Totemic Helm  

After months of envy I finally kilt the damn bear. Right now I am so stoked over such an easy kill it seems almost ridiculous. But I have to say that the quests are what you make of them. Its easy to just buy one...or worse to say to hell with it and give up. But if you stick to it, you'll end up with a trophy that means something to yourself. Not bashin twinks. I'm just saying the slow road has its own rewards. Keep trying. It will come if your diligent.

Urzog
Eci

Went down the hole to the cave sense animal.....DING hes up took 4 minutes to find him less than 30 seconds to take him down... just bring your wizzy friend along who you helped do that horrid staff of the wheel quest hehehe owes you big....oh and btw for the cleric it dropped that too, i did an ooc/ but no takers on it (.... The lich was up but never a factor....as for the ogre chamois...took about 30 minutes to find help and a full mana bar of buffs for the small group. another 15 minutes and it dropped. dont forget to hail the ogres to get the right one make sure that the ogre will grind the gem and not crush it

good luck all

Dreemara icesoul, shaman of the 45th season
seventh hammer

Have killed this bear 3 times and yet to see the cleric drop, our cleric is pulling out her hair trying to get it.. oh well.. they way my group has been hunting it, is go in and kill all the ice bones in the place and the cleric keeps a very very close eye on the lich if he is close.. then we go hunt mammoths and wait about 4 to 5 hours. in that time have made enough to pay for the dunfuire from the dealers.. then went back in and wack the poor bear.. his place holds I am told are the 2 wondering ice bones. after your first killing of the place go back in after 30 mins and kill them again if they poped.. if they have not poped in that time you are on your way to get the bear.. note this is how we got him..

The pages were even eaiser went in and there in the thron room he was sitting there by the door pulled him out and none came with him so we nuked him and boom there is the next iteam.. have yet to see the permid though.. one of these days..


Good hunting to you all

As an early post stated unrest one fo the best loot for 15-25 then go to the split paw and make money there off of the gnolls.. they drop wis gloves I was selling for 15pp each and tunics for 20pp.. and most time they parties there do not conter them loot towards your turn :)

Best money for the amouth of time we have put into things would be mammoth tusk.. somedays they drop like flys somedays you get only a few.. but the days they drop you can make a lot of money on them..

to get in to the cave there is a hole in the ice by megan first time in endure beathing on yrou self my swiming is always maxed so I can make it on single breath. swim tothe wall there will be a goblin diver just at the entice he is green and leaves you alone.. get up for some air and another one there kill him. and then you ahve a good place to med.. Always Always watch for that lich.. he is instand death.

For you Barbarians antoher good loot is bandits they drop bronze weapons and you turn in the sashes for faction and some coin.. always good to have . there is a good camp by the water to wack them at..

Ok. So I am no longer the Frustrated Shammy of Saryn Server. I camped my Shaman in the cave and sat there. My divination went up 60 lvls from the constant "Sense Animal" spell casting.

Constant /ooc Glacier Bear is camped and has been camped for last 5 hours. Please do not KS me.

Many people were irritated and such, but I wasn't about to be KsD again.

Bear doesnt spawn in any one particular point. It was a little frustrating b/c Sense Animal spell kept pointing in to a wall.

Did I mention constant /ooc BEAR IS CAMPED ! Especailly at this point. I am shaking because yes....It does say "A Glacier Bear" and I CANT FIND HIM. Oh, but theres the Lich!

Anyway, I did get it and look, a little bonus! A High Quality Bear skin. Hardest 25pp I ever made.

Total camp time, 6hrs 52mins.

Good luck Fellow Shamans! In the Name of the Tribunal, Play Fair and Fight Fierce.

Aryann Starblazr
Saryn

where is the spawn loc of that bear?

Can anyone tell me how to get to this cave I have been looking for it for days now to no avail.

Thanks

how can anyone say that this is an average item? +5 wis and 12 ac ... the best helm for a shaman

yes, the bear does always drop the pelt (at least the 6 times i've killed him) it's the cleric's inget that doesn't always drop

Here's my notes on the bear. He is possibly the worst creature to camp in the game. You can expect to be camping him straight for a week.

