an ancient cyclops  

Since the zone revamp, when Oasis was merged with South Ro, does the Ancient Cyclops still spawn there at all?

I'd like to hear confirmation from someone who witnessed it there. Most people tell me that it no longer spawns there, only on cyclops island in the Ocean of Tears.

I"ve also heard that it no longer spawns at the static placeholder spot that used to be on Erollisi Island in OOT (?).

days and days of camping him in 2000, now they tell us lol

I saw him today on cyclops island.

He was standing in the ravine under the east suspension bridge(LOC +1900,-3300).

Got him today, no idea what triggered him as I found him running around as I zoned in. Lvl 31, took all my mana, but didn't need to use my loh so fairly easy.

i used to think it was just a timed spawn but now I hear placeholders. allways been a mystery to me. I did kill it 35 times+ and lodozil 30+ times and bildge, and quilmaine, etc etc. never figured it out though. Lodozil it seemed was fairly predicable 10 hours about. AC though was just all over the place. seemed like 6 hours but then people seemed to be able to spawn it. we ran all around killing everything seemed pretty random.

Edited, Dec 20th 2007 9:21pm by acientcyclops

I can confirm that the ancient cyclops spawns on the seafury island quag does also and the tainted cyclops for druid epic
I got the ancient cyclops in the middle of the island basically.
I just kept killing near the druid ring.

Zoned in to do Tainted/Corrupted Seafury for epic 1.0

Jumped off boat at the wrong island cause my maps all disappeared. Swam over to the seafury island, didn't recognize a thing since the revamp. Stuck some labels on the islands, bound in between the seafury island and goblin island, just in the middle of the water.

Checked track several times, gated out to get a kei, gated back, AC was on track.

It was nighttime in game. Dunno exact time.

loc pos 1965, neg 3785, neg 133

I banked the ring, and dragged an alt back to the island, and in the 40 mins it took, another AC had popped.

BTW, the mudtoes were up the whole time. Neither AC was near the Mudtoe spawn spots.

As a follow up, in four days, the tainted popped once, and I have not seen the Ancient Cyclops again. Quag is up almost every hour.
Edited, Jul 21st 2007 4:43pm by glod

Edited, Aug 20th 2007 7:24:34pm by glod

I can confirm that he AC does spawn on the seafury island in the new OoT. I set up at the defunct druid ring on the south side of the island & agro kited seafuries on my baby necro. It took me a couple days of off & on killing to get the AC (I leveled from 35 to 37). I can confirm that he spawned in the big open area to the west of the old druid ring. I guess the ph can be any of the seafury cyclops so just kill at will.

It seems that the old spawn cycle with Boog Mudtoe no longer has the AC on it. I killed Boog 20+ times and he respawned each time. Hope this helps!

Got A.C. about 2 minutes ago. Total of 11 hours, 54 minutes of camping. 118 Place Holders, 1 A.C. I'm getting the heck out of here now. Lol. Oh, btw... Spawned in the usual place in OoT. Never tried the SRo, EKarana, SKarana ones and don't intend to. Just glad I got the ring. Buddy picked a bad time to come back to EQ, told him he should have came last month, Fabled J-Boots would have been soooo much easier to get. =D

I camped in OOT at AC island 25 hours off and on. no AC. there was a mage on seafury island and i talked to him. he said he had killed the AC 3 times on seafury island. think they moved AC camp to seafury island now since TBS expansion. Ive camped mudtoe on seafury island and he has a super long repop time so not sure hes the PH for AC. in SRO i think the AC has been nerfed and not sure where he pops in S. and E. Karana and may not have been nerfed. fingers crossed.
Bootstrutter in rathe mountains still is there but he walks around now instead of running. that was good news for Jboot ppl.
Hope this helps

Got lucky and got AC last night . Game time was 3am and he was the second spawn. Sooo Lucky I was. Yes he still spawns and cons LB to 48 cleric, Was easy kill as he should be for my level.Good luck to all.


Cleric do it better and with more class.

