The Mighty Garou  

Gnolls in Velious are NOT blackburrow gnolls. Entirely different faction. You can raise faction by killing Ulthork in EW.

I have heard that killing all the Dire Wolves that you see can get him to spawn, but this has not ben confirmed.

The spell he dropped for me today was the cleric one. He also dropped the cap/garou skin item as well. He didn't have a wolf pet with him this time, although this is the only time I have even seen this elusive creature. I had been killing the dire wolves hoping this would somehow cause the spawn. It got dark, then while I was root/dotting a wolf he showed up on my tracking. I wish I had written down the time, but I know it was soon after nightfall. The only mobs I had killed were the wolves, so if he is keyed to clearing any particular spawn, it must be those. Otherwise, there may not be any particular mob to kill to make him spawn. It may just be a percentage chance that it happens every nightfall.

As shaman tend to do, he will sometimes heal himself, and will cast Scourge for a dot, plus some cold based spells. Although he resisted my snare a couple of times, he wasn't terribly hard to snare and root as a level 45 druid. I would suggest a regen before engaging to help offset the effects of that Scourge, and some poison and disease resists so that he might be less likely to land the spell on you.

My only complaint is that he dropped the wrong spell, blast it! Was supposed to be the druid one!

Just killed Garou today, conned even to me, a 38 Shaman. Myself, 37 shaman, and a 35 Warrior, along with our pets took him out. He also summons a dire wolf pet to assist him. Dropped His skin, A ruined dire wolf pelt, and the 39 Druid spell.

This is what you have to say to Balix Misteyes to start the quest.. only thing i haven't figured out is when and where Garou spawns any info on this would help.

You say, 'hail Balix Misteyes'

Balix Misteyes says 'Outlander, hail. Share the fire. I have little but if you are in need then take what I have. If you need nothing then take nothing. Balix my name is. Shaman to the tribe of Snowfangs.

You say, 'you are a shaman?'

Balix Misteyes says 'Yes. Shaman. I listen to the land to tell my tribe what the winds and waters will bring. Good or bad. Little good and much bad these days. That is why I sit here listening.

Balix Misteyes begins to cast a spell.

You say, 'Listening to what?'

Balix Misteyes says 'I am on spirit quest. No food do I take. All day I listen only. I wait until the land tells me how to help my tribe. Maybe nothing will happen but I cannot fail to try. Hard is this. Many dangerous creatures are near but none come close so far.

Balix Misteyes is surrounded by a brief lupine aura.

You say, 'what dangerous creatures?'

Balix Misteyes growls under his breath. 'Most dangerous is the Garou. Evil spirit of the land. It was made from long dead wolf spirits when the tower spread its dark magics through the islands. It preys on the Snowfang. We have tried to hunt it but always it is too strong.'

You say, 'I will hunt it'

Balix Misteyes says 'If you want to try, you can hunt Garou. If you kill, spread its soul to the air for cleansing, then all is good. Its skin is powerful from the magics that made it. With a cougar's bone, fresh with the spirit of earth, I can make you powerful talisman in thanks for your service to Snowfangs.

OK so maybe you dr00ds solo too much and never listen to your friendly neighborhood enchanter but here is what NPCs "con".

When you /con a mob you get only two things:
The first is your faction rating, these go from the highest of kindly down to warmly, amiably, indifferent, apprehensive, dubious, threateningly and ready to attack. Threatening and ready to attack are KoS or kill on sight and dubious is not kos but dubious merchants won't transact with you.
The second is a color code and message that relate their level to yours, I won't go into detail on these since it is off subject of this off subject post and it also varies by what your level is but basically green is a lot lower level and red is a lot higher level.

I see posts all the time referencing whether wolf form raises or lowers some faction and it's only ONE form. Rogues can get 3 different forms, Bards can get 4 and enchanters have like a couple dozen at their disposal not to mention all the classes or races who can use sneak behind an NPC to get indifferent faction. Druids (and high level rangers) get one form: wolf. Necros get skeleton form which is primarily a HP to mana spell but is also an illusion for the sake of faction.

Now here is what happens and any enchanter and most bards worth their twist of salt (pun intended) will tell you the same thing. You have a base faction based on your class/race/deity combo with any NPC in the game. This base faction is first adjusted by any faction 'hits' you have taken with them good or bad. Then your faction is adjusted by any form you have. A 'pet' form includes skeleton, water/fire/air/earth pet and wolf along with werewolf and is a major faction drop for most NPCs. The reason that real PCs pets don't get this same effect is that they inherit the same factions as their masters, ask verant why. Enchanters also use spells to change their apparent race along with a spell line which includes benovelence and alliance that just plain raises faction with the target NPC, Bards and Rogues get masks (and a bard instrument for werewolf) that also change ther race appearance and Bards have a song that works similar to benovelence. A different illusion is basically a major adjustment of your faction and doesn't always make or not make you KoS somewhere which is why you will sometimes see an enchanter or bard walking through a place in a form you would expect them to be kos in such as dark elf in kelethin or iksar in firiona vie.

Kollins Kahunas, level 50 Dark Elf Bard of Terris-Thule.

I am a lvl 40 Necro. Garou was a cinch. He does have around 2500 HP I suspect. He resisted none of my spells. Darkness, feared, DoTd him with pet bashing him from behind he died easily but took 60% of my mana to do it. He never hit me so I can't offer a guess on what he damages for. He did NOT drop the skin curse his soul!

The last two times I saw Garou, I had seen groups killing Shadow Guardians. In fact, the group had to fight both Garou and a Shadow Guardian, lending to their untimely defeat I suppose. I was passing through and did not see where Garou went after the party fled.


Mangudi, Revered Assasin