Feathered Leggings
Pegasus Feather CloakIt is said the Quillmane PHs always head North and I thought it was so as any time I have gotten the right cycle all PHs headed north. However, this evening I saw variations. Most headed straight north. A couple headed NNW or NNE and one goofy ******* headed straight East and it was the Quillman PH. My finding the PH has been mostly the product of luck and knowing the spawn timer.
The cloak is MQable from my understanding and not Lore so if you find the PH and have the time. Load up and help your mage friends.
Quillmane
a rare creature
Level: 30
Expansion:
Expansion:
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-07-31 11:03:53
NPC Last Updated: 2019-07-31 11:03:53
Scholar
29 posts
To add a little more info. I've camped and sold LR to quillmane to make money on TLPs for awhile now. Most of the info in the top comments is correct, however, there are actually multiple mob chains that she can spawn on. The one thing they all have in common is "an elephant" which signifies the special chains. IF "an elephant" spawns in the north 1/3 of the zone, that is the high shaman chain and does not include quillmane (at least that I've ever seen in hundreds of PH kills in that chain). I know there are at least two different chains in the south 2/3 of the zone with "an elephant" and both of the can spawn Quill. There is a chance there are more, but I've never seen more than 3 elephants up at once in the zone (1 north, 2 south). Cyclops rarely spawn in the chains. One chain is around 72 second spawn, one is something like 55 seconds. They can vary by a few seconds because of the server. I've seen PH mobs spawn as far as the west wall zone line (almost right on it) and very near the east wall zone line. Always in the south 2/3 of the zone though.
Other than the info above, if there are no "an elephant" up, I just mass slaughter things in the south until one pops, then start following that chain. This is pretty easy to farm if you go in off times a few weeks after server/expansion launches when you are literally the only person in the zone. It's funny looking back at all the old theories on this nowadays. It was confirmed on a podcast by the dev who made the zone (cant remember his name, sorry) that it was just a low % spawn chance. They didnt even have the tools to do anything more elaborate than that in '99. At least they gave us "an elephant" otherwise we'd really be screwed.
Other than the info above, if there are no "an elephant" up, I just mass slaughter things in the south until one pops, then start following that chain. This is pretty easy to farm if you go in off times a few weeks after server/expansion launches when you are literally the only person in the zone. It's funny looking back at all the old theories on this nowadays. It was confirmed on a podcast by the dev who made the zone (cant remember his name, sorry) that it was just a low % spawn chance. They didnt even have the tools to do anything more elaborate than that in '99. At least they gave us "an elephant" otherwise we'd really be screwed.
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Is this on P99?
Level 115 SK 110 Mage, 110 Ranger Was a pretty easy fight, not sure what all the fuss is about. J/K Just being annoying with pointless infromation
These other guides for finding it have decent information about PHs and spawn times. The way I have found the PH each time I have camped this mob is by starting up North and Killing everything that could be its PH. Then I run south and start finding the PH type mobs that are Facing/Heading north killing and timing them. If they respawn is 67ish seconds and the mob always heads north then keep cycling it until Quillmane spawns. You can use a stopwatch to time the respawn times. I had a ranger for track and a druid for component free pet. With tracking set to normal I would summon a bear pet about 30 seconds after the PH died. That way whatever mob popped up over the Pet's name would be the PH. The PH never spawns from the same location twice so you can't just sit in one spot to camp it and have to use track. The cloak is MQable and Non-Lore so I would say if you get the PH cycle down go ahead and loot a few for later players because finding the PH is a pita.
These other guides for finding it have decent information about PHs and spawn times. The way I have found the PH each time I have camped this mob is by starting up North and Killing everything that could be its PH. Then I run south and start finding the PH type mobs that are Facing/Heading north killing and timing them. If they respawn is 67ish seconds and the mob always heads north then keep cycling it until Quillmane spawns. You can use a stopwatch to time the respawn times. I had a ranger for track and a druid for component free pet. With tracking set to normal I would summon a bear pet about 30 seconds after the PH died. That way whatever mob popped up over the Pet's name would be the PH. The PH never spawns from the same location twice so you can't just sit in one spot to camp it and have to use track. The cloak is MQable and Non-Lore so I would say if you get the PH cycle down go ahead and loot a few for later players because finding the PH is a pita.
See photograph for his pathing on 8/5/21. I found him in the NW corner where I wrote "Found him here". He then pathed all around the zone in random directions until I got tired of following him for an hour. A bard in zone used highsun for me, at the place the yellow line stops. From there, we tracked him to the east where I drew the arrow in game (the yellow lines that look vaguely like an arrow point to his spawn point. From there, he ran north but I got tired again and killed him.
Amio wrote:
See photograph for his pathing on 8/5/21. I found him in the NW corner where I wrote "Found him here". He then pathed all around the zone in random directions until I got tired of following him for an hour. A bard in zone used highsun for me, at the place the yellow line stops. From there, we tracked him to the east where I drew the arrow in game (the yellow lines that look vaguely like an arrow point to his spawn point. From there, he ran north but I got tired again and killed him.
Amazing information.
As of November 2020 and measured with a stopwatch, Quillmane respawn timing is between 63 to 64 seconds. In practice it may appear to be 63 seconds due to human reaction time with the stopwatch.
Scholar
44 posts
Ive spent the last week trying to spawn Quillmane with no luck. Ive done my best to follow everything posted here and stil nothing. any help is greatful. Im on bristlebane
Spawned in multiple locations...
-5523, -1349, 22
-5867, -745, 0
-5523, -1349, 22
-5867, -745, 0
My infos are mostly based on this great guide by vmardian but I updated it to 2018 with my own experiences:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=14838#m1244522592305661865
1. Placeholders
There is only one placeholder for Quillmane at the same time. The placeholders that I had seen:
a lioness (after Quillmane got killed, this one does ALWAYS spawn next and does walk to northwest)
a lion
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
an elephant
an escaped split paw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur charger
centaur courser
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
These ones may be also placeholders, however the cyclops and the treant are (also) placeholders on the Mroon cycle:
aviak archer
a cyclops
a treant
2. Spawn area
A retangle between the western zone border and the hermit house in the east,
Splitpaw in the north, Aviak village in the south. Mobs only spawn inside these borders.
3. Respawn time
66 seconds (was 78 in the past)
4. Roaming area
After spawning, the mobs wander towards Splitpaw spires but do not always cross them on the first pass. They then do wander northwards but do not cross the undead ruins near the bridge. They pass them eastwards or do stop before them and then tend to walk south up to the aviak village. I have seen placeholders even walk east and west in the northern area but not exactly east and west.
5. Strategy
Make sure that no other players are hunting in the zone as this will disturb the tracking results pretty quickly !
As a druid bind yourself at the center of the retangular spawning area. A tracking skill minimum of 175 is highly recommended as this can cover 95% of the spawn area. As a ranger with a tracking skill above 200 you can hang around southeast of Splitpaw when waiting for the next spawn. Boxing a bard for the Selo song can speed things up. Keep the bard at your bind point or tracking camp. As a ranger you can also let him auto-follow until you found the placeholder for the Quillmane cycle.
The hardest part is to find the placeholder, this can take a few hours. Lions, escaped splitpaw gnolls and "an elephant " are the most common, so start tracking and killing them first and head as fast as you can to the center of the spawn area. A druid tracker with 175 tracking does work much better than a ranger with 300 tracking because of the gate spell. Sort your tracking by "normal" which does show the latest spawns always at the top.
After the first Quillmane spawn and kill its getting easy as you now can be sure that you found the right cycle and the next spawn (a lioness) will be the right placeholder. Be carefull with escaped splitpaw gnolls as they can spawn very close to the Splitpaw spires and the gnolls there (Tesch, Rosch, Nisch) will jump on and kill them very fast.
For more infos read this guide:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=14838#m1244522592305661865
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=14838#m1244522592305661865
1. Placeholders
There is only one placeholder for Quillmane at the same time. The placeholders that I had seen:
a lioness (after Quillmane got killed, this one does ALWAYS spawn next and does walk to northwest)
a lion
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
an elephant
an escaped split paw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur charger
centaur courser
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
These ones may be also placeholders, however the cyclops and the treant are (also) placeholders on the Mroon cycle:
aviak archer
a cyclops
a treant
2. Spawn area
A retangle between the western zone border and the hermit house in the east,
Splitpaw in the north, Aviak village in the south. Mobs only spawn inside these borders.
3. Respawn time
66 seconds (was 78 in the past)
4. Roaming area
After spawning, the mobs wander towards Splitpaw spires but do not always cross them on the first pass. They then do wander northwards but do not cross the undead ruins near the bridge. They pass them eastwards or do stop before them and then tend to walk south up to the aviak village. I have seen placeholders even walk east and west in the northern area but not exactly east and west.
5. Strategy
Make sure that no other players are hunting in the zone as this will disturb the tracking results pretty quickly !
As a druid bind yourself at the center of the retangular spawning area. A tracking skill minimum of 175 is highly recommended as this can cover 95% of the spawn area. As a ranger with a tracking skill above 200 you can hang around southeast of Splitpaw when waiting for the next spawn. Boxing a bard for the Selo song can speed things up. Keep the bard at your bind point or tracking camp. As a ranger you can also let him auto-follow until you found the placeholder for the Quillmane cycle.
The hardest part is to find the placeholder, this can take a few hours. Lions, escaped splitpaw gnolls and "an elephant " are the most common, so start tracking and killing them first and head as fast as you can to the center of the spawn area. A druid tracker with 175 tracking does work much better than a ranger with 300 tracking because of the gate spell. Sort your tracking by "normal" which does show the latest spawns always at the top.
