Venril Sathir  

22,701 was lowest hp i had to do to kill him over the past month. got him 4 times so far. I have more to do to complete my calculations on spawn time. I will revisit this post when I have more data. So far it seems to me that VS is on the normal 3 days + 1-12 hours spawn timer that most other big names are on. Why so much confusion over spawn timer is because of VSR and too little data to construct a good timeline. VSR can spawn a few hours after VS dies. and then he hangs around until VS pops. I have not seen it, but it is my opinion that VS kills VSR when VSR wanders into the back room. Kiling VSR only starts the timer on VSR respawn. has nothing to do with VS himself. that so far is just my feeling - I dont have enough data to prove it. There was one time I was told someone killed VS so I ran there and sure enough corpse was there with a gnarled staff on it and then I got him myself only 2 days 16 hours ( thats 64 hours) later, Could it be 3 d +/- (1-12)? thats 60 - 84. So we need more data still.

Edit : I saw VSR up on 9/ 19 at 11 am. I left to go huinting ( this was righgt after patch). I came back at 1 pm and vsr was gone and venril didnt spawn for me the rest of the day. I assumed someone got him. Found VSR up again on 9/21 at 6 pm, and there he was still at 6 am the next morning. I went hunting. I returned at 730 am and VS was up. Naturally vsr wasnt and I kileld VS. Found VSR again the next morning at 7:15 am and left. knowing vs would not psanw that day. but by evening I camped there to check the next morning. Next morning VSR was still up at 630 am and stayed up till at least 845 am. I had to go out so didnt see anything until 11:30 am when I found no vsr and yes VS.

Current Conclusions : VS kills VSR when VS spawns and VSR wanders into his room. VSR spawns anywhere from 4 - 24 hours after VS dies. VSR stays up until killed by a player or when VS spawns. VSR and VS are on independant timers. VS spawn timer is ... still confusing, but the quickest I saw was 52 hours. I have also witnessed 64 hours. Keep the data coming.

Edited, Sep 24th 2012 11:44am by Shuraz

I camped for Gnarled staff past 2 weeks. It took time because there were 2 other people camping for VS as well. Not to mention couple of druid/ranger camping for VSR. I don't have anything new to add other than what some of others had mentioned below.
1. VSR spawned after the server reboot. I know VS had spawned after previous server reboot.
2. VSR spanwed about 6 +-1 hours after VSR. It had happened only once. It could have been more often but there were some people checking out Karnor frequently and may have gotten VSR or VS.
3. VS spawned 12 +-1 hours after VSR was killed.
4. VS dropped Gnarled staff on my 2nd kill.

Assumption: VSR and VS share spawn cycle. And VS/VSR can spawn after every 6+-1 hours after VSR/VS death. VS spawn seems to be rare.

Not having hunted in Karnor's ... ever ... I had no idea where I would find this mob. While the directions here were helpful, the castle itself was confusing.

Venril is on the first floor (no need for a rogue to come with) towards the back of the castle, southeast (ish) corner. There's a rectangular room there, with multiple levels open.

As others have stated, be sure you have the spell Resurection with you, and have Dance of the Fireflies (level 1 Druid spell) loaded in your spell book (it can only be cast 7pm to 7am).

I am currently lvl 64 and took him down in less than five minutes with a tank merc.

Also, I have no idea about the spawn timer on this mob. I went to the castle Saturday afternoon, no Venril. I came back Sunday morning, and Venril was there. Moreover, he dropped 2 Pulsating Green stones.

Adrin

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Guild: Chaotic Appocalypse

So I logged in the *second* after the servers came back up when the Underfoot expansion was released, and guess who I'm looking at? Venril Sathir's Remains. There's no way that anyone killed him before I logged in, since according to /who all there were only 3 people total on the server so far. So don't expect him to be up just because you camp out in his room after a patch.

What does that mean for his spawn time? Does he just share a cycle with the remains and it's a certain percent chance that the real one will pop? I've killed his stupid remains 4 times in the last 3 days, and haven't seen the real thing once. Hopefully my luck will change.

I killed the regular, tougher Venril Sathir earlier today on Druzzil/The Combine. Took him solo with a 70 SK 9K HP/1.9K AC/64 AAs with no merc. His regen was pretty ridiculous compared to my DPS so it took me a full five or six minutes to kill him. His highest hits that I can remember were upper 100s/lower 200s and I resisted his lifetap completely or partially the whole fight. I HTed him once he got to 20% for good measure and that was the killing blow. He dropped SS leggings, Lycanthropic Staff, Spell: Bedlam, and Blackened Iksar Bones. All in all a tough fight but doable even without uber gear or AAs. I'm sure many others have done it much more impressively or at a lower level, but just wanted to comment to put to bed the rumors (if any still exist) that his regen is unable to be overcome by a character of similar stature.