My friend and I moved our alternate characters into the cave. We left them there and continued to play our main characters for a few days until the server went down for a patch. Taking advantage of this, we got on the server as soon as we could as it came back up. There are two placeholders for the bear, both are wandering Icebones. As both of our characters could track, we just sat in the cave and tracked to see if any of the 7 icebones within range were moving. Then we maneuvered past the lich and killed them. Then we noted the time. After this we camped our characters and waited six hours. We logged on and "claimed" our rights to the bear. The best place to wait for it is in Sulon's room. It will spawn either in the middle of the room, or right near Sulon. Once the bear spawns, you will have to avoid the lich, and watch out for Sulon, a level 51 paladin searching for the dusty jawbone got slaughtered by him in about 5 seconds after walking too close to him.

I would not suggest camping this bear with your main character(shaman). The reason for this is simple. The cave is very dangerous, things can go wrong fairly quick. And you won't be able to depend on SoW or gate if Sulon or the Lich decides to kill you. We could afford the death of our alternate characters if we messed up.

Some things to note:

This camp will suck! We started it just after our server came back up after patch. Killed both place holders. For the next 5 days, we logged every 6 hours, "claimed" our spawn, and waited about an hour (the camp is an average 7 hours. We timed it exactly, but it would always be no more than 8 hours after the last kills, and no less than 6 hours). Starting at noon, going for 5 days, here an average time of how our camp went:


12 (right after patch) 2 icebones
7pm 2 wandering icebones
2am 2 wandering icebones

9am 2 wandering icebones
4pm "
11pm "

6am "
1pm "
8pm "

3am "
10am "
5pm "

12am "
7am BEAR SPAWNED the other spawn was a placeholder
9am Server went down for scheduled maintenance

If you add up the hours, that's over 14 hours of waiting on the placeholders.
The thing that makes the camp so terrible is that if you do it like we did, you will suffer from accute fatigue only getting about 5 hours sleep in between each spawn. We used multiple family members to help camp this. Another nasty thing is that sometimes the bear doesn't drop the pelt. If this happened to us, I'd think I'd cry. I have heard some say that the bear isn't that rare, but we observed about 26 placeholders. Other websites say the bear spawns one in 4. But not ours.

YOUR BIGGEST FEAR if you attempt to do this as we have, will be the danger of server going down, resetting the spawn, a zone repop, missing a spawn and losing the timing of it, or losing the spawn to someone who arrived earlier than you.

Did I mention Kill Stealers?

We had several people threaten to take the camp out from under us. Luckily they didn't know the timing so we always had the advantage. When we did finally get the bear, another higher level shaman was standing right next to us. We were worried he might get greedy and KS it, but he did not. Nor did he heal us =) in hopes that we would die. But, we got the pelt and had the helmet after a short 5 hour camp in Cazic Thule temple for the chamoise. I hope this info helps any that are attempting to get it. Make a temporary character in the cave to check the spawn every couple of days. It seems we saw the most competition at odd early morning hours (I guess they expected it wouldn't be camped then) and at one point there was actually a line to wait to camp him. I think this is one of those camps where you just get lucky and see it. Don't do it like we did =) Best way to get this helm is to trade for it =)

For those that haven't heard, the Lich is a 45th level Necro with a 35th level Skel pet. The lich is VERY powerful and has wiped out SEVERAL 50+ level parties. I would HIGHLY rec. that you bring either a Ranger (Good) or a Druid (better) who can track. Only reason that the Druid is better (Even though skill in tracking will be less) is that he can Gate when you do, so you don't have to feel bad about leaving someone behind (I don't like doing that but it is better that ONE person die than two, harsh as that sounds).

the glaciar bear is on approx 8 hour spawn with it's place holders. Divide that by the percentage of glaciar belt spawning instead of the placeholders. That amount is the "least" amount of time needed to complete the quest.

The helm is the best part of the shaman armor for sure. The quest to get it is infact horendous in the time it takes. The spawn time is 8 hours average on the bear or his skellie PH. basically you will have to kill, eat, sleep then log on to kill etc. else you just have to be plain lucky or have no social life :)
I actually bought my helm for 800pp in the ned from someone who accidentally saw the bear and killed it :)
And indeed the pelt isn;t dropped always, but most of the time.
Hope this doesn;t put anyone off :)
Gazlaab Boghead, 45th shaman on Bristlebane