An Undead Bard  

I made the mistake of thinking, this guy no longer spawns. When he did I assumed it was bug. With that being said. I killed track twice. No strings. I than waited the amount of time 10? hours. Undead bard popped handed him the epic peace. He gave it back and attack me. After killing him Track pop. Was banished twice but was able to kill him with no issue. PRO TIP make sure your not in Dark Elf form when finishing up the the 1.0 epic. You will be KOS lol

*** Progression Servers ***

- Essence of Sunlight now drops from the appropriate NPCs when Velious unlocks.
- The Improved Invisibility spell is researchable in Velious and later. Everlasting Breath, Yaulp V, and Circle of Seasons are researchable in Luclin and later.
- It is now possible to bind affinity to the Plane of Mischief until it converts to the revamped version.
- The Great Divide instance for the Ring War is now available on Phinigel.
- Made changes to cultural tradeskills to allow most of the cultural available in Velious to be made in Velious on progression servers. Note: The troll made weapons were not available until Luclin and will continue to be locked until then.
- It should now be possible to spawn Dain Frostreaver IV by handing Chamberlain Krystorf your Runed Coldain Prayer Shawl.
- Trakanon will now drop Undead Dragongut Strings. The Undead Bard will no longer spawn.
- Bosses in the Plane of Fear 2.0 instance will now correctly get Mitigation of the Mighty III instead of Mitigation of the Mighty I.

-2080, -700, -140.19

I am still farming trakanon using the epic hand in for bards to spawn him. spawned trak drops 1 bp and the epic piece. I did hand in and killed undead bard / trak at 2:09 pm and found undead bard up again the next morning at 10:07 am. that's just under 20 hours apart. Once I had this info, I scrolled through all the posts and found one by bigalaska on march 26,2002 which already explains this.

EDIT : Just found it up 18 hours 5 mins after last kill

Edit again : Just found it up 14 hours 21 minutes after last kill. that was stunning. I was going to check on real trak and was completely surprised seeing this guy up again.
[Fri Dec 13 05:52:52 2013] An Undead Bard was hit by non-melee for 45 points of damage.
[Fri Dec 13 22:13:49 2013] An Undead Bard has been slain by Rgarol!

Edit: I see my math was terrible. 16 hours 21 mins last year. but this year I got 16 hours 18 minutes.

Edited, Nov 1st 2013 12:59pm by Shuraz

Edited, Dec 13th 2013 10:24pm by Shuraz

Edited, Dec 30th 2014 5:28am by Shuraz

I've spent a lot of time in Trak's lair killing all the jugs and reets that surround it so I've seen the bard come and go numerous times.

Times that I've noted:

I've killed real-Trak and logged into the bard being up 12 hours later.

I've seen the bard-Trak die and the bard spawn again within 6 hours.

I've logged in 30min-1hour after server reset and the bard was up.


My guess just by information is that his spawn is 6-18 hours random after death and most likely spawns on server up.

Edited, Jun 19th 2009 12:02pm by MoonPirate

Was in OS today with my druid looking for Trakanon. He wasn't up. An Undead Bard was, however, and I was selling him some of my loots off the juggs. Suddenly, he depopped in the middle of my transaction and Trak popped right on me and almost immediately banished me. Cleared the mushroom guys from that room and ran back invised. To make a long story short, he banished me 3 times before I could get summoned back and ironically, I had run all the way back almost to him when he finally summoned. Lost agro every time except the last one and then swiftly nuked him to his death. Never seen Trak, bard, or much of this zone before... wasn't around when this content was current. Just bored and thought I'd wander in. Not sure if this info is relevant, important, or whatever, but thought I'd share nonetheless.

So there have been several patches the last week.

Phinny's fishes are back in place(his gaurds so you aggro them)

So spawned undead bard/trak.

No one else was engaged, he banished me, but did he summon me back .... NO... he came after like 20minutes and had 1000 friends, it was impossible for me to kill them all and his so ended up dieing, and now another 20 hour+ wait.

He banished 1 time... did not summon back wtf is up with that? Not one time..

Finally got around to killing UDB/Trak for my brother's epic. Some hints for the kill for anyone thinking about doing this: make sure you have a mage for the tank group (MA/SA in same group), and bring dps with you. He's an insanely easy kill with 15 people, I don't think he lasted 30 seconds. It's quite probable he can be done with a single group of 65's with the right mix (and for sure he could be done by a group of sk's with HT or a mix of SK's and wizzies).

From the amount he dropped from my HT, I suspect Trak has 32khp. His damage output, however, isn't much except for his DoT, which doesn't really matter in a fight like this.

This guy is easy to kill after you hand in the Mystical Lute Body, but the Trakanon spawned is just as tough to kill as the regular spawn. 24-30 is recommended with high PR for 1200DD AE (poison based) and MR for the AE blind (deadly when it lands on the healers)