Wizard epic

[maurilax]

VS is one of the FEW mobs that is on a strict Rotation on my Server. Every 2 or 3 months, your turn comes up and you kill him.

made me smile

[Rararboker]

I was told triggerable VS only drops ranger/druid epic drops. Does it also work for wizard staff?

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Rararboker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was told triggerable VS only drops ranger/druid epic drops. Does it also work for wizard staff?

Gotta kill the regular VS spawn for gnarled staff, but around the time VSremains is added, regular VS is changed to a 3 day spawn.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

fuck the chanter ....

oh wait, this is about the wizard epic.

well, fuck that one too

[jarshale]

It won't happen OP. Just give up now.

[Sorkail]

I got the Wiz epic on Live (Fennin Ro) roughly 2002-3, a few months into PoP release. Post-revamp, obviously. I got the VS staff by luck: I was sitting in Karnors LFG when a couple 65s zoned in, I chatted them up and turns out they were going for VS! No claim on the wiz staff, they said I could join, and it dropped that first time. So can't speak to rarity on that one.

Golem was up on the one Fear clear I ever did. Lucky there, but maybe he wasn't killed too often at that point?

Had to kill Phinny 20-some times for BCS. I leveled a Ranger to 5 and parked him at the entrance of Kedge, would log on daily if I didn't know where the spawn timer was at. If he was up I would look for a 65 player LFG (usually monk or war) and ask if they wanted to do Phinny with me...surprisingly got a lot of help that way! No idea what the odds were on the staff -- either terrible drop rate or very terrible luck.

So it was relatively easy for me a few years after the classic era, but looks ridiculous before revamp / more xpacs / everyone camping them all the time.

[sacman08]

Originally Posted by voni [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I finally got my little gnome wizard to 46 and figured I'd check out the epic quest to see if I can do some of the initial steps.

Is it me or does it seem a lot easier than most? Assuming you already had a CT skin and the VS staff, it seems like you could do it in about a day essentially. Just need to swim down to kedge for Phinny and then run around for a bit.

Am I missing something in the quest that's actually really time consuming and difficult or is the wizard epic easier than most in terms of effort?

I was never able to get a Phinny drop on the live server for my wizard and he's level 85 now. Ventril is a hard one to get too because so many other classes need his drop for epic. Cazic was always hard to do because Fear raids could be difficult without the right amount of people and classes. Those three are the hold up for the wiz epic.