The Fabled Quillmane  

Hihi again

I've been contacted alot regarding this post, so I felt that I should perhaps just explain my method here. Alot of people seem to have problems duplicated my strategy, so please bare with me:

My method is a variation of a method posted on Allakhazam under the regular quillmane some 9 months ago, the major variation is in the listed place holders and the location of some spawns.

Typically this is how I go about camping and spawning quillmane:

1. I zone into South Karana and usually have someone waiting. I have them zone into splitpaw and then click my track to normal.

2. I proceed to splitpaw and stand at the southern side directly in the middle facing south (using sense heading). Directly behind me is a trench (to which I think leads the entrance, but I'm tired and don't want to give bad info).

3. I sit at the southern end twiddling my thumbs until I spot something heading directly for me moving towards due north. 90% of the time they are moving in such a way that they will actually pass right through me. I kill this npc and proceed to watch my normal track.

4. I check normal track every few seconds. The person who I am using as my track marker is on top until something spawns in place of the npc I have killed. I proceed to kill that npc and more often or not, Quillmane will spawn within four or five rounds max. Sometimes quill does not spawn, so I move back to the center and kill something else. Since I'm killing two things in an empty zone, two npcs will appear above normal track. I pursue them ad nauseum. Eventually some sort of named will spawn from any of the non-static npcs in that zone (from my experiences anyway). If a named spawns, I disregard them and proceed to killing another npc.

5. The real trick is getting Quillmane to spawn once. Once I have him up, I have the marker zone in and out of paw, then we kill QM. I will then check normal track for things that appear above my track marker and pursue them. Sometimes Quill pops as his own placeholder, that is, two quill spawns in a row. I've seen as many as three in a row. However, using this method and providing that nobody else in the zone is killing, you should nail a quill-spawn fairly regularly.

Notes:

1. Nameds are not a quillmane spawn, nor are any gnolls except an escaped splitpaw gnoll and POSSIBLY a splitpaw gnoll. In my 100+ hours in SK, I have only seen a splitpaw a handful of times and only once as a potential ph.

2. Aviaks and Centaurs of all varities (except aviak avengers) have the possibility of being placeholders from my experience.

3. There is alot of debate as to whether place holders spawn in the north. I have seen Quillmane pop just north east of paw with my own eyes, but even I am skeptical as 9/10 times the placeholders and Quillmane are typically in between paw and the Aviaks or between the Hermit and Aviak tree.


4. Alot of this is hit and miss. Since my placeholders are always intercepted running northward, I'm led to believe they must despawn at some point, unless they circle around again. I typically spend about an hour trying, unless I have absolutely nothing else to do, then I come back another day.

5. The most important information to be gleaned from my post or any Quillmane walkthroughs is the knowledge that Quillmane can be repeatedly and deliberately spawned over and over again in relatively short intervals. Therefore, if someone was to fail at using my method and perhaps have their guild wipe the entire zone, eventually getting quillmane to spawn, using step number five would allow them to repead the spawning process. This will come in especially handy given the terrible cloak-to-leggings ratio many experience.

5a. I am fortunate that very few people frequent South Karana on my server and it no doubt explains much of my success without using timers. I would recommend doing this late or night, or doing as I did my first night of spawning, offering individuals free cloaks for allowing me to continue my work.


Conclusion, etc:

While I admit there is perhaps, much to be desired from my simple walkthrough, I like to think that it is a springboard for helping individuals develop their own spawning tactics, if they so-wish to repeat the process. Ideally, a tracker who is leaving the zone would point out the ph for the incoming tracker while their marker is zoning into paw.

Please be warned, killing quillmane is rather addictive. I have done so perhaps 150 times in my 200+ hours spent "working the spawns" and I have become relatively well known for my so-called "ability" for doing so. What I enjoy the most is calling an epicless mage or a lev-clicky seeking individual and telling them "Help yourself, no charge." It's a really good feeling, especially given the hours people have poured into this horse only to come up empty. They paved the way for individuals like myself, I have no doubt.

Anyway, I hope this assists those still seeking QM. If anyone has specific questions, they are welcome to contact me. Actually, if anyone is using my method to the letter and having extreme difficulty, I will likely come to their server myself and instruct them personally, but they better have bone chips ready!

As a final note, if you are an epicless mage on the Stormhammer server, feel free to contact me for a free pegasus cloak mq, I have several banked.

Best of luck to all

Emori Stoutbelly the Brave
Rangerling/Jumjum farmer
Stormhammer

quillmane was in the game long before the mage epic existed, and if I remember correctly they actually increased his spawn time when the epics first went in (might be wrong on that part, but I vaguely remember reading that somewhere)


I camped fabled quill with just me and no tracker. In 8 hours he spawned 3 times, the first two were killed by other people who got to him first and the third by me, dropped both cloaks. all 3 sightings were at paw.