also found out that the Out cast Survivor's can also be spawning spots for these insects.

After 3 days of gaming, around 15 hours, I have only one component of the quest.

The 'a captured nifilik' in the bag. Got another one day.

I have yet to see the 'a tiny nifilik'.

Lots of Nifilik Bile. I have killed about 20 or so of 'A Broken Skull Niflik'.

Am on my 39 ranger.. Went to Gunthak, Got the quest. first niflik dropped both peices :)!

Got a captured niflik on the 4th niflik I killed, another captured on the 7th one, and the 12th one dropped both a captured AND a tiny. Took about 60-75 mins total, but I was using a 70 mage and was able to keep the entire beach clear with time to spare. Niflik seemed no more rare than any other type of mob that pops there. Also got two nameds to pop in that time.

I soloed on the beach for a half hour as a 43 Ranger with no luck on the drops. Then I hooked up with a Cleric / SK 2 boxer and we cleared huge sections of the beach for an hour. Barely 5 Nifliks popped the whole time. Uncommon drop on a rare spawn is all I can say :-(
I camped there so tomorrow is another day...

I have hunted Broken Skull Nifiliks for 4 nights now and have killed everyone one the beach twice each night and have only received 1 tiny Nifilik about 20 babrs and about 10 biles. I have yet to even come close to looting a captured one.
Oh wel maybe day 5 will get me what I am looing for>

I decide to try this quest as a brand new lvl 42 Ranger, Half Elf, even though it states a minimum level of 45 for some reason. I like to do quests at a time when doing so I get experience for the kills. Anyway I just got my lvl 42 in the Eastern Waist working on the Prayer Shaw quests but was having trouble with the Snow Griffins so I decided to give the “Swarm of Pain” spell quest a try. I figured I’m only 2 levels away so I might as well get started.

Since I was only level 42, and 99% of the MOBs were dark blue, I was not selective about killing just the Nifilik’s and I killed anything I came across. On my 6th Nifilik kill I got the Captured Nifilik. On my 11th Nifilik kill I got the Captured Nifilik and the Tiny Nifilik, Whoo……Hooooo! I was just over 2 yellows into my lvl 42 and had killed 29 MOBs at this point. I ran back and completed the quest and was surprised to get about 2 blue bubbles of experience pushing me to the midway point to my lvl 43.

This is not the best place for Ranger to hunt as the bow was pretty useless but the experience was great. I figured since the experience is so good and the “Outcast Survivors” drop about 5pp every time I will keep hunting here until I get to level 44 and can use the spell then I will go back to EW to work on the Prayer Shaw quests again.

By the time I got my level 43, about 57 Mob’s kill and 11 of them Nifilik’s, I had 3 Captured Nifilik’s and two Tiny Nifilik’s so yes I did the quest twice and got the spell and experience both times they were turned but he would not talk to me the second time. As long as no one in the zone says they need the parts when I do an OOC then I will loot them and turn them in just for the experience. The spell is No Drop so I just destroyed the extra one.

While it did take me a while to complete this quest at level 45 with my Ranger, it was refreshing to at LEAST get a little bit of experience when doing a quest.

Most quests are quite the opposite. I camped the beach for about 3.5 hours. I cleared every non-dead spawn point. All light and DB to me. I got about 2 yellow of reg exp and a spell and about 110p in loot total.

Not bad and it's a decent spell for the level.

I dont know how all you people got them but Ive been at the beach for about 5 hours and the only thing that dropped was the the tiny one. This is not a common drop. Exp is good though so I figure I ll get to 44 and come back another day.

I just did this quest earlier today with my 51 ranger. Saw that I didn't have it and the mobs were pretty low comparatively so i figured - why not? Plus its better than Immolate and they stack. I zoned in from PoK, ran to the shore and killed one, it dropped the tiny nifilik, then i killed another "a Broken Skull Nifilik" and the capture nifilik dropped, handed into Gaudric and got the spell. Took roughly 5 mins, hope you all have the same luck. Oh and they green at 51, if you do it at 44, maybe light blue, but would still be pretty easy to kill.

Can solo these mobs at 35 with good equipment. Solo at 40 with decent equipment.

Use Harmony to pull and snare! They run at 20%.

FYI, I had both items drop off one mob. That was nice.

Another FYI, you don't exp for doing this quest so no reason to collect items more than once.

Amose

Got both parts last night. Took about 3 1/2 hours of steady killing. My first kill got me level 44 and by the time the last one dropped I was at 1 blue from 45. I think the drop rate has improved. I continued to kill mobs in the area after getting the last piece and saw a couple more drop. No other rangers in the area so I had to let them rot. Most unfortunate.

Aye, fairly common, I decided to sart this quest at 43 and headed to Gunthak. After killing the first one on track, on the beach surrounded by mosquitoes, I was delighted to find it dropped a tiny nifilik. Now all i need is the captured one and I am GTG!




Leranga
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Just a note of warning to any non-Ranger looking to do this quest for the XP. (I know that the quest reward is a Ranger-only spell scroll and that it is NODROP; this warning is for folks who might try to do the quest for XP.)

My Beastlord partner (then 41) and I (then 43) worked the west side of the beach. We cleared the wreck on the shoreline, the first spawn near the wall and a couple farther south also near the wall. It appears that all the non-undead spawn points can potentially spawn Nifiliks.

