Dragon Scales  

I saw someone selling a Wurmslayer today in ooc and reminisced. I evidently sold or gave away the one I had before so decided to do it again.

First stop was Burning Woods. I set up camp and began tracking at the north end of giant fort. I cleared everything in a box north and west of the columns. After three cycles of Entalon, Gylton spawned twice in a row and both times he dropped a scale. I assume Gylton/Azdalin do every time but it's probably not keen to assume.

I then moved south of the fort, cleared everything in the immediate area between the two craters south of it and Azdalin spawned and also droped a scale.

I dashed to PoK to get some carnelians and a peridot from the jewlcraft vendors. Then I went to the Overthere invised up and trucked into the tunnel between the garoyles. Sneaked behind Tektite and /consider and indifferent. Swift success.

I ran back through PoK to Neriak and north to Lavastorm for the Temple of Ro. Lord Lyfyx of Burwood was aprehensive so I did the sneak and consider again, turnin was a success.

I was on to Firiona Vie where I zoned into a bad situation. Sir Hobble was about to die. But I can confirm a respawn time because of it.

Respawn is close if not exactly four hours. I watched Sir Hobble die to evil race players who killed him (likely) in defense. At his level it is feasible that a level 90 character would kill him with riposte alone. They left the zone and for the next four hours I was the only person in zone.

As a Ranger, Level 59, from the south center edge of the Froglok area in the middle of the zone I can track nearly everything except the evil side of town. Brizzana Kellgo(SW) at the mouth of the river, Tracker Azeal(S) near the southern cliffs, a forest giant arbor (NE)and Soulbinder Tardon (E). I set Tracking to Reverse Alpha and highlighted the soulbinder. Sir would be under and Squire should be above. When he spawned he was alone and I was at his side in less than a minute.

Sir Hobble spawned on a hill overlooking the river, stood there for a moment buffing himself, killed a few drachnid, made a trek through the caves and then back out towards the river. As we reached the cave, exiting, Squire Fuzzmin spawned, near the road across the river and made a straight line to join Sir Hobble on his tour of agression. At this point I hailed Sir Hobble, though I believe it was redundant because the Squire was with us. I hailed the Squire and then, with no text response to either of them, I turned in the scales while walking with the duo because they didn't stop on hail. It was at this point we parted ways, I have my Wurmslayer and Squire his scales. I would hazzard an educated guess that their spawn time is static as are the locations.

I returned shortly and followed them for a bit. Enough to see that the squire cast heals on Sir Hobble. Sir Hobble is reckless enough without heals that he could die before the Squire spawns. In the inital trip to the caves I watched him fight one spider then two more in succession and he was nearly dead. He regens to full health swiftly but a chain of fights without a rest would do it.

All in all, I invested about 6 hours travel and respawn time for a momento.

I've cruised through posts looking at the quest and spawn info and saw some questions as to wether some of the NPC spawn anymore or if the quest was still active. I hope this info is of use to someone.

how does one get azdalin/gullerback to spawn? ive been scouring zone for weeks trying to find this named wurm with no luck ( Anyone give me any hints please

Squire spawns inside the outpost. SInce the takeover of the FV outpost by Lanys T'Vyls troops the Squire no longer spawns when you hail Sir Hobble.

If anyone on Tarew Marr wants these identified in Bazaar zone, feel free to send me a tell as Lelan.



Edited, Fri Oct 15 15:01:58 2004

Did this quest for the second time now (got many alts to equip lol).
Started by aggressively telling that trigger phrase to Lenka several times and asked that Ogre near her about Cabby Pale Ale (Dont know if that has anything to do with the Dragon Scale Quest, but I am superstitious enough to believe it). Headed out and after some 5-10 minutes, I had Sir Hobble on track. Hailed Hobble (who is a) quick in running and b) quick in dying) and tracked Squire Fizzlemin rightafter. This time Squire started from the city (last time he came from across the shores, so that depends). I see no other way than charming (or possibly rooting and mem blurring?) him because he is really fast and does not stop when you hail him.
Apart from getting the scales (2 of which you should buy in the bazaar, the 3rd you should get with an extra char not Kos in OT), this took me less than 30 minutes this time.

