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#1 Feb 11 2016 at 3:44 PM Rating: Excellent
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I was in South Karana today trying to spawn Brother Qwinn for my Monk when it occurred to me that in all my years in EQ and a lot of time spent in this zone, I have never seen Quillmane. Two years ago, I spent countless hours in the zone trying to spawn Narra Tanith to get her scimitar for my Druid. I followed every guide I could find on the net to no avail. To this day, it is one of the few things in EQ that I actually gave up on and moved on. I'm usually **** to the nth degree when trying to get something, but she defeated me. Smiley: frown

What mobs have you never seen, or tried to hunt and failed?
#2 Feb 11 2016 at 4:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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Pyzjn in Qeynos Hills. Way back in vanilla EQ, THE item to have for casters was Glowing Black Stone
#3 Feb 11 2016 at 5:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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Can't say I've NEVER seen him but I've certainly spent a lot of time trying to locate

Bilge Farfathom

in Dagnor's Caudron.

I'm always intrigued by mobs whose spawn pattern and placeholders, if any, are unknown or subject to vast dispute. Bilge is one of those.

On a progression server, where my druid was lower level, it's not just the challenge of locating Bilge, it's being the first to engage him and then having enough mana and HPs to survive the fight. What makes it extra cool is if he has the Pearl Kedge Totem, which doesn't drop every time, he's EQUIPPING it! Which means the moment you engage him you know already if you stand to win the premium drop.

His consolation prize, the REED BELT, isn't that bad either if you're a wisdom caster.

The other one in this class is, of course, an ancient cyclops, in South Ro, required for the Journeyman's Boots quest. This mob CAN be located but he's fairly rare and it's also intriguing that to this very day I don't think anyone can claim definitively to know his spawn pattern or to have a tried-and-true perfect strategy for spawning him. Many have claimed... none have proven, IMO.

Interesting how an ancient cyclops is a named whose name is lower case...


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#4 Feb 11 2016 at 5:34 PM Rating: Excellent
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Pyzjn in Qeynos Hills. Way back in vanilla EQ, THE item to have for casters was Glowing Black Stone


I've killed her a number of times. Mostly drops nothing, but I have gotten the stone one time.
#5 Feb 11 2016 at 6:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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Hmmm... I've done Pzyjn. Done the ancient cyclops. Done what's his name in High Hold Pass (several of them actually). Found/killed the werewolf guy in NK for some magic mace. Done red5 for the bullsmasher. Done literally everything in Guk. More times than I want to think about. Not sure about bilge (and frankly a ton of other random named mobs). It's hard to say since way back in the day, a lot of "raiding" involved things like gathering guild groups together, sending out druids to track for named mobs with desired drops, and then going and squashing them. So there are a ton of nameds that I've seen and killed, many of which I barely remember, because they weren't necessarily drops that were for my class, or that I needed, but were just up so we hit them, and someone got something out of it. But they weren't things we mass "camped" for, so it's kind of a blur. Of course, I've seen/killed pretty much every epic mob at one point or another as well.

I can say that I've never seen Quarm. We just didn't get to the end game in PoP, and by the time we could or would, the game had long since moved past that content. It's funny, because there are certain expansions that I just didn't spend much time on or in, since I left the game for several years, and by the time I got back, there was little or no reason to go there, except maybe as exp grind spots for some alts.
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Kunark dragons can be very tough to find because pharmers camp them and they don't live very long at all after they spawn. I do remember stumbling into Gorenaire one time while crossing Dreadlands. I was late for a raid and wasn't going to bother with her but she attacked me! She conned green, IIRC, but was still a tough fight and as with most dragons, she's a belly caster, meaning you have to be in melee range to land spells and I forgot this at first. I've seen Severilous once, IIRC for my warrior's epic. Was a long camp.

I've never seen a number of the named dragons in Veeshan's Peak, for the same reason---pharmers. I believe some players have multiple toons camped right at the spawn spots and thru some "magic" (like hack programs) they "know" the instant the dragon spawns and are able to log in and kill them almost immediately. It's unfortunate this is the case because fighting them can be a lot of fun because these dragons all have interesting abilities. I've always argued that with mobs like this, tradeable drops should be "soul-marked" to a PC so the character can only loot it once in their EQ lifetime. Yeah, I know there would be ways to work around this but at least it would be something of a deterrent.
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Gorenaire used to always be up back when Kunark and Velious was still max level content. You always had to make sure you stayed far away didn't want to get aggro or you were probably going to end up dead.
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I never saw the Queen of the Butcherblock chessboard, despite spending a lot of time in classic days leveling various new toons in that camp.

