Shaman Skull Quest No. 3  

The Goblin Hextracer was easy. Just outside the zone from Cabilis West to WW.

The Iksar Skull with an 'X' on the otherhand are taking forever. Got three (including lore) in just over 1 week. RL.

Still going.

Latris, Stromm Server

Allright here's my experience. It takes FOREVER to gather all 6. I recommend just keeping the third and fourth floors cleared. This is in no way necessary, but clearing the floors gives you something to do whereas just camping a single spawn gets old real quick, not that it makes it that much less boring. If you are gonna do this be prepared to spend a LOT of time in Kurn's. I did and eventually got them all, and the sixth one to my surprise was the lore skull... guess I was just lucky there.

Just finished up this quest today....it WONT let me do the combine without the lore skull......i didnt lose the 6 non lore skulls but it said i couldnt combine these items in this container type etc......so yes you DO need a lore skull....the guy that last posted may have done it without the lore skull, it may have been bugged....and you are more than welcome to try and combine 6 non lore....but dont bet on it that it will work......also.....i got 5 undead crusaders to spawn within 2-2.5 hours....by sittin on the stairs mentioned....didnt kill anything else.....i had 3 spawn in a row even....good luck to you all!

In case everyone who is doing this is looking for a "LORE ikasr skull with an X" I could not find one all in all it took about 10hours of game play to get Six skulls. Out of sheer frustration I hit the combine button and poof I got the C.O.B.B. item that you need to move on to next club. Please believe me I had no skull item that said LORE.
Whew... the only good came out of this was that I was able to pick up all the bone chips and make stacks to sell in Baz. Not good plat but fair for the time spent in Kurn.
So either this quest has been confused with the next quest or they have changed the requirment for the quest. Good luck to those camping the undead crusader that spawns on the thrid floor. I continusely wiped out both 3rd an 4th floors for 2 hours one day and it didn't even spawn once :(

Drazkool (Force of Valor)
Tunare

what a pain! if anyone is selling the lore skull with an x on erollisi marr plz let me know.....

C.O.B.B Box? Caste of Bone Bretheren box. My hat is off to them for being able to come up with so many names, and at times they reward us with something obvious like this or more descrete... Like some of the Luclin names.

Funny thing happened, happy to be sitting on the stairs at the location ive seen mentioned here. I just didnt know it yet when i heard something hit me went to check it out and my pet had just killed the undead crusader. First time ive seen him so one skull down.

I spent 20 Hrs in Kurns trying to get the Skulls. After about 12 Hrs I had seen the Crusader once and got 1 Skull. I spent this time running between the 3rd and 4th Kloor killing everything I saw. The only Crusader I saw was on the right-hand staircase when leaving the Dining Room on the top floor. The last 8 hours were spent on this staircase killing all skellies that popped on the staircase. I got 5 ordinary skulls and the Lore Skull during this time

My advice therefore sit on these stairways for your whole camp.

Colie
Palladin of Nameless

A bit more info on the Crusader. I have been laying waste to the top two floors looking for this guy. I noticed something, which has made the remaining skulls simple to get.

Yes, the pop on the stairs up to the dinning room is a ten minute timer. Yes he can pop there. There is another 10 minute pop in the room with the double stairs that lead up to the barracks. He can pop there, too.

In other words, these two 10-minute wanderers are yeilding many crusaders. The normal 18-minute wanders have yeilded zero.

Some zones, most infamously unrest, switch on higher spawn rates of tougher mobs when the zone population is depleted, in order to prevent zones overcrowded with adventurers from getting too safe.

It may well be that to get a reasonable spawn rate of the undead crusader, one must depopulate Kurn's tower. It would be interesting to hear what happens when a low level guild camps the tower from top to bottom.

After reading all the posts here by people and having camped the same one at the top of the stairs for 2 weeks only to get the non lore skulls leads me to belive there are more than 1 crusader spawns with PH's spread out from the barreks lvl to dinning room. Since some have seem to have had luck getting the LORE skull but aprrently not off that particualr stairway spawn point ( like myself) would warent a more systematic clearing of the top 2 floors and watch each spawn point on respawn. Total of 6 skulls needed so good bet there are a total of 6 Crusader spawns in Kurn but most of us are only camping the known one.

