Weeping Handwraps

[glug]

Hi folks.
There don't seem to be terribly many handwraps that aren't just a straight plus dropping, and the only guaranteed loot piece I am aware of is the Weeping Handwraps. With the Devout Handwraps having missed making the loot tables in this current update, I'm pretty sure that's the only Static Loot.

I had a hard time getting my hands on them, so I figured I'd be nice and post about it.
The page linked above lists them as being inside Captain Gurdal's Chest. That puts them inside the Captives quest, right here: http://ddowiki.com/page/The_Captives

However, after running the quest 75 million times, I became frustrated. ddowiki.com lists the handwraps on their page, but lists an optional boss named Captain Guldag instead of Gurdal. I thought this was a typo.

So without further ado, here's what you a-do.

Park your low level monk right outside the c-hills.
Group up with a higher level character who has done this quest on hard.
Higher level character enters quest ON ELITE, jumps off cliff towards the first little island, and kills what is there.
If Captain Gurdal is there, monk starts running to the quest. Otherwise, player recalls out of quest, monk leaves group (from outside the hills) and rejoins, and player enters again.

The wraps are bind to character, not account, and it appears that the proper named boss only spawns on elite (roughly 40% of the time?). The chest is not a 100% chance to drop (maybe 10-20%), so it might take a few tries to do this. Being that you can cliff jump and your monk can reset the quest without the other player having to leave the hills, the longest wait is just running your monk out there to get to the chest. PROTIP: other player should loot as well, and try to pass wraps over to monk instead of taking for himself.

So... while useful handwrap drops seem to be horrible, and there's no "nicked" handwraps out there, here's the best way to get +2 sonic handwraps on your little baby monk. Enjoy.

[Aerendil]

Awesome tip, thank you.
I was getting frustrated on Cannith on my new Monk, having repeated this quest about 12+ times now trying for these things (and having killed the named at that first island over 7 times), but was always in on normal/hard setting.

Elite only is interesting, and I had thought of that actually but hadn't bothered testing it out.
+2 handwraps with d6 sonic damage are about as good as it gets for Monks for handwraps pre-level 10ish.

[glug]

Unless you're interested in the +1 Acid Handwraps that I saw on the auction house on Argo. For roughly 1.675 million gold.

ROLLEYES.

[Sarophim]

Almost 100% positive one of my low level alts looted these wraps on normal. It was my first time through the quest and was on a level 3 toon so I know it was not elite.

[glug]

May be the case, but regardless this week, I've gone through the quest some 20 times on normal/hard and found a *different* guy that spawns there occasionally, and on elite I've seen the *correct* guy spawn there only, and at least every other time I've gone in.

If you get that lucky, and then are lucky enough to loot the wraps (not in every chest), that's awesome. I may have had a statistically horrendous run at the quest, but not on elite.

[Sarophim]

Definitely see your point on which is more statistically advantageous. Bummer is that I picked them up on a non monk character Typical of my luck though.