If these things pop a weapon skill against an avatar and a chigoe spawns, does the chigoe attack the SMN or the avatar? If it attacks the avatar, does it despawn when the avatar is released or does it charge the summoner? Finally, do multiple weapon skills spawn multiple chigoes?
Hopefully some death free tests tonight and I can answer some of my own questions.
This could be useful for when the mire is overcroweded as I won't have to sweat imp aggro.
Edit:
Chigoe headed straight for the SMN every time even when I was sneaked and invisible.
They won't despawn as they are happily smacking you.
Multiple weapon skills do indeed mean multiple Chigoes.
Summary. Wild Karakuls con decent challenge to a SMN and die with about 3 blood pacts. On average it would get off about 2 weapon skills in that time. Retreat so the avatar attacks the chigoe is nice, but it does leave your Wild Karakul unclaimed. I killed about 8 of these with no Treasure Hunter and got 1 meat, 1 skin, 3 or 4 earth crystals, a beastman seal, and 2 kindred seals. To be fair, though, some of the drops came from chigoe spawns. Exp ranged from 60-70 for the karakl and 30-40 per chigoe. Very safe to duo. My avatars tended to be about at the end of their lives each time while soloing.
Edited, Jan 11th 2007 2:56pm by pandemonium