a sarnak imitator  

I have extremely bad faction with the Sarnaks. I Pacified everyone around Jeb and then cast Collaboration. Cant be cast on Jeb. As soon as I was done with the hand-in and dialog, the paci wore off and I ended up having to mez one of the Sarnaks. Gated out and was done. So, unlike the previous post, faction is no longer a problem.

Sooo .... you've done everything for your enchanter epic 1.0, you have done the final combine and are in possession of a Bundle of Staves. You boldly head off to Burning Woods to see Jeb Lumsed, a sarnak imitator; you flawlessly mezz all the others in his temple; you ask him "Are you Jeb Lumsed?", He anwers you; you check faction - you are amiable; so you hand him your Bundle of Staves ..... and he says," I have no use for this item, Jamaima. You may have it back." ... so, you try again ... and again ... and try illusions ... and try collaboration ... and try handing him his seal .... and get stitches in your hand and a replacement monitor ... and petition ... and have an illegible conversation with someone 12 time zones away who does not play the game ... and you find this post.

Yes, you have found a Sony bug. You see, the best theory is that when they introduced the newbie quests and the tutorial mode, they changed some of the base factions in the game. Through the magic of databases, your faction with Jeb - a faction that you have never damaged - is no longer as high as it needs to be to get your epic.

Jeb Lumsed, it turns out, is on the True Spirit faction. This is a tricky fact to ascertain as you cannot kill Jeb anymore and nothing else in his zone shares that faction so there is nothing else for you to collaborate to test this. Trust me. (NOTE: Please check here http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/faction.html?faction=181 to be sure that you have not killed anything that would have porked your faction.)

So, how to raise that faction? There are a couple of ways ...
(1) Redo the the prelim part of the epic to get the notes
(2) Redo the second part of the epic, A sack for Mizzle
(3) Hand Camin (http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=5205) 1000pp repeatedly
(4) Do the Shaman Epic (the entire point of which is raising this faction)
or - my choice -
(5) Do a small part of the shaman epic involving killing Glaron the Wicked and Tabien the Goodly (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=767) - Just kill these two and do the turn in of their drops - rinse repeat - con the wandering spirit to see when your faction improves to kindly

Voila!

Go find Jeb. He will con the same as the wandering spirit.


PS By way of review - you will need to be kindly or better to get your epic:

+4, ally
+3, warmly
+2, kindly
+1, amiably
0, indifferently
-1, apprehensively
-2, dubiously
-3, threateningly
-4, ready to attack


Good Luck!!

PPS I had multiple GMs tell me to work on Sarnak faction since I got aggro from the real sarnaks in the temple in BW. Please please please ignore them. They just do not understand. You could raise your sarnak faction to Love-you-more-than-my-brood-mother and Jeb will still not talk to you.

PPPS Some folks had earlier thought that the problem was related to the fact that some folks had their home city faction similarly decimated by Sony. Hmmm ... the bug is related but the cure is different - getting to ally in your home city (even Erudin) will not help you with Jeb.

PPPPS If you happen to be an Erudin Erudite whose faction took a hit - try buying 400 or so *rounds* of drinks for Palatos Kynarn in East Freeport (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=384). It won't help with your epic - but it is fun!

As of today, looks like you no longer have to wait 3 days after a server reset for him to spawn. My server had a patch yesterday and was down from 4-9am. This morning I got the last piece for my epic, and when I went to the Burning Woods to check, there he was. And it's been less than 24 hours since the server reset.

Edited, Thu May 19 10:34:29 2005

as of today there was a patch this morning.....he was up on the nameless.....and didnt despawn after turn in of notes....i hope this helps someone...

