Tanik Greskil  

You can cull the above messages for the approximate trap locations; they exist on both sides of the trench to Kael. One point I haven't seen made clearly is that the traps seem to be randomly spawn either the Death Squads (common) or Tanik (uncommon). I've tried some of the locations multiple times that people got Tanik in and got the DS instead. Have not yet been able to confirm if Tanik only spawns at night as one person asserted.

Despite a previous post of mine the /pet guard trick does still work as long as you're far enough away from the AoC for Kael.

I'm tempted to just sit here and run over the same trap over and over until I get Tanik.

Both death squad and Tanik can be spawned with Run on. Did it 5 min ago.

you can train the giants across the entry way to kael from the north side on the highest point & they will disapear when they try to cross just make sure u have levi. Also i noticed that a particular part of the ground immulated at night time will i was triggering DS seemed strange & i only seen this once during my session. Don't know what it has to do with. It was straight east of the kael ramp entry not to far. i got this guy to spawn at - 5687 + 4370

Edited, Sun Jun 4 00:07:35 2006

Thanks alot Tadwenai, used the pet method and poped only one DS/4. Druid charmmed a bunny and found him in no time:) Happy owner of Shawl #4, and off to five, I hope the info for #5 is just as helpful.

Sophists: 37 DRU of Xegony.

Was doing tis for few friends and spawned Tanik twice using magician pet. Took about 30 minutes total. Once at -6703,3885 and -5683, 4252. Just make sure normal mob spawns are dead and pet will find spawns easily.

negative 5687, positive 4435 .. these cordinates are right on the nose.. "walk" around this spot and POP there he was took me like 5 min and bam turn in and i'm on the road.


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Edited, Tue Aug 24 06:41:50 2004

Ok, did the quest today and used almost every kind of animal to sit and guard. Did cross sections on the map and popped him twice. He does not pop at the same place twice and the aggro giants are near him so its easy to get a bad reading and pop guards instead of quest NPC. Don't pay attention to the people posting coordinates. They get you in the general area but don't give you more than that.

Leglewen 51 Wanderer

While preparing to finish up the 4th Shaw quest I looked over all the pages I could find that discussed Tanik Greskil. There seems to be a huge variation in posted locations as well as the walk don't run theory. I decided to do some testing of my own. First I compiled a list of all the spawn locations people posted. Here they are.

North side of ramp.
-5680, 4126
-5670, 4576
-5672, 4307
-5679, 4206
-5683, 4252
-5687, 4435
-5696, 3600
-5702, 4505
-5702, 4384

South side of ramp.
- 6644, 4337
- 6703, 3885
- 6759, 4410
- 6759, 4202

Clumped together like this I am sure you notice what in noticed. Many seem to fall along an East/West line at different points.

As my main toon is a 46 Ranger and can not do the pet trick everyone post’s about I did it the Non-Caster way, multi-quest.

Have your Vile of Velium Vapors ready. Camp your main toon at the end of the ramp ready to log on once you get Tanik to spawn.

First, I did what “unloved” suggested and created a Level 1 Warrior follower of Rallos Zek. This allowed me to spend the better part of a day testing spawn points without getting stopped by the Giants every time they spawned.

Second, I tested each of the listed spawn points walking and running. None of them worked for me. However while running from spot to spot I did manage to spawn the death squad a few times so made notes on the locations to test later. As the Giants would not agro this Rallos Zek follower I was able to determine they are up for 2 minutes until they pop as long as they do not agro.

I did notice running East to West the zone is made up of very faint light and dark lines. If you look at the screen without focusing on any one thing it is pretty noticeable. This lead me to try my spawn line theory.

I lined my toon up on the E/W spawn point I had noted ( in the -56** area most noted by people) so there was no variation running E/W and then I ran forward and backward along this line. Starting Back by the cluster of trees on the North side of the ramp I walked from about –5679, 3500 to –5679, 6000 and got 4 Death Squad to spawn while running. Frustratingly I was never able to get anything to spawn again. So as there is such a wide variation of –56** locations I moved over a bit and tried again this time at –5677. This time I tried it walking and boom….got a spawn at –5677, 4485 of 2 DS . Yea!!!! I continued to walk back and forth between –5677, 3500 and –5677, 6000 and after 15 to 20 minutes boom…..got another spawn of 2 DS this time a –5677, 4366. This time I tried it running. Boom… got 4 DS to spawn at –5600,4206. Ok so I continued this for most of the day and got 7 spawns all at different locations on the –5677 line. I was never able to get a repeat spawn point and went on to get 4DS, 4DS, 2DS and finally 4DS and Tanik Greskil spawned about three steps apart from each other. I spent so much time verifying this theory that I never tried to find another “spawn line”.

Reading all the comments and my own testing leads me to believe that the spawn points are random along the spawn line. I also believe the spawn of the Death Squad or Tanik Greskil is also random. Lack of Attention to Detail caused me to not nail down the spawn time but I found it between 15-20 minutes.

Once Tanik Greskil did spawn I did as another suggested and continued to “Hail” him. Once the Death Squad was gone I sat down next to him and camped, continuing to hail him until I logged. I then logged on my main toon, whom I had strategically camped at the end of the ramp, and within 45 seconds I was on top of him hailing him until I could get the Vial of Velium Vapors, I had already made so I didn’t have to do this a second time, out and give it to him. No chit chat I just gave it to him and he immediately popped and I had Tanik's Note to turn in to Loremaster Borannin.

Oh I did have a couple of random DS spawns while running around but did not them. One was at the top of the ramp to the north side and the other was to the south side. I just focused on this one spawn line. And I got a few pictures to send for Tanik and the Death Squad that is not even listed in the Bestiary.

So in a nut shell: Completely random along the E/W line, at least on the north side of the ramp. Also the spawn of 2DS, 4DS or Tanik is random. Running or Walking, though maybe smaller steps increase your chance of hitting the trigger spot as would be the case in real life? DS will de-pop after about 2 minutes if they do not agro. Spawn cycle seems to be between 10-15 minutes. And you can keep Tanik there if you contiue to "Hail" him.

Good luck, and happy hunting!


Edited, Tue Jun 29 05:19:24 2004

The run thing is absolutely false, I was sow'd and running as I stumbled over him. Being an enchanter, it made it difficult to continuously try and charm a snow bunny, then run to the spot. However, it is basically the only way to find where he is going to spawn.

I set up in the valley just north of Kael's Ramp/Tunnel in EW, fairly close to the wall. Had the pet guard, and ran straight ahead of where the pet was pointing. After nearly 10 attempts, and 10 spawns of the Death Squad, I finally had Tanik pop.

It is a good idea to already have the Vial of Velium Vapors on you when you do this so you don't have to spawn him again =o)

Walk! Ue pet as described by others, but don't run. Learned this from another and worked like a charm. This is after hours of frustration and spawning the stupid KDS. For whatever reason, walking makes the dwarf spawn and not the kds.

No clue why. Maybe a myth, but it worked.

I have been trying this for a couple of hours now... my bf's druid charming a bunny pet and using the pet trick... that works fine, for spawning the freaking KDS! Cannot get Tanik to spawn...

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I've used the pet method and found it works well also. My friend charmed a pretty snow griffon and we set him to guard then walked in the direction he was facing. The first time it seemed to give nothing (when the pet turned to the right facing away from the Kael ramp), the second time with pet moved more onto the ramp we spawned the DS twice when we went in the direction he was facing.. still looking for Tanik but the pet trick works well so far.