veetcypher
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I took my lvl 18 magician to Ocean of Tears to try out the Underground Platinum Mine's advice concerning gargoyles. I borrowed the boat from Sister Island to get to Gargoyle Island. The hunting was great as I was the only one in the zone, let alone on Gargoyle Island. After killing a few and hitting lvl 19, I decided to go explore the ocean.
I'm not sure whether it's a bug or an mq2 benefit, but I found that I can cast from the rowboat and I read in one of the threads that landlubber's can't attack you. (Not sure if this is true of all npc's or only certain ones.)
On the island that is slightly to the northwest of Gargoyle Island, there's a camp occupied by Toko Binlittle and pet, Capt Surestout, and Dixl Drool. This camp is near the southwest corner of the island.
My first try at this almost got me killed, so I'll leave out the gory details and stick to the method that I had success with.
From a short distance from shore, I did a "/target Capt Surestout". In spite of what allakhazam says, he conned at lvl 24. Dixl Drool conned 20 and Toko conned green. Anyways, I tried casting a lvl 1 spell (was hoping to only pull the Capt). He was out of range, so I crept forward until I could cast on him. The captain and Dixl came running, so I paddled a little ways out and most important didn't send my pet in.
After a minute or so, the captain started to leave, but Dixl stayed. (Another time Dixl left and the captain stayed, but the same strategy works.) As soon as the one leaving was out of aggro range, I cast on the one that stayed and sent my pet in. I kept them both just in the water assuming that when Dixl was below 20%, she would head back to camp (She did) and I wanted to keep her isolated. After killing her and medding a bit, I pulled the captain back and killed him also.
From the two of them, the loot was a couple earrings, an erollisi bracer, a rusty rapier and some coin. More importantly, Captain Surestout conned red and Dixl yellow.
Watch out for the Seafury and Gornit when you go to loot the corpses. I also kept my pet spell memmed just in case.
Update:
After trying this again, I learned a couple things:
You can't cast on these if they are fully in the water. I haven't figured exactly where the line is, but for now I try to keep them just on land. Also, if you can help it, try not to kill them in the water....looting is a pain. I'm going to try a throwing dagger to see if the pull is easier. This also works for the isle goblins and probably any other critters in oot, but loot isn't as good.
Also, if you're not careful the boat will get stuck. I avoid this by giving up control just before I hit the beach.
I'm not sure whether it's a bug or an mq2 benefit, but I found that I can cast from the rowboat and I read in one of the threads that landlubber's can't attack you. (Not sure if this is true of all npc's or only certain ones.)
On the island that is slightly to the northwest of Gargoyle Island, there's a camp occupied by Toko Binlittle and pet, Capt Surestout, and Dixl Drool. This camp is near the southwest corner of the island.
My first try at this almost got me killed, so I'll leave out the gory details and stick to the method that I had success with.
From a short distance from shore, I did a "/target Capt Surestout". In spite of what allakhazam says, he conned at lvl 24. Dixl Drool conned 20 and Toko conned green. Anyways, I tried casting a lvl 1 spell (was hoping to only pull the Capt). He was out of range, so I crept forward until I could cast on him. The captain and Dixl came running, so I paddled a little ways out and most important didn't send my pet in.
After a minute or so, the captain started to leave, but Dixl stayed. (Another time Dixl left and the captain stayed, but the same strategy works.) As soon as the one leaving was out of aggro range, I cast on the one that stayed and sent my pet in. I kept them both just in the water assuming that when Dixl was below 20%, she would head back to camp (She did) and I wanted to keep her isolated. After killing her and medding a bit, I pulled the captain back and killed him also.
From the two of them, the loot was a couple earrings, an erollisi bracer, a rusty rapier and some coin. More importantly, Captain Surestout conned red and Dixl yellow.
Watch out for the Seafury and Gornit when you go to loot the corpses. I also kept my pet spell memmed just in case.
Update:
After trying this again, I learned a couple things:
You can't cast on these if they are fully in the water. I haven't figured exactly where the line is, but for now I try to keep them just on land. Also, if you can help it, try not to kill them in the water....looting is a pain. I'm going to try a throwing dagger to see if the pull is easier. This also works for the isle goblins and probably any other critters in oot, but loot isn't as good.
Also, if you're not careful the boat will get stuck. I avoid this by giving up control just before I hit the beach.
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