Second Part of an Iceclad Map
Stormfeather TalonsOk, being that I have done this quest 3 times now, for a ranger, a rogue, and a warrior, I thought I would shed some light on it. Now I am in the sweet position of having two accounts, if you have two accounts then it's very simple. Play one camp w/ the other, however for those less fortunate, I'll share some info. Stormfeather is a random generated spawn, no timer on him, believe it or not it's a random deal. He tends to spawn more often when you kill his placeholder. I too thought he was on a timer but I was speaking to a GM about it and the GM said start killing his placeholder (someone KS'ed me). I don't think the GM MEANT to give it awa, but I noticed when SF wasn't up, there was a Snow Cougar in his spawn location. I had stormfeather back in 4 hours of killing his spawn. This is not proof, may have just been lucky, but it did prove that it isn't a timer. his PH will despawn after a while, which may be why others have thought it to be a timer. The spawn location is on the hill by the three gnomes sitting down (they appear to be gambling) near the docks. Hope this info has been helpful to all you questers out there!
Redsonya 56 warrior
Ladyarwen 56 cleric
Gweian 56 Ranger
Paanamon 65 rogue
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Cougars are completely irrelevent. I, too, have camped this guy many times for days on end, and seen him spawn several times (for others who were camping him first - I was there to get a timer - and once for my husband's SK). Kill all the cougars you want. It won't do a thing but get you a stack or two of low quality pelts and keep you from falling asleep to the sound of the waves.
19 hours respawn, and then after that I would say (from my experience having timed this spawn more times than I would like to remember) +10 to +21 hours.
Excuse me, but I ahve to go back to IC now...
19 hours respawn, and then after that I would say (from my experience having timed this spawn more times than I would like to remember) +10 to +21 hours.
Excuse me, but I ahve to go back to IC now...
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To respond to my own post, just killed SF. Spawn time was exactly 21 hours after server reset. Thus, my new claim is that SF is a 19+ hour spawn. :eek:
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is it entirely possible that, given the discusions here, stormfeather has a different method of spawning from one server to the next?
i mean everyone thats posted has been very adament in there stance of how when and why he pops.
/em hears Verrant laughing from beyond the grave
shadowraiser
i mean everyone thats posted has been very adament in there stance of how when and why he pops.
/em hears Verrant laughing from beyond the grave
shadowraiser
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Can someone give me the loc of stormfeather spawn plz? Or a rough loc =)
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Can someone give me the loc of stormfeather spawn plz? Or a rough loc =)
I camped storm for a total of 2 and a half hours before he poped,Lol I was reading about his spawn when I heard screams from my speakers and blahdow.There he was the magnificent *******.Got some pretty nice screens of my shoosting arrows att him too ; ). Well, im off to go get the other pieces,Good Luck to the rest of you who have to camp him. (oh and Xamai is very very happy)
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killed all cougars on island including midnight for 8 hours, 2 different days, 4 hours each and nada, had 64 druid with me tracking and all cougars were dead, didn't live longer than 2 minutes before slaughtered, still camping whenever on, wish me luck
Stabbinu
rogue
drinal
Edited, Mon Mar 1 14:33:38 2004
Stabbinu
rogue
drinal
Edited, Mon Mar 1 14:33:38 2004
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don't mind this one
Edited, Mon Mar 1 14:32:40 2004
Edited, Mon Mar 1 14:32:40 2004
Well it's the 3rd time I've had to do this god awful quest, tried using the spawn time to camp him but without knowing the last time he was up that's about impossible. So finally just bound at the spot a bit up the hill from the 3 gnomes where he roams after spawn and now finally 4 days later, after doing many many other things that camp him, he went down and my berserker has the 2nd map piece. Anyway grats to my monk, ranger, and finally berserker whom is most likely the last to revieve the eyepatch of my characters...
Gakarth (lvl 2 Berserker)
Gakarth (lvl 2 Berserker)
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Stormfeather down on Al'Kabor at about 12:30 pm 2/22/04...
My group let me have the map piece, many thanks to them. Then the ranger got the claws.
My group let me have the map piece, many thanks to them. Then the ranger got the claws.
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32 SK here...
I was wandering around Iceclad when I see stormfeather up... i think that this is my chance... and so get bound at dock incase i need to HT suicide it to death
well then I HTed it for 321 damage with took away only like 15%... so it has a lot of hp for its level. I feigned and death and and now getting my group to help me.
