Harrower Sunday 7/14 7CST

When: Sunday 7/14 5PST/7CST
Who: Everyone, but hopefully not thieves or murderers.
Where: Unknown
Why: Championing evil or fun, your pick
What: this guy




The guys in Team Trammel (Napo, Falanor, and myself) would like to invite the shard to kill the Harrower again on this Sunday, 7/14, at 7 CST (5PST).

We have been collecting skulls for some time and would like to also give special thanks to Blaise, Avery, Bart, and Les Claypool for a 5+ hour oaks spawn that everyone worked very hard on to provide the skull of enlightenment. We'd also like to give big thanks to Zagyg / Iolo Fitzbane for being there at every spawn and neglecting his family and sleep in order to spawn the other skulls with us.


I know that TT isn't anyone's favorite guild, but we'd like everyone to come that wants to, regardless of any ill feelings towards us. So Liberation, the RIP crew, Shadowjack, upgrayedd or anyone that isn't fond of us, we hope you come out and help, on your blues of course.

Also I'd like to apologize for not giving more warning, but we only just finished the set of skulls this night and I wanted to jump on that date since some people's schedules aligned.

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Preparation tips:
Don't bring anything that can be stolen from your backpack that won't be easy to replace. We will be in a dungeon.
This especially means don't bring runebooks, invuln armor, or weapons you can't replace. There is a very good chance everything you have will be lost at some point.
All combat roles will be useful here, not just tamers.
Bring refresh potions to escape the harrower's reach
Plan for a potentially lengthy fight
Log in to IRC to catch updates about where you need to be.
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Here is a guide to Champ Spawns that has some relevant information about the Harrower and hero titles.

A couple more tips based on stuff I saw last time:

The harrower can (and will) pull you in from 16 tiles away. That's almost a whole screen depending on your resolution.
If he is in true harrower form and he pulls you while there are a bunch of tentacles still up, you may as well give up on your loot because there is no getting close. (and getting close will feed the tentacle life leech and make life harder for everyone else)
For these reasons, don't bring anything you don't want to lose, like fancy clothes or runebooks.

Tentacles need to be meteor swarmed down, getting close to them on dexers or with dragons will just heal them.

The harrower's first form is a little guy that runs around, and once you kill that he pops into a black immobile reaper and a ton of immobile tentacles. It's best not to pop him in bad places (he spawns in a random dungeon) full of small halls or on top of a stronger monster spawn.

Archers with Orcish Bows (12 Tile Range) can be HIGHLY effective and useful in this situation.

I will do my best to be there.

Thanks TT.