You meet Ruul inside the Thistlefur Village. Go into the underground entrance at 38,30, then keep to the left when the path forks. Ruul is the big polar bear in the wooden cage right where the path empties into the first big room.
You'll escort him out. Be careful - as soon as you get back to the fork in the path, you'll be ambushed by three mixed Thistlefurs. He'll head out the way you came in, go left from the entrance, down the hill, and then again to the left toward the gate.
As soon as you get to the gate, expect another ambush (again, three mixed Thistlefurs.) Be careful - a named level 25 sometimes appears in the gate area as well. Once you're out the gate, he'll turn right and head a few yards down the hill before thanking you and sending you on to Splintertree for your reward.
I soloed this with a hunter at 25, but it was tough (I had to restart once). I'd suggest clearing out all the thistles between the entrance and Ruul before you talk to him, otherwise you may find yourself fighting four or five when the ambush hits.
His sister is in the inn at the Splintertree Post. I turned it in at level 26 for 2,400 XP, 17 silver, and 150 faction with Thunder Bluff.
If you combine this with another Thistlefur quest (Troll Charm and Between a Rock for me), it is worth the extra time.
I soloed this with a hunter at 25
solo'ing is when you do it on your own.
I think he means he solo'd it AS a hunter.
FYI this is a horde only quest.
If a quest can go wrong, it will go wrong for me. And boy did this one go wrong for my 25 warrior. I didn't even know it existed, but had to go deep into the Thistlefur cave to find troll charms. Normally they spawn in one area and I can get them there, but this time I ended up going all the way in and found Ruul caged.
Ran out with Ruul, and we were doing fine, even when an idiot shaman trained two adds onto us. Things got a little hairy at the entrance to the cave, as a Pathfinder was patrolling into the area just as we started fighting the two Ursas that stand on either side of the entrance. This of course aggroed the Pathfinder and the nearby Totemic. We got through that fight ok, and I thought we were done.
But no, had to walk him out of the village. He very nearly aggroed an entire camp of furbolgs by walking too close. Right before the village entrance, we fought an Avenger and Shaman. Not a hard fight but left me at about 70% health.
I didn't have a chance to do any healing before he aggroed the village gate guards, two Pathfinders. For whatever reasons, my warrior had a lot of trouble just landing hits on the Pathfinders. We managed to kill one, but then a nearby Shaman joined in, along with what appeared to be a two Avenger/single Shaman three-man patrol, a wandering spider and the patrolling furbolg leader. For those keeping score, it was 25 warrior and 26 Ruul against seven enemies. Suffice to say I died quickly and Ruul died about five seconds later. It was about to get even worse, as one of the furbolgs started to run off, straight towards the nearest camp.
You have no control over Ruul, so be aware that he will walk into situations above if the time is right. To be safe, bring a couple of friends.
lvl 24 shammy and 26 bear vs 2 pathfinders, 1 totemic, 1 avenger, the named one AND a frikkin 25 rare spawn!
just when i thought we were done :(
I finished the quest, and Ruul shifted to Taren form then back to bear. But his sister is still not saying the quest is complete!
Any ideas?
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Aband your Q and try again?
After i got out the village I had to try and take on so many i couldnt count. Probably 6-7 at once. So basically it went from 1 mob at a time to 7. hmmmmm......
Ok i mananged to do this with my 27 rogue.After 2 attempts,because it bugged.
As stated there is an ambush of 3 mobs when you get to the intersection in the cave.
Best thing to do is clear the mobs at the intersection so you only have to fight the 3 of them.Fighting 3 is not so hard because ruul can easily take one down by himself,and aslong as you only attack one at a time the other will attack ruul.remember to kill the healer mob first aswell :)
The rest of the cave is easy,you should only get 1 mob at a time,maybe 2 if you walk into a pat,but you should have no problem with that.
When you get to the cave exit there are 2 mobs at the door,so again you will have to fight 2 mobs,but again not hard.
When i was walking down the path from the cave to the main camp a pathfinder spawned for me,and it was underground so i couldn't attack it,but ruul could.Luckily,as i say,ruul can easily kill one of them by himself so luckily he killed it and we carried on.
The secound time i did this part no mob spawned but at the same point ruul started freaking out like there was a mob there,growling and running around in circles and i though it was gonna bug out again buit luckily after about a minute he stopped freaking out and carried on.
You then walk through the main camp.
Strangely ruul has a very low aggro range for the mobs in the camp,so mostly you should only get one mob at a time,maybe 2 if you walk into a pat.You should only get more normally if YOU actually aggro the mobs yourself so try to stay out of aggro range of the mobs around you.