I was wandering around Iceclad when I see stormfeather up... i think that this is my chance... and so get bound at dock incase i need to HT suicide it to death
well then I HTed it for 321 damage with took away only like 15%... so it has a lot of hp for its level. I feigned and death and and now getting my group to help me.
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Camped him for three weeks, stopping by every few days and sticking around 4 to 8 hours without success. Today walked up the hill to take my normal camp spot and, POP - ooooh what joy!!!!!
I made him pay for making me sit there freezing my butt off for weeks, ooh yes I made him pay!!
Time of Stormfeather's demise on Druzzel Ro - 11:30AM CST.
Riss Ravengrin
Ranger of Tunare
Mystical Explorers
Good Luck to you all on the camp!!!
Edited, Fri Feb 20 12:46:32 2004
I made him pay for making me sit there freezing my butt off for weeks, ooh yes I made him pay!!
Time of Stormfeather's demise on Druzzel Ro - 11:30AM CST.
Riss Ravengrin
Ranger of Tunare
Mystical Explorers
Good Luck to you all on the camp!!!
Edited, Fri Feb 20 12:46:32 2004
Well, let confusion reign supreme. I have been trying the "kill all cougars" method. Up to 7 hours now and counting with no Stormfeather. (I do have a dozen cougar claw earings now) Since I can't camp the beasty for 24 hours at this point and I don't have a clue when he was last killed I guess the only recourse is to continue and pray for devine favor, no SOE bugs with the spawn rate, and meanwhile kill a few cougars.
Edited, Thu Feb 19 10:58:00 2004
Edited, Thu Feb 19 10:58:00 2004
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When i arrived the stormfeather camp today, it was already camped by three gnomes. I asked them if they let me join and have a fair chance for the map, but they just ignored me. Arrogant fools.
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Lol hope your not referring to the 3 gnome NPC's
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Who cares.....stop whining.I hate giving advice,take it or leave it is all.Say Im wrong who cares.I got this thing to pop for me 3 times.I got quillmane to pop for me by spire 3 to pop when I want him to.This guy is not on a timer,and hes not a 19 hours spawn.If you have the time,and(no job)capacity to sit there and DO nothing,fine.I have killed up to 300 cougars and i have killed up to 50 cougars(it may be more...so bring a sewing kit and bolster tradeskills)Im saying,the 3 cats under the tree mean something.for quillmane to spawn in karanas,i sit by spire 3 and kill everything that walks by....quillmane spawns in 20 mins.proven.this griifon is NO different.hes not set on a timer,otherwise he would pop every 15 mins or ever 20 hours...he is on a list in a computer database(maybe randomly)killing cougars bumps the list of other named to the front of the list.Maybe you did kill thousands,but fact is those 3 under the tree need to be dead for the event to happen.WHAT ARE THEY DOING UNDER THE TREE?????SMOKING??? My Advice is free,take or leave but dont be an ingrate and tell me Im wrong.Just sit there for 30+ or 50 + hours or petition guides that laugh at you and wont help.....WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT,WORD TO A **** IS NEVER HEARD
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I did ready your earlier post and tried exactly that. Not for 20 min but about 1 1/2. Also paying special attention to the 3 under the tree. Killed every cougar on radar. Killed midnight 2 or 3 times. Nothin. Wish i was on your server. I would love to be done with this...hehe
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Ok, I've been camping this guy since the servers came up and have heard every rumor and myth about his spawn time - i've heard 30 hours, 29-34, 18 with skips, 19 with skips, random 12-34 hours, "rare spawn on the cougar spawn cycle", etc.
Firstly, killing cougars does nothing. I AEed just about the whole zone several times over with my wizard, and that did nothing but burn some mana.
Second, all the 30, 29-34, etc "every time" numbers are wrong, simply because I just had him spawn exactly 19 hours after server came up. If it were a constant 29-34 hour spawn, this would be impossible.
The real spawn cycle (as confirmed by nearly a dozen consecutive spawns, and also mentioned earlier in this thread but buried in fluff) is 19 hours with a chance to skip BUT if it skips, it won't spawn 19 hours after the time it skipped, but 12 hours. Or, in other words, if more than 19 hours pass since the last spawn, wait another 12 (making a total of 31) and he *will* spawn. Thus far I have yet to have a case where this wasn't true.
