Druushk's Dilemma  

I was curious if this particular quest could be multi'quested as there are no containers requiring a combine. I got very fustrated tring to get a final skull and decided to give it a go. I box a Necro / Cleric and had the arm and jaw on necro, skull on cleric. I hailed with both toons and did the text to ensure both had high enough ally faction RoS to get the quest. I then turned in skull from cleric and arm / jaw from necro. Needless to say, Multi-quest on this particular quest WORKS, grats my necro Reptikon with Amice of skywings.

I set up camp exactly where most of the posters here did: the room past the golems just outside the ressurectionists. This room has a hand full of spawn points for skeletons and chokidai, and 4 spawn points for sarnak.

A SK friend and I kept the entire thing clear. In the space of about 3 or 4 hours we got 3 jaws and one arm. The jaws only dropped from iksar skeletons and the arms only dropped from ferocious chokidais. After my friend left I (a druid) returned and just camped the 4 sarnak spawns. They don't hit super hard, so I just tanked them and let the damage shield do it's job. I spent about 3 more hours (in addition to what I spent previously) just killing these 4. The skull finally dropped from a shai`din scythemaster, so I can confim that they do drop it.

All this happened recently, I got the skull early morning 11/7/04.

So in closing, to answer some of the questions, yes the room outside the castle near the rezzers does still drop pieces, yes scythemasters do drop skulls, and yes, the skull seems to be much rarer than the other 2.

-Doggen

Edited, Mon Nov 8 11:36:32 2004

Doing the northwest camp today for 4hours had 4 skulls drop, 1 jaw, 1 arm. Had the skulls drop from the room just past the 2 massive constructs at the top of stairs (3 in first room past them and 1 from 2nd room past them). Pulled skelle and chokidais from iz and up into the north west room while at camp cant remeber if arm came from iz side or what but its easy camp for group of friends willing to help or even work on quest.

This camp is really not that bad if you work it correctly. The camp that you want to work is in to the right of zone and right again.

You will see two golems in front of a door.

In this room and the one further in, all the mobs that can spawn there which aren't on parts of the buildings you see (not sarnaks or golems), can spawn as "an iksar skeleton" or "a ferocious chokidai" and the live graphic sarnaks can all drop the piece that they drop.

As for camping this as a beastlord, one thing you can do if necessary is use pet pulling strats with your normal warder suspended and a low level pet to split the mobs. The other trick to this camp is proximity pulling in the larger area with several spawn spots for the chokidais and skeletons. While all the mobs in that area are fairly close to one another their aggro range is tiny, so you can proximity pull to a ways away where you've already cleared other mobs in order to fight them single.

All told I think it took me about eight hours of work here to get all three pieces, decent aa, lots of trash loot for tribute or to sell as you please. The added bonus for folks who don't happen to be ally to sarnaks, are the positive sarnak faction hits. Sorry if this is a bit rambling.

YOu have to kill near the castle the caves before the castle you will get NOTHING. If you go through the castle to the other side you will find Iksar skeletons Ferocious CHokadia and Overseers. Its a long boring camp for how many kills you have to do to get a drop.
Took 1 hour killing ferocious to get a drop.
You have to kil the right mobs if you dont you wont get a drop ever! The drops where changed as of last patch it seems.
Tib

Edited, Thu Aug 26 03:52:59 2004

I have spent about 8 hours total here today, ranging from camp to camp but mostly in the back area beyond the bridge... Not one single drop of anything in about 300 mobs... not one.. although few sarnak model mobs were killed and not all 300 were the droppers.

As of the 8/11/2004 patch the light source element of these drops is either broken or has been removed.

After clearing the west room near castle entrance we pulled a few domesticated chokadai's. One of these was obviously glowing, so we assumed the drops had been expanded to additional mobs. Unfortunately, the chokadai dropped only a jagged chokadai spine(?). This isn't a drop that has been a light source in the past. Several minutes later, a rabid chokadai spawned that was also glowing. His loot was the FT2 necklace, and nothing more. Again, not a drop that has been a light source in the past. Next, we were very puzzled when a non-glowing mob dropped Druushk's Assistant's Arm.

The oddities didn't end there. The final head-scratcher was when a second FT2 necklace dropped from a rabid that was NOT glowing. This is the same drop that was a light source on the previous rabid. It isn't a case of simply not seeing the light source. The exact same account puzzled 2 others that were with me in that they both saw/didn't see the light sources on the mobs I mentioned.

It appears that the latest patch has hosed up some light sources, and I'd be interested to hear if anyone else is experiencing the same thing at other VP quest drop camps.

I got my items from the following

Iksar Skeleton
Ferocious Chokidai
Shai'Din Overseer

Oddly enought, all of the items dropped w/in a few feet of the area near the 'resurrectionists', right out side the castle. The Iksar and Chokidia spawned at the exact same spawn point (on the wall of the cave between the stairs to the castle and the stairs to the resurrectionist platform) while the Overseer spawned on the patio outside the resurrectionist room.

My staregy was to clear from zone in. First I cleared the left dead end cave, then I cleard to resurrectionist. By the time i did that, zone in respawn was restarting. One time I thought i might be in the wrong area, so i cleared from zone in over the golem bridge and down to the end of the skele caves. RNG hated me down there. Reverted to the original plan.

I think I did that cycle about 6-8 times over three days to get all three drops. The Overseer and Ckokidia drops happened on the first day. The Iksar skeleton made me wait ....

I am not entirely sure, because I can't remember for sure where I read this, but isn't Korucust the RoS spy?