a skulking brutling  

Playing with my lvl 23 necro (Iskar) in Warsliks, I tried Starwhisp's hint (on my map, it's labeled "Open Valley"). Killed everything for about 2 hours, saw one Skulking Brutling. Killed it with dots and my pet (armed), got shattered choppers. So I wandered north to the small lake, killed all the Iskar Lookouts/Bandits I saw, and BAM, got me a Skulking Brutling with intact choppers! Whoohoo!

Starwhisp's hint of

"base your searches around loc -2760, 3380. trust me."


worked for me. I killed multiple brutlings in this area over the course of 2 hours and finally got the drop. This was on a ranger (track was very handy)and after not seeing the mob in Frontier Mountains that is supposed to drop the intact brutling choppers after 2 hours of trying to spawn it.

At least in Warsliks I was seeing the mob.

excellent info. I ran around this clear area near -2760, 3380, and just killed every mob for about 5 minutes. 1 runtling spawned. killed him. killed a couple more mobs, and a 2nd runtling spawned. killed him, and then a couple more mobs. Then pop goes the brutling! Very happy.

base your searches around loc -2760, 3380. trust me.

If you want to save yourself the trouble of running around aimlessly looking for these guys you can sit at -2722, 2053 and one will wander into you and aggro if you're sitting. A bunch more wander the area too within line of vision.

Hopes this helps.

Pain in the friggin butt!

Finally got one to spawn. He popped close to the entrance of the tunnels to LOIO. Maelin server
Camped my druid by the bandit lake, jumped on early in the morning. Ran to giant for, killed one Goblin Bonecaster that was stuck in SW corner, turned around and killed a Goblin Hextracer. 2 minutes later the Skulking Brutling popped. But only one on track... Lured him back to bandit lake where i had camped my monk, finished him off and got the Intact Brutling Choppers.
Prior to this, i had camped the whole southwest corner of WW, clearing everything, including skulking runtlings that popped 2 at a time. Not once did i get the brutling to pop.
Hope this helps, and goodluck... frustration awaits =D

Has anyone seen these things in a while? If so, can I get a location where they frequent? I have been hunting for days, and no luck. :(

Thanks in advance.

I may have inadvertantly solved the Brutling mystery ... someone posted that they thought the Bonecaster / Witchdoctors were PHers for the Brutlings. I found 7 of them clustered together stuck in the corner of the Giant Fort at loc -1400, 1500. There is just enough room between the two walls and a log pole in the corner for them to get stuck. As soon as I killed all of them ... BAM!!! ... 2 brutlings spawned.

Take that as you will ... but up until I killed these guys I didn't see any brutlings for a good 1.5-2hrs.

Enjoy.

Did this today and got 2 brutlings out of the giant fort wall. Get someone with an AE spell and get as close to the mob as possible. Then nuke with AE and it will bring it out of the wall. Not positive on number that will come out but I got just 1 at a time. Spent 3 days trying to get them to spawn before I thought of this.

Just an FYI: on January 23, 2004, after about 2 hours of tracking in the SW corner, and killing all the supposed PH, I decided to go near the Goblin Fort, and saw over ten brutlings on track. I killed three with my druid, just in case, and when I got my monk there to loot, all three had intact choppers. All three were a little to the east of the fort, near the water.

Oh, and one I killed with a dot, one with a nuke, and one with melee...so take from that what you will.

as mentioned earlier ...
there is a valley -1800 +2800 it stretches until the giant fortress. there is a small hill from north to south inside the valley. this is the exact spot where they spawn.
i run back and forth inside the valley (not so much tree lag there ;) and killed everything in sight.
ph are goblin outriders and witchdoctors i think. only after i killed one of those a brutling spawned. also if you get bored you can make a roundtrip through the giant fortress.
it took me around 7h to get the intact ones. also it does not matter how hard you hit. engaged 2 with bare hands, and the last one with staff of shielding and steel ulak. first two had chattered, last one intact.
i should mention, that i saw one at 3500 -2000 between the goblin hut and the iksar hut. tried two camp there for a while, went back and forth between these two and got good exp and pp. if you need the sparring gloves then there is a good place to look for the pitfighter and the brutling. if you are around level 20-25, otherwise go to the goblin fortress at higher levels.

only thing i need now is the sash of a young ronin, i will let you know if i find one ;)
good luck to all the shackle of rock seekers

Edited, Thu Jul 10 22:04:50 2003

i zoned in WW with my monk and a ranger friend and he tarcked 3 at teh ZL on a hill by FoB but they were all underneath the world and i have been here for 20 hours and its starting to piss me off/sigh i kill raster in 20 minutes although he is a 80hour+ camp but i cant get a little 12ish mob to spawn without being underground i have already petitioned and /bugged hehe GL all fellow monks
54th Disciple Gilgosai Kobushi of The Nameless server

followed other posts for a while but couldnt see any thing that caused him to spawn.
killed one in the valley after a while but not sure what caused it to spawn and another one at the wall at the giant fort but both were shatted choppers. (About 6 hours on this)
Started to kill all the goblins around the Bandits Iksar Lake and one spawned south east of the lake not far from the lake.
Tracked it down with the Druid and though I would not hit it this time so I got the druid to root it then dot it with drifting death.
Looted and yes "intact choppers"

Look, its the most retarded thing i've ever heard to say oh if you use weapons it gives you shattered choppers.....nothing is like this, nothing. My monk has been using 2hb since he was lvl like...5 and at the time of killing this he had a tarmok battlestaff equipped. First kill was intact bruteling choppers. So there you go, the times it happened it was coincidence as most monks at this lvl wouldn't have had weapons usually i would imagine.

