Looking for Life Barrier....

Ok, I'm starting to doubt GuildWiki. Can someone tell me if the Boss info about capping Life Barrier is accurate? How rarely does Eshnal Hardwood appear in the three places he is listed at? Ive done almost a dozen runs through there and never seen him once. And what about Quickroot? The first stage of the Droknar run? Is it even possibe to cap from him?
Thanks for any help,

Klubbo The Monk

The Pinesoul bosses stink (yes, pun intended). There are 4 spawn locations; Guildwiki doesn't list one of them. I can't remember if their locations were stabilized, i.e. now they spawn in one location or not. I do know that there's another spawn point just north of the western-most spawn point on the Guildwiki map. There are Smite Crawlers around there though so it's a bit of a pain.

Savio is 100% correct, as i've had much the similar experience only a few days ago ... and found Esnhal in the spot Savio described. I can feel your pain on the making many, many, many trips ... I lost count of the amount of trips I had to do outside thunderhead looking for the Jade Armor with oath shot, it had to have been in the 20's.

I'll be home from work in a little less than an hour, IGN is the same if you need some help ... although I would understand if you didn't want my curse of bad luck with that sort of thing

Guildwiki and the previous responders are correct he does spawn in forest forest. I had to make 5 runs before he finally spawned. When he finally spawned it was in a little cove with 3 ice imps with him. You want to talk about tough. Try Spell Breaker in Snake Dance. I had to make 14 trips before he spawned.

Forgot to update this yesterday. Sure enough! My first trip out ther to the 'new' spwan location there he was with his three imps. Needless to say I smoked him and finally got my elite but I do remember fighting a pinesol and three imps there before and it wasnt Hardwood so hes not always there.

Whew, finally have my Bonder build. : )

Thanks again for the help.

yea its a hard one to cap. i got it at lvl 6 but it took me like 3 hours to get it cause i didnt have copper so i fought my way from rankor :S

Never had any problems capping this, just leave from Iron Mines.

yha leave from iron mines of moladune...
this is the route I took...
yellow line is the path i take; red dot is 1st person and holding ctrl looking for the light blue spawn points. 2 mostly show up 3 if your lucky.

according to xennon.co.uk, Eshnal Hardwood spawns here:

http://www.xennon.co.uk/eliteskills/...tPinesouls.JPG

He also spawns right outside Beacons Perch. That's where I got it.

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Didn't believe this at first. Had to go and check myself. This seriously needs to be added to Xennon. It's like a 30 second stroll to the boss...



EDIT: Two other bosses spawn there too. Clobberhusk; a warrior, and Posionbough; a ranger. Clobberhusk has the elite Defy Pain (apparently) but I have yet to find out whether the ranger boss has one or not. It's actually quite hard to kill a path to the bosses, nigh-on impossible without level 20 help. This is certainly not henchable with low levels.

i can verify that Clobberhusk does have defy pain... thats where i got mine.

Life Barrier info.

Yeah, I had to run through that part multiple times before I finally capped Life Barrier myself. But, when I went out to cap Defy Pain for my warrior, that damn Enshal was the first boss that showed up twice in a row. I think the game tries to infuriate you when it creates your instance sometimes.

oh dont mention that boss, cleared the whole frozen forest to get at him, how many stone summit can thye put in one group -_-

lol so where is it?
darkMishkin Pic looks legit but he didnt mention where it is out side of

darkMishkin was talking about Lornar's Pass outside of Beacon's Perch, if you saw what he quoted.

It is by far the easiest place to get these skills. Walk straight out of the Lornar's Pass exit from Beacon's Perch, and hold Ctrl. Not your boss? Respawn.

[careful of triggering the farming nerf if you spawn too many times!]

Four Possible Spawns:

1. Quickroot. Monk. Elite: Life Barrier.
2. Clobberhusk. Warrior. Elite: Defy Pain.
3. Poisonbough. Ranger. Elite: None.
4. Pinesoul. IE: No boss spawn.


All confirmed now, I just tested it.

I'd like Lifebarrier in my skill list as well, but so far I've had only problems with 5 lvl 10 henchies there in the evil wilderness of lvl 24+ beasties.