Hollowshade War Write up?

[Salitorn]

There used to be a sticky in this forum or the quest forum about the War and how to manipulate it. Any one seen it or am I just a blind fool? Did a search for hollowshade moor, then dropped the moor and didn't see it, even went looking in other forums.

Anyone have a link to it or is it just gone?

I've been hitting the southern camp and now have plenty of one and need the other. Any help will be appreciated.

[Katalaeia]

Manipulating the war is easy. When you're sick of farming one, wait until you see an invasion message (i.e. the owlbears in the south howl in frustration). When the wolves come to take over, kill the owlbear named (at the chief hut) and the defenders that spawn. Wolves will win. Vice versa if you're doing wolves. The named always pops at the chieftain hut, as do the defenders.

If you don't know where the chieftain hut is, I recommend looking around the area while the grimlings are up. You'll know where it is after that.

[Balkin]

The write up is still there. I did a search on Hollowshade for that forum, and it brought it up. Did this just this week in fact. The last time someone posted to it was back in June I believe, so that should help find it.

Ah heck. I just went and bumped it. It's at the top of the forum. Good luck!

[Salitorn]

Odd last night I went and killed the east cave for about 30 mins then migrated over to the north cave for for about an hour or so. Maybe a bit less. I didn't get not one drop for shadowscream......Bad night?

[Katalaeia]

Far as I know you can only get SS components from the south islands. I've never gotten them anywhere else in the zone.

[Gnarl]

Actually, substances will drop off of any sonic wolves and any owlbears in any zone they appear in... however, the drop anywhere but in the South islands is pitifully low. My theory is that this true for one of two reasons:

A) Drops ARE pitifully low for wolves/bears elsewhere
B) Kills are easy to rack up on the South islands and thus by "mass killing" it's easier to increase the odds of seeing a kill.

Since B is undoubtably true, in my experience, it's hard to determine A without sitting down and killing ONE spawn point in two differing zones for 100s of tries to check frequency. Anything else and you pollute your sample size with complexity.

Back on track, the war can be caused by killing the "chief" in any of the campes. In the South camp kill the named critter that stands at the doorway of the highest hut on the wall (or closest to zone wall). You should hear the war cry in a few minutes and after several minutes an attacking force of randomly chosen critters that are NOT the same race as the one you killed will show up. Note that defenders show up after only a minute or so too.

At one time it was not necessary to kill the defenders, the attackers would simply always win... apparently they reversed that change recently as I was surprised by having the defenders actually... well... defend the camp. So, play it safe and kill the defenders before the attacking force arrives. Note that if you do damage on the defenders, they can, and will, summon you. It's best to try and aggro as few as possible or you WILL feel like a pinball in a machine going for high score! Being an Enchanter, I do this by mezzing them all, slowing them and letting my pet have fun on them one at a time.

This can be done at ANY of the camps, not just the South one. The South one is best, though, because it's the easiest camp at which to rack up a lot of kills and get a lot of the substances needed for smithing (as I mentioned above).

Good luck!

GnarliAnna
Silent Watchers, Cazic Thule