I want to confirm DukeLatin's method for the Ocean of Tears. Although I suspect you can get the A.C. faster in south ro, knowing the exact spot the guy will spawn on was just too easy for me. I can kill one mob every 6 minutes for 10 hours if I have something like homework or a PlayStation to fill in the time.

That being said, I'm ashamed to admit I got the ancient cyclops on the third respawn, so it took me 12 min., heh.

Killing the funny named mobs is not a complete answer. I had a long stretch when there were no such mobs on track, until I started killing other stuff then the funny names started showing up. So I'd say kill funny names first and when they are gone kill everything else.

Hello all,

I've been playing EQ for nearly 7 years and I've MQ'ed the J-Boots quest for literally hundreds of players over the years. Both myself and my friends have had oodles of experience in spawning the AC in South Ro and I'd like to share JUST THE FACTS that we've compiled over the years. No more rumors or speculations... no wild claims of special uber knowledge... just FACTS that we've collected:

(1) We have never seen him spawn during the day. I'm not interested in posts from people who claim "But... I killed the AC during the day..!!!" Yes, you killed him during the day, but only because he had spawned the night before and hadn't yet been killed by anyone else. He can remain up for quite some time... well into the daytime... before he eventually despawns. Am I 100% positive about this..? Nope... but again, in many years of camping the AC, we have never once seen him spawn during the daytime, but yet we have successfully spawned him hundreds of times during the night. Those are the facts, ma'am.

(2) Furthermore, we have only seen him pop on even-numbered hours during the night. In other words, WITH OUR OWN EYES we have only seen him pop at 8pm, 10pm, 12am, 2am, and 4am game time. If he spawns on odd-numbered hours, we have never seen that happen... not once in many years.

(3) Killing everything in the zone will not hasten his appearance. However, there do seem to be certain "unusual" mobs that belong to his spawn cycle. To be more clear: the AC seems to belong to one particular group of unusual creatures that can spawn in SRo. He will pop randomely as one of those unusual mobs, just as any of the others can at any given time, during the AC's spawn cycle...

Here's a few mobs that we've concluded are a part of his "spawn group..."

a madman
a mummy
Crypt Mummy
Sand Giant Hussam
an asp
a rattlesnake

If you'll notice, with the exception of the two named mobs (Crypt Mummy and Hussam), there's only one thing in common with those mobs: none of them have adjectives in their names. Since making note of this peculiarity, we've made a point of killing ONLY those mobs when we begin our AC camp in SRo. Interestingly, those mobs also seem to pop most often at night and on even-numbered hours. I have no idea why that is the case, but again... I am simply sharing the facts that we have gathered over the years.

(4) We have never seen any relationship between Terrorantula and the AC. We have, in fact, seen both of them pop simultaneously on more than one occasion.

Our method has been to begin hunting down unusually named mobs and nothing else. There are other such "unusually named" mobs, also. When we spot one, we kill them immediately. We leave everything else alone.

Following the above method, we have consistently spawned the AC within 2 nights (game time), and sometimes in as little as 90 minutes (of real time) from when we first begin. The fastest ever time was within 15 minutes of real time.... we just happened to hit a lucky roll in his cycle and he popped right away.

Disclaimer: what others have said is also true, however... since the AC can be any one of perhaps a dozen "unusual mobs" in the spawn cycle, and since that cycle is a random one... there is no guarantee that he will pop within any given amount of time, even if you do everything right. The bottom line is this: with the above method, you can speed things up, but being a random spawn means that he could still take quite awhile to arrive.

Happy camping..!!!


- Tessera -





Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 11:56am EDT by Tessmage

Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 12:24pm EDT by Tessmage

Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 1:35pm EDT by Tessmage

Spawned in S Ro on Sleeper Aug 7, 2006

Ok do this or don't do it. I've Jbooted DOZENS of times, this is my sequence.. take it or leave it.

[South Ro]
1) AC is a night spawn.... NEVER seen him in the day.
2) Kill sand tower mob at 8 pm game time.
3) Kill random placeholders till AC spawns. No need to kill everything in zone!

