- 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.
I can confirm he still spawns on live servers and, being a merchant, the corpse poofs immediately when killed.
Interesting, I spent a couple days checking on Live off and on and sure enough he IS currently up and alive. It's odd that I presume they only changed this mechanic on TLP servers but there you go. I guess this means he will never spawn on a TLP server but maybe some Agnarr people will check in when that server reaches Kunark and tell me I'm wrong about that too.
An Undead Bard says 'I feel so powerful once again...a strange feeling is overcoming me!' [Fri Jul 24 16:49:30 2015] You gain party experience!! . [Fri Jul 24 16:49:43 2015] You have slain Trakanon!
camped. came back next day An Undead Bard says 'I feel so powerful once again...a strange feeling is overcoming me!' [Sat Jul 25 04:43:13 2015] You gain party experience!! [Sat Jul 25 04:43:26 2015] You have slain Trakanon!
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.
I got together a red dragon scale and a white dragon scale and some metal bits, got the lute body and I am hading that in over and over ( the same one - you get it back) every time I see undead bard up. And I am using my wizard to do it. I spawn trak that way and get another shot at a bp. I have done that 11 times in the same 7 weeks. I got bard, druid and paladin bp's most often. The undead bard has spawned within 2 hours of killing trakanon for me once. Also had undead bard spawn 22 hours after doing epic turn in previously.
anyone have repop timer on this guy if he isnt up from someone kiling him or how long it takes for him to pop if trak kills him. im after the bard epic trak and would be nice to have some repop timers incase i have to deal with a few rounds of this guy/trak to get my spawned verson.
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.
This is actually awesome for anyone that is unlucky when camping reet crowns =) It took me about 3 hours to get one, so I sold a lot of my junk to this guy.
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..
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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.
When a group i was in killed this guy we got a faction message: your faction with Beta Neutral cannot get any worse! .... donnae know if this was a bug or what ... just 2cp
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)
Forgot to mention that the UDB is on a 20 hour spawn and is KOS to the real Trakanon. This means when Trak is up UDB chain dies until he's taken down giving the UDB time to spawn unharmed. Plain english: After regular Trak dies it will pop between then and 20 hours later. I recommend raiding the day after Trakanon is taken down. Easy trick is to leave a corpse in the lair from the previous raid. When anywhere in zone you can target youself, cast locate corpse, then use bind sight to keep a watchful eye on the spawn.
bind sight has no distance restriction, never has. please dont try to offer advice on things yu are not certain of. i have used this spell to bounce arounds zones from mob to mob; and used on corpse finding mission, (locate corpse, bind sight--then lok around)
I know the last post was a few months ago, but because of the rudeness of the post, I feel it needs a correction. There has been a distance restriction on Bind Sight in the past. When I began playing EQ in '99 all was peachy and I could bounce Bind Sight all over the place. Then after a patch (which I think included a message about it) I was able to go only so far and though I wouldn't return to my own sight, I could no further. This has since been return to it's normal lack of limits, or so I've been told. So... please don't give advice on things yu[sid] are not certain about.
I dont know about other classes bind sight spells, but the bind sight song for bards has a limitless range...so it would work from the zone-in to trak's lair just fine.
Umm why do all that? Just level a Ranger alt high enough to be escorted near Trak's room in range to Track Trak and in a safe spot then logg him..Pop in from time to time and check him out..
Anyone know where I can find more information on the spawned Trakanon? I'd like to go in prepared when I'm ready to fight him. Any information at all would be appreciated.
Brynnyk Brynn Chief Bard of A Higher Calling Luclin
Is the spawned Trak the same lvl as the "real" Trak? I have heard this Trak is not the same lvl and that 2 groups could do this part for the Bard epic. Any info would be appreciated.