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Burnoose of the Halfbreed  
 

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Slot: FACE
Charges: Unlimited
AC: 4
DEX: +6
Effect: Illusion Half-Elf (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 9.0) at Level 34
WT: 1.2 Size: SMALL
Class: BRD ROG
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 7 (General: Group)

Item Type:Illusion
Stackable:No
Lucy Entry By:Kerasota
Item Updated By:SwiftyMUSE
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-01-18 17:28:22
Page Updated:Tue Sep 26th, 2017

Expansion: Shadows of Luclin Shadows of Luclin


Rarity: Very Rare
Level to Attain: 45

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Jaggedpine Forest
NPC Name
Zed Sticklebush



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Zone Name
Jaggedpine Forest
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Notes from my recent camp
# Mar 13 2021 at 7:18 PM Rating: Decent
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This was a longest illusion clicky camp for me. Multiple days/hours. Here are some observations.

1. As others have noted get the named to pop inside the tents so they don't wander off. This increases the Zed spawn rate it seemed to me. It took a while for me to get them popped in the tents, because when I'd log for the night someone else would roll through and kill them. But with enough time today I got them all spawned and Zed popped multiple times.

2. Zed can spawn faster than two hours. If all the named are up, he can spawn in the middle tent at the spot marked by Brewell's maps. He never spawned in either of the smaller tents. Only the big tent - in the one spot - and by the fire.

3. If you're high enough level to roll these level 37 mobs, just keep the poachers all clear. There are tons of tradeskill drops. So many in fact I had my druid box shuttle back and forth to bank and traders just to keep bags clear. Use the drops or sell them.

4. Once in a while, a poacher would fail to spawn in its usual spot. When that happened, Zed would spawn on the next cycle either at the fire or in the tent.

5. The Burnoose is very rare. I must've killed him 20+ times before it dropped.
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# Feb 19 2020 at 4:02 PM Rating: Good
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Did a video guide recently on the camp with some of the strategies. Zed Sticklebush is a RARE spawn. This is by far, one of the worst camps. Mobs were not hard to kill though. https://youtu.be/Um-4mnkTxgg
Getting Zed to spawn
# Sep 25 2017 at 12:28 PM Rating: Decent
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I cleared the camp including names by fire and in tents. When Varien Sticklebush spawned, I would kill her and Zeb would spawn within the hour. It dropped today at 12am game time. Hope this helps!!
Getting Zed to spawn
# Sep 28 2017 at 4:42 PM Rating: Excellent
sanmara wrote:
I cleared the camp including names by fire and in tents. When Varien Sticklebush spawned, I would kill her and Zeb would spawn within the hour. It dropped today at 12am game time. Hope this helps!!


Ok so Varien Sticklebush is a PH for Zed Sticklebush?
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long camp... sometimes
# Oct 10 2014 at 8:05 AM Rating: Decent
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I have camped poachers with almost all of my lower level characters. I love this area, XP is great, loot is not bad for the level, and nobody bothers you. During those grinds I have let 3 Burnoose rot. One night with my SK I got 2 of them in an hour and both rotted. I also collected this mask for 2 rogues that I have played through the years. I went back with my 85 bard this month and things didnt go so well.

I logged in a wiped the camp for hours at a time. I got Zed to spawn 5 times over the course of about 80 full clears. I collected heads and turned them in and killed enough poachers to be ally with the good guys. Even killed a dragon or two just because I was bored and the dire bear was on track. I went to Lower Guk to get the DE mask when i was bored and it dropped first time (took all of 20 minutes). I went to Traks to get the Iksar mask and the named popped in 10 minutes and dropped the mask. After 2 weeks of camping the Burnoose I gave up. The only upside is that I made 50k in the bazaar off of the looted items so I just bought a flayed Barbie mask instead (that camp can be insane long).

There is no method to spawning Zed like collecting named mobs in one tent or whatever. Any spot around the fire can spawn a named, and there is a 4th spot on the west side of the fire that has a much longer spawn time that is always a named mob. Named mobs spawned in every tent for me, in random locations. I would see anywhere from 0 to 3 named mobs spawn on a single clear. Yanrik is the most common spawn and he doesnt even drop a head for the faction turn in. The Sticklebushes are the rare spawns, and the other 2 named are somewhere in between.

Its pure luck of the draw at this camp.
Not Too Irritating
# Feb 20 2014 at 7:51 PM Rating: Decent
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Didn't run into 1 person camping this clickie (on Povar at least). I spent around 12 hours camping the poachers in two different 6-hour sessions. He spawned 4 times before I got him to drop the Burnoose on the 5th time. They are 1-shot kills, so I just killed them all (campfire, and all three tents). It didn't irritate me THAT bad, I was boxing my 3 main toons and just had my Wiz sit there and nuke the camp when I was medding, etc.

It dropped, and had 8 minutes until the corpse de-spawned. I cast a quick Origin on my Bard, ran him from Crescent Reach, into Blightfire, to the PoK, took the Qeynos stone, ran up through Qeynos, through Surefall, and got to Jaggedpine. Made it to the corpse with 23 seconds to spare, PHEW! I am relieved, and happy. Already got the Mask of Deception, now I just have a few more illusions to go. Happy hunting, and good luck!

