Second Part of an Iceclad Map
Stormfeather Talons
This camp stinks. My friend and I have been here for about the last 96hrs. We know when SF last died because a guildie slew it as my friend watched. However, the server has come down twice in the last two days (roughly 20hrs apart) and aparently reset the spawn timer each time. I am now sitting here with my ranger (on other computer, I don't dare obscure my view of the spawn point) patiently foraging and watching the cougars go by. /sigh
As a side note: Lodizal has spawned and been killed at least twice since we started this whole fiasco and I have seen countless spawns of Midnight as well, if only SF spawned as often as she does :P
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I camped him for 35+ hours yesterday on Terris Thule. He never popped...yes all of that time very very wasted. Also had someone there for the end trying to KS him, but its tough to KS him if he doesnt show. He cant skip the second spawn can he?!?! if so this is pretty messed up.
33hour spawn...
I was in zone since SF was killed last helping with 8thshawl. WHen i finally got to camp someone else arrived their as well, 30minutes ahead of me they say. Anyhow they are there of coincidence and didnt know that i had been there and knew when mob last died...so i went afk and came back and waited the last 13hours of spawn. The other person was running around killing snowcougars when SF poped, i got first aggro and then charmed it to protect it from being KS'd unfortunately(im a bard) as i tried to selo away to kill the mob in privacy ks free they noticed (they are 65 rogue) and proceeded to pound mob when charm broke. i recharm and call for back ups. but before anyone gets there charm breaks again and i end up recharming SF with only 2% health........snowcougar attacks me, SF gets killed as my pet. no corpse. /petition GM, ive been ks;d by snow cougar
I was in zone since SF was killed last helping with 8thshawl. WHen i finally got to camp someone else arrived their as well, 30minutes ahead of me they say. Anyhow they are there of coincidence and didnt know that i had been there and knew when mob last died...so i went afk and came back and waited the last 13hours of spawn. The other person was running around killing snowcougars when SF poped, i got first aggro and then charmed it to protect it from being KS'd unfortunately(im a bard) as i tried to selo away to kill the mob in privacy ks free they noticed (they are 65 rogue) and proceeded to pound mob when charm broke. i recharm and call for back ups. but before anyone gets there charm breaks again and i end up recharming SF with only 2% health........snowcougar attacks me, SF gets killed as my pet. no corpse. /petition GM, ive been ks;d by snow cougar
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Posted: Jun 20 2003 at 1:06 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) being in zone means nothing if you not waiting at his spawn point u do not have camp. You KSed HIS mob, i bet he was very pissed. Probably reported u to GM...
33 posts
He had aggro first - it was his mob ...
Read the whole post next time.
Read the whole post next time.
17 posts
Makes no difference, i'm glad that corpse poped, just because their in the zone doesnt mean they have the camp. You couldnt camp frenzy from zone in and you cant with stormfeather. Anyone who follows the "duhhh you cant camp anythingzorz, its whoever hits it first" better get the **** outa everquest, because we camp things, and you respect other peoples camps.
I hate to tell you this.. but the 'Whomever has first agro' is an actual rule, enforced by the GM's. If someone else damages the mob first, and you and your force run in and steal it, you can, and most likely will, get reported and in trouble with GM's. I have seen people banned for excessivly ignoring this rule before.
Try and not let it happen to you.
Try and not let it happen to you.
3 posts
Stormfeather went down on Torvo server at 9:29am CENTRAL Mon. June 9th. Good luck all, (at keeping your sanity here) hehe.
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Yo, ok check this out, I been here for a buncha spawns of SF. Not a nice griffon, really kinda annoying. I have however learned the average spawn time for this mob. I can't say FOR SURE, but I've narrowed it down and was able to predict when he would spawn and I was fairly close. Only an hour off. BTW, he spawned early. So lets get to the point shall we. For all you tryin to camp SF. He usually spawns between the 34th and 36th hour after he died. That's just an average though. Oh and btw, if somebody is camping SF, don't sit there and wait, ask them to tell ya when they're done. Bloody annoying being KSed at that camp.
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My experience is this, I have been camping SF for a week and a half. In that time period, SF popped 4 times. During this time the servers were brought down twice. Out of the 4 times we killed him, he only popped anywhere close to 19hrs 1 time. The spawn timer on SF is nothing like exact. Everyone says 19 hrs or 31 hrs etc. In my experience, these times are inaccurate. It seems to me that SF can spawn ANYTIME after 19hrs and can be as long as 40 hrs. Pretty much if u want this MOB u need to log on a druid or ranger and sit in the specified location with your volume all the way up and listen very closely. You can be in the other room and hear him atk you. If anything atks you, you know it is him because nothing else is kos to druids or rangers. Well, theres my two cents on SF. Good luck to all those trying to camp him. P.S. Got Lodi twice while I was camping SF. Best way to camp him is with a friend that needs him too, that way u can take shifts. Make sure to exchange phone numbers though. :)
Rowel
Druid of the 56th Season
Cazic-Thule
Rowel
Druid of the 56th Season
Cazic-Thule
8 posts
does anyone know if i could take this thing with a lvl 38 warrior
Camped Stormfeather's general spawn area March 19th on Morell-Thule with my Ranger, and my wife logged in her druid to assist as well. Server came up at about 11:15AM MST (from information I had) - and Stormfeather popped (and died under my blades/wife's nukes) around 9:55PM MST the next day. That makes this spawn time 34h 40m.
