Belt of the Grimling Skullcracker  

 

Could someone plz tell me how to stat the war?
what do i have to kill or is the war always goin on?

Hmm the north owlbear cave is the one close to sharval.... But when the south owl cave is announced for attack i jsut cant find it. Been looking everywhere, theres no south owlbear camp on maps either... Im trying to get the belt, but it seems that he named dropping the belt is supposed to spawn at south owlbear camp and not north cave... Anyone who can help me out a bit

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I got one of these last night... i was able to run in and avoid aggroing any of the grimling... they have small aggro radius and plenty of room since cave was designed for the larger owlbear.

I dont think it will be a problem if the grimling are green to you, to stand near where he spawns, attack him and fight him there. If he runs... just wait on him to come back.

I did not have a haste item on soop, and did not want to loose the ac on cobalt gaunts for schw. This has nice stats with added haste. is not shabby at all i dont think.

It was the first drop off the guy after killing 2 placeholders.

WOOT! my turn to rant now. I find myself soloing more and more at higher levels, which is odd, considering it should be the reverse :P. Anyway, I can do pretty well with most of my stuff, but many times I have died without a rez, and it really starts to suck. I figured I needed a haste item to stack with my 20% i get from my song, and went to guk. I could solo the bedroom no problem, but any farther and i was toast. So I did the sensible thing, and started begging my friends to help me kill frenzy. I saw this item on the list, and since I was using a 10 ac belt with no other stats, I figured it was worth a try. Most of the mobs conned green, a few lightblue, which means they all aggro if I stay put around them for about 3 seconds, or if I continuously run by them (like I found out - see below). Had no problem meleeing the casters, and after a single charm, most mobs were sufficiently hurt that I could finish them without serious damage. Finally got him to pop after 3 PH. Spawn is exactly as stated earlier- about 3020, 2002. After I got in to the spot, no mobs wandered close enough to aggro, so I could easily heal in the down time. Started kiting him, as he was blue. Bad idea- got my **** kicked once the manacrafters started aggroing. Ok try 2- this time when he popped, I pulled with chant of disease, then started running as if I was going to kite, but charmed a manacrafter before he aggroed. Continued kiting til he died, and kept going until all but 1 manacrafter and about 4 guards were alone with him and I (still running in a circle in that small cave). He was down to half a bubble, and I to 2 1/2, so I tryed to finish him by kiting. Managed to kill him, but the manacrafter instilled me before I could charm him. :P Dead again. With time against me, I still managed to run from plane of knowledge back in time to loot my belt (dropped first time). Having only memmed speed song, I hauled ***** dragging my corpse, before more than 2 could aggro me, only pausing to get my drum. Now I have 11% more haste, and I'll try getting to the assassin in guk again : ) (already got the mask, really going for the bag)

After camping this guy for a few days, finally got this belt. The headpiece isn't bad for a BST or maybe a Pally either. Anyway, he seems to drop about 5 caps for each belt from others that I've spoken too. I think for the amount of work and the level that you can actually get this, it's much better than the FBSS, though you can't sell it, come on, the Frenzy camp is for like level 60 guys, this item rocks. Get a level 35+ group or another person level 45 or so to help you, if you're like my BST level 36. The mobs are light blue, but adds suck. Also you'll get a few Acrylia blocks that are dropped. I stopped picking up the runes, they sell for a few cp to a couple silver and it gets hard to carry them.

Only question I have is, I read it's 21% haste, but was just trying to verify if anyone knows how you can check this.

Well, some can drop on FV server it seems, I was about to say the same thing to the lad. Oh well

Edited, Sun Jul 28 12:34:56 2002

I have been in HM for the past 2 days, grimlings have only been in the OB caves for one day on Bristlebane Server. Was wondering if anyone else was having a problem with the extremely fast repop times on the mobs in th cave. I was timing and the mobs would repop about every 45 sec. Which makes this an extremely hard camp if you only have 2 tanks and a healer. Got this belt and gave my FBSS.

Vvulfgur Shadowens lvl 36 Rogue<The Imperium Knights>
Bristlebane Server

If wolves hold this place what do i do to get rid of them?

Gleeknot Gnitrat spawns in the Owlbear caves in Skrietat'Cha's normal location during the times when the Grimlings hold the Owlbear caves. He seems to be a melee type who does not cast, but may have a damage shield cast on him by one of the nearby Grimling Manacrafters who are wizards.

I only fought him once, but he seemed to be a little tougher to beat than Skrietat'Cha for my paladin. He dropped the Belt of the Grimling Skullcracker.

Edited, Mon Jun 10 19:28:24 2002

OK, this versus a FBSS ... 21% haste on the FBSS versus 11% on this belt, but this belt has 10 AC, 4 STR, and those HP .. close call. I'd probably lean FBSS, but not by a lot.

I had the great good fortune to have two belts drop within half an hour (one for my monk, one for my warrior). My guildies went back after I left, and spent three hours there, but the belt didn't drop again.

One question .. one of my guildies said this was not a good item for monks because of the high weight. I would have thought the 10AC would offset any AC loss from the extra weight, but maybe I'm crazy. Do any experienced monks have any thoughts about whether they would use this, if they didn't have another haste item?