Quillmane  

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Uploaded October 18th, 2018 by iventheassassin
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A Comment by user Iventheassassin can be found below which goes into great detail about how to spawn this creature.

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2018-10-18 13:05:06.

Level: 30
Expansion: Original
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-07-31 11:03:53

Known Habitats:
  South Karana

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Treant PH?!?!!
# Sep 12 2009 at 1:10 AM Rating: Decent
2 posts
Ok folks im not trying to throw everything off here but I have been camping this guy all night and killed him several times. I am only killing him and his PH so no other mobs. I have been the only one in the zone for hours and all of a sudden a treant spawns and is above my marker. It looks to me like the PH can be a treant but is ultra rare.

just when we thought we had it all figured out.
North Of Paw
# Jul 19 2009 at 12:43 PM Rating: Decent
I was killing south of paw like almost all the posts say to do,,well I found him in the north almost to the zone line..
tactic
# Jun 03 2009 at 1:27 PM Rating: Decent
ok, this is the tactic I used to get quillmane. I read all the ones already on this page and they helped, but were somewhat confusing.

I got a tracker, who sat in the center of the split paw hilly area, with track up constantly.

with my other toon, I ran around the southern part of the map (east of the aviak city), killing every "an elephant", "centaur archer", "lion", "lioness", and "escaped splitpaw gnoll" I could see. I would then constantly check the tracker to see if any PH's (the mobs I just listed) spawned near that area, or if quillmane spawned. eventually, after about an hour, quillmane spawned, and I got my cloak.

I hope this helps.
tactic
# Aug 17 2009 at 4:19 AM Rating: Decent
The One and Only Bethgin wrote:
ok, this is the tactic I used to get quillmane. I read all the ones already on this page and they helped, but were somewhat confusing.

I got a tracker, who sat in the center of the split paw hilly area, with track up constantly.

with my other toon, I ran around the southern part of the map (east of the aviak city), killing every "an elephant", "centaur archer", "lion", "lioness", and "escaped splitpaw gnoll" I could see. I would then constantly check the tracker to see if any PH's (the mobs I just listed) spawned near that area, or if quillmane spawned. eventually, after about an hour, quillmane spawned, and I got my cloak.

I hope this helps.


I followed your instructions and Quillmane popped w/in 45 mins, and I got my cloak! Thanks. :)
78 sec ph
# Apr 20 2009 at 8:28 PM Rating: Decent
I was able to get Quilly to pop a few times after finding the 78 sec ph. It popped most often in the SE part of zone (always south of Paw, as others have said). It was tricky finding the ph at first, but i used a bot on another account as a tracking marker and after finding the PH it was really easy to track it down. I also followed the suggestion of another person who used a /gsay macro to time when the PH was killed, which worked quite nicely.

For me the most common PHs were a lioness (by far), a lion, an escaped splitpaw gnoll, and an undead cyclops. Used a 59 ranger w/ tracking around 190.

I should also add that one time he did actually drop reg version of cloak and fabled cloak.

Edited, Apr 20th 2009 9:30pm by Skua

Edited, Apr 20th 2009 9:40pm by Skua
First Spawn, First Drop
# Mar 19 2009 at 8:59 PM Rating: Decent
I was at it for only about 1 hour and 20 minutes, finally I saw Quillmane on my Ranger's track.. Tracked him down, killed him... Cloak.. first time. First drop.

O.... M.....G....

The joy. :)
confirming this works
# Mar 06 2009 at 7:37 AM Rating: Decent
Got the cloak for my monk last night. My 59 ranger with tracking 200 took about 3 hours to isolate the ph. Followed several false leads in which all the mobs were just the right ones (mist wolf, escaped spitpaw gnoll, etc.) only to pop Cracktusk, or the Undead Cyclops. Note there is also a shortened cycle for some mobs, so if you kill a correct mob like a lion and another correct mob pops in 36 seconds you can forget about that mob. I chased a lot of lion/lionesses, but actually started the cycle by killing a centaur archer. Once I got my first Quillmane the order was

