So this morning I posted about yesterday’s experience with Brutus.  Rather than edit it to reflect today’s experience, I’d rather bring you along for the ride today.

The baby barb took a beating at the hands of Brutus.  Using uppercut or pummel got as far as few bruises with ridiculous equipment damage.  In other words not enough damage output.  So what the heck can you do with a baby barb to improve the damage output?  Looking down the slist to level 42 I took a suggestion from Ardeth to give something different a try, I went and coughed up the cash for a lance in the barb home town and found out what hurdle is used for!

All of a sudden, the health levels start dropping, the incoming chokeholds were pretty managable but boy oh boy the surprise rends hurt!

Brutus Hammersmith is DEAD!!
You receive 15524 experience points.
You receive 31048 extra experience points for taking vengeance upon Brutus hammersmith.
Brutus Hammersmith falls to his knees, defeated.
Brutus Hammersmith exclaims 'you have bested me!'
Brutus Hammersmith looks down at his fatal wound, and then up into your eyes, a saddened look wiping across his face.
Brutus Hammersmith says 'Tell that vile woman I will see her in hell...'
A finger is sliced from Brutus Hammersmith's dead body.
You get 1390000 gold coins from the corpse of Brutus Hammersmith.

Since I was in gear that was quite easy to replace (yay levelling gear) I went ahead and just stayed stubborn and tried to drop him, well, I’ll pay the price by doing a tour of the realms for gear tonight.

You are using:
<used as light> the sigil of Sil-Galith
<worn on finger> [nothing] 
<worn on finger> [nothing] 
<worn around neck> [nothing] 
<worn around neck> [nothing] 
<worn on body> [nothing]
<worn on head> [nothing] 
<worn on legs> eltor-hide leggings
<worn on feet> [nothing] 
<worn on hands> [nothing] 
<worn on arms> a tattoo of interlaced leaves
<worn about body> an Elvish Cloak
<worn about waist> [nothing] 
<worn around wrist> [nothing] 
<worn around wrist> [nothing] 
<wielded> [nothing] 
<worn on ears> [nothing] 
<worn on eyes> shades of light
<worn on back> [nothing] 
<worn over face> [nothing] 
<worn around ankle> a blue, glassy chain
<worn around ankle> [nothing] 
<wielded as lance> a sharpened dragon tusk lance

I don’t feel bad giving some hints, since lots of people know how to do this kill on a shieldbashing Paladin, it was nice to do it on the barb though.  The hardest part of this is the eq damage, of course.  So… next time, do it on a druid?

Cheers!