NMs in EQ2?Follow

Welcome, welcome everyone to another n00bish post from yours truely.

In todays episode I will be asking the 'probably' obvious question, are there NM's in Everquest 2?

Now by NMs I mean: Notorious Monster, who spawn at different times, (generally 1-2hr spawns), who are a bit tougher than their surrounding family mobs (meaning a badger, tougher than the other badgers right around it), and who drop lovely..very good...yummy...great items.

They will generally looks EXACTLY the same as the same mobs around it but are sometimes bigger, like a significant difference to where you can spot from a distance.

Now reason I am asking this is because last night while playing, I was doing this 'kill 5 hawk thing' for someone in Elddar (sp) and I saw this 'aggroed' type badger that I had never seen before in this area. (RIGHT as you begin to decend down into Forest Ruins), now with my natural NM hunting instinct from FFXI I immediately went after it. It was green, had that shady outline around the name meaning it was an aggro mob, it had 2 arrows in it, not sure if they were down or up.

Either way, we went at it, he was a lot tougher than the other badgers, his name was also alittle different, said something like Ridge Badger or something with an R in it. I killed him and a chest popped. I disarmed it and got a Bloodstained ...something, it was a shield none the less.

The stats on this thing are REALLY amazing. Like +2 AGI +2 WIS +6 HEALTH and like +3 power or something along those lines, plus the shield defense was like 10.

I was truely amazed at this seeing as how n00bish I am.

That's the reason why I'm asking.

Slyone =D

Solo Ladon in Commonlands np~

I could easily be wrong about the chest drop ratio... so far every named I've beaten has dropped a chest...

course.. that's a whopping 5 named mobs.. ^_~

I think I may just get lucky though.. I was out in the commonlands with my scout and got 3 chest in 3 kills. O_O

and wouldn't you know it one was one of those silly FSR's... /emote pulls hair and screams into a pillow

meep!!!

*grabs foot, clutches tightly*

*glares possessively*

:-P

I had no idea... even after I ran into the named bear in Oakmyst the other night. He blind sided me and killed me once... almost got me again after I collected my shard! But I managed to introduce him to my guard friend!

Yes.. nameds always drop a chest, the only nameds i can think of that DON'T are the nameds for the Betrayal quests. They are quest only mobs that's why.

True, named mobs for quests do not always drop a chest. And some quest mobs never drop chests. But for the most part, regular named mobs do always drop the chest.
Everyone should have been introduced to this on the Isle of Refuge. Named mobs like the Shadow Serpent, and the High Priest, and the named bear, and the named spider, always dropped chests. The orc, for example, was named, but never dropped a chest. Other named mobs triggered by a quest, like the Pirate ghost, Rockbelly, always dropped a chest. Most of the time, the chests contained one item always, like the cutlass, and then some other item which could vary. This was so that people could get a group to help them and give the other item to people who helped.
Always, though, the named mobs tend to be ^^ mobs, and always a lot tougher than normal variants. And, if they con grey to you, they will not drop a chest. Therefore, if you need something they drop, you must kill them before they turn grey to you. If someone in your group is higher level than the others and the mob cons grey to them, it will con grey to the group. You may want to drop that member just for that fight, so the mob will drop a chest.