After the first Quillmane spawn and kill its getting easy as you now can be sure that you found the right cycle and the next spawn (a lioness) will be the right placeholder. Be carefull with escaped splitpaw gnolls as they can spawn very close to the Splitpaw spires and the gnolls there (Tesch, Rosch, Nisch) will jump on and kill them very fast.
For more infos read this guide:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=14838#m1244522592305661865
Weird that the link at the top of the page mentions your walkthrough but click on it and it goes further down to one by Zliz. I just recently made 2 new characters to add to my small army. I got bored enough finally after doing epics and odd Vah Shir trade skill quests. After spending about a month off and on trying to get a Robe of the Lost Circle for a frog monk I finally gave up and headed off to South Karana with my ranger to see what was up. Started going after the Escaped gnolls, took Mroon's Knot top and started to go after a gnoll that was all the way up in the far south east corner of the map where Quillmane likes to stop and hang out a bit. Lo and behold Brother Qwinn wearing a robe! I woke up
Anyway I stayed up later than I would have liked. Got the wrong spawn ph as usual and ended up with Cracktusk and Marik. Went to bed.
Eventually I woke again. Got the ranger back in game and a 115 magician was there. He did some killing along the western wall and was at the middle of the mound over Infected Paw. He asked in ooc that if I saw Quillmane to please not kill. Not a problem since I did find the right chain before I went to bed but it was not delivering. Saw Cracktusk was still up and so my ranger charmed Cracktusk. Ran around a bit. Kept an eye on track and made some selective kills while ignoring the ph that spawned from Cracktusk. Saw Quillmane on track and let the magician know and he got his cloak. Kept at it got the first cloak after a sngle pair of leggings dropped. Spawned Quillmane again and camped, leaving her up to continue later. Got firewood in and some yard clean up work up the hill where I was cutting the wood. Got back in and checked South Karana and ran around the whole zone on the Vah Shir Rogue. Couldn't find her so got the ranger in and she was still there. Interestingly enough a 115 druid popped into the zone briefly and left. A few more hours and leggings later what I hope is the last cloak I camp ever dropped. Ok I guess I might make a third cleric.
Anyway to make a long story short you should add the Aviak Harrier to the list. He was in my placeholder chain a couple of times.
Nice to see someone get it right with no Cracktusk in the list.
Anyway I stayed up later than I would have liked. Got the wrong spawn ph as usual and ended up with Cracktusk and Marik. Went to bed.
Eventually I woke again. Got the ranger back in game and a 115 magician was there. He did some killing along the western wall and was at the middle of the mound over Infected Paw. He asked in ooc that if I saw Quillmane to please not kill. Not a problem since I did find the right chain before I went to bed but it was not delivering. Saw Cracktusk was still up and so my ranger charmed Cracktusk. Ran around a bit. Kept an eye on track and made some selective kills while ignoring the ph that spawned from Cracktusk. Saw Quillmane on track and let the magician know and he got his cloak. Kept at it got the first cloak after a sngle pair of leggings dropped. Spawned Quillmane again and camped, leaving her up to continue later. Got firewood in and some yard clean up work up the hill where I was cutting the wood. Got back in and checked South Karana and ran around the whole zone on the Vah Shir Rogue. Couldn't find her so got the ranger in and she was still there. Interestingly enough a 115 druid popped into the zone briefly and left. A few more hours and leggings later what I hope is the last cloak I camp ever dropped. Ok I guess I might make a third cleric.
Anyway to make a long story short you should add the Aviak Harrier to the list. He was in my placeholder chain a couple of times.
Nice to see someone get it right with no Cracktusk in the list.
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Treant and Cyclops confirmed.
Add Aviak Harrier to the list as well of confirmed.
Add Aviak Harrier to the list as well of confirmed.
Scholar
38 posts
Thanks iventheassassin for putting in the work to describe the camp in modern times, just got my Pegasus Feather Cloak.
Note that I confirmed that centaur foal and centaur courser are part of the spawn cycle, though I saw them only once each. I kept very disciplined with only killing the quillmane spawn and have the below log of mobs I killed since I got the cycle nailed. The time on the left is the hh:mm:ss between kills, so you can see I kept a steady 1:20 to 1:50. FWIW Cracktusk was up for this entire duration.
0:01:19 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:42 an elephant!
0:01:44 a lion!
0:01:27 a lioness!
0:01:21 Quillmane!
0:01:57 centaur foal!
0:01:47 a lioness!
0:01:23 a lion!
0:01:30 Quillmane!
0:01:37 a lion!
0:01:33 Quillmane!
0:01:39 an elephant!
0:01:53 a lioness!
0:01:52 a lioness!
0:01:49 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:53 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:13 Quillmane!
0:02:43 a mist wolf!
0:01:35 a lion!
0:01:45 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:57 Quillmane!
0:01:38 centaur courser!
0:01:38 Quillmane!
0:01:48 Quillmane!
0:01:28 a lion!
0:01:16 Quillmane!
0:01:50 Quillmane!
Note that I confirmed that centaur foal and centaur courser are part of the spawn cycle, though I saw them only once each. I kept very disciplined with only killing the quillmane spawn and have the below log of mobs I killed since I got the cycle nailed. The time on the left is the hh:mm:ss between kills, so you can see I kept a steady 1:20 to 1:50. FWIW Cracktusk was up for this entire duration.
0:01:19 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:42 an elephant!
0:01:44 a lion!
0:01:27 a lioness!
0:01:21 Quillmane!
0:01:57 centaur foal!
0:01:47 a lioness!
0:01:23 a lion!
0:01:30 Quillmane!
0:01:37 a lion!
0:01:33 Quillmane!
0:01:39 an elephant!
0:01:53 a lioness!
0:01:52 a lioness!
0:01:49 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:53 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:13 Quillmane!
0:02:43 a mist wolf!
0:01:35 a lion!
0:01:45 an escaped Splitpaw gnoll!
0:01:57 Quillmane!
0:01:38 centaur courser!
0:01:38 Quillmane!
0:01:48 Quillmane!
0:01:28 a lion!
0:01:16 Quillmane!
0:01:50 Quillmane!
Here is a list of the spawn locations of Quillmane and its placeholders for your map. When a mob does spawn on one of them you can be pretty sure that the mob is part of the Quillmane cycle as spawn points are attached to spawn tables. However it is possible that some of these spawn points are also attached to other spawn tables without Quillmane and which can include placeholders that look equal.
Copy the following text into southkarana_3.txt ! If this file does not exist, create one with this name or use version 1 or 2 (not recommended).
File path: \EverQuest\maps
q (black) = Quillmane or placeholder
Q (white) = About the center of the spawn area (usefull as bind point).
175 Tracking does reach until the hermit hut but not until the western zone border.
Copy the following text into southkarana_3.txt ! If this file does not exist, create one with this name or use version 1 or 2 (not recommended).
File path: \EverQuest\maps
P -2277.5486, 4118.2471, 97.0104, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2964.5496, 4197.3267, 56.6215, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 683.4796, 4661.4468, -1.9270, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane_(Hunter) P 2336.4026, 4058.1580, 15.5106, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 173.2400, 5121.7212, -1.8688, 240, 240, 240, 3, Q P 373.2101, 5226.3311, -1.9056, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 40.0653, 5890.1646, -1.9124, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane P -590.5616, 4275.5591, -1.8680, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1024.6315, 5027.6255, -1.8853, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2301.8152, 4885.9312, 26.9999, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 2106.9048, 4406.9600, 80.9861, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -225.6710, 4457.2686, -1.8805, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1437.6122, 3832.8755, -1.4213, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 2511.7493, 4530.5879, -1.8647, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1075.0099, 5381.4561, 33.8215, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1389.8622, 6179.0225, -1.1095, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -813.0355, 4878.2134, 74.8739, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1024.8561, 5028.3267, -1.9188, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1901.8949, 4060.7537, 47.5549, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 802.7576, 4674.7935, -1.9015, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -89.2105, 5530.1812, -1.8699, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane P 1811.7339, 3763.5503, 112.2799, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane P -27.2199, 5012.1558, -1.8920, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2497.5076, 5310.5103, 125.9413, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 95.4750, 5860.4688, -1.8955, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1657.0680, 4933.3892, -1.8865, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1214.2588, 5457.2178, 21.4711, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane P -1253.7328, 4144.2554, 0.3648, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -3036.4373, 5766.9351, 82.8697, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 845.7850, 3963.2168, -1.8910, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1924.6215, 5104.3447, 12.3348, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -3095.1719, 6083.5566, 55.6424, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -984.3257, 3784.4153, -1.8976, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 620.5483, 5326.7388, -1.9397, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2933.8704, 4515.6177, 27.3490, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -3124.1709, 4378.2378, 39.7641, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1807.8429, 3853.5950, 95.4743, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 2180.1377, 5941.6553, -1.9348, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 596.3317, 3662.2444, 55.7340, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 910.5369, 4066.5994, 15.0456, 127, 64, 0, 2, Quillmane P -805.8047, 6385.3018, -1.9429, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2371.6694, 5453.5518, 33.8054, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 441.0172, 5980.5029, -2.1720, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 968.5135, 3760.8528, -2.1818, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1791.7112, 5486.3062, -2.2017, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -322.5050, 4774.7754, -2.1756, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1117.1073, 3864.8691, -2.2105, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -1564.5010, 3739.7158, 1.3252, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 261.8540, 4789.0933, -2.1823, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 1597.3185, 5063.9141, 2.9362, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P -2461.4604, 4858.7427, 86.9592, 0, 0, 0, 1, q P 481.6899, 5226.4063, -2.1820, 0, 0, 0, 1, q
q (black) = Quillmane or placeholder
Q (white) = About the center of the spawn area (usefull as bind point).