I have been wating for this guy to spawn now for 3 days will he spawn with the camp of the 3 sarnaks full or do i need to keep camp clear? somone please help

Just waited the 3 days checking back often during the time he was killed and he is still a 3 day spawn if he is killed.

can he be spawned by killing the other sarnaks or what?

ottmani 65 chanter of vazaelle

Edited, Wed Jan 14 10:18:40 2004

hey all i am a lvl 65 chanter who never bothered to do the epic but pieces fell into my hands while helping on other peoples epics anyways i have my bundle now i went to bw last night on MM server to turn in for epic and i didnt reall bother to read the whole epic anyways so i am looking for jeb i got a tracker he says not on track so ok we go down to his location which is
-1200-4000 he is in a ruin with all the other noob sarnaks he is db to me at 65 and cons indiff anyways i was told if you kill sarnaks he will spawn so we start killing sarnaks stupid me didnt relieze it was him that i just killed than i get all pissy about how people kill epic mobs when they dont need to then i get a tell from a guildy saying hey did sarnak imitator spawn yet and i tell her that yeah we just took the sucker down waiting for jeb to pop i am sure you know the rest whole guild laughting at me i am glad it was 5 am so barely anyone was on but i am sure they know now lol.
well 3 more days for me to wait no prob i just hope none of you do the same mistake i did and from now on i am gonna read quests million times so i dont make mistakes again btw fear was easy took CT down with 12 65's and sshisar 65sk soloed her. no deaths all happy
well i am gonna try back in 3 days hope no one killed him 8P
sorry all i was stupid doing that i know )

He spawns 72 hours after a server up. I would venture to guess this is true also when he is killed.

Nu'Sair
Level 65 Enchanter
Legend of Marr
The Rathe



Edited, Wed Oct 15 16:09:51 2003

Was in BW trying to spawn Nezekezena for mage epic drop and conned the sarnaks in that building as i passed it... imitator conned dark blue at 61, so i thought i'd try and get an ounce of xp... pulled him with and put pet on him, noticed right away that pet barely put a dent in him, and he was trying to cast spells on me.
blah blah blah, after using up my full mana keeping pet alive and wasting a few resisted spells on him, (didnt chain cast pets since he did summon me once during battle) i ended up gating after he was down to bout 20percent life...

if he didnt summon i could have chain casted pets and killed him fairly easily, but oh well. now hes still there for a lucky chanter i guess.

I have but one question for all you geniuses out there...Why are you killing this mob? He drops NOTHING! He is for the enchanter epic. He is the main person we have to see when we start it and the one we turn in all the completed quest pieces to to get the epic. LEAVE HIM ALONE! It's no wonder he's wiped most of you. He was not there for you to kill. I've been after this guy for a while and can never find him. Now I come here to see if there is anymore spawn info and I see a the first 5 or 6 posts are all about how soandso tried to kill him but were wiped. No wonder I can never find him. When he does spawn, someone comes along and says "Hey check that out! Wonder what he drops?" ...there goes another shot at the chanter epic, racing off to kill some other fool...

Dalcron Spellfury
60 Phantasmist
The Tribunal

This guy cast SoW on me as I fought him. I was so taken aback by this that I didn't pay attention to how fast he was reducing my health and I got wiped out.