Ranger's Glade is reporting SF's spawn at 32h +/- 90m. I could be wrong about the server up time (I was at work when the server came up, and got the uptime from a guildmate), so I'd say the times given by Rangers Glade are most likely accurate.
During the camp and my web research on the SF spawn, I heard three possible pop location for him:
- Either on the top of the hill (far up from the gnomes) at it's highest point
- When facing towards the ocean with the gnomes in front and to the right of you, just out from under the branches of the tree the gnomes are sitting under, he'll pop to your front just behind the tree and start pathing up the hill (where the cougars path when they spawn there)
- Right in the center of the three static cougars.
Generally most people said if you sit between the gnomes and the static cougars you'll get agro when SF pops; I'd suggest that you sit to the right of the tree and little bit back (when facing away from the ocean, facing up the hill) instead as you'll be right on his spawn location (as long as his spawn point doesn't change) - change your viewpoint with F9 and rotate around a bit until you can see two of the three supposed spawn areas (and if you've got See Invis, that'll help too). I'll post an exact /loc of where I was sitting this evening (I'll edit this post to show it).
This is only accurate if you're a druid or ranger of course..you'll be attacked by snow cougars if you're not. I think. Don't quote me on that. (grin)
Hit in the 50's on my 51 Ranger, very easy fight (yeah, I know, that goes without saying), no KS attempts.
Thanks to the people on MT that came by, saw it was camped, and only just asked to know when it died. :) It's people like YOU that help make this game enjoyable.
Arvarien Treesinger
<Mithril Ankh>
Morell-Thule
EDIT: Location I was sitting at when Stormfeather spawned was Pos 5764, Pos 683.
Edited, Wed May 21 18:35:51 2003
Ranger's Glade is reporting SF's spawn at 32h +/- 90m. I could be wrong about the server up time (I was at work when the server came up, and got the uptime from a guildmate), so I'd say the times given by Rangers Glade are most likely accurate.
During the camp and my web research on the SF spawn, I heard three possible pop location for him:
- Either on the top of the hill (far up from the gnomes) at it's highest point
- When facing towards the ocean with the gnomes in front and to the right of you, just out from under the branches of the tree the gnomes are sitting under, he'll pop to your front just behind the tree and start pathing up the hill (where the cougars path when they spawn there)
- Right in the center of the three static cougars.
Generally most people said if you sit between the gnomes and the static cougars you'll get agro when SF pops; I'd suggest that you sit to the right of the tree and little bit back (when facing away from the ocean, facing up the hill) instead as you'll be right on his spawn location (as long as his spawn point doesn't change) - change your viewpoint with F9 and rotate around a bit until you can see two of the three supposed spawn areas (and if you've got See Invis, that'll help too). I'll post an exact /loc of where I was sitting this evening (I'll edit this post to show it).
This is only accurate if you're a druid or ranger of course..you'll be attacked by snow cougars if you're not. I think. Don't quote me on that. (grin)
Hit in the 50's on my 51 Ranger, very easy fight (yeah, I know, that goes without saying), no KS attempts.
Thanks to the people on MT that came by, saw it was camped, and only just asked to know when it died. :) It's people like YOU that help make this game enjoyable.
Arvarien Treesinger
<Mithril Ankh>
Morell-Thule
EDIT: Location I was sitting at when Stormfeather spawned was Pos 5764, Pos 683.
Edited, Wed May 21 18:35:51 2003
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Just wanted to add that Beastlords will also not be attacked by the cougars.
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Thought I would add my 2 cents worth. Took him down on the Rathe server at 9 a.m. EST this morning. This was exactly 35 hours after a guildie took him down Fri. night. So it appears that what has been posted is close to being correct. Still don't think there is an exact time for the spawn, but the 19 hour rule should put you in the ballpark. The biggest thing that helps is knowing when he goes down. Also, I havent seen posted that when you do the full map piece turnin to the lost pirate, a furious snow cougar will spawn. I think he is the same level as Stormfeather, so shouldnt be any problem. Color me one happy 53 Ranger with an Eyepatch.
Resjik Swiftbow
The Rathe
Resjik Swiftbow
The Rathe
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Well, so much for trying to do a little math when you are tired. Looks like the time was 37 hours instead 35 hours. Who needs sleep anyway??
Resjik Swiftbow
The Rathe
Resjik Swiftbow
The Rathe
Just wantin to put in some tiny infos.
after death pop was 34 hours 12 min
Loc is P5793 P648
He pops moving
note: moving pops can sometimes delay a bit to appear farther down their path (normally no more than about 2 seconds)
19 hours spawn cycle, but he can skip spawns meaning he might spawn at any 12 hour interval after his scheduled spawn time.
IE, If he died at 2 PM, he is scheduled for 9AM next day. If he skips spawn, he'll spawn at 9pm that night. Unless he skips another spawn making it 9AM again on the next day (2nd day after kill at this point). Rinse wash repeat. This is what has worked for most everyone i know who got him.
Just need to get off my **** and actually camp his butt sometime.
Edited, Wed May 7 18:14:22 2003
IE, If he died at 2 PM, he is scheduled for 9AM next day. If he skips spawn, he'll spawn at 9pm that night. Unless he skips another spawn making it 9AM again on the next day (2nd day after kill at this point). Rinse wash repeat. This is what has worked for most everyone i know who got him.
Just need to get off my **** and actually camp his butt sometime.
