Vaniki  

Alright, so my mission for this mob started on February 10, 2012 and was finished on March 7, 2012. Here's is my story and some facts about this mob for those looking for her.

Fact #1

Vaniki has 5 placeholders. These have already been listed and previously, however I will paste them in again for those interested.

P 698.3076, -583.0579, -199.9042, 0, 0, 0, 3, Vaniki_(guest_1) = This PH is in the middle area of the rat tunnels (rat city) with the 2 water pools. This PH is located directly to the left on the top ledge accessible by the ladder.
P 567.2540, -478.1564, -259.9041, 0, 0, 0, 3, Vaniki_(guest_2) = This PH is to the left water pool when you enter the middle area of the rat tunnels (rat city). NOTE: There are 2 (two) invisible PH's here which is why everyone says she has 5 spawn points.
P 1241.6764, 388.3428, -259.9041, 0, 0, 0, 3, Vaniki_(guest_3) = This PH is located right before you hit the water in the south tunnel of the rat area leading to Zlandicar(where Vilefang spawns).
P 612.0004, 506.0521, -249.0298, 0, 0, 0, 3, Vaniki_(guest_4) = This PH is located on the platform right before you reach Zlandicar. There are usually two Chetari Hoarders there.

Fact #2

You cannot speed up the spawn time of Vaniki.

Like others have said, she is on a fixed spawn time. She has a chance to spawn every 122 hours. Her PHers are invisible and you cannot kill them. Killing every rat will not reset the spawn timers to increase the chances of spawning her. Setting off every spell trap and beetle trap will not reset the spawn timers to increase the chances of spawning her. With all that said, the best time to start your timer rolling is to wait for a server restart/patch day. Once the servers come live and are online, there is an 8 and a half hour timer before Vaniki and her PHers spawn. So, if the servers come up at 12:00am, if you log in then you will not see her until you wait till 8:30am. If you wait till 8.5 hours and you still do not see her, start your stopwatch for 122 hours + 8.5 hrs and check again. If again you don't see her, check again 122 hours AFTER the previous 122 hours. (not after the second 8.5 hours). Trust me, doing this will make your life easier and stress free so you don't have to just stay logged in thinking you'll miss her spawn and someone will steal it from you.

Fact #3

Vaniki is on track.

I used a level 89 Ranger with 300 tracking parked in the rat city. I got Vaniki at 8.5 hours after server maintenance. Sorted the list by ralpha and she popped on the top of the list.

Fact #4

There is no anti-camp radius feature to prevent her from spawning if players are near by. She spawned right in front of my face when I got her.

Conclusion: The first 2 weeks I kept the ranger logged in almost 24/7 checking every 3-4 hours. (I can't check my computer from my phone while at work =) ) After that, I sent in a petition for a GM to reset the zone in case the spawn was bugged. A couple of days later a GM reset the zone for me. This was huge because now I had her timers and knew at which points she could be up at any given point so I didn't have to stay logged in 24/7. Unfortunately she still failed to spawn and had to wait till the servers went down, but finally got her once they came up that day.

Any more questions, feel free to send me a tell or in-game mail at Tunare.Recnarp. Good hunting.

Edited, Mar 7th 2012 1:48pm by Recnarp

Edited, Mar 7th 2012 1:51pm by Recnarp

killed vaniki today after 1 weeks of constant camping.
noticed some things, guest3 spot spawns a rat sometimes that can be killed to reset timer, guest1 spot had a beetle trap spawn on me there, so it not only enough to have track up, you can speed the timers up checking for "PHs", witch requires you running back and forth all the time :) or atleast once in a while, checking on the spawns.


chandra

Just downed him 9:45 pm xegony-druzzil my days of this camp are finished...good luck everyone else

Spawned on Druzzil Ro with the Willsapper at 12:15 PST (yeah right before the patch)

sure that muckes up the respawn counter but if you're counting there ya go

I killed him today. He dropped the Willsapper, two diamonds, two spells, and a heart.

Hi all wanting the slower proc weapon.i wanted this in my 85 sk arsenal so i came up with a plan i camped a 76 beastlord in hoarders cavern and a 42 ranger in rat city gimp but track 200/200.theres a spot up the ladder and round the corner were you can park uninvise (no roamers).i kept cheackin and in 1 week he spawned by the 2 guards on entrance to hoarders cavern before you cross the water to waterfall..i dont think cleasring or killin rats matters but my 76 beast was gettin some aa from the mobs as they were green con most part no merc required..also the traps LEV and stay close to the walls you miss most that way.hope this is helpfull

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=148991

straight from the developers' mouth.

Killed on Povar 9:05pm CST, after 3 weeks of 24/7 camping. buddy and I camped on shifts. NEVER AGAIN! I am now a proud owner if the Willsapper. This was done with solo with 71 SK no mercs. Did use HT maxed at level. Never fell below 70% with the 2 other mobs also on me.