175 Tracking does reach until the hermit hut but not until the western zone border.
Btw the cloak doesnt seem to be uncommon anymore. I received 5 Feathered Leggings and even 6 Pegasus Feather Cloaks and there was no drop bonus days. Drop rate would be about 50% for each. It is possible to get a cloak every 30 minutes after the first Quillmane in the cycle got killed. Quillmane has a spawn rate of about 11% in the cycle (spawn table). So sometimes you have to work an hour for one cloak and sometimes Quillmane will spawn inbetween 5 minutes twice.
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These are the confirmed placeholders that I came across tonight on Phinigel server after my first Quillmane kill of the night. Out of 26 spawns, I had 5 Quillmane spawns with 1 pegasus feather cloak and 4 feathered leggings. The respawn time is about 70 seconds.
A cyclops
A lion
A lioness
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
An elephant
An escaped split paw gnoll
Aviak egret
Centaur archer
Good luck and happy hunting! :)
A cyclops
A lion
A lioness
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
An elephant
An escaped split paw gnoll
Aviak egret
Centaur archer
Good luck and happy hunting! :)
MyndeKandie01 wrote:
These are the confirmed placeholders that I came across tonight on Phinigel server after my first Quillmane kill of the night. Out of 26 spawns, I had 5 Quillmane spawns with 1 pegasus feather cloak and 4 feathered leggings. The respawn time is about 70 seconds.
A cyclops
A lion
A lioness
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
An elephant
An escaped split paw gnoll
Aviak egret
Centaur archer
Good luck and happy hunting! :)
A cyclops
A lion
A lioness
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
An elephant
An escaped split paw gnoll
Aviak egret
Centaur archer
Good luck and happy hunting! :)
This is the stuff that conspiracy theories are made of. I've been playing off and on since Ruins of Kunark, and have two Magician 1.0's, and have gotten quite a few more cloaks in my time.. And what would you know, each time the spawn came from simply killing anything that moved south of Splitpaw and north of Aviak city.
The Rathe
Chair
Kraom
Ender
Bristlebane
Eurytus
Fingerhut
Whis
Vados
Zamasu
Clozapine
Petrol
Chair
Kraom
Ender
Bristlebane
Eurytus
Fingerhut
Whis
Vados
Zamasu
Clozapine
Petrol
Scholar
28 posts
Using this list I got Quillmane to spawn a ton this morning. There are a few more confirmed PHs to add.
centaur charger
centaur sheltie
centaur courser
centaur foal (very rare on the cycle)
a treant
aviak rook
Confirmed today on Coirnav. Oh, also the Cracktusk cycle is not part of Quillmane and 'an elephant' is NOT UNIQUE to the Quillmane cycle!
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 10:07am by Morlaeth
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 10:15am by Morlaeth
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 12:39pm by Morlaeth
centaur charger
centaur sheltie
centaur courser
centaur foal (very rare on the cycle)
a treant
aviak rook
Confirmed today on Coirnav. Oh, also the Cracktusk cycle is not part of Quillmane and 'an elephant' is NOT UNIQUE to the Quillmane cycle!
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 10:07am by Morlaeth
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 10:15am by Morlaeth
Edited, Jul 20th 2018 12:39pm by Morlaeth
GOT IT !!)
Edited, Jan 8th 2018 11:02am by lovguild
Edited, Jan 8th 2018 11:02am by lovguild
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I'm here to provide some backing information and dispel a myth:
This is a list of mobs I killed on the QM cycle. I included only those killed after the first Quillmane pop so I'm 100% certain I was on the correct cycle:
Quillmane
A lion
An escaped Splitpaw gnoll
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
A Lioness
Centaur archer
There may be more, but this is what I saw in about 2 hours of doing the confirmed cycle.
Also worth noting: the placeholders are NOT guaranteed to roam due north after spawning - To my recollection, most if not all spawned facing north, but I observed them wandering off in various other directions once they started moving. They all spawn between the north bound of Paw and south bound of Aviak village, but if left unkilled they can potentially roam to the far north of the zone - at least as far as the centaur village. I believe they will eventually roam back to the south, but I did not observe long enough to say for certain.
This is a list of mobs I killed on the QM cycle. I included only those killed after the first Quillmane pop so I'm 100% certain I was on the correct cycle:
Quillmane
A lion
An escaped Splitpaw gnoll
A mist wolf
A shadow wolf
A Lioness
Centaur archer
There may be more, but this is what I saw in about 2 hours of doing the confirmed cycle.
Also worth noting: the placeholders are NOT guaranteed to roam due north after spawning - To my recollection, most if not all spawned facing north, but I observed them wandering off in various other directions once they started moving. They all spawn between the north bound of Paw and south bound of Aviak village, but if left unkilled they can potentially roam to the far north of the zone - at least as far as the centaur village. I believe they will eventually roam back to the south, but I did not observe long enough to say for certain.
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I have camped Quillmane during the time they boosted the frequency of the names. Zliz's guide is pretty good to follow but I would like to add some comments based on my observations.
I was playing a level 85 druid with 175 in tracking. I had the zone to myself and I was lucky to be able to get Quillmane’s spawn cycle quickly. I proceeded to camp him successfully for about 6 hours and the PH’s I kept seeing from the cycle were: an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness. Those PH’s were all I saw during the first 6 hours I was camping Quillmane.
I would like to point out that I positioned myself slightly south east of the Split Paw zone to try and be centered on the southern portion of the map. On occasion I would have to run either further south east or south west of Split Paw to pick up a fresh PH/Quillmane spawn on track if it seemed like nothing was appearing on track around the one minute mark. My guess is that it’s probably because a druid’s tracking skill at 175 isn’t enough to cover the entire southern portion of the zone. I also noticed that the PH’s/Quillmane did not always stay in place facing north for 20 seconds. As soon as I saw a fresh spawn from the cycle on track I would sometimes find it already roaming.
After about 6 hours other people started coming into the zone. A couple were low level players hunting for xp near the Aviak village, while others were also trying to get Quillmane to spawn, unaware that I already had the cycle going. That is when I started to see the other PH’s listed on Zliz’s guide. I started seeing aviaks, centaurs, treants, and even Crack Tusk fresh on my tracking. I also noted that I would sometimes see a cyclops and undead cyclops appear as well, but I determined this was due to other people in the zone throwing the rhythm of the cycle off. When the zone became empty again I managed to resume the cycle and again observed the same PH’s/Quillmane for about another 4 hours. I have almost managed to equip all of my toons with a cloak that day, totaling at 10.
Although I cannot dismiss the possibility completely, I strongly believe that it’s highly unlikely that aviaks, centuars, treants and Crack Tusk is part of the Quillmane cycle and can be discounted from the list of PH’s.
My reasons for coming to this conclusion are based on these thoughts:
1) In the past when servers were more populated it was hard to determine what mobs were actually a part of the Quillmane cycle due to other people hunting in the zone. This can be especially true for druids or bards whose tracking skill is unable to cover all the possible areas that Quillmane and his PH’s can spawn.
2) Having a mob roam into a druid’s or bard’s tracking range may have given the illusion that they were part of the Quillmane cycle e.g. aviaks.
3) Since this was during a time where Daybreak made it so rare spawns would appear more frequently I find it highly unlikely that Crack Tusk, a named elephant, is part of the spawn cycle for Quillmane since I did not see him spawn at all when I had Quillmane’s cycle going for those 6+ hours.
4) For 6 hours (and another 4 hours when I resumed the cycle) the only PH’s I saw fresh on my track were an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness. This leads me to believe that the other PH’s listed were due to interference from other players hunting in the zone, as well as insufficient track skill by druids and bards that misled players to believe for so long that aviaks, centuars, treants and Crack Tusk were also PH’s for Quillmane.
Again, I will not deny the possibility that the other PH’s might just be really rare to appear in Quillmane’s cycle, but it would be nice if someone else can verify my claims so that we can condense the PH list for Quillmane.
TLDR: I camped and spawned Quillmane multiple times successfully for 6 hours and only ever saw an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness spawn as PH’s for Quillmane.
I was playing a level 85 druid with 175 in tracking. I had the zone to myself and I was lucky to be able to get Quillmane’s spawn cycle quickly. I proceeded to camp him successfully for about 6 hours and the PH’s I kept seeing from the cycle were: an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness. Those PH’s were all I saw during the first 6 hours I was camping Quillmane.
I would like to point out that I positioned myself slightly south east of the Split Paw zone to try and be centered on the southern portion of the map. On occasion I would have to run either further south east or south west of Split Paw to pick up a fresh PH/Quillmane spawn on track if it seemed like nothing was appearing on track around the one minute mark. My guess is that it’s probably because a druid’s tracking skill at 175 isn’t enough to cover the entire southern portion of the zone. I also noticed that the PH’s/Quillmane did not always stay in place facing north for 20 seconds. As soon as I saw a fresh spawn from the cycle on track I would sometimes find it already roaming.