Edited, Wed May 7 18:14:22 2003
I hate him I hate him I hate him, He should be named SatanFeathers :(
What lvl mob is this guy? I'm a lvl 36 semi-twinked Warrior and if I was determined enough, could I take this guy? Thanx for replies..
Boilerhead Texican
<Lany's Server>
If it doesn't fit,
Get a bigger hammer...
Boilerhead Texican
<Lany's Server>
If it doesn't fit,
Get a bigger hammer...
I took Stormfeather down with my 35 warrior. I had a 37 cleric healing me though. I think he used Superior Heal 3 times. No complete heals. I am outfitted in almost full crafted with a Frostbring and centi SS just to let you know about where I stand, equip-wise, so you can see that I'm not very twinked either. I don't think a 36 warrior could solo it without Aego and other buffs or a Fungi tunic, but you'd get close!
Edited, Tue May 6 21:41:55 2003
Edited, Tue May 6 21:41:55 2003
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Needed some bank space so I decided to finish some unfinished quests: Stormfeather .. BORING....I vaguely remember a vision in my wee Elven mind as a young ranger docking for the first time in Velious on the group of islands called Iceclad ...Someone killing a large bird up in the distance under some trees. Later as I learned of the lost map I felt that somehow the bird did indeed exists...(I am in the process of moving and packing and selling a house so...I decide perfect time to do this camp.) ..........Tick tick tick tick
EQ Friends wanted to start some newbies on pvp to see what it is like...Okay this camp is boring sure lets go play pvp. I leveled a ranger to 45, a cleric to 36, a bard to 18, and a necro and a pally and a rogue to the pking age on 9. Well I am not great at pvp and I can't twink or buy plats with real money, but somehow I feel driven ..Friends who talked me into pvp have by now all left pvp. I realized that my pvp ranger needed the mask much more than my blue lvl 62 ranger who already had 90pct self haste....
So suddenly I was camping it on two servers....
On pvp the camp is 50 pct less boring ...(if that is possible)...and fights for the camp are more intertaining than the movie "Shoot out at the OK Coral" ...I aws sensing the eyepatch would be 200 times more difficult or impossible to get...Most the campers on pvp were high lvl and just spit on me like I was dust.....If they got bored or tired they hired an assassin to player kill me while I was afk..I got used to waking up at the soulbinder...After two weeks I had never even seen the bird....Server had gone down twice since my 62 ranger started camping and SF was up twice I was told and killed on server reset. .( I didnt witness these but one source seemed reliable)
So this one time I had the camp on Drinal and some twink frog popped up with his BOT Wizzy and states....The next bird is mine so you may as well leave ...Didnt want to bother my guild so after a few hours I went to play on pvp....So much for the social concept of camps..
Well another patch due Apr 8.....No SF on either server....I Camp on PVP since the ranger needs it more and well odd, I am driven....When sf time comes to possibly spawn 19 or 32 I dont remember...BAM emergency patch...Come back on and no SF. I wait out again the time till possible pop and BAM TALLON crashes..no other server does just Tallon.....Pull my hair out. Come back on, no SF. Camping to wait out the possible time till spawn. 19 hours i think ..BAMN only ICECLAD zone on Tallon crashes....'can't access this zone'..when I do get on, sure enough no SF and the vendors are empty of the iceclad shrimp I sold them and the fish.....After another 19 hours I report to GM's I think SF is broken ....They respond they dont know why all the crashes but can assure me that SF is not broken ...just shy.....
My fishing has gone up from 2 to 97 at this point
btw...I keep time secret about iceclad zone crash .....but there are some all night campers and the lack of sleep gets me...Woke up at soulbinder WAH ...?????experience KILL??.scroll....this time the pker's name was non other than STORMFEATHER......by the time I got my sword..other camper woke up and logged his 62 pally ..welp I lost my chance(.....but my visions of him being something like unto Sasquash or the LocNess Monster were quelled for there was his corpse..and the pally let me have the talons....DUH...
This one guild started killing Lodizal a few times and they had alot of members in my range so ...suddenly I was getting pked, CC, bind rushed and forced out alot...so I created an alt named Stormifeather lvl 1 ranger to sit on hill when I was pked out of my camp ....just to know the times of death......This particular guild tried to kill Lodizal by debuffing the mob when another sufficient force had it over half dead I guess to wipe the other team and take the prize...dunno but the other team said they reported it...Same guild was report by me for the exp killing and bind rushing and cc and doubling up on me afk the game command politely answered much much later with............are you okay??
Well these pking campers rarely stayed long. They came and went with the snow....Once a group of five came and pked me so a lvl 59 ranger could get his patch...I had figured SF's time to be soon to spawn using the 32 hour rule so ......I knew a someone of a higher level who used to play on my blue server and ((( I knew he wanted the patch...checked a /who all and sent him a tell to come ....it probably wouldn't be more than an hour ....Being a 64 SK he easily removed the lvl 59 ranger for the camp .. I told him not to camp his corpse but the ranger had sent a tell and said he wasnt gonna leave. Well SK killed him again and got frozen by a GM ...okay okay I know we know they dont show favoritism right????......./boggles me though the things I see..CCing is not even an offense for pvp according to the rules I had skimmed though before starting this thread. Well ranger does leave and ...TAH DAH...Sure enough one hour on the nose......STORMFEATHER POPS ...he loots and leaves...phhhh....didnt even offer a roll...Servers are due to come down so I log and head to Drinal to check on camp.....Well it is camped by an ally of my guild.....he reports me to officers and discusses HIS FEAR OF ME KSING HIM ...well took my guild officer fifteen minutes to get the pvp out of my head...so I logged to sleep till serve comes back up. My guild the Silver Hawks are a much finer breed of bird than this overly shy griffon..Okay server resets at 1:50 after two crashes before anyone can get on and it takes an hour after that for anyone to get on.....A druid friend checks Drinal ...no SF...I am on Tallon...no SF...I log to go to Drinal cause by this point i really hate PVP.and EQ in general..