I tried looking in the bazaar, the scales are called dragon scales, or does it have to have the (name) with it?

Just got my wurmy as a 31 ranger. Tried off and on over 6 days, about 8 hours total. Never did get Sir Hobble to spawn via the trigger phrase from Lenka, just happened to pop in zone and hit track at the right time. I found Sir Hobble at about 26 health fighting a drachnid and hailed him, and he mentioned Squire Fuzzmin. He died soon after and I found Fuzzmin stationary in the outpost to the west side of the bridge that leaves the outpost going north. He was along the beach near a hut. I hailed him and tried his trigger phrase but he would not respond. So I took a deep breath, gave the scales to him, and am now the proud owner of a new wurmy. Both Sir Hobble and Squire Fuzzmin conned blue to my 31 ranger, if that helps any fellow rangers track him down. Best of luck to all and if my experience is typical, be prepared to search long and hard for him, and hopefully you will luck out as I did.

Incidentally, I bought the first two scales in bazaar for 5 pp each, which when you throw in the cost of the 2 carnelians (about 1 pp each I think, maybe less) and the cost of the peridot (maybe 10-12 pp I think) to get the final scale, this sure beats paying 800 or more pp in bazaar for this.

Good luck all!

Lorgaich Fleisdear, 31 Ranger, Rodcet Nife
<House of Malice>

Last night was the 2nd time I completed the Dragon Scales quest.
The first time, I (as a level 52 Druid)had just happened to have collected the first two scales (Azdalin and Gylton), so had my Necro alt get the Tektite and the final scale, then just kept popping into Firiona Vie to see if Sir Hobble was up. Third time I looked for him, saw him on track - hailed him, he summoned Squire Fuzzmin. I then ensnared him and led him back near the shoreline away from most of the mob's. The drixies and pilgrims ignored us for the most part; occasionaly a pilgrim would buff Sir Hobble. Squire Fuzzmin arrived, coming from the direction of the city, I gave him the scales and received the Wurmslayer.
The second time, I gathered the scales the same way, but when I finally tracked down Sir Hobble and hailed him, Squire Fuzzmin did not immediately appear on my tracking list like last time - we were near enough to the city for me to track most of the guards/merchants and the Soulbinder. Since I had aggro'ed Sir Hobble by ensnaring him, he wouldn't respond to my hails anymore, so I ported up to PoK then back down. I found him where I had left him and hailed him about every other minute. Finally, after about 10 minutes, Squire Fuzzmin appeared on my tracking list, running from the city - I was extremely lucky in that Sir Hobble never moved from where I had last rooted him.

Edited, Fri Jul 11 14:00:37 2003

Be careful with Gullerback, he has a lot of MR, especially to roots and snares, and he hits hard!

I had no problems getting Gylton to spawn, I just kept killing Entalon and after about 3 kills there was Gylton. Once Entalon dropped a star ruby, so I killed him a couple more times and sure enough Gylton spawned again.

But Azdalin was another story. Gullerback was red to me as a lvl 48 Ranger, so I enlisted the help of a 57 Druid.

Well, we pulled Gullerback and my new-found Druid bud thought "He is dark blue so I can melee him like a warrior." Big mistake. Soon my Druid pal was down to 20% health and even with my dual wielding slice and dice Gullerback had more than 50% health. Next thing you know we were making for the zone like to frightened elven fairy boys!

ok, we decide to try again and this time we enlisted the help of a healer nearby (wasn't a Cleric, I don't really remember what class, but heals were about 400 a pop). So again I pull Gullerback and again the Druid decides to tank (silly Druid, this one). With all the heals we were barely able to take Gullerback down. I let the Druid loot, it was a nice shoulder item I think.