A Voracious Hatchling can also spawn in same place that Vaniki does.

Spawned in Druzil Ro on June 12 2008 4:40am in Warmaster ledge....Nor Warmaster or any other npc not her PH, "she have its own spanw points so don't bother kill any mob there in order to make her spawn"..Took me 6 weeks to get it. Thanks to kids and friends who helped me....

When I found her,she was there WITH "a chetari warrior"(Warmaster ph) behind her. So I killed both...

He was easy to kill so I don't know why they say he is underconed.... >;-/

i got completely owned trying to kill this mob. it resists everything just about besides poison based spells.

i used over 20 LoN healing potions to get this guy to 17%.

then he ran.

i couldnt snare him.

i had him to 11%.

then i FDed the 35 adds that i got.

then he immediatly healed to 40%. then immediatly to 100%.

70 sk. compeltely owned.

the other day this dropped a dingy grey stone for me.... http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=67699 isnt on the charts or allas either..but im checking what i was told that he was dropping one every time??? hes a easy find, just follow map to zandiclars and hes the right tunnel on the stretch before you turn the final right into zands lair..... thats all i remember didnt get a loc sorry,,if i do get to it again tonight, ill edit post...have a great day!

from EQforums--

Otsego said:
Also to note, for those wasting their time killing rats; Vaniki has NO placeholder.

He spawns in one of four spots.

1) In front of closest pool to ladder that leads to ledge in rat city.
2) At the edge of ledge of rat city, NEXT to wavemaster named.
3) Before Vilefang's lake on the way to Zlandicar's lair.
4) After Vilefang's lake, before Zlandicar's lair, on the ledge the Chetari Horders are on. He will spawn behind the left horder.

No PH spawns in those spots ever, every 4-6 hours the spots have a "chance" to spawn Vaniki, if they dont, they remain empty.

Determining when that check is, is nearly impossible from what I can tell.

Good luck, but don't bother killing rats when you don't have to.

The Fabled Vaniki spawned this morning on Saryrn at 7:50am in rat city in front of the pool. (picture)

Level 75 beastlord tanked, says that he hit a lot for 369, once for 1100 and max for 1569. He didn't seem to lifetap at all, proc or casted. He did waste his time casting Pyrocuror and Word of Souls.

Our first attempt at duo with just me and Beastlord failed. Beastlord died with Vaniki at 20%, I chain nuked till 11%, then Vaniki gated.

Second attempt fighting him at his spawn point was a success (picture) and got us:

Willsapper
Fabled Willsapper

He also dropped:
Black Marble
Flawless Diamond
Spell: Torpor
Spell: Gift of Brilliance
Vaniki's Heart

Finally got an upgrade to the normal willsapper. :)

Pristine Emerald x2 summons as well



Edited, Jul 18th 2006 at 11:25pm EDT by knightbane

Ok this is a really old question. Searching through the net looking for informaiton on this guy on how to get him to spawn has been a fruitless ordeal. I've gone so far as to read news from guilds from the days of Velious. Seems they always were lucky to "have him up on the way to Zlandicar" . So I decided to go down there and try to figure this thing out. From what little information I did find I pieced together that he spawns in certain areas. People have found him behind the waterfall to Zlandicar, Wandering the hallway from the "Rat City" on the "ledge" near the pools of water in the Rat City. So I started out with the "kill rats till my eye's bleed tactic to absolutely no avail; countless hours went by with nothing. After hours of that I got some sleep and came up with a different strategy. I had my ranger in the zone so I was constantly tracking to see what was up. There was a post mentioning that certain level 60 "named" rats will spawn, stay up for 4-6 hours, then despawn for 4-6 hours. So one morning I noticed a few named rats on track, I believe it was Warmaster Utuara and Dominator Yisaki, could of be Seeker Bulava as well though, anyway I went down and killed them. I noticed something, the places I killed them didn't re-spawn like other mobs did, hours went by and they didn't repop. It was some 4 or so hours before the finally respawned with normal rats in their place. I promptly killed them again, and again they didn't respawn for roughly the same amount of time. So, I figured that if Vaniki was going to spawn the best bet he was going to spawn where the named rat's had spawned before. So what I did was went around and marked every single static spawn in the rat tunnels, from rat city to the lava area, to Zlandicar, I counted and marked every single wandering mob as well. Then, I killed every Rat in the tunnels and waited. What I found was no less then 6 spawn points where they didn't re-pop after the 20 or so min respawn time. I figured these 6 spawn points would be my best bet for Vaniki to spawn in. Instead of wasting whole days down there killing countless rats with little or no chance of having them spawn on normal rat spawns, and the best chance spawned once ever 6 or so hours I decided to watch, and learn. At first I thought it was best to NOT kill the PH's spawn point as I thought maybe they would re-cycle faster that way. But I found this to not be true.