Need some friends to make the game fun again I guess....So chat with guild and start my run at Stormfeather on Drinal....campers are polite...they respect my camp....this time.
19 hour rule fails.....
32 hour rule fails.....
48 hours and ten minutes afer SOE reported Drinal up Stormfeather popped just above the gnomes ...woot ....Lodi was up in ten minutes and I got to tank him too....good day )........finished the quest back to Nexus good bye to Iceclad on Drinal...
Logged to Tallon to check on bird....nobody willing to share info of course....pked instantly on arrival so I log onto Stormifeather lvl 1 ....
Two rangers with alt druids are camping the site..
When they leave..... I log ranger....they return they dont pk me but their guildmates come in pk me and leave....butI stand my ground..
Night falls no SF...I determine he has spawned once since server reset.just dont now the time....
Druid alt of one ranger takes the night shift...she doesnt pk me her ranger doesnt pk me..
6am Stormfeather pops right in front of me I pull him to pirate....................and fear kite him to 80pct ...I should have pulled him back one more time....but I was elated to get him over half without the durid noticing me ........................./DUH......welp I see druid circling above me and suddenly i am rooted triple dotted and nuked the bird I get down to 97pct
I die..............I rush from soulbinder.............naked she nukes and dots me till I am dead again I see she has gotten ranger logged on...I cant loot ...I didnt get the finally blow while I was in zone..............DO I have luck or what???
I report this to GMs and she loots and says sorry...tah tah....
GM,s never answer
I am in utter disbelief at the level people go to for loot ....( encluding me at this point ).....why am I driven...I dunno cause I hate pvp and am gonna have to get really really bored to play it again.
Another 24 hours and still no Stormfeather...least I hope...I fell asleep once......someone may have gotten him but I stick to my guns.
Camp is all mine till night fall then a high end SK comes on about five hours before possible pop
By morning he is gone and I lost 30 minutes somewhere to sleep ...no stormifeather..but I m ot sure .did he get him????...( this camp is torment)............................half the morning goes by I am alone .
In comes lvl 53 Human SK challenges duel for camp.....time is not close I refuse.
Hour 31 SK wont leave...I think SF is gonna pop nobody on to help...........SK gets bored.........says he is leaving...
3 minutes pass I hear chirp chirp chirp...about 50 dervs coming up the hill chasing the SK he FD's right as I stand to run...I get aggro......start running to EW.....he shouts in /OOC TRAIN to EW as he stays FD on SF hill.....I get exp killed as sow drops .....no cleric on to help either.......take deep swallow.
fill our report........No answer of course from GM.......tick tick tick...I got one bat wing to cast and pull SF over water with.I know i wont win but.......tick tick tick...SK from previous night just logged in ......he is higher than the one here.....Guildies come....TAH TAH Human derv training exp killer....He says "Later" I tell him yeah ..."Later for the lvl I lost."...
Stormfeather is WAYYY overdue....LODI now going down.....SK goes to loot a map off LODI...I am thinking spawn NOW .....spawn NOW......My SK friend who got the map before the patch comes into zone to loot other map off Lodi. Asks me to help with tracking dire wolf stalker okay sure let me go soak up experience...HAHA I hate ranger camo ...I hate dervs ..another exp kill for me...gaw I hate lvl 45. I go back to camp these sk's are guildies BTW ((( ...and he is still there .........sigh ............My friend runs off to get map peices ...He needs walk through on the quest so I help him....He turns in map and gets patch......BAM Stormfeather POPS........yeah grats another lucky SK (.......Well at least I know the time....tick tick tick tick
Pking guild enters Iceclad...great till to log stormifeather to throw them off...tick tick
MESSAGE:>>>ATTENTION TALLON ZEK WILL BE COMING DOWN IN 5 MINUTES FOR A BRIEF PATCH.........................................................................................OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
.I am packing anyway...............this camp has taken the fun out of EQ for me.....I prolly wont play for a long time as I move and unpack to where ever I am going next........
Yes follow the 19 hour
and the 32 hour rule
....note there is a 48 hour possiblity if you read all these posts...even when not camping after a patch ...
Dont expect any sympathy...even if you feel you need some.
I camped this bad boy for approx 5 days, in 5-10 hour intervals. Sometimes shorter. Basing my camps on when I thought he should spawn. I have a strong feeling that this mob is on an even 60 hour spawn. Why do I say this? Well the servers came up by my estimation at 1ish EST. The mob never popped at 19 hours, or 36, or 2 19s. He popped (and was stolen from me) at about 1am 2 nights later. IE 60 hours. I an some others continually camped him night after night marking the time he was killed, 19, 32, 19+36. Nothing. So I went to bed after the 19+36 after spending 12 hours straight killing cougars to try to verify if this helped. Well when I woke up 4 hours later. He was just sittin on the hill minding his own buisness. So I gave him the buisness. So according to my calculations and the fact no one saw any other pops. I think this is now a 60 hour spawn. Hope this helps you all.