Quillmane
Quillmane
Escaped Spitpaw Gnoll
Centaur Courser
lion
lion
lion
Quillmane
elephant
escaped spitpaw gnoll
escaped spitpaw gnoll
centaur archer
Quillmane
elephant
escaped spitpaw gnoll
escaped spitpaw gnoll
mist wolf
aviak egret
mist wolf
centaur archer
lion
mistwolf
lion
Quillmane with the cloak

Note some posts in this thread suggest you might not be able to track the whole area with tracking 200 since mobs do pop on the far east and west side of the zone. My tracking point which I added a label for on the map was -5182, +117 and my ranger caught every mob in the cycle from there.

danoh - 85 monk on the Bristlebane/Sol Ro server
more quillmane info
# Nov 23 2008 at 4:20 AM Rating: Decent
48 posts
did quillmane for wifes epic today

biggest problem was getting the PH pegged after that its pretty much how others have noted

did about 80 some spawns before i lost track of PH ( got sleepy) 43 were on the west side of tracking location 24 were east, 7 due north, and 8 due south.

Quillmane seems to pop about 1 in 12 spawns ( i got her 7 times out of 80-82 spawns ) and seems to drop the cloak about 1 in 3 ( got 2 cloaks )

the mobs on the cycle included:
Centuar Charger (rare)
a lion
a lioness
a shadow wolf
a mist wolf
an escaped splitpaw gnoll
an elephant
avaik harrier (rare)
centuar chaltie (rare)
aviak darter (uncommon)
aviak egret (uncommon)
cyclops (rare)

possibly centuar archer but this is about where i lost the spawn so dont quote me

3 of the spawns were out of tracking range even at 200 tracking but found them quickly heading west. they were almost hugging the west wall when i found them i always made it back to tracking point before next pop with just SoW ( none tracked out of range to the east for me at least untill i lost spawn)

for timing purposes i made a hot key ( use /sa if not grouped)
/g PH killed
/pause 1000
/g 10 seconds....
/pause 90
/g pop
more quillmane info
# Dec 13 2008 at 6:23 PM Rating: Decent
Just wanted to confirm that everything this guy said is totally correct. Here are some stats that i compiled during my hunt. I'm not claiming that these are accurate percentages. Take what you want from it:

Sample Size: 70 mobs

Escaped Splitpaw Gnoll: (15) 21.4%
Lion: (15) 21.4%
Lioness: (8) 11.4%
Quillmane: (8) 11.4%
Elephant: (7) 10%
Shadow Wolf: (7) 10%
Mist Wolf (3) 4.3%
Aviak Harrier (2) 2.9%
Cent. Sheltie: (2) 2.9%
Aviak Rook: (1) 1.4%
Cent. Charger: (1) 1.4%
Treant: (1) 1.4%

Quillmane Drops:

Leggings: (6/8) 75%
Cloak: (2/8) 25%
My experiance that got me my cloak
# Jul 06 2008 at 5:19 AM Rating: Default
18 posts
I used a combination of two theories to get my cloak, and while it wasn't exactly a fast method it'll work:

I started off by just circling the zone and taking out all of Quillmane's common PH's - a lion, a lioness, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, a cyclops, an undead cylcops, an escaped splitpaw gnoll, an elephant, and maybe an Aviak egate and an centear foul.

At this point none of these guys were in the zone, and still no sighting of Quillmane, so I switched stratagies. Instead I parked myself infront of the Splitpaw entrance and killed all the non-named/non-gnolls that came down the middle of splitpaw. Eventually I had Brother Qwinn, Cracktust, Gnawfang, Grizzleknot, Sentry Alechin and about two trash mobs walking through. I picked one, and worked the 78sec spawn cycle, and sure enough, I got 2 back-to-back Quillmane spawns (no cloak of course) but less then half an hour later or sticking with that spawn cycle I got my third Quillman, and my cloak!

of the roughly 20 times I killed Q and his PH, I'd say most of the time, he would spawn in the SW corner of the zone, though the Q that had my cloak spawned just south of splitpaw on the mapfiend map, where it has Q listed as spawning.

I started Friday night, and ended Saturday night and I probably put in about 10-15 hours stoping and starting over 1 day, and since I managed to trigger every other rare spawn, that's about as unlucky as you're gonna get.

