Eldrig the Old  

Thanks to all the others that posted some tips. I decided to try to narrow down some of the details, so I focused on Btil's known pathing points and noted them on my map. I parked myself at the NW location of +5260 / +1645 for over an hour and did not see a single mob path by or even near. At most there were 5-6 mobs on tracking, too far away to path nearby.

So, I scrapped that idea and just went to the other two locations mentioned (+1290 / +355, +816 / +171) and drew a small triangle there on my map. Basically, this is the NE "corner" of the giant lava lake in the center of the zone. I killed anything/everything there while I had a druid parked at both of the known spawn points. Killing at this location got the PH to pop at the southern spawn point (+570 / -4020) closest to the OT zone line.

I then started to kill the PHs and stayed there, while watching the other spawn spot. Nothing ever spawned there (I continued to kill anything around the NE lake area just in case). After 3 PHs (a wurm, a mature wyvern, and a bottomless feeder), Eldrig spawned. I followed him for a bit to see his path, but ended up getting aggro and killing him. He made a direct path towards OT, eventually getting fairly high on the wall. He dropped the guts as expected.

Additional info:

I decided to map out the southern spawn's path. I noted some points where they stop and change direction, each time pausing for about 45-60 seconds. Unfortunately at one point I crossed paths with another mature wurm (my PH) so I think I lost track, but up to that point, here's what I can confirm:

@ +570, -4020 PH spawns and turns toward OT zone. Makes an almost straight line and halts at bottom of OT ramp
@ OT ramp, he turns west and makes a straight line to an interesting coordinate
@ 0, +2245 he stops for about 45 seconds before turning NE
@ +730, +250 he seems to cross this point twice - once going NE coming out of the lava lake, and then returning to it a few minutes later after making a triangle path through the aforementioned points from Btil ( +1290 / +355, +816 / +171 roughly)

It's after this that I lost track while taking notes. It took about 15 minutes for him to get from his starting point, to NE corner of the lava lake, where I had been killing earlier.

So, between the known killing areas south and NE of the big lava lake, the two known spawns path through each area respectively but not likely through each others. While the southern guy did enter the lake at the south shore, he didn't go beyond it (entered the lake around -311, +524). It may also make sense just to stand at 0, +2245 and wait for something to pause there.

Good Luck!


Edited, Aug 30th 2019 1:03pm by SubEffect

For anyone wondering if Eldrig can spawn in a dz, I can confirm that yes he can. I got him today on Agnarr after a few weeks of pulling dzs. He spawned at the northern most spawn point of the two listed below. For anyone who wants to get him this way, spam “ready” at the AoC so you can get in the second the dz is available. Eldrig or his ph will idle at the two spawn points for only about 30 seconds before they wander off. If you have patience to pull dzs every three days and not do the needle in a haystack ow hunt, I recommend this method.

All the information is great here. I got him at the 550 -4000 spawn location

I highsun songed mobs until the ph popped there. I found the PH just south of the giant lava lake in middle of zone, just west of the lava river that comes out of the south side of the lava lake.

PHs:
a wyvern
a mature wurm
a wyvern
a mature wurm
a skyash drake
a wyvern
a wyvern
a wyvern
a chromodrac
Eldrig The Old

55 necro helped me 59 bard kill him, it was kind of rough barely victorious. I suggest a shaman and necro for safety in killing him.

Here is my experience of the past few days.

First off, I parked a character at both the spawn locations listed above. I had my ranger kill every skyash drake he could find. - Nothing ever repopped.
Next, I tried killing everything in the area just west of the spawns - Nothing.

Today, I did the trick of using Highsun with my bard. - After Highsun'ing probably 30-40 mobs, I got one to warp back to its spawn location around 587, -4008. It was a skycinder drake.

Every 10-11 minutes, another one would pop at this location. Here is the mob list I went through.
a skycinder drake (the one I warped back)
a wyvern
a bottomless gnawer
a skycinder drake
a mature wurm
a skycinder drake
a mature wurm
a chromodrac
a mature wurm
a wurm
a chromodrac
Eldrig the Old (only dropped the guts for me)

So, the placeholder could be pretty much any mob in the zone. It's all a matter of luck to find the right one.




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I parked some box characters at loc +570, -4020 (north of the OT ramp), then went around with another character mass-killing mobs primarily in the Eastern and Southern part of the zone until "a chromadrac" popped at the camp. You can also do the Highsun (Bard song that force-Gates a mob) method, but due to its low range, and particular my Bard's low Wind skill, it was easier for me to run around sniping mobs with my high-level Ranger instead. I dare say the latter method is really the easiest. Almost all mobs in Skyfire are KoS and will attack even a level 100 character, so your characters at the camp will get aggro. Just remove all damage shields so you don't accidentially kill and poof the corpse while you're running around sniping.