Srak
24th lvl shaman of 7 hammers

Hopefully the will help someone else frustrated with the quest.

The hextracer was the easy part, made much easier by asking someone to track for me =) I worked on the next quest at the same time by having them track Goblin Bloodtracers for me as well. Hard part is the Skulls. Mostly hung around the giant fort area to do this, but watch out for things that can wipe you up (I was around level 20 at the time).

I have been working on this quest from level 14 to 22. At 22 I could take anything solo, and get some experience for the harder skeletons. Level 14 I was grouped. I have seen the undead crusader on the three main locations mentioned in previous posts

1. from level two, take the stairs to your right that go up to level 3. Crusader spawns at the top.

2. continue up those same stairs up to top level (someone mentioned loc -98, -223, 122 as this spot)

3. on level 3 along the set of small stairs that go up to the barracks. Good camp for a lvl 14 group.

I got the only LORE skull of the crusader near the barracks area. I saw it drop a LORE skull again in this spot and let someone else loot it. The rest I saw mostly on the top of the stairs. Three skulls I had to buy, most people just give them to you actually. NONE of the skulls are NO DROP.

I have no idea what the best way is to get the crusader to spawn. I tried killing all the wandering spawns since the crusader spawns as a wanderer every time I have seen it. But I have done that for HOURS at a time and seen nothing. Sometimes I see two within a short time... go figure. Basically, the crusader would spawn on me while the 3rd and 4th floor was being kept clean by someone. That means being in a group or between me and some others going solo. I never managed to get it to spawn when I was working the floor by myself. I still think that the crusader has place holders and it is most likely the wandering skeletons... I just wasn't sure which ones and couldn't clear them fast enough.

The was the most frustrating quest. The previous one was easier, and the next one even easier still since it was done except for the cudgel while waiting on this one! Buy the skulls if you can. Good luck

Uluhtc
22 Iksar Shaman
Tholuxe Paells

Ok, folks I have some specifics for the Undead Crusader. From what I've come up with he spawns near location -98, -223, 122, in the tower of Kurns, that is on the steps that goes up to the dinning room level. He does have a place holder, and that place holder is the skeleton that walks up and down the stairs. The respawn rate is 10 min. I timed the spawn, every 10 min almost exactly, either the Undead crusder, or the place holder will drop, and they don't drop in the same spot all the time, it will drop somewhere on the steps.
I hope that helps, but the Undead Crusader is a verry rare spawn, so much so, that I was not sure I was in the right spot or not, untill finaly it spawned right at the location that I listed. This quest is possible to do, but be ready for some long hours camping the crusader.

Good Hunting, and may the spirits guid you well.

P.S. I just finished this quest, after camping the crusader for 12 hours over the past 3 days. This quest is verry boring. But I'm happy to say the long camp is now over....for now.. =) I spent 8 striaght hours camping the crusader today, and only saw him once, but that was all I needed to get my last skull.

Ok, we need some more information on this lore skull. I too have all five of the other skulls, but have yet to see one of the LORE ones. A few questions for those who have finished this quest, is it No Drop? Did it come off of the Undead Crusader like the others, or did it come off of one of the Burynai like someone earlier suggested? This information may make things easier for all.

Galatha, 16th circle Priestess of Cazic-Thule.

i, like many of you, am completely fed up with this quest. i have camped the crusader for many hours with no luck. in all my time at kurns, i have only seen him once - ONCE! and that was on my first visit there. i have tested every known theory to get him to spawn... nothin. i'm not saying these theories are wrong, i'm just saying i must have the worst luck ever. anyway, after that one skull i looted when i kill the crusader myself, i have recieved 4 others from very kind and generous people along the way. i now have 5 skulls total and only need one more! however, that last one is the infamous LORE skull with x. i can't stand kurns any longer, so i'm asking y'all for help. if you on the tunare server ever run into a LORE skull with x, please give me a tell. i just want to put this REDICULOUS quest behind me and move on with my life. thanks all.

Khaelbane
Iksar Shaman of the 17th
Tunare Server

I must have camped this guy for 10 or 12 hours over a period of days and finally got them all. I was so glad to be done I am never going back into Kurn's tower if I can avoid it.