And PS this is an awful awful camp. Please everyone have respect for one another, I encountered a lot of threats and general jerks when trying to do this camp. Respect others time and effort and be patient and kind and perhaps they will help give you clues about his spawn time. ;) And Gilween if your out there I hope ya rot.
And PS this is an awful awful camp. Please everyone have respect for one another, I encountered a lot of threats and general jerks when trying to do this camp. Respect others time and effort and be patient and kind and perhaps they will help give you clues about his spawn time. ;) And Gilween if your out there I hope ya rot.
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I just finished the Eyepatch of Plunder after camping Stormfeather for a little over 10 hours. A guildmate of mine announced him as down at about 7:00am PST, so i knew that i had a chance for him to spawn at 2:00am PST. I set up camp at about 10:00pm. I had little trouble with KS'ers until a good team monk logged on near the spawn at about 1:30am with threats to KS. Luckily i had guildmates on to come back me up in case SF were to spawn. 3:00am came around, and no SF. So i decided to call it a night.
I woke up the next day and started camp at 10:00am. I called for guildies to come join me at around 12:45pm because i was going on the assumption that he would spawn 12-14 hours after the skipped spawn based on the inforation in the posts here. Sure enough the monk logged on but we knew he didn't have a chance. SF popped at 2:54pm, putting his total spawn at 31:54 hours. If you need his loc, i would put it at roughly 8000, 600 for your camp. He spawned closer to the dock / gnome side of the hill than i expected, because i didn't know he popped untill i refreshed my track. A druid can port you in and succor you to the docks which is very near his spawn location.
Good Luck
Baroness Ariadna
59 Ranger Sullon Zek
Edited, Sun Apr 27 17:00:23 2003
I woke up the next day and started camp at 10:00am. I called for guildies to come join me at around 12:45pm because i was going on the assumption that he would spawn 12-14 hours after the skipped spawn based on the inforation in the posts here. Sure enough the monk logged on but we knew he didn't have a chance. SF popped at 2:54pm, putting his total spawn at 31:54 hours. If you need his loc, i would put it at roughly 8000, 600 for your camp. He spawned closer to the dock / gnome side of the hill than i expected, because i didn't know he popped untill i refreshed my track. A druid can port you in and succor you to the docks which is very near his spawn location.
Good Luck
Baroness Ariadna
59 Ranger Sullon Zek
Edited, Sun Apr 27 17:00:23 2003
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Has anyone else seen a problem with him since the last patch. He has skipped his last 6 spawns since the server reset. I am wondering if this isn't bugged since the patch.
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k i am currently on this mission which is very very boring. if i am in the right place and i am at the spawn point as said, the spawn rate is every 8 mins and if it takes 34 hours as some people have said you have a 1 in 255 chance of gettng the sucker give or take 50 or so
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Was talking to a guildy the night before as he was camping the bird. I remember the last time server was reset as I wrote it down(lost a loot item due to a stealth rollback and had to email verant). Provided him the information on last server reset....which inspired me to do some calculations based on what I found here on the message forums. My calculations put the bird to spawn in the early morning(using the 19 hour approach. I went to bed and set my alarm...I figured I would log on and see if he was still camping bird. Camp was free.
Got bird my first try. I can't verify the validity of the 19 hour spawn cycle. This is because from server reset to it spawning for me was 42 hours.
A Frog's take on the spawn time theory:
I began camping bird just a few minutes before 2nd 19 hour spawn cycle was to occur. Four hours later was when bird spawned...thus 19+19+4=42.
It's possible that the bird spawned between that time and may have been flying around before people realized it was in zone...no telling...but from what someone said who was camping it pretty heavily after server reset...he didn't see any bird.
A Frog's take on the location:
I read posts where the spawn location was between the three gnomes who play poker and the three static cougars next to another close by tree. I positioned my camp directly between those two trees. I'd say that was pretty close - but, when it spawned for me I felt it was closer to the gnomes and just a tad up further on the hill which is to the backs of the gnomes. I was lucky those that were also looking for the bird had all tired and left...otherwise this slight difference from where I based my camp may have been a factor in me losing Stormfeather to someone else.
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Luckily my weight lifting facilities are also where I have stationed my computer, and I camped this bird while I excercised and afterwards prepared for a college test reading a book while at my computer.
My frog warrior is not able to deal with all the cougars etc. So I camped this bird using my 64 Necro that I semi retired.
Worst fear was when I logged to bring on my frog someone else would take my bird...a little over a 7 min timer on corpse. Could not see anyone, but hurried to log off as atleast the no loot timer would give me a 50/50 chance on the first to grab it once timer opened FFA. I logged on my frog I had camped at the location and no one was around....was beating off a cougar. Mid way during cougar fight I checked for timer and it was open....looted corpse and proceeded to deal with cougar again.
All I have to say is I am very estatic about my fortune, and I couldn't have done it without the information already posted on these boards.
My total time camping SF was - 4 hours. And, I do realize how lucky I was...I realize many people have suffered long camps.
Best thing to do is find out when bird was last taken down or if a recent server patch took place....then factor in 19 hours for a log on...then if camp is open camp it for a few hours. If nothing...log off...come back when 2nd spawn should have occured and repeat.
Good luck to all.....FROooaakkk!!
