Strange Book

For the books you get from shadow missions, see Ancient Books#Strange Book.

Basic Information

• To distinguish a monster from an item, there are a few possible ways:
  • First, load Windmill, and scroll your mouse over a book. If it is the item, there will be an arrow with an X over it; and if it is a monster, there will be a fist.
  • For a more simple way, right before all of the books spawn, the books that give items will fall to the ground. While the monster ones will appear with black smoke.

Shadow

Strange Book

	Mission	Ghost of Partholon Buchanan's Secret			Melee Hits	?
	Running Speed	Detection Speed	Detection Range	Aggressive	Aggression	Element
	Very Fast	Fast	Small	Will attack unprovoked Yes 100	Multi	Unknown
	Skills (Mouse over for Skill Name, Rank and/or Passive Defense Level)
	Icebolt Click this icon for the page on Icebolt. 100 Firebolt Click this icon for the page on Firebolt. 100
Difficulty-dependent Stats Mission Difficulty Hit Points Melee Damage Ranged Damage Def. (Prot.) Experience Gold Critical Combat Power Basic 250 Unknown None ? (?%) 100 107 ?% 631 Intermediate 500 5-30 None ? (?%) 200 1-500 ?% 1,262 Advanced 960 Unknown None ? (?%) 350 None ?% 1,893 Hard 1,920 100-150 None ? (?%) 700 None ?% 2,524 Elite 3,840 Unknown None ? (?%) 1,400 None ?% 3,786 Lord Unknown Unknown None ? (?%) None None ?% Unknown
Drops Mission Difficulty Misc. Equipment < All > Paper Paper Crane Glittering Paper None Basic Ice Spear page 1 Ice Spear page 2 Ice Spear page 4 Ice Spear page 5 Thunder page 1 Thunder page 3 Thunder page 4 Fireball page 1 Fireball page 2 Fireball page 3 Fireball page 4 Fireball page 6 Fireball page 7 Fireball page 8 Fireball page 9 Fireball page 10 None Intermediate Thunder page 1 Shock page 3 Shock page 8 Fireball page 1 Fireball page 2 Fireball page 4 Fireball page 7 Fireball page 9 Ice Spear page 1 Ice Spear page 3 None Advanced Ice Spear page 1 Shock page 3 Fireball page 1 Fireball page 2 Fireball page 5 Fireball page 6 Fireball page 9 None Hard Ice Spear page 1 Thunder page 1 Thunder page 3 ?? Shock page 3 Fireball page 2 None Elite None None
Notes & Advice Notes Several of these spawn with Strange Book items. Players can tell the difference by watching for the books that fall without the black smoke effect that is associated with monsters spawning or despawning. Advice Similar to Mimics, they will not normally aggro the player without being provoked. They can be opened by clicking on them, summoning a pet with an aggressive AI to attack them, or using Lullaby, Windmill, Blaze, or Focused Fist.