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Ok, heres the down and dirty...and "NO" it makes no logical sense to me but what in this game does when it comes to spawn timers.

I killed the Real VS on 12 Jun 2009 @ 1120 and got the Wizzy Drop. I then started camping it again for a friend for the next 5 days. I would log in periodically to check and see if he was up and every time I was the only one camping him. However, this doesn't mean that someone didn't log in and kill him while I was away. But the spawn cycles that are posted in these forums can not be accurate...and this is why.

I killed VS Remains on the following times:

13 Jun 2009 @ 1120 AM
14 Jun 2009 @ 1100 AM
15 Jun 2009 @ 1000 AM
16 Jun 2009 @ 1100 AM

So, as you can see, there is no rhyme or reason to the spawn cycle which is previous listed. If it were, then the remains would not spawn every day unless the Real VS were also spawning everyday which I guess is possible, but I didn't log on at 8:00 am everyday to see if he was up. I logged in at between 10:00am and 11:00am to see if he had spawned.

Now, I finally got tired of all the schananagens and decided to camp the thing with my Monk FD'd in the room for as long as it takes from the time I killed the remains on the 16th of June. Well, low and behold he spawned at 11:45pm on the 16th of June. He dropped the Wizzy piece I needed so I was done with that mob, hopefully forever.

So, if you can put together a spawn cycle from this info, you are doing better than me. Would be interesting to know if he is now on a 11-12 hour spawn timer post VSR's death. Don't know, and don't intend on finding out. So, if you find out some additional information, please post it as to make this a bit easier for all concerned.

Thanks and happy hunting.
Lonewolff - 85 Monk - Fennin Ro

Just soloed this guy as a 75 necro (11.3k hp / 13.5k mana) with 222 AA's, but it took me 4 attempts. I never died, but first 3 times i simply went oom, as lifetaps were the only thing that landed, but they only landed FULL 40-50% of the time and were partially resisted maybe another 20-30%.
In addition, this guy has INSANE regen. He literally would regen 2-3% hp in the time it took me to cast my lifetap (2.5 sec cast time).
My pet's dps is pretty weak, so it was almost fully reliant on how much lifetaps were resisted.
I did use AOTD (army of the dead) the first time, once the adds were killed, but I suggest forget about them and focus on VS.
I also used Swarm of decay (3 skel archers)
and I used my epic pet (which can be used when normal pet is up).

3rd time I got him to 6% before I went oom and then I tried medding a little, but he regened back to 15% before I knew it.
What I did when I went oom was FD and run to the middle area (VSR spot) and camped out while pet had aggro. Logged back in, medded up and retried.

4th time I killed him with about 25-30% mana left, so I guess he didnt resists as much. It's pretty much a crapshoot.

He dropped wiz epic piece(guildie looted just in time), blood ember greaves, some cleric staff and some shaman quest item.

All in all, fun fight, but he was definitely a PITA for a green mob.

Edited, Mar 13th 2009 3:31am by Healeyu

Killed him last night for ranger epic after server came back up. Had to camp out and back in again to get the Spirit to accept the Res scroll for some reason but after that had no problems.
BTW... if your doing the ranger epic, you should go ahead and summon the firefly globe when you know it's night in EQ. I didn't have the foresight to do that so when I got to the remains it was 8am EQ time and had to wait a bit to summon globe, lol.

If you ever see his remains (Venril Sathir's Remains) take a
close look at the head of the skeleton...
Its a FEMALE Iksar head... How can you tell? The females
have an extra "bump" or bone in the middle. If you don't
think so go look at the old model female Iksars heads and
compare them to the old model male heads and you'll see
what I mean. Kunark has been around 8 years and nobody ever
noticed this? The same is true on other Kunark era Iksar
mobs, such as the Blood of Chottal.

nevermind...

MQ'd it so no worries


Edited, Jan 11th 2008 6:20pm by heavydrop

VS is very doable at 70 for rangers as well. Wearing mostly GoD/Time gear start off with weaponshield and melee the hell outta it, won't take any lifetaps at this time, soon as WS is about to drop pop TS and hail of arrows a couple times and it's over. Can use IoF, rabid wolf, hot pot as WS drops if u really wanna play it safe. Used it all on first attempt and didn't drop from 100% before it died and 2 farmers accused me of hacking since i didn't drop from 100% lol.

