Crookstinger  

before we had all these achievements i would constantly get attacked by it while camping the 3 bandits near the pixies. so i decided to set up shop and wait. amazingly, it still works. i stood on the hill and just spammed the dervs and anything within spell range. took maybe 30 minutes

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After killing all the wasps I could find, I seen him spawn. He was sitting and not roaming at this spot. No where near the dot on my map. Loc was 437, -1042. Hope this helps.

Spawned twice in under 10 mins last night. First time I've ever seen this mob on track in the 6 years I've played. Got Crookstinger dagger the first time and the poison the second time. I was hunting brownies and orcs at the time, I didn't kill any named mobs. Luclin server.

Really hard spawn. I've spent between 1-5 hours per night for 14 days now. No sign of him. Using the ranger at L34 with Tracking 175. (175 * 17 = 2975, so standing in the center of the zone, I can easily see into all 4 corners and see ever mob in the zone.)

I've killed ever wasp, spider, skelly, mummy, orc in the zone, as fast as I can track and get to them. I've easily wiped all wasps in the zone a dozen times. Nothing . . .

I haven't been killing anything else, since most other things have faction hits. (Well the orc's do too, but I didn't care about them.) So I'm assuming something else needs to die to cause the spawn.

I would note . . . whenever I track to a wasp . . . a Fae Drake is 99% of the time flying near the wasp.

I've killed the series of rare/oddities (like the spider queen, forget her name) and Mina Glimmerwing, and the 1-2 lone Mist Wolf's (since they seem out of place in the zone). All the spiders in the zone are Giant's except for 2, the spiderling's that spawn inside the brownie fort. I've killed them too many times.

About the only things I can't kill are the red brownies and Equestrelle the Corrupt.

Don't know. Guess I'll start killing Fae Drakes and hope the faction hit isn't a mistake later on. . . for now this clearly isn't enough to trigger the spawn.

Losing hope . . . someone throw us a clue . . .

[01/17/2006] update: Ok day (what it it now, 16?) and he finally spawned. I was at 760,960 (basically dead center of main zone) practicing sneak/hide/conj. And "pop" there he was. Popped VERY close to me (so close to dead center of the zone.) Killed him easy with 34 Ranger but . . . only poison and stalk, no dagger. . . so the search continues . . .

I believe I can confirm . . . once you've killed all the wasps as fast as a ranger can track/sow to them. The zone will fill with other trash mobs (spiders/roaming skellys/roaming orcs/. . .) and no more wasps will spawn when its "full". So kill the trash to get more wasps to spawn.

Either . . . Crookstinger is just a random spawn of the wasp group.

Or. . . he's one of several roaming named (like the spider Queen or Mina Glimmerwing.) Don't think Crook is related to Thistle Underbrush, as he seems to spawn to frequently.

More later if I figure out a pattern for sure.

Tnx

Angrick/Heleria/Legilie/Baylok of Povar

(Followup message. Got one after about 18 days. It is nice for the Rogue, Serrated Bone Dirk and This to slow/him, then switch to dmg dealer pair of piercers. Nothing conclusive on spawning him. But I'm relatively sure if you kill all wasps, you reach a point when zone fills with other mobs. And no more wasps can spawn. So start killing spiders and random low stuff to give them room. No other suggestions. . . good luck.)

Edited, Thu Mar 2 23:07:14 2006

i found him about a hour ago, or should i say he found me? he was near the zone line going to gf when i was comming along. he jumped me and i pounded him into the ground quite quickly (he attacked a level 33 ranger) i got the posion and i thought it was pretty good considering i wasn't even looking for him. wish i got the dagger though... that would be on my rouge...

Okay... if i drag my ranger out hunting to get this sucker how many nights RL will i spend in lesser FD trying to get it? Does this little ****** spawn alot?

Plz Plz give me a tell if you have the dagger. I would love it for my rogue duel weilding it with a dragoon dagger. So if you have on and want to sell it i would happily buy it.

Just send a tell to Sneakizfeetz.
A lvl 9 dwarven rogue

I was hunting Thistle Underbrush to get Braided Ivy Cords the other week. (I got cords!)

Anyway Crookstinger came on track so I nuked him dead and he dropped the poison.

What does Feeblemind I do?

I am guessing it would make the target stupid (really low int/wis) and therefore might be useful against casters?

However since NPC casters have infinite mana - not sure how much lowering int/wis will help.

Am saving it as a nasty surprise for my monk to spring on a caster in a PVP arena duel :)

Brack

I was attacked by this guy as I was leaving the WoodElf Ranger-station. He was a pretty easy kill for my level-10 ranger. I got Crookstinger venom off of him. A merchant in Kelethin offerd me a Platinum or two for it, but I haven't sold it just yet.

Is the venom useful for any quests, or should I just sell or use it?

Well I ran into thios little fellow walking through LFay. Killing Wasps sentinals it not what attracts him--he hates everybody. He attacked me, a 14 lvl paladin. Stupid bee.

I hunt giant spiders in northeastern Lesser Faydark, (for their silk), but they can be pretty tough for me, a level 8 enchanter. I had just engaged one when Crookstinger attacked me. Outnumbered, I ran back to Steamfont Mtns. I had been killing Wasp Sentinals as well, (for royal jelly, in order to make honey mead), and I assume that's why I was attacked. I've only seen Crookstinger the once, though.