Quest Name: Lord Pickclaw Level: 50+ Class: All Quest NPC: Yalie Keylotte Location: outside the North entrance of Highpass
Lord Pickclaw is needed for two valuable reasons. One is, you can turn in his scepter for some pretty spiffy rewards. The other is it's one of the items needed by the Agents for ZP Quest
First, you must talk to Yalie, outside the North entrance of Highpass, to log the quest.
She will send you to collect a Shoddy key, which can be procured from either the raiding goblins, or the low-level goblin camps - both along the road from the North entrance of Highpass.
After taking the key back to her, she sends you to Runnyeye to, well, figure out what the key is for; presumably, to release prisoners of some sort.
First, you need to actually find the prisoner: Running due North from Highpass Hold, you will encoutner a long, impassable mountain chain. Once you reach it, run west until you can run around it (Runnyeye, Southwest quadrant). Once you do, you will find yourself on or near a road - follow this road until you near the gates of the goblin stronghold. Right before you get there, you will pass a notably large tree right off the road by about two or three paces. In standing near this tree, you will eventually recieve a popup, in which case a Prisoner will spawn. Once you talk to the prisoner, he will mutate into a goblin. Talk to the "goblin prisoner" again, to spawn Lord Pickclaw.
NOTE This popup is on a 24 hour timer. So, you will get the popup 24 hours from the last time someone got the popup. If you know when that was, great, if not, you have to stand by the tree for a while. Click for map.
To find Lord Pickclaw's spawn location, simply travel Northeast of the Tree into a depressed canyon / valley of sorts, and follow it to a dead-end (Runnyeye, North quadrant).
Right now, unless his KoS version was triggered by someone previously, Lord Pickclaw will be unattackable. To engage him, talk to him and steer the conversation towards combat.
It's quite easy to MT lord pickclaw as long as you remember he takes away ava, most of your buffs, and your form (so no ogre pills). It's basically just a down and out fight with no special perks on your side.
NOTE If you managed to loot a scepter from Lord Pickclaw's cold corpse, but haven't done the quest, follow steps 1-6. Once you've spoken to Lord Pickclaw, merciless pummeling will ensure. Hello Spiritmaster. Turn in the sceptre that you looted previoulsy to Yalie and chose your reward from below.
Rewards
Comments on reward: When choosing your rewards, think on this. The helm is not as good as the Dynmath the Tyrant Helm. The form is a bit of a gimmick; and it's unclear how the pet A/C buff would stack. The waist item though, is pretty sweet.
HEAD equip items Tank: NAME: Pickclaw guard's headband HP: 11400 DUR: 60 Stats: Agi/Sta20, AC95, HPmax170 Level: 60 Caster: NAME: DUR: 60 Stats: AC50, Sta/Dex20, Pow170 Level: 60 Healer: NAME: Pickclaw Visionsary's headband Dur: 60 Stats: Sta20, Dex20, AC77, Pow170 Level: 60
WAIST equip items Tank belt: NAME: Pickclaw guard's sash HP: 11400 DUR: 60 Stats: HP Max170, AC30, Sta40 Level: 60 Melee Belt: NAME: Pickclaw Brawlers sash HP: 11400 DUR: 60 Stats: Dex40, HPmax170, AC25 Level: 60 Healer belt: NAME: Pickclaw visionaries sash HP: 11400 DUR: 60 Stats: Wis40, Pow170, AC23 Level: 60
Lord Pickclaw Loot
Tank Helm: ??? Sash: 40sta 170hp
Melee Helm: 20str 20agi 170hp Sash: 40dex 170hp
Monk Druid Alc Helm: 20sta 20dex 170hp Sash: 40int 170hp
Caster Helm: 20sta 20dex 170pwr Sash: 40int 170pwr
Healer Helm: 20sta 20dex?? 170pwr (should that dex be cha?)
Sash: 40wis 170pwr