For statistical purposes, I stayed there for a while, here is the data:

PH respawn time: 10 min 40 secs
Total mobs: 68
Total Eldrig spawns: 5
The Gut is a 100% drop rate

So like many other Bards before me, I decided to finally try and get my 1.0 epic, because I wanna own one for collection.

One thing to note, this can be pretty frustrating to do solo, so my advice is either do with a box or a friend. What you want to do is have the box/friend to camp right at the bottom ramp of the OT zone tunnel, while the bard go around with Song of Highsun memmed. Initially I was running around like a headless chicken randomly Highsunning mobs. Just when I was about to give up, one of the posters here below mentioned something about pathing (thank you, you saved my life).

So I did abit more searching around and figured out a way to do it. I had the bard camp around loc -500, -1900. What I did was basically just Highsunning everything that came along close to this spot, because word has it that this spot is part of the path of Eldrig/PH. Your friend/box basically just needs to keep a close eye on anything that jumps on him/her. Because nothing passes by that OT ramp spot except for Eldrig/PH. However when you encounter the mob there, don't kill it right away.

Instead, have your Bard quickly load Selo's and run back to the OT ramp and then, open your Tracking skill and get the mob in your tracks. Once done, use Highsun on it and follow it back to its spawn point via track. When you run into it, keep repeating Highsun until you can physically see it spawning at its spawn point. Then take down the mob and voila, you're on your way to camping Eldrig for the rest of the day. I believe the previous posters have mentioned that there's two possible spawn points, but just getting one of the PH should suffice.

Anyway, here's a picture of Eldrig spawning at one of the confirmed spawn points:

Eldrig the Old Spawn Points

Enjoy camping!

Edited, Jun 26th 2016 5:26pm by feralist87

Previous posters really had this down. Set a char at the +1770, -3850 spawn point, and wander around the rest of the zone killing or Highsun'ing everything you come across. As soon as you see a mob at that spawn point, kill it and then sit back and roast marshmallows. I got very lucky, Eldrig spawned on the next pop at that spot after I dropped the PH. Good luck.

Ok for about a week I tried to spawn this place holder. I killed everything in the graveyard, by the volcano where Talondor spawns at the volcano. Spawned him by accident and quickly learned about him.Did get him to 21% health though with my group but his fear created alot of adds that ended us.

Killed everything by the spires south of the Overthere zone. Killed the whole eastern map.

Finally in the trench that runs to the north along the eastern wall from the Overthere zone all the way north to where the trench ends and a bunch of random tall rocks begin, I found his placeholder. There was a wurm in that area and I knew I had not seen any other mobs in the eastern trench area in the past. They were all much further west. No mobs ever walk that trench.So I killed him and began to camp/track within that area.

Go to loc 1893, -3592 and head a (2-3 seconds) selo paces north of that and face south.His place holder should spawn in front of you. I counted an 11 minute spawn cycle. If nothing spawns there then you have to kill the placeholder somewhere in the zone as the guide mentions. The placeholder could be some kind of drake, a chomodrake, or a wyvern, or wurm from what I saw spawn. Didnt think it was correct because it was further north than most guides say and the spawn cycle was shorter than 13 seconds (11 seconds), but most guides are outdated and I stuck with it. Within an hour of camping and killing placeholders Eldrig spawned. I noticed the placeholders just sit there for awhile after they spawn. I didnt wait for them to start roaming but attacked after a few seconds of spawning

When I first started camping a 63 Bard came whizzing by me and I asked if she was looking for Eldrig. She answered in the affirmative and I told her I found the placeholder and I would hold the spot for her after I got Eldrig. About an hour later I looted and showed her the spot and direction to face. About an hour later she was thinking about logging on to an alt but Eldrig popped and she got him also.

Zastava 53 Bard The Rathe - Prexus

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Parked 2 toons with tank mercs at the 2 spots.

Ran the bard over to the graveyard (dragon skeleton) and high sunned every mob from there to the wiz portal. Any mob that remained on my agro list was tracked and killed. Eventually I high sunned the correct 2 mobs to the spawn points where my toons killed. While the bard was killing everything from Veeshans peak to the wiz portal, he spawned after only 2 ph's at the 560, -3840 location. After looting it and moving the bard to Burning Woods he popped in the other location after 3 ph's.

