Karg IceBear  

After searching for Karg for a month to get a werewolf cloak, I can add some details that most people seem to miss...

Karg's known loot is the Cloak of the Ice Bear (same as the Martar drop) and either a rusty 2 handed sword or a plain 2 hander. Karg has reportedly not dropped the Gigantic Zweihander in a while, or if he has, nobody admits to it. Yet he is killed for it most every time he spawns. Too bad Verant's policy is to withold useful information... : (

Karg is a Quest NPC. He makes 3 items:
1) Polar Bear Cloak - requires a polar bear pelt and 5pp
2) Lupine Claw Gauntlets - requires werewolf claws and 75pp
3) Werewolf Skin Cloak - requires werewolf pelt and 100pp
He also despawns after making werewolf items, but not the PBCloaks.

Karg has no set spawn point. Just like Martar, he may spawn in front of permafrost, the east tower, near the ruins on the river, between the ruins and Megan's, at Megan's, and I think near Starn Bearjumper (barb vendor).

Karg follows EXACTLY the same route as his brother. So do polar bear cubs, polar bears, and ice goblin whelps. I believe these to be place holders for Martar (not Karg). Can't figure out what a polar bear cub would be doing in front of permafrost otherwise...

Karg can spawn in as little as 8 hours 40 minutes. I witnessed this personally. I also have reports of him not spawning for a week...

When I finally did get the chance to complete my quest (no rangers looking for werewolf cloaks), Karg spawned as I was following Martar around the Tundra. Martar had just crossed the river near the south tower when I received word that Karg had spawned. Could it be that Martar's trip triggers Karg's spawn?

As far as what to say to get the cloak...You say 'Hail Karg Icebear'. Then you con him. If he is at least indifferent, just give him the stuff. Most quests work that way...

My advice: Sit in front of Megan's tower facing the river and you will see Karg, Martar, and any PHs walk by (if they live that long) and kill the PHs as they walk by. If you want him for the werewolf items, offer a reward for Karg's being hailed (75pp worked for me), and make a few PB cloaks for the lower levels. They'll thank you for it.

I Hope this info helps.
Grrumble, 42 Enchanter
Tholuxe Paells

You say, 'Hail Karg IceBear'
Karg IceBear says 'Hail, traveler! I am Karg of Clan IceBear, lone hunter of the Everfrost Peaks. Have you seen any polar bears about?
Karg IceBear says 'OK! Now, where is the rest?
Karg IceBear says 'It has been a long time since I crafted items from werewolves. I hope this aids you in your journeys. Farewell, friend, until we meet again.
You gain experience!!

Easy kill and find,

Karg Icebear kills 16
Martar Icebear kills 12


then again I live in EF and never leave ..lol

The big thing about him is that when all us low levels want to get him to make a polar bear clock for us we can never find him because everytime he is sighted some high level runs up and kills him. I have been carrying the stuff(white polar bear skin and 5pp) around for almost 3 RL weeks, once I found him and just as I was trying to hand him the stuff some jerk runs up and nukes him.

OK. I'm not saying Martar is Kaarg's Ph, or that you can't see them both at the same time, but I search Everfrost for Kaarg for 3 hours with no luck. I then followed Martar for an hour, still no luck. I finally pulled Martar to a guard, the guard killed him, and sure enough about 15 minutes later my shouts for Kaarg returned a sighting of him. Do what you will with this information. G/L!!

1 Karg and Martar have always been level 32 in my experiences with them.
2 Karg does have some crazy cold resistance, but if you're a druid like me, this isnt a prob ;p
3 Nine hour spawn was mentioned.. no. He is just an uncommon spawn with a wandering PH. It has been my experience that martar is indeed a PH for Karg, and that mammoths are Not PHs. Lots of time searching for the elusive mammoth rib has made me sure of this.
4 He is definitely NOT a rare spawn. Sometimes i think newer players to the game dont grasp what a rare spawn is, they associate rare with anything that they dont see wandering around frequently. Could there actually be an 'uncommon' area between normal spawns and rares? If you hunt karg enough i think you will come to the same conculsion as i: that karg really isnt the up to the same caliber of rarety as, say, Blige in Cauldron. (If you wanna learn what rare is, try to camp him)

Last night 2 people spent all day camping for him. Then someone killed martyr and he spawned about 15-30min later. About 45 min after that martyr spawned again my groupie was his target he ran him to snowflake's group and had him killed. again 15-30 min later karg spawned this time i got 2 polar bear cloaks then a highbee killed him. A third time martyr spawned a highbee took him out just after he ripped me up. Then about 15-30 min later karg was spotted at the north tower all of these were seen near the north tower on the innorruk server between 7pm and 10pm systime not sure exactly we were camping the orc shamans

Im not so sure about the long time between spawns listed above. Yesterday I was doing the lupine claw quest and was able to track Karg 3 separate times in 4 real time hours. I did the claw quest twice and he disappeared both times. I'm not sure if doing the quests increases his spawn rate or if he spawns more frequently than people realize.

Caramina
Ranger
Saryrn

Karg is a nine hour spawn, once a Quest Item is given to him he DESPAWNS. I did the Lupin Quest and got the Gloves ( sell for 1200-1500 BTW) and he spawned near the South tower. Many have told me he USALY spawns there or near Martha's(?) tower and he also spawns near the Permafrost entrance. ALSO for the Werewolf Cloak its a WEREWOLF PELT not skin the PELT is the Magical Item needed to make the Cloak that and 100pp. He was rather difficult to find but usaly you can find a ranger or a druid if you have to to Track him.

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I too have been camping this elusive barbarian for days now --- I don't know if the cloak is worth the time that I have lost in gaining experience or not. Though I was planning on making 8 all at once and take back to the Feydarks and try to turn a profit (bought 8 PB Skins @ 2-3 gp and the 5 pp / cloak to make = 5pp 3gp investment per Cloak ) What would be a good asking price to sell these cloaks - though I plan on giving 2 or 3 to lower level players on a player driven quest :) - Does any one happen to know his spawn rate? Every ??? minutes/hours ?

with 75pp and a werewolf claw you get the Lupine Claw Guntlets. FOr 100pp and a werewolf SKIN he will give you the Lupine Cloak

The bear has very low resist to fire, seems to be immune to ice, and doesnt have much of a MR.

Karg always drops the cloak and a 2 handed sowrd either just a "two handed sword" and cloak or the GZ and cloak