Paw of Opolla  

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Level:24
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Quest
Quest Goal:
  • Loot
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Era:Original
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Group Size:Solo
Min. # of Players:1
Max. # of Players:1
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Entered: Tue Dec 5 20:40:17 2000
Modified: Thu Mar 14 20:36:11 2024
In the Fish Ale pub in South Qeynos there is a man named Micc Koter standing at the bar. His companion (whose name I forget) will occasionally mumble about someone "foolish going after the Paw of Opolla". When you ask the companion about it, he tells you to mind your own business, but Micc will tell him to behave. Ask Micc about the Paw of Opolla and he will tell you it is a magical item and it belongs to "some gnoll bitch". He will offer to tell you where to find it if you buy him a brandy. I had to buy 2 to get him to talk. He then says that someone calling himself Caninel went to find it in the Plains of Karana.

Caninel is located in West Karana, along with two named gnolls, along the mountains near the border with North Karana. When you talk to Caninel, he will demand 3 gems (a Moonstone, a Bloodstone, and a Star Rose Quartz) before telling you about the Paw of Opolla. He will then tell you about how when the humans from Everfrost first met the Blackburrow Gnolls, the Shaman Opolla greeted them warmly and had her hand cut off by Gynok Moltor. She placed a curse upon the Moltor descendants, the last of which can be found in under Qeynos. He tells you to ask him about the paw and also about the rings on the paw.

When you find him (Vin Moltor), he will demand 3 Bottle of Kalish and a Rat Ear Pie for the paw. He will deny any knowledge of the rings and say that his father probably sold them, mentioning his father's travels in Odus. You can get the pie through a quest in Qeynos Hills, or you can kill him to get the Severed Paw. This is not the actual item, since it seems it is the rings that activate its magic.

There are four rings that need to be put in the paw container and combined to get the true paw: Platinum Ring, Gold Ring, Silver Ring and Copper Ring. Look for rings with a XXX: +1 CHA: -1 stat.



All four rings are known to drop from a mummy named Gynok Moltor in Befallen.

The Copper, Silver, and Gold Rings can be obtained through the Shiny Rings quest in Toxxulia Forest which involves camping a fungus mutant in Upper Guk.

The Silver Ring also appears in the lake in Blackburrow.

Need all dialogues, /loc of quest mobs, missing quest items, faction hits if any, any other missing information.

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Paw of Opolla
Submitted by: Esmeraude and Herky
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#Anonymous, Posted: Oct 10 2000 at 4:05 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I cant seem to get it Ineed hep or if u have a paw and dont wnat it please let me know ill buy it. i reallly need one and a cant find one i need one reallly bad plaese help please help me please help me please help me please please please please.
RE: please help me!!!!!!
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:57 PM Rating: Default
You can get it just like everyone else does. It's called patience and read up on what you are doing before attemting to do it or you're going to be real disappointed with a lot of time invested in nothing. So, get your maps out, print out the info from this database, set your timer, mark down the times that the mobs spawn and wait, wait, wait. Why give someone esle 10k for it when you can get it for free with a few days of playing time invested in it? Personally, I think it should be a "no drop" item.
RE: please help me!!!!!!
# Dec 29 2000 at 7:03 AM Rating: Default
I disagree. If someone is willing to pay for it, then it certainly should be sold, just like many other items. Heck, better than other items, seeing how rare it is.
Now, I do disagree vehemently with whining...


