a grimling runner  

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i just dropped him tonight and he still has it!


Glassman the druid Zeb server aka Ver

Verified the pouch is still dropping just like it always has

Edited, Jun 17th 2007 8:48pm by xythex

Well here about the runner.

Behind the Foreman he is the second strongest grim around here (talking from infight). Additionally his runspeed cant get changed (now you know why his name, if wandered till now).

Hes output on ore might be around 50% .. but ... the hazard with him is 1.) that ore isnt his mainloot ... as mentioned its the pouch for the quest, and 2.) due to 1 he is a longtime spawn in the zone. I cant tell you the exact time, but I guess tsdeane's info wasnt that bad about his spawntime! So dont count on him talkin about smithin ...

the loc and time have been slightly adjusted as of the last patch. the loc is still near the tunnel to the grimling forest. -1500 by -1175. time is 90/100 minute. he will run from the spawn to the far Grimling mine and return. make route twice and despawn. (27 minute despawn). have watched the runner 6 times to make sure of this info.

If the guy a few posts down can do it with a 36 ranger with a wurmy and shrpened mining pick and silver chitin handwraps, do you think a 33 ranger with the same weps and swiftclaw sash with temperance can do it? I really, REALLY need a rallic pack.

I've done the runner consistently for over a year, always getting him easily by sitting on the right side of the GF/TM zone tunnel as posted by most everyone. And always no later than 20 or so minutes late if I caught him early in the morning (assuming he wasn't killed in the wee smalls and the timer started late because he actually got to complete his trip).

So, yesterday, imagine my chagrin to only get him twice in 3 hours - the middle spawn he never showed, although I may have logged back on a couple minutes late - with Daylight Savings Time going away the clocks at home were a bit wonky.

Couldn't sleep, and he was due up at 4, so I got up at 3:45 and logged my runner killer on (camped at the tunnel entrance) - and at 4:30 STILL no runner.

When I did kill him Sunday, instead of exiting the tunnel and making his usual hard left towards Katta he wandered more straight, a bit to the right, more towards the vamp fort.

Anyone have any hard solid info on if his spawn time/point has changed? I'm not looking forward to searching all over TM for him - and as a warrior I don't have track - have some alts that need bags, so trying to restock patterns in between raids. Any solid info appreciated. Thanks.

Im a Level 40 Beastlord i just finished the Acrylia Plans quest for the first time, the runner i figured would be a lil tougher but he was a breeze i waited inside of GF cave as posted earlier and in about 30 min POP there he was although he is a runner he never acctually ran he never even started to run he just kinda slowly walked out of the cave. So i agroed him as he came out killed him got the pouch and finished the quest. Quite fun Id have to say!

Vorkarlon Bloodpaw
Level 40 Beastlord
Morrel Thulle

Can the runner be stunned or Mezzed? I am a 35 chanter who wants to solo him

I am level 41 first time I did this guy was at 39.

Nothing changes his run speed. And if i nuke him he comes for me and ignores pet. Oh my what to do.

Well I just send in pet then hit him with plague no aggro at all from that then I boil his blood for him. Again no aggro. Now comes the aggro with a shock of poison and then it is time for a fake death. I just sit there and watch him die with the dots and pets. Once in a blue moon he will kill my pet and start to move off before the dots kill him just pop up when he is a little bit a way and back he comes. Then if he is really low whack him till he retreats or if still a bit strong just fd again and let the dots finish him.

Some report having seen the Runner pop halfway between zone to GF and the Grimling Caves. Many have seen the Runner spawn in the tunnel to GF, while others camping his spawn point missed him leaving the tunnel altogether...

Could it be that, being a rogue, the conniving little bugger uses sneak and hide?

Regards,


Laiderone ~ chablis, cheese and mobs - that's a picnic

ummm... i've read basically every post people have put up and i couldn't find what i need to know so i decided to just go ahead post this. Would a lvl 37 Warrior be able to kill the runner? my gear is pretty good. my atk is at around 830 and defence 750. could someone PLEASE answer me!

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Edited, Sat Mar 22 08:12:04 2003

If you sit in the tunnel to GF and wait there ontop of the big rock, stare straight at the curve in the wall infront of you. That's exactly where he spawns. I was a bit confused when I went in because I didn't know if he spawned in the mouth or the back, turns out it's somewhere in the middle. His spawn time is definately 90 minutes, don't let anyone tell you otherwise because you'll miss your spawn. I killed him at 3:09 PST and he respawned at 4:39 PST, killed him again and he respawned at 6:09 PST. He does drop the pouch every time and he IS immune to changes in run speed. If you're a casting class it's a good idea to have SoW on, or some other form of speed. He doesn't have that much health, he was blue to a 39 druid and was taken down in four smacks of Firestrike.

