Gnoll Slayer [Final]  

 

Some items can indeed be charged. But the research I have found indicates only Gnome tinkered items. This is not such.

Let me help folks with this quest. I now have my 3rd one.

The gnoll that drops the baby, spawns in the same place as the snake. No special things need to be done to get him to spawn except kill the snake, didnt time the spawn but it seems about 7 minutes or so. It seems to take about 4-5 snakes to get the gnoll. So he is an uncommon spawn. Its random, so it may be longer or shorter.

The gnolls that drop the other quest items now are in South Karana, not in the gnoll dungeon, that dungeon has been taken over.

They run on the north end of South Karana, and go east to west, or west to east. I believe they share the same spawn cycle as lions, lioness, a named gnoll, another escaped gnoll, perhaps a cyclops, undead cyclops, 1 centaur, and 1 or 2 aviaks. If such mobs are traveling North and South, and not east and west, they do not share the same mob spawn cycle. Note some of these mobs travel north and south, as well as east to west. You are concerned only with east to west (or west to east)mobs. While elephants may also travel east to west (&west to east) they don't seem to be on the same cycle.

I also believe there is more than 1 cycle for these mobs. I have seen 2 right after each other.

1 thing to note after you get the sword, don't try and pop the pet out if you have a familiar. You will waste a charge and not get the pet. You can't have both up.

Please note the pet is not a proc, you have to hold the sword and click on it to pop it.

Also I have tried turning in the sword with empty charges and see if it comes back charged, it does not. Nor can you trick the NPC and get the sword by giving him the intermediate one. The only way thats gonna work is if someone turned in the other items 1st.

An uncharged sword does not sell for anything, nor can it be donated to Tribute. And destroy it before you turn in new quest items before you get a new one. They are lore.

Because SOE decided to take the splitpaws out of Splitpaw Lair, this quest is very easy to do now, and it's one of my favorites to play with.
The 2 Placeholders spawn close to the Northern riverbank in South Karana now. The generic PH is "an escaped splitpaw gnoll", which can re-spawn as any of a list of named splitpaws, including the "a one eyed gnoll" and the "a Lteth Val Scribe". Other spawns I have seen include High Shaman Phido, High Shaman Grisok, Zrithsadioun and Pet. Others may include the Cyclops. I usually have to camp for about an hour, but have gotten lucky to find them on track as soon as I zone in. These 2 Placeholders are not to be confused with the ones further south that spawn the Ishiva Mal and other nameds near the mid-east part of the zone. This quest is practically impossible without a tracker. My Ranger gets alot of tells asking where his pet came from.

Because the sword only holds 2 charges, I log in my Magician, and summon a "Pet Kit" and drop it on the ground, then log in my Ranger. I clicky the pet up, and equip him. With 1 charge left on the sword, I take my new pup out to South Karana, and farm the 2 named for the Eye, and Journal, effectivly giving me "3" charges, and keep those in the bank. The next time I log in, and use the last charge on the sword, I quickly go kill Lord Elgnub, and do the turn-in for a new sword, then go farm another 2 named for the Eye and Journal again, giving me a Gnoll Slayer with 2 charges, and the items I need for another turn in (2 more charges) and I have the pet up at the time, giving me the equvalent of 4 charges + got the pet already. (Please Remember: Destroy the Zero Charge Gnoll Slayer before doing a 2nd turn-in!!! Duplicate Lore Not Allowed (Learned this lesson turning in the Grimling Runner Pouch to Rallic Aristos))

The Pet hits for about 10 max, LOL. With a Summoned: Hand of Ixiblat will proc with frequency dependent on the DEX. Use Summoned: Crystal Belt to increase DEX and durability along with Full Summoned: Phantom Platemail, and the lower level Magician Jewelry. I say low level Mage Jewelry because the pet's actual level is something like level 32. All equipment level recomendations apply to the pet at level 32, so high level stuff will only see 1s on the stats for it. The same goes for the level for weapon proc. I like to use a Gnoll Hide Lariat in the off hand to stun casting type mobs, and once I have the hand slots occupied, I add an Elemental Defender that defaults to the Back (Cloak) slot if hands are full. Can also buy cheap rings or earrings with better AC. Pet shares your level for buffs, so in my case, I get him buffed with Conviction and Wunshi + Haste buff. (Sadly Rangers don't get Pet Affinity... <sniffle>)

Blade of Walnan and Blade of Kedge will not proc, and the HP bonus isn't enough to justify the loss of DPS with good procs, and Dex buff (+ Crystal Belt). Putting Fireblade or higher level Mage Pet Toys will make the damage output of this pet USELESS. It is nearly impossible to keep this pet alive in 60+ zones (if it winds up stealing agro or tanking), taking this pet to a 60+ zone is like taking a glass figurine to a hokey game. If you are careful, you can pull it off (I have) but if you are careless, the pet will drop like a rock. It will hold up reasonably well with heals in a 50+ zone, as long as you can keep most the agro off it, and it rocks for skill farming in green zones. Great for Ranger Kiting, cause the pet can't steal agro from your arrow shots, can snare, DoT, and shoot, and this pet adds a little DPS and companionship.

I took one of these to a RAID and sic'd it on Terris Thule. We both survived, and I got a screenshot.