renren, 17 year old druid
#Anonymous, Posted: Oct 31 2000 at 12:14 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Shut the **** up.
Gynok STILL drops the Ring
# Oct 08 2000 at 3:09 AM Rating: Default
Just so you will know... I camped Gynok for close to 12 hours last nite and I got the ring. Kill the ph's that spawn right next to the zone every 16 minutes. Some of them will talk. Those are Gynok's place holders. You MUST kill them. Just keep killing them. He WILL come out eventually. I had just told a friend I wasn't sure I could camp him much longer, and he spawned the very next camp. Good luck ;)
RE: Gynok STILL drops the Ring
# Oct 12 2000 at 1:40 PM Rating: Default
Gynok drops the platinum and the gold ring that I know of. Some have said that he drops the Copper. Can't verify that, but it is much easier to get the other rings, beside the plat, from the other NPC's instead of waiting on Gynok. There again, they are random spawns and Gynok's is now the longest of all. You will eventually be forced into camping him to get the plat but if he doesn't drop the Gold before he does the Plat, I would head to Upper Guk for the Gold and Copper.
RE: Gynok STILL drops the Ring
# Oct 16 2000 at 12:30 PM Rating: Default
Well, after 17 hours of straight camping (got there at 6:00 a.m. and he popped at 11:15 p.m) I finally got the plat. I ended up with 45+ hours of camping time for the plat ring. Personally, I feel this is very excessive. I have camped, and finally given up, (convinced that there was a bug) 15 hours straight for the plat before the 17 hour camp and various other times as well. If you plan on camping for the plat, bring your breakfast, lunch, and dinner because, unless you just happend upon it, will be there for a LONG time.
RE: Gynok STILL drops the Ring
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:22 PM Rating: Default
I started camping Gynok at 7:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and gave up 15 hours later. I killed the ph's every 16 minutes and he never did appear. So, when you do decide to camp him, be prepared for a LONG wait and then if he appears sooner, great. But, at least, you won't have to give up in the middle of your camping because you didn't know it took that long.
Frostkin from Veeshan
# Oct 02 2000 at 10:51 PM Rating: Default
I spent 1 and 1/2 hours camping fungus muntant and got the guk weed. I still needed copper but had to log. Next Day i camped him got another weed and still no Faerix Spores or Mildew bracket. A little while later i got the Mildew and got the silver ring from blackburrow. Its just luck on how you get it. Muntant is 18 min spawn and doesnt have a ph for anyone who wanted to know! =)
#Anonymous, Posted: Oct 02 2000 at 9:46 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) can someone tell me about this quest a little better? go to quelluis
#Anonymous, Posted: Oct 12 2000 at 2:31 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Bobby, you can learn more about this quest right here by reading these posts!
Guk Weed
# Sep 30 2000 at 7:10 PM Rating: Default
The Weed is now the hardest part of the quest to complete. Im not sure whats been done to mutant but the weed is now very rare, much more rare than the plat ring.
Gynok...does he exist?
# Sep 26 2000 at 9:11 PM Rating: Default
ok...i camped Gynok for 17 hours on Sunday...then a guildmate took over for another 6 hours after my camp...Gynok never spawned...that's 23 hours without a spawn...umm...do i have terrible luck or does he not exist after the last patch??
RE: Gynok...does he exist?
# Nov 25 2000 at 6:29 PM Rating: Default
he does exist and i was told how to force his spawn. i have got 3 plat rings so far for friends all in under 3 hours. there are 2 guards by the 3rd floor door guarding it you must keep killing them and he will spawn in 3 hours unless someone has killed guards before then he will spawn in less time
RE: Gynok...does he exist?
# Sep 26 2000 at 10:51 PM Rating: Default
I found him today...after 40 minutes of camping. Just waited in the hallway, with my volume turned ALL the way up. Everytime I heard footsteps, I'd rush to the computer, and kill whatever was walking by. Granted I was really lucky, even luckier that he dropped the plat ring....
Good luck with it, stick to it, you'll find him.
RE: Gynok...does he exist?
# Oct 26 2000 at 9:25 PM Rating: Default
You are so lucky.....
Silver Ring - Blackburrow
# Sep 21 2000 at 8:38 PM Rating: Default
I see posts about how the Silver Ring drops in the lake in Blackburrow, but I can think of three bodies of water off the top of my head.

There's the water that you fall into from dropping through the tree, the water you fall into from dropping down the large pit, and then there's also the water underneath the Elite Guards.

In which body of water does this little guy appear, and where in it?