Random nitetime Placeholders can be:
Terrorantula's
a terrorantuling (sometimes a multi spawn)
a madman (not - a desert madman)
Sand Giant
Sand Giant Husam
a giant rattlesnake
A Sand Mummy
a dune tarantula
a teir`dal scout
a zombie
A Young Ronin
a ghoul
a crypt mummy (sometimes respawns in tower)
An Orc Raider (sometimes a multi spawn)
Anumnan Dathry
Crypt Mummy
Drybones Skeleton (not- dry bones skeleton)
and, pretty much anything starting with Capital letters

4) Kill placeholders continously till 6 am game time
5) Once a PH is dead another usually spawns within 3 minutes
6) After 6 am gametime... forget it untill 8 pm

Still a random spawned mob, but this will help.

Best of luck,

Ooom Aaah - 70 wiz, Rathe




Edited, Sun Feb 12 15:21:09 2006

For you nay-sayers out there, I just now followed the exact order of what this guy said, and sure enough, AC popped for me right on schedule :) Want the JBoots? Do it:

Heh, all my toons have Jboots, all my friends toons have Jboots. I've spawned the AC in SRo about 30 times now. You don't have to wear yourself out killing everything in the zone. There's a trick to it, but you need a bard, ranger or druid to track. First, eliminate any terrorantulas, terrorantulings, sand mummies, Young Ronin's from the previous spawn cycle. Watch the EQ game time carefully. If you have eliminated these, and any mobs with unusual capitolization in their names, then the zone is prepped. Watching the EQ game time, go to the undead tower and wait until at least 5:00PM game time, but I find it's usually better to wait until 8:00PM EQ time. Check to see how many people are in the zone. If its more than 3, the odds of the AC popping are drastically reduced. The fewer people in the zone, the more likely you will be able to spawn him. (In the early days of EQ the solution to people whining about KS'ing the AC was for Verant to alter the spawn table so the mob wouldn't pop unless the zone was nearly empty. LDoN really messed up the AC spawn in SRo with all the people hanging out in the LDoN camp, but if you can try this in the wee hours of the morning, or find the zone nearly empty, go for it.) So, at 8:00PM Norrath time step into the undead tower and kill the undead mob there. Watch your time closely and step in immediately as the game clock changes the hour. Odds are a bit better if its the skeleton, but sometimes the AC pops for the crypt mummy. Once you kill the mob, stand in the center of the undead tower and watch the EQ time again. As soon as the hour rolls over to the next EQ hour (3 minutes from when you stepped in), leave the tower and run out to the hill north of the Inky camp and start watching for the AC, A Young Ronin, a sand mummy, or mobs with unusual capitolization in thier names. Ignore any sand giants, they aren't PH's. If a sand mummy spawns, killing it will spawn the Terrorantula, or the Terrorantulings, and the AC will not spawn on that cycle. Kill any of these unusually named mobs, and a new mob will spawn immediately afterwards. Kill it. Very often the AC will spawn directly, but sometimes you have to drop a PH. Keep tracking throughout the EQ night. Once the sun comes up, the odds of the AC popping are drastically reduced. The latest I ever saw him spawn in the 30 times I've done him was 6:00AM EQ time, but almost always if he doesn't pop by 5:00AM then he won't pop. And that's how you get your Ring of the Ancients. (Standing in the Tower until the clock rolls over may just be superstitious on my part, but its worked really well for me many times, so I still do it every time. If you want to test the validity of this step, be my guest.) Again, if there are a bunch of people in the SRo zone, don't waste your time, go do something else. For the AC to spawn the zone must be nearly empty of players. Don't kill the mob in the tower before 5:00PM EQ time, or after 11:00PM EQ time. 8:00PM EQ time is optimal.

Here's another tip to avoid KS'ing from trackers sitting in the LDoN camp... pull the AC to the far NW corner of the map and kill him in the trench there. If you are getting the boots for an alt, you can camp the alt in the trench. This way he's out of tracking range of perhaps all but a Ranger in the LDoN camp, and killing him in the trench keeps him from being visible to people casually wandering through the zone. When you camp to your alt, if the AC's corpse is in the trench, nobody can see the body laying there waiting to be looted.

camping the OoT Ancient Cyclops

1) go to east freeport. talk to the gnome translocator on the docks. tell him you want to travel to the ocean of tears.

