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Cazic Thule

First trip into Plane of Fear, difficulty zero, and Cazic Thule at the end of it. Fire and cold both bounce off him, so half the chant melody does nothing. Plus a home built log parser to prove what is actually landing.

August 13, 2026
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First time in Plane of Fear, taken at difficulty zero to learn it, with Cazic Thule at the end. The trash is trivial against 164 health regen and nearly 6,000 hit points, but the god himself is a genuinely harder fight, and half the chant melody turns out to do nothing to him. There is also a log parser, written by Claude over dinner, which is what makes that visible rather than a hunch.

Cazic Thule Plane of Fear Difficulty 0 Solo
Health regen164, against roughly 6,000 hit points
DamageAround 124 to 133 DPS
ResistsFire and cold do not land. Disease does.
LootShield of Rainbow Hues, Puppet Strings

Learn Fear at Zero

Progressive difficulty, on purpose.

  • Difficulty zero for a first visit, even though four is probably doable by now. The point is to learn the zone before the numbers matter.
  • Resists barely function at zero. Things land that have no business landing, so do not read a zero clear as proof your spell choice is right.
  • The mini bosses come at you early. Terror and Fright both pulled at once on the way in; there is a route that avoids it, but I had already aggroed both.
  • Rooting is the zone's signature annoyance. You spend a lot of Fear unable to move.
  • Bards fight rooted fine. Bow plus songs keeps damage going while stuck, which is a real argument for the class here.

Watch for the tentacle tormentor, which dispels. Kill it before it strips your buffs.

What I Am Shopping For

Three items make the zone worth repeating.

  • Bone-Clasped Girdle.
  • Amulet of Necropotence.
  • Blood Fire, which pairs with a Serpent's Tooth in the plan if both ever drop.
  • Everything else gets given away. Spare drums, gloves and orbs go to the guild, with a giveaway planned roughly weekly once the max loot is in.

The Fight, and the Resist Wall

The most useful thing in the episode.

  • Fire does not land on him. Neither does cold. That is two of the chants in the melody contributing nothing at all.
  • Disease lands, and poison is known to land from Shaman experience, so those are what the set should carry.
  • Build him his own spell set. Drop Chant of Flame and the cold chant, bring disease and poison. This is the same lesson as swapping frost for flame between Nagafen and Vox, one step further.
  • Cazic Thule dots hard: Boil Blood, Drones of Doom and Cascading Darkness all go up, and he has clickies running.
  • Bard slow lands and is worth having, since he hits noticeably harder than anything before him.
  • Disarm mostly failed, so do not build a plan around it.
  • Inversion to top off, rather than Overchannel. Healing matters here in a way it did not against the dragons.

What the Parser Showed

Numbers instead of impressions.

  • 58,000 total damage, about 31,000 of it mine, with the rest from the charmed pet.
  • Thorns was the top damage source at 55, which is frankly sad, and it points at buffing thorns with Bard songs as the easy gain.
  • The AoE slow is the consistent top performer, as it has been all run.
  • Cleave badly underperforms Reave and Smite on a single target. Warrior is supreme on multiple targets; a knight class is better on one.
  • Around 10,000 healed across the fight, with 5% crit chance.
  • Most chants never landed, which is exactly the resist problem above, quantified.

The parser is home built, written by Claude from a log file and a one line brief, to avoid needing .NET on Linux. On Windows, EQ Log Parser is still the recommendation.

The Loot

One real decision in it.

  • Shield of Rainbow Hues, 20 to all resists and upgradeable to 30, against a plain AC shield already carried.
  • The resists are probably worth more than the AC given what is coming, though it is close.
  • Puppet Strings and a piccolo round it out.
  • Blade Stopper in the secondary augment slot, 22 stamina, is the next plus ten target for the hit points it carries.

Where the Run Is

Week one, and the board is nearly clear.

  • Nagafen has already been killed at difficulty three and four off camera, unrecorded because I was not in the mood to narrate.
  • Yael still needs a difficulty four, which was skipped at three.
  • 118 motes looted since level one, which feels low against the 200 plus I had by this point in beta.
  • Innoruuk is next, most likely the same day.