Edited, Jul 6th 2008 9:23am by Zukiki
My experiance that got me my cloak
# Sep 12 2008 at 7:15 AM Rating: Decent
30 posts
Just wanted to put my two cents in:

The 78 second spawn cycle is right on! A couple of things to note tho:

There are 2 or 3 78 second ph's that spawn in the southern half of the zone. One is Cracktusk, Quillmane and I'm not sure what the other is but that ph spawns up even and east of Paw sometimes.

The way to determine if you are tracking Quillmanes PH is that it only spawns south of Paw and it spawns on the WEST and EAST side of the zone. All other 78 second PH spawns only in South Central and South East part of zone, never South West. Q's PH will spawn on BOTH sides of the zone and only in the south.

I was able to spawn him several times once I located the correct PH. The method I used for this was to:

1. Run around the zone and collect all A LION, A LIONESS and kill them at once and then start tracking any 78 second spawns from these kills. If none of these are on a 78 second timer or if it spawns anywhere other than south of paw ie..even with paw or north of paw you have the wrong PH. Also if the PH never spawns on the southwest side of the zone, you have the wrong PH. Q's PH will spawn only in the south and it will spawn on the west and east sides of the southern half of the zone.

NOTE: THERE IS A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF MOBS THAT YOU CAN MAINTAIN AGRO. AFTER YOU REACH THIS LIMIT, EVERYTIME YOU AGRO ANOTHER MOB YOU WILL LOSE ONE OF THE ONES THAT WERE AGRO'D ON YOU. I COULD NOT AGRO EVERY SINGLE LION/LIONESS IN THE ZONE. I GOT TO A CERTAIN NUMBER AND THEY STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THE CHASE.

2. Repeat step 1 with all of the following mobs:

aviak darter
aviak egret
an elephant
a mist wolf
a treant
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
a cyclops
centaur foal
centaur archer

Once you find the right PH, you will spawn Quillmane fairly often. I spawned Q 5 times in two hours and 3 times was just south and east of paw at the point marked on the mapfiend map. NOT THE NORTH MARK!!! Quillmane never spawns NORTH of PAW! NEVER!! Neither does his PH.

I got 2 feathered leggins and 1 cloak, I then announced to one of the Genneral chat channels that I had him spawning and any that wanted him should come and get him while I had him going. I then proceeded to spawn him 2 more times for 2 different Mages and they both got cloaks on his first spawn for them. :)

This method works very well. The hardes part about it is finding the correct PH.

Hope this helps cause before I read the original post about the 78 second spawn timer, I was running around the zone like an idiot killing everything that moved and was hoping for blind luck to spawn Quillmane. I did this for 11 straight hours and not one single Qillmane. Then I read the posts about the ph and 78 second spawn cycle and tried and it worked well.

THANKS TO THE PERSON WHO FIGURED THIS OUT! YOU HAVE MADE MY LIFE MUCH BETTER!!!
cant spawn him
# May 14 2008 at 8:01 AM Rating: Decent
12 posts
I tried to follow the guides and basically killed everything in the oval for 4 hours but it didnt spawn. Am I missing something?

Haquiem Wanderingmage
60 Mage
Emarr
Spawned him today...
# May 12 2008 at 10:47 PM Rating: Decent
Spawned this guy today...hardest part of this camp is figuring out what PHs are in the cycle. After you get the rotation down, it is fairly easy to keep track of the mobs. I am a 79 ranger with 260 track, so I was able to track the newly spawned PH everytime with track set to normal. After about 5 hours and 3 Quillmane kills, he spawned back to back times and had the cloak both times.

If anyone needs the crown of elemental mastery and is on the Tribunal server, send Saediin a tell, I am keyed to the 7th island in sky and can pick one up for you.
5 Fabled in 5 hours
# Apr 14 2008 at 10:33 PM Rating: Decent
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263 posts
The guide works nicely. I manged to get the spawn to 2 phs who crossed paths, so i kept both phs dead. Managed to get 5 fabled pops in 5 hours .. not 1 an hour mind you. Got 3 in a row after spending 2 hours isolating the PH. Then got the last one right at 5 hours (when I quit for the night).

Like the guide says, have patience. You can do this even if others are killin in zone, I did using a 53 druid tracker.

Good luck!