**Just to throw it out there, I don't think getting all the nameds under 1 tent and not killing them will speed up the process at all.

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Easy way
# Feb 20 2013 at 9:08 AM Rating: Decent
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A little explanation to people seeking the Bard/Rogue Mask. There are 3 tents and a campfire. The named I have seen spawn in almost ever PH spot. So a easy way to 'prepare' for a guarenteed Zed spawn is this. First make sure no named are up, if they are up kill them UNLESS they are in the Right tent (This tent only holds 5 PH's). Do not kill anyone in the campfire,middle or left tent YET. There are four named we want to spawn in the Right tent. Zeds wife, another couple in armor and a ranger with a HUGE aggro radius. This process typically took me 2 hours to achieve. Notice there are 3 PH around the campfire. There is actually a secret 4th PH that only spawns once every 2 hours, but its a guarenteed Named! So once you have the right tent full of the 4 useless named feel free to kill the campfire, middle and left tents to your hearts content. I have seen Zed spawn in all 3 locations in addition to the 4th campfire slot every single time every 2 hours after you get all 4 named up in the right tent. I got the mask on the 8th Zed kill, kind of bad luck. But I hope this guide helped explain things a little better, it will certinaly give you a guarenteed strategy at getting a Zed every 2 hours at the bare minimum.
Easy way
# Jul 07 2013 at 11:08 PM Rating: Decent
In terms of bad luck, I have spent nearly 45 hours in the past 3 days dedicated to killing Zed Sticklebush (currently lost count; 25+ consecutive kills) without seeing the Burnoose of the Halfbreed. That is BAD LUCK and at this point I want my 2 days back : (
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# Mar 12 2012 at 7:44 PM Rating: Decent
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I got this today with my druid for my bard and it wasn’t too bad.

Kill everything around the campfire each time, everything, including named.

If a named spawns in the tent, nuke everything else around it from a distance, but keep the named in the tent alive. Eventually I had all the named poachers up except Zed. Then Zed spawned and dropped the mask. This was the 2nd Zed kill. The first kill he had wandered off and ended up on the wall south of the camp, I only knew because I saw him on track. If you have track, check it and watch it, he can spawn from campfire and run off before you can see it.

Total time on this run, about 2 hours. I tried to do it on and off in short bursts but its not really worth it unless you can lock down named and force it. Much better camp than the Chardock camp which is the worse by far.
Still drops
# Jul 27 2011 at 11:48 AM Rating: Decent
Still drops just wanted to let you all know, don't give up and I left the names up just fyi
gender?
# Nov 22 2010 at 2:25 AM Rating: Decent
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I heard if you illusion yourself with the same spell as your race, you switch genders. Is this true? Just wondering if so... would be cool, but otherwise, half-elf bard doesn't need to camp this boy. :)
Its an illusion to get this illusion
# Nov 17 2009 at 9:23 PM Rating: Decent
Been killing this guy for 2 years now. Killed Zed over 100 times with no luck yet. I would like to see proof that it still drops on syren.
Its an illusion to get this illusion
# Dec 27 2009 at 12:25 PM Rating: Decent
Glory Glory I have recieved my Illusion!
Its an illusion to get this illusion
# Jun 16 2010 at 4:19 PM Rating: Default
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Syren? You've been on that server how long and you can't even get it close? lol

S a r y r n
my exp.
# Aug 26 2008 at 11:30 PM Rating: Decent
Just my experience, I have done both clearing camps and leaving named up - leaving the named up actually takes away from your chances to spawn him as he has 6 different places he can spawn, however it's an odd timer - he spawns outside the tents beside the camp-fire for no reason, and not on the same timer as any PH - other times he spawns in any tent in the place-holder spot, no explanation just clear everything for me.
Use the named spawn logic.
# Jan 23 2008 at 5:11 PM Rating: Decent
I can confirm that it's best to leave up the other named. Since there is some logic to not have more than one of the same name up it makes sense. I camped my new rogue there and my lvl 45 shaman also used 54 monk on earlier attempts. I'd log rogue to see if conditions were right. I had 2 named at camp fire so I go to the river side of the big long tent and kill the first 3, door plus two by the poles. I'd say I could spawn Ned this way about 25% of the time on the next spawn 10 minutes later. Usually at right pole but sometimes at door.

I'd say I killed 14 Ned's before getting the burnoose from right pole spawn (insignificant IMHO)
Also, this guy is the only warrior in the camp, he bashes and kicks.

BTW shouldn't this be a head or back slot item? LOL

Also if you're having a hard time breaking the camp pull all the tents and spread them across the zone, animals will kill them and you can start a cycle. FD is nice so you don't have to zone.

Oh I'm on Al'Kabor Mac Server. The server where time stood still and the world is as it was in April 2003.

