an ancient cyclops
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Ring of the Ancients6 posts
Just killed the ancient cyclops in OOT after clearing the island 1 time. He popped at loc 2408.73, -3501.48, -291.57. He dropped the Ring of the Ancients.
Zoned in to do Tainted/Corrupted Seafury for epic 1.0
Jumped off boat at the wrong island cause my maps all disappeared. Swam over to the seafury island, didn't recognize a thing since the revamp. Stuck some labels on the islands, bound in between the seafury island and goblin island, just in the middle of the water.
Checked track several times, gated out to get a kei, gated back, AC was on track.
It was nighttime in game. Dunno exact time.
loc pos 1965, neg 3785, neg 133
I banked the ring, and dragged an alt back to the island, and in the 40 mins it took, another AC had popped.
BTW, the mudtoes were up the whole time. Neither AC was near the Mudtoe spawn spots.
As a follow up, in four days, the tainted popped once, and I have not seen the Ancient Cyclops again. Quag is up almost every hour.
Edited, Jul 21st 2007 4:43pm by glod
Edited, Aug 20th 2007 7:24:34pm by glod
Jumped off boat at the wrong island cause my maps all disappeared. Swam over to the seafury island, didn't recognize a thing since the revamp. Stuck some labels on the islands, bound in between the seafury island and goblin island, just in the middle of the water.
Checked track several times, gated out to get a kei, gated back, AC was on track.
It was nighttime in game. Dunno exact time.
loc pos 1965, neg 3785, neg 133
I banked the ring, and dragged an alt back to the island, and in the 40 mins it took, another AC had popped.
BTW, the mudtoes were up the whole time. Neither AC was near the Mudtoe spawn spots.
As a follow up, in four days, the tainted popped once, and I have not seen the Ancient Cyclops again. Quag is up almost every hour.
Edited, Jul 21st 2007 4:43pm by glod
Edited, Aug 20th 2007 7:24:34pm by glod
So I was just helping a friend camp the AC in the new OOT and he popped right in front us. I noticed a few things I thought I would share.
1. Both the Corrupted Seafury and Quag Maelstrom were up when the Ancient Cyclops spawned so they do not share the same spawn table.
2. It was in the open area right next to the druid rings where we were killing.
3. He is taller than all the other Seafury, The corrupted and most likely the same height as Quag. This would be a good way for those without track to quickly scan the area for any taller ones.
1. Both the Corrupted Seafury and Quag Maelstrom were up when the Ancient Cyclops spawned so they do not share the same spawn table.
2. It was in the open area right next to the druid rings where we were killing.
3. He is taller than all the other Seafury, The corrupted and most likely the same height as Quag. This would be a good way for those without track to quickly scan the area for any taller ones.
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I can confirm that he AC does spawn on the seafury island in the new OoT. I set up at the defunct druid ring on the south side of the island & agro kited seafuries on my baby necro. It took me a couple days of off & on killing to get the AC (I leveled from 35 to 37). I can confirm that he spawned in the big open area to the west of the old druid ring. I guess the ph can be any of the seafury cyclops so just kill at will.
It seems that the old spawn cycle with Boog Mudtoe no longer has the AC on it. I killed Boog 20+ times and he respawned each time. Hope this helps!
It seems that the old spawn cycle with Boog Mudtoe no longer has the AC on it. I killed Boog 20+ times and he respawned each time. Hope this helps!
Edit - After 3 days and 6 1/2 levels gained from camping him I finally got him. I logged on and he was walking around with the other Seafury in the open area near the Druid Rings. Quag was up at the same exact time.