I've been asking around to everyone I know that's camped it on my server (bertoxx), and thus far everyone I've asked has said he spawned for them exactly in this manner. There were a few times where someone said '29','30', '32, '33', or '34' but in every case thus far this has simply been a miscalculation/failure to take into account time zones and daylight savings times.
So.. every 19 OR 31 hours (not any time between) this guy pops, not taking into account server downtime and bugs, of course.
There's also the chance that this is just one pattern to his spawn cycle that happened to happen all these times in a row, but that seems unlikely.
Firstly, killing cougars does nothing. I AEed just about the whole zone several times over with my wizard, and that did nothing but burn some mana.
Second, all the 30, 29-34, etc "every time" numbers are wrong, simply because I just had him spawn exactly 19 hours after server came up. If it were a constant 29-34 hour spawn, this would be impossible.
The real spawn cycle (as confirmed by nearly a dozen consecutive spawns, and also mentioned earlier in this thread but buried in fluff) is 19 hours with a chance to skip BUT if it skips, it won't spawn 19 hours after the time it skipped, but 12 hours. Or, in other words, if more than 19 hours pass since the last spawn, wait another 12 (making a total of 31) and he *will* spawn. Thus far I have yet to have a case where this wasn't true.
I've been asking around to everyone I know that's camped it on my server (bertoxx), and thus far everyone I've asked has said he spawned for them exactly in this manner. There were a few times where someone said '29','30', '32, '33', or '34' but in every case thus far this has simply been a miscalculation/failure to take into account time zones and daylight savings times.
So.. every 19 OR 31 hours (not any time between) this guy pops, not taking into account server downtime and bugs, of course.
There's also the chance that this is just one pattern to his spawn cycle that happened to happen all these times in a row, but that seems unlikely.
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I wish this were true but I'm camped there now and I disagree. I began on a Saturday night at 8pm PST. Server was reset at 5am PST so basically all that time was wasted. So I started over and camped it. I have no left the camp and it has been 31 hours 30 min. BTW, I also tried killing the cougars (in desperation) and nothing either. Not sure what to do at this point
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Just an update. After 37 hours and a bug report, I decide to get a little sleep. Camped my toon at 1am and was back on a 4am to find about 15 corpses sitting there. (Note to self: Dont bind the same place your camped when your afk) Anyways, not that he has spawned, I am going to try that 19/12 hour rule and report back with my findings. Happy hunting
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Ok, he spawned for me yesterday at a time he had no business doing so under any theory I've seen so far about his spawn time. It was the first spawn since server up that wasn't on the 19/12 cycle.
The server booted me off and there was a system-wide 1017 error at the time so the corpse ended up rotting anyway, yippe. Petitioned and talked to a GM who told me that Stormfeather is bugged and shouldn't even be spawning, or maybe just spawning extremely irregularly.
Since it was SOE's sh*tty service that caused the corpse to rott, I'm trying to get them to do something about it but thus far have only gotten the "i'll relay this to a senior GM, he'll get back to you very soon" message, only to be promptly ignored for hours on end. Still haven't heard anything.
sigh.
The server booted me off and there was a system-wide 1017 error at the time so the corpse ended up rotting anyway, yippe. Petitioned and talked to a GM who told me that Stormfeather is bugged and shouldn't even be spawning, or maybe just spawning extremely irregularly.
Since it was SOE's sh*tty service that caused the corpse to rott, I'm trying to get them to do something about it but thus far have only gotten the "i'll relay this to a senior GM, he'll get back to you very soon" message, only to be promptly ignored for hours on end. Still haven't heard anything.
sigh.
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Now 36 hours since server reset. No spawn. Bugged? Maybe...will keep you posted
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Aye, apparently he CAN skip more than once in a row, as it seems he just did to me.
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I hate to say this but I think Kranuktheone is wrong, been here killing these cougars for over 8 hours and nothing but a lot of earrings and pelts. Had Midnight spawn a few times for me but that's it. Was hoping your post was right cuz I thought after weeks of camping this damn bird I woulda had him last night but nothing.
