corrupted barracuda  

Thanks to the below posts, was very helpful.
I started without reading the posts for the first two hours as I was working on another computer so just killing the spawn at the 40sec spot as it respawned (which you dont do) had no luck as to be expected.

After reading the below posts I marked the three location on my map
-824, 143.............6 min
-900, -830............6 min
-1351, -761..........6 min
as per beregond's post

Also barkwillow listed them if you want to add them to your map txt file to appear automatically

This makes it easy to travel to each location and wait there for the spawn. I went to the three location killing the PH's in an anti-clockwise direction (this doesn't matter you can go to them in any order)
took about 3-4hours, also had killed 5 tainted before the six tainted spawned the corrupted.

It spawned for me on loc -824, 143
Also it was the same as another person said, all the previous tainted conned grey to me, this six one conned green at level 63 (so was a higher mob than the prev)
good luck..

The Corrupted was dark blue to me at 44 and was a bit tougher than the regular barracudas so I'd put him in the early 40s but definitely not 44 all the time.

I did this today, here are my observations:

There are eight deepwaters but only three are of interest. Start with the 'cuda at loc -824, +143. Then swim SE to loc -1351, -761, then North to loc -900, -830, and finally swim West back to loc -824, +143. This will take about 3 mins, so wait for 3 mins for the fish to pop and repeat the cycle.

The fish are on 6 min timers and when a fish pops it has aprox 95% chance of being a deepwater, if it's not a deepwater then there is an equal chance of it being a bloodgill, a low level tainted or a high level tainted (numbers are estimated)

This gives you an overall chance of 1 in 20 (5%) of getting a tainted each time you kill all three deepwaters as above. So, on average it will take about two hours to get your corrupted. But it's random like roulette. you could get lucky on your first pop - or it could take you days - but if you stick to the method above, you will get lucky eventually.

Hey did the 3 spots listed had 2 "fake green con to a 55 druid" tainted spawn tht did not pop corrupt. It finnaly did happen at the -900,-900 spot. Took like 2 or 3 hours.

Here are the locations and re-spawn times on each of the barracudas.
-824, 143.............6 min........I had a tainted spawn here
-900, -830............6 min........I had a tainted spawn here
-1351, -761..........6 min........I had a tainted spawn here

its soo right i killed each spot once then i got corrupted on -900 and -830
it took 20 minutes

Had the tainted pop -1351, -761 dunno how long spawn was because I was killing all the spots but the corpse of the PH was still there lol. Was the first one I had pop and was hunting it for about 30 minutes. Just root rotted like all the other tainted mobs in epic. Was scared it would be fake tainted and when it died...out came corrupted so guess I was lucky. I did not pull it on land or any such nonsense.

Okay so Ive gotten 4 tainted at the loc -900, -900 spawn point and one at another spawn point and all have been fake, I dot then try to pull them to shore and none will follow. I thought the -900, -900 spawn was suppose to give the real tainted every time....not take at least 5 tainted....is it broken?

I have been at this for days and have only got fake tainteds. I am on progression server and people assure me quest is working, but I am starting to get annoyed? Any clues hints ideas? I've been reading this forum and nothing people have hinted here has helped.

This is probably one of(if not the)most annoying camp(s) in the entire epic.

Here is what you do to spawn him:

A little southeast of the Veksar ent ruins is a barracuda that is on a 5 min spawn timer. Repeatedly kill it until tainted spawns. This tainted WILL spawn the corrupted! It is not false, as I spent DAYS camping this sucker and came across the false tainted in several other spawn locations. I'm not good with loc myself, all I can say is head a southeast of the Veksar ent ruins and find the lone cuda. This camp isn't so bad, once you know what to do. I spent days trying to spawn the tainted at other locations and always wound up with a false one. After about twenty minutes after me and a 58 mage started camping it, it spawned the tainted and the corrupted. After that I turned my stuff in to the gnome in OT and Xanuusus in NK for my SHINY NEW Nature Walker's Scimitar!!

Killed Corrupted today with my 59 Druid camped him at -900, -900 for about an hour and a half. just sat at that spot the whole time and only killed ph's that poped there finely DB tainted poped pulled him to land and rooted him and doted him with bugs until dead, Corrupted poped LB and was easy kill got pure lakewater.