Thank Cazic-Thule I am done with this quest.

The Crusader was blue to me at 17th level.

This quest is very long. No one else hunts the upper levels of Kurn's, and you need to get past at least 7 other Skeles (Usually Greater Skeletons or Scalebones) to get to where the Crusader spawns. I've spent about 20 hours on this quest, Killed the Crusader once, bought one skull through constant auctioning and had to zone from the crusader twice when he jumped me either during a combat or right after.

I have killed him 5 times and I have 5 skulls, however I bought two of these since I got the lore one three times so far. Having one skull lore so that you can get duplicates is intensely annoying. My longest wait, 10 hours, and my time spent solely doing this quest so far is about 30 hours. I have been trying to buy skulls for 30pp but people don't hunt Kurns so the skulls are not too common. In my opinion this quest is a mess, the investment in time is horrendous compared to the previous one which I was probably lucky to complete in about 5 hours (while doing other interesting stuff) and the next one which I already have all the parts for (took about 5 hours for that too).

Putting an item that we need six copies of on a very rare spawn was a bad decision. These skulls should drop off Lesser Ice Bones, which are uncommon and can spawn all around Kurns.

Hivemind (aka Xalaer, Iksar Shaman)

This quest is somewhat easier (in terms of difficulty) than the previous, but it is taxing on the patience. The Undead Crusader is one of the rarest spawns in Kurn's Tower. Perhaps the Fingerbone Skelly and the Jester Skelly are rarer, but I believe the classes who need these spawn only need to kill them once.

You will need to kill the Undead Crusader a minimum of 6 times, and probably more. In between each spawn you will have to wait an average of three hours, with the minimum I have heard of being 2 hours and the most I have personally experienced being 7 hours.

As for the exact location within Kurn's, you need to go through the "newby" foyer at the zone entry and go up the main staircase to the left. When you reach the second level, run across the "bridge" and take the stairway up to the third level on your right. Continue up the stairway past the third (barracks) level to a small landing that has two placeholder spawn--usually greater skeletons or greater scalebones, though I have seen plain scalebone skellies here. This is the place where the crusader will spawn, and he will travel up and down this entire stairway between the third and fourth levels. Up a few steps from the landing is the top (so far) level of the tower--at the end of a long hallway is a huge dining room with exits blocked by fallen debris--I have not been able to get through with shrink, and nobody else has made it beyond this level to my knowledge. I don't know if it is possible to teleport past and continue up the tower or not--perhaps some day Verant will clear the debris and let you climb up to find maybe Kurn himself at the top of the tower--would be nice to put some more difficult MOBs in this zone.

Anyway, you need six skulls from the Undead Crusader--five "Skull with an X" and one LORE "Skull with an X." I personally killed the Crusader 4 times and bought one skull and had another given to me by someone in desperate need of healing and buffs.

A nice bonus is that the Crusader seems to consistently drop a Fine Steel Morning Star (8/38) which you can sell to vendors for several platinum or auction. I was so happy when I killed the Crusader the last time that I ran down to the zone and gave away the final FS Morning Star and 4 piles of bone chips I had collected during my camp...

Total time to complete: 16 hours

Hassyrtiko Shadebrynger
Prophet of the Temple of Terror
Iksar Shaman of the 22nd Circle
New Sebilis, Kunark

The Hextracer is in the Warsliks Wood. Walk out of Cabilis and take an immediate left. There is a guard at the edge where the stone meets the grass. The Hextracer spawns 50 feet or so in front of him. Hang out and kill everything that moves in front of him. Eventually the Hextracer will show up. He snuck up on me after 45 minutes of camping while I was fighting two other goblins. Hextracer is easy, level 10-11 I think. He cast Drowsy and Frost Rift on me.

Crusader Quarg spawns at nighttime and has been spotted right in the gates of Cabilis, wandering down the path, or up on the balcony with the vendors.

The Undead Crusader spawns on the second floor of Kurn's Tower on the staircase. I've heard he has placeholders, so kill everything that moves up there. I'm not sure of his level, 16-18ish would be my guess. I found it easier to /auction WTB Skull with X. People dont know what they're for, so I bought them for 3-5pp each.