an ancient Jarsath  

If you go to the drolvarg camp at /loc +1570 -1460, he will walk back and forth thru the camp, you can't miss him. He does NOT look like a regular skeleton, he looks like an Iksar skele, with bony thorns from his face.

Edited, Feb 8th 2008 8:35pm by Ayekinheelya

I read some of the posts posting various "spawn locations" and I checked them all out and none of them worked for me. I killed the mobs around them for a good half-hour to and hour at each location and I never got a pop. I logged for the day and came back on tonight and after running around for 20 minutes, he popped for me. Everyone says to check from the drolvarg camp, to the elf outpost and whevever else, but when he spawned he was a pretty far ways SOUTH of the drolvarg camp. I am a necro however and I was spamming Sense the Dead. I was casting it when I was in front of the high elf outpost, so the spell works a far distance if it sensed him way past the drolvarg camp. Hope this helps anyone lookin for him, its a little easier for us Sense the Deaders` :P

Edited, Sat May 6 00:35:13 2006

Looked for him 2 days ( had a tracker 1st day ) never found him . Did the rest of the quest regretted coimming back but found him on my way to the place where the FV people are now ( I was going to start my hunt there )he was walking North 2knotches West loc +990-1270 .

doing this post as of just completeing this kill the loc listed by : Taushar the Wise above neg1383 neg1238 was right on. went over there to that loc put a label on map at the loc and then just headed out in a circle from that loc scounting for the ancient found him just to the east of loc and south of path wandering. killed him no prolem. just to mention also he does have a huge wander path as i have seen him before up near the giant camp area also. so he wanders far

I'm just hanging here killing Drolvarg when I saw an ancient Jarsath walking by. It kept going back and forth in front of the Drolvarg Camp House. I was camping and medding on SE side of camp. It conned yellow to my 40 wizzie. Reading all these posts, I really wanted to try to kill it since it's spawn time is so long (according to posts), but sanity tells me it would not have a happy ending. I was there about 8-9 PM as well.

I urge ANYONE looking into the VP key quest and camping the 5 mobs needed to complete the key (besides Trak) Look at my post here ....
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=11797

Ancient Jarsath here btw is EXACTLY the same as the Skellie mob in DL - an UNGODLY spawn time.
In my eyes, Sony just doesnt want people to enjoy this game in the way it was mean to be explored and enjoyed. There is Nothing rewarding , or joyous about sitting in one spot for 8+ hours on several different quest mobs that are needed to obtain pieces to a key to a zone that also requires a rare dragon kill. Catching Trak is hard enough. The rest of this quest is complete waste of time, money , adventure, and it is a TOTAL joykill. I can only hope that by directing people to my posts , mebbe someone will notice and take heed of the absurdity involved here.

I would also like to clarify that there seems to be Nothing in particular to cause this guy to spawn. So unlike the rotting skellie or the pained soul, you don't even have a boring PH to kill for hours. Slay everything you want in the zone. I don't believe this has any effect on where he spawns. I have killed Red eye jack , i have killed frogloks to make froglegs for the next 5 years , venemous lamprey, basically anything and everything but drixies and pilgrims. Still no sign. ALso using sense the dead about as often as fippy darkpaw opens his yap. Still no skellie.

**edit - gone on 10+ straight hours waiting for this one

** 11 straight hours - no sign.

Edited, Sun Sep 19 09:23:20 2004

This is like the AC spawn in SRo. He has PHers near the entrance to the Drolvarg Area. Just kill anything that is not a Drogvarg and it will eventually spawn. Once all but Drolvargs were dead, I started killing them as well to make sure a PHer was not still up. Did not note time when I killed the Skeleton.

I used Song of Highsun to gate the Jarsath back to his spawn. It is at neg1383 neg1238 in a small circle of trees.

Found him at P559 N1505 @ East side of the zone at about 10pm MST. No track, but used cycle target while running around and that worked just as well. Max 10 min. to find him.


Jennatar Twistagem
Lvl 65 Coercer
Triad Continuum, Luclin

This spawn sux. Finally got him. Walking towards SONH zoneline from the drolvarg temple.

-Kal

I got mine at 4pm quite a bit west of the cave. tracking point mentioned before is good. I just used "sense the dead" et voila.

Just killed this mob (an ancient Jarsath). Found him at LOC (-840, -1370) on the road leading to the east wall of the zone. Mob was moving when I ran into him; this suggest he wanders the zone.