Cazic Thule, Solo, at Difficulty Zero

  1. Take Fear at zero the first time. Learn the layout before raising it.
  2. Expect to be rooted constantly. Keep a bow on the hotbar.
  3. Kill the tentacle tormentor early. It dispels.
  4. Charm a pet and let it carry the trash.
  5. Build a spell set for him: no fire, no cold.
  6. Bring disease and poison instead.
  7. Slow him with the Bard song. He hits harder than the dragons.
  8. Sit in Inversion and top off between his dots.
  9. Do not rely on disarm.
  10. Take Shield of Rainbow Hues and plan to upgrade it to 30 resists.
YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to my legendary adventures in Norrath. Today we are going to tackle uh Cazic-Thule. And uh so I just few seconds ago, I just killed uh where is it at here? D4 uh Nagafen. Uh yeah, right here. So we just killed him just a few minutes ago. So we are uh we are cooking when it comes to uh getting things done here. Let’s uh let’s buff up. Um let me see here if I can bring this in. I posted it on my uh my thing. But this is this is a literally vibe coded this during dinner uh to parse my log or uh something on Linux. So this is the uh D4 uh 130 uh 70 PS, 67k or 69k total hit points. Uh it’s 48 48 HPS. Uh so it’s pretty nice, right? Um pretty nice. I didn’t use a pet on this one for some reason. I killed it cuz I was bored. Uh but you can see here my slashes are my most damaging and stuff like that. So it’s pretty nice. If we go back, I also did Nagafen three, which I had a little bit more DPS. Same slashes. Now Thorns is really cooking, right? So Thorns is really cooking. So we’ve been uh we’ve been busy. I’ve been killing stuff. I didn’t record uh any of those Nagafens cuz I didn’t I didn’t really think they were worth doing right now. But uh should be good. I And I wanted to show this. This like I might release this tool at some point, but uh it’s 100% uh it’s semi vibe coded. So I don’t even know how good it is. It just worked. Uh I literally I said I told Fable what I wanted and I went to a dinner with my wife and this is what I got when I came back. Uh, but here you can see all my experience that I did from uh leveling up. So, like uh Sole, most experience, right? Uh, it’s it’s pretty cool. It tracks all my AAs and stuff, everything in my log file. So, it’s pretty cool. So, let’s go ahead and get into this. Uh and uh do this here. So, uh let’s quick buff. Now, when we get in here, what we’re going to do is D0 fear, uh obviously. Uh, we haven’t done fear yet. So, I’m going to start at zero and uh you know, I’ll do the the other ones and probably uh do a video on D4. And then I’m going to go back and do a video on D4 uh >> [music] >> Nagafen and then I’ll probably do a video when I do the D4 box, right? I just I don’t know. [sighs] I was not in the mood for uh talking. That’s literally what it boiled down to. I was not in a mood for uh talking when I killed them. So, it was just uh getting it done. And uh my claw kept killing my uh my window of my parser there cuz it was so it was getting a little weird. So, wouldn’t have worked out very well anyway. All right, we’re going to do zero. Uh, I can probably do four, honestly, at this point, but uh I want to do them progressively. Uh, I want to get a blood fire and we’re probably going to do Serpent’s Toothless Blood Fire. >> [music] >> Uh, I still have to go back and do Oh god, what is it? Uh, Yael four. I don’t think I did four. I think I did three. So, we got to go back. Like this is week one. Uh, we have almost cleared the board when it comes to to things to kill. Uh, I’m probably going to put that in the dashboard here. So, I can >> [music] >> uh, you know, what do I what do I have left for the week? All right. So, yeah, as as always, right? This is a uh, a a limited version of fear. Now, like there’s fright there and stuff like that. Now, I learned if I go like this and I walk in this direction here. And I go all the way. I just keep going. Now, it’s now I got them both anyway. All right, what does it matter? Let’s just kill them all, right? Where do we stand? Uh, there is a way to get it where you don’t get both these mini bosses right away, but I am stunned or rooted so that I can’t move, so whatever. I don’t know if that was an earth elemental attack, I guess. All right, we’re going to get a pet. I’m going to go with this one. Charm you. Boom. All right. We’re going to just got to go with what was healed. Jeez. Taking a lot of damage here. And all right, force renewal. And