Edited, Jul 6th 2007 11:20pm by Dreaddor
Edited, Jul 6th 2007 11:20pm by Dreaddor
Got A.C. about 2 minutes ago. Total of 11 hours, 54 minutes of camping. 118 Place Holders, 1 A.C. I'm getting the heck out of here now. Lol. Oh, btw... Spawned in the usual place in OoT. Never tried the SRo, EKarana, SKarana ones and don't intend to. Just glad I got the ring. Buddy picked a bad time to come back to EQ, told him he should have came last month, Fabled J-Boots would have been soooo much easier to get. =D
Yes he still pops, they must of fixed problems cause 61 shammy friend and I camped him on the22nd mar 2007. 5 spawns and then he popped. I got ring and figured i would wait to see next pop for buddy , low and behold 2 AC spawns in a row . Both got ring and not coming back until Alt needs it.. GL to all and i definately prefer OoT for AC.
Also !! He is in same spot as always on OoT. not moved.
Edited, Mar 26th 2007 5:46pm by flazor
Also !! He is in same spot as always on OoT. not moved.
Edited, Mar 26th 2007 5:46pm by flazor
"Let the Rogue Have it, He'll keep it safe"
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
40 posts
I camped in OOT at AC island 25 hours off and on. no AC. there was a mage on seafury island and i talked to him. he said he had killed the AC 3 times on seafury island. think they moved AC camp to seafury island now since TBS expansion. Ive camped mudtoe on seafury island and he has a super long repop time so not sure hes the PH for AC. in SRO i think the AC has been nerfed and not sure where he pops in S. and E. Karana and may not have been nerfed. fingers crossed.
Bootstrutter in rathe mountains still is there but he walks around now instead of running. that was good news for Jboot ppl.
Hope this helps
Bootstrutter in rathe mountains still is there but he walks around now instead of running. that was good news for Jboot ppl.
Hope this helps
Boog Mudtoe Keeps spawning time after time, Is this bugged since TBS patch? Any info would be great .
"Let the Rogue Have it, He'll keep it safe"
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
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Same for me. I petitioned and the reply was a nonhelpful "Since tbs came out the ring has been looted by hundreds of players, the mob is spawning it is just very rare". Well DUH, I had asked if it was spawning in OOT... oh well. Personally I doubt it will spawn there if Boog is the only mob appearing and not the other placeholders.
this must be bugged. i went to check on Goob Mudtoe at the seafury island and there were a bunch of him up at once. seemed like another Goob spawned each time Boog was killed, so i tested it and i was right. i pulled Boog to Goob's spawn point and killed him, sure enough a Goob spawned as soon as Boog died. i had 7 of Goob up at once after killing 7 of Boog. as of now, nothing but Boog has spawned at the AC spawn point. i managed to get the AC before the new expansion went live, but deffinately seems bugged now.
Got lucky and got AC last night . Game time was 3am and he was the second spawn. Sooo Lucky I was. Yes he still spawns and cons LB to 48 cleric, Was easy kill as he should be for my level.Good luck to all.
Cleric do it better and with more class.
Cleric do it better and with more class.
"Let the Rogue Have it, He'll keep it safe"
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
85 Rogue of Fennin Ro
2 posts
i had my 44 necro camping him so long (11 hours and rising still farming) still no A.C. in OOT
God i hate this quest
God i hate this quest
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I want to confirm DukeLatin's method for the Ocean of Tears. Although I suspect you can get the A.C. faster in south ro, knowing the exact spot the guy will spawn on was just too easy for me. I can kill one mob every 6 minutes for 10 hours if I have something like homework or a PlayStation to fill in the time.
That being said, I'm ashamed to admit I got the ancient cyclops on the third respawn, so it took me 12 min., heh.
That being said, I'm ashamed to admit I got the ancient cyclops on the third respawn, so it took me 12 min., heh.
I have a character on 2 servers and one of them is on the Combine Server. I've noticed that the Combine Server has half the mobs in South Ro, compared to other servers. So that means if you plan on killing those funny named mobs, you are going to see maybe 6 - 10 mobs at night compared to 12 - 20 mobs on the other servers. In other words, spawning the AC in South Ro and on the Combine Server is going to be a very, very long camp. If anyone has a sure fire way to spawn him on the Combine Server with the re-vamp AND with half the funny named mobs, let us know. Anyway, good luck!
