Typically if you do not post links it will just get skipped over, I did a little digging and i think I can confirm your findings on spawn timer and 2 ice boned skeletons, check out this wayback link:
http://web.archive.org/web/200201230....shtml?id=3714
Is actually a 12/8/2001 comment on there, but close enough:
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Well I can confirm 2 bears can spawn...finally got the guts to try this at lvl 39. Went in used Vision on The Lich from the Teleporter room to watch when he was furthest away. Killed the 2 Ice bone Skelly's and camped there. Got on 7 hours later and cast Sense animal and bingo, see the bear. Found him walking around a corner toward me and cast my dots. 2 seconds later I see another one coming at me to help his buddy. Root. Fall back. Kill. Loot. Stand up and POW. Lich got me. So on my way back I grab a lvl 18 Shaman and helped him get a pelt too after my corpse run. He didn't even know what the Totemic Helm was. Hope he enjoys it when he can complete the quest.
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He mentions 7 hours later and also mentions the bear walking (not stationary).
Another comment on the page (the day before Luclin) confirms the 7 hour timer:
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Alright, i camped the bear all weekend!! I killed 9 pairs of wandering icebones and did not see the bear!! (or the Lich by the way) I killed the icebones when they popped, returned 6-7 hours later, watched them pop again and killed them again. Still no bear!! This is the final piece I need to complete all my totemic quests and its driving me crazy!!! Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong?
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Another poster a month prior mentions 6-8hrs and the 2 spawns which do wander (not stationary). Others mention the 6-8 hrs too, so maybe a 7hr spawn with +/- 1 HR variance:
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Ok...if you have an alt to play that is good...i just simply went to caves and checked out to see if he was up. if not i killed his PHs (ice bone skeletons the wandering ones and there is two of them, MAKE SURE SURE YOU KILL 'EM BOTH)then went on alt for 6 hours because the spawn is 6-8 hours. Then once the 6 hours up i went to see if he was up then wait for 2 hours. Then within that time he poped and got the pelt!!!
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A wealth of information on that page really.
To the devs, as far as the pathing, comments on this page make mention of the pathing can be found on eqshaman.com, and while not 'entirely accurate' is 'close enough'. Here is a link to that map on wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/200111290...w.eqshaman.com
The direct link to the map doesn't work, go to Quests / 'How do I get all that Totemic Armor?', then click on the 'Glacier Bear Pelt' link in the Helm section. Here is an image of the map:
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Hope this helps! #Classic