Hollowshade Moor

Of all the times my vah shir beastlord has been in Hollowshade trying to do quests, somebody attacks someone else and everyone is forced to wait for the war to end to reset the zone. So far, I am yet to see anyone actually purposefully try to create the war. Most of the time somebody complains to the GMs and they reset the zone. This war sucks and needs to be triggered by players instead of being on auto. Everytime this war goes off and something gets taken over, NO Vah Shir quests involving the Moor can be done.

O.k hope this helps for all that want to run the war cycle.Done it several times.
Ok when war is first started there are 3 camps with 3 races, the grimlings in there little city to the east, the wolfs in the caves to the north, and owlbear caves that are in the west.(Facing out from Shar Vahl). This might not allways be the case when ya enter zone, other people might be running the war cycle.
Now every 10-30 mins (haven't timed this) there will be a zone message to the effect that "the grimlings nash there teeth and look toward the east" or the "owlbears sharpen there claws and look to the west". This means that within a couple mins a raiding party of that race will be attacking 1 of the 3 camps (direction telling you which one). What you need to do is high tale it to that camp and take out the defenders that are spawned there to let the raiding party take over the camp.(Raiding party will allways lose without the players help taking out the defenders). Take out as many defenders as you can and aviod aggro from the raiding party. Useally taking out 2-3 defenders will allow the raiding party to win, also handle wandering mobs off the defending party because they will jump in and kill the raiders.
Once the raiding party takes out all defenders they will move into that camp. (this is where ya have to avoid aggroing the raiding party or they wont move in) and a system message to the effect of "the grimlins shout and hollor for there victory" will appear. Once that one camp is takin lets say the grmilings taking over the wolf cave move to the owlbear cave and await the message that the grimlings will attack that cave and repeat process of killing defenders. Once 1 of the 3 races has all 3 camps then the main Boss (prince) will random spawn.
Killing the prince will reset the whole zone back to the origanal 3 camps which each race spawning again and the whole process can be repeated to spawn whatever race you want up. Each race has certain named that pop in each of the 3 camps, those can be found in the beastery page.
Be careful though as this happened to my group the other day: After 2 hours getting the grmlings to take all the camps and camping the named in the owlbear cave to get his haste belt someone came along and killed the prince reseting the whole zone. This after repeated shouts and OOC to plz not kill the prince and reset the whole zone(prince pops random spots so may not be able to camp the different spawns and keep people away from prince). Needless to say we were alittle miffed that 2 hours went down the drain due to some idiot who couldnt listen. This is a great little zone to farm in our tweak your alts out(caster stuff alittle better). I park my alt in the zone and if a no drop comes along use him to loot it.
My suggestion is to do this on off peak hours where the zone is empty and u have no worries about having zone reset on you. Also having 3-4 other guildies there to camp the other spawn points is great since alot of stuff is lore and you can switch back and forth between the camps never losing them.
Hope this gives ya an idea how it works, happy hunting all good luck

Baneslayer 55 warrior
terris-thule

Last night on track there was a named owlbear, Prince Skriet. I tracked him, cast snare--he moved out of range, ran closer, recast--fizzled, went to recast and someone else jumped in and hit it with a spell. He ended up killing the Prince so I didn't get to see what it dropped. About 10 minutes later, the whole zone, that used to be Owlbear, turned to Grimling. I had never seen the Prince before, so am wondering if killing him triggers changing the zone. Someday I'll get this whole zone war figured out.

killed a Wiknak Grimglom today..he was runnin around with a sow..anyway he dropped a
MASK OF THE GRIMLING HUNTER
AC:5 +4 str +20
magic lore no drop
but under class it says none, anyone know what quest this is for?

I found a very nasty change here upon returning the other day. Upon entering the zone from Shar Vahl the first thing I noticed was the two guards are no longer at the zone area. I went in and right to go get 22 and was going to work on my quest for the fangs I needed. Well I had to leave after I had gotten a blue and half into 22 and thought I would just camp out in the outpost for my work the next day. WOW was I surprised to find Nasty RED Grimlins own the outpost now. I did not make the zone and lost my lvl. I don't see these creatures listed here so today I will see if I can't get some names but these guys are very nasty as most of the Grimlins are.
So be warned the outpost is no longer in the loving hands of the Shar Vahl.