Edited, Nov 4th 2006 at 12:01am PST by loeeIV
Edited, Nov 4th 2006 at 12:01am PST by loeeIV
Killing the funny named mobs is not a complete answer. I had a long stretch when there were no such mobs on track, until I started killing other stuff then the funny names started showing up. So I'd say kill funny names first and when they are gone kill everything else.
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Hi,
Ok so you got the AC after the zone revamp. But you didnt specify anything new for a method than whats already been posted dozens of times already, plus you leave a disclaimer, a way out, lol if someone else isnt successful trying to duplicate your methods. In other words you dont really have a method to successfully spawn the AC.
I have a 2 specific questions to ask:
Since the zone revamp, both Oasis and South Ro are merged into the same zone and theres SAND areas in each. So where do I hunt, only the old South Ro area or the whole combined area?
Has anyone tried to see if theres a spawn timer for phs for AC like Quillmane in SK?
I'm in OOT now waiting for it to spawn and the timer shows that the phs show up at 5 minutes 50 second intervals after each one is killed.
I'd like to try the S Ro one if I can get faster AC spawns there.
Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 8:12pm PDT by CHARME
Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 8:13pm PDT by CHARME
Ok so you got the AC after the zone revamp. But you didnt specify anything new for a method than whats already been posted dozens of times already, plus you leave a disclaimer, a way out, lol if someone else isnt successful trying to duplicate your methods. In other words you dont really have a method to successfully spawn the AC.
I have a 2 specific questions to ask:
Since the zone revamp, both Oasis and South Ro are merged into the same zone and theres SAND areas in each. So where do I hunt, only the old South Ro area or the whole combined area?
Has anyone tried to see if theres a spawn timer for phs for AC like Quillmane in SK?
I'm in OOT now waiting for it to spawn and the timer shows that the phs show up at 5 minutes 50 second intervals after each one is killed.
I'd like to try the S Ro one if I can get faster AC spawns there.
Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 8:12pm PDT by CHARME
Edited, Oct 20th 2006 at 8:13pm PDT by CHARME
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Hello all,
I've been playing EQ for nearly 7 years and I've MQ'ed the J-Boots quest for literally hundreds of players over the years. Both myself and my friends have had oodles of experience in spawning the AC in South Ro and I'd like to share JUST THE FACTS that we've compiled over the years. No more rumors or speculations... no wild claims of special uber knowledge... just FACTS that we've collected:
(1) We have never seen him spawn during the day. I'm not interested in posts from people who claim "But... I killed the AC during the day..!!!" Yes, you killed him during the day, but only because he had spawned the night before and hadn't yet been killed by anyone else. He can remain up for quite some time... well into the daytime... before he eventually despawns. Am I 100% positive about this..? Nope... but again, in many years of camping the AC, we have never once seen him spawn during the daytime, but yet we have successfully spawned him hundreds of times during the night. Those are the facts, ma'am.
(2) Furthermore, we have only seen him pop on even-numbered hours during the night. In other words, WITH OUR OWN EYES we have only seen him pop at 8pm, 10pm, 12am, 2am, and 4am game time. If he spawns on odd-numbered hours, we have never seen that happen... not once in many years.
(3) Killing everything in the zone will not hasten his appearance. However, there do seem to be certain "unusual" mobs that belong to his spawn cycle. To be more clear: the AC seems to belong to one particular group of unusual creatures that can spawn in SRo. He will pop randomely as one of those unusual mobs, just as any of the others can at any given time, during the AC's spawn cycle...
Here's a few mobs that we've concluded are a part of his "spawn group..."
a madman
a mummy
Crypt Mummy
Sand Giant Hussam
an asp
a rattlesnake
If you'll notice, with the exception of the two named mobs (Crypt Mummy and Hussam), there's only one thing in common with those mobs: none of them have adjectives in their names. Since making note of this peculiarity, we've made a point of killing ONLY those mobs when we begin our AC camp in SRo. Interestingly, those mobs also seem to pop most often at night and on even-numbered hours. I have no idea why that is the case, but again... I am simply sharing the facts that we have gathered over the years.
