rotting skeleton  

If you zone into DL from FV side, turn right (North) and head towards the spiders *should be marked on the map* once you find the spiders, head a slight northeast angle and you should see either rotting skelly or his PH there.

Got him 4th spawn easy camp =) gluck all also the location is good.

Man I don't understand it. Some people can't get the mob in under a half of day and others are getting multiple in little time. I hope these people are just joking =P. I spent 10 hours just on the pained soul, and on my first 1/2 hour for the rotting skele.

Anyway, 41 PHs later I got him.

Edited, Mon Sep 19 21:16:11 2005

Ok ,...im going to rant , but i will try to keep it short.

Does Sony have any consideration for people that have jobs and stuff? Ya know, people who wanna play EQ and still enjoy the game , while at the same time, providing a living for themselves?
You see, i find it incredibly ridiculous that Sony would create these quests that take 7+ hours to complete ONE - just ONE portion of NINE portions needed to complete the quest. ITS NOT EVEN FUN FOR GOD'S SAKE. Let me give an example of a fun quest -

Sol C - a very underused dungeon , at least on my server , offers a couple of different quests in the zone to complete. While camping whatever mobs you need, you have lots of time and space to clear out portions of the dungeon, earning a lil loot, sometimes coming across named and getting a nice drop , and actually earning a lil exp , and possibly having fun with an entire group.
A couple days of killing in there , you will not only have earned mebbe an AA or two , but some nice cash from loot, definitly a decent drop or two (necklace of mirage seeker and planar shield come to mind) but you will have also , in all likelihood, aquired the items you need to complete your quests.

As i type this , i am sitting in the dreadlands....at a point on the map where ONE skeleton spawns every 12 minutes or so? ...waiting ENDLESSLY to obtain ONE - ONE lousy piece to a quest that is already made extremely difficult with a Trakanon kill. Overcomplication Kills it.
Do ya get the big picture yet Sony? I don't have 8 hours to kill everyday to camp the 5 mobs needed to complete this , ON TOP OF trying to catch Trak up and dragging a raid there. This results in players not being able to enter a zone. Thus creating blocked content . Thus creating a very unhappy player base.

There is nothing gratifying about sitting in one single spot for over 7 hours waiting for ONE skeleton to spawn. Its downright depressing **reaches for another bottle of pills** I can see making me go thru a couple PH's. Im not asking for the key to VP to be handed over to me. But for god's sake - FIND A HAPPY MEDIUM - Just meet me halfway !!!!!! I WANT to play your game...i WANT to see VP - i pay every month so i can enjoy ...what? Sitting in DL for 8 hours?

My friends laugh at me and send tells saying **oh my god you are STILL there?** While they are dinging 67-68 and 69 - asking me to come to Walls to camp, i say , no , im on a mission to prove how HORRIBLE this quest is - so i can post on Alla's and hope to god someone takes notice. Its downright ridiculous. Like stated in another post pertaining to this quest - i would rather sit in ME and collect Vex Thall shards. please...in the name of all thats holy....somebody get the word thru to Sony that i am paying my subscription every month regardless . The LEAST they can do is throw a dog a bone , and make a quest mob pop more often than once in a day . For Goodness sake, i STILL dont have my drop - and i have 4 more mobs to kill. PLEASE fix this. I promise Im not going anywhere...i swear you will still get my money every single month. Just ,..fix this!!!

**edit - 9 + hours it took for my spawn. He finaly popped for me, and on i went to TT to catch the pained soul. There was a cleric from another guild, 2nd day in a row this poor guy had spent 6 hours camping this mob , and still hadn't got him. A member of my guild suggested i park a low lvl mob near the spawn points of AJ/PS/VKR/BM/RS ...unfortunatly i cannot toggle 5 low lvl alts to try and catch these mobs up by luck. It just doesnt seem practical. Besides , camping a low lvl is very dangerous for a few of these mobs.Im sure i would wind up with a death or two on my hands, complicating the quest further.
Does this seem beyond absurd yet ?

Edited, Fri Sep 17 05:31:07 2004

I you have a decent, long duration DS(read: are a ranger), or have a pet to kill it for ya, the aggro range is large enough that if you stand back at the base of the steep part of zone wall, he'll run over and start smacking you. I set a 7 minute timer, soon as I kill him I go AFK. Timer goes off, I come back to comp and he's been beating on my DS for 10-15 seconds. Works like a charm... never any adds.

Camped him for 8 hours solid today. About 65 PHs before he spawned. Not much fun.

the spawn time for this camp is about 6 minutes 39 seconds

If you are a pet class, and aren't up for the standard 2-8 hour camping of this mob there's a much easier method.

Summon your pet, and stand on top of his spawn point. The PH's will agro you, pet will kill them, repeat as you sleep.

The beauty of this is -- the rotting skeleton is non-agro. He's indifferent to all. So when he pops while your asleep, he won't agro, get killed and be wasted.

When you wake up / get back from work / the store / whatever, you should have one VP key piece mob waiting at your disposal.

I consider myself lucky because he only took about 3hours and a few minutes to spawn for me. Little tip since the place holder pops about every 8 minutes, turn on your game sound and minimize your screen so you can surf the web. He will agro when he pops and you will hear him attack you which will let you know to get back in game and kill him. You most likely wont die because if your camping for the key you should be high enough to take a couple of his melee's. Good luck to you all hoping he spawns.

Angerclaw
65 warrior
Asatru

Took him down twice last night, within 30 minutes. Was simply clearing the skelly camp by using sense undead, and pulled him into target.