Grizznot  

Confirmed he does spawn at +465, +330. This is the room before entering the area under the bridge when entering from the city.

To get to this spot, drop off first bridge in from Thurgadin and zone into Icewell Keep, then fight your way all the way north as there are a mixture of mobs that can and can't see through invisibility.

When you come to the first and only turn, keep going north (right). The correct room is at the loc provided above. There are 3 "a Coldain skeleton" which spawn next to him or his PH (two on the right, one on the left). There is an untargetable pile of bones before entering the room, I've found this pile of bones a safe spot to camp on while you wait for respawns.

His PH is the single "an avalanche golem " in the middle. The skeletons will likely agro when you engage. Keep them killed if you feel like it, but they have a faster respawn time (21 minutes 30 seconds) than the PH (48 minutes and 13 seconds).

Summons and runs at low HP.

Just solo'd this dude with my 70 druid. Fight lasted a while, he has quite a few HP. Needed to heal myself several times, plus have a weapon that procs group heal. Self buffed, with 53 chanter haste (who came along to leech XP, the chanter died during 3rd ramp), druid rezzed him before the kill so he could get xp.

Dropped Intricate Defiant Silk pants, Crushed Emerald, Crushed Black Marble, Exquisite Gold Gem Dusted Rune, and the "Why am I going to even waste my time with tributing this cloak?" cloak.

This thing was somehow slashing (MELEE) me from absurd distances...I was so far away I couldn't cast on him, or my pet, and even took off around several turns, yet he was still slashing me, from what would be a distance of 100 YARDS or more in real life. This is while it was meleeing with my pet in one spot. Absurd. LB to me, yet destroyed me.

Good ol' beastie.

We had two small incomplete groups - both highend and good AAs. This warrior took it to us and gave us a rousing battle he did. He do have me respect he does. Me blade do salute Grizznot.

He did kill our monk who aggroed him - then because t'Gods did see fit t'battle him in t'tunnels wit us we could no hit him so we had to evac to Icewell itself. Well then we climbed up to t'very top and lept we did right down t'well and took it to t'mobs tha t'king did put thar.

After tha we did pull ol' Grizz inta t'large expanse tha t'skeles used t'sleep in an he did knock me an anoter Paladin about fer a spell. Grizznot did finally fall - a sad day Ah must say.

Tis not t'loot - tis t'battle mates. Go have fun in Icewell caverns. Don be so damme greedy all t'time. Ye will miss t'sport an beauty o swingin a weapon again' a brave foe.

Sir Ruhr Steelbreaker
64th rank Paladin o Holy Brell
Crusader o Mystic Blades of Honor

whats with the Grizznot and grizzleknot names and all that? you know Grizzleknot the treeant... is that like a shuffle of a programers name or something? I dont get it... grizznot gizzleknot... maybe it is part of a quest? you bring the bear cloak to the long lost brother of the badger...thing... a treeant... who then... um... does stuff thats good... and EQ then ends for all players?

As the pic shows: in his natural habitat... he eats monks.

Edited, Wed Jan 8 19:27:05 2003

I recently had the misfortune to fall down the well in the Dain's room. Never having been there before, I was unaware of the trap. I was lucky enough to be able to Feign Death my entire way from the well to the zone back into Thurgadin. Just thought I'd share a short excerpt from my log file during that journey:

*---
Grizznot scowls at you, ready to attack -- what would you like your tombstone to say?
Grizznot gores YOU for 150 points of damage.
You are stunned!
Grizznot kicks YOU for 111 points of damage.
Grizznot gores YOU for 239 points of damage.
Grizznot goes on a RAMPAGE!
You are stunned!
Grizznot kicks YOU for 114 points of damage.
Grizznot gores YOU for 249 points of damage.
Grizznot goes on a RAMPAGE!
Grizznot bashes YOU for 111 points of damage.
You are slammed by Grizznots mighty SMASH!
You are unstunned.
Grizznot regards you indifferently -- what would you like your tombstone to say?
*---

Grizznot's mighty smash knocked me backwards about 10 feet into a wall. I have no idea how far I would have gone if that wall had not been there. As for wanting to know what he looks like, I submitted a picture just now. Perhaps it will make it to this page.

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Taqmar Tenkay
53rd Monk of the Ashen Order
Knights of Force, Veeshan server

we just killed him. he dropped that cloak..and a crushed topaz...but he DID not have ANY faction associated with him

If you see this guys drops you will understand why he isn't worth it. It took us for parties of primarily 53+ and we dropped him. We had 5 clerics which helped, but he still left half our people dead, and several frostspikes walked in which we had to kill after the fight with diminished stregnth and numbers as well as a few other skellies, golems, and cubes that were mezzed. Hits for 300, and spends 75% of the fight on a rampage. When we initially attacked him I saw "Grizznot goes on a Rampage" 4 times in 10 seconds, and about every 5 seconds after that. If you are the lucky chanter that gets to tash him or shaman that slows him, be ready to get summoned and die.

Xushni, 53 Mage
Prexus

This bear was one mean dude...

We worked our way to his cave with a raiding team of about 22 people, average level 52ish.

I (a 52 shaman) burned my whole bar of mana and he resisted everything I threw at him (mostly Turgurs). A 52 druid said he got one through... but I did not ask what specifically.

Anyway... the tally was (I think) 13 dead, 9 evac... didn't even get the bear half-way dead.

Approach only well prepared with greatest caution.

I heard there was a large beaver in here. Is this him?