Gnoll Slayer [Final]  

 

For someone in there teens to mid 20's looking to gain faction in qeynos and they are slaughtering gnolls. This quest is kinda worth it. I zoned into BB around level 28 *bard* and pretty much laid waste to all the Elites and commanders in the zone. I hired a few smaller level groups to slaughter any elites they see and I would worry about the Elite/commander rooms and the lone elite that spawns down the hall near the treetrap drop point. After about 3 minutes of keeping the zone free of elites, Trannix Darkpaw spawned along with the Lord *in the spike pit* and I laided waste to him only after taking a nasty Harm touch and draining 3 bubbles of HP.
Looted the baby and turned him in to get part 1 of the sword.

Part 2 was a little more difficult to get because I wanted to have a nice off-hand Wurmy for SplitPaw as I charm kited outside at the spires. The one-eyed gnoll camp is literally at a campfire just to the right of the FIRST bridge you come too. you have to fall down the pit and open the doorway to the upper right *only door you can see*. its HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you take at LEAST 3-4 30-35's with you with invis up *bard song is beautiful here* The one-eyed gnoll is level 33-35 and is underconned for his level *more like about a level 38*. a Healer is a must since this gnoll double hits for in the 60's and 80's often.
The Gnoll scribe is VERY close by to where the one-eyed gnolls spawns and is much easier to kill. He's around level 30-31 and is conned about right. Just head out of the doorway you entered and head up the ramp *only ramp in the pit area, hard to miss* and you'll enter a room with a bunch of gnolls and doors. The scribe spawns in the back room on the bottom floor along with another gnoll. Having a snarer/rooter is a MUST because if he runs out, he'll agro about 5-7 gnolls as well. Loot the enchanted parchment *or something like that* and wahla!! you've got the remained pieces. The spawntimes on both these creatures is fast and the ratio of there spawns is VERY good 1 in 2-3. there is a very good chance one or both will be up when you enter the zone.

Advantages of Gnoll slayer Final: DieaseSV is EXTREMELY nice and anyone who dis'es it needs to attend a high level raid. Leveling through paw with this item in off hand is not too shabby and I know as a bard, I highly enjoyed it and I as able to solo the spires gnolls easily weilding this thing at 32. hitting in the 50's,60's and low 70's was REALLY nice and I got alot of inspects while fighting there. "whoah, where did you get that.. its cool." and "Hey whats the damage on that thing" etc etc
Disadvantages: 15/40 isn't that great on everything else and the companion spirit does NOT work at level 36. I have yet to try it at level 40 since I didn't want to waste a precious charge to test it. I'll get back to this post when I find out the details of when it can be used.
But if you HAD to kill more gnolls with it and paw is getting boring to you.. try Iceclad ocean since there is a gnoll camp on the same island as Tower of Frozen Shadows. They are indifferent to all races and classes at first but if you don't mind ******** up your faction with them... slay away.

I'm coming to see this sword is very limited...frist as I have read, this sword was made no drop because newbies were using the pet. That's really great! I'm no newbie...I'm lvl 28 and I can't use the pet! Secondly the pet can only be used 2 times...one you zone gain a level get really emcombered and zone (pet gone)...sell zone,summon pet, do it all again...zone (pet gone forever)....that's it...good for only 2 uses...I feel the no drop was not nesisary...and the 2 charges are weak. A newbie can use a Centi LS...what's the difference? The Centi is much faster making it more powerfull, and if the newbie can't use the pet, why would they wont this sword? 2 charges and no drop, it turns out to be a weak sword. Sorry. It is nice for killing Gnolls though but the wurm slayer can do the same thing for a newbie.

Edited, Mon May 6 01:29:27 2002

maybe you could make it no drop and unlimited charges...then it would probably be used by people for most of their game...or take away the no drop so we can at least sell if for a bit when the charges are used...I think that would make the sword much more useful rather than sticking it in the bank to rot. You could also make it unlimited charches with no drop, only attanable at lvl 35...over all though...I've looked at other magical itams attanable in the 30's and this one was nerfed bad. It would be an awesome quest sword if it wasn't nerfed so much...nerfed to heck forsure though.


Edited, Wed May 8 08:56:31 2002

Is there a suggestions board somewhere? if enough people voted for a quest to recharge this item, it may be possible. I think if there were unlimited charges, then there would be a lot of exploits with chain-summoning pets.. however if it were just a recharge quest, it would be somewhat more balanced as the entire quest was not wasted after you summoned 2 pets. Maybe something like, give the empty Gnoll slayer and 2 preserved split paw eyes to Sayer to recharge it.

Does anyone know what level is needed to be able to proc the pet?

Woow that rogue is summoning a pet go friggin figure, add this to my list of loots i want after i finnish my ragebringer quest
Bhindu

as of the last patch the gnollslayer on my friend Balaan on mith marr server just went no drop? sheesh why ***** with this weapon? if you are gonna make it no drop then at least make it have more charges or be able to recharge it? just doesnt make a whole lot of sense to berf this , its not like its a uber twink item as it is?

Um i think all you guys saying this is crap are stupid or something. 15 40 is not that real great for sure but wtf man? it goes in SECONDARY. 15 damage in secondary if better than 14 for centi ls or 9 for lamentation or anyother weapon. get this with a lamentation or any other weapon i dont care but its a good offhand with 15 damage, even if you are fighting gnolls it does even more than 15 damage for secondary so shut up if youre too dumb to read SECONDARY

what lvl can this be clicked?

Seems to me that this might also be useful for its resist, in certain situations. For a high level encounter, a dual weilding class might be willing to lose some damage in their secondary slot, for a +25 sv disease. Plus, it is awesome, just for the fact it lets you summon a pet.

Would be particulalry sweet for a pally/ranger, who could also buff and heal the pet. Too bad only 2 charges. 10 would make it awesome, unlimited would be insane.

Too bad my cleric can't use one. Has anyone tried using the effect from inventory, on a class that can't wield it?

Bane damage doesnt work that way. The weapon does a normal hit, then adds 10 damage to the total. This means that the bane damage is constant, but as you gain levels you will do more and more weapon damage. My max hit at level 60 with a 14 damage weapon is 91. 11 of that is prime hand bonus, so im getting 80pt hits from a 14 pt weapon. the max hit character up to level 20 or so is twice weapons damage plus 1. So an 8 damage weapon can do 17, 9 damage 19, etc. , plus level caps.

Nice idea for a weapon, but your better off just getting a wurmslayer for 800 pp or so.

Yes it can be recharged as all charged items can. You just need a friend who also has the item.So okay its an exploit. If you item has 0 charges and your friends has 2, go to a vendor. Make sure you buy sime cheap stuff from him, preferably a little used vendor, so he has a slot free. Sell the item with 0 charges. Your friend then sells his item with 2 charges. Now buy your items back and both will have 2 charges. This works with any charged item. BUT ! make sure you use a little used vendor or else you may spend ages "bubbling" up the items you have sold.