Upper Guk

I have 2 characers who both leveled off the froglock gaz around lvl 20 or so, a warrior and a magician. I made good exp on them, and there is a trick to getting *just* one or two in a pull and taking them out solo. First of all, pull *EVERYTHING* to the innothule zone. Runners have a much farther way to go to find friends. Also, don't keep chasing the frogs if they make it to the water lol they WILL keep on going deeper and deeper in. I'm going to attempt to explain how to break the spawn solo or with a partner safely.

Breaking the spawn:
Hug the left wall through the first 2 rooms, then over those boards above the water (do NOT go up last board at the end sloping up). You come into a room with a few guards.. First of all, walk up to the them and make *sure* the guards won't agro on you - if they do run them to the inny zone and kill em. Next you want to go straight through that gaurd room and you come to the next room. Its basically a pit with boards as ramps to get down in and out of. You will see 1 tuk/witchdoc right next to the side of the pit at the entrance to the room beside the first ramp/board - it will prolly agro on you so CAREFULLY inch up to the pit, get its attention, and inch back until it is out of the pit... then run it to the zone and kill it. Go back to the pit and you should see 2-4 gaz standing there. Now if you wait and time it right the Gaz on the left will eventually roam away (up to squire spawn), and the other Gaz on the right will roam away (up spiral steps to Tonta Knight/Idealist which are BAD). Basically sit on your butt till there are only 2 toads standing there. Nuke em or shoot em with an arrow and get their attention, run for the inny zone and don't look back. When you get to the zone and turn around *hopefully* you just got 2 gaz (this is why you kill the guards and carefully pull away that tuk lol). If not then one of the 2 roaming toads was on his way back and noticed =P, just zone and prepare to try again. As either of my characters (at lvl 19 for the mage, about 20 or 21 for the warrior) I could take 2 gaz. If they are overwhelming you this is why you went to a zone to fight hehe.

Safely pulling those 2 roamers:
Wait in the pit room till just 1 of the roamers is there and pull that to the zone and kill it. Be *VERY* carefull when pulling the roaming gaz on the right EVEN if he is the only toad there. If that froglock starts turning around to face his steps just as your nuke goes off, guess what - he runs up and gets the tonta room on you (BAD) just zone hehe don't look back, this really doesn't happen that often.

Getting the squire alone:
Now if you manage to break that spawn and kill the 2 stationary and 2 roaming spawns, there are a couple more targets for you. The Froglock Gaz Squire is a wee bit tougher than your average gaz, and can be pulled safely all by himself IF those 4 spawns in the pit are dead. He drops the Collar of Undead Protection Ac5 Sv Poi&Dis+7 as his common loot, and Runed Bone Fork with Sv Fire Cold Magic +10 (peircing weapon equippable in ranged weapon slot) as his rare rare drop. You go to that pit room and hug the left wall and go up this slope (where that toad on the left roams to).. Just at the top of that long ramp up you can see into this next room. From the top of the ramp, if you were facing DOWN the ramp, the squire spawns just a few paces directly to your left just around that corner (stationary spawn sometimes a placeholder). There is a gaz in that big room also that roams from one end of the chamber to the other - be carefull about him when pulling the squire.. That toad roams close enough to him to agro on you when you get the squire (you can see if he is there though, before you pull). If your really unlucky and pull the squire while the other gaz is next to him you could get the squire, a gaz, and a tuk (tougher tuk than normal btw). So before you grab the squire look into the room and make sure there isn't a gaz standing there (if there is wait for it to hop away). Pull the squire/placeholder back down that ramp, through the pit, and back all the way to the innothule zone CAREFULLY. Once those 4 spawns in the pit are dead it is very possible to get the squire or his placeholder all alone and pulled all the way to the zone.

The loot:
If you ever see that squire and he is holding a spear... its a runed bone fork. I have seen people camp that toad for many hours with no luck alot of times. I can fetch a quick 1000pp for one on tunare. Yea newbies will try to tell me its worth 300, they are dumb lol. I've sold 3 of em for 1k myself and seen my friends sell theirs at that price too. Gaz also drop some decent loot, usually weilding several gold apeice and armor as well. Also the occasional bronze weapon or rare peice of fine steel. The armor they drop is netted, woven, and mesh in order of worst to best. Mesh and woven sells in stores for a plat or so apeice or more to a player (monks love it). Also, netted/woven/mesh is all magical including the gloves (monks need magic gloves to punch magic critters, unfortunately there is no such thing as boots).

The best thing about this camp is noone is ever there. Everyone around level 20 seems to be afraid of guk for some reason, do it right and you can brag about how you solo there. If its too tough for ya, get a partner or maybe 2 friends... you can do it! Once you learn the spawns and the fine art of pulling here its easy =). Good luck to anyone who plans on tackling guk, I hope my strategies work as well for you as they have for me.