Any information would be appreciated.
RE: Silver Ring - Blackburrow
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:19 PM Rating: Default
You can find the silver ring at the bottom of the waterfall in Blackburrow. It is a bag. I swam all the way to the bottom, with little fishes nibbling at my toes, and there it was. If it is not there I have heard conflicting reports that it spawns every 20 min. to once an EQ day so I'm not sure about the spawn rate.
RE: Silver Ring - Blackburrow
# Sep 24 2000 at 8:51 AM Rating: Default
Zone in from Q hills - drop the long fall into the big, main water pit - that is the water, with the long waterfall - look around on the floor of that water (if you are getting bit by fish you are in the right water, hehe :p)

Fish are annoying - not a real threat - nothing to worry about if they even attack.
Spawn Times
# Sep 19 2000 at 11:09 AM Rating: Default
Here is some info, hope it helps: Spawn time is 16 min, however if you are able to let the PH despawn (takes 10 minutes of him roaming up and down stairs) 5 minutes later a new PH will show up. This only saves you 1 minute, but when camping for many hours, they add up. Here is some of the PHs that spawn: Ghoul, Putrid Skeleton, Large Skeleton, Giant Rat, Plague Rat, Ice Bone Skeleton. They all spawn right at zone, so have fun with newbie trains =)

P.S. 16hrs and counting straight when server rebooted. Working on some sort of pattern maybe to spawns? will update if there is. (Unipsi/Povar)
RE: Spawn Times
# Oct 16 2000 at 3:02 AM Rating: Default
I think you have got your information wrong there. If you dont kill the PH and let it wander, it will despawn after awhile (I've heard it is 18 minutes, but you say its 10), then you have to wait ANOTHER 16 minutes for new PH to spawn. It doesnt save you a minute, it costs you the time that the PH is wandering before it despawns. Kill the PHs.
RE: Spawn Times
# Sep 24 2000 at 7:22 PM Rating: Default
I camped him for 15hrs straight no ring. I was helping a friend camp the cleric quest guy in the bottom and he spawned. Believe it or not NOBODY was camping him. I ran up stairs and killed him and got the ring. I think it is completly random spawn.
RE: Spawn Times
# Dec 31 2000 at 9:52 AM Rating: Decent
Well, odds are the spawn at that point is consisitant.. the random part is if Vin will be the mob that pops up.....
Actually, a fun quest...
# Sep 17 2000 at 10:35 AM Rating: Decent
This is actually a fun quest if you do it with a group of friends in the 20-26 level range.

One day we spent in Befallen, killing for the various nice drops: Icon of the Ardent, Dagger of Marnek, Goss Robe, Barbed Armor, BBC--and I hung up top and camped Moltar. 2.5 hours of pleasant chatter and lotsa loot--and we retired for the day (and I had my plat ring).

Then my alt and my younger guild friends headed to UGuk the next weekend and camped the fungus...good XP, fun fights AND we got 4 Guk Weeds and 3 Mildews (no spores tho--rats) over about 4 hours. The fighting was fun and profitable enough that people said 'Oh--let's come back!' We were pulling froggies along with the fungus for almost non-stop fighting.

Teleported to Tox, ran to Kerra Ridge, and then we harmonied the cats & gorillas by the castle so my guildie necro could turn in the weed and mildew for his rings (everyone in the group got a gold ring!). That's the trick for KOS types--go in invis and have some druid/ranger friends harmony all surrounding cats--inside, outside and at the sides of the building.