2) you will be translocated by the gnome to another dock in the ocean of tears. Right now, you're on "sister isle". From there you want to go *1* island over, to the west. This is the island you will camp the ancient cyclops on.

3) Ancient Cyclops Island - The Info
on this island there are some ruins from an old tower. inside it there is a high elf who sells magician spells. If you see her, then you are on the correct island.
there should only be 1 spawn on this island besides the merchant. It can be 1 of 5 creatures:
1. Boog Mudtoe (an ogre)
2. a pirate
3. an aqua goblin
4. a cyclops
5. an ancient cyclops

4) Once you are ready to start the spawn/ph cycle for the ancient cyclops (pending that it isn't camped already) you must find which 1 of these 5 creatures is up on the island. Once the mob pops they will wander the island, so if the mob is already up when you get there you must find it (i think it walks over to the west side of the island) and kill it to begin the cycle.

5) Now that you have killed it, look at a clock or do /time. The next Placeholder will pop in 6 minutes. Here is the spawn info you will need.
Go to this loc, on the east side of the island: 1008 , -8022. This spot is in the SE corner of the island on a little area of land that looks like half of an octagon on your map. It's just a stone's throw from where Saldra Trailfinder stands. Once the 6 minutes passes, you should see another PH pop up at this spot.

6) Repeat process every 6 minutes, the PH will keep spawning here till an ancient clops pops. Happy Hunting! I got my ring in 6 hours or so
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Extra Info:
*to be exact, the pop time is 5min 53sec +/- a second or so.

*From what I have read, the ancient cyclops is about a 1% pop rate. Based on this rate and assuming the placeholder is killed every 6 minutes that would mean you kill 10 every hour. so after 10 hours you will have killed 100 mobs.. which means that an ancient cyclops should have popped within those 100 mobs/10 hours; my point is, he is a rare pop and it could be 10 minutes of camping or 10 hours :(

*The seafury cyclops', on the island over are not involved with the ancient spawn in anyway. There's no need to kill anything except the 1 spawn on the ancient cyclops island.

*if you need a stopwatch, here is a cool program i found. you can set the options so that you can start and stop the timer with a key-press on a button you rarely use such as scroll lock.
Timer Program


Edited, Fri Dec 30 03:47:29 2005

AC Popped last night in S-Ro (about 7:30pm GMT), I was starting my JBoot quest and entered the zone to discover only one other person in there who witnessed and killed the AC 30 minutes before. I enquired via General how do you get the One eyed swine to pop again and they said "KILL EVERYTHING!" I checked here on Alla and this too seems to be how people believe to get him to pop also. He popped the other player wiped him out and /tell'ed me it was here if I wanted to loot it.

I did noticed that the AC seemed to spawn when the named spider (Terrorantula) was killed (dark blue to my 48 Ranger) releasing the oodles of smaller spiders it was after this moment did the other person shouted me about AC.

A lot of things in the zone were still very much alive.

Hope this helps in a wee way.

killed him 2 day w/friend blue to a 35 in s ro so i think that is a low level versoin in s ro, he was by oasis zone line

just finished doing this guy twice... thank you for previous posters info...

used a 65 druid, could track the entire desert... used my pet as a marker on the track window.

i don't know what the undead tower has to do with the tea in china, but i kept it empty. i found the regular dune tarantula's don't seem to be tied to anything, but i killed 'em anyways ;)

i kept the 4-spawns dead (terrortantulings (commonly) , desert tarantulas (commonly), pumas (twice), shriveled mummies (once)). mostly, i noticed, was that there was always 1 singular mob in the desert (by singular i mean only 1 up at a time): a crypt mummy, a sand mummy, a shriveled mummy, a rattlesnake, a cistern asp, a jackal, a zombie, a dervish cutthroat (no capitals like the regulars). i kept those killed as well and in both cases, the ancient cyclops spawned within the first eq night of me logging on.

only saw 3 sand giants, and 1 named giant... there's also a named zombie wandering out there who doesn't like dots or can be rooted/snared :D (dark blue at 65)

perhaps coincidence. i don't know, but if you're only in need of 1 ring, s'all good ;) i will say that after i got the 1st ring, the cyclops didn't spawn the rest of the RL evening for me.

