Iksar Warrior Pike Quests?
 

Not even sure where to put this. Starting up an iksar warrior, been grinding SONH for the past 7+ hours, laying waste to all the frogloks in the areas this Froglok Escort is supposed to spawn, nothing.

Has anyone actually done these quests? Is the wiki / allakhazam / magelo all wrong?

Swamp is not very classic on P99. There are efforts underway to improve it. I can't say whether the Iksar pike quests work but you have cause to be suspicious that the Swamp portions might not, at least not to the letter of how they used to on Live.

That must be the case, a froglok shin shaman literally just killed me in front of cabilis. Someone told me that an escort was up using the pet trick, but if it is, it's nowhere near where they're supposed to be and I'm confident at this point none of them spawn near the cabilis entrance or south of it like they should.

That does not surprise me at all, unfortunately. I suggest you befriend a ranger.

I did all the steps on blue years ago in 2015 up to: https://wiki.project1999.com/Legionnaire%27s_Mancatcher , the final step on p99.

I don't remember about the escort sorry, it was working at some point though.