Paw of Opolla  

Just a quick little addendum to the post about buying the rings from the merchant: The rings have to have a +1 attribute (depending on ring type) and a -1 cha attribute. Most of the rings being sold to the vendors are just normal, non-quest rings.

Okay, I play a 30 Cleric. My wis is currently 157. I know, that's low for my level, but when I made him I foolishly dumped half my points into STR, and I'm a dorf too, so I didn't need that!!! =\
Anyway, I REALLY want a paw, but can barely stand camping stuff. I nearly cracked doing the Testament of Vanaer, waiting for six hours camping that Starshine dude.
Anyway, this is how I see it:
I could either quest for the paw, endure the boredom, and spend possibly dozens of hours camping rare spawns, rare drops, etc. to get my paw, or...
I could continue playing, leveling, grouping, etc. Look at it this way...on my server (Brell) the cost of a paw is dropping like a rock. In the last couple months it's gone from nearly 5K to 3.5-4K, depending. And through all these many hours camping, I could be out there grouping, having fun, winning rolls on FBSSes. =P (It's true, you know. The people who would put the item to its best use NEVER win the rolls) And if I start winning rolls on multi-K items and such, I can just go buy myself a paw. =P

I've read that you must identify the rings to do this quest. I've already gotten the ring from the pond in Blackburrow (no-brainer) and when i right-click and hold, its stats show (-1 Cha, +1 Wis). So - do you have to 'identify' them, or was that changed by a patch? And more importantly (for me at least) What the heck / How the heck do you identify things? What is identifiable? Is it a spell, potion, what are the uses of 'identify'? I have a feeling it's got something to do with enchanters, and in 3 more levels when i plan on camping the named zombie in Befallen i DON'T want to just hand over my hard-earned ring (assuming i even get it) to some unknown 'chanter to identify it.... Please, laugh at my idiocy if you want, but answer my question Please!

there is nothing special you can do to make Gynok spawn more. nothing at all. i just came off a horrific 33 hour camp of that POS.

about that creepy decaying skeleton you can target but not kill, i petitioned to have a GM come kill him. Gynok didn't spawn with that skeleton there for a 14 hour straight camp i did one day.

at the time Gynok spawned i was just telling my guild that i was offering a reward worth ten times the paw itself for anyone who would do the camp and kill Gynok. i was losing it) 33 hours in the befallen will do that to you.

yeah, Gynok just spawned, like he always does, RANDOMLY. he spawns right by the zone in. he has place holders that spawn in the same place, they walk to the 3rd floor and walk back. so if you miss one, it doesn't matter, it will come back.

you don't have to clear the 3rd floor, you don't have to do anything but stare at the wall and kill place holders every 16 minutes, do this til Gynok spawns.

i haven't heard that anything other than the plat ring has dropped off of Gynok in a while. not sure if it was changed or not. but anyway, there is no magical formula to get him to spawn. there is a 3% chance he will spawn every 16 miutes. either you get lucky, or you don't.

A possible sign that Gynok is gonna spawn, is a decaying skelly appears at opposite end of the hall, almost into the pile of rubble. You can't hit him, or cast on him, he is out of range. yet each time I have seen Gynok, it has only been when the skelly was there....Now if he will just spawn so I get my plat ring and get my paw! The first time I saw him, he dropped the gold, the second time, he dropped the plat to another camper, just after I came in... sigh. Back to camping forever... (they're coming to take me away haha!)

I just had the priveledge of camping Gynok for 11 hours yesterday! Fortunately he did drop the plat ring, making it all worth while ;)

I decided, on a whim, to do this quest. Started one night, went to kill Vin Moltar first. Killed everything that moved in the area. Finally, after about 1 1/2 hrs, Vin spawned. Note: don't just root him, snare him. I didn't snare, and he went swimming. Was a pain to catch him, kill him, and avoid the spec that wanted to guard his corpse. After Vin, I went to kill Gynok. I was watching over two younger guildmates while I waited for Gynok, which made the time go by easier than sitting there doing nothing. Took about 4 hours before he spawned, and he dropped plat ring, some ancient ring, and words. From there, went to the fungus mutant. It was camped, but they left after about 5 spawns. Spent about 4 hours there also, including a couple extra kills after I had gotten the two things I needed. Tp'd over to toxx, ran to Kerra, and got my copper and gold rings. Then off to NK, ran to blackburrow, and went swimming. I had no clue where to find the silver ring, but I got very lucky, and found it in less than 5 minutes. There I stood, with all rings in the container. I nervously pressed the combine button, and voila! One Paw of Opolla. I logged after that. When I logged back on later in the day... I said, what the heck. Went back to Vin, and within an hour had another container. Picked up the silver ring again. Then I went hunting. But a good start on a second Paw. I'll collect the rest of the rings in down time, and once I get them all, sell the first for profit. =) Who knows, maybe one day I'll have the pp for eboots. =P

I have killed him twice. First time i killed him It was with my 34 necro and i was just tryin to kill the theumigist guy. i zoned in and he hit me so i dropped him quick and he dropped a copper ring. Then when i was 36 i zoned in to clear the zone and right when i did i hear "you will not evade me" shouted by him. I had no idea who he was and then suddenly he attacked me and my pet killed him. I looted a plat ring so i asked what they were for in e commons and a guy payed 1kpp for both of them so.... about 2 minutes and i just got a new robe =)

I am in the process of getting the testemant of veneer, and that will go in my secondary slot. If I put this in my primary weapon slot can I use it as a weapon?

I've started this quest but I didn't start at the beginning....I went straight to vin...do I need to talk to those guys first?

Is in the Queynos Catacombs (red at level 11).

My mage isnt very high level yet but i want ask if a level 25 mage can take this guy, since a water pet has high resistance against poison :)
Plz help