After about 6 hours other people started coming into the zone. A couple were low level players hunting for xp near the Aviak village, while others were also trying to get Quillmane to spawn, unaware that I already had the cycle going. That is when I started to see the other PH’s listed on Zliz’s guide. I started seeing aviaks, centaurs, treants, and even Crack Tusk fresh on my tracking. I also noted that I would sometimes see a cyclops and undead cyclops appear as well, but I determined this was due to other people in the zone throwing the rhythm of the cycle off. When the zone became empty again I managed to resume the cycle and again observed the same PH’s/Quillmane for about another 4 hours. I have almost managed to equip all of my toons with a cloak that day, totaling at 10.
Although I cannot dismiss the possibility completely, I strongly believe that it’s highly unlikely that aviaks, centuars, treants and Crack Tusk is part of the Quillmane cycle and can be discounted from the list of PH’s.
My reasons for coming to this conclusion are based on these thoughts:
1) In the past when servers were more populated it was hard to determine what mobs were actually a part of the Quillmane cycle due to other people hunting in the zone. This can be especially true for druids or bards whose tracking skill is unable to cover all the possible areas that Quillmane and his PH’s can spawn.
2) Having a mob roam into a druid’s or bard’s tracking range may have given the illusion that they were part of the Quillmane cycle e.g. aviaks.
3) Since this was during a time where Daybreak made it so rare spawns would appear more frequently I find it highly unlikely that Crack Tusk, a named elephant, is part of the spawn cycle for Quillmane since I did not see him spawn at all when I had Quillmane’s cycle going for those 6+ hours.
4) For 6 hours (and another 4 hours when I resumed the cycle) the only PH’s I saw fresh on my track were an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness. This leads me to believe that the other PH’s listed were due to interference from other players hunting in the zone, as well as insufficient track skill by druids and bards that misled players to believe for so long that aviaks, centuars, treants and Crack Tusk were also PH’s for Quillmane.
Again, I will not deny the possibility that the other PH’s might just be really rare to appear in Quillmane’s cycle, but it would be nice if someone else can verify my claims so that we can condense the PH list for Quillmane.
TLDR: I camped and spawned Quillmane multiple times successfully for 6 hours and only ever saw an elephant, a mist wolf, a shadow wolf, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, a lion, and a lioness spawn as PH’s for Quillmane.
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Yesterday I used two guides in pursuit of Quillmane.
Zliz Feb 11 2017 on the Quillmane bestiary and Wiki. The map is helpful on that link.
3-boxing level 62(Mage, Ranger, SK). The tracking was only lvl 60-ish. I should have passed the trainer but it was enough!
I parked the Mage SE of gnoll hill and only killed about 5 wanderers except some nosy gnolls. I think this was irrelevant.
I parked my Ranger and SK in center of the triangle Aviak tree house, Hermit, gnoll hill. Tracking Normal.
Then I killed 'a lion, a lioness, a shadow wolf, an elephant (2-3), an escaped Splitpaw gnoll (1), aviaks and centaurs'.
I would only run from the camp with the ranger for lions and an elephant. I was running SE approx -6500 closish to the Hermit in hunt of 'a lioness'.
There I saw Quillmane on track, moving straight eastwards. Snared and ran my other toons there. Killed and dropped the cloak.
Again Quillmane poped on track furter east of my kill, moving eastward. Dropped another cloak. Two for two.
Note that this was during a period with extra XP and more frequent nameds. Quillmane showed up twice SE of the black circle on the map. Quillmane was moving straight east.
Zliz Feb 11 2017 on the Quillmane bestiary and Wiki. The map is helpful on that link.
3-boxing level 62(Mage, Ranger, SK). The tracking was only lvl 60-ish. I should have passed the trainer but it was enough!
I parked the Mage SE of gnoll hill and only killed about 5 wanderers except some nosy gnolls. I think this was irrelevant.
I parked my Ranger and SK in center of the triangle Aviak tree house, Hermit, gnoll hill. Tracking Normal.
Then I killed 'a lion, a lioness, a shadow wolf, an elephant (2-3), an escaped Splitpaw gnoll (1), aviaks and centaurs'.
I would only run from the camp with the ranger for lions and an elephant. I was running SE approx -6500 closish to the Hermit in hunt of 'a lioness'.
There I saw Quillmane on track, moving straight eastwards. Snared and ran my other toons there. Killed and dropped the cloak.
Again Quillmane poped on track furter east of my kill, moving eastward. Dropped another cloak. Two for two.
Note that this was during a period with extra XP and more frequent nameds. Quillmane showed up twice SE of the black circle on the map. Quillmane was moving straight east.
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I was in the northern part of the zone right near the zone in to North Karana. Then i see Quill just south of the skeleton area where Grimrot spawns. I drop Quill and i get the legs. Then like 5 mins later Quill spawns again in the same area. This time i get the cloak.
I was killing a few centaurs, adult elephants and a few aviaks. I don't know if I had anything to do with this double spawning. But i thought
Quill spawns only in southern part of zone around splitpaw..
strange....this was the first time i ever saw Quillmane...
Reuvan the ranger
Bristlebane server
I was killing a few centaurs, adult elephants and a few aviaks. I don't know if I had anything to do with this double spawning. But i thought
Quill spawns only in southern part of zone around splitpaw..
strange....this was the first time i ever saw Quillmane...
Reuvan the ranger
Bristlebane server
Here is some fresh info about Quillmane from Live EQ. I recently hunted him for his cloak both for myself and another player, and in the process, I spawned and killed close to 15 Quillmanes.
Here are the facts:
1) Quillmane is on a spawn cycle of mobs that includes:
a lion (very common)
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
A "spawn cycle" in EQ means a set of mobs that randomly spawn in a chain, meaning that when you kill one mob on the cycle, a new mob from the above list will spawn after a fixed amount of time. All mobs on the same cycle typically behave in the same way with regards to where and how they path and wander, despawn/respawn, etc.
This list should be close to 100% complete, although maybe there could one or two more variants of aviaks and centaurs on the list.
Note the "an elephant", which is unique to Quill's spawn cycle. This means that if you find an elephant (not adult, not bull, not calf) that matches the rest of the rules, you have found the cycle for sure!
2) The re-spawn for the cycle is approximately 65 seconds. Older guides say 74 seconds, this has been changed to about 65. within the past few years. Note that due to Tracking not getting updated in real-time, and due to EQ's wonky 6-second tick timing mechanic, the respawn will appear to be between 60 and 70 seconds to you.
3) All mobs on the cycle spawn in the southern half of the zone, south of Paw. They can spawn as south as the Aviak village, as west as the grey cliffs, and as east as almost by the water.
4) After a mob on the cycle spawns, it will face north and stand still for approximately 20 seconds, after which it will begin walking straight north. I haven't followed a mob to the end of its path, but I assume that after walking as far north as it can, it will walk back south, then north again and so on. You should be catching new spawns before they reach the middle of the zone.
5) The cloak is a rare drop, but not super-rare, which I estimate is about 20%. The first round I hunted Quill, it took 12 kills to get the cloak, the second round (for another player), we got it on the first kill.
To properly spawn Quill, a tracker is a must, and I would say about 200-250 Tracking skill is minimum in order to be able to cover the entire southern part of SK. A high level Ranger has 300 Tracking and is perfect for this. Another bonus is to have a character to follow you around with a run speed buff, such as a high level Bard (best) or Druid/Shaman with Cheetah. However, this is optional.
To find the spawn cycle (the hard part), you use the Tracking-capable character to hunt. Set the track sort to Normal, which sorts mob by recently spawned mobs first. Run around the south part of the zone and look for mobs on the list that are wandering either straight north or south. When you find one, kill it, and don't kill anything else. Start a stopwatch (you can use your phone, I use a little stopwatch program on my computer) set to 1 minute, and after the 1 minute countdown, see if anything new pops on top of your track list within the next 5 seconds or so. Note that the respawn is not precisely 60 seconds, it is between 60 and 70 seconds. If nothing spawns after ~65 seconds, you didn't hit the cycle; start over and find another mob, and wait again. If a new mob from the list spawns after ~65 seconds, hunt it down and simply repeat this, hopefully until Quillmane pops.
If you suddenly don't get a new spawn, you probably didn't hit the cycle correctly, or your Tracking is not high enough to catch whiff of the new spawn. If two mobs seem to spawn at the same time, one of them is probably on the cycle, and the other just happened to respawn from being killed by you, another player or an NPC. This is where it gets hard; hunt down both mobs, keep timing after killing one of them, and see if you can get your way back on the proper ~65 second cycle.
Between killing each mob, I usually run to the center part of the southern part of the zone, so I'm equally far from all possible spawn points. The PH's actually have a set of fixed spawn points (you'll begin to see corpses pile up), but since there are so many, it's pointless to map.
I estimate the chance of having Quillmane pop is about 5-10%. I've had her spawn back-to-back a few times, which is nice of course.
Good luck!
Here are the facts:
1) Quillmane is on a spawn cycle of mobs that includes:
a lion (very common)
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
A "spawn cycle" in EQ means a set of mobs that randomly spawn in a chain, meaning that when you kill one mob on the cycle, a new mob from the above list will spawn after a fixed amount of time. All mobs on the same cycle typically behave in the same way with regards to where and how they path and wander, despawn/respawn, etc.
This list should be close to 100% complete, although maybe there could one or two more variants of aviaks and centaurs on the list.
Note the "an elephant", which is unique to Quill's spawn cycle. This means that if you find an elephant (not adult, not bull, not calf) that matches the rest of the rules, you have found the cycle for sure!