Note: only fableds popped, only fabled cloaks dropped, all 5 had the legs.
Quillmane, Brother Qwinn & Other South Karana Named
# Mar 05 2008 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
See my page:

Echelon's Quillmane Spoiler

Fabled mobs are this month. Fabled Quillmane pops on the regular Quillmane cycle. Fabled Quillmane will drop a fabled cloak each time and possibly a regular cloak too.
argh
# Feb 26 2008 at 6:18 PM Rating: Decent
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200 posts
according to all these notes, i am doing everything exactly and perfectly right... i am only killing mobs off the known list of possible ph's, got a 78 second spawn cycle going all spawning in the area south and east of splitpaw, every mob thats showing up on track at 78 seconds is on the known ph list... with one exception.... i have yet to see quillmane or "an elephant" but i've now seen a barbarian named Marik Clubthorn spawn three times on this cycle. there is no mention of this named anywhere in this thread that i can find... i've not been killing extra mobs on the side, once i narrowed down the cycle to the ones on the timer, i quit killing anything else... i don't get it, been here all day and not seen Quillmane once, just this stupid barbarian =/

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 8:57am by Shadriel
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Shyntrai the Noble - BE Hunter (WoW - retired)
argh
# Feb 26 2008 at 8:33 PM Rating: Decent
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200 posts
ok i zoned out and let the zone "reset" like some suggested and started off killing the first north/south roamer i saw goin thru splitpaw area (a lioness) then had consistant 78 second repops from there on, all with the listed known ph's including the "an elephant" which i was not seeing before and all in the right areas and guess what? ... oh joy, more of Marik the barbarian, bane of my life it seems... seen him 3 more times and no quillmane... i'm of the opinion that the dev that created this lunacy needs to be drug into the street and shot... ugh :(
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Shyntrai the Noble - BE Hunter (WoW - retired)
argh
# Feb 27 2008 at 8:49 AM Rating: Decent
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200 posts
just wanted to note an observation... every time i see a roamer path directly thru splitpaw, it is a lioness... could just be a hell of a coincidence but i have also noticed that occasionally a lioness will show up at the top of tracking (as a new spawn) when it shouldn't... meaning noone else has been killing anything and it spawned at the wrong time to be the next PH on the cycle i'm working... i have a theory that if a PH for any several of these nameds stays up long enough to roam its entire path, it will despawn and respawn as a lioness, who then paths north, straight thru splitpaw. anyone else noticed this?

and wow i am getting frustrated with this thing, even when i leave every named up that i can, i still can't seem to pin down the right PH's... either that or i'm just having my typical bad string of luck and Q doesn't wanna spawn for me... /sigh
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Shadriel Valshara'Slyan - DE Cleric (EQ)
Shyntrai the Noble - BE Hunter (WoW - retired)
Cracktusk
# Jan 10 2008 at 9:35 PM Rating: Decent
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1,273 posts
I just spent an hour or two on the wrong cycle and wanted to warn you guys about it! All the PHers for it were on the east half of the zone, and all approximately as northern as the gnoll spires. The timer was also a 78 second spawn, and featured very similar mobs to Quillmane's cycle. The list went:

lion, lioness, shadow wolf, escaped splitpaw, elephant, aviak darter, shadow wolf, lioness, escaped splitpaw, lion, lioness, lion, lioness, centaur sheltie, escaped splitpaw, shadow wolf, aviak darter, an elephant, lioness, escaped splitpaw, mist wolf, aviak egret, escaped splitpaw, lion, lioness, elephant, escaped splitpaw, lioness, elephant, lion, lioness, aviak darter, shadow wolf, aviak harrier, lion, lion, lion, escaped splitpaw, escaped splitpaw, lion, shadow wolf, lioness, lion, mist wolf, aviak egret, shadow wolf, treant, lioness, lion, lion, elephant, elephant, lion, shadow wolf, mist wolf, lion, centaur sheltie, lion, Cracktusk

Possible clues that this was the wrong cycle are that the PHers were in a concentrated area, that there was an unlikely high number of elephants, that the spawns were centered further north and east to quill, and that the mobs tended to roam diagonally rather than (I believe) Quill's PHers are meant to move due north/south.


