Reeking Skunk  

This is incorrectly marked as Original for the expansion. Oakwynd is currently on Planes of Power and I can confirm he does not spawn yet. The PHs for him don't spawn, just the regular trash mobs zone-wide and other skunks don't seem to be guaranteed spawns from any of them. Tracked with a ranger while I hunted down every skunk in the zone for 30 minutes.

As near as I could tell from watching track while looking for this skunk, there are 2 "a skunk" that continuously spawn every 15 to 30 seconds. After you kill the last skunk, watch track. Another "a skunk" will appear about 10 to 20 seconds later. If you don't go kill that one, another will pop in about 30 seconds. The only time I saw this NOT occur, was when the Reeking popped instead of the "a skunk". I killed every " a skunk" on track until I got these 2 up, then just kept killing them until the Reeking finally spawned. Was way easier to get this guy than the Gorilla or the Kobold. Each of them took just over 2 hours each. This one, I got 2 Reeking Skunks in about 30 minutes.

On the north side of the river in Toxx kill any/all skunks, when you find "a skunk" that respawns in about 8 seconds you've found the PH, I saw "a large skunk" once shortly before I locked in on the 8 second spawn so he is probably part of the cycle a skunk/a large skunk/Reeking Skunk!

Enjoy

I followed Luthair's post for this, basically:

Run to the northern section of Toxx and stay north of the river (the Erudin newbie area) and kill all (and only) "a skunk" on track.

After awhile only 1 "a skunk" will be up, which once killed will respawn every 15-20 seconds or so at different locations, I found it at the following:

228.44, -782.83, 84.21
1125.97, -376.60, 100.30
357.01, -87.39, 59.78
1060.32, -153.46, 92.83
1483.46, -801.77, 73.36
1139.59, -976.43, 111.94

Finally, after about an hour camping the 15 second "a skunk", the reeking spawned, which I found wandering at:
1356.12, -406.19, 90.92

I did try slaughtering everything around the PoK book and the druid rings for awhile but Luthair's approach appeared to work, unless the NPC guards killed the other PH for me.

Edited, Dec 17th 2010 5:49pm by Tetras

Killed nothing but "a skunk" for about 10 min and got Reeking Skunk to spawn in the central part of the zone.

If you happen to be the only person in the zone, using a tracker only kill 'a skunk' (or 'a large skunk' if you see one, I didn't), they share a table with other animals so shortly only one will be up. The PH is (in my experience) always 'a skunk' with a respawn of 15-20 seconds.

Ok I have to agree, I stopped killing skunks and killed everything but skunks, and with in 45 minutes I had the Reeking Skunk Pop, never saw a large skunk. This was after 3 different sessions of an hour+ of killing skunks. I just worked the North East area around PoK book to Eurdine, the Reeking seem to spawn South of the Eurdin zone in. I had my ranger just bow mobs and I went target kill target kill, everything but skunks. Seem to be the best way to get this thing to pop. Hope this helps.

Ok, well from what I can tell, killing skunks PROBABLY spawns him, but the first time i killed him, he spawned a skelly, second time, a spiderling. I dunno. Skunks are random from anything, and they must be in the zone; he must spawn from a skunk... i guess

/cons indif to my agnostic erudite chanter

Just did him for my baby Berserker's epic with a 53 Bard. Low HP, doesn't summon, very easy mob.

Edited, Tue May 31 14:57:40 2005

Found between Emil and druid ring. Conned DB to my 56 Ogre Berserker and indifferent. I had just lost virtue and had 3700 hp and 1100 AC. I used Edge of Envelopement and attacked. Stunned with Head Strike and Frenzied. I had 29 percent health when skunk died. I used my hit every time disc and Battle Cry. Harder than Gnashing Kobold but no problem. Dropped my epic piece Scent Gland. Total time in Toxx was about 10 minutes. Fight about 2 minutes.

Edited, Sun May 15 20:23:56 2005

Conned dubious to my 52 barb warrior, was hittin too hard so i jokingly shouted "train to erudin" even though he (**the skunk) is not kos to players. a 65 chanter happened to be there, and of course most people go stark raving mad when they see a named mob, so i zoned in and out of erudin to clear aggro, and there's the skunk wailing on the chanter while she was desperately trying to nuke it to death, most likely drooling in jittery anticipation at the phat lootz she thought she was going to nab. the mob and the enc's health stayed about equal, and i think the chanter actually won with 4% health. I briefly considered helping but figured the bloodthirsty freak would petition and spread bad word about me, so i just sat and watched lol i wish i could have witnessed IRL her reaction to the spoils of her victory =)

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Edited, Wed Jul 28 04:45:16 2004

Logged in my 50 druid. And there he was standing by the merchant's hut. He was huge. For a moment I thought he was a ROUS (Rodent of unusual size), like when the wolves were all huge all over Norath. Nope, he was named. I was geared for 222 wisdom (with my sleeves). Hes not exactly an easy fight for a 50 druid, or maybe I play wrong? I was sowed and skinned. I first tried snare, silly me. Immune to snare and root. ok. Ran around like an idiot. What makes him paticularly nasty is he would get to me before any spells finnished. The only dot that landed before he got to me was immoliate. I had full mana before this. I dotted the hell out of him. The final sliver I had of mana for the last DoT, went instead to a very nervous SoW. At one point, I ran away to memorize 'terrorize animal'. I think I ran far enough to lose agro. He started gaining life fast. Tracked him down. dotted, and so on. By the end I had about 23% health and 2% mana. He was just very persistant. Chased me to the end, and perma sow'ed. He never slowed down. He is not an 'animal' I guess hes a freaking Monster!

I am still a bit new to what my druid can do at times. As long as its not a caster and my spells land, I am still amazed. I actually was teased by some when I exclaimed I had killed him? He was not full on easy. Id assume resistant to slow from what I read here, and maybe fear? He resisted my 'lightning blast' also.

I too felt bad learning he was for Zerker epic, after looting the gland.