Kepkhet Marrowfeast

Description
Referred to as The Queen of Scarabs, this vicious lady hides in the the Crystal Desert surrounded by her minions: Marrow Scarab and Scarab Nest Builders.

This is what Aurek the Scarab Hunter explains about her:


 * For years I have hunted the elusive and deadly Kepkhet, Queen of the Scarabs. Every time I have closed in on her location, she and her brood move on and seem to disappear into thin air again. Recently, I have noticed a pattern in their selection of nesting sites. It seems that they always travel to places where death is abundant, building their nests among rotting corpses and on blood-soaked grounds, usually places of warfare, sacrifice, or slaughter.

In this case, she was obviously attracted by plenty of corpses that were the result of excessive farming in the area (see Notes).

Location
Kepkhet is located along the southern edge of Prophet's Path, near the southeast corner of the area, along with the desert griffons
 * Crystal Desert
 * Prophet's Path

Skills Used

 * Contemplation of Purity
 * Guardian
 * Mark of Protection (Elite)
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Divine Intervention

Note: Since most of these skills are enchantments, skills that hinder, remove, counter or exploit enchantments are very effective against Kepkhet.

Strategy
Usually two or three man farming teams have a relatively easy time of farming Kepkhet. A W/Mo or W/N, an elementalist, and a monk is a very good farming group. Have the caster stay at least an aggro bubble away from the warrior when he/she aggros a group of monsters. The monsters around Kepkhet are arranged in a circle with two outside patrol groups of four scarabs each. Take out the patrol group first and then proceed to take out all the monsters around Kepkhet. Afterwards, go after the Queen herself. Have the elementalist echo-meteor shower her when she is around 3/4 health. This makes her health drop rapidly and interferes with her spells. When she uses Mark of Protection, stop attacking for the full 10 seconds. Rinse and repeat.

Another good class to combat the new scarabs is a Mesmer specializing in Domination Magic. Using Empathy on the Marrow Scarabs and Scarab Nest Builders, as well as using Diversion to combat the Marrow Scarab's Vampiric Touch. Although a single Mesmer may not stop all the Marrows casting Well of the Profane, he can interrupt one easily. When it comes to the Queen and her fast casting Protection Spells, Diversion can become a very welcome spell. Mark of Protection can be interrupted, but should she successfully cast it, if a hex(Empathy) is on her, she will usually cast Contemplation of Purity to remove the hex at the cost of her enchantment. If this does not happen, then use Shatter Enchantment to remove Mark of Protection from her. With little time, and continuously casting Empathy on her, and with her spells diversioned, she will kill herself with the added help of your range attacks as well.

Items Dropped

 * Kepkhet's Refuge