Attack of the Killer Bear  

Nice to see this quest is working as of today. I was reading the previous comment and wondered if I could finish it as I was finishing the invasion part too.

The grizzly walked into the camp soon after the last druid ring mob died.

It also gave me achievement exp.

The reward is far from being worth the effort though. Level 10 boots that you have to kill 3 level 20^ then a level 17^??!!...not to mention having to work fast enough to kill mid teens giantslayer melee mobs that respawn in the zone.




Edited, Mar 25th 2007 1:28am by RendaelBrigh

I think this zone went through some changes. When you examine a Giantslayer messenger's body, you get the quest Invasion of the Vale, in addition to the quest you receive from Hartok, Attack of the Killer Bear. Entering the Invasion of the Vale instance of The Shattered Vale, you'll see wandering Giantslayers and what looks like a druids' ring surrounded by Black Magi. To complete the Invasion of the Vale quest, you need to kill the outer ring of Black Magi. Once they are all dead, the inner ring of Black Magi become aggro and attackable. Killing all of them starts the Portal mobs to appear one at a time. Now originally, I think you only got 1 to spawn in the instance, at a time, meaning you had to exit the instance and hope one of the other 2 appeared when you were able to zone in again. I did this quest this morning and once I killed the 1st, the 2nd appeared. Killed him, then the 3rd appeared. Killed him and got quest complete, 17sp and exp. Attack of the Killer Bear quest is still going, however, and normally after killing the Portal mobs, the Windstalker Grizzly starts to walk his way down until you can attack him. Well, this morning I killed everything in the zone and kept killing but he wasn't coming. I bugged it and zoned out. I did this quest about 5 months ago with a paladin and had no problems getting the bear to pop. I guess a patch must have messed it up.

Started the Quest at Lvl 25 Warlock. I was killed after first round. By the time I came back to Quest I just turn Lvl 28. Everything was grey except the Giant which was green. I killed everything twice, some maybe 3 times. Waited 20 mins after last kill but Bear would not spawn. I did notice 4 Gnolls on cliff in back that I could not get to. Any thoughts?

I've tried the same with the chest that would't open, and i found that you just have to wait app. 5 min.. I've got a "Abomination's Cloth Shawl" and "Advanced Jeweler Volume 20" from it...

When I did the quest, you had to kill all the Black Magi Initiates outside the circle before you were allowed to kill the Black Magi Elders inside the circle. If an Initiate was alive, the Elders were listed as, "Not an enemy" and you couldn't attack them.

Agree with Koloff, the quest reward is crummy, given the number of Initiates, Elders, Portal Abomination, Bear, wandering guards and dogs you have to kill.

But the quest generates a lot of XP and is a good leveling quest.

The Bear spawned way up on the zone wall. Took me a while to see it and was afraid I had a bug where it wasn't going to spawn. But it did within 5 minutes. High up on the zone wall, untargetable. It circled and came down a spiral ramp in the zone wall and became targetable.

The levels listed by SkiSwope all Jive though I had a L20 man-eating-plant as my portal abomination. The giantslayers are L17 - L19 some with a dog or two. All solo mobs and the abomination and bear did not seem any harder than a usual mob of their level. They weren't extra-tough named mobs.

Reward was from hartok was some bear hide boots. Pretty crummy considering they max out at skill 75 (L15) and you killed L17-20 mobs for them. Chest drops inside were of similar quality. Not total junk but grey drops off blue and green mobs.

The quest name is actually "Attack of the Killer Bear" - singular, not plural.

It's important to note that you do NOT need to kill all the mobs in the Vale zone. You just need to kill:
1) the Black Magi Visionaries (lvl 17) - white-cloaked Ratonga surrounding the stone ring waving their hands about, then
2) the Black Magi Elders (lvl 19) - red-cloacked Ratonga inside the stone waving their arms, then
3) whatever beast is summoned from the portal - mine was a "Portal Abomination" (lvl 19), then
4) the Windstalker Grizzly that will spawn outside the ring (lvl 17).

Wierd... I got a big minotaur called Portal Abhorrent when I killed all the ratongas. Also, I got 1 silver and some copper for completing it... no gloves.

First, it's attack of the killer bear, not bees.

Secondly, you find this bear in the new Vale of the Shattering instance. Three steps to spawning him:

1. Kill everything in the vale to make the casters targetable.

2. Kill the casters which causes a minotaur to spawn.

3. Kill the minotaur and the bear will spawn.

Btw Title is Attack of the Killer Bears

I believe the name of the bear is "A Windstalker bear", its like an 18-20 mob, and the one my group killed happened to spawn in the invasion of the vale instance AFTER we had killed all the casters and the boss mob. The quest reward was kind of lame, only 1SP and change and not much of an XP bump.

It's Attack of the Killer Bears, not bees.