10 placeholders later, still not a single popup from this lava elemental. I've been running back and forth for hours on end, at least let the guy pop for me. At this point, I'd rather farm Quillmane than put up with this garbage.
I recently had the distinct pleasure of farming 5 of these for my group.
Here are some notes regarding the camp:
I camped both areas simultaneously with my team. I would recommend you have at least one other person or account to help you camp this, so you can avoid having to run between the camps and risk losing your current spot.
I began my camp at roughly 11am Sunday, and looted my fifth piece at 10:30am the following Monday.
The first 3 Powers dropped from the blazing elementals, the first dropped at roughly 6:45pm, the next one was a couple spawns later, and then the third did not drop until 1am the following morning. I camped out to sleep after getting the third power, and started again at 6am that day, with the final 2 powers dropping from the lava elemental on back to back spawns 4.5 hours later.
The lava elemental only spawned 7 times total during this camping expedition. So, while you may see a higher drop rate from the lava elemental, you may actually get more powers from the blazings just due to the higher number of guaranteed spawns.
At the lava elemental camp, I positioned my mages at the north and south end of the room, parallel with the pillars so they would only aggro the PH or elemental when spawned, and not the static spawns. Useful to know if you are studying and letting your pet handle the spawns.
As mentioned above, this is a great camp if you have something to study or read while you pass the time.
Camped both blazing and lava elementals at the same on 2 characters, checking every 20 minutes. The lava elemental dropped it after the 5th spawn (3 named, 2 PH). The PH is the roaming clockwork (CWG Model__) in the room with the pillars, you do not need to kill the static one.
I killed the blazing elementals an equal amount of times and they did not drop it.
I camped the blazing elementals for about a week, 5 to 8 hours per day, crappy loot, and no luck. Found my way to the miner room, killed the ph and in about 15 minutes lava elemental popped, dropped the PoF first time, yay
I got the power of fire today after about eight hours of camping both the lava elemental and the blazing elemental camps. It was from the efreeti camp off a blazing elemental. 8:42 pm pacific.
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Near the spears that cross the walk way like a trap from Indiana Jones is a pit you can fall into...go down there and camp, Efreeti is down there but the elementals will spawn around you. I just parked me and my pet there and killed them as they came up. 30 minutes, 8 kills and I was done.
been in Sol A camping both spawn points the 3 blazing elementals and the Clockwork/Named Lava elemental. Have had MANY spawns of the lava elemental in the 15 hours i have been camping it straight.... Getting SLIGHTLY tired of this camp. 15 freaking hours straight -.- time for a nap!
dropped off a blazing elemental today on The Rathe after camping about 8 hours killed about 5 lava elementals and didn't drop so I switched between camps using the lava river to get past the locked door. Hope this helps.
I am still camping trying to get the Power of Fire in Solusek's Eye. I'm at the 3 blazing elementals and my guildmate is at the place where the lava elemental spawns. Anyone had luck finding this item? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
just spent 15 hrs camping blazing elemental's and no power of fire. realy pissed and ready to camp my mage forever. Can level past 65 pretty quik but still. i wanted to play him with the epic while it was still usefull. Just can't take it any more. gratz to all you that have gottin your drop for the epic 1. I'am camping my mage for the fore seable future. don't plan on getting him up again. not much pointt in it. happy hunting
I've killed the lava elemental, which most people say have 100% drop rate, twice now without the item drop. So the 100% drop rate can be debated (from lava elementals) :-)
3 or 4 spawn cycles of PH's later, I think, and I got the Power of Fire on the first Lava Elemental I killed. Now I'm off to Kaesora again, prob gonna kill every mob I see just 'cause I'm that annoyed with it.
Ok... 6.5 hrs of camping the blazing elementals, 20 kills @ 15 min spawn for 1st one then 3 mins spawn for 2nd one after 1st one dies then 3rd one is random spawn from there. A total of 20 kills and finally the Power of Fire dropped! Guess I was lucky!
I would say it was a rare drop.
BTW my ranger never did see one lava elemental on track and she killed lots of ph for them so.... /shurg
Just to let you guys know, speed up the process of the Lava Elemental in the secret pillar room -135 . -925 has a gnomerobot place holder. The roaming CWG Model MC in that room is the roaming Lava Elemental placeholder. Also if you attack the Lava Elemental anygnome or cog bot will add on.
You lucky Bish, I just completed my 941 spawn cycle, and no drop yet
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Ten years to get labels, another 8 to get a thank you. Sheez... First did this about 15 years ago for real, having a level 105 nostalgia moment right now.
Blazing Elementals seem to have the ultra rare drop, then I wandered over to the Lava Elemental and got a hole in one. You can bind in this zone. Elementals will even agro a 105. I'll leave the rest to you dear reader.
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This is really one of the worse spawns I have done.... 19 mins and only 2 spawn. Not sure what the spawn rate is for the Efreeti, but it is a lot more and he doesn't drop the PoF.