He spawned twice on me in two hours at the Grimling Forest zone, and was blue to my 35 SK both times.

Edited, Mon Dec 30 09:32:19 2002

can a 38 bard take him?

He does not always spawn every 90 minutes. I was there for 3 hours and 45 minutes at least, arriving about 15 minutes after the last one was killed by a friend (so 4 hours total from last spawn) and he never spawned. I was checking track every time it came up in case he didn't actually spawn in the tunnel at Grimling Forest zone, but he simply never spawned.

I camped out the tunnel to Grimling Forest for about 45 minutes, then he popped and started wandering about. He didn't run at all, just walked towards the mouth of the cave.

Just chucked two Draughts of Fire (650-ish damage) at him and he was dead. No problem channeling through his hits.

(This is with a level 56 wizard).

I've been waiting 3 hours in the cave on the rok with no sign on track, AND I'm the only one in the zone!

Yesterday we just waited about 30 minutes, saw him on track and tracked him down.. no big woop.. today he wont spawn at all.

the bricks can be split down with a chisel in a forge, I think its a chisel anyway, my cleric guildy was doin the work. Acrylia can be used for just about any tradeskill, I had him making me a studded acrylia cloak. The reason small pieces are more sought after and 50pp, where large bricks are 100pp or so is because there is a good chance you will fail when splitting them down, and most things you need to split them down, so they would rather just have the small pieces and not have to worry about wasting acrylia failing splits.

I looted a Rhodocrosite on him
(not so common, he didn't have it the first 2 Time, I killed him)

This "gem" look like a Jasper I think

what is it used for ?

Runner spawns every 90 minutes a few steps from the Grim forest zone line. NOT THE GRIMLING Orefinders caves.

Between the zone line to GF and the mouth of this cave there is an elbow in the tunnel. That is where this ugly cuss spawns.

The Laborer is the one that spawns deep inside the furthest west grimling orefinder cave.

both of these seem to drop a statistically better ratio of Acryla. All orefinders and Grol Baku and Crag Ligi Aliens have a "chance" of dropping Acryla of any size. Don't sell small to merchants as they sell to players for around 50 plat each.

where do you get the pattern exactly?
and is it no drop?

ok if your just waiting for runner to spawn there is a spot in the cave i just sit at, and he will aggro you, he just aggroed me the other night at lvl 40 so dont worrry he will aggro if you zone into ten mtns go to mouth of cave and sit on the left wall he will come to you, i figured it out after some wizzie ks'ed me and a friend who just spent the last hour waiting on him. wizzie comes sits there aggroes him a minute or two after he gets there, his excuse uhhh he hit me. like he doesnt know runner spawns there his only reason to sit there at all. why must there be p;oin heads in the game?!

OK, here's the Rallic pack Quest. I've done it twice now, coz after a 23hr straight run, in a momnet of delerium i destroyed my Rallic pack instead of my CP, LOL!! (it hurt). First time: I go to hallowshade, (get bound in kitty city) (ranger ~40th) The first thing on my list is a Perfect owlbear pelt, i figure ill hit the caves and eventually get one. I walk out of the kitty city, and i see an owlbear, kill it...perfect pelt LOL luck. So head over to shadoweaver's thicket to kill some Xakra silkworms for shadeling silks. I need 8 silks total. 2 silks makes one thread, 3 threads makes one chord. You need one chord and one thread (8silks). Xakra's are easy and everywhere, this is a newbie zone. Tracking is a plus, but not necessary. I suggest you bring a LARGE SEWING kit with you, in case you fail either the threads or chord, you are right there to make them again. After you have the thread, chord, and pelt head to Tenebrous Mts (nasty place). When you zone in cut left along the south wall, and travel west. You will eventually come to the first of the grimling mines. OK the first time i did this quest, the runner was up right away. He practically walked over to the zone for me). He was a little tough, no problem tho for a 40th wood-elf ranger of Tunare) Not especially fast for a "runner". Got the pouch (always drops), and went west to the Katta Castellum zone, where Rallic resides. I turned the pouch into rallic, i got the pattern and some xp. OK, before i started this quest i had never tailored anything, i went and trained 17 points in tailoring at my guild. ( Rallic pack appears to be 17 trivial, i have made 3 now no failures, on my server they aren't no drop pattern or packs) So now i have everything... I combine the pattern, perfect owlbear pelt, shadesilk thread, shadesilk chord...voila Rallic pack.

