Anon
Overview
Anon was originally an NPC, mage in charge of the Mages' Council in Moonglow. The Council ended up evolving into the Council of Mages Faction. Anon objected to Nystul's casting of the spell that split the Trammel Facet off from Felucca. He blamed the spell, rather than Minax, for the devastation in Felucca. He also appears to have had a personal dispute of some kind with Nystul, neither approving of Nystul personally nor the latter's use of magic apart from the Council. From BNN audio stories, he appears to have had an odd Mongbat fetish, once commenting that he'd been caught in a closet "with twenty of them and a terrified llama."
Time of Legends
Anon the mage is currently one of the four Legends encountered on the rooftop of the Shadowguard. He is a skilled magic user that moves at moderate speeds, and periodically polymorphs into an elemental that converts damage into healing. He will often summon the aid of monsters such as Wisps, Gazers and Evil Mages.
Statistics
| Anon Statistics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Spawn Locations | Shadowguard Rooftop | ||
| Fame | Slayer Vulnerability | ||
| Karma | Alignment | ||
| First Seen | Publish 90 | Pack Instinct | |
| Loot | |||
| Gold | 3000 - 13000 | Magic Items | |
| Special | Artifacts (Shadowguard) | Cut Up | N/A |
| Attributes | |||
| Strength | 150-200 | Hit Points | 9500-9999 |
| Dexterity | 100-200 | Stamina | 100-125 |
| Intelligence | 175-200 | Mana | 800-900 |
| Barding Difficulty | 160 | Taming Difficulty | N/A |
| Base Damage | 14-17 | Preferred Foods | |
| Skills | |||
| Wrestling | 220-240 | Poisoning | 0 |
| Tactics | 110-125 | Magery | 110-120 |
| Resisting Spells | 120-140 | Evaluating Intelligence | 120-130 |
| Anatomy | 0 | Meditation | 100-110 |
| Detecting Hidden | 60-70 | Hiding | - |
| Parrying | 120 | Healing | - |
| Necromancy | - | Spirit Speak | - |
| Mysticism | - | Focus | - |
| Spellweaving | - | Discordance | - |
| Bushido | - | Ninjitsu | - |
| Chivalry | - | Special Abilities | Polymorphs to heal damage, summons helpers |
| Resists and Damage | |||
| Types | Physical | Fire | Cold | Poison | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistances | 65-70 | 65-75 | 65-70 | 65-70 | 65-70 |
| Damage | 100 |
Tactics
When Anon changes form, attack with any elemental damage type aside from the element he changed to. While in elemental form Anon is susceptible to Elemental (lesser and super) slayer damage bonuses & heals based on the element he chose. Earth elemental heals from Physical damage, Energy Llama heals from Energy damage, Fire elemental heals from fire damage, etc.
For warriors, it is ideal to use two 100% elemental damage weapons with elemental slayer & switch between them as Anon changes form to insure no healing from damage taken. Alternately, a warrior can use a 100% chaos damage weapon, with Elemental super slayer, without needing to switch weapons. Quiver elemental damage type modifiers are ignored, as is consecrate weapon; the damage type of the weapon itself is checked.
For mages, use a lesser slayer spellbook matching the elemental form anon takes, and select spells that avoid dealing the damage type as covered in the "warriors" commentary above. Break off death ray when anon changes to the purple llama (energy) form.
For tamers, stop pets when Anon switches to the form that they deal the most damage in. For instance, stop Rune Beetles on energy llama, Dragons on Earth elemental, and so on, proceeding to attack again once Anon changes back to human form.
As with all bosses in Shadowguard, additional creatures are only spawned if the player has hit Anon a set amount of times. Starting Word of Death at 30% typically spawns a set of creatures on death.
2 tamers with a Greater Dragon, Rune Beetle, & Tiger/Nightmare/Bake can do all of Shadowguard in ~60 minutes.