I havent yet figured out his PH, but I did experience the following 3 weeks ago, confirming he is spawned.
I was running my 33 ranger around looking for the Shaman spawns and found him on track, I had no idea just who he was and how important he was to the Monk epic 1.0 and ran by him several times (he had the robe on). Someone popped into zone and asked if anyone had seen him. I went to private tells and brought the player and Brother Qwinn together. The player brought 2 other chars there, then proceeded to kill BQ and loot robe. I THEN learned why he was so important. Problem was, this guy lied to 2 other people in zone that BQ was up but no robe while I held him in place. I left that guy feeling rather used actually.
Next day I started tracking and found BQ up, killed him on my 75 pally, (no robe), and started tracking the last 2 shaman I still needed for my 38 monk. POP - BQ was back on track, and no robe. One of the guys who asked about him the day before was in zone, so I told him where to find BQ, and he killed him . Was talking to same guy in tells and POP BQ was up in less than 5 minutes again. Led same guy to him and he killed him (no robe). About 20 mins later POP - BQ was up again (no robe).
Through BOTH of these days people were killing in various places (one was after Mage Epic, others XP'ing at 'Paw). So I cannot state which mob was killed and then BQ spawned. I also usually found him walking mostly FROM the north-west towards 'Paw, but never found a spawn point. Other days I have found him in south too, but most times he walks along several N-S paths from North-west area to down near Aviaks. His main path seems to be N-S, with some slightly angled N-S pathing close to 'Paw.
I know this post is not full of good specific details, but I can say I inevitably find him in the western half of the zone, mostly from Splitpaw (draw a N-S line from that point) to the west. That may not always be true, but it is where I have found him when tracking. This has been true MOST (90%+) of the time for me.
I hope this helps somewhat, and accept that anyone elses observations may need to adjust my observations.
Killed him with my 74 cleric, wasen't wearing robe when I killed him and did NOT drop the robe. Took about 5 or 6 min. to do. Lowest he got me was 94%hp and 93%mana.
Killed Brother Qwinn twice last 2 days. When he had no graphic, no robe dropped. Worn robe graphic (appears Burgundy in color) was on him when he did drop it. Someone mentioned the robe graphic appearing only* if he has it and spawns while you are in zone. This was not* the case for me, as I switched thru multiple toons in zone for MQ, prior to killing him, and all of them saw his robe on.
-- interesting note: when you do your turn in for Needle of the Void, he does not depop, so you can* kill him to check for a robe after-the-fact, if you'd like to keep one after you upgrade to the Whistling Fists robe.
I began my Monk epic a about a month ago and am now at the Celestial fists quest.
However, I am trying to document my path for those Monks that follow.
When I was camping the heads in SK I noticed Qwinn wander by the skellie camp. He was wearing regular Monk attire (not a robe). I was not ready for my hand in so I ignored him.
Last week when I went to hand in the drop from Targin, I found Qwinn immediately after I zoned in from NK ... he was to the right off the bridge just before the skellie camp. This time he was wearing a purple robe. I could have had him killed for the robe but I am trying to do my epic the old fashion way~
I assume that if you see him wearing the Robe, he will drop it. Yesterday when I made Brother Zephyl spawn he was not wearing the robe either. A Druid killed zephyl easily (level 65 I think) and he did not drop the robe.
The second time I got zephyl to spawn for my Raster hand in, he also was not wearing a robe.
Hope you enjoy the useless info I have given.
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Just took him down duo boxing 2 and 3 chars. 60 monk (tanked), 51 cleric, 55 necro, 55 shammy and a 60 mage.
Just hit pet attack with all three pet class' and healed with the low level cle and the shammy. Was quite busy healing and feeding the cle with the necro, so didn't have time to try a lotta spells on him, already knowing that he was unslowable, highly resistant and summoning. But i did throw a few, he resisted mostly though as expected. Resisted both necro debuff and dots, mage nukes, slows and dots from the shammy, BUT malo did land from the 60 mage and actually the 55 shammys disease debuff landed as well.
Well anyway, he only drop'ed the brown shirt and the black headband but he will be cake next time for sure. Might get another mate so i wont have to three box also ;)
It dropped off Zephyl about 2 weeks ago. Most likely still drops on Qwinn as well.
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Summons. HIGHLY resistant. High regen/Loads of HP.
Did not know this info going into the fight, would have been VERY helpfull.
