Lord Elgnub  

19 necro and 17 warrior tried to take him accidently. heh heh He is an SK! Harmtouched the war right off the bat and dot'ed too.

cleared the commander room and he spawned in less than five minutes.

With my ranger ive looking for this guy forever. Hes never there when i look. Today I entered the zone, checked track and he was there. Noone else was in the zone. I ran to the pit to kill him but when i got there... HE WAS GONE! Checked tracking again and nothing. Whats going on with this guy and what is his spawn / despawn time?

There are no "Fabled" monsters here during the 5th Anniversary GM Events? Any word if Lord Elgnub is Fabled?

I do think Lord Elgnub may spawn as a result of talking to Marton Sayer about the Gnoll Slayer. I had been trying to get Lord Elgnub to pop. I waited around the snake pit in BB. I cleared the near by rooms and waited some more. I tried again the next day, still nothing. I decided to talk to Sayer and went back to the snake pit. Within 15 minutes Lord Elgnub popped. Might be coincidence, but worked for me.

does anybody think that this is a good quest i cant get the book or the eye has anybody else?

I have only ever seen him spawn at midnight EQ time. Many times he spawned at 12:00 and then people have said he spawned again after I left. Just today I logged on in the pit at 4AM so my friend could get the gnoll slayer. We kept killing everything in the area so he would spawn, didn't seem to do anything because a long while later at midnight, he spawned.

He spawns in the spike pits. I cleared to rooms connected to it, and went back, and he was there. Maybe I got lucky, maybe I didn't.

Then, when he got below 50%, he ran. Through the door at the bottom of the pit. The one that cannot be opened. NOO !!!

A few OOC's and running around the zone, I caught up to him near the Jagged Pine stone.

Just a word of warning. Do not let him run.

I cleared both the lower room below. Entry is doorway below the plankway.This room has 3-5 to gnolls, usually a gnolls and patrolling gnolls
and the gnoll commander room where the gnoll refugee spawns at.Lord Elgnub spawns in the spike floor room about 7-10mins after rooms are cleared but one time took 3 clearings to get him to spawn so am sure if this mattered or not. He conned yellow to my 22 ranger.
Map for Black Burrow can be found here at http://www/eqatlas.com/blackburrow.html

53 Barbarian Warrior
Champion of Rallos Zek
Guardian of the Spirits

i was PLing my bubby for about an hour and this guy poped up twice and i was well awary of who he was having haised all of my 4 alts and me all in BB i kinda had it down. So my buddy is a lvl 9 at the time so i tell him to stay back (fearing that he would get harm touched) so i root him for 88, then i nuke him 2 times for 286 each and he is at very low health so another 88dmg root finished him off so all that is only 748 so in another 15 mins i let my budy try it and i have to say the Lord is by far impredictable. At 50% re ran and of corse the newbie runs right after forgeting that his damage sheild is what is killing the thing and bam next thing i know i have the luxary of watching Refugee Splitpaw healing Lord while the newbie has about 7 things all attacing him mostly gaurdsmen and elites. And well at this point im oom and i have then all attacking me even lord who hit me for anastounding 43 multiple times. Wel long storie short i had one nuke to kill off Refugee and then i rooted Lord and let his agression kill him on my buddys DS. Ok sorry /newbie rant off. Now its time to spend my money buying him stuff yippie. But in the end he goat the XP from Lord and he got the baby but now how does his SK butt turn it in ohh well. thats my 2cp and rant see ya.

I was in my low 40's when I went hunting here with a monk guildmate of mine (messed up one of his headband quests, so had to start over, and hunt gnolls). We were going around killing gnolls (being careful to only go where there weren't any groups camping, so we weren't KS'ing), when I see this guy on track. Since I've done the quest already for the intermediate sword, he and I downed this guy (as partially a favor to the groups in their teens trying to hunt the area), and let someone loot (could have asked for money for loot rights, but didn't bother). Ok...the Lord's dead, so we go back to whacking gnolls in a different part of the place. Where it is said that the PH's are, or mobs to force spawn, they were still up, so I am thinking now that he is a random spawn with no PH. Anyways, we are hunting when I get this tell from someone in the snake pit area asking for us to rid him. I tell my guildmate that, and we're both like, "What's going on here?" My whole time camping Blackburrow, sometimes several hours at a time, I hadn't seen him spawn once (except the one time for my sword at level 33), let alone twice in one night. The fact that it was within 10 min. of spawns got me thinking. Also, another strange fact: when I was level 33 and solo'd him, he never cast on me (or HT'd) at all; however, at low 40's, he HT'd me both times with my level 50 monk guildie there.

Strange gnoll....

I obtained Gnoll Slayer today, and I agree that he has to be a triggered spawn and that killing something is not necessary to spawn him. After speaking with Marton Sayer, I went directly to the Snake Pit, waited about 30 minutes, and he popped right in front of the door at the bottom of the pit.

I am an untwinked, level 29 Warrior (hell, I am still using the Warsword of the Battlemaster and the Packmaster's Lash), and he was an easy kill.

Did him yesterday, enchanter buffed me with magic resist, his HT didn't land once. After he tried that 5 times, i think he was out of mana. Then he started melee, he hit me in total about 6 times, 30 each. No pet. In short, didnt have any problems killing him. But the chanter buff helped a lot i think... He dropped the baby, a one hand staff and some words..

Did hail Sayer, just to be sure, Elgnub popped about half an hour later, but someone told me he also popped an hour before i entered BB, so I can't confirm he's triggered or not... Saw him up a lot back then when i hunted BB in early teens.. But if you want him, go hail Sayer anyway, just to be sure.

If you're bored waiting, just kill some gnolls and buff noobs or help them break a room, it's all so very green in there now (remember my early teens when it all was blue, yellow and red, gnolls kicking my butt), time for revenge, lol.

Ran back to Sayer, got the intermed. version of the gnoll slayer. To bad it doesn't have cool looks, but i will be going after the end version, primarily because of the gnolls threathening surefall and jaggedpine, secondary because of the super cool pet it gives.

I even think i will try and keep getting this, even when i'm at lvl whatever so high, just for the pet (yes, i have always wanted a doggy, lol, and no, my parents never gave me one when i was a kid, lol)

[EDIT] Killed him 3 times in a row today (12th of november 2002), just plain old me without any help. He is on a spawncycle, not triggerd, saw him 5 times on track (of which i killed him 3 times) and let the peeps camping greenroom have the baby. They cheered, i buffed them, lol.

Terrat Windbane
30th lvl Half-Elf Karana Ranger
<Shadow Fighters>
Ant. Bayle server

Edited, Tue Nov 12 19:32:29 2002