Hehe.. I was thinking I could probably take him down if there were enough normal hill giants in the
area. But the question I have to ask is, "Why?" other than just to say I did it. :) I talked to a 45th
level druid who said he had taken him down in a group, but that he dropped a fine steel weapon, and 2
plat. :) I'm sure he probably drops something cool. Probably just not very often. Is it worth
sacrificing the exp I'd get from 6 or 7 hill giants to just try and get the 7 plat worth of loot off him?
:) Not to mention the huge risk of at some point during all that, making a mistake.
Laluni Songhammer of E'Ci
kim@... wrote:
> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Steven S. Klug wrote:
> >
> > One amusing death I had was against a giant that I tried
> > to charm, only to realize it wasn't a normal giant, but
> > Broog Bloodbeard, which I found out later is around level
> > 46, and has some 15000hp. :) I was so shocked I ran into
> > a tree, and that's all she wrote. He hits for around 130,
> > and stuns a level 30 player real good. I went from full
> > health to death without even being able to move.
>
> He lag-crashed our group of three L40-45 and 6 L24-34 (one
> moment there was nothing there, next he was on top of us). To
> give you an idea how much 15000 hp is, the L45 paladin and I
> hacked at him for a good 2 minutes while the cleric went OOM
> keeping us healed. Broog's hp bar barely budged. By this
> time the others finished off the cyclops (the original
> pull) and jumped in on Broog. We went on for another 3
> minutes or so (mid-30s ranger and monk managed to do some
> tanking as well). We took off a total of maybe 1/4 of his hp
> through all this, then all our healers were OOM, he dropped
> the paladin, started pounding on me, I ran, and he killed 2
> more before the others reached the zone. I lived with 6 hp;
> apparently a level 40 bard's Accelerando without a drum is
> fast enough to outrun him even while walking at 6 hp.
>
> The named cyclops in the Ocean of Tears (Queg?) is not quite
> as bad, and he took 6 of us at L40-46 a good 5 minutes to
> kill. Not surprisingly, we got 2gp as loot.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
> > Please send submissions for the eqbards newsletter to lol@... with the subject submissions.
--
Steven S. Klug
sklug@...