Location 1770, -3850, -167 , which is the north of the 2 is where I got him to spawn. It seems from the info here, that he can spawn in either spot. The trick is to camp something on each spot, until you finally kill the one that respawns on your spot. I had a chromadrac spawn on first respawn, and I waited until respawn to note what spawned, and it was .. a mature wurm. Once you have at least one spot, you can just kill that spot. The spawn after the initial respawn was Eldrig for me, but it did take me an hour and half to bard track the area and pull. Im thinking that the spawn doesn't path all around the zone possibly, but stays relatively on east/northeast side of zone.

Edited, Jun 16th 2014 2:01pm by Kylwen

Let me start by saying this is my 2nd Bard epic. The first time was so long ago, 8 or more years ago so I don’t remember much about it. When I came back to EQ after many years gone I found my character was hopelessly outdated so I re-rolled on Vox. However this meant needing to do my Bard epic again. So I came back to this page to see what I could learn about Eldrig, and found that there is nothing really known except the 2 potential spawn locations.

On Friday night I was passing through Burning Woods and saw Nezzy on track, I wacked her and got the guts. So I decided now was the time to get Eldrig. I parked my War bot at the North Spawn point and began Highsunning mobs. 20 minutes later a drake popped at the North Spawn point and I killed it with War bot.

This is where the first difference occurred, the respawn was 10:45 not 13 minutes. I don’t know if all spawns have been shortened or this is just on Vox. I sat through 2 hours of respawns with no Eldrig.
Day 2, took me 1 ½ hours to get the PH and 3 more hours of no Eldrig.
Day 3, 3 hours and no PH. So I moved to the Southern Spawn point and 1 hour later I had it. After 3 spawns I had Eldrig.
During my time in Skyfire I noticed that the mobs would frequently stop for 30 seconds or so and then move off, sometimes there would be a stack of 3 or 4 mobs on those spots.

Being a programmer and Systems Analyst I was curious about the Eldrig PH and whether it had any pattern to its movements. So after killing Eldrig I waited for the next PH (a drake) and followed it for 85 minutes. This is what I learned.

When the PH left the spawn point it traveled south to the Overthere ramp. It turned West passing just north of the rock at the bottom of the ramp. It went west for a bit, stopped for 30 seconds and then moved off on pretty much the same line. Eventually it reached a point SW of the big Lava Lake and stopped for 30ish seconds. Then it went SE. I plotted all of the movement s of this PH for 80 minutes, at which time he was tracking across the middle of the lava lake so I killed him and waited for the next PH. This one, a wurm, followed the exact same path south to the Overthere ramp and then West to point 1, from here it went a different route to the NW.

Here is the map of its movements
The odd squiggles on the map tracks are because the mob tracked through one of those peaks and I had to run around it. The track from 9 to 10 is a straight line through the Lava Lake, I had to run around the outside until it emerged.

Here’s my hypothesis;

1. The zone is full of “Intersection Points” that the mobs randomly travel between.
2. When a mob reaches its target “Intersection Point” it will stop for 30ish seconds then pick a new IP and travels in a straight line to that next IP.
3. The Eldrig PH from the Southern Spawn point has a fixed track till it reaches point 1 (takes about 10 minutes to cover this distance), then it is random.
4. The Eldrig PH can be any type of mob, so concentrating on “just chromodracs” is not a good idea.
5. It appears the Eldrig PH could be anywhere in the zone (sorry), but he did cross the area south of the lava lake 5 times in 85 minutes, so it might be a good place to concentrate your efforts.

I assume that this basic information is good for the Northern Spawn point, since it would be crazy for a lazy programmer to code 2 different mob techniques in the zone, but I can't confirm, except that the initial track from there is NW.

A possible technique for those who aren't able to kill every mob in the zone...

• Pop a familiar at the start.
• Kill the next oldest mob to your familiar (check tracking), this way you won't keep killing respawned mobs.

Good Luck!

Edited, Mar 25th 2019 7:42pm by Gidono

Here is what I did. I logged in my druid and parked her at one spawn location, and my mage at the other. I then took my ranger and started tracking mature and regular chromadrac. Within half hour my mage was being hit on by a wurm. I switched to druid and a Wyvern was right by her so I tagged it. Voila I had both Ph's down. I can't believe it I was there last night just running around and thought I be smarter about it and this worked out great. Within half hour Eldrig spawned at the druid location. The spawn itself was weird cause a sky ash drake was on track and then disappeared and Eldrig was there instead. It can be done guys. This was the last piece I needed for my baby bard. Now off to get her some levels so she can start the quest. Good Luck!