Edited, Wed Apr 16 13:47:22 2003
Got bird my first try. I can't verify the validity of the 19 hour spawn cycle. This is because from server reset to it spawning for me was 42 hours.
A Frog's take on the spawn time theory:
I began camping bird just a few minutes before 2nd 19 hour spawn cycle was to occur. Four hours later was when bird spawned...thus 19+19+4=42.
It's possible that the bird spawned between that time and may have been flying around before people realized it was in zone...no telling...but from what someone said who was camping it pretty heavily after server reset...he didn't see any bird.
A Frog's take on the location:
I read posts where the spawn location was between the three gnomes who play poker and the three static cougars next to another close by tree. I positioned my camp directly between those two trees. I'd say that was pretty close - but, when it spawned for me I felt it was closer to the gnomes and just a tad up further on the hill which is to the backs of the gnomes. I was lucky those that were also looking for the bird had all tired and left...otherwise this slight difference from where I based my camp may have been a factor in me losing Stormfeather to someone else.
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Luckily my weight lifting facilities are also where I have stationed my computer, and I camped this bird while I excercised and afterwards prepared for a college test reading a book while at my computer.
My frog warrior is not able to deal with all the cougars etc. So I camped this bird using my 64 Necro that I semi retired.
Worst fear was when I logged to bring on my frog someone else would take my bird...a little over a 7 min timer on corpse. Could not see anyone, but hurried to log off as atleast the no loot timer would give me a 50/50 chance on the first to grab it once timer opened FFA. I logged on my frog I had camped at the location and no one was around....was beating off a cougar. Mid way during cougar fight I checked for timer and it was open....looted corpse and proceeded to deal with cougar again.
All I have to say is I am very estatic about my fortune, and I couldn't have done it without the information already posted on these boards.
My total time camping SF was - 4 hours. And, I do realize how lucky I was...I realize many people have suffered long camps.
Best thing to do is find out when bird was last taken down or if a recent server patch took place....then factor in 19 hours for a log on...then if camp is open camp it for a few hours. If nothing...log off...come back when 2nd spawn should have occured and repeat.
Good luck to all.....FROooaakkk!!
Edited, Wed Apr 16 13:47:22 2003
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Just FYI my experience, servers went down....19 hours later; I was KS on this camp (by a SK) so I saw him die. After that he skipped his 19 hour spawn and spawned 12 hours after that or 31 hours exactly for me.
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Posted: Mar 29 2003 at 7:29 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I hate when people complain about things... But the word "Verant" to me is a bunch of no neck high school drop outs, That cant do anything more then make people mad waiting for camps like this and dissconnecting from server... Taking your money also helps... That is ridiculous 19 hours with a chance to skip spawn... If I owned verant it would be like a half hour spawn after killing a PH... everyone at verant would spill coffee on his/her pants the day they see that only about
The problem is that you and Verant have two entirely separate ideas on how this "camp" should work. Verant thought: "Hey, we don't really like the 'camping' concept. Let's put in a quest with a nice reward, but make it clear that we don't want the spawn to be camped."
You thought: "Wow, that eyepatch sure is a nice item. I really want it! And to make sure I get it, I have to make sure I kill stormfeather - well, time to start camping."
I know folks who have simply checked for SF whenever they were in IC. or frequently checked track while xping in that area. Point is, the least stressful way to camp this is to NOT CAMP HIM. And by that, I don't mean don't try to get the eyepatch. I mean don't sit at spawn for 30+ hours. pop in, pop out... is he there? nah.
Or do what I'll be doing. figure out spawn time best you can, find out when he died, camp in 1-3 hour stretches. don't wear yourself out, you'll get it in time.
-K
You thought: "Wow, that eyepatch sure is a nice item. I really want it! And to make sure I get it, I have to make sure I kill stormfeather - well, time to start camping."
I know folks who have simply checked for SF whenever they were in IC. or frequently checked track while xping in that area. Point is, the least stressful way to camp this is to NOT CAMP HIM. And by that, I don't mean don't try to get the eyepatch. I mean don't sit at spawn for 30+ hours. pop in, pop out... is he there? nah.
Or do what I'll be doing. figure out spawn time best you can, find out when he died, camp in 1-3 hour stretches. don't wear yourself out, you'll get it in time.
-K
Scholar
29 posts
If he were to spawn every 30 minutes everyone and their dog would have an eyepatch. They need to make some limitations on the amount of items to enter the world or else everything would be worthless.
Lodizal map piece..
7 posts
Yes and more annoyingly they upped the drop rate on lodi map piece to two per kill, so its great you have double the amount of people all clawing for SF :/
26 posts
Took me 37 hours exactly from the time Stormfeather was killed until the time he spawned again for me to kill him. I know when he died as a guildy of mine is the one who killed it, and then held the camp 10 minutes for me while I got to it. Given my experience with him, I believe that he is a 19 hour (+- 2 hours) spawn who can skip up to 3 times in a row and usually skips at least once. I also found that by sitting near the gnomes under the tree you can keep an eye on the spawn point, but keep from getting aggro from the Cougars. Very nice if you're looking to get some sleep or other AFK in while doing this camp.