I took the boat to Qeynos (still faster than the run from WK) and killed Moltar (who spawns very near secret wall/Klicknik well entrance and DOES show up on tracking). A quick run to Blackburrow and while still underwater with dead razorgill floating around me, I popped the silver ring into the severed paw container. Very satisfying!
No Paw
# Aug 28 2000 at 6:18 PM Rating: Default
I just spent a few days helping my friend get the rings for her Paw. Well we got lucky and got the platinum ring after about 2 days of trying.
She had all 4 rings, and the severed Paw container. She put all 4 rings into the container and pressed combine. And what did she get? NADA
Has this ever happened to anyone? I seem to remember a few months back that the Paw quest had been fixed. Any input here would be appreciated.
Thanks
RE: No Paw
# Oct 23 2000 at 8:30 PM Rating: Default
This did happen to a friend of mine, she was 100% sure she had the correct rings, all had -1 CHA on them and she hit combine and POOF, nothing...

She petitioned but the GM wouldn't help..oh well....it does happen, very rarely though, I have done the quest 4 times and never had a problem...
RE: No Paw
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:28 PM Rating: Default
You need to make sure that you have the CORRECT rings. Not just any silver ring will work or gold, etc. They have to be the rings that you get off of the right NPC's. Some people think they have the silver or the gold when, in fact, it's not the same at all. You must have the right rings.
Fungus Mutant drops
# Aug 27 2000 at 5:44 PM Rating: Decent
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I just walked through and killed him twice and got the weed and mildew, so it just depends on luck. I would say average 8 hour camp to get both, then another 8 on Gynok, then another 2 for travel to blackburrow and qeynos and kerra.
Advice
# Aug 20 2000 at 11:23 PM Rating: Default
Hi i have started this quest a few days ago and so far have gotten the paw, the silver ring adn the item to get the copper ring. Well When I got to guk to go to the fungus mutant some lvl 40 ranger was camping it. I found out she had already three rings and needed the gold one. Well I asked if i could loot the corpse if It had the item for the copper ring, and two spawns later it was on it. So I looted it. Right now im lvl 30 druid and dont know if i can solo the fungus mutant. If you think I can plz post a reply and tell me how to kill it with ease. Thx.
RE: Advice
# Oct 19 2000 at 6:51 PM Rating: Default
The fungus mutant hits you with a poison that makes you spin. I would take a friend.
re:fryguy's post
# Aug 16 2000 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
well it took me a while to find her also but if u stand just outside the entrace to the temple and track. shes located in a hut just beside the temple(right side behind a counter as u walk in).
#Anonymous, Posted: Aug 16 2000 at 6:42 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) were in the hell in this cat that i need to hail on kerra island???? i have been running around for an hour looking for her. I read it is Melixis but i cant find her on track or anywere in the zone. unless there is a hidden part of the zone i dont know about i have been everywere
RE: WTF!!!
# Aug 26 2000 at 12:41 PM Rating: Decent
If you know where Priestess Mitty (who used to drop the gold, silver, and copper rings) used to spawn, Melixis is in the building right outside the temple. After you cross the bridge, stay right, follow the zone around to the temple and She's in a building outside it. I never did see her on my track either. I spent about 10 minutes in the zone searching building before finding her.
vin moltar
# Aug 13 2000 at 6:06 AM Rating: Default
i went camping vin a few days back and with a friend of mine we waited a total of 20 minutes for him to spawn twice. so of course we killed him both times anyway. he spawns very close to the outside entrance. when you go in just head straight and turn left ... it's a back room he's popped there both times for me. if my map had co-ords on it i would give you exact spot where i seen him pop twice in a row. but thats roughly it
Vin
# Aug 03 2000 at 8:08 PM Rating: Decent
Vin pops near the outdoor entrance to the sewers.. Look for Bait Masterson, a standard spawn on a triangular platform. Use a map to find where he is, the tunnels are long and annoying to run around in. I used to think Bait was the PH for Vin, i even killed him a few times (BAD IDEA). Vin spawned after about 2 hours of wandering and he announced himself when he did... like Gynok does. I just killed him for the box.. By the time i got to Vin, i was so SICK of this quest I didn't care...

