Viarglug  

this mob couldnt land a dot on to save my life..
im lvl 70 necro and could only land splurt. been at this for 3 hours and aggrovating raid. just piece of advice

Soloed by my level 80 necro with a cleric mercinary. I managed to kill Viarglug on my second attempt. I had used up all my veteran AAs on the first attempt so I had to figure out an actual strategy for the second attempt:

I had my tank pet keep agro the entire time.
I set the cleric merc to efficient stance.
I had a stack of corpses ready to use as additional pets.
I used Splort and our corruption DOT for extra DPS.
I was mounted the entire time for extra mana regen.
I re-cast the lich spell when I didn't have the AE mana drain on me

When the cleric went OOM, I feigned and feigned my pet and let Viarglug kill the cleric. I then let the pet tank again and healed it for the 5+ minutes until I could revive the cleric. The revived cleric is full mana (they are not if you suspend them when still alive).

Both I and my cleric were OOM when Viarglug died so I cut it kind of close. No special gear was involved (it's all bazaar bought). I do have all AAs at level 80 which I am sure helped a lot.

-Flacked




Edited, Oct 27th 2008 3:13pm by flaccid

millions to me.... husband and I were scouting out the land for a try on Viarglug. A group in the zone noticed Viarglug up, as we were making sure we could spawn him. They offered to take him out for both of us. We, of course, accepted.... several minutes later after clearing the area to the zone out to Ferubi? we had our "earthly possessions" to give to Whialdi in Natimbi... Whooppee.... !!!! Group was a two boxing couple (all four were level 80) Warrior, cleric, bard, and I missed the class of the fourth character.... Thank you.... Thank you.... Thank you.... smile...

By an 80 mage. Necro fd'd and had pet in (guess that's not really soloing, but feh)

TSS focus, 18.5k mana.

Boxed this guy with a 10k mana cleric, 13k monk. Never had to use mend, but cleric was OOM at 2% of mob health. A necro stood back and watched. Used infusion, but he still managed to land the mana dot (cleric was losing about 20 mana / tick from the dot while sitting on horse).

roughly +50,-100 next to the river bend. Guild killed it with 4 groups last night although I did not get FD off before being killed....hit me with 4k in about 5 seconds! Be prepared to die once hailed. LoL but we got him.

Edited, Fri Jan 20 06:23:38 2006

At first glance, Viarglug may seem to be a hard mob to kill to the average player. And if you or your party aren't PoTime equipped and/or if this fight isn't done right, Viarglug will be very hard to kill. But fear not, here is a good way to take this mob down for folks who don't have access to PoTime geared groups or guilds.

You will need just 2 groups; and in it, you MUST have 2 healers (cleric or druid), a good tank, and a slower (preferably a Shammy, but it can be done with a Beastlord).

Start by clearing all the trash mobs by pulling them all to your camp near the Ferubi zone line. Once, you got all the trash mobs cleared, have one of your healers wait in Ferubi near the Barindu zone line; trust me, this healer will come in handy later. Then go ahead and pull Viarglug.

Now there is a couple of things you should know about Viarglug and his AE attacks. First of all, Infusion of the Faithful (Vet AA that maxes out all your stats and resists) will help with some of the DD damage from the AE; but it will NOT completely protect you from its AE mana drain. But go ahead and use it anyways, it is better than nothing. Secondly, Viarglug is really resistant to spells; even when debuffed. However, some lower level spells (like splurt and funeral pyre) will stick. Finally, Viarglug is mind whackable.

Once you've pulled Viarglug into your camp and the tank has obtain aggro once it has been slowed, start unloading into it. The best place to fight this mob in the camp is to pin it against a corner. This is strictly a DPS fight and you will need to kill it fast before the healers run out of mana; but everyone needs to watch their aggro. Have your healer keep the main tank alive. Once your healer gets down to like 25-30% mana, have the other healer (that was waiting in Ferubi) zone in to take over the healing duties; then zone the first healer out into Ferubi so he/she can med up or pop a recovery AA. Continue to swap healers out by zoning them in and out of the Barindu zone until Viarglug is dead.

And that is how you can kill this mob with just 2 groups of decently equipped people. Just a side note, it is possible to kill Viarglug with a single group of decently equipped people using this same stratagy; but it will be very tricky. Just remember, the longer the fight, the more it will favor Viarglug.

1 cleric (7-8k mana)
1 tank (8k hp +)
1 shaman
1 necro
1 melee DPS
1 Melee DPS

Dead

Kthnxbye

This guy is level 72. Yellow to 70 red to 69.

Hits for 1400, has an aoe dot that drains mana and endurance, as well as dd when it hits. At 295 MR, I resisted it maybe 20% of the time.

The dot wipes kei and lich, however, you can mindwrack your group.

I did this mob with 5 people (including self). What we did is charm a mob for the extra dps. War with about 11k hps tanked it. It was close at the end, with 7k mana I ran oom and was using right clicks for damage.

I had alot of problems landing high end dots and ended up using splurt, pyrocuror (rt click legs) and rt click necro hat lich...MW and zevfeers.

Failed on the first encounter. Gonna say having a shaman would probably help as he can cure? the aoe according to previous poster. As you're next to Ferubi (or should be) zone line, you can zone easily if you're about to wipe. Note: mob depops after 30? or so minutes. No sweat, you can retrigger with the quest npc inside building.

Either way, 1 groupable if everyone has over 7k mana. Otherwise, bring at least 2 groups. Also, this mob has a truckload of hps. Fight took 5 to 8 minutes or so.

Enrages at 10%, summons, unsnareable.

To activate him after triggering his spawn, you make sure no mobs are near you, drop invis and hail and immediately FD. Make sure you have your rune up. With nearly 8k hitpoints, and rune, I flopped with around 55% life.

A bard is VERY helpful as they can pull him to the ferubi zoneline which is where you want to engage him.

Hope this helps aspiring 1.5 ers.

BTW, this mob can be chain farmed. I believe if you destroy the sack you loot from his body (the bag of goodies for trigger npc), you can re trigger him for some pretty nice bazaar loot. But again, Time geared + should be 1 groupable. Anything under that, bring 2. A shaman is helpful, and a bard is very helpful. 1 group bring an enchanter to charm a pet for more dps.

Edited, Sat Apr 23 11:06:09 2005

He is very 1 group doable. I did him with 1 group on Prexus. Although I am an app for one of the highest level guilds the fight was more about skills then level/equipment. 1 cleric is all we needed with a good tank and shaman. Shaman was key to land slow and cure at least the cleric's AE. I myself died early from inzone trash mob trying to spawn him, his spawn is a little laggy. I talked to slave about 3 times to get him to pop, got aggro from nearby kos mob and couldn't FD cause kept casting spells on me. So I was ressed in and hailed Viarglug and FD. I had no mana the entire fight and gave what i hadc to group through mind wracks/ twitch. He is kinda long fight for a group named but is very doable. Just stick with it cause early in fight seems like it will be impossible, just keep going and once slowed is very easy. I just wish i would have farmed it more before i got epic 1.5 =/

This mob is NOT level 70, He conned red to me at level 68.

2 wars
2 rangers
2 shammies
2 wizzys
3 clerics
1 necro
1 mage
1 bst
1 enc

All 67+ OoW equiped

This guy is not easy, we wiped 2 times had mob to 10% both times, we all just ran out of mana and the melee's out of endurance.

The posts about him being easy is just plain crap. Bring more DPS then I listed, he is not easy as discussed.

I was able to spawn him twice back to back by re-doing the script starting in Natimbi

Edited, Fri Dec 24 08:54:52 2004