I just successfully made tattered leather from 2 tattered snakeskins. I had to right click the snakeskins in my inventory for them to populate the tanning vat, but they do still (or again) work.
When VR devs refer to Magical damage, it refers to that damage/ resist type and not all spell damage in general.
Magic Cryptlings get buffed by the wizard spark spells, or Shammy choke line, or Enchanter spells in general.
Fire, frost, poison, curse, or spells that do physical damage will not buff these.
It's the same for the Summoner buff that boosts magical damage by 15pct by the way... Many people thinks it's all spells but it's not. Likely unintended but it hasn't been fixed.
It drops from a static spawn in the middle of the ruins up against the post, but only during the night time. Generally ppl leave the PH up from 14H in game time, so that when 19H (night time) comes around, you have a chance at it being the named. If you kill early during the night, you can get a second spawn around 2-3am. Fellspike seems to drop about 90% of the time. This is a pretty rare spawn though.. I'd guess 10-20% chance of named spawning.
I was able to pass with my myr monk. Though I am a bit underleveled on this character. There was a barrier but it seemed to disappear as soon as they aggroed me. I had to swim away out of their range.
Fezzik the Coercer is just an ordinary feraling wraith-binder. He spawns nearby on the ledge, not at the drum itself. There is currently no follow-up quest.
Finally finished my camp for the totem.
65 placeholders
7 War Scout Spawns
4 staffs
2 rings
1 totem
This was over the course of 3 days, highly contested mob so it was broken up waiting on the camp to open. Roughly 15 hours? I had some time frames where I could kill him/ph on both shards.