(4) We have never seen any relationship between Terrorantula and the AC. We have, in fact, seen both of them pop simultaneously on more than one occasion.
Our method has been to begin hunting down unusually named mobs and nothing else. There are other such "unusually named" mobs, also. When we spot one, we kill them immediately. We leave everything else alone.
Following the above method, we have consistently spawned the AC within 2 nights (game time), and sometimes in as little as 90 minutes (of real time) from when we first begin. The fastest ever time was within 15 minutes of real time.... we just happened to hit a lucky roll in his cycle and he popped right away.
Disclaimer: what others have said is also true, however... since the AC can be any one of perhaps a dozen "unusual mobs" in the spawn cycle, and since that cycle is a random one... there is no guarantee that he will pop within any given amount of time, even if you do everything right. The bottom line is this: with the above method, you can speed things up, but being a random spawn means that he could still take quite awhile to arrive.
Happy camping..!!!
- Tessera -
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 11:56am EDT by Tessmage
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 12:24pm EDT by Tessmage
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 1:35pm EDT by Tessmage
I've been playing EQ for nearly 7 years and I've MQ'ed the J-Boots quest for literally hundreds of players over the years. Both myself and my friends have had oodles of experience in spawning the AC in South Ro and I'd like to share JUST THE FACTS that we've compiled over the years. No more rumors or speculations... no wild claims of special uber knowledge... just FACTS that we've collected:
(1) We have never seen him spawn during the day. I'm not interested in posts from people who claim "But... I killed the AC during the day..!!!" Yes, you killed him during the day, but only because he had spawned the night before and hadn't yet been killed by anyone else. He can remain up for quite some time... well into the daytime... before he eventually despawns. Am I 100% positive about this..? Nope... but again, in many years of camping the AC, we have never once seen him spawn during the daytime, but yet we have successfully spawned him hundreds of times during the night. Those are the facts, ma'am.
(2) Furthermore, we have only seen him pop on even-numbered hours during the night. In other words, WITH OUR OWN EYES we have only seen him pop at 8pm, 10pm, 12am, 2am, and 4am game time. If he spawns on odd-numbered hours, we have never seen that happen... not once in many years.
(3) Killing everything in the zone will not hasten his appearance. However, there do seem to be certain "unusual" mobs that belong to his spawn cycle. To be more clear: the AC seems to belong to one particular group of unusual creatures that can spawn in SRo. He will pop randomely as one of those unusual mobs, just as any of the others can at any given time, during the AC's spawn cycle...
Here's a few mobs that we've concluded are a part of his "spawn group..."
a madman
a mummy
Crypt Mummy
Sand Giant Hussam
an asp
a rattlesnake
If you'll notice, with the exception of the two named mobs (Crypt Mummy and Hussam), there's only one thing in common with those mobs: none of them have adjectives in their names. Since making note of this peculiarity, we've made a point of killing ONLY those mobs when we begin our AC camp in SRo. Interestingly, those mobs also seem to pop most often at night and on even-numbered hours. I have no idea why that is the case, but again... I am simply sharing the facts that we have gathered over the years.
(4) We have never seen any relationship between Terrorantula and the AC. We have, in fact, seen both of them pop simultaneously on more than one occasion.
Our method has been to begin hunting down unusually named mobs and nothing else. There are other such "unusually named" mobs, also. When we spot one, we kill them immediately. We leave everything else alone.
Following the above method, we have consistently spawned the AC within 2 nights (game time), and sometimes in as little as 90 minutes (of real time) from when we first begin. The fastest ever time was within 15 minutes of real time.... we just happened to hit a lucky roll in his cycle and he popped right away.
Disclaimer: what others have said is also true, however... since the AC can be any one of perhaps a dozen "unusual mobs" in the spawn cycle, and since that cycle is a random one... there is no guarantee that he will pop within any given amount of time, even if you do everything right. The bottom line is this: with the above method, you can speed things up, but being a random spawn means that he could still take quite awhile to arrive.