2) The re-spawn for the cycle is approximately 65 seconds. Older guides say 74 seconds, this has been changed to about 65. within the past few years. Note that due to Tracking not getting updated in real-time, and due to EQ's wonky 6-second tick timing mechanic, the respawn will appear to be between 60 and 70 seconds to you.
3) All mobs on the cycle spawn in the southern half of the zone, south of Paw. They can spawn as south as the Aviak village, as west as the grey cliffs, and as east as almost by the water.
4) After a mob on the cycle spawns, it will face north and stand still for approximately 20 seconds, after which it will begin walking straight north. I haven't followed a mob to the end of its path, but I assume that after walking as far north as it can, it will walk back south, then north again and so on. You should be catching new spawns before they reach the middle of the zone.
5) The cloak is a rare drop, but not super-rare, which I estimate is about 20%. The first round I hunted Quill, it took 12 kills to get the cloak, the second round (for another player), we got it on the first kill.
To properly spawn Quill, a tracker is a must, and I would say about 200-250 Tracking skill is minimum in order to be able to cover the entire southern part of SK. A high level Ranger has 300 Tracking and is perfect for this. Another bonus is to have a character to follow you around with a run speed buff, such as a high level Bard (best) or Druid/Shaman with Cheetah. However, this is optional.
To find the spawn cycle (the hard part), you use the Tracking-capable character to hunt. Set the track sort to Normal, which sorts mob by recently spawned mobs first. Run around the south part of the zone and look for mobs on the list that are wandering either straight north or south. When you find one, kill it, and don't kill anything else. Start a stopwatch (you can use your phone, I use a little stopwatch program on my computer) set to 1 minute, and after the 1 minute countdown, see if anything new pops on top of your track list within the next 5 seconds or so. Note that the respawn is not precisely 60 seconds, it is between 60 and 70 seconds. If nothing spawns after ~65 seconds, you didn't hit the cycle; start over and find another mob, and wait again. If a new mob from the list spawns after ~65 seconds, hunt it down and simply repeat this, hopefully until Quillmane pops.
If you suddenly don't get a new spawn, you probably didn't hit the cycle correctly, or your Tracking is not high enough to catch whiff of the new spawn. If two mobs seem to spawn at the same time, one of them is probably on the cycle, and the other just happened to respawn from being killed by you, another player or an NPC. This is where it gets hard; hunt down both mobs, keep timing after killing one of them, and see if you can get your way back on the proper ~65 second cycle.
Between killing each mob, I usually run to the center part of the southern part of the zone, so I'm equally far from all possible spawn points. The PH's actually have a set of fixed spawn points (you'll begin to see corpses pile up), but since there are so many, it's pointless to map.
I estimate the chance of having Quillmane pop is about 5-10%. I've had her spawn back-to-back a few times, which is nice of course.
Good luck!
http://www.zlizeq.com - Zliz's EverQuest Compendium
Zliz wrote:
To find the spawn cycle (the hard part), you use the Tracking-capable character to hunt. Set the track sort to Normal, which sorts mob by recently spawned mobs first. Run around the south part of the zone and look for mobs on the list that are wandering either straight north or south. When you find one, kill it, and don't kill anything else. Start a stopwatch (you can use your phone, I use a little stopwatch program on my computer) set to 1 minute, and after the 1 minute countdown, see if anything new pops on top of your track list within the next 5 seconds or so. Note that the respawn is not precisely 60 seconds, it is between 60 and 70 seconds. If nothing spawns after ~65 seconds, you didn't hit the cycle; start over and find another mob, and wait again. If a new mob from the list spawns after ~65 seconds, hunt it down and simply repeat this, hopefully until Quillmane pops.
If you suddenly don't get a new spawn, you probably didn't hit the cycle correctly, or your Tracking is not high enough to catch whiff of the new spawn. If two mobs seem to spawn at the same time, one of them is probably on the cycle, and the other just happened to respawn from being killed by you, another player or an NPC. This is where it gets hard; hunt down both mobs, keep timing after killing one of them, and see if you can get your way back on the proper ~65 second cycle.
This.
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a lion (very common)
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
a cyclops
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
adding a cyclops to the list of PHs.
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
a cyclops
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
adding a cyclops to the list of PHs.
Scholar
19 posts
an elephant is not unique to Quill, it is also part of Cracktusk cycle
Not sure you actually read the whole post. "An elephant" and "Cracktusk" are purportedly on the "Quillmane" cycle, according to the post.
Edited, May 7th 2018 4:44am by Tillas
Edited, May 7th 2018 4:44am by Tillas
Scholar
19 posts
An elephant is also part of Broon cycle and Grizzle cycle for sure. My point is that 'an elephant' is not unique to Quill cycle.
8 posts
Zliz wrote:
Here is some fresh info about Quillmane from Live EQ. I recently hunted him for his cloak both for myself and another player, and in the process, I spawned and killed close to 15 Quillmanes.
Here are the facts:
1) Quillmane is on a spawn cycle of mobs that includes:
a lion (very common)
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
A "spawn cycle" in EQ means a set of mobs that randomly spawn in a chain, meaning that when you kill one mob on the cycle, a new mob from the above list will spawn after a fixed amount of time. All mobs on the same cycle typically behave in the same way with regards to where and how they path and wander, despawn/respawn, etc.
This list should be close to 100% complete, although maybe there could one or two more variants of aviaks and centaurs on the list.
Note the "an elephant", which is unique to Quill's spawn cycle. This means that if you find an elephant (not adult, not bull, not calf) that matches the rest of the rules, you have found the cycle for sure!
2) The re-spawn for the cycle is approximately 65 seconds. Older guides say 74 seconds, this has been changed to about 65. within the past few years. Note that due to Tracking not getting updated in real-time, and due to EQ's wonky 6-second tick timing mechanic, the respawn will appear to be between 60 and 70 seconds to you.
3) All mobs on the cycle spawn in the southern half of the zone, south of Paw. They can spawn as south as the Aviak village, as west as the grey cliffs, and as east as almost by the water.
4) After a mob on the cycle spawns, it will face north and stand still for approximately 20 seconds, after which it will begin walking straight north. I haven't followed a mob to the end of its path, but I assume that after walking as far north as it can, it will walk back south, then north again and so on. You should be catching new spawns before they reach the middle of the zone.
5) The cloak is a rare drop, but not super-rare, which I estimate is about 20%. The first round I hunted Quill, it took 12 kills to get the cloak, the second round (for another player), we got it on the first kill.
To properly spawn Quill, a tracker is a must, and I would say about 200-250 Tracking skill is minimum in order to be able to cover the entire southern part of SK. A high level Ranger has 300 Tracking and is perfect for this. Another bonus is to have a character to follow you around with a run speed buff, such as a high level Bard (best) or Druid/Shaman with Cheetah. However, this is optional.
To find the spawn cycle (the hard part), you use the Tracking-capable character to hunt. Set the track sort to Normal, which sorts mob by recently spawned mobs first. Run around the south part of the zone and look for mobs on the list that are wandering either straight north or south. When you find one, kill it, and don't kill anything else. Start a stopwatch (you can use your phone, I use a little stopwatch program on my computer) set to 1 minute, and after the 1 minute countdown, see if anything new pops on top of your track list within the next 5 seconds or so. Note that the respawn is not precisely 60 seconds, it is between 60 and 70 seconds. If nothing spawns after ~65 seconds, you didn't hit the cycle; start over and find another mob, and wait again. If a new mob from the list spawns after ~65 seconds, hunt it down and simply repeat this, hopefully until Quillmane pops.
If you suddenly don't get a new spawn, you probably didn't hit the cycle correctly, or your Tracking is not high enough to catch whiff of the new spawn. If two mobs seem to spawn at the same time, one of them is probably on the cycle, and the other just happened to respawn from being killed by you, another player or an NPC. This is where it gets hard; hunt down both mobs, keep timing after killing one of them, and see if you can get your way back on the proper ~65 second cycle.
Between killing each mob, I usually run to the center part of the southern part of the zone, so I'm equally far from all possible spawn points. The PH's actually have a set of fixed spawn points (you'll begin to see corpses pile up), but since there are so many, it's pointless to map.
I estimate the chance of having Quillmane pop is about 5-10%. I've had her spawn back-to-back a few times, which is nice of course.
Good luck!
Here are the facts:
1) Quillmane is on a spawn cycle of mobs that includes:
a lion (very common)
a lioness (very common)
a mist wolf
a shadow wolf
a treant (rare)
an elephant (unique to Quill's cycle)
an escaped Splitpaw gnoll
aviak avocet
aviak darter
aviak egret
aviak rook
centaur archer
centaur foal
centaur sheltie
CrackTusk (very rare)
Quillmane
A "spawn cycle" in EQ means a set of mobs that randomly spawn in a chain, meaning that when you kill one mob on the cycle, a new mob from the above list will spawn after a fixed amount of time. All mobs on the same cycle typically behave in the same way with regards to where and how they path and wander, despawn/respawn, etc.
This list should be close to 100% complete, although maybe there could one or two more variants of aviaks and centaurs on the list.
Note the "an elephant", which is unique to Quill's spawn cycle. This means that if you find an elephant (not adult, not bull, not calf) that matches the rest of the rules, you have found the cycle for sure!
2) The re-spawn for the cycle is approximately 65 seconds. Older guides say 74 seconds, this has been changed to about 65. within the past few years. Note that due to Tracking not getting updated in real-time, and due to EQ's wonky 6-second tick timing mechanic, the respawn will appear to be between 60 and 70 seconds to you.