that should be good. Let’s get back on this core again. I can’t move backwards cuz I’m rooted, so get that going. Let’s kill them. These are these like it’s not too hard of mobs, right? I’m I’m fighting too many bosses. Uh, a fright finger and I got to I do have a pet, so now I’m like I’m not rooted anymore. And then I’m rooted again, so it’s just what it is. I’m trying to kill all this trash because if I do die, I can just right come back, right? This is Try this. Do this. Switch to inversion. Of course I fizzle. I’m fizzling. Like I heal like five times in a row. What what the [\h__\h] right? Like, uh seriously. It really wants me to spend like why am I fizzling pill? Like, why? Why am I fizzling the spell that I cast the most, right? There we go. Am I attacking something? I want to get this thing here. Wherever that’s at. All right. Better view there. And you can see like terror and fright are like 50% and I haven’t even target them yet. Right? Let’s get right down here. [music] Uh actually terror is almost dead. Let’s Let’s actually kill this tentacle tormentor. Uh it’s going to do like a dispel uh terrible attack. There we go. Got him down. All right, what do we get here? Uh thorny vine boots. Store those. We might do a ranger. And we might need those in the future. All right, there we go. God. But yeah, I’m having I’m having so much fun. I have spent I have spent a lot of time playing. Uh we’re almost max uh max experience. So, theoretically we’ll start seeing more uh theoretically more more A experience from what somebody said, but I am not counting on it. All right, we’re going to go ahead and just heal. I’ll just make sure we’re not going to die. Now, smite items we’re looking for, we’re looking for a bone class girdle. Uh we’re looking for an amulet of necro potence. And a blood fire. I think that’s all we’re looking for today. I’m going to do a giveaway in the guild. So, if you’re in the guild, I’m just going to give away all this stuff that I no longer need. I got an extra drum, uh gloves, some orbs and [\h__\h] Uh I don’t I I have extra for cloaks of flame yet. I won’t until I get that to plus 10, but uh uh yeah, soon. Uh I plan on doing it like probably uh at least every week for the the max loot, right? And I’m just going to give away all the stuff I don’t need. Uh probably to the guild first. If no one in the guild wants it, then outside the guild. So, uh obviously this is this is after the fact, right? So, uh like uh by the time this video comes out, >> [music] >> I’ll have already uh progressed far beyond uh that. Look at that. I’m rooted. >> [laughter] >> Now, this is the cool thing about a bard. I’m shooting my bow and I’m casting [music] bard songs, right? Uh totally the best class in the game. And uh there we go, finally. And we’re getting this, so uh I want to I’ll get back to sky. That’s kind of like where I want to get. I needed more DPS and my thought process there is killing more stuff. So, uh we’re going to do that now. Let’s see here. I’ll rebuff again when we get to Kazic, but where the hell are these guys? [music] I don’t see him. Oh, right in front of me. There. There he is. All right. Is that my bow going to hit him from that range? Is that a toad? Uh All right, can I hit just hit it with a song? There we go. There. We want to pull him back. So, we don’t get the named at the same time. I believe that’s where Dread’s at right there, right? Yeah, Dread’s right there. So, I think when we kill this one, we’ll get Dread. Uh then we got to go over here. We’ll kill these ones first. I believe. So, before we kill Dracolich. But, it’s D0, right? We can probably face tank it all. We can probably Um you know, depending on uh you know, our luck with heals and stuff like that. Cleric most likely could. Like uh instead of the druid, like for uh promise recovery. Our promise renewal is like so overpowered that >> [music] >> uh you’re not going to have any problems there. All right. But, uh the druid variant is uh I would say high higher DPS. Uh because you’re relying a lot more on thorns and stuff, right? Let me see if this works now. Claude’s saying it does. I don’t know if you can see that. You should be able to see that, but that’s the overlay it’s kind of working on. I don’t I’m not I’m not 100% happy with it yet. Uh [music] but, we’ll work It’s a work in progress. And uh it’s it’s uh Let’s look that and then we’ll merge those. It is uh hilarious. >> [laughter] >> Claude made that in [music] like 30 minutes while I was eating