Happy camping..!!!
- Tessera -
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 11:56am EDT by Tessmage
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 12:24pm EDT by Tessmage
Edited, Sep 2nd 2006 at 1:35pm EDT by Tessmage
only 1 missing peice of info... location of spawn? i very rarely hunt there so i do not know the zone well
Povar-93 SK / 93 Shaman
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Spawned in S Ro on Sleeper Aug 7, 2006
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i am convinced he doesn't exist, since the revamp of SRO. i see high lvls come in and make terrorantula spawn easily to get the silk. i see necros making the name ghoul spawn. but i have yet to see the AC.
tried all kinds of ways to make him spawn. the only things i have been able to make pop are SG hussan and a sand giant.
killed all undead, kept hut clean..nothing.
he's a MYTH!!!
tried all kinds of ways to make him spawn. the only things i have been able to make pop are SG hussan and a sand giant.
killed all undead, kept hut clean..nothing.
he's a MYTH!!!
I saw the AC two weeks ago in SRo on The Combine server. Just gallumphing around, terrorizing noobs.
Got him for someone just last week.
Best advice:
Don't follow any "sure fire" ways to spawn him. Just kill everything that's not static.
I myself have had better luck with the OOT one. Only actually done the Sro one a couple times, but got him to pop both times.
The Ekarana one is too rare. Only got him when he popped on my head as I was passing through.
Best advice:
Don't follow any "sure fire" ways to spawn him. Just kill everything that's not static.
I myself have had better luck with the OOT one. Only actually done the Sro one a couple times, but got him to pop both times.
The Ekarana one is too rare. Only got him when he popped on my head as I was passing through.
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277 hours in a week? seems a little tough to do seeing as there are only 168 hours in a week =)
Your weeks appear to have far more hours in them than mine do.
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Does anyone know with the SRo revamp, if it has affected the AC at all?
killed him today in new Sro.
The only way to spawn the AC is to camp for the night and not return. Once you are long gone and sound asleep he will spawn for someone else who will brag about only camping him for 5 minutes.
#REDACTED,
Posted: Mar 04 2006 at 10:48 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Tards still think the tower time kills matter... LOL... heard that for like 5 years LOL dumbasses! is pop form SG table by killing trash... thats it.. LMAO and peeps just posted he only pops at night... and the zone cant be filled with people... LOLLOLLOL!! guess you werent there back in the day when 30peeps were fighting for him... STILL saying same kill mob in tower at x time crap... LOL
True.. I killed him once in feb 2006... As I was killing the mobs in the tower I could see that he was passing by in background.. I think there's no PH.. The time might be important..Never killed him daytime (game time). And after the changes in SRo never seen him :(((
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Ok do this or don't do it. I've Jbooted DOZENS of times, this is my sequence.. take it or leave it.
[South Ro]
1) AC is a night spawn.... NEVER seen him in the day.
2) Kill sand tower mob at 8 pm game time.
3) Kill random placeholders till AC spawns. No need to kill everything in zone!
Random nitetime Placeholders can be:
Terrorantula's
a terrorantuling (sometimes a multi spawn)
a madman (not - a desert madman)
Sand Giant
Sand Giant Husam
a giant rattlesnake
A Sand Mummy
a dune tarantula
a teir`dal scout
a zombie
A Young Ronin
a ghoul
a crypt mummy (sometimes respawns in tower)
An Orc Raider (sometimes a multi spawn)
Anumnan Dathry
Crypt Mummy
Drybones Skeleton (not- dry bones skeleton)
and, pretty much anything starting with Capital letters
4) Kill placeholders continously till 6 am game time
5) Once a PH is dead another usually spawns within 3 minutes
6) After 6 am gametime... forget it untill 8 pm
Still a random spawned mob, but this will help.
Best of luck,
Ooom Aaah - 70 wiz, Rathe
Edited, Sun Feb 12 15:21:09 2006
[South Ro]
1) AC is a night spawn.... NEVER seen him in the day.