This quest sucked horribly.. but I got my Paw and it's all over now ;)
Suxey camp
# Aug 03 2000 at 1:09 AM Rating: Decent
I have been in Guk camping Fungus for two days...19 hours first day and 21 second (Dont sleep much i WANT that paw)but Mr Mutant Shroom wont play ball. He drops the Mildew maby once every 10 pop's (2.5 hours) and he even dropped for the silver ring once...but so far no Guk weed. I will go back and try again after i chill out a little. I know Paw quest is hard to over 40 hours for 1 part is beyond the joke! (And i still have Gynok to camp after *Sobs*)
Well thats my rant about the Paw quest :(
Vin Moltar
# Aug 02 2000 at 5:15 PM Rating: Decent
Yes, he is actually named "Vin Moltar". when I was growing up in Qeynos I have seen his about 5 times in the aqueducts (about 50% of the time I'm in the aqueducts). but that was a while ago...
The guy in the sewers
# Jul 30 2000 at 1:46 PM Rating: Decent
Is the guy in the sewers just a beggar, or is He called "Vin Moltar"? Because I haven't seen him there, just lots of beggars.
RE: The guy in the sewers
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:35 PM Rating: Default
There is an outside entrance with vines. Walk through the wall with the vines on it and this is the secret entrance to get to Vin Moltar. When inside you, have to jump into the water and swim just a little ways and come up and he spawns off to your right. (There's only one direction you can swim.) Snare him and hit him a few times with your dmg spell and he will drop the container. Put your container in the bank for safe keeping.
the guy in the sewers......
# Jul 29 2000 at 8:53 PM Rating: Decent
you can just kill that guy in the sewers and he'll drop it the container NOT the ringsd just the container i have found no faster way to get
the rings
RE: the guy in the sewers......
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:37 PM Rating: Default
You have to get the container off of Vin first. He doesn't drop any rings, just the container to start your paw quest. You will put the four CORRECT rings into the container and hit "combine."
Gynok loot tables broken?
# Jul 29 2000 at 7:14 AM Rating: Decent
I've camped Gynok in Befallen the last three nights. In that time he's spawned for me 3 times and every single time he had dropped the GOLD ring. It's getting pitiful. Ever since the loot tables were mucked up by Verant it seems at least on Fennin Ro that the common drop for Gynok is the gold ring and the rare... or even non existant drop is the plat ring. (I still have not gotten the plat ring).