- Sultran QulTuq, 60 SK
- Erollisi Marr

Funny story...a few of my guildmates and I decided to check out Burning Woods to try to get a general lay of the land. Our 6man group was a 54 Shaman, 51 Cleric, 51 Ranger, 50 Shaman, 49 Rogue and a 48 Warrior (me). None of us had ever been hunting there before, so I decided we should try the Sarnak Temple just north of the FM zone. We got to the temple and did a quick survey. 4 mobs were up, 2 champions, a knight, and this guy. Our 54 shaman conned him yellow and we were buffed to the gills so we decided to try our luck. The ranger harmonied the other 3, since we knew that we wouldn't be able to handle any adds. It is almost as if he knew what we were doing...as soon as the ranger started to harmony, he put up a nasty Fire Damage shield. When we were ready to go, the ranger pulled him and we immediately started to whipping up on him (or so we thought). This guys resisted every spell, DOT, root, even weapon procs. First our cleric went OOM, then our 54 Shaman said, " its time to run". At that point, we had only taken him down 1/4-1/3 hp. I gave the order to run and we headed south to FM zone and SAFETY! (or so we thought)...our 51 Shaman was the first to fall. "What Happened?!?" I thought as I raced for safety, "we were all together". I was about to find out what happened. If you have never been summoned by a MOB, IMO, it's pretty dam scary. I could see the tunnel to FM and then BAM! A SARNAK IMITATOR HITS YOU FOR 157! I had been summoned! It pulled me all the way back to arms length of that beast. Getting summoned can REALLY disorient you. I put my resist up, praying it would help, but it only prolonged the inevitable. When it was over, we were decimated. 3 deaths (me and both shammys) and the rogue and ranger licking their wounds. Fortunately, we were able to locate all corpses without too much trouble. The bottom line is, STAY AWAY from this guy! He is bad news! Have Fun!

Oops. Being rather new in bw, I thought this little sarnak temple just north of the fm zone would be a good place for me (47sk) and my party (51clr) (43sk) (40enc) (37monk) to go beat on some sarnaks. No one knew this guy was a quest npc and we certainly didnt know his lvl! Found out the hard way. Cleric and 43 sk survived. This guy was hitting me for dbl 157's. We didnt even dent his health. After cr, the chanter said..."hey, I think he is part of my epic...no wonder he conned indiff to me".
/sigh

Kaotix
47 SK Troll
Enchanted Circle
Solusek Ro

Edited, Fri Feb 1 13:12:12 2002

Hi everyone i have just completed my epic quest. on 11/1/01. here is the reason why im posting. just to let all the enchanter knows what problem i have come across. the problem i had is trying to get a sack from Sarnak imitator. i have tried many lines to get the sack so i can combine the 4 parts of the staff but wasnt able to. here is the solution, if you got stuck like me just go to 1 of the 4 masters and hand him the jeb's seal they will give you a sack. u can use the same sack they give you to combine the 4 part of the staff in it, and itll work i have done it as of 11/1/01. then hand bundle of stave to imitator.i hope this help some ppl cause i have wasted lots of rl time cause of this. oh and another thing is all the epic npc that give the quest have no PH so u dont need kill any green stuff they are just in a long spawning time ( confirm by a gm ). i hope this help out some ppl and have a nice time.

Qiao
lvl 57 2 ( 2 blue bub from 58 =O )
Rallos Zek
P.S got a nice 1 and half bub of blue from this quest

Been killing sarnaks for hours and still NO Sarnak Imitator..how are we supposed to know when he will be there..I mean, what if someone kills him a half an hour before we log on? How are we supposed to know?

I've been trying to do my final turn-ins for three days now on Tarew Marr.

Molzin used to be up all the time, but when I needed to see him I waited two days for him to show up. Killing scorpikissess over...and over...
Killed sarnaks in this silly little temple for six hours last night. Still no good. I've been hearing rumors that Verant wanted to make our epic quest a little harder, so they now require you to do mass killings of green mobs to make *all* the turn-in people appear, including the NPC in Firiona Vie. Can someone confirm this?

Where the hell IS this guy? I've completed everything I really can (got notes and many pieces for the sub quests) but I cannot for the life of me get this guy to spawn! I'm going to loc -1300, -4000 in BW and there is a little temple with a two spawn of Sarnaks inside, and one out by the falled pillars. Am I at the right spot? I've killed those guys that spawn there for hours on end with no imitator. The quest walk thru from here says:

"Jeb Lemused is in the form of a Sarnak Imitator in the Burning woods. He is not always around, and killing the nearby Sarnaks may help him appear."

Am I doing something wrong? Please help.

Congratulations on finishing the epic quest. I am not sure if you have, but you have collected the info on an organized webpage. Now why couldnt the druid quest have a page like that.
/em sighs.


Peace