a glacier bear  

I killed the 2 ph about 7pm ish and checked back by 2 checked track wasn't up went around to go kill the ph again, walkd around the corner and there was the bear. Being a 52 druid it took about 2 nukes and its was dead. Dropped a ruined bear pelt and of course the pelt i was after the glacier bear pelt :)

O.k. I've read all of the responses to attempting to get this bear to pop and decided to try it. So far i've figured out yes there are 2 roaming skelies one is near the entrance or has been the 2 times i've killed it. The second one is near Sulon McMoor but i've only seen it once i guess someone else killed it. The rest of the skeletons, the 2 in the broken teleporter room just sit there and repop in about 5 minutes. And finally the last 3 are in the building with the Rod they also will repop in 5 minutes so i'm guessing there is no reason to kill them. Just killed the 2 roamers not to long ago and will post the results tomorrow or whenever i check back here. Also, at http://www.eqatlas.com/everfrostcavvesmap.html there is an excellent map of the caves.

What is the spawn time and do i have to kill all mobs down ther ?

Just trying to figure out where these caves are that everyone is talking about. Don't see anything like it on the map. Just wondered if I could get a loc or something to help clarify. Thanks

I have a lvl 35war on Lanys and am sorta twinked, and if a group of lvl 26's could take this bear, a lvl 35war could with about 2 - 3 bubs of hp left (at least). I went LD and am about to continue playing, but I am in EF and I'll go look for him. ^_^

Would a lvl 35warrior be able to solo this guy?
or should i get some help from others?

im helpin a freind out with his helm, but never sure when hes on

This bear conned blue to me at 28. Level range is prolly 27-30.

As amusing as these tales may be, it would certainly help people more if any of them were true. I'm guessing that when you say "wandering" you mean posing symmetrically and absolutely immobile in perfect formation (some in broken teleport room, the others far in the back corner in a little pagoda). Because *THAT* is what ice boned skeletons in this cave do. I have also made distinct note that people describe (see Lich info) the Lich as a static mob, which in this case, and no other case known to man, means he wanders *constantly*. After having died twice due to the bogus information here and on the Lich info page of this site, we simply left. Screw the POS helm, and don't post misinformation, uselesses.

hey brave ones of eq, camped this guy for 7 days. a friend of mine was killing the ph (ib'S) every morning, and 7 hrs later would wait for him to spawn. with no luck, got up early one morning, and killed the wandering ph's, came back six hours later, in which the ph's spawned about 7 hours, and killed them again. waited two hours with no spawn. group with a lvl 52 cavalier, and sat here for 7 more hours, and hit sense animals, BOOM, glacier bear, i started shaking, as he pulled the bear, and was being hit by an ib at the same time. bear didn't even hit the cavalier, and he let me loot the pelt. NOTE: very long spawn, and you have to kill the wandering ib's, that what triggers the bear. good luck.

ohh yea, thanks again to the guy who help me.
Prexian Nomad
prexsus

I solo'd him at 36 with no problem. In hindsight, I bet, I could have solo'd him much sooner had I spotted him earlier in my seasons.
How I did it might easily apply to younger adventurers. Though you must be wary not to run into the lich. Study the map... know where the lich is, he is static so avoid that room. Clear out prior the Ice bones you might run into... although I didn't do this when I vanquished the bear... but might be a good idea.

Find the bear and DOT him.... run, stop when u are out of casting range, DOT again with different Dot.... repeat for each DOT or when DOT times out.

Is it possible to go down and take out the cave bear with a small group of lvl 26 or so chars. perhaps 4-5? Just wondering.

Alright, i camped the bear all weekend!! I killed 9 pairs of wandering icebones and did not see the bear!! (or the Lich by the way) I killed the icebones when they popped, returned 6-7 hours later, watched them pop again and killed them again. Still no bear!! This is the final piece I need to complete all my totemic quests and its driving me crazy!!! Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong?

I would like to make sure of some things:
I understand that,

1-The Lich or its PH(s) roams the longest path around, COUNTER CLOCKWISE.

2-The Glacier Bear or its PH(s) roams the same path as the Lich, but CLOCKWISE, with a spawn time of 6:45 minutes or so.

3-The Glacier Bear or its PH(s) spawn in the room where Sulon McMoor stands, so waiting by McMoor would ensure that we could see the Bear or its PH when it spawns.

4-A lvl 29 cleric (what i am) could solo the Bear, using Root/Instill and Wrath (195dmg or so Magic based DD).


Could someone confirm this? if this is all true, one could kill the cloakwise roaming PH, camp by Sulon McMoor, and log back 6:40 minutes later and catch the next spawn, Bear or PH. And repeat until the item is found. Could it be?

Please confirm or unconfirm any of these facts if you know.

I went in the other day and was raped by Lich... Ouch!!!

