Ghoul of Takish-Hiz  

Ok, been camping this guy for a few hours every day for a week now.
Usually you would expect at least some pops of the ghoul, but i havent seen one yet. What am i doing wrong?

Ive been hunting only at night(7pm-5am ish), since undead pops then. I have been killing undead such as zombies and ghouls to try to spawn the named. I have seen Gargantula and Scrounge only so far, but not one Ghoul of Takish-Hiz. Talk bout bad luck.

I hope this spawn aint broken. any help plz!

1. First the hunting technique (for South Ro. I suppose it must be the same for Nro and Oasis but I only hunt in South Ro) :

Wait for the night. No need to kill during the day, as this mob will NOT spawn in the day. If you see him up during the day, it means he hasnt been killed yet but .. believe me .. spawned in the night.
I have never known exactly when does day begin and ends on EQ. I figured out that it begings at 7am (almost sure) and ends at 7pm (to be verified), game time.

During the night, you will see 2 types of mob spawn, that doesnt spawn during day : "a ghoul" and "a zombie". The other undeads (crypt mummies, dry bones skeletons etc) also spawn during the night so I am willign to believe they have nothing to do.

Kill ghouls and zombies, and you will spawn the Ghoul of Takish-Hiz. I have managed to get him 3 times that way.

2. /rant on : C'MON SOE why are you inflicting this to us ???!? I understand you want to make hard quests for cool items like the Phylactery. But considering you must have at least 200 in every skill to have a safe chance of not failing the combines, WHY doesn't the Ghoul drop the Anchor every time ?? Especially considering you can FAIL the combine !!
Stone Spider dropped the Stone Silk 50% of the time or so, Phase Spiders same drop rate, I have finished all those steps but have been stuck on the Anchor thingie for quite a few days now and I am FED UP with it !
STOP MAKING stupid drop rates like this, for tradeskill combiens that can FAIL. "kkthx" like they say.
/rant off.

While looking for sand giants on Xegony, my 48 wood-elf bard saw this mob on track. He was dark bkue and I figured the exp would be ok. An easy chant kite, he never hit me once, perhaps I was lucky.
He did drop a raw-hide gorget and when I use the identify song I showed as a lore item, though the image did not indicate this.
Might this be some quest-y item?

It spwans in both Oasis and Sro. I camped it on and off for 2 weeks from 2hrs to 7 hrs. I have total killed it more then 20 times and did not drop the Anchor. At this point I start to doubt if it is broken at this time.

He spawns in s ro. I get him all the time when I'm trying to spawn the AC for the j boots quest. Basically he is a trigered spawn. After 6pm game time kill the undead mob in the sunken undead tower. Then go on a killing spree untill 5am in the morning. Kill all the mobs on the desert side of s ro. The Ghoul or one of the other named( Ancient Cyclops, Scrounge, a jackel, Erg Bluntbruiser, Tarantula, Sandgiant Husan or a few others)should spawn. With this method I have spawned him and the other named in Sro soooo many times.

Killed the Ghoul 3 times in about 2 hours in Oasis, he dropped the Spiritual anchor the 3rd time. I just went back and forth from docks to the Orc temple killing all ghouls and found him all three times.

Ive been looking for him for hours in both Ro and The Oasis, Killing everything that I see in zone. Had a druid traking the entire time too and he's a no show, anyone have any idea if he still spawns or what the best way to get him to would be?

Anyone have ANY information at all about Spawn timers, PH's, spawn rate? Been after him for 2 days and only seen him once and he didn't drop the anchor. Any help would be appreciated.

Ran into this guy twice in Oasis.

I'm a lvl 45 Druid on Innoruk and this guy cons Dark Blue to me. So his level range is in the low 40s. Probably, always lvl 40. He is immune to Snare line and Root line. "Target is immune to movement spells and effects" He runs slow like most undead, so if you have Sow on you don't really need to slow his movement. BUT, he casts Thunderstrike and other chain cast burnspells. hit me 4 times for over 150 each in like 10 seconds. If you run out of spell range he makes like the Undead Cyclops and decides to go away...until you get back in range. And his regen while out of range is amazing...so DOT is VERY difficult. This guy is all about melee and spell interruption.

Hope this helps,

Rhasalghul

Naymliss Karaktir 46th Druid
Prawfitt Phrumitt 26th Enchanter
Isalani Riftmaker 26th Monk
other alts below 20...blah blah blah

I was real bored one day, waiting for my friends to log in, so I thought I'd try to pop Terrorantula or Ancient Cyclops here. (Got Terrorantula at last, but that not the point =)...)
Anyways, he popped. He was blue at 53, being lvl 50 him/herself. I thought that what the hell, and pulled him. Told pet to attack, and slowed him. He had lots of hps, but he hits like a kittycat with no paws. I barely had to heal my pet at all, and even most greens are tougher to fight with than he was. Just that I got like 7 mummies and skeletons to chase me there, so I started running around asking ppl to kill them. All of the sudden I see that Ghoul was no longer my target, and pet was killing the skellys and stuff on me. I was puzzled. No exp message. No faction messages. I roamed thru the zone like 15mins trying to find corpse, but nope. Maybe some NPC got him by my massive luck. Sucked.
Glad I killed Terrorantula at least. =(