Quillmane Info
# Dec 30 2007 at 5:49 PM Rating: Decent
I helped a friend the other day get Quillmane's cloak, and decided to share some info to help others who are also trying to hunt down a cloak.

Quillmane was up, so I ran my 50 Ranger with Tracking near 200 to South Karana. Nobody else was in the zone, and nobody was killing any mobs (this is important when trying to isolate the right spawn/place holder). We killed Quillmane, but he dropped the legs. Using the 78 second timer information, I couldn't find the right spawn. In retrospect, I might have made an error in my calculations.

In any case, I killed several of the mobs at the top of my tracking (set on normal, to detect the most recent spawns). Cracktusk spawned. We left him up, since he is NOT a place holder for Quillmane. After killing a few mobs, Quillmane spawned again. I killed him, and he dropped the legs again.

I went to the spot marked "Quillmane" on the map downloaded from mapfiend.net, and after 78 seconds passed, I checked tracking and sure enough, a new spawn popped. I would kill this mob, and 78 seconds later, from the "Quillmane spot", I tracked the new mob. I did this for a few hours and went through many placeholders, until Quillmane popped again. This time he dropped the cloak.

The following is a list of DEFINITE placeholders for Quillmane that I made after I found the right spawn (they are in the order that they spawned while I was hunting him):

Quillmane
... (some mobs I didn't record initially)
mist wolf
escaped Splitpaw gnoll
centaur foal
mist wolf
lioness
escaped Splitpaw gnoll
mist wolf
escaped Splitpaw gnoll
an elephant
lion
lion
an elephant
cyclops
shadow wolf
lion
lioness
an elephant
lion
aviak egret
lion
escaped Splitpaw gnoll
lion
lioness
lion
lion
lioness
Quillmane
an elephant

At this point, a 51 mage entered the zone and did not respond to my tells, where I explained that I was tracking the spawn (to help others get the cloak, too). He just started killing stuff indiscriminately, making it too difficult to make sure I was following the right spawn, so that is where my list of spawns ended.
Quillmane Info
# Jan 25 2008 at 9:39 AM Rating: Decent
I went back again to get my Paladin a clicky lev. I spent an hour in South Karana, and in that time, I got 2 cloaks - 1 for my pally, and the other was looted by my Ranger-alt. I had mentioned there was one in general chat, but the person coming for it couldn't get there in time, so I looted it before it rotted. If anyone on the Xegony server needs the pegasus cloak MQed, send Eonos a tell.

About half of the hour was spent finding the right spawn/PHer. These are the spawns in the order they appeared:

centaur foal
an elephant
Quillmane (had cloak)
a lioness
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
an elephant
Quillmane (had cloak)
Quillmane Info
# Jan 24 2008 at 8:54 AM Rating: Good
I helped another mage get his Pegasus cloak last night.

A note about finding the right spawn/PHer: Find a random roamer that paths through Paw. Kill it. Then wait 78 seconds, and hit tracking from the "Quill spot" just south of Paw. If something spawns 78 seconds later, and can be tracked with ranger tracking at around 200, it might be the right spawn. I did this with one spawn, until a mob didn't spawn at the 78 second timer. It turns out, I had spawned Cracktusk, but that he spawned outside of my tracking range. Leave Cracktusk and other nameds up. I soon found the right spawn/PHer after that.

From my experience, and from the posts of others here, Quillmane and his PHers only spawn within a certain area. The borders of that area are:
* It spawns as far north as Paw
* It spawns as far east as the hermit area
* It spawns as far south as the aviak city
* It spawns as far west as the western zone wall (if you get several spawns along the western wall, this is a good sign)

In about 2 hours, I was able to find the right PHer, kill 6 Quillmanes, and loot 1 pegasus cloak. Here are the spawns in the order they came in:

a lioness
aviak darter
a lioness
an elephant
Quillmane
a lion
a lioness
a mist wolf
aviak darter
a lion
a treant
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
Quillmane
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
Quillmane
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
a mist wolf
a lion
an elephant
a lioness
a cyclops
Aviak Egret
a lion
a lion
centaur foal
Quillmane
a lioness
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
a lion
a lioness
a lion
a lion
a treant
centaur archer
Quillmane (this one had the cloak)
Quillmane
Got Cloak - Add Treants
# Dec 11 2007 at 4:27 AM Rating: Decent
I hope this info might help....

