Sir Hobble  

it seems like Sir Hobble / Squire Fuzzmin's behavior has changed over the years. i have been trying to locate these two guys for a couple of days now to turn in my dragon scales. tried speaking to the barbarian chick and the ogre in the outpost, waited 18min, 30min, an hour, nothing. did this half a dozen times. finally just decided to hang out in the outpost with track up. finally Sir Hobble popped East / NE of the outpost.

I ran out to him and Squire was already walking with him. hailed both, neither would stop. tried root and snare, but got a message that neither spells could be cast on either of them (never saw that before). so i just walked with them as I handed in the scales to Squire and voila, Wurmslayer.

i decided to follow them, they were headed straight west towards DL. as they walked west they pathed through countless drachnids and surprisingly neither Hobble, Fuzz or the spiders seemed to care that the other was there. eventually they made it to the tunnel, walk about halfway in and stopped at +95, +4667, -149

after a short pause, they turned around and went back out the way they came. again, walking through spiders, frogloks and goblins without any issue. eventually they walked far enough east and stopped at -365, -521, +33.56, just south of the drolvarg fort (kind of small to be a fort) - i think this may be where he spawned when i first saw him on track, although by the time i ran out to meet him (from outpost) he had made his way a little more west than that location.

again after a short pause they turned around and headed west to the tunnel, walked in and this time paused a little bit before halfway then turned around and back east they went. at this point i was bored and left. the point of all this is that they did not spawn anywhere near the "brown pit" up north, nor were they near the drolvargs, nor did Hobble start attacking mobs left and right.

saw him right outside the tunnel, just as 4 spiders decided to make a snack out of him, he lasted about 30 secs, just long enough for me to run up and see him die. Grrrrr, no wonder no one has the Wurmslayer ;)

Hailed Lenka with my druid with 125 tracking skill, then tried to see if Sir Hobble or his squire was on track. Nada. So I ran around the west side of the zone. Zip.

I gave up after 3 hours. Anybody got a sure way to find him?

Just wanted to let you guys know that a week ago I was running back from the DL to PoK book when I got jumped by this gentlemen. He had the squire with him and immediatly attacked me (iksar monk). He has a pretty funny line when attacking, something to the tune of "Sir Hobble begins to move towards you, his bones creak more then his armor." Just thought it may be a little reassuring to know he's still out there picking on evil races :(

I am having similar difficulty in finding Sir Hobble. Myself with 100 Tracking and Selos couldn't find him. A friend of mine who can run twice as fast canvased the entire zone while I repeatedly talked to Lenka couldn't find him. Another friend who can Track half the zone at once couldn't find him.

I submitted it as a bug, but am now wondering if he's been changed to a Trigger AND a Timer?

I spoke to Lenka and went north and tried my tracking (125)... No Sir Hobble...
I tried this 20 times... still no Sir Hobble...
I went east 2 of the times... No Sir Hobble...
I'm beginning to believe he doesn't exist, but then again, I might just be DAMN unlucky

Has anyone seen Sir Hobble, or Squire Fuzzmin for that matter, recently? I have spent several days off and on trying to locate either. I have read the various posts suggesting that if you speak to Lenka, you can get Sir Hobble to spawn. If you say "show me something interesting" she will NOT acknowledge you. If you say "I want to see something interesting" she will.

I have tried both lines and still no success. I have had various Bards, Druids, and Rangers look for these two, but so far nothing still.

If anyone has recently completed the quest and can point out what I am missing or doing wrong I would appreciate it if you could post a response. I will continue to check and let you know if my luck changes.


Edited, Sun Oct 27 01:55:33 2002

I had the pleasure of tracking Sir Hobble over about a six hour period tonight. Trigger him by saying "show me something interesting" to Lenka Stoutheart. She is located in the same building as the brew barrel.

IMMEDIATELY start tracking for Sir Hobble. Of the five or six times I triggered him, I always found him somewhere near the trail that parallels the river from FV to LIO, so focus on that area.

For some reason, he wants to try to kill every spider he sees. As said before, he can handle one or two, but when he gets swarmed by five or six, it's all over. Clearing the area of spiders before triggering him seemed to help quite a bit. You don't need to kill the spiders yourself, just pull them to the drixie's and pilgrims and let them do the work.

After hailing Sir Hobble, the squire will be along shortly. If you time your movements to match his, you should have no problems turning in the scales while on the move.

G'luck to ye!

is it me or does he look like he only has one leg

There is an NPC in Fironia Vie (in the the Bar/Brewery with Frothy and Lenka Stoutheart) that if hailed will get Sir Hobble to spawn... Can anybody remind me of the NPC's name?