Reeking Skunk  

I followed Luthair's post for this, basically:

Run to the northern section of Toxx and stay north of the river (the Erudin newbie area) and kill all (and only) "a skunk" on track.

After awhile only 1 "a skunk" will be up, which once killed will respawn every 15-20 seconds or so at different locations, I found it at the following:

228.44, -782.83, 84.21
1125.97, -376.60, 100.30
357.01, -87.39, 59.78
1060.32, -153.46, 92.83
1483.46, -801.77, 73.36
1139.59, -976.43, 111.94

Finally, after about an hour camping the 15 second "a skunk", the reeking spawned, which I found wandering at:
1356.12, -406.19, 90.92

I did try slaughtering everything around the PoK book and the druid rings for awhile but Luthair's approach appeared to work, unless the NPC guards killed the other PH for me.

Edited, Dec 17th 2010 5:49pm by Tetras

Killed nothing but "a skunk" for about 10 min and got Reeking Skunk to spawn in the central part of the zone.

If you happen to be the only person in the zone, using a tracker only kill 'a skunk' (or 'a large skunk' if you see one, I didn't), they share a table with other animals so shortly only one will be up. The PH is (in my experience) always 'a skunk' with a respawn of 15-20 seconds.

Ok I have to agree, I stopped killing skunks and killed everything but skunks, and with in 45 minutes I had the Reeking Skunk Pop, never saw a large skunk. This was after 3 different sessions of an hour+ of killing skunks. I just worked the North East area around PoK book to Eurdine, the Reeking seem to spawn South of the Eurdin zone in. I had my ranger just bow mobs and I went target kill target kill, everything but skunks. Seem to be the best way to get this thing to pop. Hope this helps.

Ok, well from what I can tell, killing skunks PROBABLY spawns him, but the first time i killed him, he spawned a skelly, second time, a spiderling. I dunno. Skunks are random from anything, and they must be in the zone; he must spawn from a skunk... i guess

/cons indif to my agnostic erudite chanter

Just did him for my baby Berserker's epic with a 53 Bard. Low HP, doesn't summon, very easy mob.

Edited, Tue May 31 14:57:40 2005

Found between Emil and druid ring. Conned DB to my 56 Ogre Berserker and indifferent. I had just lost virtue and had 3700 hp and 1100 AC. I used Edge of Envelopement and attacked. Stunned with Head Strike and Frenzied. I had 29 percent health when skunk died. I used my hit every time disc and Battle Cry. Harder than Gnashing Kobold but no problem. Dropped my epic piece Scent Gland. Total time in Toxx was about 10 minutes. Fight about 2 minutes.

Edited, Sun May 15 20:23:56 2005

Conned dubious to my 52 barb warrior, was hittin too hard so i jokingly shouted "train to erudin" even though he (**the skunk) is not kos to players. a 65 chanter happened to be there, and of course most people go stark raving mad when they see a named mob, so i zoned in and out of erudin to clear aggro, and there's the skunk wailing on the chanter while she was desperately trying to nuke it to death, most likely drooling in jittery anticipation at the phat lootz she thought she was going to nab. the mob and the enc's health stayed about equal, and i think the chanter actually won with 4% health. I briefly considered helping but figured the bloodthirsty freak would petition and spread bad word about me, so i just sat and watched lol i wish i could have witnessed IRL her reaction to the spoils of her victory =)

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Edited, Wed Jul 28 04:45:16 2004

Logged in my 50 druid. And there he was standing by the merchant's hut. He was huge. For a moment I thought he was a ROUS (Rodent of unusual size), like when the wolves were all huge all over Norath. Nope, he was named. I was geared for 222 wisdom (with my sleeves). Hes not exactly an easy fight for a 50 druid, or maybe I play wrong? I was sowed and skinned. I first tried snare, silly me. Immune to snare and root. ok. Ran around like an idiot. What makes him paticularly nasty is he would get to me before any spells finnished. The only dot that landed before he got to me was immoliate. I had full mana before this. I dotted the hell out of him. The final sliver I had of mana for the last DoT, went instead to a very nervous SoW. At one point, I ran away to memorize 'terrorize animal'. I think I ran far enough to lose agro. He started gaining life fast. Tracked him down. dotted, and so on. By the end I had about 23% health and 2% mana. He was just very persistant. Chased me to the end, and perma sow'ed. He never slowed down. He is not an 'animal' I guess hes a freaking Monster!