I spawned Quillmane today solo as a mage/ranger, previously I had been switching between my then 20ish Ranger and 57 Mage as needed to kill mobs. I decided to level my Ranger to 33 and went to camp Q. I didn't have a timer to test the 78 sec theory but have done much research regarding this camp and had spawned her before, only got legs and was competing with others... At that time she spawned just SW of paw once and at paw near the west side once.

I believe She will re-spawn multiple times as others have said. The tricky part is to get her spawning.

I killed anything on track that was a supposed PH:
*Lion
*Lioness
*An Elephant
*An Adult Elephant
*Escaped Split Paw Gnoll?
?A Split Paw Gnoll (only seen once or twice)
?centaur sheltie and archer
*Mist and Shadow wolves
*ADD Roaming Treants

I had been just tracking anywhere South of paw but then changed strategy as this had me FAR South East.

I then altered this strategy, simply going back and forth between paw and the aviaks, ignoring anything that took me too far near the zone borders but still focusing on the above mobs. Interestingly enough this kept me more east/southeast than anything else.

I focused on anything at the top of my tracking list which was usually about 5 of the above.

Focus on the animal types... The treants will appear?

After I killed a hand-full of lioness and a few An elephants I saw two treants on track... switched to my mage and killed them, then back to ranger and Quillmane spawned soon after, con'd blue to 33 ranger.

I found her EAST /SE of Paw this time heading slightly NW, Diagonally NW of the hermit hut which is where I think she actually spawned.

I pulled her over to the hermit camp running SE, killed her nearby so I had a landmark to go to, Dinged 34 on the kill, SHE HAD CLOAK! logged my mage who was camped in SK, ran over to the corpse and couldn't loot at this time Gah! the anticipation!! Finally looted...

Logged my Ranger back on just to see... Treants were back up and roaming the area... I strongly believe the treants are on this cycle as i continued killing anything but them and didn't see her again after an hour. Brother Qwinn was then up and i logged off...

An interesting note is a warewolf had spawned Inside the hermit hut a little earlier but I lost it after the pups beat it down and it walked out of the hut, I had it targeted but it was 25% and running, never saw it... I didn't kill it... and I think it survived for a while only to die later.


Treants - Grzzleknott - Quillmane are on the same cycle imo. But Quillmane is not on this cycle exclusively.

Note that any mob that walks directly though paw is a potential mob of interest. Treants, lions, lionesses, An elephant, a cyclops, an undead cyclops and grizzleknot all do this as do Sentry Alechin and Brother Qwinn who have both been up at times I've spawned Quillmane.



Edited, Dec 11th 2007 7:54am by PinnacleofRallosZek
What he droped
# Dec 10 2007 at 8:29 PM Rating: Decent
21 posts
Just killed em... 1 hit done.. LOL
droped
Sunshard Dust
Feathered Leggings
Rune of Al'Kabor
Thanks and GL
Kindaaniel Dark Armada 75 Ranger Bristlebane
Quill Spawns
# Dec 10 2007 at 12:27 AM Rating: Decent
34 posts
I can confirm Zaro's strat. It works great. I used it this weekend to get my Cloak. I have a 75+ Ranger and used the Normal track method by myself with track only. Took me a few hrs the first time, but I got 12 spawns of Quillmane and 2 cloaks. Second day I got 2 spawns of Quillmane and 1 cloak in less than an hr. Definitely a 78 second timer. I used a stopwatch. Might want to use 2 stopwatches if you get an occasional additional spawn, which I did several times. Ignore the 39 second pops you see on track. Leave other named mobs up.

Worse thing is finding the PHs. After that you can spawn her a lot. In the 12 above spawns I had 2 back to back spawns of Q. All spawns were south of Paw, and all PHs were south of Paw. An elephant, escaped splitpaw gnoll, lion, lioness, centaur courser, aviak darter, mist wolf and shadow wolf were all PHs. No named popped on the Quillmane 78 second cycle except for Q herself.