I got the drops I needed fairly quickly, and my partner did too. I did my turn-in and gained about about 1.5 blues of experience. Made 44 here and scribed my new spell. A very nice upgrade to stinging swarm it is, too.

My Beastlord friend tried to do the turn-in for the XP. He hailed the quest giver, who responded with a totally different message than he had given to me. Basically told the Beastlord to leave him alone. My friend tried to do the turn-in anyway, and the NPC ate both items without an additional word.

So if you're thinking of trying this quest and you're not a Ranger, I would try hailing the quest giver first to see if he will give you the quest dialog. If not, it probably isn't worth your time to try.

The drop rates must have been increased because I got both drops after the 10th dead Nifilik. Did it at lvl 40 so I'd have the spell with me when I turned 44 and it wasnt' that hard. Although I did die several times, I refined my strategy to camping either on the far west side of the beach or the far east side, near the water on both sides. Just keep killing mobs until the little devils pop. Every once in a while I'd levitate my a$$ over to the other side of the beach to see if I was missing out on anything. The undead here are good xp if you're soloing and decent $ drops also. Everything on the beach was DB to me at 40. And to top it off, I got 1 and 1/2 yellow bubs xp when I turned in the Nifilik drops! All in all a great quest for the reward.

Worked at clearing the Beach of the living for almost 6 hrs, died twice deleveled twice with 49 ranger soloing.

Them lil buggers hit hard

Got "a tiny niflik" after about an hour

took the rest of the time to get
"a captured niflik"

bring some friends is my suggestion, earier to clear the living and alot safer and more fun

I got a Tiny on the 1st day of LoY and then nothing for like 2 weeks of trying. I stopped trying specifically for that drop because I wanted to get through the tunnels to Dulak and group.....no time to stop for possibly futile exercise. Then, on a day when I was blessed with c3 IN Dulak, and my group was leaving, I went Camo down to the beach. The nearby spawn to the lighthouse was a Nifilik, killed it and no luck. I stopped there and Tracked all the Nifs on the beach and here's how I cleared the beach of them without dying.
Camo at the beach, go to the nearest Nifilik, and check your spacing between him and the other mobs. If he is alone, get ready to whack him, but first find a spot juuuust out of his reach where you can root him in place and move to without his neighbors noticing to heal. If he is near another mob, Snare-Pull him to a spot like the kill/heal spot described above. Not one time did another mob agro the snare/pull move. I killed all 7 or 8 available and as listed below, the drop rate had been drastically raised. I had my Tiny in the bank and left the beach with with another Tiny and 2 Captured. I did that in the hopes that the Spell Scroll would NOT be NoDrop[sorry Tierash, it was]. Going from 1 Nif to another, you obviously have to Camo again but this should work for you with no group, and possibly, no c3. I'll mention last that I was Level 47 when I did this cause Camo, Snare, and Root are all low level spells. They were dark blue and I think only two made me back-off to heal during the fight.
Finally, doing this niiice lil quest got me more into DoTs. It's nice with new patch to see in the middle of kitin or melee:13hp non-melee, 24hp non-melee, 30hp non-melee, due to Stinging Swarm, Swarm of Pain and Immolate[lvl49]. Makes my solo day go faster and my c3 well worth it. Good luck with this my fellow Rangers.....Peace and Love.....

I guess I had a bit of luck - I managed to kill two Nifliks and got two tiny and one captured - am a monk tho - go figure

our group got 4 tiny nilifiks in 2 horus chain pulign the shore mobs. no a single captured yet

Items are more difficult to obtain than I thought! Been campin the beach for over 15 hours (over many days) and killed a lot of Broken Skull Nifliks (although seem to only be 3 - 4 at a time on the beach - kill them and wait for respawn - LOL). Try to avoid other Mobs while tracking, or at least minimize additional pulls. Good news is mobs don't move much on beach, so you can camp and regen health and manna pretty easy. Got Captured Niflik within first 5 - 6 kills, been hunting Tiny Niflik for days - no luck yet. Even offered plat to others on beach if they found on corpse - had one group find another "Captured", but no tinys yet! Can't wait to get spell. Lvl 43 Ranger with 1 small yellow tick till 44 - Hoped to have spell right off!

Good quest though - doable (I hope - seem should be - LOL) without spending months or finding 10 people to tag along...

Where can I find Gaudric?

Took me three days of off and on fighting to get both -- ironically, when I finally got the tiny nifilik, the same corpse had a captured nifilik on it, but by then I already had a captured nifilik and had seen three others drop.

I think what may be happening is that they go through cycles of captureds and tinys -- that and other people are finding what you need and vice versa.

As for needing only one component, I agree with Caidykat: this quest can be MQ and some may have given only one part with the hope of lucking up and completing a previously started MQ.

It was a very frustrating three days. Stupid undead saw through invis (of course) usually near a scorpion or one of the scavengers. A lot of casting interruptions and junk. THEN there's the huge mosquitos . . .

Hang in there. Completion of the quest gave me roughly half a blue (I had my AA set to 50%)

Kainah Tsalagi
Ranger, 51st Season, Quellious
Ever Present, Rarely Seen

I have now killed around 40 nifiliks and only two of the "a captured nifilik" have dropped, but none of the "a tiny nifilik". This is over the course of about 3 days, beginning late on day two of the LoY expansion. Good luck to anyone doing it. My guildmate, Hulrar, got both in about an hour, however. #@&*%$!! ;)

I only had a tiny one and I turned it in and I got the spell.