Edited, Thu Feb 16 20:02:54 2006

oops, double post

Edited, Thu Feb 16 19:09:04 2006

hello ppl!
when lucin came out i saw on the cover, a beastlord-type with a wolf that looked solid. so i make a bst and get to level 9 to find i didnt get a pet wolf.. i got a soddy tigre. i would of made a barbarian bst...but i decided to make a shammy..then i find out shammy dont get wolf till 34...

then i went away and came bk with mr.Uber SK and found out he had a pet. i had kept the bst and now know how important a pet is. so i am always seen with my little skelly nowdays.

then, on general chat i saw gnoll lsayer linked. im like Whao! i want it. what i didnt c is that it has two charges. is it really worth it if i get faction up with my ikky, then start the quest..only to have my pet stripped away... OR can i coem bk when i have the pet dicipline that keeps him active over log-out, and make the wolf stay (of course, ill beg the cleric in my grp to heal my pet, not me...*laff*)then kmake him live forever like a good boy? has NO one thought of this yet?

I have been working on this for months and hae not been able to get eye and journal please tell me where these spawn.


Also i have had lvl 65 and 70 rangers help me track. thanks.

Personally, I love this thing! My 59 ranger having a wolf just rocks. And by himself, no, the beast is not real impressive. But with buffs and mage pet gear, he's capable of some fairly nice extra DPS. I've always thought that a ranger without a trusty dog/wolf at his side was just wrong, but since discovering this quest, the world just seems a little more "right." Don't discount his low level. No, he ain't gonna be tanking mobs in Natimbi, but he'll be right there beside you adding hurt to whatever mob you're workin on. And the true beauty of the whole thing is that the quest is a quick and easy one to do.

For a ranger, it's all about the DPS. And this is an easy way to give yourself just a little more "Umph!"

Now if we could just get some pet AA's......

The gnolls needed to complete the quest now roam in South Karana. I found both of them near the skellie camp by the zone in point from NK.

Was very disappointed with the pet that is called with this weapon. Not much use other than as a conversation piece on why a ranger has a pet.

Since the revamp of Splitpaw has this quest changed?

I have done the quest once before but would like to repeat it if possible.

This quest is easy, just camo until you fall off bridge, the eye and journal dropped first kill so i didnt have to wait

not rechargeable using toolbox/mana battery

I helped a friend of mine get her Gnoll's Eye and Journal at the end of the quest. While we were chatting, the two quest mobs respawned so I got myself a copy. She was a lev 40ish ranger, and I think i was about 50 ranger. I figured it was all just a fun little quest, until i realised the twinking potential.

I'm going to park my lev 5 bard in Splitpaw and get him to loot the baby. If this quest can be multiquested, and there's no minimum level for the spell, then this can be a phenominal PL item!

Imagine a level 5 character with a level 39 shaman's pet!?

I'll write again to say if the MQ and level requirements all works out. In the mean time, anyone think of a good level to use this in? Has to be one without adds, and mobs from 1-30.

Daf

ok i went down there to splitpaw,found a pally and wizard..both within a few levels of me{lvl. 35 warrior} and that group wasent so hot..didnt get far beyond the double doors. looks like we coulda got to where we needed to go if it wasent for the link dead dwarf. maybe tomorrow ill get down there far enough? place is pretty tough..it wouldnt have been bad with a cleric or shaman.

I started this quest with My 26 Warr who is now 40.I still carry Weapon in my offhand- when hunting Gnolls i switch to primary with haste Item(FBSS),does nice damage-hits up to 90.Worked well on Splitpaw Gnolls, Will try the Darkpaw(Jaggedpine)in a few lvls. The graphic is disapointing -looks like a Newb sword. I have seen it look different eq. by other players.Poss.to do with the lvl of the player who hands in? or maybe it will change at 45?Also -has any one tried on Drovlargs in DL? (and lived? hehe).GL hope this helps is worth getting IMHO.

Got this sword the other day (then immediately went and quested the intermediary for kicks)

-Helpful Hint. or What I learned on My Holidays in Splitpaw- Once you get to the level of the One Eyed Gnoll it can be quite hard to find your way back to the upper level. We eventually found our way back by finding the water and swimming. There's a big underwater tunnel thing that leads you back to top level. Back to your regularly schedule raving:

I wield it in Primary with my lower delay Stone Bladed Axe (13/26) in Secondary.

Now I've mostly been picking off the Tesch Mas Gnolls outside Paw in South Karana and, before getting this sword, I was hitting for in the region of 33 damage per hit, sometimes double attacking for 33,34 and an offhand attack for 22.

After combat I'd be down to about 40% health or less. Time to med up, heal up and go again.

Not anymore, my friends. Now I hit for 66-75pts with primary and 33-35 with my quick offhand strikes. Double attacking with the Gnoll Slayer does in the region of 108-148 damage, plus any offhand attack means, in one round of combat I can dispense up to 180pts of damage.

At Lvl 28 this means I can take a Tesch Mas Gnoll out completely, still at around 70% health. Enough to go again straight away.

I went on a grand tour of BlackBurrow for some fun last night and killed every mob in every room with an L12 in tow to reap loots :) That was revenge on a grand scale.

I love this sword!

Doggies don't.


Edited, Thu Apr 24 06:21:14 2003

Does anyone here with the sword, or with an alt that uses pets, know if telling your pet to 'go away' counts as a charge?

Reason being, I used my charges for first time today - first one I told to go away (doh) while exploring the pet commands and what they do. Second one got killed after a fine night's hunting in Stonebrunt, but not before keeping a panda and two big gorillas of my back long enough for me to run away. Good wolf =)

Strangely enough though, my sword now reads that it has 1 charge left, even though I can't seem to activate it...is this because I told pet to go away (and if so, can I get it back), or does an empty sword look like this to everyone who has one?