On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Sylly Songsynger wrote:
> > From: Melaniel <everquest@...>
> >
> > Can anyone gimme a few hints about where and how tough the Solusek
> > Mage and the Solusek Champion are. An opinion of how frequent the
> > spawn and drops are would be helpful too ;-)
>
> I am pretty sure that I got mine in the "bar room" in Sol-A. We were there
> about 4 hours and I got both items. We had some mid 30's rangers with us
> lower 30's. When my regular group tried to break the room at levels 24 thru
> 28 group, we got spanked. If you can recruit some mid 30's types you should
> do pretty well.
The Solusek Mages and Champions are just a type of mob, they
are not a named mob. They appear in the goblin "castle" area
of Sol A. After you zone in and crawl through the hole in the
wall, make a right turn, hop down the ledge. There will be a
door in front of you - everything past it is the "castle"
area.
Best spot is the king area. After you go through the door and
past a grate, turn right and go straight, through a secret
wall, follow the passage left to a door. The four rooms past
that door spawn Solusek goblins, including the king (rare
spawn). Mages and Champions will sometimes spawn in place of
the normal Solusek goblins. Beware there is a wandering Sol
goblin in this hallway, and all SOl goblins can see invis.
You will need a full group in their low to mid 30s (enchanter
highly recommended until they fix Lullaby - this was the last
place I got to use Lullaby before they broke it). The king
drops a +str ring, and a so-so sceptre.
Not quite as plentiful is the high shaman area. It's a dead
end so it's relatively safe. It's past the bar area. Up to
four Solusek goblins spawn in the two rooms that make up the
high shaman area (vs. 3-4 in the king room, 3 in the adjacent
room, 2 in the room after, all of whom can heal through the
walls). You could hold this room with just 3-4 low- to
mid-30s, although you might need more to take it. The shaman
drops a nice ring that grants infravision (useful for blind
humans).
I've never seen a Solusek goblin spawn *in* the bar area.
It's a nice place to camp though, as there are a ton of
goblins nearby, each separated into different rooms (i.e. if
you have a tough fight, you can just skip a room while you
rest without screwing up the spawn pattern).
--
John H. Kim
kim@...