2) Kill sand tower mob at 8 pm game time.
3) Kill random placeholders till AC spawns. No need to kill everything in zone!
Random nitetime Placeholders can be:
Terrorantula's
a terrorantuling (sometimes a multi spawn)
a madman (not - a desert madman)
Sand Giant
Sand Giant Husam
a giant rattlesnake
A Sand Mummy
a dune tarantula
a teir`dal scout
a zombie
A Young Ronin
a ghoul
a crypt mummy (sometimes respawns in tower)
An Orc Raider (sometimes a multi spawn)
Anumnan Dathry
Crypt Mummy
Drybones Skeleton (not- dry bones skeleton)
and, pretty much anything starting with Capital letters
4) Kill placeholders continously till 6 am game time
5) Once a PH is dead another usually spawns within 3 minutes
6) After 6 am gametime... forget it untill 8 pm
Still a random spawned mob, but this will help.
Best of luck,
Ooom Aaah - 70 wiz, Rathe
Edited, Sun Feb 12 15:21:09 2006
I have seen him in the day ... and I have camped hiim for years. Please do not tell people this myth. For that is all it is ... a myth.
When I look for the AC I simply kill everything I come across.
When I look for the AC I simply kill everything I come across.
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Has anyone tried this after South Ro was changed in PoR?
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Yeah Mazziks strat below works like a charm.
I popped into the zone around 5pm game time , killed all the mobs he listed. Waited right until 8pm gametime and then slayed the undead in tower. I stayed in the tower for 1 game hour. Ran out to the inky merchants and went to hit tracking , but there was no need. The Ancient Cyclops popped right in front of me. Brilliant strat.
I popped into the zone around 5pm game time , killed all the mobs he listed. Waited right until 8pm gametime and then slayed the undead in tower. I stayed in the tower for 1 game hour. Ran out to the inky merchants and went to hit tracking , but there was no need. The Ancient Cyclops popped right in front of me. Brilliant strat.
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I camping AC in OoT 15 hrs!!! He didn't pop up:( I killed more then 100 PHs. Something wrong in OoT with AC.
camping the OoT Ancient Cyclops
1) go to east freeport. talk to the gnome translocator on the docks. tell him you want to travel to the ocean of tears.
2) you will be translocated by the gnome to another dock in the ocean of tears. Right now, you're on "sister isle". From there you want to go *1* island over, to the west. This is the island you will camp the ancient cyclops on.
3) Ancient Cyclops Island - The Info
on this island there are some ruins from an old tower. inside it there is a high elf who sells magician spells. If you see her, then you are on the correct island.
there should only be 1 spawn on this island besides the merchant. It can be 1 of 5 creatures:
1. Boog Mudtoe (an ogre)
2. a pirate
3. an aqua goblin
4. a cyclops
5. an ancient cyclops
4) Once you are ready to start the spawn/ph cycle for the ancient cyclops (pending that it isn't camped already) you must find which 1 of these 5 creatures is up on the island. Once the mob pops they will wander the island, so if the mob is already up when you get there you must find it (i think it walks over to the west side of the island) and kill it to begin the cycle.
5) Now that you have killed it, look at a clock or do /time. The next Placeholder will pop in 6 minutes. Here is the spawn info you will need.
Go to this loc, on the east side of the island: 1008 , -8022. This spot is in the SE corner of the island on a little area of land that looks like half of an octagon on your map. It's just a stone's throw from where Saldra Trailfinder stands. Once the 6 minutes passes, you should see another PH pop up at this spot.
6) Repeat process every 6 minutes, the PH will keep spawning here till an ancient clops pops. Happy Hunting! I got my ring in 6 hours or so
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Extra Info:
*to be exact, the pop time is 5min 53sec +/- a second or so.