dinner with my wife and watching a show. And all I told it was what I wanted. And I am just flabbergasted by uh by it, but it’s pretty funny. Uh and I I all I did was give it access to my log file, right? I just like, “Here’s my log file. Tell me something interesting.” >> [laughter] >> And I apparently I looted like 118 motes since level uh one. So, it feels a little low. I had over 200 on the uh the other uh the the other beta. And I wasn’t even what level I’m at now. So, it is what it is there. There we go. And we’re going to kill this thought thing first because I think it drains mana. On all honesty, I think it drains mana. All right. So, what do we got here? So, we’re going to go back to the other side, kill those three, and then we’ll kill these two plus Bracklegill at the same time. And wrap this wrap this up with a nice Kazakus kill here in a few moments. I don’t think we’ll have any problems. I can’t remember what he’s resistant to, but it’s probably one of these things that I got memorized. It might be fire what he’s resistant to. But I don’t remember. Maybe disease. So, we’ll have to make a a spell set just for him. But uh it doesn’t matter. He’s D0. Everything’s going to land no matter what. I I landed an invulnerable on D0 uh Anub’rekhan when I was doing my shaman. So, I don’t think it really matters on D0. I think they’ve they’ve nerfed uh the resists quite a bit. It’s after that is when it starts to matter. Uh you’re probably laying fire stuff on Nagafen in D0 if you upgrade the spell, right? All right. We’re going to pop into this little hole here. Now, where is this son of a [\h__\h] There he is right there. There we go. And we’re just going to grab him. Uh we got a gorgon. I’m going to run out here. Uh I’m going to kill the gorgon first. So, where the hell that is. There we go. All right. And easy, right? And we’re already at 100% experience, so we’re at 74. Let’s see how much AA experience we get from this blue, right? So, I would expect 2% normally. Let’s see what we get now, right? 2% 74 74 79. So, we got a little bit more. Not bad there. Uh druid gloves, let’s loot those. You never know when we might need those. Truly don’t think I’ll ever use them, but who knows. There we go. Now, let’s uh let’s do a heal. And then let’s go into inversion. I want to I want to show you this if I haven’t shown it to you yet. All right. So, I’m at like 164 HP regen right now with my current buffs. And I’m at 74 health. 77 health. 76 health. 75 health. 77 health. You can notice what I’m doing. Now, if for instance uh for a efflorescence heal is healing me, but uh now it’s off. So, there we go. 83 81 83 81, right? It’s hilarious. The amount of damage that’s incoming is nowhere near the amount of damage that’s uh getting healed there. And I still I think I got about 40 more hit points I can get out of regen. As long as I can get more hit points, right? I’m almost at 6K. Uh I’m wearing now the blade stopper in my uh ooh, those are nice. Uh loot those. Uh I got I got a blade stopper in my uh my thing, which is 22 stamina. I’m going to upgrade that thing to plus 10. No doubt, right? Like that is that is going to be like 100 hit points. Um Let me see. Let me look at stats here. It’s 100 hit points to 30 stamina, I think it was. Maybe 40 or 50 AC. I don’t remember what the full stats are, but it is it is a it is a good item, especially for the secondary any slot, right? Uh it’s going to improve my bash damage. I don’t know if we see that, but we got 89 bash there. It’s going to improve that because it’s a higher uh AC [music] and stuff. Let’s go ahead and auto sell those. That’s like a free seven platinum. All right, what do we got what are we dealing with right here? We got a warrior wrath and a gale. Jeez. Uh man. All right, let’s uh let’s do this. There we go. Charmy charm. No. All right, charmy charm on you maybe? There we go. We got you. All right, perfect. Now, um I want to kill this warrior wrath while he’s [\h__\h] around with what with what whatever is going on. All right, so the uh dracolich is like jacking this pet up, right? Like look at him. Now, we need to leave on this pet before he gets completely completely killed. Um which is maybe sooner. Not yet. All right, that’s dead. And I’m going to go ahead I’m going to take the kill from uh dracolich because I’m a dick and he doesn’t deserve anything. Look at that. Schwack schwack swing my blade Get an AA, right? Swing your blade, get an AA. All right. >> [laughter] >> All right, now we have two AAs, perfect. Now, we’re going to have to heal up real quick. I don’t know what is going on there. Oh, I don’t have attack on one. There we go. Let’s get this going. Let’s go with this one. Now, switch me over, please. There we go. And chant of flames. So, chilling embrace, what the hell is that? 100 damage a tick. That’s going to negate my regen, but should be fine, right? Uh here we go. And then we’re just going to chant him down to oblivion. Now, we got rotting flesh on us. Which is his disease-based dot, which does more damage, right? So, we’re going to go like this, click our cloak. Wait a second. 