I found him just standing at 2596, -845

Followed info from previous posters. Total time, 10 minutes. Thanks for the tips.

My experience
8pm Drachnid Silklurker spawned at approx 1002,-1502. Killed it. Another Drachnid Silklurker spawned immediately at approx 1502,-1880. Killed it. And Feigned off a Drolvarg add. I immediately saw an Ancient Jarseth pathing east and caught him at 928, -1390. Quick fight but has potential for adds.

Ok, so I managed to track this guy and follow him around a bit today, while I tried to get my main there to loot. Curiously, he doesn't see invis. :)

He walked from 518, neg 1717 to 1500, neg 1880. He stopped here a moment, then turned back around and headed to neg 967, 1628. Then of course I got attacked by a drolvarg and when I managed to find him again some other druid had him at 1% health. bah!

Anyway, 1500, neg 1880 looks like a very good spot to camp his butt.

Was on last night with my druid, he was up near the giant camp not far from the sonh zone, was red to me so never followed him.
Hope this helps.

Caught him standing next to a tree at approx. 947, -1833 (just a little north of Drolvarg Underground)

I was fighting near the Drolvarg temple or whatever it is at about 500, neg 1800. These walk by regularly. Maybe evry 20 minutes. If you are low enough lvl to hunt drolvargs for exp here, avoid these at all costs. I got double hit for 115 and kicked for 35 with a 42 paladin. Also, they are undead since I have cast Sense the Dead near FV docks to see if that Iksar necro is up. Finally, the lvl listed is incomplete or incorrect, since they con white to lvl 42.

My lvl 36 warrior partner and me (lvl 37 druid) were new to hunting FV. She was pulling various blues to the southern cliff edge when she says "an Ancient Jarsoth is on me." I tracked it and saw the red con.

Our intitial reaction was to give it a try. Well, 6 snare resists and multiple 105 damage wallops later, we were running hard for the town and guard help.

During the run I turned several times to see Jarsoth slaughtering pilgrims as it chased us. It hardly slowed down while doing this.

We ran into town (where we both con amiable) and sit near the bank, assuming that guards are taking care of Jarsoth. Another 105 smack foils that assumption, and we are running for the LOIO zone.

At the end of the tunnel we again stop to take stock. Guards are pouring down the tunnel toward town. Players are shouting from in town. It is a bloodbath.

The townsfolk finally took down Jarsoth that day, but I will not soon forget the havoc he wreaked.

I just camped this guy last night for my VP medallion piece. I'm a 60 necro so there's not much there that can rattle me.. let alone kill me. So I called up a pet and set up camp near the Drolvarg Camp (I forget the loc but it's easily found on the map.. I concentrated on the area between camp 5, camp 9 and A on the EqAtlas Map). I just slayed everything that I saw walking in that general area. And I kept casting sense undead periodically. After turning the zone into a virtual bloodbath I cast sense undead and I got him on track. Found him walking between some trees on a hill between the Drolvarg camp and the underground. I threw on an epic snare and a funeral pyre and the pet layed into him. He was lite blue to me at 60. Got my medallion piece and moved on.

In all it took me about 20 to 30 minutes to get him to spawn... maybe I got lucky. But I'm not sure if he has a set ph or not.. I just killed everything in sight. Hope that info helps some. If you are a lower lvl and can't kill all that stuff.. just concentrate on the roaming spawns on that wooded hill that leads to their underground.

Lich Xenolith Rei
60 Warlock of Brell

I got him today. I was on the way to seb and cast sense undead when i zoned into FV, and got nothing. Five minutes later I was halfway across the zone when I cast it again and there he was on scope. Im a well equiped 57 cleric, attacked him with 85m. After a hard fight with 2 doggy adds (the place was swarming with doggys. i had to root and atone - memory wipe - the adds) I got him with 5 mana and 15% of my hp left. I was happy cuz the darn pained soul took 10 hours and the rotting skelly in DL took 8 hours to camp.
My advice is to be full mana and pull him AWAY from the doggies before carrying out your attacks. I used root and exile undead with only one resist. He was dark blue con. GL

The ancient is a level 40 Iksar skeleton monk (4000 HP) that spawns very close to the mouth of the drolvarg temple at +647, -2097 and roams down the hill to the nearby drolvarg camp then across the road a bit and back.