Hunter's Pike  

Just left GE I had parked mychar there after fighting and was running around killing for fun found this quest. It works the weapon is okay but not for my lvl. However since the furs can be traded I am bringing all my newbie toons here and setting them up with the pike. BTW keep the wolves in the camp and no wandering animals will aggro you.

I got the note and handed it to Carre.... then backed off and nothing happened. In fact, so much nothing happened, that it did it for 30 minutes. I never saw the wolves spawn.

I've been trying to do this quest for a friend of mine for the past three days, today I was on for over 4 hours straight, giving the notes to Carre over and over, tracking, and running around and I have NOT seen ANY of those wolves at all. Could it be that they spawned, and someone immediately dispatched them? I don't think so, I think the quest may be broken =P

can iksars do this quest, or are they kos to the npcs?

Just got a Pike with my 51 Druid yesterday. Well, got the pelts with the Druid and gave them to my baby Bard to be turned in for the Pike. The wolves that spawn when you give the note to Carre were green to my Druid. I was able to solo them without too much difficulty. I root/DOTd with my ES Vambs. Wouldn't have had enough mana to take all 4 spawns without my trusty ESV.

I had to wait around most of the afternoon to get Carre to spawn. I tried all sorts of things like getting the note from Wils more than once (with other toons). The note from Wils is no rent. That seems a bit strange seeing as how Carre isn't there all the time. Being that this is the first part of a (as of yet an unsolved) larger quest I went to Hail Dragen (part two of the quest) to see if that helps Carre spawn. I also Hailed the other NPCs that are all sitting there near him. Carre did spawn within the next few minutes. I have no idea if what I did somehow triggered him or if it was just coincidence. I figure there's got to be some way to trigger Carre seeing as how the note you must hand him is no rent.

I have no idea if Carre is on a timer and will automatically despawn at any point other than when the pelts are turned in. I didn't wait around to find out seeing as I had already waited 4+ hours for him to pop.

Carre immediately despawns when you turn in the pelts.

Did this quest last night solo with a 40 ranger, doable, but a bit difficult and people kept taking the enraged wolf before I could get back to kill it (ravenous seemed to really dislike me). In a nutshell, it breaks down like this...get note from Wils(?) hand in to Carre and two wolves spawn about 5-10 seconds later, the ravenous beast and the enraged beast. kill the ravenous and a bloodthirsty beast spawns immediately after the ravenous dies, on it's dead corpse. Kill the Enraged and the rabid spawns same way. Take the 4 pelts and turn in to Carre for the pike. The pelts are Lore, but not no drop so if you want to get this for an alt, just pass the pelts to 'em. GL.

I have heard that spawn time on Carre is once per 24 hours... Once she spawns, she is only there for 30 minutes until she de-pops... Can anyone verify this or please tell me it's not true.

For Nixoh, and the "it seems a cruel trick to make the first step an item that is desirable to others....", check others epics, you'll see it's very often the case.

*whispers "pegasus feather cloak"...*

Not going to get into how to start quest or where they are since all that info (with locs) is provided below (great guide down there btw). What I'm gonna get into is how to do this quest with the least ammount of trouble.

I had a few false starts on it because I'm a lvl 46 druid and 4 dark blue beasties are not the easiest in the world to kill (not counting quad kiting cause that's just not possible here).

First off, WHERE YOU STAND when you hand in the note has a vast impact on the quest. If you stand directly in front of Carre <sp> the beast on the right will agro when you hand in the note, but the beast on the left won't. So what I did was hand in the note and straffe to the right and took on that beast first. I used root dot med method because I knew I'd need all the mana I could save later. The second beast spawns instantly on the corpse of the first one, use same root/dot if possible. When it died I didn't have enough mana to take on the other wolf, but luckily it despawned while I was meding up.

Which meant that I had to go grab another note and turn it it. Once again WHERE YOU STAND is important. I stood as far to the left of Carre as I could and still hand in note this time. I was OUTSIDE the little tent and could just see him around the poll. When you hand in the note from this spot NOTHING agro's. But I went to the left wolf and proceeded with the dot/root until both wolves were dead. Had all the pelts and transfered to me lil rogue. Viola...nice lil piercer for him.

Hope this helps

Gnarly

One of the nice things about this quest is that the four pelts you get from the wolves are only lore, which means they can be transfered :)
As well as the fact that you can keep giving Carre Harger the note to respawn the wolves as long as you dont turn in the pelts and despawn Carre. So you can get multiple pelts for a group and twink an alt pretty easily>provided you are high enough to kill em :P
You could even keep giving him notes just to spawn wolves for the xp--just a thought, although when i was grouped with two others to get pelts we killed the wolves about 4 times in a row, and it was decent xp to me :)

i went and did this quest for me and my sister after getting my pike 1st and not knowing what spawn time was i camped then came back 60 and 90 minets later both had no spawn but when i came back 9 hrs later he was up
i went to do the quest a 2nd time after we killed the wolves i went and gave him another note that cause the respawn what this means is that if you have the group to handle the spawn you can respawn it so everyone can get there pelts<were just loreand nodrop> and then over the course of days turn them in for the note to get pike
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Edited, Tue Jan 22 01:50:34 2002