So no Azdalin pop, but now a yellow con Gullerback is up. The Druid and healer decide to help me one more time. So I pull the yellow Gullerback and we repeat the last strategy (I wanted to kite him, but without any slowing no one else was up for it). The healer ran out of mana, and the Druid was slain so fast I was shocked, the healer evacs, and I am alone with Gullerback. I am at 100% health and Gullerback is at about 12%. I melee him and cast nukes as they become available and take him down to 6%. Why isn't he running away!!!? I am falling below 20% fast so now I run. I knew I couldn't snare or root so I just run my little SoW'd fanny as fast as I can, stopping occasionally to blast him with my 120 dmg fire spell. He is still chasing me at 5%, then 3%. I turn to finish him off, but he is hitting me so hard that he killed my overconfident butt, he had 1% health left. One more DD fire spell would have finished him. :-(

Moral: Gullerback fights to the death just as an undead... he may even be undead... big stupid ape!

Next time in zone, after retrieving my pathetic corpse, Gullerback was white and there was Azdalin... lucky me!

First off,a guild mate had given me the 2 scales from skyfire. I aquired the 3rd scale from Lord whatshisname in Sol-Ro. Was only actually able to spawn sir hobble once, tracked him 4 different times over 3 days, first time he and fuzzmin were fighting drachnids, and was unable to turn in. second time fuzzmin was in a rock and couldn't be targeted. 3rd time I and Yohimba, my wife, tried to keep him alive, and she ended up dying, and me running to guards, they both got killed. Last time was very interesting...hailed Sir Hobble, he called fuzzmin, and took off after a spider (go figure) after helping him kill it, saw fuzzmin on track and ran for him. tracked him to a small tunnel that runs under the river to FV, just standing at the bottom of the tunnel! Like he was stuck, hailed him, turned in, got my wurmy and he was still standing there. never moved, never despawned. So am wondering if this tunnel is the way he runs to sir hobbles side, and if he is blocked does he just stop? It would make it alot easier.

Galloway Density
ranger of 42 seasons

Last night after many attempts i got my wurmslayer. With a group of 4 people one in west east north and south we saw hobble spawn around the middle eastern part of the zone and hailed him while i turned in scales on run to get my wurmy it took about 2.5 hoursd of just refreshing on my track but it was worth it.

This is intended as an update to quest difficulty (and details) in the Post Luclin era (Luclin is the defining moment in power shift pre 60th level for me - PoP is about 60+ and LoY doesnt change power).

We set out to complete the quest with a group of: -

39 druid
39 warrior
40 cleric
40 shaman
42 warrior

Scale 1 - Azdalin

We entered Burning woods from Skyfire and moved around the zone till we could take up a position at approximately -1600, -400. Near the road through an area of burned trees. As mentioned elsewhere Azdalin seems to appear frequently - we picked him off twice (once for each warrior) in less than 10 minutes. He conned yellow and blue to a 42 warrior, was pure melee and slowed easily after malaisement. ((Edit: Have revisted for another Wurmslayer and am 99% certain that Azdalin is on a spawn cycle with Gullerback (named undead gorilla) in the same way that Gylton and Entalon (see below) also cycle. Gullerback is tougher than the worms and highly Magic resistant (low Fire Resist though)))

Scale 2 - Gylton

We moved back to the Skyfire zone area and set up our camp on the downslope at the end of the zone 'tunnel', looking out over a clear flat area with a ruined building ahead and a little to our right. Our experience over the next 90 mins leads us to conclude that Entalon is indeed Gylton's placeholder. Both Entalon and Gylton walk on an eliptical path that comes across the flat area infront of the downslope and near the ruin. They will appear from the trees on the left and disappear behind the ruin on the right as they wander. One of these two names appears every 5 - 6mins. They can spawn either anywhere along this path or in one of several places. On two occasions Entalon appeared right in front of us by the ruined building. We camped for about 90 mins, killing Entalon often before we got 2 instances of Gylton. Entalon conned blue to red to a 42 warrior (I assume a range of 41 - 45 for his level). On all occasions he malaised and slowed, was pure melee and died easily.