3) All mobs on the cycle spawn in the southern half of the zone, south of Paw. They can spawn as south as the Aviak village, as west as the grey cliffs, and as east as almost by the water.
4) After a mob on the cycle spawns, it will face north and stand still for approximately 20 seconds, after which it will begin walking straight north. I haven't followed a mob to the end of its path, but I assume that after walking as far north as it can, it will walk back south, then north again and so on. You should be catching new spawns before they reach the middle of the zone.
5) The cloak is a rare drop, but not super-rare, which I estimate is about 20%. The first round I hunted Quill, it took 12 kills to get the cloak, the second round (for another player), we got it on the first kill.
To properly spawn Quill, a tracker is a must, and I would say about 200-250 Tracking skill is minimum in order to be able to cover the entire southern part of SK. A high level Ranger has 300 Tracking and is perfect for this. Another bonus is to have a character to follow you around with a run speed buff, such as a high level Bard (best) or Druid/Shaman with Cheetah. However, this is optional.
To find the spawn cycle (the hard part), you use the Tracking-capable character to hunt. Set the track sort to Normal, which sorts mob by recently spawned mobs first. Run around the south part of the zone and look for mobs on the list that are wandering either straight north or south. When you find one, kill it, and don't kill anything else. Start a stopwatch (you can use your phone, I use a little stopwatch program on my computer) set to 1 minute, and after the 1 minute countdown, see if anything new pops on top of your track list within the next 5 seconds or so. Note that the respawn is not precisely 60 seconds, it is between 60 and 70 seconds. If nothing spawns after ~65 seconds, you didn't hit the cycle; start over and find another mob, and wait again. If a new mob from the list spawns after ~65 seconds, hunt it down and simply repeat this, hopefully until Quillmane pops.
If you suddenly don't get a new spawn, you probably didn't hit the cycle correctly, or your Tracking is not high enough to catch whiff of the new spawn. If two mobs seem to spawn at the same time, one of them is probably on the cycle, and the other just happened to respawn from being killed by you, another player or an NPC. This is where it gets hard; hunt down both mobs, keep timing after killing one of them, and see if you can get your way back on the proper ~65 second cycle.
Between killing each mob, I usually run to the center part of the southern part of the zone, so I'm equally far from all possible spawn points. The PH's actually have a set of fixed spawn points (you'll begin to see corpses pile up), but since there are so many, it's pointless to map.
I estimate the chance of having Quillmane pop is about 5-10%. I've had her spawn back-to-back a few times, which is nice of course.
Good luck!
this needs to be sticky into the description for quillmane... it works exactly as he posted it.. prob the only spawn script i found that works to a tee
Toughenuff wrote:
this needs to be sticky into the description for quillmane... it works exactly as he posted it.. prob the only spawn script i found that works to a tee
While probably a bit too big for our official description, I have included a link that users can use to quickly find this excellent writeup by Sliz.
this worked.
The only thing I would ad is: do not be tempted to think mobs facing "almost" due north or due south are on the quillmane cycle. They are not. If it's not walking due north or due south move on.
Following this guide I spawned him 8 times in three short gameing sessions. Got the cloak on the 8th kill.
The only thing I would ad is: do not be tempted to think mobs facing "almost" due north or due south are on the quillmane cycle. They are not. If it's not walking due north or due south move on.
Following this guide I spawned him 8 times in three short gameing sessions. Got the cloak on the 8th kill.
Former Heirophant of Cazic Thule
Hobenroby wrote:
this worked.
The only thing I would ad is: do not be tempted to think mobs facing "almost" due north or due south are on the quillmane cycle. They are not. If it's not walking due north or due south move on.
Following this guide I spawned him 8 times in three short gameing sessions. Got the cloak on the 8th kill.
The only thing I would ad is: do not be tempted to think mobs facing "almost" due north or due south are on the quillmane cycle. They are not. If it's not walking due north or due south move on.
Following this guide I spawned him 8 times in three short gameing sessions. Got the cloak on the 8th kill.
Most of these old world rares are on the same type of ph cycle structure. For example, Pyzjn in Qeynos Hills, this was posted by I believe Prathun (eq developer).
ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION Q2QVarsoonPyzjnMISCmob
MONSTER_1_NAME a_mangy_rat
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME Varsoon
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 3
MONSTER_2_NAME a_brown_bear
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_decaying_skeleton
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 5
MONSTER_3_NAME a_grizzly_bear
MONSTER_3_NIGHT_NAME a_restless_skeleton
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 15
MONSTER_4_NAME a_large_field_rat
MONSTER_4_NIGHT_NAME a_putrid_skeleton
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30
MONSTER_5_NAME a_fire_beetle
MONSTER_5_NIGHT_NAME Pyzjn
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 7
MONSTER_6_NAME a_gray_wolf
MONSTER_6_NIGHT_NAME a_skeleton
MONSTER_6_PERCENT 20
MONSTER_7_NAME a_giant_rat
MONSTER_7_NIGHT_NAME a_dread_corpse
MONSTER_7_PERCENT 20
So you can see with her, killing the skeletons give you a higher percentage chance of spawning her. So for Quillmane you just need to figure out which placeholders are in the ph table and it sounds like you got a list that works well.
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Thanks to all the info on this page I finally got the cloak for my friend. Took about 36 hours of camping but I finally narrowed down which placeholder I needed and after that point it only took about another hour of killing. In an hour I think I killed Quillmane 6 times. So, as previously mentioned, the hardest part is figuring out which stupid placeholder you need to focus on to spawn Quillmane.
The only relevant info I want to add to this page is that it seems like you can surmise if you're on the correct PH chain by finding the spawns before they take off and look at which direction they're facing. It seemed to be that the placeholders on Quillmane's chain were all facing NORTH when they spawned, and immediately began walking that direction after a minute or so of spawning.
So if you are checking on a chain and the spawns aren't facing north after a couple kills, I'd say it's safe to move on to the next one.
I tried many strategies, but finally just gave up on trying to kill certain types of monsters. I finally just stood on top of Paw, and waited for pathers to walk across it (usually of the lion or lionness variety). After killing a few of those, I very quickly found some respawns that were consistently facing north and Quillmane spawned very quickly. I think I killed four north facing placeholders before he popped. And then 6 of the next 20 or so spawns were Quillmane.
Glad to have this one out of the way. :)
The only relevant info I want to add to this page is that it seems like you can surmise if you're on the correct PH chain by finding the spawns before they take off and look at which direction they're facing. It seemed to be that the placeholders on Quillmane's chain were all facing NORTH when they spawned, and immediately began walking that direction after a minute or so of spawning.
So if you are checking on a chain and the spawns aren't facing north after a couple kills, I'd say it's safe to move on to the next one.
I tried many strategies, but finally just gave up on trying to kill certain types of monsters. I finally just stood on top of Paw, and waited for pathers to walk across it (usually of the lion or lionness variety). After killing a few of those, I very quickly found some respawns that were consistently facing north and Quillmane spawned very quickly. I think I killed four north facing placeholders before he popped. And then 6 of the next 20 or so spawns were Quillmane.
Glad to have this one out of the way. :)
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Start with:
1. A ranger with 200 tracking skill (make one yourself or make a friend) with the tracking set to normal
2. Someone high enough level to hang out at split paw and not get owned
Quillmane's place holder follows these rules:
1. Place holder will spawn south of split paw (I found some directly east but not many)
2. Place holder will eventualy pass by and through split paw
3. Has a 60ish second spawn timer (seen it pop at 60 and then at 66 and some at 68. Could be server latency that causes that difference)
4. The Place holder durring my time there was:
a Lion
a Lioness
an Elephant
Escaped Split Paw Knoll
Shadow Wolf
The rub:
1. Take the non-tracker and go to split paw. Murder everything there, gnolls, wanderers, does matter just kill it. (and make some profit too)
2. Draw lines between the aviak village to the hermit, then from the hermit to split paw and from split paw to the aviak village
3. Put the tracker in the middle of the triagle
4. Murder any of the above creatures that may cross your path (I was dual boxing at the time so I just killed stuff at split paw)
5. Wait for Quillmane to spawn
Once Quillmane has spawned:
1. Track him down (duh)
2. Once he is dead start your timing device and have your tracker run back to the middle of the triangle like before
3. In about 60 or so seconds something will pop, you now have Quillmane's PH
4. I am not sure how many place holders you had to kill before it would pop but it was at least 5 or more (because my mercs would be ready to go again)
Now I did notice while I was in South Karana that there were multiple an Elephants. I think the others are for other rare spawns.
Kill one and wait for something to pop at the 60 second mark and chase it down until something interesting spawns.Took about 8 kills to get the cloak.
If you are on the Vox server and need this beast killed, or if you want a demonstration so you can do it on your server look me up.
