh heh.

Dropped a fungus covered scale tunic every other time I've been there when he was killed though.

Don't forget to stop by king if you are on your way to jugg/tola/prot area because most of the time he is up from people evacing.

King cons blue at 59, hits for 250ish, paladin type mob. His loh only heals a small amount, so dont worry about having to stun him, just try to put him down fast because his magic resist is little higher than the reavers, so hes very hard to slow. I've been told that king agros on spell casts too much, so might want to wait till he gets down to about 80% before tash, etc.

Good luck with yer fungi and monk twinks folks =)

Mandicus Lifescourge - barbarian Oracle / Zakani 52 iksar disciple / Sleezard 49 warrior -Inny serv

Pricey By: Anonymous
Posted @ Sat, May 12th 7:43 PM 2001 Score: Default[2.00]
Sites listed Fungus Tunic as very rare. Players list it as very common. On my server, the tunic sells for around 80k. If it's very common, my 59 enchanter better get in a group and kill that king to twink up my new warrior eh?

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RE: Pricey By: Anonymous
Posted @ Tue, May 22nd 5:03 PM 2001 Score: Default[2.00]
This is the common drop...but the King is very rare, and the camp is VERY hard to hold

I also went through every patch here from kunark thru velious http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/19992002.php and could not find any mention of changing loot tables.