Gylton conned blue and yellow the two times we met him - I assume a similar level range to Entalon is possible.

Scale 3 - Lord Lyfyx of Burwood

The way to get the scale is documented elsewhere - in short, a human Innoruuk warrior was apprehensive in the outpost and turned in two carnelians to Tektite the gargoyle (appears by the main gate inside the outpost) and recieved a Tektite in return.

((Edit: Included to make the quest description complete :- Tektite is one of four gargoyles who guard the 'main' gate into the evil outpost in The Overthere. The main gate faces roughly south and the dragoons walk out through it on their nightly patrols.

Two Gargoyles guard the outside of the gate, two guard the inside - Tektite is one of the two on the inside.

Anyone who cons apprehensive or above can do the turn in - and then do the turn in in The Temple of Solusek Ro - the scale recieved in the temple is not no drop so that person can then hand it to an otherwise KoS quester)).

The Tektite was Lore No Drop. We journeyed to Temple of Sol Ro and found Lord Lyfyx of Burwood on the balcony overlooking the main area inside (left hand side as you enter the temple from Lavastorm). Handing him a Tektite and a peridot yeilded the third scale, which is Lore (as are the other two) but not no drop (neither are the other two).

Acquiring the scales was the least frustrating part of the quest. Theories and stories abound about making the elusive Sir Hobble appear and then keeping him and Fuzzmin alive long enough to do the turn in. After several hours and two different approaches to spawning him - I can only list my observations - there are few if any conclusions to be drawn on such scant evidence of the details of how to spawn him.

First - The Long Day. We had read that speaking the 'trigger' line to a barmaid in Firiona Vie would cause Hobble to appear anywhere in the zone and set off to die at the hands of the various creatures infesting the zone. We spent many hours trying to track him while speaking the trigger line to no avail. It was the hours trying this that caused us to come here and read other peoples experiences. We certainly could not locate Hobble while trying this method. We left after 7 hours of frustration.

Second - the Good Day.

We sat on the road that leads North from the Firiona Vie settlement main gate - around the point that the Drixies and Pilgrims will meet the Driders and fight. (BEWARE - Drixies and Pilgrims will aggro on evil characters - a human warrior of Innoruuk was KoS). Occasional Frogloks appear and roam the road and would aggro us, and they would neither be attacked nor assisted by Pilgrims and Drixies. Another suggestion we read was that A Goblin Battlemaster was in some way linked to Hobble. We pulled him each time he appeared (roughly once every 5 mins) and we did not speak the trigger line - just pulled and killed the Battlemaster. After just 25 mins or so Sir Hobble spawned just over the hill to the right (East) of the road as we faced away from FV with the water on our left.

I cant draw the conclusion that what we did was right or wrong from one instance. I just list what occurred - draw your own inference.

Of course spawning Hobble is just one part of the challenge - famously he then runs (and run he does) off into the wildlands to fight Driders and inevitably die (Hobble cons blue at 40). Keeping him alive long enough to Hail him so that he will summon Fuzzmin (he responds by shouting for Fuzzmin to come to him) and then keeping him alive until Fuzzmin arrives is difficult. Once Fuzzmin does arrive the two keep on running and fighting - making the turn in particularly difficult.

We opted for simplicity :-

While Hobble was still among the Drixies and away from the Driders we rooted him. He resisted one root from a 40 shaman, but the second stuck. We then hailed and he called for Fuzzmin. I dont believe it was necessary but we Atoned him (worked first time) and he stood, calmly rooted until Fuzzmin appeared from the direction of the Outpost about 60 seconds later. As Hobble was rooted, Fuzzmin stood and waited politely for us to do the turn ins and receive our Wurmslayers, then the root broke and they trotted off to die.

(To celebrate we ported and ran into Jagged Pine and our warriors dual weilded Wurmslayers and Gnollslayers (Both weapons are 25 / 40 when fighting gnolls). Much fun was had by all).

Edited, Thu May 1 11:01:05 2003

been having trouble getting Sir Hobble to pop. I talk to Lenka and nothing. anyone else having this trouble?