Nadias (Ranger)
Setesh (Mage and proud owner of his Epic)
1. A ranger with 200 tracking skill (make one yourself or make a friend) with the tracking set to normal
2. Someone high enough level to hang out at split paw and not get owned
Quillmane's place holder follows these rules:
1. Place holder will spawn south of split paw (I found some directly east but not many)
2. Place holder will eventualy pass by and through split paw
3. Has a 60ish second spawn timer (seen it pop at 60 and then at 66 and some at 68. Could be server latency that causes that difference)
4. The Place holder durring my time there was:
a Lion
a Lioness
an Elephant
Escaped Split Paw Knoll
Shadow Wolf
The rub:
1. Take the non-tracker and go to split paw. Murder everything there, gnolls, wanderers, does matter just kill it. (and make some profit too)
2. Draw lines between the aviak village to the hermit, then from the hermit to split paw and from split paw to the aviak village
3. Put the tracker in the middle of the triagle
4. Murder any of the above creatures that may cross your path (I was dual boxing at the time so I just killed stuff at split paw)
5. Wait for Quillmane to spawn
Once Quillmane has spawned:
1. Track him down (duh)
2. Once he is dead start your timing device and have your tracker run back to the middle of the triangle like before
3. In about 60 or so seconds something will pop, you now have Quillmane's PH
4. I am not sure how many place holders you had to kill before it would pop but it was at least 5 or more (because my mercs would be ready to go again)
Now I did notice while I was in South Karana that there were multiple an Elephants. I think the others are for other rare spawns.
Kill one and wait for something to pop at the 60 second mark and chase it down until something interesting spawns.Took about 8 kills to get the cloak.
If you are on the Vox server and need this beast killed, or if you want a demonstration so you can do it on your server look me up.
Nadias (Ranger)
Setesh (Mage and proud owner of his Epic)
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***WARNING*** This takes patience!
There are many guides to spawning Quillmane on the internet, most are elaborately detailed and require more than one player. However my method I just did spawned Quillmane three times (with one cloak drop). Most mobs in SK are on a short respawn timer (about 30 seconds). What I have found is that NAMED and their PHs are on longer timers (about 68 secs). What you will need is a little patience, a good tracker set to NORMAL track and a timer (I used the stopwatch app on my iPhone). I bowed down mobs and timed there respawn based on when a mob popped back up on my track window. Once I found a mob with a 68 sec respawn timer I continued to hunt and track these mobs. Sometimes you hunt this mob and you get a named, not necessarily Quillname, but Brother Qwinn, etc.... If you do get a named other than Quillmane leave them alive and start finding another mob on a 68 sec timer and hunt (this is the patience part). You will eventually spawn all named in the zone or you will eventually come across Quillmane. Once you find the magic flying donkey stay on him or his PH who is on the 68 sec timer. You can hunt and basically chain spawn Quillmane. Most of the PHs are lions, lioness, an elephant, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, less often "other mobs" (like centaurs, wolfs, etc). Keep to this method, it is tedious but you will get results. I tried for days killing the entire zone with ZERO results. I spent about 2 hours with the 68 sec method and it paid off! Good Luck!
There are many guides to spawning Quillmane on the internet, most are elaborately detailed and require more than one player. However my method I just did spawned Quillmane three times (with one cloak drop). Most mobs in SK are on a short respawn timer (about 30 seconds). What I have found is that NAMED and their PHs are on longer timers (about 68 secs). What you will need is a little patience, a good tracker set to NORMAL track and a timer (I used the stopwatch app on my iPhone). I bowed down mobs and timed there respawn based on when a mob popped back up on my track window. Once I found a mob with a 68 sec respawn timer I continued to hunt and track these mobs. Sometimes you hunt this mob and you get a named, not necessarily Quillname, but Brother Qwinn, etc.... If you do get a named other than Quillmane leave them alive and start finding another mob on a 68 sec timer and hunt (this is the patience part). You will eventually spawn all named in the zone or you will eventually come across Quillmane. Once you find the magic flying donkey stay on him or his PH who is on the 68 sec timer. You can hunt and basically chain spawn Quillmane. Most of the PHs are lions, lioness, an elephant, an escaped Splitpaw gnoll, less often "other mobs" (like centaurs, wolfs, etc). Keep to this method, it is tedious but you will get results. I tried for days killing the entire zone with ZERO results. I spent about 2 hours with the 68 sec method and it paid off! Good Luck!
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Ignore the lioness elephant caff lion post I ran out of all
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Ok it only posted part of my statement so here goes try 2. Ignore all the elephant caff lioness lion talk I focused on only these and spent a half hour with none of them up so just kill everything. Been doing that for 3 hours and no quillmane yet but when you run out off lions lionesses and caffs it becomes obvious that it is not the only set.
Scholar
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Trying to time this is going to drive you nuts, and you may spend HOURS just trying to find the right cycle since there are claims here of 66 second and 78 second cycles, and there are multiples of each cycle. Plus there are also 36 second cycles. On top of that, numerous mobs kill each other in SK. I caught "a werewolf" killing one of the elephants. Brother Qwinn kills gnolls. Gnolls kill wolves. I don't know what kills "a putrid skeleton"/Ghanex Drah, but something does. You're going to end up with weird respawns or respawns out of tracking range that will make timing this difficult. Even at 300 tracking, my ranger can't see the whole zone.
Dynamouse made a great post 7 years ago. Look for "an elephant." I have only seen two up at once at the same time. One is allegedly for Cracktusk, but the other is for Quillmane. Just mass kill anything listed on this page that could be a placeholder until you start finding "an elephant." Then pull and kill only the mobs on those cycles. You'll eventually get Quillmane or Cracktusk. It beats the heck out of trying to time various mobs that may or may not be part of the right cycle, and it is much faster!
Dynamouse made a great post 7 years ago. Look for "an elephant." I have only seen two up at once at the same time. One is allegedly for Cracktusk, but the other is for Quillmane. Just mass kill anything listed on this page that could be a placeholder until you start finding "an elephant." Then pull and kill only the mobs on those cycles. You'll eventually get Quillmane or Cracktusk. It beats the heck out of trying to time various mobs that may or may not be part of the right cycle, and it is much faster!
Scholar
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Killed him 5 times this morning. most ph's headed north after spawning and were in the south to southwest. A few were in the east, a couple over by the hermit hut that headed east for a short distance then turned north. I made a social for timing. /pause 560,/say start timer /pause 60,/say 60 secs /say 66 secs. For a total game time of 620. not sure if it is really 66 secs, my stop watch button sticks. but the social timing worked.
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One night late, Quill was up so I followed the mob around to all of its spawn points and mapped it along the way. With a travel line and the spawn points (6 total on the track), I would just run it and kill everything on the path. Boom there it goes spawning again. I know there are other spawn points as I've killed it in different spots. This worked well for me and I got the cloak for my alt Mage in 3 kills yesterday. Probably lucky and I've tried many other ways before for hours and hours. I'm just glad I got it and can move on to other fun stuff. This one was definitely the one that required the most patience LoL
Scholar
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Popped him twice in short order using Gypsyscholar's info below but mixing it with posts from another site since I was going solo with my ranger. the following steps were as a Ranger with 150+ track and an EMPTY ZONE (I had 194, but that actually made it tougher as I saw duplicate mobs in far away corners).
NOTE - Post is similar to SFF below, but that post teaches how to roll through if Quillmane is already UP, while this one helps put info together on how to get him to spawn if he is not up. Much of it is owed to others, but the previous posts seemed to leave me in a quandary on exactly how to start/pull this off. I need step by step myself instead of general ideas.
1) Start with tracking on normal to see the most recent spawn on top. Be certain you are only one in zone, or ask others not to kill (good luck on that).
2) Go up to Paw and kill 5-6 of the 'static' gnolls standing by the rock pillars (claws I guess). Wait until they respawn (roughly 4 minutes) to give yourself a solid 'northern base' to your 'most recent spawn list'.
3) Move just South of Paw, preferably on hill between Aviaks and Splitpaw and have a timing device ready.
4) Set track to /consider and turn update off. Find the single Elephant Calf that is higher level than the others and start tracking it but don't kill it yet. Turn your tracking back to 'normal'. The reason for this calf is that I saw it rumored to be different level and thus possibly a known trigger.
5) Kill the elephant calf and IMMEDIATELY start your timer.
6) Go back towards the hill until you see those gnolls as the 'most current' spawn on the top of your track list.
7) If next spawn is between 30-35 seconds, it is NOT the right PH Chain and likely belongs to another named. Remember the mob that spawned will now be above the gnolls so just disregard it for future pops. (this could be tough with <150 tracking, as a bard joined me later on /follow and he could not see the new mobs spawning due to range)
8) Going forward, continue steps 3-8, ONLY killing the 'elephant calf' spawns first and timing them. If you get a respawn at 63 seconds, you are on good PH cycle. If you run out of 'elephant calf' spawns, then start on 'a lioness' and repeating until they are all gone, then moving to lions. Eventually you will get a 63 second spawn.
9) Keep killing only the mob that spawns every 63 seconds until you get a named. If named is not Quillmane, then start back at three but remember not to kill anything higher on the list than those static gnolls you set as your marker, and go find the next calf, lioness, or lion on your list below those gnolls. If it is Quillmane then I recommend picking a static gnoll and pulling/killing it before you kill Quillmane (just so you have one Gnoll back at the top for the rest of the chain).
10) Kill Quillmane and start timer just like before. Loot and if no cloak, keep cycle going with that 63 second pop. You now know you are on the Quillmane chain so keep it rolling.
11) That gnoll you killed in step 9 will not be on the top of the list yet as it takes about 4 minutes to pop. Keep the 63 second cycle going. Once the gnoll pops back up you know the only mob appearing ahead of him will be you Quillmane chain and you can stop timing, though you should note the exception below on trick spawns after Quillmane kills.
This is longer than some because I was solo and it took me about 15 kills until the elephant calves were all depleted, then about 6 more for the lioness. On the last lioness I had my first 63 second pop. It was a lion. It also had a 63 second pop and I knew I was onto something as all others had been 35 up until that point. I killed a few more mobs on that 63 second pop chain and then Quillmane spawned. No cloak.