Kyzoku, 62 Ranger

Igunisu 41 naggy raid monk (CoF's are great)

Ok i zoned in from ot with a ranger guildie he saw it on track right away didnt think to write down the loc but comming from the ot zoneline we stayed high on the hill and ran to the right. found it with 6 goblins with him dropped the jawbone 1st time.

I've been using my 60 Ranger to track these the last couple days, and 99% of the time they either spawn or wander under the world. I spent a 7-hour overnight session (no one in the zone) tracking, there were 3 up the whole time but all were under the world. Next day, log in, only one up, bam got him. Day after that, none up for like 5 hours, one spawns, and he's under the world again. They really gotta fix these spawns.

Each time I found an under-the-world brutling, it was under that ridge of land that separates the FoB zone from the main area of WW. It was the take a step, oops he's behind me, take a step, now he's in front of me deal. Could not target with F8 even though he was the closest thing on tracking and I was supposedly standing right on him.

Regarding placeholders mentioned in other posts - I find that goblin bonecasters are themselves under the world in many cases. I haven't been able to find many accessible ones to kill. Same with hunters. Occasionally I'll be able to nab one but this zone has some serious spawn issues.

Anyone have any evidence to support the claim that runtlings could be PHs? Sure are enough of those on track at all hours of the day.

I read the post about the valley at n1700,2700. I also read the post about the possible bonecasters being a PH and here are my findings.

I did this with my lvl 54 druid for tracking abilities.

Day one camping the valley I got nothing.

Day two I was camping the valley And nothing was running through it, I decided to track bonecasters, So I started tracking one and it took me to the western zone wall on the same level as the valley. THERE IS A HUGE PATHING ISSUE HERE. I saw about 20 goblins turning in circles because they all were trapped on the wall. A number of bonecasters as well as other types of goblins were stuck. So I broke out Upheaval and AE'd them. All dead in one cast. Immediately a skulking brutling spawned. This leads me to believe that some type of goblin is definitely a PH, most like bonecaster as you will see in day 3. I tracked the brutling, beat him down with my scimmy and got shattered choppers.... damn

Day 3. I show up and check the wall again. Nothing is stuck. I go back to the valley and start killing bonecasters and skirmishers. A brutling pops on track. He spawned just south of the valley at n2200, 2700. Thinking that maybe the soft kill, hard kill thing had some merit, I just used the epic dot and watched him rot. Intact choppers.

Summary and Conclusion:

Bonecasters are more than likely a PH. The Valley located at n1700, 2700 is the place to kill them.
As for hard kill/soft kill -- Seeing as how I only killed 2 brutlings I do not think that there is enough evidence to make a conclusion. It could very well be totally random, which I believe it to be seeing as how this is a monk quest and monks can not soft kill anything.

I really hope this info helps someone as I know it is hard to find info on these posts that is solid between all the rants and raves.

Xytrani Malendios
54 Wanderer of Tunare
Eternal Vengeance
Xegony

whay is this mob posted under the related creatures for the shackle of rock quest for the monk?

Evidently those wacky guys at Verant decided to change a few things, most notably for begining Iksar monks would be the evident name change of the Skulking Bruteling to the Pygmy Skulking Brute. Granted maybe I'm smoking something illegal while I post this, but the pygmy drops both shatterd choppers and intact choppers (sounds familiar, huh?) going to try this theory out, but after many hours of camping these w/ a druid doing the tracking and seeing NO brutelings...

Evidently those wacky guys at Verant decided to change a few things, most notably for begining Iksar monks would be the evident name change of the Skulking Bruteling to the Pygmy Skulking Brute. Granted maybe I'm smoking something illegal while I post this, but the pygmy drops both shatterd choppers and intact choppers (sounds familiar, huh?) going to try this theory out, but after many hours of camping these w/ a druid doing the tracking and seeing NO brutelings...

I tried the "running between W Cab and OT zones" for 10 hours with no luck.

Within 5 minutes of setting up camp in the valley at neg 1700-1800, pos 2700-2800, one walked by. As I engaged him with my 2 Fighting Batons and Tail Rake, another walked by. The first one dropped nothing, so I found the second and engaged him. He dropped shattered choppers. I looked a round for a minute and saw one drop from the sky. Engaged him and he dropped the intact choppers.

Moral of the story...
1. camp him in the valley at neg 1700-1800 pos 2700-2800
2. how hard you hit him does not matter.

Happy hunting,

are the intact choppers no drop?

