Tonics for Groflah  

Waited around for a few days, hoping that he would be one of the spawns at 7pm game time. New spawn always pops around then, current one despawns around 5pm, but no luck. Instead I killed one of the spawns (Sir Edwin Motte) and about 3-4 hrs later in game time he spawned. Seems this is almost guaranteed way to get him to spawn in the Searfarer's Roost.

Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk got better. +10
Your faction standing with Knights of Truth got better. +10
Your faction standing with Merchants of Qeynos got better. +7
Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got better +10

Groflah Steadirt is at location -1097.37, -1105.24 at the Seafearer's Roost in East Freeport.

You say, 'Hail, Groflah Steadirt'

Groflah Steadirt says 'Greetings, ____! Join in the [celebration]! Have a few drinks. Alas, there are no [Tumpy Tonics].'

You say, 'What celebration?'

Groflah Steadirt says 'The Freeport Militia now has a bar to themselves. Luckily, it is not this one. Ahh... I tell you, I just don't feel up to much right now. I have had so much grog, my great grandma could best me!'

You say, 'What are Tumpy Tonics?'

Groflah Steadirt says 'Tumpy Tonics are great! I used to drink them often in a bar in Kaladim. Kind of glad they don't serve it here. I could not stop drinking them and they would cause me to constantly drain the dragon. I get tired of running to the docks for that reason.'

Tumpy Irontoe is at location 161.28, 220.18 in South Kaladim.

You say, 'Hail, Tumpy Irontoe'

Tumpy Irontoe says 'Welcome to Irontoe's! The finest watering hole this side of Oggok! If you're looking for anything special and it ain't behind the bar, just ask. Maybe I can make it.'

You say, 'Can you make Tumpy Tonics?'

Tumpy Irontoe says 'So you want a Tumpy Tonic? I can make you one. All I need is a flask of water and a kiola nut. The kiola nut can be bought in the Ocean of Tears island chain.'

Cleonae Kalen in The Ocean of Tears sells Kiola Nuts.

Hand Tumpy a Water Flask and a Kiola Nut.

Tumpy Irontoe says 'Okay. Where are the other ingredients?'
Tumpy Irontoe says 'Here you go. One Tumpy Tonic. Don't drink that too fast now.'
You gain experience!!

Hand Groflah the Tumpy Tonic.

Groflah Steadirt says '<glug,glug,glug> Ahh! I missed those. I was just telling myself the other... Uh oh! I have to use the little dwarf's facilities. Excuse me.'

Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk got better.
Your faction standing with Knights of Truth got better.
Your faction standing with Merchants of Qeynos got better.
Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got better.
You gain experience!!
You receive 5 copper from Groflah Steadirt.
You receive 4 silver from Groflah Steadirt.
You receive 2 gold from Groflah Steadirt.

Notes:
Groflah spawned at 7PM game time.

I think they nerfed the faction changes on this quest. After turning in 400 tonics, my DE necro worshipping Innothule is still Dubious or worse to most of these factions. Previously, I was able to get to warmly/ally with a DE enchanter worshipping Innothule turning in around the same number of tonics.

I used a level 1 dwarf mule to make the run to Sister Island and have Tumpy make the tonics. She got killed by a pirate on her first trip to the island but lived a good five minutes past barely missing the boat on a second trip. (I ended up attacking one of the sisters for a "ranger port" just to get out of there.)
When she turned the tonic items in to Tumpy, she went from Level 1 with NO kills to Level 5. The first few tonics took her to Level 2. Very good exp for that low level, but you get no improvements on skills, of course. By the time she was at 5 the experience was really slowing.
I then ran her over to East Freeport to transfer the items to my Dark Elf rogue for the turn-in to Groflah and to make sure he was up. Sure enough, he was. I ran the DE (apprehensive to the EFP guards) there just in time to have Groflah despawn.
I was going to wait it out, but as soon as the Barbarian PH spawned, he attacked and was joined by the Half Elf at the bar. I hustled out of there with no one in pursuit by the time I got to the zone.
Next time, I'll scout ahead with the mule and plan to wait until respawn before coming back to the bar.

ok i got this guy to spawn fairly easy when i found out that darkie was his ph... hehehe. So i turned in 200 tonics lasnight and im not ally with all cept the knights of truth... not sure whats up with that gonna do another 200 tonight wish me luck;)

After making sport of some halflings in RV, I did the Bandage quest to rebuild faction there. This killed my faction with Coalition of Tradefolk Illegal. Being a druid I bound at sister island, loaded up on nuts then ported to BB and ran to Kaladim to turn them into Tumpy Tonics (hand one kiola nut, one water flask to the dorf named Tumpy). I repeated this a few times, until I had 15 stacks of Tumpy Tonics.

Getting Groflah to spawn was kinda tricky. After simply waiting for about 2 hours RL time, I started killing place holders at night. Got him right away doing that. To avoid faction, I rooted, dotted and egressed. If you have a high level druid friend ask him to do this for you, it may save you hours of sitting in a bar.

Anyways, 15 stacks took me from Maximum KoS (your faction can not possibly get any worse) with trade coalition Ill, to Aprehensive. All the other factions were max ally when I was finished.

Good Luck to all.

with 112 cha price is 1 gp, 7 sp, 3 cp

Ok, i hope this helps. he spawns between 9pm and 9am, he doesn;t not have a specific pop time. he pops at the tables next to the stairs and across from the brew barrel. you may find one of 3 place holders (PH), a dark elf, a barb or a human, each being higher level then the last, the dark elf is light blue to 15. YOU WILL TAKE FACTION HITS FOR KILLING ANY OF THEM, and they may be added by fellow patrons, depending on who is in the bar at the time. hope that clears it all up for you

Visceration Thermopoly
Prince of Theives
Heir to The House of Thermopoly
The Nameless

the spawns seem to be
Scar and swiftfingers at 9pm-9am

and an Ogre and Barbarian Chick from 9am - 9pm

so I have a few questions...
1
What Dark elf Chick
2
do I have to kill place holders
3
what factions are these mobs on, if they are on trade folk illegal it defeats the whole point of this quest to kill them

One of you mentioned Trumpy Irontoe as the one to give the tonics to. Well, I don't know what he wants in the way of [drinks], as he says, but he is in the Fish's Ale in South Qeynos. He is dubious to me, so won't even answer my question about the drinks. He may want Tumpy Tonics, but not for the same quest/factions. I believe he is Circle of Unseen Hands faction, but not certain. I know you kill him for one quest.

Groflah will spawn at around 9-10 PM. In the bar in the evening, there is usually a Dark Elf Rogue named Imxil TBrow or a Barbarian Warrior named Talym Shoontar. Kill him/her at around 6-9 PM, and Groflah will eventually spawn. The Tumpy Tonic quest is a good faction gainer, with 8 stacks my DE went from Dubious to Ally with the CoalitionOfTradesFolk.

I have seen where ppl posted they killed the dark elf lady to get the spawn, and i have seen where ppl have said to kill the barbarian to get the spwan, just curious what lvl these mobs are and are there any faction hits as a result of killing place holders?

Thanks
Blauman
5th Dark Elf Enchanter