a grimling chieftain  

-2800, -620

southern-most grimling village, highest tent on the hill

Thougt id share what little info ive got on the Chieftain. Ive camped him twice so far, once with a 60 Wizzie back when I was around lvl 25 and now im back there again to get some stuff to twink my alts with. Smudging Stick is definitely, hands down the rarest of the drops. Next to that, would probably be the Staff of Living Sands. I'm not sure about pestle and any of the other drops, I haven't even seen a piece of acrylia drop off him yet. But enough, heres the info on the Chieftain himself.
First off, he runs on about an 8 min spawn time. His Bodyguards run a little shorter, more around a 6-7 min timer. Take the bodyguards out first. Chieftain himself is perma-rooted and will not move. Easiest way I found to attack him is to move just up to (but not all the way) the tip of the ladder. Dont go all the way up and the spiritists wont attack you, they'll only sit there and heal the Chief. If you can hit hard enough and fast enough, you should be able to take him down even with the heals. If your not hitting hard enough or quick enough, its best to take out the spiritists first, otherwise your in for a long and painfull fight. Not sure on his HP amount, but I will try and check it out and give a few estimates. Also, watch for Grimling Defenders after you loot. They spawn after you kill chieftain now that war is back up and running and con LB to me at 40. Im pretty sure they summon, just havent gotten close enough to find out. (Dont want to either) The Defenders are also perma-rooted and will take out the enraged owlbears that spawn to start the war. Easiest thing to do is just let them kill the bears and then despawn. I'll add a lil more info on drop rates and the like later after Ive solod (or tried to) him a bit more.

Edited, Thu Jul 10 13:22:17 2003

No one here has said this guy summons..if they have I have missed it in the stack of posts.

I tried to kill this guy with my 52 druid and I only got Snare and Root on him and he started summoning me. Snare and root have no damage that ticks when the spell timer ticks down...Normally mobs summon when someone has either done too much damage with nukes or has dotted them up good and they summon when the dots tick...Everytime I got away from him he summoned me back. If I hadn't gated away he would have killed me with his "Sinking Sands" or what ever it was.

Killed him the other day with my lvl 39 Iksar Beastlord. Wanted to get the Sonic wolves winning again cuz they finally fixed the war bug. Pretty easy with my pet killing every thing in sight untill I got chain quicksanded when i was far away. pet wouldn't attack so i guess he got quicksanded aswell but I kept telling him to attack to interupt the spells. He gets there and starts kicking this guys *** even when the others are joining in. Basically all of this zone is an under con so thier hitting my pet pretty hard when the others join in so I throw in a pet heal. Almost a CH nice!!!!! Quicksand and the root they gave me finally wares off and i join the battle basically tanking for my pet and adding in nice blows myself. The cheif would have died sooner had I controled my pet better though, he kept changing targets. But this guy falls and I kill everything helping him and begin to loot. My pets not so great on life anymore about 35% and someone trys to cast a spell on me but I didn't notice and my pet runs off to kill him. I guess since I was looting (you know how it is when you sit or loot) and I guess everything left from the other 2 tents agro'd on my pet and killed in to time flat cuz the buffs on him wore off. So I loot and scoot but my SoW fades (GREAT time for that to happen) and once again I'm rooted then ganged buy I don't know maybe 10 grimmling while im at 40% life. So I accept my death and come back to kill then all again, this time with more strategy Bwah ha ha ha ha run suckers run. But the Cheiften dropped 2 large blocks of Acrylia which I gladly looted. Revenge is great exspecially if their the ones that started it. Stupid quicksand lol.

First off the chieftain is a 12 minute spawn. Second, he never moves making him lots of fun to camp unlike the rest of his friends who run like mad for the healers if given a chance. Thrid, a 44 cleric and a 48 warrior can hold the camp without any problems at all. Forth, you get a great view of the battle between the grimling defenders, the sonic wolves, and the owlbears. (Be warned the grimiling defenders will summon you if you get too close.) After killing him 23 times we got: 2 staves of living sands, 1 ceremonial smudging stick, 1 ornate shell pestle, 1 sm brick of acrylia, 5 sm pieces of acrylia, 1 block of acrylia, and 2 large bricks of acrylia. Also got a bunch of runes as he drops one almost every single time.


-Kurasch 48 Barbarian Warrior
-The Rathe Server

Yea.. My druid picked up one of those Grimling Staffs... I guess it's no good for him? especially since it's no drop

oh well.. I'll keep it in the bank till I know for sure.

MY warrior was killing the chief when he hit 23. BUT.. with my other acct.. my 40 druid was backing him up :)

Found this off the chieftian the other day. Looks like a dark wood with a yellow skull head and is Lore/No Drop.
Does anyone know what this might be for?

Could a 49 Rogue jold camp. Decent hp and ac - 850ac+ 1500hp or so. Have healing BP, with 90hp a tic. (casting time)

I'm a 36 druid and this guy is an impossible kill for me, his resists must be through the roof, harmonied at fm, started nuking and went oom before he had lost a quarter of his HP. Will go back with C3 once I can get it and try then, but for any casters looking to camp this guy, I would bring an enchanter with you to debuff because this guy is ridiculous

I'm a 31 druid doing this guy right now (solo). I harmonied him and started nuking away with Combumst...bad idea. This dude is extremely resistant! Then, a spiritalist started healing him..it was pretty much over. I retreated and saved my hide with about 40hp left. I have 200 wisdom on the dot, and about +350 mana from items (+mana attribute), pretty well twinked. I started with 60m since I nuked his body gaurds to death where they stood before causing any issues. Then I tried the same with him, as I've already said, bad idea. I'm remeding to try again. This time, I'm harmonying the cheif, DoTing him with Creeping Crud (even though he resisted it once last time) and firing away with the level 19 nuke Careless Lighting rather than the level 29 Combust. Carelesss Lighting is generally harder to resist and started working pretty well toward the end when I tried it. Nice thing about tons of mana? No meding for a while. Bad thing about tons of mana? Meding forever when OOM. Well, going to med to full (so God help me) and try him again. The spiritalists didn't heal until haronmy wore off last time. He cons yellow and has lots of help, so you'll, once you read this, I'll most likely have won...or lost...this battle. I'll try to remember to post and RE on how it went!

Til then, "me so cute and huggable =)"

I camped this guy with 2 other guildies today for about 6 hrs. 1st we got enough runes to supply the Luclin spell research community for a lifetime. 2nd We did however get some good stuff. Out of 6 hrs camping time we got 3 Ornate Shell Pestles, 1 Ceremonial Smudge Stick, and 1 Skull Shaped Sacrificial Hammer. I got the ceremonial smudge stick and one of the pestles. LUCKY ME! WOOT! So basicly unless you are prepared to camp this guy for a very LONG time dont count on getting any of the good stuff.

Just camped him for 10 spawns..can you say boring?
On 6 got the skull hammer and on 9 got the bowl.
Not so great for over 3 hours camping.

IMO the rate of drop on these items doesnt warrant the amout of time needed to obtain them.