The only problem comes if you are unlucky enough to walk into the named mob or the rare spawn then it will get tough.
I actually encountered the named on my first try,while fighting 1 mob he pat'd into me and called 2 other's over.The annoying thing was that i managed to kill all but 1 of the mobs and was fighting it when ruul decided to die for some reason,even though there was only one mob and it had only been hitting me?! So another bug,and hence why i had to do it twice.
I HATE this quest.....I had tried it with my priest and failed.Now I try it with my lock and I failed 3 times...I have abandonned all hope...
I'm probably going to hell for all of the blasphemous things that came out of my mouth when I failed this whore of a quest 2 times.
Stupid furry bastard.
Level 23 priest and my 22 hunter friend with her worg went in got the quest and went about it..yes the 3 came at us we got them..and it proceeded ok..then that bear never got aggro from that point on and would just keep going while we fought about 5 to 7 at a time SEVERAL times and we got so close to getting done but we ran out of mana and then some big bear came into the picture with a shaman and his totem and another of those creeeps...it was funny but so rough..we'll try again and i'm going to walk right on that bear and see how it goes lol..good luck
Solod as a 25 druid, not too bad. Just buff the bear as much s possible and let him take most of the aggro while you dps 1 at a time.
i hate this quest. i hate it i hate it i hate it
i was just at the end whena bear respawns out of now where and i had already escorted him, but it said failed
WHERE IS HIS SISTER I CANT FIND THE CITY...CAN SOMEONE HELP ME..THE QUEST WAS EASY I DID IT WITH A 27 WARRIOR..PEICE OF CAKE!!
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I CANT FIND HIS SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!
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Solo'd pretty easily as a 25 Belf priest.
I was in the cave collecting Troll charms for another quest when I found it.
Since I'd been in the cave for a bit it was already pretty clear. <b>Being able to buff and heal Ruul made it really easy.</b> If healing drew agro I could simply use fade and all targets would go back to him. Using target of target, I just DPS'd the target he had so I wouldn't draw all of the mobs onto myself. Nice to get xp for quests you didn't even know existed =]
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Easily Soloed as a 24 Subtlety Rogue. Best to do this quest with Troll Charm
all i can say is this quest is not for the squishies
on my server there's a lvl 70 alliance hunter permantly camped in the furbolg camp, so this quest is impossible to do, she just constantly one shots Ruul everytime you come out of the cave.
finished the escort successfully... but it did not complete?
i didn't go back for a redo.
i soloed lv 26 undead shadow priest
Did it relatively easily as a 25 pally......things that worked for me:
(1) Conserve mana.
(2) Ruul is tough, so let him fight as well.
(3) Towards the end I got ahead to try to clear, but that was a mistake as you don't know exactly when the 3 mobs spawn. My suggestion is to only kill the mobs really close to Ruul, so you don't get a 4 pull.
(4) Don't waste time looting...you will drop out of combat a couple of times, drink and eat as soon and as long as possible....he moves slowly so you can let him get a few paces ahead while you are eating.
Good luck.
this was pretty hard for me as a 27 warrior and i was below 100 health 2 different and i am well geared
Not too hard to me (lvl22 shammy)
Clear the route a bit before taking the q. And use your mana only when you really need it.
(1) Bears first. Let the bear agro mobs.
(2) Wait for those two ambushes.
(3) Heal the bear a bit.
(4) Beat up the remaining mobs.
(5) Return the quest.
was really easy, at first i was nervous when he had 3, named, and a rare on him...
being a 24 ice mage, it was the easiest thing i could've done, i just AoE'd them all down before they could kill him
couldnt succeed as a 24 hunter, took him out of gates with no problem, but then another bear and pathfinder came with group, could trap the avenger, let bear tank shaman and let pet tank bear&pathfinder, and kill the pathfinder myself, only if i didnt have a 20-seconds lag....
Solo'd on my third try as a 25 Shaman. I knew it was gonna be tough but was determined to do it. Alright, so the bear walked in to the village for the final encounter. I was already fighting two mobs on me, when the other three spawned, and all came running straight for me! Not a single mob on the bear! The bear just kept moseying right through the village like nothing happened. 5 mobs on me!
So I threw down a stone claw totem (AoE aggro for you non-shamans), pulled of a quick heal while they were distracted, Used my instant ghost wolf talent and went running out of the fray, chasing after Ruul, who unmolested walked far enough out of the village to complete the quest.
ruul isnt strong enough to even be considered useless in combat, if you find a way to do so, kill him yourself to strengthen your faction. anyone, npc or otherwise who targets a sheep first in combat isnt worthy of life.
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