1 2 3 4, click our cloak. I wish you could click it instantly like it used to be before. I don’t know why they had to nerf that. Of all the things to nerf, that is one thing I would not have nerfed or thought about nerfing. But, there we go. Just really inner. Doesn’t interact well with the bar, right? It’s just one of those things. All right. Looks like we lost our damage shield, so let’s re-thorn. And chloroplast is about to go. Let’s redo that. And then back into combat, right? That puts us at still 164. Now, if I get a better loot, I could go to Mistmoor and get a better loot. I’m using literally the vendor loot in the vendor hall. I need to go kill Vox until I get a until I get a horn from her, but definitely uh definitely a pain there. Um but hilarious nonetheless. There you go. And I’m currently doing 132 DPS. Show that overlay real quick. 133. But uh like I’m not 100% sure how accurate this this actually is yet, right? The numbers sound about the same as I had uh when uh when I was uh using EQ log parser in Windows, so. But I I’m tracking all the buff timers and stuff like that. Now, I’m probably going to apply this to my character in uh when we do a Leflar, so we can track some of this stuff cuz like this is this is miserable over here. But uh I’m still working on on the layout over here on this thing. Let’s go ahead and heal because I feel like I’m getting a little low there. I just want to make sure I’m not too low. There we go. And we still need uh we still need healing AAs. I haven’t picked those all up yet. Uh but you can see they’re like effervescence heal eight. So like a tick down thing, right? So I can see exactly when it hits. Pretty nice. Uh and then greater conc is about to expire. And then shield of thorns is got 10 minutes, right? Like these are So what it what the parser does is it’s pulling from the spells DB that’s with the client, right? To get spell information. Boom, there we go. He’s dead. That is the most worthless item in the world. We’re going to just auto sell those [music] from this point on. Uh 22 platinum. That’s about how worthless it is. All right. Uh let’s drink our greater conch. And I I don’t think we need anything else. Everything else has got a, you know, a good duration on it there. I think we should be fine. Uh, I am going to drink an accuracy potion. And then, what that but it but it pulls everything from uh from uh the the file and it it does the math automatically with the uh the AAs and stuff. This is kind of funny. Like like the prompt was was very very basic. It was just me lolling around because I really wanted to uh have some kind of log parser here in Linux uh without having to deal with uh .NET. So, I am uh I’m trying to be as Microsoft-free as I possibly can be. >> [music] >> There he is right here. All right, let’s get up there. Now, I’m doing this in big boy ogre form arrow. He’s got uh the druid stick. [music] We’re going to just go on right in here. Come on in, buddy. Yeah, you’re going to join us. All right. All right, so we see we got disease on there. Uh, this is fire didn’t land. Uh, there we go. Cold, there are scalars, fire. Fire is not landing. Let’s uh let’s heal. All right, so fire doesn’t land. Let’s go into We don’t need to go into overchannel mode. I think we should go into inversion mode so we can top off real quick. There we go. We got blood boil, we got drones of doom, we got cascading darkness. He’s just dotting us up. He’s got He’s got all the clickies on him. So, let’s uh hit four, try to disarm this son of a [\h__\h] And back into this. So, step backwards. There we go. You can see we’re doing about 129 DPS right now. Which is not too bad. 100 130. Whoa, we’re way up there. All right, let’s do another heal. Let’s see if we can get right in the range there. Roguely in disarm. I’m trying to disarm him of uh his weapons. It’s definitely hard to see cuz he’s obviously