Another npc not listed, Ahom Guzhin stands at exit to Grimling Forest at 3000, -2400. Hailing him results in 'Please don't think poorly of me, but I must see your Journeyman's cloak if you wish to converse. Be quick about it. This place is not completely safe.'
Indifferent green con Vah Shir at level 36. Haven't found out anything about Journeyman's cloak.

Anyone know what drops the strectched skin drum and what lvl it is?

During the wars, with the Grimling occupying the Owlbear caves, this guy popped in Skriet'Cha's spawn point. Blue to me at 42 and seemed to have about 1800hps when counting up the damage I did to him. Most he hit me for was 73 dmg and he dropped a No Drop arm item called the Grimling Armband of Servitude. Is ac2, and adds 2 to str, dex, agi, wis, int, hps, mana and magic resist, and a 2% Throwing skill modifier. Hoping to kill him again and see what else he drops.

Edited, Sat Apr 27 18:20:19 2002

Sonic hunters are about level 20 (?) and drop shrieking substance, used to make shadowscream armor. They are perhaps the only wolves in this zone that drop it. They are PH for Grimling herders when the wolves control their area.

These two fellows spawn in place of the named owlbears in the owlbear caves when the Grimlings have won the war.

Gleeknot Gnitrat (west cave spawn point)

Drops
Belt of the Grimling Skullcracker
Magic Lore No Drop
10 AC 4str 20hp Haste (worn)
wt 2.0
All/All

Mystical Headshrinkers's Skullcap
Magic Lore No Drop
10 AC 3cha 3wis 3int 3svm
Skill modifier : +3% Meditate
wt 3.0 All/All

Out of 5 spawns he dropped 3 belts and 2 skullcaps.

Gniktar Grinwit (north cave spawn point)

Drops
Grimling Armband of Seritude
Magic Lore No Drop
2 AC 2str 2dex 2wis 2int 2agi 2hp 2mana 2svm
Skill Modifier: +2% Throwing
wt 3.0 All/All

Out of 5 spawns he always dropped this item.

Spawn times for them were aprox 20 minutes, same as the usual spawn for the named owlbears or named wolves. Place holders were always a grimling guard.

The owlbear cave defenders and sonic wolf cave defenders were pretty easy to find; they both spawn in front of the cave. But I was wondering if anyone is able to tell me where the Grimling Defenders spawn? Is it near their main south camp (where the chieftan is) or along the mainland shore where the grimling islands are?

Thanks in advance.

Ummm . . . well the idea of a war like this is cool I have one major problem with how it works. I was shopping at the Vah Shir outpost when the Grimlings won. Now it would be cool (even if I died) if the grimlings stormed the guards and killed everyone, little danger and a plot that can be interacted with. However, when the Grimlings "won" they won because all the Vah Shir suddenly became Grimling body guards quickly killing my 23 bst before I could zone. This really needs to be fixed.

Edited: Hehe - title was supposed to be "What", not "Wjat". ;-)

I have helped the different races take over other camps several times now.
I have also finished the war by killing the final "boss" at Vah Shir outpost 4 times (3 times with group of 2, one time with group of 4):
- 2 times Gnarlik (the Sonic Wolf boss) and
- 2 times Prince Garzemort (the grimling boss)

And as said this ends the war-cycle and the sone repopps to normal.

But then (at least on Rallos Zek) - after some time the first attack of a new cycle is broadcasted in sone.

There seems to be no user-driven interaction with the Vah Shir at Grimling Forest entrance to trigger this.
And I doubt killing the Owlbear prince (Skrietat) will trigger this, cause in my opinion he is only the named spawn on a particular spawn area when sone is in normal modus.

But there is a single wandering Sonic Wolf walking from Sonic caves to the walls of Shar Vahl. Have anyone noticed if he is present when the sone is in some "transit mode" (one race have more than one camp)?
In case he is - is he still a sonic wolf - or does he convert to the race currently occupying the Sonic caves?
Since he is so unique, I think he may be related to the triggering of the war?
At least he must serve some purpose/mission since he is not like the other wolfs staying around their camp/spawn area.

Follo Sekker
Hand of Dane
Rallos Zek

Edited, Fri Apr 12 06:31:05 2002

Killed him in the water while the wolves were up.
Dropped:
Gnawed leather collar
Nodrop AC4 hp10 weight1.0

no clue what its for