SO! If you're on fennin, and you're in Guk camping for the gold and copper rings, get the bracket mildew and head to befallen for the gold ring. The mutant seems to drop the gold ring stuff only once a real life day if even that much, Gynok drops it more often. As for the plat ring, I have no advice for the present time.
RE: Gynok loot tables broken?
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:43 PM Rating: Default
No, there is not a glitch with Gynok. He just randomly spawns as is true with his random drops. I spent (off and on) a total of 18 hours before he finally spawned. After 6 hours the last time, he popped, I killed him, and much to my amazement, he dropped the gold instead of the plat. When I found out how hard the gold was to get also, I wasn't disappointed. I went back for the plat. Camped him straight for 15 hrs. and finally gave up with a "no-show." People, prepare yourself for a long haul when you get ready to camp Gynok. If he appears sooner, believe me, it's a stroke of luck for you.
RE: Gynok loot tables broken?
# Sep 19 2000 at 11:13 AM Rating: Default
I had the same luck with a slight varariation. I hunted Gynok for 3 days. The first day he popped in 5 hours of camping. He dropped the copper ring. How dissapointed I was. Had only he dropped the Gold ring I would be done with this quest. As for the estmated time of 8 hours for the quest? yeesh!! more like 80.
RE: Gynok loot tables broken?
# Aug 19 2000 at 11:36 PM Rating: Default
I mad i m stupid i remember one day a guy asked in auction to sell the plat ring and now reading that i m wondering if i will ever get it again :(((((((((((
(CRY!!!!!)
Paw O Insanity
# Jul 22 2000 at 1:41 AM Rating: Decent
Hiya, Just posting my 2 cents.
Spores and Mildew Easy,
Lucked out on the weed.
Now here I sit, going on my 9th Gynock Ph rotation of this sitting (around 14 hours so far from time to time). Had him pop once, and wow he drops the "copper ring" of all my luck =( Anyways. Just my 2 coppers. Oh well gotten a set of barbed legs, and a BBC out of the whole deal.
Stavos Rainweaver
Clan Mistwolf - Test Server
36th Druid of Karana
RE: Paw O Insanity
# Oct 12 2000 at 1:44 PM Rating: Default
Well, look at it it this way, at least you got the copper out of the way. Now, just hang in there until you get the plat. It will be worth the wait. If he drops one of the other rings before the plat, that's great! But if he drops the plat first, I definitely wouldn't sit there and camp another 14 hours looking for the gold or the copper when you can now get the weeds for those in no time at all in Upper Guk.
paw quest
# Jul 21 2000 at 5:49 AM Rating: Decent
hello all and greetings
I have finished the paw quest and yes it can take many hours and then if you are lucky it may just take a few it all depends on your luck. I started this quest at level 23 by first getting the paw container and that took me about an hour then i got the silver ring witch was there in the lake in blackburrow when i got there. However i spent many hours camping gynok for the plat ring and always nothing. Then about a week ago i went to camp him and he was camped so i asked the person there to give me a tell when he was done. He gave me a tell about an hour later saying he had just got the ring and the camp was mine. So i went and prepared for a long camp. Low and behold did my eyes deceave me when 5 min after i got there did gynok pop. Wow i coulndt believe it and had no idea what i was doing when i just started pressing buttons to kill him. Dropped him in like a min but seemed like 10 got the ring and headed to guk for the gold thinking im almost done.
How ever had to sit in guk for 16 hours for the stupid guk weed for the gold but i got it
now i have paw got it at level 35
javacane terris thule
LUCK!!
# Aug 19 2000 at 11:49 PM Rating: Default
I hope i ll have the same luck as this guy but the luck have never been with me so this i think i ll got the paw at like 60 ;)
RE: LUCK!!
# Sep 05 2000 at 6:11 AM Rating: Default
You want luck?

I was in Befallen with my 40+ rogue twink practicing lockpick on the door to get skill up when who should attack me but everyones favorete mummey. Pop Plat ring. Back to teh picking practice I went. A bit later here it comes again. Knowing that the rings are lore I beat him down to a smidge and held him there beating on me for like 10 min while a friend came to loot the ring. Unfortunately my luck didn't hold out for back to back ring drops.
Gold ring to go :)
Hehe how often does the twink, twink the main?
RE: LUCK!!
# Oct 12 2000 at 12:49 PM Rating: Default
See, I mean why can't this stuff happen to me? NOOOOO, been camping him off and on for a solid week and got Gold but no Plat. You're picking a lock and he comes up to you twice! Some people have all the luck!!! A friend of mine goes to Befallen on a corpse run, zones and there he is! Kills him and get the plat all in 5 min. Could this happend to me? NOOOOOOOO.
Paw Quest
# Jul 19 2000 at 5:22 AM Rating: Decent
He wanders a lot, just sit still & track and chances are, he will pass you.
I as well did the paw quest, but, i did it before they changed it, Thats right folks, i killed Mitty for 9 hours straight, and all the other kerrans in sight. Well, now i wanna do the Kerran Doll quest. The only faction +s i have found for KOS people, is kiling Sentry Creot & the Erudin emmissarys, as i cant do the higher guards or anything in the city. Once i get non-KOS can do rat newbie quests in Kerra to improve faction up to able to do the doll quest.
Dont tell me faction cant be fixed.
Vin Moltar
# Jul 17 2000 at 3:15 AM Rating: Decent
I meant to Say I am in the Qeynos Aqueducts....I CANNOT FIND HIM...HELP!
RE: Vin Moltar
# Oct 12 2000 at 1:46 PM Rating: Default
Go to the secret entrance outside Qeynos to enter the aquaducts. Jump in the water and come up on the other side. He spawn to you right.
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