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kranuktheone is coreect, i spent over 50 hrs camping him, then i read this post, killed everything for like 20 mins and boom , stormfeather, for making me wait so long i gave him a beating like a red headed step child, love my eye patch :)
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Ok here's the deal,Like it or not he is not set on a timer.Don't Flame me,this is to help you,you don't like it...then sit it out for 40+ hours,FINE.In order to move the server,YOU MUST KEEP KILLING COUGARS!!!!Kill all of them,especially the 3 under the tree(why are they there in the first place?)I get the griffon to spawn in one hour,and I have done this quest for 3 toons.I have had no problems other than Lodi's spawn.I did griffon in 1 hour,did Lodi the next 3 thanks to Thunderknife and Truthe on the Rathe Server.Did Dire stalker on 3 Kill he popped for me,Total quest time.....6 hours,and a ton of cougar earrings.People will argue...hey,Just my 2 coppers,GOOD LUCK!!!
***Note: I made this same post on the quest info page for "The Lost Map", I thought it should be here as well.***
I finished this quest yesterday and can report a few things that might help.
Stormfeather spawned exactly 30 hours after he was last killed. And when I say exactly I mean right down to the minute and second of when he was last killed. This leads me to believe that he is not a 19hr, 28hr, 38hr, or random spawn mob. Simply put, he is a 30 hour camp.
He does not spawn up on the hill above the pirates playing dice. He actually spawns just a bit below them and about 20 feet north of them. I did a /loc of his exact location, but in the excitement I forgot to write it down. I will return and get that to post it here.
After he spawns he tracks up the hill.
Some I have talked to thought he had a cougar for a place holder, this is incorrect. He spawned where no other cougar spawned and his track did not match any of the cougars on the island.
While camping him for 30 hours Lodi was killed 3 times and his map piece was destroyed each time. I recommend doing the Stormfeather camp before bothering to get your Lodi piece because of this. You can just loot the lodi piece while waiting on Stormfeather. Make sure you send a tell to the Druid camping Lodi and ask to loot the piece before hand. They tend to destroy the map so a corpse is not left to give clues to when Lodi was last killed.
Hope this helps! Good Luck to you!
Zatxto Swiftrunner
Battledruid of Elusive Path
Quellious Server
I finished this quest yesterday and can report a few things that might help.
Stormfeather spawned exactly 30 hours after he was last killed. And when I say exactly I mean right down to the minute and second of when he was last killed. This leads me to believe that he is not a 19hr, 28hr, 38hr, or random spawn mob. Simply put, he is a 30 hour camp.
He does not spawn up on the hill above the pirates playing dice. He actually spawns just a bit below them and about 20 feet north of them. I did a /loc of his exact location, but in the excitement I forgot to write it down. I will return and get that to post it here.
After he spawns he tracks up the hill.
Some I have talked to thought he had a cougar for a place holder, this is incorrect. He spawned where no other cougar spawned and his track did not match any of the cougars on the island.
While camping him for 30 hours Lodi was killed 3 times and his map piece was destroyed each time. I recommend doing the Stormfeather camp before bothering to get your Lodi piece because of this. You can just loot the lodi piece while waiting on Stormfeather. Make sure you send a tell to the Druid camping Lodi and ask to loot the piece before hand. They tend to destroy the map so a corpse is not left to give clues to when Lodi was last killed.
Hope this helps! Good Luck to you!
Zatxto Swiftrunner
Battledruid of Elusive Path
Quellious Server
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Killed Stormfeather at 9:10am Atlantic time on 7th hammer today. Will be getting my Eyepatch later tonight. I'm happy...
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Anyone know when he wa last killed on the Rodcet Knife server?
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Can anyone give me a spawn location of Stormfeather? Or at least a place where I can sit a bot down in an attempt to log his spawn time by 'feeding' my bot to SF?
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DOES HE DROP THE MAP PIECE EVERYTIME CAUSE I WILL BE DAMED IF IM GONNA WASTE MY TIME WITH HIM ON VEESHAN IF HE DONT DROP IT EVERYTIME AND YES A WARRIOR CAN SOLO HIM IM LEVEL 64 AND I CAN SOLO HIM WITH NO DOUGHT.
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.. I never could have figured a warrior could have soloed a level 34-35 mob. :P
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YES HE DROPS THE MAP PIECE EVERY TIME BUT MY CAPS BUTTON IS STUCK AND I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO PUNCTUATE OR USE ANYTHING CLOSE TO RESEMBLING PROPER GRAMMAR HELP
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When looking down from the hill with the gnomes playing poker and the dock, he spawns just left of the tree were the gnomes are playing poker and then flys up to the top of the hill.
Edited, Fri Jan 2 06:51:23 2004
Edited, Fri Jan 2 06:51:23 2004
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where does he spawn?
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