I have spent over 2 hours today (june 18 2006) and finally get a tainted to pop and it was a FAKE no corrupted spawned and now I am to start all over WARNING FAKE TAINTEDS STILL EXIST. Sent in /bug report but this is a problem that looks like it has gone on for YEARS so I doubt SONY will ever fix it

Numerous hours of wasted camping...about time the 'fake' Tainteds were fixed.

Been camping this for a couple of hours straight now at the -900, -900 location and it hasn't shown up yet. Got tired of just sitting there, so i decided to do some observing. There are 8 barracudas total; 5 run on a 40 second respawn time, 3 run on the 5 minute and 50 second timer. There's also a 9th barracuda that's related to a different quest called "a stuffed barracuda": http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=207 the 2nd iksar shaman skull is the quest. The barracuda's can also be "deepwater" or "bloodgill." The bloodgill's have more hp. According to past posts, the tainted can spawn from any non-stuffed barracuda in the water. My advice would be to label the 40 second respawn barracuda's and kill those off til you get a tainted.

Edited, Mon Dec 19 08:06:54 2005

This has to be one of the easier of the corrupted mobs to get to spawn, or maybe I was just lucky. I jumped in the lake and began to track and kill deepwater barracudas. After about 15 minutes I got a tainted on track. I snared him and headed for the side of the lake and got out. I had been told that two kinds of tainted can spawn, one that will spawn the corrupted and one that won't. The way to tell the difference is that the one that WILL spawn teh corrupted will follow you out of the water onto the land, the one that won't will not leave the water.

This one left the water. I rooted and dotted, it died and spawned the corrupted right there on its corpse on land. I again rooted and dotted until it was dead. Looted the drop. Happy level 53 Druid.

I went to LOIO to try my luck at the corrupted barracuda. I tracked around killing various deepwaters then settled in one location close to the northeast corner of the kedge keep building in the lake. I sat here for over an hour killing deepwaters as they spawn one after the other in this location. No tainted in sight *sigh*.
About this time a fellow druid comes along in my guild and inquires about how my camp is going. She then offers up advice that she camped loc -900, -900 to get her lakewater. She also said she had camped various spots in the lake for about a month for a few hours a day before someone suggested she try the -900, -900 loc. *begins to panick*
I decided it wouldnt hurt to change locations so I settled my self on the ledge close to the location roughly -940, -900 facing a tick north of due west on the compass. The barracuda was right in front of me but out of agro range. I used root first to hold it still while I snared and landed a dot then sat down to med until it was close to 30% then nuked with a stun nuke to break root and finished off with melee. (I had regen and DS on). The spawns here seemed to come about every 7 minutes so there was a bit more time to med between kills, which was nice since KEI left me at the first camp. After about 3-4 cycles the tainted spawned and agroed me immediately. It conned light blue to me at 63 so I knew I had the right one and swam for the bank. (Have wolf form on so you dont have to worry about sow dropping). By the time I got to the bank I was at about 50% health but on dry land I could root it without being interrupted. I used the same dot method as i did in the water but no nuke and let him die down the beach away from me. The corrupted popped after right away but I was out of agro range and just root/snared it right there. I landed a dot on it and healed myself a bit then sat down to med a minute. When it was at about 40% I nuked it to break root and finished it off with melee. It was an easy kill and was also light blue to 63. I looted the lakewater and set off back to PoK. I only need 2 more drops to finish this quest! Hope this helps you.
Happy Questing-
Jadetear Cryingwolf

ya the -900, -900 spawn point has spawned tainted 3 times now but no corrupted, all the other spots don't spawn anything but regulars, after like 5 hours still no corrupted =(

I camped this guy last night. I took the lazy method, only watching the -900, -900 spawn point. I killed the PH every six minutes (actually, 5:50), set a timer and read a few pages in a magazine. Repeat. The PH was green to me at 63 and easily went down with one root and one each of my two best dots (240 + 143 per tick). The fake tainted spawned twice, green to me at 63, wouldn't follow me to shore and I used the same method to dispatch. The real tainted was LB to me, instantly agro'd and happily followed me to shore. KEI was long since gone by then so I rooted and, for mana preservation, didn't stack dots. I cast my best dot on him, maybe three or four times. Corrupted popped in his place, as expected, was also LB, and I fought him the same way. The camp took about 2.5 to 3 hours. And I caught up on my reading.



Edited, Sat Dec 4 12:08:57 2004

Boy, the instructions from crgaming.com really suck!

