Since Luclin just opened on Agnarr, a lot of people are going to be scrambling to find these things. Before you start submitting bug reports about the mob not existing, I am telling you now that they are EXTREMELY hard to find because they are on a long spawn cycle with lots of placeholders in between spawns. To make matters worse, on top of being a rare spawn the piece you need is also a rare drop so just finding one is no guarantee it will drop the piece you need for the quest, forcing you to wait for the next one to pop. It is very frustrating but since it's been this way since 2001, it is obviously working as intended. For a 13 AC chest piece, it may not be worth hanging around long enough to collect the pieces needed to get it. You can probably save up enough money to buy a better chest piece in the time it would take you to finish the quest.
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I have seen this mob 6 times in total. First time I killed it with a then 48 Beastlord. second time, it chased my 7 Bard to the poK book. Today, I took my Ranger to Shadeweaver's to mess around. Was killing only Saureks when on the spur of the moment, I decided to kill Swarmers as well. This beasty proceeded to spawn 4 times in the next hour or so. Total of 5 kills now, but no carapaces.
I have managed to run into this MOB 3 times. First time I was sitting at firedancers and it aggro'd. level 8. Firedanacers took it out. 2nd and 3rd time I found it off road between the Loda Kia camp and the Loda Kia poacher/trader tunnel. BOTH times I was searching for Claw Beasts for other quest.
I belive that this spawn is SO RARE becuase its PH it the Claw Beast, another rare ( but not so rare as Bloodbulk ) spawn in SWT needed for quests. Once I decided to get off my butt and spend a coup[le hours on this, I will just run around and slay Claw Beasts and see if i am correct, yet I do belive I am.
Also, though alittle off topic, if you go into the Loda Kia poacher/trader cave and then into the tunnel on the bottom, you enter a cave with Gor Taku bruisers etc . . . I have seen Claw Beasts spawn INSIDE this cave, on more then one occasion, as the Bruisers con'd dark blue to me at 26-28 and where easy solo exp to pull one tunnel gaurd at a time. . . I neveer killed the Claw Beast inside this cave but it is possible that you can get a Bloodbulk to spawn from his spot to, just be carefull not to aggro everything in that cave onto you when you do :P
Hope this helps. GL to all trying to do the quest, I gave up on it when I got my Chitin Shell Armor ( 17 ac ).
Darger Mandare Loyal Kati Sha of 28 Moons The Tribunal
I killed it today, was gathering saurak parts for various quests and it spawned near me. It aggros at any lvl, like rabid wolves, was green and charged right at me. Of course it didn't drop anything. I'm lv 22 now, so lets see, lvl 22, no quest pieces....maybe I'll get this killer bp by the time I'm 55 or so!!! WOOT! <Walks around at lvl 55 with her spiffy ac 12 hp +10 leather bp> Does anyone even know the stats of this bp? Anyway, it spawned between the Loda Kai camp and the north tunnel exit on the newbie side of the mountains in shadeweaver, I was killing just sauraks, maybe they are PH's. Good luck to anyone who finishes this quest!
You are right about the spawn point, but I'm pretty sure that the PH's are actually the tunnellers inside the tunnels between the north road and paludal.
I had reason to clean those tunnels out and keep them cleared this weekend, and lo and behold, I saw regular pops of this critter that for the last three months in shady, I have NEVER seen before.
I have seem it three times, first killed me, 2nd i killed it but nothing on it and 3rd someone else killed it yet nothing. Don't know what verant is thinking of making these things unbelievably so rare and NOT drop anything on top of it.I sent in a bug report thinking that the spawn and/or mob is bugged but as yet no responce.
my bst on fv server has seen it only five times, killed it 3 times, got killed once and couldnt catch it once when saw it training some surfacer to the fire dancers. i also know a shammie that killed it twice. have never seen it drop anything nor has the shamie. on morrel thule server heard a guy say he had three carapaces from it. i didnt see them but i hope he gets them just to post the stats on ghulam tunic. (he might be the first on any server to do so)