I got this for my Shaman Alternate Character today. Here's how I got the Bear. I bound my Druid by the tunnel entrance and then killed the wandering Ice Bone PH's. I left then and did some other hunting by porting out of the cave. Over a week and a half period I gated back to the cave to check if the bear was up. I also checked to see if wandering Icebones were up. Always there were wandering IB's, so I killed them again. I stayed at the entrance, and nailed the IB's as they walked past there. You can see the Lich walk by from there too, so its a safe spot. Somewhere someone said the bear is a 8 hour spawn, and to check back 8 hours after killing an IB. THIS IS WRONG! You need to get back into the cave to check on the bear because he spawns from 61/2 to 81/2 hours after the PH's are killed. Waiting 8 hours is the reason so many people say they just went to the cave and found the bear. Or that they were hunting mammoths and a Ranger buddy saw the bear on track so they went down and got it. Some poor smuck killed the Icebones and then logged on 8 hours later to find nothing, because the Bear had already been killed. My Bear spawned 7 hours after I killed the IB's. I stood at the entrance to wait for him, and it took 25 minutes for the bear to work its way through its route to where I was waiting. Twenty minutes into my wait a Frigging Ranger and his Shaman buddy show up, run past me and start scouting the caves. I stayed put close enought to the first intersection where I could see anything walking past east to west in the first intrsection from the entrance of the tunnels. The Ranger didn't find the bear, Cause I saw it walk through the intersection from a clockwise direction. I ran up to the intersection, snared the bear and kited up and down the tunnel from the Intersection to the Ice Goblin Diver near the water. It took I beleive ( I lost count) five Combusts and a Creeping Crud. The Bear took max damage (180) on every cast of Combust but for one cast where it did 65 damage. I had 4 bubbles of health left and 1 bubble of manna. I seriously think I may have quit the game if the Ranger had got my bear, and I have to say to him is: kill some PH's you lazy KSer. Hope this helps everyone who going to attemp this very boring and stupid quest.

finally got this guy to pop. took some patience but when it finally popped I felt SO good.

here's what I did. I was using my shadowknight to run totemic quests, so I just kept ITU up all the time and the lich wasn't a problem.

I went in and sat down in the big room with the altar thing and the 2 stationary icebones. I sat down, facing the opening (you can see into the hallway) and waited. when I saw the roaming IBS's wander by I'd kill them, then camp. 7 hours later I come back and wait until either the IBS or glacier bear pops. the first 2 times the IBS's popped, but the third time, BAM! the bear popped. I could hardly believe my eyes. I pulled it back into the room with the 2 static IBS (the lich doesn't roam into this room so its good). My hands were shaking, and as I killed it paranoid thoughts were racing through my head thinking someone was gonna KS it. heheheh.

grabbed the pelt and ran off to CT. luckily, ogreskin camois dropped off the first page I killed. nice!

Matt

I am in the room with the broken teleporter and two Ice Bone Skeletons. Are the Skeletons the Glacier Bears Placeholders?

why dont u just use sense animals?

so can the lich see through inviz undead? if he can't what's the big deal?

anyone know where he spawns in that cave?

I have killed him now twice in the last few weeks. A friend of mine killed him 5 times in 2 weeks. Getting him is hard but here are some easy steps to do it. (It's best to do it while you are around level 30, gives you something to do in Everfrost).

1. Make sure you know where to look for him and know his path... finding maps of the caves and his path isn't hard. (Also, make sure to know the path of the Lich and where the other necro NPC is located before you run around like a bratty kid at Chucky Cheese)

2. Make sure you either have track, sense animal, or someone who can that you can TRUST. This animal is too hard to get to leave to chance and the helm is worth too much to get it Yoinked by someone you thought was helping you. Just going down into the caves to the ice skeleton altar and using sense animal or track is good enough. No need to search his entire route. If he's up, you'll see him. (If you do NOT have a way to track, simply go to ice boned hut and wait if you think he's up, he comes to that location and stands there during his route)

3. Make sure you have all the spells you need up, or that you have someone by to heal you. (Note: ice or cold spells are no good, so don't waste the mana) He really can't take disease and poison spells though so pile em up. Fire is probably good too. He isn't much harder than the average wooly mammoth (HP-wise).

4. Have something to do. That is why it's important to be around level 30. You can kill mammoths and gain exp and still go down every 7-8 hours or so. Or wait until high 40's and kill Ice Giants. Just as long as you have something to do. (And find out about place holders so you know what to kill to get him to spawn!)

5. MOST importantly: 1) ANY TIME they announce the servers coming down (especially if it's only for a few minutes) RUN down to the caves and CAMP there (make sure you can actually camp so you are saved there.... wouldn't be good to be disconnected and pop back on to find yourself tangoing with the Lich) When they reopen the servers you have a 33% chance he's up, so stay alert for the servers coming back up too. OR
2) Play at night when few others are on. That way you can hold the spawn from out on the tundra and you don't have to sit down in the caves picking off stationary ice bones for kicks.

6. LAST of all, be smart. Don't get all excited when you see him and jump him with half health and mana. Take your time. If someone jumps in and tries to KS him, petition. (It IS only a game... oops BLASPHEMY hehehe) It is also possible to pull him out onto the tundra (he will come up through holes in the ice) but he's a fast swimmer so be careful. And, sweet God, don't let Tundra Jack KS him...

(Note: you COULD always kill the placeholder and then camp, logging back in every 7-8 hours to either get the bear or kill placeholders again, but i wouldn't advise it. Either you'll miss him altogether or you'll pop up and find someone else camping him. It's happened to me and do you think they'll actually believe that you are camping him like that? LOL)

Anyway, good luck and hope i've helped,

Maruwindl Frostbane (Knights of Templar, E'ci)

Im wandering since the Ice Bear is an Animal, can we charm him?