so large. But, let’s heal here. He’s definitely uh hitting me for more than uh what we’re kind of used to, so. Kind of nice to uh see that. Here we go, and then go back into this one. All right, I think we need one more disarm on him. There we go. Don’t want you behind me. I don’t know if this This isn’t that kind of show, buddy. You need to stay or uh keep your hands where I can see them. Uh I only feel like all my attempts to disarm are failing, so. Forest renewal, and then let’s get another druid heal on there. There we go. Back into this one. Go on with that. And then get some bard song on there. Yeah. Now Now that I know, like so if my fire chant is three, and that’s not Disease is landing. Um cold does not seem to be landing. And I don’t think I have I Yeah, I don’t have poison on right now, so I know poison lands on him because that works uh with uh the true uh the shaman dots, so we’ll have to remember that in the future to drop fire from the Oh, I’m interrupted when he’s not even doing anything. All right, let’s let’s get some heals here. We’re kind of lower than I like, right? I mean, it’s D0, but uh it is definitely a harder fight. And then he’s not slowed, I don’t believe. He’s uh he’s bard slowed, so I got that going. I got that going for me. All right, let’s go one more slow there and drop that. Now, when we do this in the future, we will drop fire and cold for uh something else. Uh actually, for this fight, uh no. We’ll keep with we’ll we’ll drop fire. We’ll change that. There we go. He’s dead. Terrible loot. All right. Uh let’s get a screenshot of this with our giant ogre. You can barely see him. And there you go. Now, let me turn off my overlay. I don’t think that will show up in the screenshot, but I don’t want it to. Boom. There we go. All right, so we got the Piccolo and we got puppet strings and we got the Shield of Rainbow Hues. Now, I used the rainbow shield a lot in the previous runs. Now, I probably [music] might switch it for this right here. And get rid of that. And just [music] have more AC, which is you know, a viable option, right? It’s not as much [music] as this one, but it is also 20 all resist and it goes up to like 30. So, that is a you know, it’s a smart move there. So, let’s go ahead and loot these. And once I get my health back, I am going to uh take another screenshot. But, there we go. That is that. Let’s pull in the parser real quick. There we go. Go to encounters. And you can see here it [music] detected, you know, plane of fear is zero, right? And you can see here is the damage. So, we did a total of 58,000 damage. 31,000 [music] was us, right? So, I’m not 100% sure what this thing vibe coded out of that, but there’s something going on there. 124 uh DPS. Looks like we got a blue diamond and that I don’t think it I don’t think it can see the personal loot as as easy. Uh we’re we’re still working on that. By we, I mean Claude. And uh you can see we healed uh you know, 10K there, 3K from that, 3K 2K from that. That’s not too bad. Thorns was our max damage. That’s kind of sad, really. Uh 55 damage on the thorns. I mean, if we jump that up a little bit using bard songs, we probably would have been uh better off in all honesty. You can see cleave is is a very underperforming skill compared to reave or smite. Uh so that is in in a single target, right? If you’re fighting uh you know, a multiple targets, warrior is supreme. If you’re fighting a single target, you know, you’re going to want to one of the knight classes, I think anyway. But it just depends. And then this uh this the slow uh AoE >> [music] >> and it it is always been my top performer. And it does not look like we landed any of our other chance, so that lowered a lot of our damage there. Uh but definitely uh definitely interesting, right? So we had a 5% crit chance. Uh I’m going to ask Claude what uh why why is my damage 31 and uh 58 was the total. I’ll ask it and see what uh see what bugs are still in this thing, but I’m I’m having a blast with uh just messing around with it. I don’t think I’ll do anything with it other than uh use it for my videos, [music] but if you’re looking for a log log parser, you should and you’re in Windows, you should be using uh EQ log parser. I highly recommend that. Uh for everything, but uh there we go. That is Cazic-Thule D0. Uh we will uh probably do Anruuk next uh later today. And maybe uh uh maybe we’ll do a race unlock or something like that. But thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day. >> Mhm.