Just wondering, I found 2 of the 3 scales in bazaar, and grabbed the last through solusek ro, but for last 2 days been trying to find hubble. starting to think maybe he doesn't spawn if your below 45? since i'm only 31, well if anyone knows I'd like to know, since i'll just get someone else to hail and hand them in if required.

I followed the advise on these boards about hailing the barb woman and then asking her to show me something interesting. I then immediately took off, flying out of FV and heading due east (love sow potions).

I continued to head east, looking at every high elf I could find (Sir Hobble is a high elf paladin, who just so happens to dual wield. Go figure). After about my 20th pilgrim, I spotted a path and figured, what the heck. I turned north and followed the path. Low and behold, here was Sir Hobble, minding his own business. I spotted him along this path at approximately neg900 neg1500. After hailing him, his little friend showed up about 2 mins later.

Turned in the scales on the move (tricky) and got my wurmy.

Couple things I noticed. If they encounter a mob, they switch directions. They were originally headed south, then turned north, then south again, switching with every encounter. It seems that they reach a point of getting even with FV, then head towards town. I then heard over OOC that they will then turn after reaching town and head for DL (this part is rumor AFAIK).

Use this info as you will.

Actually, the components for this quest are easy to come by, and I got them when I was 35.

The named Dragon Scales drop from the named dragons Adzlan and Gylton. They Identify as being from them.

I got the scale from Adzlan by accident. When I looked up the quest and saw I only needed two others, I immediately looked in the Bazaar :)

They're not ID'd in someone's Trader inventory, so it's sort of a lottery, but I got lucky and for 50p got the Gylton scale.

I purchased two carnelians and went to the OT fort. I surveyed the scene for quite awhile, singing invis the whole time. The gargoyles are by the tunnel in the wall to the left of the south opening.

I sang Invis, ran into the tunnel, hit Sneak, stopped Invis (with my hand on Selos just in case :) ), saw that Sneak held, gave the two carnelians to the gargoyle and got the Tektite piece.

Bought a peridot and went to visit Lord Lyxfl in the Temple of Ro. Gave him the Tektite and the Peridot and received the third scale.

Now, almost 4 levels later I still have yet to return to FV to find Hobble, but that's another story :)

Edited, Tue Jan 7 11:17:58 2003

I helped my wife who is a 47 Ranger quest a Wurmslayer.

We were just camping in Burning Woods kiting skellies and Sarnaks and wurms in beween the Forest Giant Fort and the Skellie Ruins. I saw Entalon on track and I pulled him and we kited and killed him. Then someone in our guild said that he was a place holder for Gylton. Not too long later we saw Gylton on track, pulled him, kiting him and killed him...

I didnt know what the Dragon Scale was for so I looked it up on Allakhazam here and found out it was for the Wurmy. I saw what else we needed to do, and not too long after we saw Az on track, pulled him, kited him and killed him. The Dragon Scale dropped on each the first time. It is probably there every time.

We then went and bought a couple of Carnelians and headed to Overthere. As a worshiper of Bristlebane, I was not KoS to the outpost so I went and turned in the carnelians to Tektike and got the piece of Tektite.

We took the Tektite and a peridot and turned them in to Lord Lyfyx in Temple of Sol Ro and got the third Dragon Scale (They are NOT no drop so I just gave it to my wife.)

Then the fun part...

We went to Firiona Vie to find Sir Hobble. We went all around the zone, both tracking, and couldn't find him. We went to the Elf town and hailed Lenka Stouthart and then ran all around the zone and couldn't find him. We seperated and couldn't find him... We tried talking to Lenka while one of us was in the Spider Fields... We tried running seperate directions after talking to her... All to no avail. Finally, We tried one last time and I ran straight east as fast as I could (and for a 51 Bard, thats pretty fast) and when I got almost to the other side of the zone, I saw him on track and found him.

My wife then starting tracking me, as I protected Sir Hobble from the Drolvargs seeking to end his life... My wife, the Ranger, hailed him once she got there and then we began defending him once again from a Drolvarg.

