This was the last named mob out of 28 that I needed to complete the Hunter achievement for Fear Itself. I accomplished this by binding myself in the zone and just gating in periodically, clicking TRACKING and killing any nameds I found had spawned. This was a workable strategy until the last two I needed, Irak Attil and Nightmare of Thule. I cleared Irak's PHers about 4x with no luck. Then after a patch I gated in to find him up.
Nightmare of Thule, I had to clear the "a fearful nightmare" PHers 5x before he spawned.
I'm always intrigued by how named mobs spawn. During the week or so it took me to do this, I gated into Fear Itself dozens of times and almost never found any other players. Yet nameds would be up who had not been up when I visited an hour or two earlier. I very much doubt anyone had passed thru, cleared PHers, and then took off without waiting on the named to pop. This isn't a very popular or useful zone in the current era. It seems to me that EQ does sometimes spontaneously pop named mobs. Otherwise I would never have killed all 28 of these nameds since I wouldn't have the patience to keep clearing all their green and LB placeholders waiting for the nameds to show.
On the other hand, the two Nightmare zones in House of Thule, Al'Kabor's Nightmare and Miragul's Nightmare, seem to the opposite situation. I've only found 6 nameds already up from the 24 required to complete both those Hunter achievements. I've passed thru both zones at the same time I was visiting Fear Itself. So it seems those nameds don't just "pop" on their own and clearing PHers will be required, something I'm not looking forward to.
Edited, Jun 29th 2016 8:20am by Sippin