Good luck and thanks Zaro,

Aamdar

53 rogue

Makrus

78 Ranger

Edited, Dec 10th 2007 3:27am by Aamdarr

Edited, Dec 10th 2007 3:32am by Aamdarr
Got him in 5mins
# Nov 29 2007 at 2:20 AM Rating: Decent
K i went by these ph's and got him to spawn FAST! i was surprised cuz most people say it takes along time ..well this is what i killed
"A Lion"
"An Elephant"
"A Shadow Wolf"

just those 3...im guessing the others might work but i didnt bother with them after just killing 2 elephants and maybe 11 lions and 2 shadow wolfs.

Didnt drop the cloak tho what i was going for.
Placeholders (an elephant is the key)
# Nov 14 2007 at 4:14 AM Rating: Good
78-sec timer. Keep yr tracker at neg 4726, neg 224 (ranger track at 200 will cover entire quill/ph spawn area from that loc)

NOT PH's
adult elephants
bull elephants
elephant calves
undead cyclops
Tesch gnolls
any nameds, i.e., Cracktusk, Grizzleknot, Gnawfang, Singer Foxfire, etc (leave them up, do not kill them)


PH's
lions (very common)
escaped gnolls (very common)
an elephant (very important to kill this)
lioness
mist wolf
shadow wolf
cyclops
treant (rare)
rooks (rare and possibly other aviaks)
archers (rare and other centaurs)

One important thing i have noticed is *an elephant*. An elephant will always lead to either Quill or Cracktusk. So once u kill the elephant, kill the next mob that spawns on the 78-sec timer; Eventually Quill (or Cracktusk) will spawn. If Cracktusk spawns, leave him up and keep killing lions and escapeds, etc till u get another elephant to spawn. That one is sure to lead to Quill.

Quill can spawn in many many locations south of Splitpaw. Once she spawns, she can go either north or south (although it is usually north). So yes, Ive zoned in and actually saw Quill by the Playground area (as well as her ph's). Her ph's do spawn south of Splitpaw but they do wander all the way north if not killed, but then they will travel back to the southern part of the zone.



Placeholders (an elephant is the key)
# Mar 16 2008 at 8:22 AM Rating: Decent
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Dynamouse, yours is the most helpful post I've found here. It helped us end weeks of frustration. Thanks!

With a 64 ranger and a 64 mage alone in the zone, we had a lot of trouble finding the right 78-second cycle until we slaughtered all the known PHs in the south part of the zone until "an elephant" spawned. Then we stopped killing, and followed that cycle, with the ranger returning to SE of Splitpaw between kills for maximum tracking coverage. "An elephant" appears in more than one cycle, so as soon as we encountered a non-PH mob we did another slaughter. After a few tries, we hit the right cycle. "An elephant"... "A lion"... "a cyclops"... "a lioness" ... "The Fabled Quillmane", who dropped both the cloak and a fabled cloak for us. :-) (Fabled was easily soloable by a virtually-unbuffed 64 ranger with only 40 AA BTW.)

Note that there were no adjectives on any of the mob names in the short QM cycle that we rode this morning. Also, on other 78-sec cycles, the target mob was usually moving when our ranger reached him, but on the Quillmane cycle most of them were still at their spawn points when the ranger arrived. All spawn points were south and east of Splitpaw except Quillmane herself, who appeared SW of Splitpaw.

Edited, Mar 16th 2008 12:29pm by LevitEQ
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Quillmane farming
# Nov 08 2007 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
Hi.

I have farmed 7 cloaks during my EQ experience.
The harder part, clearly, is to get the right cycle.
Like LadyFureya said, there are many 78s cycles. When you know you are on the wrong one : leave it and try to get another. The best way is to let wrong nameds up (Grizzleknot, Cracktusk, Knari, ...).

You know that you are on a wrong cycle when :
- you kill many aviaks (on the right cycle, aviaks are rare)
- you kill werewolves or treants
- mobs spawns north of Splitpaw
- more than 1 or 2 hours without any Quillmane (it's not so rare when on the right cycle).

The zone limits are :
- North : Splitpaw
- South : Aviaks City
- East : East zone-border
- West : West zone-border.
(it can even spawn south of Hermit or at Shadowmens ...)

When poped, mobs can roam (even to north of the zone), so when you arrive in South Karana you may have to pull mobs all around.