On Feb 7th (my birthday btw) this information was posted. I am reposting it, because the guy was right on. We followed his lead and got them on the first try..WHEN THE MONK WAS LOGGED ON. It didn't work when only my bard was hunting. More on that after Gribble's notes.

Gribble says:

To get the intact chopper head directly west from the cabilis entrance until you get to location neg (1700-1800) pos (2700-2800). Kill everything that you see in this deep cut valley. The "skulking brutling" is what you are after. This critter drops two different items, one is a smashed chopper and looks like bone chips, this is NOT what you want, you need the "intact brutling chopper" this looks like a lower jaw bone. The other shackle quest item is the "pit fighter sparring gloves" these can be found on a pitfighter which spawns in a set of ruins on one of the paths exiting the goblin camp (the ruins are the first set you come to and has just 1 mob in it), the exact location is pos 2300 neg 150, the mob that spawns is on a cycle, it respawns every 7 mins or so, just keep killing it till the pitfighter spawns (i had to kill a warrior and a battlemaster before the pitfighter turned up), as far as i know they always drop the gloves. Lots of people call this a hard quest, as soon as i knew where to look for these critters i camped the mobs in less than 1 and a half hours!

I hope this helps...

Gribble (Iksar Monk) <Swift Avengers>

Ayonae Ro


Ok, here are our two cents worth:

The monk and I were together for the skulking brutling. He was about level 23 iksar and I was a 25 halfelf bard. We went to the rock Gibble described and looked down into the valley. The monk spotted the brutling immediately and we were off in a heartbeat. Monk began immediate attack. Knowing from experience that loot drops are affected by what is attacking/damaging mob, I didn't attack, but ran my heal song and buffs only. He went down fast and the intact choppers were dropped. Weehoo.. Makes up for that awful camp of the sarnak courier. No it doesn't. That was horrendous.

Monk logged. I then went over to the location for the mob that drops the glove to do some pre-hunting scouting. I killed mobs off for about 4 hours and the pit fighter never spawned. I DID a lot of shaman quest spawns.. hmmm. mi caster su caster? Be careful if you do this alone. There are wandering warriors and battlemasters that walk through this ruin at very in opportune moments AND an occasional caster. Killed me right off. Took a chance and went back with Monk next day and the little @#$*(# was standing right there. Grrrrr. Let monk kill again, using only heals and buffs and the gloves dropped first time.

I hope this gives you a little more insite into this part of the shackle of rock quest.

Candlelight Dreamspinner
Bard 27th Season
The Seventh Hammer

On Feb 7th (my birthday btw) this information was posted. I am reposting it, because the guy was right on. We followed his lead and got them on the first try..WHEN THE MONK WAS LOGGED ON. It didn't work when only my bard was hunting. More on that after Gribble's notes.

Gribble says:

To get the intact chopper head directly west from the cabilis entrance until you get to location neg (1700-1800) pos (2700-2800). Kill everything that you see in this deep cut valley. The "skulking brutling" is what you are after. This critter drops two different items, one is a smashed chopper and looks like bone chips, this is NOT what you want, you need the "intact brutling chopper" this looks like a lower jaw bone. The other shackle quest item is the "pit fighter sparring gloves" these can be found on a pitfighter which spawns in a set of ruins on one of the paths exiting the goblin camp (the ruins are the first set you come to and has just 1 mob in it), the exact location is pos 2300 neg 150, the mob that spawns is on a cycle, it respawns every 7 mins or so, just keep killing it till the pitfighter spawns (i had to kill a warrior and a battlemaster before the pitfighter turned up), as far as i know they always drop the gloves. Lots of people call this a hard quest, as soon as i knew where to look for these critters i camped the mobs in less than 1 and a half hours!

I hope this helps...

Gribble (Iksar Monk) <Swift Avengers>

Ayonae Ro


Ok, here are our two cents worth:

The monk and I were together for the skulking brutling. He was about level 23 iksar and I was a 25 halfelf bard. We went to the rock Gibble described and looked down into the valley. The monk spotted the brutling immediately and we were off in a heartbeat. Monk began immediate attack. Knowing from experience that loot drops are affected by what is attacking/damaging mob, I didn't attack, but ran my heal song and buffs only. He went down fast and the intact choppers were dropped. Weehoo.. Makes up for that awful camp of the sarnak courier. No it doesn't. That was horrendous.

Monk logged. I then went over to the location for the mob that drops the glove to do some pre-hunting scouting. I killed mobs off for about 4 hours and the pit fighter never spawned. I DID a lot of shaman quest spawns.. hmmm. mi caster su caster? Be careful if you do this alone. There are wandering warriors and battlemasters that walk through this ruin at very in opportune moments AND an occasional caster. Killed me right off. Took a chance and went back with Monk next day and the little @#$*(# was standing right there. Grrrrr. Let monk kill again, using only heals and buffs and the gloves dropped first time.

I hope this gives you a little more insite into this part of the shackle of rock quest.

Candlelight Dreamspinner
Bard 27th Season
The Seventh Hammer

hmmm first see first loot ) very lucky this time
but after 3 day of track where the luck ??