Tried to duo with a 70 wiz and 65 bst. Pet could not hold agro, no spells landed. Wizzie evac'd and I took one for the team (I think my pet was smart and evaced with the Wizzie). Just because he is old school don't think he is slow/weak/easy. In the words of my father, We're gonna need a bigger boat!
dark assassin pet soloed. I just cast dark salve on him a bunch.
with grave pact max flowing thought and a 9 mana regen clicky that statcks with FT ... i went from 11k mana to 9k mana casting heals. over my guess of a 4 min fight.
so i think any 70 necro can solo this regardless of gear.
Just killed Brother Qwin and Brother Z within half an hour of each other. No Robe Drops, might see about getting a MQ of the whistleing fist robe and a note anyone know if that would work?
i got him to pop 3 time's befor the server went down but i coulded kill him i'm not a very good monk i'm level 70 monk looking to get the 1.0 so i don't have to do the pre-quest i have 4.2k hp unbuffed and 7.2k fully buffed and why coulded i kill him i used ever disk i had and i even used healing potion's and my mend what worry?
First of all, this is the worst camp i ever did, worst than Raster or Targin for monk epic, i'v had problems spawning him in the last 12 hours, such a pita.
Here's how i think it works: Several mobs pop another named mob at a semi-random (not determined) spot in the zone, so they pop non-stop once you find them. I used a level 70 ranger to track them (thanks bamen).
Here's a list of the mobs you need to kill to get a successive spawn:
All the gnolls that are named a Nisch ... an ancient cyclops an escaped Splitpaw gnoll an Ishva Lteth gnoll Gnashmaw High Shaman Grisok High Shaman Phido Lord Grimrot Mroon (unsure) Nisch Val Torash Mashk Shaman Lenrel Shaman Ren`Rex Tesch Val Deval`Nmak Tesch Val Kadvem The Ishva Mal
------------------------ There is no specifical order to this spawn, its all random.
In fact, i'm not even sure thats the correct way to spawn him, some say hes on a timer spawn/despawn.
I also think Quillmane (mage 1.0 epic) is on the same cycle, havent seen him yet, im so pissed im just gonna wait for a mage to spawn him i think.
Although it was nice of ya to try to assist others with this info, unfortunatly it is very misleading. As stated just under the initial post, Lord Grimrot is his own spawn. Furthermore, Quillmane is not on this cycle either. She is on a cycle, but Qwinn and Quill will be up at the same time often (and being as I have ran the quillmane cycle probably 50 times now, Qwinn never shows up on it. The Ishva Mal is a static spawn with a ph, not part of any cycle. The named gnolls (Nisch Val Torash etc etc etc) are products of killing the other roaming gnolls around splitpaw, as they where moved into SK when infected paw was revamped. The shaman (ren rex, lenrel, high shaman phido etc) I don't believe are on the spawn cycle, as I have killed them all several times and they seem to influence their own spawns, as part of the headband quests. The rest, I am not sure of and may in fact be a part of the qwinn pattern.
Just thought I would clear up some of the info as to make it less confusing and let people work with what is left. Hopefully someone can figure out the exact spawn patter as was done with Quillmane over several years of speculations.
Lord Grimrot has nothing to do with this spawn or any cycle in the zone. He is a static spawn with a 3 1/2 hour respawn of either the live version or undead version or another putrid skeleton.
I just killed him last night with my 68 mage for fun and he gave zero faction messages. Child of Wind (66 mage pet) with no HP buffs and me healing him took the guy down. Fight took about 3 minutes tops and I didn't waste any mana nuking him because of his resists. I was at about 30% mana at the end of the fight with roughly 5500 mana pool, KEI, and FT 11. He dropped the shirt and the headband. Hope this information helps somebody get what they need from him. Be safe.
If you had read it all instead of complaining you would have find out that there seems to be no PH for him. He is just spawning from time to time and follows a given route. It is all in here. Just read.
It seems you have to be in the zone when he spawns in order to see him wearing the Robe - anyone zoning in after that will see him with the 'monk chestwraps'.
EDIT: This now seems to have been changed/fixed -- I just saw him with the Robe, couldn't believe he could have spawned within 1 minute of me having zoned in, so I checked by zoning to Splitpaw and back -- and he still showed the Robe.
ok...i have a 65 ranger, who when he has Wunshi and Conv is at about 5.5 to 6.5 (or maybe 7k) hp..and KEI'ed at a mana of a little under 4k.. would i be able to take this guy down?
kill while fabled were up and was bored me 61 ranger a 61-63 not sure a 58 pally healing and a 56 mage who keep dieing droped head band and blood i think almost did it with just me and monk but monk wasnt buffed welland was tanking