About that time...

...her Lupine Dagger proced turning her into a wolf...

Sir Hobble doesn't like wolves apparently because as soon as the Drolvarg was dead he starting attacking her! She clicked the wolf form off but it was too late, he was already mad. We weren't sure what to do but we knew that we didnt want to kill him after it was so hard just to find him :)

She ran and I charmed him so we could think of what to do next...

Only a few seconds passed and I saw Squire Fuzzmin on track. Squire Fuzzy appeared only a few seconds later at Sir Hobble. About that time the charm broke and Sir Hobble began fighting me again. She turned the scales into Squire Fuzzmin and got her Wurmy, then I hit speed song, she autofollowed and we took off...

.....happily ever after

A couple of notes...

1) I have never fought in Overthere, but I was not KoS to the outpost, presumably because of my deity (Bristlebane)

2) I ran directly east from the Firiona Vie bridge and found Sir Hobble on the other side of the zone after talking to Lenka Stouthart

3) When I found Sir Hobble he was close to loc -1200, -3000







Edited, Sun Dec 15 09:06:27 2002

i was at the bazaar the other week and i bought 3 non-named dragon scales(this is on my druid) then after i got them identifyed i found out they where the exact scales for this quest =D now being lv 30 u kinda appriciate this stuff (on my druid) and the thing is i can do the quest for exp THEN sell the slayer for money or items =D

I was able to do this quest from start to finish in about 4 hours. I needed help with Gullerback, and the tektite trade. I tried Gullerback solo; however, I found out real quick that he is magic resistent. A level 50 Beastlord and myself (51 druid) were able to take down Gullerback. I tried the Tektite turnin camo, but got agro real fast and a train to the zone. I found someone that was able to do the Tektite turnin and just asked if they minded heading to the temple with me. The final turnin in FV was not an easy task as you have to do the turnin between the NPC fighting while he is runing to the next mob.

Good luck with this quest.

Vlyier 51st Season Druid
Solusek Ro

You DO NOT have to have good faction in OT to do the 3rd part of the quest (turn in for the scales). I just completed it on the Brell server. I'm a drood, just invis, walk up behind Tektite and turn it in - no agro. Takes 1 minute. Very easy.

Penasi
57 Drood
Smackin, Trackin and Slackin

Az spawns in the SW corner of zone up to the giant fort, same range as gullerback. Guller may indeed be his PH not sure. Gylton spawns in NE corner towards Chardok. Both easy fights, dont summon, about lvl 45. Fire resistant like all worms, about 6khp give or take, melee somwhere around 130-140.

Just got this scale today, was really easy. Character that has the first two scales is a 54 bard quite, KOS to the evil outpost and tektite. So I made a newbie DE cleric worshiping Inny dropped a couple of carnelians and a peridot behind a tree in the Nek forrest with my bard, logged on cleric and picked em up. Then I just ran to the oasis and took the boat to the outpost in OT. After I got there I found Tektite floating around the entrance to the outpost and gave him the 2 carnelians (made sure the were unstacked =)) and he gave me a peice of himself. The Tektite peice IS no drop. Since my cleric was only lvl 1 I just whacked the nearest guard for an instant port back to the newbie log in Nek =). Then ran north to lavastorm and then to the Temple of Sol Ro. Wandered around a bit and found Lord Lyxfl of Burwood. Handed him the peice of Tektite along with the peridot and bam theres my scale. Then I just jogged back to Nek to the same tree my bard was camped under, dropped the scale logged back on my bard and snagged it. Now I have all 3 scales, just gotta go find that squire now.

Hi all
Trying to find tektite but with no luck, and was told I would be killed on entering the temple. Then I was told he is'nt in the temple. Can someone tell me were the ugly thing is at. PLEASE. loacation numbers would be nice.


Thanks Chippawa


Edited, Fri Jul 19 19:55:09 2002

I can't get sir hobble to spawn.. I even talk to lenka stoutheart.