Uklo's Magic (Illusion Guktan - good)  

Does this quest still exist?

I've just returned to EQ after a year's absence. I have the Fused Sword Blade in my bank, the drake lava powder, and the skyash bile but no distiller.

FINISHED IT-almost as an afterthought. One thing NO ONE mentions is the fact that when you return to FM for the second time to hail the froglok remains, and give it the sword-the mobs summoned is like 10+ undead zombies or such. They were blue to my 67 chant, and hit for 100-200 each. I ran and they all followed me-but vanished 30 sec later when the main NPC fight was over.

anyone know the spawn time on the gnome explorer plz?

also, is the pile of froglok remains you give the blade to the same one as you say "i wish to recover what is lost" to?

Edited, Sun Oct 10 13:31:52 2004

Ok...And I want to do all of this WHY?
Am I bored?
Do I have a Froglok fetish?
Am I one of the losers that attempted to do some of the quests that Sony had devised only to realize later that they DON'T work?

Why not give me something that doen't require me to be a higher level than the spell requirement just to attain it AND 4 friggin people.

Once again.....the enchanter class is screwed.

Next they will be offering clarity to SK's



Edited, Fri Sep 17 04:21:56 2004

Just completed this quest tonight. Some comments about the event.

When we pulled Gribnor (the successfull time I won't mention the other :) ) My Sk had sow on them and managed to outrun Gribnor himself When Gribnor stopped to cast a spell. His two Bodyguards however managed it all the way to Neriak Commons Zone line where we were waiting.

I Charmed one of them and had him beat on the other (with the help of those who had arrived after the first pull went wrong :) Thanks Kerey, Tycchi and Ozgut) Taking the two of them down was easy at this point.

All the while we were waiting on short stuff (gribnor) to show up, since he didn't I ran off to the tower again and there he was just standing there on his spawn point.

Pulling him again I pulled him down the stairs of the tower and through the two doors this time (the original time I used a tap on him from the end of the corridor and then ran toward him and his bodyguards, past them and then out over the balcony he was standing in front of. This gave me a nice lead on them for the pull (and may have contributed to outrunning him in the first place though he kept up fine on the failed pull and I did it the same way /wink)

The second comment I'd like to make is regarding the "a pile of froglok remains" since this quest was done with the step listed first above in Rathe Mountains done last, we arrived back in Rathe Mountains before the pile had respawned. The time of the respawn fits in with the 'approximately' 1 hour mentioned below.

The fight at the end turned out to be a total non-event in its own way. But a lot of fun none the less. Getting and keeping agro was trivial, so was survivng with runes up. I'd reccomend no one but the chanter goes anywhere close to the bones when this step is done and also as mentioned by others below use an AoE tash to grab agro, repeat it as needed (if you miss some in the initial cast or they seem not to be paying enough attention to you) while keeping in front of the slow moving trolls that your kiting.

I'd reccomend hailing Chalex after the fight and wait till he puts his hand outstreatched before you hand him Marr's Promise again. Don't know that its essential but like the person who mentioned this below, it worked for me when I did this, so just in case that's 'whats broken' don't forget to do it.

When bringing backup, expect about 20 average DC pets for about 30 seconds. and just stand near chalex, you will have no problem getting agro :)

Did this quest today with 2 chanters (57 and 65), a pally (65) and a cleric(65). We took out the wandering dark elves first, to avoid adds. They were light blue at 57.

The thugs and small guy were dk blue to 57 and the thugs can not be mezed, slowed, or pacified, but they CAN be charmed. The other chanter and I each mezed a thug and the small guy went down fast with the Pally beating on him too. Was alot of fun.

When it came to the final RM fight, the mobs spawned and beat me up, I ran and when the cleric healed me, they turned on her and killed her. Then they despawned. *sorry* It wasn't how it was planned, but hey, it worked.

FYI: Illusion:Guktan (52) is the player frog spell. Illusion:froklok(65) is illusion for frog that looks like those in Upper Guk.

Can Gribnor's thug's be mezzed?

When I turned in Marr's retrobution to Chalex, he was lvl 65(conned even). AFTER he ate the sword he conned dark blue... so, what may be the cause of all these bugs is folks turning their sword in too early. I hailed Chalex before turning the sword in, and after. He said the same bit about holding out his hand, both times.

Just killed the bugger w/ my 56 shaman, the corrupted guy. was a tough fight but I am glad i just got spirit of howler b4 doing it. I had no idea what I was doing quest wise. Bah

I just completed the final turn in to chalex the redeemed. Yes, about 10 mobs appeared, I was all alone, a 57 enchanter at the time. So i had AoE mezz loaded before hand, the trolls aggroed me, i ran backwards... they are very slow. All had me aggroed and you can just about kite them from my experience. I didn't know how long the battle was going to last, so I ran a little then AoE mezzed the whole lot of them. Then the battle ended in about 10 seconds. It was rather easy. Just turn it in, then run. When your target mob despawns, the fight is over. EZ.

Eelise FV
League of Shadows

I just did this quest in about 2 and a half hours. Its very easy... Any 65 enchanter can solo the Gnome Explorer... I duo'ed Gribnor and his thugs with a pally friend, it was very easy too... The last encounter is not that tough at all, I soloed it without losing any life... All i did was load AE tash and used it when they spawned and kited for the whole 25 seconds it took for him to kill the duders.
Grib and his thugs are all very high MR... immunte to changes in attack / run speed. We just pulled all 3, killed the two thugs then took down Grib... I wouldnt suggest duo'ing him w/o some form of a healer unless you have a high hp pally.

Gribnor the Small "Raid"

63 ENC, 65 BRD
61 WAR (MT), 54 WAR, 50 WAR,
65 RNG, 53 SK (DE, Good Faction, puller), 63 MNK
65 CLR, 62 CLR, 62 CLR

Plan - Bard plays invis song to get all the bad Neriak Faction people to Firepot area (deep in the back of 3rd gate, before the mansion area) DE SK aggros Gribnor and Thugs, jumps out the window, tries his best to FD split at area before the bridge, then pulls Gribnor solo to Firepot area, where raid puts the smack down.

What actually happened - SK aggros Gribnor and thugs, couldn't jump out window. (oops) Starts running downstairs with mobs in tow. Almost makes it to bridge area when finally slain. ENC who was following SK, ended up aggroing Grib and Co. Ran to the awaiting raid, MT attacks Gribnor, others start pounding thugs. With 3 clerics and 3 tanks, it was very easy to keep all alive.

Thug 1 drops in about 2 minutes, Thug 2 drops 1 minute later, then all converge on the Tiny Troll. He fell into the water (gotta watch the push) where he was taken from 25% to 0% in under 30 seconds. ENC hails the froggie and bam. All done.


By Far the easiest way to get there is taking a bard with the indoor invis song all the way. No worries about breaking invis in the middle of Neriak. No mobs saw invis on the way to the pull spot. The guard that roams close to the Firepot can be Mezzed easily with Rapture (irresistable) then Tashed and mezzed with Dazzle.

This was obvious overkill, but I hope it helps someone :-D