He con'd db to my 55Druid. And he just spawned. No one was killing reef crusties. He went down much easier than the fierce cragwalkers. Dropped the helm for me.
Vimidon seems to spawn in any spot a normal reef crustacean may spawn in. I've killed him three times so far, usually when the server reboots.
Got helm first kill. Aug second kill Ring third kill. Leads me to believe neck is rare.
I've tried clearing all the static crustacean spawns I could and did this for about 4 hours but I never got Vimidon to spawn that way. I don't know if the wandering crustaceans out in the ocean are PH's or not. Vimidon never wanders, he's always stationary.
I got him to spawn with standard PH clearing techniques (I killed all of them in the river from the camp out to the first bridge or so).
He spawned twice, back to back. Dropped the craptacular ring both times.
During these abnormlly long droughts, I'm beginning to think that maybe he actually IS spawned somewhere out on the other side of the zone and isn't trackable from the ghost ruins area. I honestly have no idea just how far that ocean goes. It'd have to be pretty big for a Ranger with 200 Tracking to not see him.
He just seems much MUCH rarer than the other named MoBs in this zone and I'm not sure why.
No he pops in the same spots you kill the regular type mobs that look like him. There can also be more than one up at a time. I was farming turtle meat for KiKi's book and added 2 of his PH's into the mix. He prolly popped about 10 times in about a 20 hour span. He can also drop old world spells. I got the Cleric spell judgement off him as well. Hits for slightly over 300 max with 1100ish AC.
Jees. Once every 2 hours, with only 2 PHs killed? I've been killing 5 or 6 PHs and I can't spawn him at all. He wasn't even up on server-up yesterday (though every other named was, /rude).
This is becoming a Stormfeather-like obsession to me.
Our server crashed today, when it came back up I ported to Natambi and he was up. Found him near the stone bridge (third time I've found him there). Killed him and dropped mana aug.
I've killed him five times now.
4 times I found him under the stone bridge. 5th time he was near the wayfarers camp. I made little markers on my map for every water spawn and tried clearing all of them (including where the squids and fish spawn at), but that didn't seem to have any effect. Squid and Fish spawns will not spawn crustaceans, only the spots with crustaceans will spawn crustaceans. And I've always found Vimidon in a crustacean spawn point.
Same model as the Reef Crustaceans, he spawns on the shoreline by the Ruins by the fallen pillar. Doesn't seem to be an entirely rare spawn, in an hour of camping Restless Souls we killed him twice.