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Stormfeather was never meant to be the toughest part of the eyepatch quest. It was Lodizal who was supposed to fill those shoes. Thing is, the people at Sony/Verant didn't take into account that just because they did not create Stormfeather to be camped that people would not do so. I've read in several places of people being told by GMs that they were SoL when they got KSed for the simple reason that he is not a camp. So, what we get is a bottleneck that is even worse than the cleric epic was until not all that long ago. The reason being is that Stormfeather can be killed by nearly everyone; whereas, Ragefire on the other hand requires a raid force (or a group or two of some fairly uber fellows.) The question I have is why they took the time to fix the problem with the cleric epic, yet they left this bird to be KSed time and time again? ...Don't get me started on the green dragonscale required for the warrior epic...
If you do decide to camp Stormfeather (much as I'm doing so now) then by all means GOOD LUCK TO YOU!
If you do decide to camp Stormfeather (much as I'm doing so now) then by all means GOOD LUCK TO YOU!
GMs and Guides can't do anything about KSing cuz that's what Sony tells them.
They won't do anything about KSing unless they witness it with their own eyes and can verify it.
To them, there are no camps. Because otherwise they would have to create strict regimented areas to call camps so people wouldn't argue about the size of their camp, and they'd have to say "You can only kill this camp if you're in this level range", etc, etc...
It'd be more of a nightmare, trust me. They don't recognize camps because they can't prove that Player_X was sitting in IC tracking Stormfeather longer than Player_Y.
Imagine you're a Guide and you get a petition from Paludal, for example "Soandso is stealing our camp at Bandit 2" so the Guide goes over and there's 2 groups there, both claiming they were there first. If they were supposed to recognize camps, how would they resolve the situation? Instead, they tell the 2 groups to share the spawns evenly.
Camp stealing isn't KSing. KSing breaks the rules, Camp stealing doesn't. KSing = attacking a mob already engaged by another person(s), camp stealing = taking unaggrod mobs out of another person(s) general vicinity.
GMs and Guides shouldn't have to get petitions about crap like this, but they do, because players are either whiney, thinking they should get whatever they want because "they pay for the game"... or because they're jerks who make it their daily routine to make everyone else's life hell.
That's my little rant thinger :P
They won't do anything about KSing unless they witness it with their own eyes and can verify it.
To them, there are no camps. Because otherwise they would have to create strict regimented areas to call camps so people wouldn't argue about the size of their camp, and they'd have to say "You can only kill this camp if you're in this level range", etc, etc...
It'd be more of a nightmare, trust me. They don't recognize camps because they can't prove that Player_X was sitting in IC tracking Stormfeather longer than Player_Y.
Imagine you're a Guide and you get a petition from Paludal, for example "Soandso is stealing our camp at Bandit 2" so the Guide goes over and there's 2 groups there, both claiming they were there first. If they were supposed to recognize camps, how would they resolve the situation? Instead, they tell the 2 groups to share the spawns evenly.
Camp stealing isn't KSing. KSing breaks the rules, Camp stealing doesn't. KSing = attacking a mob already engaged by another person(s), camp stealing = taking unaggrod mobs out of another person(s) general vicinity.
GMs and Guides shouldn't have to get petitions about crap like this, but they do, because players are either whiney, thinking they should get whatever they want because "they pay for the game"... or because they're jerks who make it their daily routine to make everyone else's life hell.
That's my little rant thinger :P
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...or they /petition because they just sat there, telling guildies for the past 19, 31, 38, etc. hours that they couldn't get exp because they were camping the spawn...or they had been respectful of the person who previously had been camping SF, etc...only to have some SK or super-critting ranger come up and KS the thing. You're right, GMs shouldn't have to deal with it, but if I haven't slept for a day and a half waiting on a damn bird to spawn and it gets KSed by someone who just showed up basically because they knew the ToD, I'd be searching for whatever sort of action I could think of doing that took me to the brink of delirium. And that DOES include /petition, even if I know it won't help.
But his point wasn't that KSing is an evil that needs to be punished. We rational people know that they can't enforce it. But what he did say was that the toughest part of the quest should NOT be killing a mob anybody lvl 40 and up can do. There are a bunch of ways to fix this, some of which will eventually devalue the item (lessened spawn time or fixed spawn timers).
I recommend doing one or both of the following: one, lessen the spawn time while increasing the difficulty of the three other portions. getting the piece from Lodi is too easy. Just be there when your guild kills it and gratz, you get a piece. The bloodmaw portion is also too easy. By increasing the difficulty of these (this is a bit of a stretch, but perhaps by including tradeskill requisites, like the shawls and rings?), the overall value of the item remains intact without giving way to silly timesinks that are actually counter to the overall suggestion of the game (kill, level, conquer).
The second suggestion is to provide placeholding mobs for stormfeather along the way, similar to what we see in the revamped CT or other zones. This provides a "camp" atmosphere most folks will adhere to. SOE can even keep their much-beloved timesink-genre to this by making it so that 24 hours after SF's death, a PH will pop. The PH will spawn over and over again every 15 or 20 minutes, until SF pops, which is random after the first PH mob. People respect camp calls in these type of situations all across Norrath; it can happen for SF as well. And with the PH idea, those camping won't find themselves waking up in their chairs with a puddle of drool all over their keyboard.
And who isn't for that?
Edited, Sat May 17 14:52:41 2003
But his point wasn't that KSing is an evil that needs to be punished. We rational people know that they can't enforce it. But what he did say was that the toughest part of the quest should NOT be killing a mob anybody lvl 40 and up can do. There are a bunch of ways to fix this, some of which will eventually devalue the item (lessened spawn time or fixed spawn timers).
