a skulking brute  

The main reason I came looking for these guys is because they are the ones that will drop ivory (Halfling Culture Quests), I am at level 30 and I still receive pretty decent experience for these guys(some dark blue, some light). For a Ranger the key to taking these guys is to Harmony the ones you don't want to fight, and then hit the one you want with stinging swarm. If you have been working on your melee skills (which you should always be-you are a modified tank btw) they go down pretty easily. Now to quicken the kills use your Flame Arrow to hit them once (113 dmg), then hit them with your ignite spell (its quicker). If you get more than one on you, hit the first one with the stinging swarm and one flame arrow and let the stinging swarm work him down, while you switch to the other guy and start swinging and kicking him and then hit him with ignite. When you take down the one without the stinging swarm, switch to the other one and cast snare, you don't want him running into the room and agroing the other one. You can take three at 30, but you have to be quick on the ignite, I usually wait till one hits me and then cast, less chance of being interrupted. (A note: watch out when you back out of the room after you hit one, there may be a guy standing right in the crossroads, this is certain disaster for a 30 if you pulled the 3 out of the room, so don't back out to far).
The items that I have found on the brutes are as follows:
Flame Agate
Mithril Earrings
Ivory
Amber
Brute Hide
HQ Brute Hide
Ice of Velious
Gold Rings
Jade
Jade Earrings
Pearl
they drop as little as 1cp (lol, couldn't believe this one) to as much as 3 and a half plat. They average about 8gp.

On the Maelin server, this zone is basically empty which are what most zones are on this server other than POK and the Bazaar (who are they selling too? lol, anyone on that server is pretty much selling things in the bazaar, good for the solo guys and gals)

By the way, I am a heavy solo player, with a group, these brutes should be cake for any low 20 group of about 4.

Just a heads up to anyone camping the brutes in the two static rooms, the agro range was increased with the last patch.

In the room with 2 brutes, if you attack one, they will both attack. In the room with 3, attacking the middle one will pull all 3, but if you attack the one on the right (looking in from the entrance) from the right side of the room, it will only pull the middle one as well.

Hope this helps, so you aren't surprised like I was by the higher agro range.

Ok so these guys do Aggro now if you get VERY close to them and they do not add in unless you practically run them over. I did this place with a lv 20 Beastlord and a 14 cleric and we had no problem. Pull to the far side of the room and clear the wanderers first and you should have no worries. They do run at 20% so once you learn the path they flee on then you are golden. Should anything go wrong Dalnir's is a hop skip away. Two rooms with 3 in one and 2 in the other and 2 wanderers. Good Hunting

The regular brute hides sell for no more than 4P in the bazaar if you find a buyer. However the HQ pelts can easily be sold fo 90P in bazaar as they are for high end halfling cultural armor. I've made anywhere from 3-700P per level off of these alone.

i solo'd them from 25 to 31 for three days all day long best solo exp is here and good loot and gem drops too

How much do the hides or should i sell the hides for. got one the other day. just wundering.

What is the spawn time on these guys? Are they fast, slow or average?

I just turned 21 earlier today im a dark elf shadow knight can i solo these or should i get help from someone?

there is enough room in the chambers in the tunnel to dalnir to kite these as a druid, just run laps around the oval shaped room that they spawn in and nuke at each end. excellent exp off of these until about 30 after that id go hunt elsewhere....maybe golras

update: since these were made to aggro im fairly certain that method this will no longer work.

Edited, Fri Jul 12 21:07:22 2002

"Fear will sometimes
cause them to run into the walls, ceilings, or floors where they are
unseen but can still hit you. You can cast on them, but they won't
take any damage. "

Ran into this last night, even a 52 monk that was trying to help could not save me from the floor beast. (I'm trying to decide whether to go back...xp and loot were both good for me at 27th level, but very scared of another fluke death)

It is rather hard to solo as a magician at level 32. Your pet dies quickly, your dd spells are rather whimpy, and mana quickly drains away.

I was surprised to find that some of these Apes still provide pretty decent experience at level 32. Some still con blue (low) while even some of the greens still give experience.

For a magician who finds it tough to group (the good groups rightly go for level 34 mags with their far superior DD's) these can be a blessing.

litel
32 Magician

I'm going to hunt these as soon as I hit 29th. One question though, do these brutes drop skins? Yes, it may not seem too important to most but for a tailor it's pretty important. So I just wanted to know if these brutes dropped skins like the brutes in FM zone. Thanks.

Tramaus Voronadil
28th Paladin - Order of Marr

Necromancer Guide to Sulking Brutes

Sulking brutes spawn in two rooms in the tunnels to Dalnir in
Warsilisk Woods. They are great experience for a necromancer between
levels 24-29, but offer below average loot. Loot is usually from a
few silver to 2p. You can also get words and pearls off them. The
first spawn point is at the room to the Dalnir entrance. 2 brutes
spawn here. The second spawn point is in the furthest south room in
the tunnels where 3 brutes spawn.

Fighting sulking brutes requires close combat necromancer skills
(e.g. no fear kiting). The most important problem to deal with is not
the brutes themselves, but the terrible pathing. Fear will sometimes
cause them to run into the walls, ceilings, or floors where they are
unseen but can still hit you. You can cast on them, but they won't
take any damage. Generally, your pet will still be able to hit them,
but more often than not, your pet will follow them into the walls and
also disappear. When this happens, the best thing to do is to feign
death and /q or zone out. The pathing into the walls problem also
occurs when you are pulling or kiting them around in the tunnels. Be
very sure that they have a direct line to you to minimize this
problems.

The good news is that sulking brutes NEVER help each other. You can
pull singles without worrying about their friends joining in. Like
all melee MOBs of their level, they hit hard. Your basic strategy is
to open with heat blood, sic pet on them. I prefer heat blood as the
opener because I want to make sure I am close enough to verify that I
have my second DOT (which must be darkness) to stick. Once the second
DOT sticks, move away and SoP the brute. Their poison resist is
terrible and you should do full damage about 9 times out of 10. He
should now be aggro on you. Kite him in the tunnel (making sure that
he has a direct line to you to prevent him from running into the
walls) and SoP or lifetap until dead. Rinse and repeat. A good
series will leave you with a pet 75% down and you down 1-2 bubbles of
mana.

The danger from wandering MOBs here is minimal, and you have very
little competition for the spawns. It's a bit boring but extremely
safe. Just be very careful about losing the brutes into the walls.

Good hunting necros and remember to help other necromancers out if you
can!

There are 5 spawns near the entrance to Dalnir, easy to handle for a monk 26 since they don't aggro... a very nice camp. Just be careful not to loose one in the wall, they might continue to atatck thru ceiling and such, and you can't hit them... Pretty annoying, just zone in and out of Dalnir...

i looted a jaw bone off one of these guys any clue what its for?

They arent really ready to attack. But they give great exp at 30 and 31 so for something a monk can kill without recieveing dmg and gaining decent exp they rock.