Well im a lvl 26 monk thats not special and just by chance ran through and saw the Cyclops....i had temp and sow and a soloed the giant with 32% left....got the J boots about 30mins later with the help of a lvl 60 mage

Soloed him with a 38 bard using selos constant chain, tuyens chant of flame and fufils curtailing chant. Just kite him around the island, battle took about 8 minutes. I dropped him in OOT which is the only place ive seen him so far.

Heh, all my toons have Jboots, all my friends toons have Jboots. I've spawned the AC in SRo about 30 times now. You don't have to wear yourself out killing everything in the zone. There's a trick to it, but you need a bard, ranger or druid to track. First, eliminate any terrorantulas, terrorantulings, sand mummies, Young Ronin's from the previous spawn cycle. Watch the EQ game time carefully. If you have eliminated these, and any mobs with unusual capitolization in their names, then the zone is prepped. Watching the EQ game time, go to the undead tower and wait until at least 5:00PM game time, but I find it's usually better to wait until 8:00PM EQ time. Check to see how many people are in the zone. If its more than 3, the odds of the AC popping are drastically reduced. The fewer people in the zone, the more likely you will be able to spawn him. (In the early days of EQ the solution to people whining about KS'ing the AC was for Verant to alter the spawn table so the mob wouldn't pop unless the zone was nearly empty. LDoN really messed up the AC spawn in SRo with all the people hanging out in the LDoN camp, but if you can try this in the wee hours of the morning, or find the zone nearly empty, go for it.) So, at 8:00PM Norrath time step into the undead tower and kill the undead mob there. Watch your time closely and step in immediately as the game clock changes the hour. Odds are a bit better if its the skeleton, but sometimes the AC pops for the crypt mummy. Once you kill the mob, stand in the center of the undead tower and watch the EQ time again. As soon as the hour rolls over to the next EQ hour (3 minutes from when you stepped in), leave the tower and run out to the hill north of the Inky camp and start watching for the AC, A Young Ronin, a sand mummy, or mobs with unusual capitolization in thier names. Ignore any sand giants, they aren't PH's. If a sand mummy spawns, killing it will spawn the Terrorantula, or the Terrorantulings, and the AC will not spawn on that cycle. Kill any of these unusually named mobs, and a new mob will spawn immediately afterwards. Kill it. Very often the AC will spawn directly, but sometimes you have to drop a PH. Keep tracking throughout the EQ night. Once the sun comes up, the odds of the AC popping are drastically reduced. The latest I ever saw him spawn in the 30 times I've done him was 6:00AM EQ time, but almost always if he doesn't pop by 5:00AM then he won't pop. And that's how you get your Ring of the Ancients. (Standing in the Tower until the clock rolls over may just be superstitious on my part, but its worked really well for me many times, so I still do it every time. If you want to test the validity of this step, be my guest.) Again, if there are a bunch of people in the SRo zone, don't waste your time, go do something else. For the AC to spawn the zone must be nearly empty of players. Don't kill the mob in the tower before 5:00PM EQ time, or after 11:00PM EQ time. 8:00PM EQ time is optimal.

Here's another tip to avoid KS'ing from trackers sitting in the LDoN camp... pull the AC to the far NW corner of the map and kill him in the trench there. If you are getting the boots for an alt, you can camp the alt in the trench. This way he's out of tracking range of perhaps all but a Ranger in the LDoN camp, and killing him in the trench keeps him from being visible to people casually wandering through the zone. When you camp to your alt, if the AC's corpse is in the trench, nobody can see the body laying there waiting to be looted.

I spent maybe 2 hours hunting in the desert. I killed a couple of giants and that Moldrak guy twice. I cleared out the sunken tower. Nothing. So I gated, hunted elsewhere for awhile, then ran back to SRo. Another person, a froggie, sends me a tell to come to loc such-and-such. Bingo! Dead ancient one-eyed guy right there! Sweet. I get the ring and thank my fellow countrymen before opening a silver bullet and callin it quits. Me so tired.

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