OK, the second time i did it, will be of more use to people, coz it involved camping things. The first quest i did in under 2 hours and was EXTREMELY lucky to have everything waiting for me). First a friend of mine and I went to the owlbear caves to look for perfect owlbear pelts. I was curious as to how long it would take, coz i got sooo lucky getting one on my first kill before i thought. We cleared the entire cave, and cleared the two main room 2 times each, wanted a named owlbear to pop, which he did. In that time we got 4 perfect owlbear pelts, maybe 2 hours tops. So not too bad to get) BUT, i was 43 at this point and they were green to me, still hitting for up to 88! OK we then moved on to Xakra silk worms again, other people were hunting them so they were sparser this time. For about 30 mins not one Xakra popped ( ihad failed three chords in a row (18silks total ouch!!) so i had to stay a bit). I started thinking they had PH's so i killed EVERYTHING. Still none popped. Then all of a sudden i was tracking like 6 then 8 then 10. They just have a cycle. So if they arent there wait, or go to another part o fthe quest and come back.
Finally back to Tenbrous Mts, for that runner. Will i be so lucky to see him when i zone in again...nay. So my friends and I (43 druid, 41 sexy cleric) head over to the grimling mines to camp some orefinders knowing how sought after acrylia is. We campd these beasts for about 2 hours, in that time the runner popped twice, he pops outside and to the right of the cave, and then walks towards the mouth of the cave, killed him there twice. Grabbed the pouch, went to Katta got the pattern and made apack for both me and my druid friend) WOOHOO i can carry loot again!!! This is all you need to know)



Edited, Mon Mar 25 09:51:10 2002

Well the nice "A Grimling Runner Backstabs you for 164 points of damage." was quite an awakening to this druid, that I was fighting a rogue that could not be rooted or snared.

Somehow I got some adds and well ended up as fertalizer. Luckily a pally a couple min later ran across my corpse. We have all had those days that nothing goes right, then a bright light at the end of the tunnel appears.

Thank you to the Paly who rezzed me. Was only 5 people in the zone including myself and you were nice enough to take time to rez me.

I will have my revenge.

Keldjoran Occonorum,
Terris-Thule
Spiritwalkers

Edited, Sat Mar 23 04:26:03 2002

how do you do the runners pouch quest?

Ok, I am a poor ass 31 cleric, and my friend is a moderately well equipped 32 rogue, no way we should be able to take this guy I'm thinking, well, we did. It took every ounce of strength and tactic we could muster, but it worked. Having him repeatedly walk into a cave wall with 10% life after my rogue friend had to zone with even less life helped, though ;) I won the roll, but he'll be getting his in, oh, about 80 minutes from now.

As far as my "l33t" tactic, which, as far as I know, I havent seen anyone else ever use (though im sure tons have) was to have him say UP! when his BS was up, then I would attempt to stun him (31 vs 35, not all landed, of course), and when it worked, he whips around and backstabs the biatch. Mucho helpful, as the french would say. (that last part was a joke, my friends).

Oh, and he never even touched me :)

Akip Surnameless
31 High Elf Cleric
Soon to be in Crimson Alliance
Antonius Bayle

ok so I'm just a warrior and I don't have snare so I don't miss it when it's gone, but why the big deal over the snare/root resists? is this guy exceptionally fast on his feet? does he take off like spirit of cheetah or what?

just asking cause I'm planing on taking his bag away, but I'm worried now that if he IS fast on his feet that he'll run and I'll lose him (I don't have j-boots...SUE ME)

I just killed him with a group of lvl 29 char's (eru wiz, halfling dru, bar rog, ogr war, hie clr) BTW he's a rouge, cause he hit my wizzie for 70, 234(backstab), then 84 before the rest of the group jumped him. My wizzie was standing inside the tunnel that zones to grim forest on the left wall looking out of the tunnel, so I'm thinking that is his spawn spot. He dropped a large brick of acrylia ore, a small piece of acrylia ore and the runners pack, of course. His approx. HP's were just under 1200.