I am still a bit new to what my druid can do at times. As long as its not a caster and my spells land, I am still amazed. I actually was teased by some when I exclaimed I had killed him? He was not full on easy. Id assume resistant to slow from what I read here, and maybe fear? He resisted my 'lightning blast' also.

I too felt bad learning he was for Zerker epic, after looting the gland.

Conned db to my 49 shaman, was there killing skeletal commanders when a ranger had this on track. Maybe overkill, but 65 cleric, 49 shaman, 51 ranger took it down. It was immune to my slow too.

Well, upon zoning into Toxxulia Forest at the PoK book for Erudin, I saw the Reeking Skunk wandering past. I was there to help my hubby get his collector's skunk scent gland for the firework stick quest, and he was low level. Instead of him being attacked by this mob...I decided to kill it myself. Was an easy kill for a level 65 enchanter with pet. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it was for the berserker epic at the time, otherwise I would have left it alone. :(

killed him last night just out of curiosty (and desperation looking for collectors skunk glands), he was not hard for a (gimped, half my stuff including haste item now on my new monk main)61 erudite paladin. Also note that to me he conned indifferent.

It is also immune to my stun spells. Pallys health went down pretty quick.

This mob needs to be moved to a more appropriate zone. Toxx is the newbie levelling zone for Erudites and this highly aggressive mob attacks everyone on sight, making things difficult for lowbies trying to level. I think that the Hole would be a much more suitable place for this to spawn.

PH is "a skunk." I killed nothing but skunks for a couple hours. I killed from the druid rings all the way up the the NW part of zone. Around location pos 1740, pos485 is where I found the Reeking skunk. It looks like its spawn point will be somewhere up in that area, but then it roams.
Also Brenlo was goign to tell the Developers about moving this mob, becuase it is a high level mob killing people in a newbie area.
As of 3/5/05 there reeking skunk is still spawning there, i just got him to spawn right before this post.
I used my 46 berserker, 65 cleric, and 59 druid, it was over kill, fight lasted 2 minutes if that.


Edited, Fri Mar 5 15:09:13 2004

my friend who's a 52 druid was silk farming in Tox and this skunk attacked. took her down to 24% life in nothing flat. as usual, snare & root don't stick. she came back out to kill him and a pally was down to 37% taking him down. so she healed. he's not to hard to avoid, just a PITB.

The game wife checked this out. She is a 55 shaman. As already mentioned, skunk is immune to slow, root, and snare.

It roams around the "good" side of Tox, especially around the druid ring. It is larger than a normal skunk, but not huge. More like wolf or bear cub size. No spell attacks, pure melee only with bites/hits ranging from 18 to 148.

Poison spells both DD and DoT hit nicely and easily and were the way to go.

A friend of hers, a 45 druid reports that the skunk cons even at 45.

BTW, dropped no coin and only an "assumed to be berserker epic drop" scent gland, which was No Drop, Lore, Magic.

This thing looks like a huge skunk. It scowled at my ranger and my enchanter. It has a pretty normal agro range and runs at a normal speed. The max hit he did on my ranger was 136. It conned yellow at 44, so its level was 45 or 46. Snare does not work, and when I tried to "Panic Animal" (animal fear), it didn't work, so this skunk isn't an animal. As for his hit points, he's about as hard to melee as a Sentry of Justice in PoJ, so I'm guessing their hit points are similar.

Edited, Thu Feb 19 19:59:37 2004

dang he hits hard. got em with my 52 war and 47 dru. afterwards i was like what was the point in that?

New named mobs suddenly popping up in old world zones ... another berserker epic mob?