To spawn the Avatar of Smoke you basically work your way to the air elemental area, and kill all the air elementals there. Upon doing this, the three An Elemental Champions become active along with a fourth that immediately spawns. Kill these four to spawn An Elemental Masterpiece. Finally kill him to spawn the Avatar of Smoke. Note that the Avatar of Smoke doesn't spawn in the area of the air elementals, but rather in one of the mini palaces - I believe it's the NW one but I can't remember, and might be the SW. Also note that if An Elemental Masterpiece has been killed recently (presumeably in the last 3 days + up to 12 hours) then An Elemental Anomoly will spawn instead, yielding no special loot. This mob is not currently in the database.
I repeated this event and paid closer attention this time.
- The area contained nothing but A Confused Air Elemental. 2 or perhaps 3 of these were nontargetable. - Upon killing portions of the trash nontargetable An Elemental Champions spawned until there were 4 of them. - Once all the targetable trash was dead, the 2 or 3 remaining A Confused Air Elemental became targetable - Killing those made the 4 An Elemental Champions become targetable - The moment the 4 An Elemental Champions died An Elemental Masterpiece (targetable) spawned in the water at the center of the area. - Killing him spawned Avatar of Smoke in the SW temple. You backtrack to the previous floor to get there.
If the Avatar of Smoke has been killed recently and yet the air elementals are up, then instead of An Elemental Masterpiece spawning you are met with An Elemental Anomoly.
On Al`Kabor, in addition to Cyclone, he also uses a Hail Storm proc and Tornado. All very easily resisted at level 65 with max resists.
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Posted:Jul 12 2003 at 5:45 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Gotta love SOE's unoriginality in picking the body for the Avatar of Smoke. Why didn't they spend a little extra time making a new graphic, like a cooler looking thing than an overgrown air elemental?