Edited, Jan 23rd 2008 8:15pm by Conholio

Edited, Jan 23rd 2008 9:19pm by Conholio
half elf mask
# Dec 31 2007 at 6:52 PM Rating: Decent
well it took me about 3 hours total, ok all i can say is this, the "leave the other 3 named up" method might have worked, or it might have been just plain luck.

ive popped Zed 5 times in 3 hrs. id recommend leave other 3 named up to pop Zed more. again this is not proved true, or is it?

:)
Got one today!
# May 25 2007 at 10:01 AM Rating: Decent
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I walked my rogue over to the Poacher camp today May 25 2007, after years of trying. You know, every once in awhile you remember about this drop, and if nothing else is happening, its a good way to waste some time.

When I got to the camp, I snuck around with my 58 Rogue, and noticed that Zed was up! He was in the big tent where the poachers stand at each pole and 2 at each of the openings.

I popped my Steadfast Servant, he conned green to me, but I didnt want to take any chances at all. It was an easy kill and I prayed to the EQ gods that he had the drop, and there it was!

Good luck to all those trying.
ZED!!!
# May 12 2007 at 7:12 AM Rating: Decent
Ive had been killing the whole camp excluding names for 18h+ not once did zed pop, i then tried to camp EVERY thing still no zed 12h. i went afk awile and left my rog neer fire and to my surpize when i got back he poped. Ive had him pop 3 times without killin anythign over 12h then this morning i logged in took a run over poped agian within 20 min of sitting. Still no mask, does he still drop it ?

Cheers,
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dropped on the 4th zed spawn
# Jan 15 2007 at 7:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Had a hard time getting zed to pop... but finally... after a total of about 6hrs spread over a couple of days, and getting the other named mostly up... he was up after i returned from lunch, by the fire... apparently one of the roamers had gotten eaten and he had spawned from their demise.
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Me again
# Jan 07 2007 at 1:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Came back to camp for my Rogue. This time i just wiped out everything from start to finish. Camped for 7 hours and Zed spawned at the camp fire again. same spot as last post. He dropped mask. .... Thhhheeeennnnn while i camped cleric and logged on Rogue to loot it... i saw him spawn in the Big tent, facing the river ..in the middle.. on the right hand side.. looted mask from first Zed.. camped ..logged back cleric... killed him a 2mnd time and sure enuff! he dropped again. i was shocked. so i sent a tell to /general chan for whoever wanted... someone got there by about 20secs late...

INFO:::: if you going to do this you might have someone there to loot..because Zed has a 8min rott time :(

so sad..item like this

anyhow hope all my exp helps someone out there :D
dam zed
# Nov 27 2006 at 1:50 PM Rating: Decent
Been camping this guy for almost 48 hours straight, killed him aprox:21 times, no mask
Zed...
# Nov 24 2006 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
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So far i have killed this guy 13 times...most ALL times have been from 2-2.5 hour respawns...

at kill #7 he spawned 4 times in 1.5 hours......at this point i havent done anything different, all the same killings


(update...as im writing this)....brb going to go kill Zed....


Bah, kill #14..he respawned 30mins since last kill, he dropped Boots and Head again..

anyways, I guess the fastest way i been killing this camp is to use Ward of Reprisal. im a lvl 75 Cleric and its a lvl 72 spell. Even when Zed is up i still pull the whole camp..(had more Zed's spawn like this so far) Once i pull the whole camp i out run them towards the river and cast WoR.. I kill them in less than a min.

As far as the .."leave the named up" part you guys are talking about. i have done that for 4 hours, and alot of other things.. So far it seems that he is just a random (different spawn points) spawn.. but mostly on a 2-2.5 hour repspawn timer..with some fast respawns built into the timer.

1) He spawns in the big tent in 3 different spots, that i saw myself.

2) He also spawns at the camp fire in 2 spots (when he dropped the Noose, he was at the camp fire...closest to the tent that spawns Reynolds. Now Reynolds also spawns at that camp fire.

I sure want this for my wife and i wont stop untill i get it.. i love her :)

Ill keep you updated on anything new /wave

*NEXT DAY AFTER I GOT NOOSE*

Anyhow all in all i killed him 18 times. only thing i saw different when i got my noose was that at the camp fire, there are 4 mobs that spawn... about 3 hours before #18 Zed spawned, there was only 3 mobs for the next 3 hours... SOOOOoo maybe a tell/tell sign??


blah
# Sep 30 2006 at 4:18 PM Rating: Decent
blah this guy sucks

4 days and no zed

i got the femal sticklebush and the other dude that seems to be always duelwielding 2 FS weapons

i can never get those two to stay (at the fire place) becuase they seems to wonder off and get killed... so the "leave the nameds up" tactic doesnt work for me :(
Dropped
# Jun 20 2006 at 9:57 AM Rating: Decent
Spawned in the middle tent, far right spawn near the back of tent entering from camp fire side. Took me 30 mins and dropped from first Zed ;P
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# Jun 17 2006 at 8:33 PM Rating: Decent
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spawned twice in 1 hr 21 mins 56 seconds, got it second time one at fire once a tent
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