Here's what I did:

After a few hours of random tries, I marked on my map the location of the eight Deepwater Barracudas, and tried to kill them all at once - no go: Some respawn VERY fast. I had gotten a "false" tainted, but at -1350, -775.
So, one more time, I try to kill them all, in an arc that lands me at the tainted's location (above) as the last of them. Then, I get a bloodgill barracuda that spawned at -900, -900, and as soon as I kill that one, I have a DB tainted at -1350, -775, which I kill and it spawns a DB corrupted that was easier to kill.

I'm pretty sure that killing more faster will trigger things, but I don't think you have to kill everything at once to make spawn (like you do with Hill Giants, but they don't tell you this). Of course, it couldn't hurt, if you've got friends or a guild.

I'm not sure if the bloodgill is part of the chain needed to spawn the "real" tainted. Let me know how it goes for you.

Tuorr III (Sean)

corrupted cuda drops pure lakewater.

I spent 2.5 hrs ping ponging between -900 -900 and the -1700 -750 spawn spots. Had 4 or 5 low tainted spawn in that time. The real tainted spawned at the -1700 -750 spot. Root dotted Tainted 2WD, 2BoR, 1 DD same on Corrupted.

Aggro range on the real tainted is bigger than the normal fish. I was leaving the bodies on the lake bed to use them as 6 min spawn timers (when body at about 1m48s to despawn POP!)

Good Luck to all attempting this.

Huttwin
56 Druid Bristlebane

Just thought I'd throw in that I've been having terrible luck with this guy too. Worst part about it is that it's the last of the rare spawns I need. I've been camping it off and on for about 18 hours now (1 10'ish hour stretch) and I've killed 4 or 5 tainted's and still no luck getting a corrupted. Anyone who is camping this, I wish you luck, it's turning to be the worst of the tainted/corrupted's I've had to do so far. I've tried killing them all as well as camping just the -900/-900 spawn, neither seems to help me any.

56 Druid
Karana Server

Camped the suggested spot -900, -900, with my 65 druid:
-Killed all Deepwater Barracudas, when they were all dead at once(no others of that type were on track) the tainted spawned(green) snared him and DoT'd him on land; corrupted spawned(green); 10-20 minute camp...Maybe I was lucky...

I have a 65 druid on BB (just now doing my epic) and I FINALLY killed the corrupted after the 12th tainted spawn in a little over 8 hours. There are three definite spawn points for barracudas easily trackable from the –900, -900 loc. One is directly to the NW of the ledge, one near the underwater posts to the north and one due south of this spot. I have seen the tainted spawn in all three spots (though most frequently at –900,-900). I simply bound myself at –900,-900 and then swam over to the other two locations and killed them and gated back

Out of sheer boredom I dire charmed one of the bloodgill barracudas from across the lake and (slowly) got it back to the spawn point. Later I also charmed on of the place holders (this is a bad idea since, as the name implies, as long as he lived nothing spawned from that location). With savage spirit and 9 a bloodgill can easily outlast the tainted . . . wish I could tell you how he did against the corrupted but I would assume fine.

To answer questions that I had without making you read all the stuff below: The mob is easier than most of the corrupted you have killed to this point. He does NOT summon but he is NOT an automatic spawn once you kill the tainted. In fact, he was lower level than the tainted (who conned light blue against the corrupted’s green con) and had fewer hitpoints. Good luck folks.

ok.....been camping at the -900's spawn point for 15 hours and 4 green/lt blue tainted spawn....no corrupted. read down this message board and found a second spawn point at -1750, -770. on third kill at second spawn point dark blue tainted (55 druid/54 warrior) spawns with MEGA hps. took him down and WHAM, corrupted. took to shore and feared with druid spell. corrupted will not run just stays in one spot feared on land. and i beat the stupid out of him. wife looted pure lakewater. my suggestion is to camp both spots seeing as how tainted spawns at both and corrupted has spawned at both. hope this helps. GL everyone

So far this has been a real pain. Been Helping a druid friend of mine camp here, using my Necro. So far we have had several Tainted spawn, but none following up to the shore, nor spawning the corrupted. Have done this for several hours on several days... have a feeling it's keeping it's distance from us just laughing... So far the Tainted have only been spawning around the n900 n900 location if that helps any. If you have any pet class with you and are having a hard time finding exactly where the Deepwater Barracudas are, just have them make a key... /pet attack a deepwater barracuda... and another key to assist the pet... if you are anywhere near the target and hit the key, your pet will agro it... then assist the pet to get the mob in your target box...


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