Easy farm info: 1. Set a campfire. 2. Park trackbot on hill (behind balcony). 3. Kill all 4 castle named (GV, RM, XS, TA). 4. If HG spawns: kill him, get Vald 5. If HG don't spawn, go somewhere else, kill stuff, afk/websurf, whatever. 6. 1-2hr check respawn w/trackbot, repeat.
I got normal HG/Vald 2x (back to back!) and later that night, Fabled HG/Fabled Vald in one swoop. HG is tied to the death of the namers in castle (at least XS, TA for sure). Kill em. he spawns, cool. he dont, try named again in an hour or two. Dont waste time killin the trash all day (or the Corrupter, insatiate :P)
The spawn rate of Heratius/Valdonov appears to be 1 in 10 clearings of the 4 winged nameds (not the insatiate or the corruptor). The nameds spawn time is approximately 1 hour. Starting on the 1st day of the Anniversary, I have killed the nameds at least 5 times a day... sometimes as many as 10 a day. I have triggered and killed the Heratius/Valdanov pair 9 times. All 9 non-Fabled.
I petitioned and asked if the mob was still spawning. A GM responded that they had no record of the mob spawning this Anniversary and that they were researching the issue. Another GM closed my petition the following day saying that everything was operating as intended. (which didn't answer my question)
What a horrible horrible camp this is. On the 1st day of fabled I spent almost the entire day camping this guy. I took an hour or 2 break but someone stopped in while I was gone and said that both non fables popped while I was gone. I kept every named killed (conflicting opinion if that has to be done) and kept the top floor perma killed the instant it spawned. I was even killing the pally epic guy just because he was there. I had 2 of the fabled boot drop guys spawn. These fables should auto spawn at least every few hours. This camp is incredibly tedious.
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OMG finally got him to spawn. He is exactly what I did when he spawned.
I logon from my camp spot on the hill across from the balcony. I kill both Centurians on either side of the balcony.
I then kill the Initiate that spawns in the center of the balcony next to the wall.
The roaming vamp from the 3rd floor Trilexior Aeridia comes onto the balcony and I kill it.
I look over to my right and the non-fabled Heratius Grolden has spawned.
I pull him inside and fight along the wall. I never got aggro from the Coterie Corruptor.
I look outside on the balcony and The Fabled Valdanov Zevfeer is sitting there.
It took me 1 1/2 weeks to get this guy to spawn. Good luck to all those thinking of doing this.
I just did the camp yesterday. I sat there from 9 am till 1:30 am that night. I had 9 of the 3rd Floor named show up... 2 times killing him allowed The Fabled Heratius Grolden to appear and then the non-fabled Valdanov Zevfeer. I continuially cleared the castle of spawns (went from indifferent to warm with the katta guards on my Ogre SK). I plan on contining to camp this until I get the correct sequence of non fabled HG and then Fabled VZ.
This mob is full of crap. I camped him a whole day. Well just about. Started at about 9 in the morning stayed there till 11pm at night. Had 3 of the Fabled Boot mob spawn. but no Heratious or Vald. THIS SUCKS BIG TIME!!!
Killed Trilexior Aeridia, the roaming flappy on the top floor, which spawned non-fabled Heratius Grolden, which in turn spawned The Fabled Valdanov Zevfeer, an even con at level 75. Dropped his regular quest ashes as well as the 80/80 Fabled Ashes augment.
Killed normal Horatius and Valdenov today around 11:30 CET on AB, so at least they spawn despite of that strange "under the world" bug with the Bloody Vampire and his bats.
Horatius popped immdiately after killing the last of the four named (Trilexior Aeridia, the one roaming the second floor and who is a chanter mob), left side of balcony if you are looking towards the balocny from inside the castle.
Valdenov spawned right after Horatius death in centre of balcony, in front of the chanter epic mob.
I suspect normal Horatius will spawn normal Valdenov and vice-versa if Horatius is fabled, but it's only a hypothesis.
By the way, pet was aboslutely able to stick melee hits on Valdenov without bane weapons. According to EQ Companion, I parsed exactly 24.509 hps for normal Horatius and 92.144 hps for normal Valdenov.
i camped him for about 30 hours total on povar, got the regular Heratius and Zevfeer to pop. I all i know is that they are tied to the other 4 named spawned
I am thinking too he might be bugged since Tuesday's patch (28.03.2007). Impossible to spawn Horatius, either normal or fabled, but got twice on the balcony the Bloody Vampire who really should not be there and anyhow is a Halloween event mob.
Possibly Tuesday's patch bugged something and the Bloody Vampire spawns instead of Horatius ?
I am thinking too he might be bugged since Tuesday's patch (28.03.2007). Impossible to spawn Horatius, either normal or fabled, but got twice on the balcony the Bloody Vampire who really should not be there and anyhow is a Halloween event mob.
Possibly Tuesday's patch bugged something and the Bloody Vampire spawns instead of Horatius ?