Now I realize there is no Queen! But back then, long before online databases and other resources, there was a persistent rumor, at least on Saryrn, that the "named" spawns on the chessboard included BOTH a King and Queen but the Queen was very much rarer.

Since she didn't exist, that probably explained why I never saw her. Smiley: grin

Edited, Feb 12th 2016 7:17am by Sippin

There is no rook either, but every other chess piece appears. Strange, that. One would think they would have added all the pieces and as a programmer, people who usually think logically, having both a queen and a king spawn infrequently, would be so obvious that it would be hard to resist the impulse to program both. It's only logical.

What I would have done is make a Queen spawn 1 chance in 1000 immediately after the King is killed. She's a high-level mob, say level 40-50. Plus she has a huge agro range. She immediately attacks any toons within a long range of the chessboard, and being a wiz (or necro) she wipes them all out. A call has to go out to a high level group to take her out, and she drops something really nice as an incentive. Now that would have been fun! (When a new server is introduced she won't spawn until player toons starting maxing out their level.) Kinda like an Ambassador D'Vinn on steroids!



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#9 Feb 12 2016 at 4:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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fronglo wrote:
Gorenaire used to always be up back when Kunark and Velious was still max level content. You always had to make sure you stayed far away didn't want to get aggro or you were probably going to end up dead.


I don't know that she was up any longer than any other Kunark dragon back then. Just that she was the only dragon that spawned right along a pathway that people traveled through all the time, so your odds of randomly running by her while some guild was gathering forces to take her down was higher. I do recall that this actually made taking her out more problematic since there was always the chance (very good chance actually) that some random person would run by and aggro her, and then run around in circles trying to get away. Or worse, run straight to your assembling force assuming that you could save them or something.

If you saw her up, but didn't see a force assembling, it's because they learned to do so far enough away on the side opposite where folks were traveling specifically so this didn't happen. Of course, once MB came along, the outside dragons were killed even faster, and without requiring a raid force to do is. Which made things really annoying, since traditional guild raids just couldn't get there, assemble, and kill fast enough. Which was one of the reasons why those of us with epics that required drops from fire/ice dragons got really screwed during that time period. I distinctly remember killing Trak many many times, but Gore and Sev maybe once or twice total during the entire time period in which we were doing epics. We actually maintained a raid force of level 52 characters specifically so we could continue to do Vox and Nagy raids to get around this.

We used to do VP raids all the time too. I remember that there was one specific named dragon that was just brutal. Some kind of massive dot(s) that were just really hard to manage. Can't remember which one it was, just remember wiping a lot to that one. The rest weren't too bad. Was a fun zone. I don't think I've been back since the revamp though. I do have to say, that the Kunark expansion was one of the most "fun". It's like it still had the original EQ feel, but with a whole ton of flavor and back story, and some of the best dungeon designs (I still think that Kaesora is the coolest design in the game, with Howling Stones maybe a close second). It was still pretty open ended, while Velious became more about picking paths, and factions, and having to progress through the content in a specific order. Successive expansions became even more so. Which isn't to say that's bad, but just not the same feel of the original game.
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#10 Feb 12 2016 at 7:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kunark was the best. It really had that feel of a brand new continent ripe for exploring. Nuff said. Smiley: yippee
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#11 Feb 23 2016 at 7:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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HeHe, I saw Quillmane on the weekend, but it was a corpse. Still yet to see it alive.

EDIT: Finally saw and killed Narra Tanith in South Karana. It's funny how killing such a low level mob is sooooo satisfying after all the time I spent looking for her....

Edited, Feb 27th 2016 11:22pm by KC13
#12 Mar 16 2016 at 1:44 AM Rating: Good
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http://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Quillmane spawns Quillmane every time
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For some reason I couldn't get the stampede to trigger - probably due to my misunderstanding how the event actually works.

This guy Stampeding Piglet

I wanted the War Marshall's Bladed Staff and the Adjutant's Saber
#14 Apr 07 2016 at 3:38 PM Rating: Good
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I have been playing for almost 15 years and have never seen Quillmane, either!! lol
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I finally managed to kill Glubbsink in BBM for the first time a few days ago. Prior to that I had never seen him pop before. He didn't drop the Riptide Spear, though, just a bronze one. :(

Edited, Apr 20th 2016 10:26am by animekenji
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