*From what I have read, the ancient cyclops is about a 1% pop rate. Based on this rate and assuming the placeholder is killed every 6 minutes that would mean you kill 10 every hour. so after 10 hours you will have killed 100 mobs.. which means that an ancient cyclops should have popped within those 100 mobs/10 hours; my point is, he is a rare pop and it could be 10 minutes of camping or 10 hours :(
*The seafury cyclops', on the island over are not involved with the ancient spawn in anyway. There's no need to kill anything except the 1 spawn on the ancient cyclops island.
*if you need a stopwatch, here is a cool program i found. you can set the options so that you can start and stop the timer with a key-press on a button you rarely use such as scroll lock.
Timer Program
Edited, Fri Dec 30 03:47:29 2005
1) go to east freeport. talk to the gnome translocator on the docks. tell him you want to travel to the ocean of tears.
2) you will be translocated by the gnome to another dock in the ocean of tears. Right now, you're on "sister isle". From there you want to go *1* island over, to the west. This is the island you will camp the ancient cyclops on.
3) Ancient Cyclops Island - The Info
on this island there are some ruins from an old tower. inside it there is a high elf who sells magician spells. If you see her, then you are on the correct island.
there should only be 1 spawn on this island besides the merchant. It can be 1 of 5 creatures:
1. Boog Mudtoe (an ogre)
2. a pirate
3. an aqua goblin
4. a cyclops
5. an ancient cyclops
4) Once you are ready to start the spawn/ph cycle for the ancient cyclops (pending that it isn't camped already) you must find which 1 of these 5 creatures is up on the island. Once the mob pops they will wander the island, so if the mob is already up when you get there you must find it (i think it walks over to the west side of the island) and kill it to begin the cycle.
5) Now that you have killed it, look at a clock or do /time. The next Placeholder will pop in 6 minutes. Here is the spawn info you will need.
Go to this loc, on the east side of the island: 1008 , -8022. This spot is in the SE corner of the island on a little area of land that looks like half of an octagon on your map. It's just a stone's throw from where Saldra Trailfinder stands. Once the 6 minutes passes, you should see another PH pop up at this spot.
6) Repeat process every 6 minutes, the PH will keep spawning here till an ancient clops pops. Happy Hunting! I got my ring in 6 hours or so
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Extra Info:
*to be exact, the pop time is 5min 53sec +/- a second or so.
*From what I have read, the ancient cyclops is about a 1% pop rate. Based on this rate and assuming the placeholder is killed every 6 minutes that would mean you kill 10 every hour. so after 10 hours you will have killed 100 mobs.. which means that an ancient cyclops should have popped within those 100 mobs/10 hours; my point is, he is a rare pop and it could be 10 minutes of camping or 10 hours :(
*The seafury cyclops', on the island over are not involved with the ancient spawn in anyway. There's no need to kill anything except the 1 spawn on the ancient cyclops island.
*if you need a stopwatch, here is a cool program i found. you can set the options so that you can start and stop the timer with a key-press on a button you rarely use such as scroll lock.
Timer Program
Edited, Fri Dec 30 03:47:29 2005
Fantastic post! Fantastic timer program!
Thanks!
Thanks!
AC Popped last night in S-Ro (about 7:30pm GMT), I was starting my JBoot quest and entered the zone to discover only one other person in there who witnessed and killed the AC 30 minutes before. I enquired via General how do you get the One eyed swine to pop again and they said "KILL EVERYTHING!" I checked here on Alla and this too seems to be how people believe to get him to pop also. He popped the other player wiped him out and /tell'ed me it was here if I wanted to loot it.
I did noticed that the AC seemed to spawn when the named spider (Terrorantula) was killed (dark blue to my 48 Ranger) releasing the oodles of smaller spiders it was after this moment did the other person shouted me about AC.
A lot of things in the zone were still very much alive.
Hope this helps in a wee way.
I did noticed that the AC seemed to spawn when the named spider (Terrorantula) was killed (dark blue to my 48 Ranger) releasing the oodles of smaller spiders it was after this moment did the other person shouted me about AC.
A lot of things in the zone were still very much alive.
Hope this helps in a wee way.
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