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Exedor
05-28-2002, 08:37 AM
What is it?

It's a ring, 5 ac 5 str 10 sta 10 wis 10 int 25 hp 25 mana 15 dr 15 pr all/all no drop. (Not Lore)

Where is it?

Trakanon's teeth zone, loc roughly +1000 +3000. If you just zoned in from EJ you can just run ahead and to the right and track for them. A set of ruins filled with level 55ish + mobs battlemasters(warriors), revenants(shadowknights) and liches(necros) and at least 2 named level 60 mobs. None of them have ever summoned me.

What should I bring?

Well if you're not 60, you should almost definitely bring a group, if you are 60, you should probably still bring a group. No matter what you bring, bring your harmony, you're gonna need it to get single pulls.

What do I do?

Harmony everything and pull them singly, be careful that you didn't miss any mobs that may be hiding behind walls. At 60 I've not had much difficulty landing root, epic, moonfire, or anything most of the time. Some of them will occasionally have much higher resists though. If you are soloing, dont bother with the named, they have unique drops but the ones I've seen aren't that good, and aren't druid usuable. Start out with battlemasters as they seem to just be warrior type mobs, the revenants will harm touch and the liches are necros and will fear2 you. Magic Resist is not a bad idea here. The rings are a random and *not very rare* drop off the common mobs. The nameds can also drop them but do not appear to do so with any greater frequency than the easier common guys.

Anything else?

-The rings do seem to drop in spurts, like none for a long while and then a bunch in a short period of time, this is very noticeable when you have a full group keeping every mob dead.

-They look like skels but they are not tagged undead and they DO run when low health so snare them all, otherwise they will often path back to the ruins and aggro all their friends just when you were about to kill one.

-Some people think that these rings are a bit too common so get 'em before they're nerfed :(

-The no stats playing card thingymajigger, off the named cultist in the robe, is a quest item. Give it to the Krup Wanderer at the entrance to cave which leads to the swamp of no hope. In return you get + krup -legion of cabilis, exp and some minor coins. There may also be rare rewards but I haven't gotten any yet. The wanderer despawns when you turn it in.

-If you want to see the ring looks like, I'm wearing one and it's in my profile: www.magelo.com/eq_view_pr...num=141289 (http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=141289)


If you find this helpful, you can thank me by posting your queations, comments and experiences with the camp in this thread, so it doesn't die at 11 posts like my poor boots of flowing slime guide :( heheh

Ligge
05-28-2002, 10:26 AM
This camp does not exist on Fennin Ro. It has been removed and now only exist on every 3rd Sunday in Burned Woods up by Blackburrow for 30 mins each month.

Damn you Exedor! :p

bcDeusExMachina
05-28-2002, 12:33 PM
What do you mean Ligge?

Wosi
05-28-2002, 01:06 PM
Also doesn't exist on Luclin until I get my rings too!
*looks innocennt*
Oh, the ring camp? It's in burned woods, I hear the zone is in PoM today, might be changing to queen room in Chardok soon, GL on your camp!
/grin

ELITWO
05-28-2002, 01:43 PM
several druid/clerics in my guild went and got these
over the weekend.
at one point I had a group (2 druids,cleric,tank)
and a compeating group (full 6) were pulling everything.
after 3 hours we starting comparing notes. neither group
had gotten a single ring.
then we got 3 in four mobs.
at the SAME TIME they got 3 in 7 mobs.
so, they do drop and the drop in cycles/waves.

also, some do summon (think it was the named).

Milwein
05-28-2002, 03:07 PM
I think Exedor needs his own Strategy Library. Anyone wanna second that? :)


Once again, Exedor, thank you for a wonderful guide to attaining a wonderful item that I will never get.

Bizitt
05-28-2002, 09:10 PM
I enjoy reading Exedor's guides, whether or not I plan to get the items meself.

Aaniudari Arithenne
05-29-2002, 12:59 PM
Bah....

Why is it every time i go to PoM Burned Wood moves ! That zone will be the death of me.

duranstorm
05-30-2002, 08:52 AM
I've soloed these a bit lately... and i always have a problem landing roots/snares/epic. I went back to nuke kiting them becuase it just wasn't worth spending half my mana rooting one.

but RFS sticks and 90% of wildfires land for full... takes me about 60% of my mana to kill one.

get kei, it's nice =)

Kytelae
05-31-2002, 08:17 AM
This is hugely camped on Xev, with hours of lines of people waiting to get into the ring groups. Mania, I tell you!

Txbow 01
06-01-2002, 06:17 AM
We have also noted the way the rings drop in waves. Killed for two hours and got three rings, but they all dropped with in 10 mins of each other and two in a row once. Still very easy camp for the reward once it is broken. Harmony everthing in sight though or you will have adds.

Batou062671
06-01-2002, 06:59 AM
Guild managed to get this camp after a 3 hour wait the other day and we stayed 9 hours till everyone that stayed had one ring. During that time we had another guild waiting for us to finish for 6 hours. Definatly heavily camped.

Milwein
06-01-2002, 08:45 AM
tried these today with a guld SK and monk, and they just ate us alive. does a slower make all the difference? and i couldnt land snare once out of like 10 tries before i zoned

ccLothar
06-01-2002, 11:43 AM
Slower not as important as a 60 melee + Complete heal. Have done the camp all sorts of ways and the best thing for it is levels...

Batou062671
06-01-2002, 08:28 PM
We had 2 groups for this wich included 2 rangers and 2 druids. Hardly ever got them to snare. Resistent buggers indeed!

Sandjumper Jones
06-05-2002, 10:18 AM
Nerfed as of 06/05/02 on tribunal. Ruines are there, no mobs there.

SJ