To get the right cycle there are 2 techniques :
1 - Pull many ph and than AE kill (you must kill them all in a short time span) and then wait 78 secondes to get repop on track.
2 - Kill a PH (one at a time) and wait 78 sec to see if it's good.
(not-PH mobs respawn usually in 40/45 sec. There are long respawn times too, like 2 or 3 minutes, on aviaks mainly).

The PHs are :
- an escaped Splitpaw Gnoll
- a lion
- a lioness
- a shadow/mist wolf
- an elephant (not bulls or calfs ...)
- a centaur xxx (uncommon)
- an aviak yyy, but pretty rare (darter mainly, never seen avocets I think)


It's my experience feedback, not 100% sure theory.
If questions you can mail : ansett.san AT gmail DOT com
Good luck.

Edited, Nov 8th 2007 11:41am by ansettsan
Zarovich Method
# Jul 31 2007 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
Figured I'd put the double post to good use. My method would be to pull everything between Splitpaw and the Aviak fortress to me. I would then use my two hander with Riposte discipline to kill all of them at once. I would then do a /maphide NPC "A". I use my cell phone as a Stop Watch and at exactly 78 seconds (1 Minute, 18 Seconds), One mob would spawn. Several others would pop at 38 seconds, but as noted, those are not of your concern. I did not kill any other named during the encounter, either. I would then kill that mob, after killing two placeholders the first time, I spawned Quillmane. Got the leggings. Repeated my cycle and killed five more placeholders, popped Quillmane, Cloak and Sunshard Dust dropped. A mist wolf, a treant, a shadow wolf, an escaped splitpaw gnoll, a centaur courser, various aviaks, and an elephant are the current known placeholders. I hope this information was useful to you all. Good luck! Took out my part about MacroQuest not being a way of cheating, since using any third party packet analyzing tool is indeed cheating. But my Monk is not Inique. I had no idea there was a Monk named Inique. In all due respect, the last online date listed for that EQPlayers profile was November of 2005. Unless I directly reference my toon name, server, or any specifics, there really isn't anything that isn't discreet about this post. Aside from the fact they could track my IP from my forum post and ban me, which is highly unlikely.



Edited, Aug 23rd 2007 2:50:27am by Inique

Edited, Aug 23rd 2007 2:51:30am by Inique

Edited, Aug 23rd 2007 2:54:19am by Inique
Zarovich Method
# Aug 08 2007 at 9:58 PM Rating: Good
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Inique
http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/character_profile.vm?characterId=597000658321

just an idiot, or trying to get someone else in trouble?
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Zarovich Method
# Aug 08 2007 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent
Quote:
Using MacroQuest 2, I managed to pop 10 Quillmane's within three hours.

and
Quote:
If you use MacroQuest in intelligent ways, and are discreet in your work, you will not be caught for use of MacroQuest.

So where in this post were you being discreet?
Zarovich Method
# Aug 05 2007 at 9:45 AM Rating: Decent
Actually, reading data packets using a third party utilty to use to your advantage is cheating no matter how you look at it.
Zarovich Method
# Jul 31 2007 at 10:26 PM Rating: Decent
Using MacroQuest 2, I managed to pop 10 Quillmane's within three hours. Thanks again for your brilliant strategy, please refer to page two of these messages in order to read Zarovich's strategy. Love you man, you're a life saver.

Edited, Aug 1st 2007 2:35am by Inique
Quillmane twice
# Jun 11 2007 at 5:39 PM Rating: Decent
I hate it when people say this but I was in SK looking for Bro. Qwinn. Quillmane was up, went down like a sack of spuds and dropped leggings. He must have spawned immediately again a second time because by the time we'd found Qwinn (about 5 mins, amazing luck), Quillmane was up again and passed up. Leggings dropped a second time.

And Qwinn didn't have his Robe either. Darn.
Killed
# Jun 07 2007 at 11:01 AM Rating: Decent
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killed Today at 8:15 aprox, GMT.

Droped cloak, used a tracker, and REspwan is true:

an elephant, espaped splitnow, liones, lion, aviak , centaur, some of them, and then PoP.

Over 2 hours camped or so, not too hard if you have tracker, if not is imposible.
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