If you're wondering why a 70 is farming VS....it's because i'm farming a full set of Tolan's armor and trying to get the exact outfit i had 8yrs ago on rallos for the hell of it...i even quested a wurmy and farmed a centi LS, tomorrow i begin Trueshot :P...and yes i let anyone that needs 1.0 pieces loot up when i drop him or kill remains to clear the ph.

To avoid headaches from incomplete data here are some of those blanks:

1) FIRST THING you need to bring is an unscribed cleric lvl 47 spell: resurrection. you will need to hand it in to NPC "Spirit of Venril Sathir".
2) NEXT THING you need to do is summon a globe (I did the lvl 1 firefly globe) This can only be cast at night (7PM - 7AM) so be prepaired
3) From zone you can see "Venril Sathir Remains" on track when he is up. He is in room 13 on the EQ Atlas map and is non agro. DO NOT KILL HIM!!!! Turn in the summoned globe to him. "Venril Sathir Remains" will vanish and "Spirit of Venril Sathir" appears DO NOT KILL!!!!
4) GET READY TO FIGHT!!!!!!!!! Once this next step is completed "Venril Sathir" will spawn fighting. Give "Spirit of Venril Sathir" the scroll - "spell: resurrection". "Spirit of Venril Sathir" will vanish and "Venril Sathir (spawned) will appear and start fighting. (He conned yellow to my 53 Druid) We had no adds. When he dies loot your "Pulsing Green Stone". (He had two on him when I did it).

NOTES: Two ways in to room 13. Use a key and go thru the door or go upstairs and around thru the secret ONE-WAY wall. YOU MUST HAVE THE KEY (no idea who drops it) OR PORT OR GATE TO EXIT ROOM 13. If you use the atlas map you will go in room 5 on the left and up the stairs. Follow your way around to 7 and turn right. I only did it once (sorry) but follow the routes to room 13 and you should drop right in.

Hope this prevents you from running into the problems I had or almost had.

Soloed him a few days ago as a 75 warrior. He had some pretty hardcore regen. Lifetap only landed a few times. As far as my gear is concerned, it varies from velious to Anguish. Got him to about 30% before I went beserk. Just hit mighty strike and switched to my Greatsword of Mortification. Took him down with a successful flurry, lol. Dropped Lycan staff and Singing Steel Greaves. Was a fun fight, and I was surprised he was even up. Later that night I managed to hit Sev as well. Was a good day.


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Soloed static spawn version of this with 75 Necro, 880 AA....easily.

Cast Duration lifetap until it landed, then tap tanked him down. Resisted every lifetap from him.

I'm Anguish/DoDh/DoN geared.

Super easy solo fight. Not sure how you were trying it with your War.

Just did with 75 wiz with only self buffs. Fight lasted under 60 seconds, not counting killing 2 adds after VS. Just chain the new insta-nukes from TSS. Resisted 11 of 12 life taps (all resists over 525 with self buffs and clickies) and he never proc'd stun at all. Hit heal potion half way thru the fight but didn't really need it. Max melee hit was about 325 but avg about 120.

I guess I could see the trouble if the LTs weren't resisted, but with descent resists it should be cake for any class at 75.

Edited, Dec 24th 2006 3:15am by dilxar

Edited, Dec 24th 2006 3:18am by dilxar

for cleric, mission impossible hehe. brought my war too, cleric tanked. war used disc and it dropped.
weird i had no stuns off him and resisted all lifetaps too

Fef resisted manablast =( .

The real Vs hasn't been soloed by anyone, don't let them fool ya, half these threads are about different mobs, the spawned vs and the Vsr are easy yes but the real vs has a 1500 hp ae and a 30 sec unresistable stun, i tried him with a 75 warrior with 14k hp and had a cleric there, hardly even hurt him

Had read somewhere previously that the spawned VS doesnt proc, I'm not sure how long ago but vaguely remember seeing it, confirmed that he DOES proc his lifetap, landed one and resisted plenty of others, not sure about the mez...

You can indeed track VS from the entrance, ive done it with my Druid.

Just soloed him as a 70 war,used infusion + all offensive disks. had 15.7k hp buffed during the fight,he dropped pretty easy.
Dropped Zerker legs,wizzy epic peice,Mag only stick,iksar bones.

Edited, Sat Jun 10 19:10:25 2006

Can a 200 skill track pick VS up from the ent of KC? Thx

corre4ction on the lvl resurection spell... it is 47 =)