After the patch a few days ago I went down to hope to find him up, no luck on Vaniki but my necro finally has his ST key... one dead Dragon.. I noticed something though. One PH at server up was a normal rat, then less then two hours later it de-spawned and instantly spawed Dominator Yiskai. Another Spawn point was up for 3 hours, and then despawned, it was another 4-6 before anything re-popped in its place. So with this bit of information I think that killing these "PH's" would be more efficient then waiting for them to re-cycle by themselves as the mob will be up for 3-4 hours, then down for 3-4 hours or more in some cases. By killing the PH as it spawns I knock off 3-4 hours of a re-spawn (I hope).

These are the Spawn points I have seen named at:

1.) 248, -368 Wrap around tunnel area in Rat City, in a small room in the back .

2.) 467, -667 Bottom of the East Ladder in Rat City (he wanders periodically, quite far to towards Zlandicar's lair)

3.) 585, -709 Up and around from the East ladder, this is known as the "Ledge" he is on the edge alone in a lookout-type room.

4.) 954, -165 North Cave room from Rat City, between a dragon skull and a rat bunker

5.) -201, -1001 Waterfall area very near Zlandicar's lair. (Actually two spawns here)

Some of these spawn points act very funny and irregular. It seems sometimes they will refresh in a few hours, where is sometimes they go on for 6+ Take the second spawn near Zlandicar's lair. They are almost on top of each other, but there are TWO spawns here, as I have seen them both up at the same time. One will repop ever 4-6 hours, yet the other is almost never up. And the wandering Spawn in Rat City pops in roughly 2 hours, yet it’s been longer sometimes.

There are other named in this Zone, a Chetari runemage, Chetari Warlord, Chetari Darkling, Chetari Loremaster, ect... But in my opinion they have nothing to do with Vaniki's spawn cycle. They pop from normal rats and I believe in the same spot each time. There is also the Welp Kidnapper a level 65 Named rat, I believe he is used in a Veeshan's Peak quest, he is also in my opinion not linked to Vaniki as he seems to pop randomly from any rat in the zone, and you can have multiple ones up at the same time. I’ve also seen Phase Spiders spawn in the Rat tunnels, I'm not quite sure what this is all about, they seem to make their own spawn locations and do not take the place of a Rat's spawn point. Any information on Phase spiders in this area would be great.

Also, I'd like to point out that I've yet to see Neb on track at all as well, not sure if he is linked to Vaniki at all.

The point of this post is to gather actual information, not random hearsay. I've spent many hours in this zone trying to figure out its secrets and it’s become extremely frustrating at this point. I'm not opposed to time sinks or long camps, heck it took me 29 named in Plane of Fire to finally get my paladin his Spear of Fire; so long camps are nothing new to me. My problem with this camp is there seems to be no real rhyme or reason to it. What I would like to know is if you saw him up, give a good location, to the best of your ability. I've heard many things like "he spawned out of nowhere by the pool of water in rat city" the problem with this comment is there are in fact two pools of water, and there is no known PH near those pools of water. Now this could be completely true based on what I have seen in this crazy zone. But I find it rather strange that a Raid Boss of the era of this expansion would be a completely random and SUPER rare spawn, it makes no real sense, and then again neither does this zone.

Here are some questions I'd like people to answer if they are able:

1.) when you saw him up, what was his general location?

2.) When your raid went to kill Zlandicar was Vaniki up, and if so were?

3.) What other named where up when you saw Vaniki up? Was Neb?, Vilefang? Zlandicar? Level 60 Named Rats? ect..

4.) Was Vaniki in any of the spawn location I mentioned?

5.) Have successfully camped and spawned Vaniki, if so how?

6.) Do you know how to make him pop? If so how for the love of god how do you do it!

Any information on this guy would be greatly appreciated. I know many people would love to get Willsapper, and this expansion is so old now I am surprised no real information is currently available on how to get him to spawn. I have spent many, many hours down in DN so far looking for this guy, and I am almost to my wits end, no mob should be this rare. Any Dev input would be great, throw us a flipping bone here! LOL thanks guys hope this information helps someone, and I hope we can compile some decent information on this mob. This will be posted on the EQforums and at Allakhazam's Bestiary under Vaniki.

Been working DN for the last week straight, I mean staying in the zone logged in and checking everywhere all the time. Well not 24hrs a day but pc on, allways in zone, and check in every now and then and scout it out. Absolutely no luck cycling the few 'named' ph spots, not sure on the 3rd near shade door, but definitely know the one in the big rat cave and behind the falls to Zland room... possibly 2 'named' spots there? one near fall, and one right outside Zland's room?

Any advice on getting this guy to pop would be fantastic. Quite frustrating guy to hunt.

Dropped the cleric spell Divine intervention tonight on Bristlebane

how does he spawn anyone know for the last time?

Correcting you, he conned yellow to me at lvl 65, though he isn't 63, he isn't 68 neither... 66-67

I've seen about 1000 different/same ways to kill it, but WHEN is it up? I need it dead for a quest I've been working on. /cry