I recommend doing one or both of the following: one, lessen the spawn time while increasing the difficulty of the three other portions. getting the piece from Lodi is too easy. Just be there when your guild kills it and gratz, you get a piece. The bloodmaw portion is also too easy. By increasing the difficulty of these (this is a bit of a stretch, but perhaps by including tradeskill requisites, like the shawls and rings?), the overall value of the item remains intact without giving way to silly timesinks that are actually counter to the overall suggestion of the game (kill, level, conquer).
The second suggestion is to provide placeholding mobs for stormfeather along the way, similar to what we see in the revamped CT or other zones. This provides a "camp" atmosphere most folks will adhere to. SOE can even keep their much-beloved timesink-genre to this by making it so that 24 hours after SF's death, a PH will pop. The PH will spawn over and over again every 15 or 20 minutes, until SF pops, which is random after the first PH mob. People respect camp calls in these type of situations all across Norrath; it can happen for SF as well. And with the PH idea, those camping won't find themselves waking up in their chairs with a puddle of drool all over their keyboard.
And who isn't for that?
Edited, Sat May 17 14:52:41 2003
11 posts
Don't know if this will help, but as of today it took 37 hours for Stormfeather to Spawn. Take what you want from everyone who says they know his spawn time. Looks to me like 19+/- that can skip.
Edited, Tue Mar 18 22:59:48 2003
Edited, Tue Mar 18 22:59:48 2003
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the following i write to help others with trying to get stormfeather.
1. he spawns on the slope (closest to the ocean) by the tree with the gnomes sitting underneath it. a cougar spawns in that point, he paths away from the dock ocean to the other side, goes slightly to the top of the hill, and returns to hit spawn point.
2. i wont use the term camp, but tracked his movements for a few days with the following results:
a) he did not spawn at server up
b) he skipped the first 2 cycles of 19hrs after the server up
c) he spawned on the 3rd cycle of 19hrs. each time he was approx. due up, i went 1-2hrs earlier and stayed 1-2hrs after his intended spawn time
3. the cougars are 7mins45secs spawn.
4. clearing cougars in any fashion will not help SF to spawn earlier
5. SF is a "very" sought after mob. this will be the most difficult part of achieving the eye-patch plunder quest.
its not a suprise to see groups of people there ready to engage it, and they will KS it, so think ahead and bring re-inforcements that can do 50%+ of the dmg. when i engaged SF, i was the 1st to do so and nobody challenged me when i was fighting. HOWEVER, the other times i was camping SF, there were 2-3 other groups there which indicated that it was going to be a race to see who does the most dmg (im not going to go into the ethics of "camps" and "ks's", but i recommend having the power to be able to fight off others who may/will attempt to KS it)
6. after spending about 1 week in camping/learning about SF, for those who wish to camp him, get the "exact" spawn time and follow the above, OR wait till patch, then proceed to follow his cycles (which was the way i achieved it), it took 3 cycles of 19hrs approx, i hope this saves a lot of time to future SF questers
1. he spawns on the slope (closest to the ocean) by the tree with the gnomes sitting underneath it. a cougar spawns in that point, he paths away from the dock ocean to the other side, goes slightly to the top of the hill, and returns to hit spawn point.
2. i wont use the term camp, but tracked his movements for a few days with the following results:
a) he did not spawn at server up
b) he skipped the first 2 cycles of 19hrs after the server up
c) he spawned on the 3rd cycle of 19hrs. each time he was approx. due up, i went 1-2hrs earlier and stayed 1-2hrs after his intended spawn time
3. the cougars are 7mins45secs spawn.
4. clearing cougars in any fashion will not help SF to spawn earlier
5. SF is a "very" sought after mob. this will be the most difficult part of achieving the eye-patch plunder quest.
its not a suprise to see groups of people there ready to engage it, and they will KS it, so think ahead and bring re-inforcements that can do 50%+ of the dmg. when i engaged SF, i was the 1st to do so and nobody challenged me when i was fighting. HOWEVER, the other times i was camping SF, there were 2-3 other groups there which indicated that it was going to be a race to see who does the most dmg (im not going to go into the ethics of "camps" and "ks's", but i recommend having the power to be able to fight off others who may/will attempt to KS it)
6. after spending about 1 week in camping/learning about SF, for those who wish to camp him, get the "exact" spawn time and follow the above, OR wait till patch, then proceed to follow his cycles (which was the way i achieved it), it took 3 cycles of 19hrs approx, i hope this saves a lot of time to future SF questers
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I was just curious if anyone has any info on this fella .... I plan to camp him for a while after the patch and im gonna let the cats that hang around keep me berserk so that when i use Mighty Strike i wont have any prob with the damn KS'ers nearby. Yet my problem is Im not sure how hard he hits or how much HP he has, so i dont wanna go through all the trouble to ward the KS'ers by having to stay berserk to throw some crips at this guy, and then find out he has mad HP, hits for 100+ and die going through all of this.Any info anyone would be willing to share would be great , thanks guyz =D
Rugged Bignutz
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My alt ports for only peepz with CRs , yet its strange how no one else is willing to go out of there way to lend a helping han .... hmmmm... maybe bad luck i guess.
Rugged Bignutz
55 myrmi <Mystic Moon>
only on Tholluxe
http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=555715
My alt ports for only peepz with CRs , yet its strange how no one else is willing to go out of there way to lend a helping han .... hmmmm... maybe bad luck i guess.
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