I noticed right away that a new mob had popped up instantly after the Quillmane kill and went to the top of the list. I killed it but it only had a 35 second pop afterwards. In the midst of that I noticed that another mob spawns about 10 seconds later. Realizing that I had been tricked with an insta-pop that others had mentioned as being possible if you killed Quillmane too quickly, I went back to that second mob that had popped (which was about 63 seconds from the Quillmane kill) and blammo, I was back on the 63 spawn cycle and spawned Quillmane again a dozen kills later. Same 'insta' spawn happened.
Be careful to watch for some new mobs being thrown into your timing after you kill Quillmane. That is why I suggest killing an extra Gnoll before killing Quillmane just so you know if multiple new mobs come up.
Hope this helps from a solo point of view. I had parked my mage near Paw and was easily able to logon and loot the cloak eventually. It took a few kills, but using the posts below by Gypsy and some stuff I found on Google about starting with 'an elephant calf' and 'a lioness' I was able to nail this down. I will likely try it again to make certain of the steps, but the key is finding the 63 second spawn cycle mobs and killing them and nothing else until you get a named. I might have been lucky to get on the Quillmane chain, or maybe he is the only one on that timer. I should also add the 35 second mobs that I only killed one time and left the chain alone actually got RenRex and the High Shaman to pop.
MOBS killed during the 63 second spawn cycle were the following types:
- an elephant (no bulls or adults)
- a shadow wolf
- a mist wolf
- an Escaped Splitpaw
- a lion
- a lioness
It could be that other mobs might be in the chain, but I killed for about 90 minutes to get three Quillmanes, which means I probably killed 60 or so mobs (63 seconds for spawn, plus tracking time, plus killing time). That's a decent size sample to get zero's, though it could be that others would be on the cycle. Lion, lioness and 'an elephant' were easily the top three.
Sadly, I tried to retest this only to have other come in the zone and start mass killing. Six hours later they were still looking for Quillmane and finally logged off. Took me less than 30 minutes using these steps. Then two more spawns in the next hour by killing in the same chain (minus a small deviation due to the aforementioned trick spawn of one extra mob when Quillmane died.
Sorry for the long-winded post and all props to those that have come before and gave so much good information. Good luck.
Sythos - Vox
Edited, Nov 3rd 2014 3:47am by SythRavenhawk
NOTE - Post is similar to SFF below, but that post teaches how to roll through if Quillmane is already UP, while this one helps put info together on how to get him to spawn if he is not up. Much of it is owed to others, but the previous posts seemed to leave me in a quandary on exactly how to start/pull this off. I need step by step myself instead of general ideas.
1) Start with tracking on normal to see the most recent spawn on top. Be certain you are only one in zone, or ask others not to kill (good luck on that).
2) Go up to Paw and kill 5-6 of the 'static' gnolls standing by the rock pillars (claws I guess). Wait until they respawn (roughly 4 minutes) to give yourself a solid 'northern base' to your 'most recent spawn list'.
3) Move just South of Paw, preferably on hill between Aviaks and Splitpaw and have a timing device ready.
4) Set track to /consider and turn update off. Find the single Elephant Calf that is higher level than the others and start tracking it but don't kill it yet. Turn your tracking back to 'normal'. The reason for this calf is that I saw it rumored to be different level and thus possibly a known trigger.
5) Kill the elephant calf and IMMEDIATELY start your timer.
6) Go back towards the hill until you see those gnolls as the 'most current' spawn on the top of your track list.
7) If next spawn is between 30-35 seconds, it is NOT the right PH Chain and likely belongs to another named. Remember the mob that spawned will now be above the gnolls so just disregard it for future pops. (this could be tough with <150 tracking, as a bard joined me later on /follow and he could not see the new mobs spawning due to range)
8) Going forward, continue steps 3-8, ONLY killing the 'elephant calf' spawns first and timing them. If you get a respawn at 63 seconds, you are on good PH cycle. If you run out of 'elephant calf' spawns, then start on 'a lioness' and repeating until they are all gone, then moving to lions. Eventually you will get a 63 second spawn.
9) Keep killing only the mob that spawns every 63 seconds until you get a named. If named is not Quillmane, then start back at three but remember not to kill anything higher on the list than those static gnolls you set as your marker, and go find the next calf, lioness, or lion on your list below those gnolls. If it is Quillmane then I recommend picking a static gnoll and pulling/killing it before you kill Quillmane (just so you have one Gnoll back at the top for the rest of the chain).
10) Kill Quillmane and start timer just like before. Loot and if no cloak, keep cycle going with that 63 second pop. You now know you are on the Quillmane chain so keep it rolling.
11) That gnoll you killed in step 9 will not be on the top of the list yet as it takes about 4 minutes to pop. Keep the 63 second cycle going. Once the gnoll pops back up you know the only mob appearing ahead of him will be you Quillmane chain and you can stop timing, though you should note the exception below on trick spawns after Quillmane kills.
This is longer than some because I was solo and it took me about 15 kills until the elephant calves were all depleted, then about 6 more for the lioness. On the last lioness I had my first 63 second pop. It was a lion. It also had a 63 second pop and I knew I was onto something as all others had been 35 up until that point. I killed a few more mobs on that 63 second pop chain and then Quillmane spawned. No cloak.
I noticed right away that a new mob had popped up instantly after the Quillmane kill and went to the top of the list. I killed it but it only had a 35 second pop afterwards. In the midst of that I noticed that another mob spawns about 10 seconds later. Realizing that I had been tricked with an insta-pop that others had mentioned as being possible if you killed Quillmane too quickly, I went back to that second mob that had popped (which was about 63 seconds from the Quillmane kill) and blammo, I was back on the 63 spawn cycle and spawned Quillmane again a dozen kills later. Same 'insta' spawn happened.
Be careful to watch for some new mobs being thrown into your timing after you kill Quillmane. That is why I suggest killing an extra Gnoll before killing Quillmane just so you know if multiple new mobs come up.
Hope this helps from a solo point of view. I had parked my mage near Paw and was easily able to logon and loot the cloak eventually. It took a few kills, but using the posts below by Gypsy and some stuff I found on Google about starting with 'an elephant calf' and 'a lioness' I was able to nail this down. I will likely try it again to make certain of the steps, but the key is finding the 63 second spawn cycle mobs and killing them and nothing else until you get a named. I might have been lucky to get on the Quillmane chain, or maybe he is the only one on that timer. I should also add the 35 second mobs that I only killed one time and left the chain alone actually got RenRex and the High Shaman to pop.
MOBS killed during the 63 second spawn cycle were the following types:
- an elephant (no bulls or adults)
- a shadow wolf
- a mist wolf
- an Escaped Splitpaw
- a lion
- a lioness
It could be that other mobs might be in the chain, but I killed for about 90 minutes to get three Quillmanes, which means I probably killed 60 or so mobs (63 seconds for spawn, plus tracking time, plus killing time). That's a decent size sample to get zero's, though it could be that others would be on the cycle. Lion, lioness and 'an elephant' were easily the top three.
Sadly, I tried to retest this only to have other come in the zone and start mass killing. Six hours later they were still looking for Quillmane and finally logged off. Took me less than 30 minutes using these steps. Then two more spawns in the next hour by killing in the same chain (minus a small deviation due to the aforementioned trick spawn of one extra mob when Quillmane died.
Sorry for the long-winded post and all props to those that have come before and gave so much good information. Good luck.
Sythos - Vox
Edited, Nov 3rd 2014 3:47am by SythRavenhawk
Took a few hours to finally get Quillmane to spawn. Dropped leggings first kill. Okay no worries. I have the spawn pattern down pat. I read plenty of posts and they were very informative and helpful. Go through at least 6 ph and it spawns again. I think okay cool. ill get it this time. No cloak again. To cut it short. I killed it 5 times so far and nothing but leggings. You will need a ton of patience. It is still spawning even though the patch for frostfell was put in so you won't need to worry about waiting till frostfell is over before you camp Quillmane. On the 6th Quillmane kill he dropped a cloak.
If you bring a tracker with you don't be discouraged if you see an aviak avocet, treant or cyclops on track in one of the ph sets. I had at least one of each of those spawn while camping Quillmane. The mobs in the set all spawned south of splitpaw. EDIT: On the 14th Quillmane kill i got the 2nd cloak i needed.
Edited, Dec 11th 2013 8:43pm by Rickymaru
If you bring a tracker with you don't be discouraged if you see an aviak avocet, treant or cyclops on track in one of the ph sets. I had at least one of each of those spawn while camping Quillmane. The mobs in the set all spawned south of splitpaw. EDIT: On the 14th Quillmane kill i got the 2nd cloak i needed.
Edited, Dec 11th 2013 8:43pm by Rickymaru
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Just wanted to share my experience camping this damn cloak and to confirm some of the points made by others:-
FYI it took me 25 kills of Quillmane before he dropped the cloak!
I can confirm that the tracking method detailed by others below does work, with the main points being:
- 66 second respawn time of placeholders
- Main placeholders are lions, lionesses, Escaped Splitpaw Gnolls, 'an elephant', a mist wolf, shadow wolf. Included much less frequently are random aviaks and centaurs.
- All placeholders spawn south of splitpaw in an east-west band across the zone.
- Pretty sure that all placeholders walk north first after an initial standstill for approx 30sec
- Don't even think about trying this without a tracker!
Hope that helps and hope you have better luck than my 25 attempts!
Edited, Sep 25th 2013 10:57am by ZinZap
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