Katcha  

Did the caller cycle recently with a guildie friend. Documented the camp. We got lucky with the drop. When I went back later to help some other guild bards, it took a lot longer. It was easy to get overrun with mobs and they have a nasty snare too. The old strategy of tagging aggro on the caller and running away, does NOT work anymore. We tested it. You have to do the caller cycle legitimate now. Video Link https://youtu.be/vaTauSmkpQ4

Edited, Feb 19th 2020 4:56pm by ibc93

Got my bard invis cloak last night on my second kill of Katcha. The key here is that the event will spawn mobs indefinitely, so long as Caller Murkin stays alive. And you can adjust the spawn rate and quantity by how many items of what type you give Caller Murkin at the beginning. Kegs are the fastest spawn rate. For a 71 Bard in defiant gear with a tank merc, I could keep up with the spawns generated by giving Murkin 2 kegs. With a 71 Bard, 71 Mage, Cleric Merc and Tank merc, I could keep up with the max possible rate, by giving Murkin 4 kegs.

You turn in the kegs to Murkin at his spawn point, then follow him until he stops in the north tunnel. Stand on top of Murkin and wait for the mobs. The tank merc is able to keep agro on all the mobs if you set him to main tank role, set yourself to main assist, and have puller off. For this technique, you make sure not to agro Murkin by hitting him with melee or AE's. Murkin will fight with you, but his help is not needed. Stand by Murkin so your tank merc keeps returning to that spot to grab agro on mobs that might agro on Murkin and kill him, which would stop the event.

Took about 2 hours at this camp to get my cloak, but would have been faster if I started with 4 kegs and 2 chars + 2 mercs. Katcha seems to be a random uncommon named spawn in the waves of mobs. Good luck on your cloaks, fellow bards!

The quest of which this mob is a part is called Summoning Biesties

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=1570

Also drops https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=8079

Using Caller Murkin, turn in 2 Huge Kegs of Blargot, for fast spawnrate (2min). 2x Caller Murkin spawns will repop (he will later become a single spawn again, but summon twice the number of mobs). Follow Murkin to the call area. He will depop/repop again in the far North tunnel. After repop, agro him-- he is now perma-rooted. Make sure you let him depop/repop at his call point. Agroing before he is perma-rooted will cause him to chase you down :)

Agroing him will stop him from attacking the fungoids. They wont agro him unless he attacks them first. Long as he has you on his hate list, he wont attack, unless you wander too far (ie: going back to the cave-town). Stay invis, and let the calling begin. Expect 4 mobs or so per wave. Every 5 "calls", he will take a break for 4-5 minutes, then resume.

Read a book, surf the web, whatever. Re-check the spawns every 10 minutes or so. Kill Katcha when he pops. Doesn't seem to be incredibly rare drop. Waiting for him to spawn can take some patience though (took me ~1.5hrs per Katcha spawn).

**I killed Katcha by rooting him at camp, then training the others to the cave town. I ensured to agro every single Caveman i was able to. After train was dead, Caller Murkin was already owned, as i ran out of Agro range, and he attacked some of the fungoids. Katcha stays up, along with a few friends. Beat them all down ftw.

the cloak gives SoS invis much different than regular invis

spawns in beasties quest just dropped ranged item for brd roge right click invis vs animals for 2 mins i believe or regular invis i forget witch

Is there a ph for him? If so who and where.. If not how do you get him to spawn?

killed him about 10 times now with no cloak, beginning to wonder if it still drops.. however, as a 65 bard, this is very easy, I just melee them in the face.. use bellow or mez if they try to gate.. works fine~

-ratticand

The Events and the mobs in it are completely soloable by a bard. 100%. Ervaj's Lost Composition for the caster named. (Always have PoV up)

For the rest of the mobs, you wont even have to fight em

Seems to be the most common named mob spawn. Currently 3/3 for Tiny Cloak. It Complete Heals, buffs, gates, nukes, etc. Very nasty mob, a ton of hp.

where does he spawn? how hard does he hit? does he summon? does he cast? slowable? how are ressist? what is respawn? how is agro when pull? why is evryone ******** or talking about cloak, if this mob is easy as he look, then this cloak is the bomb since it's ammo slot.. any info on the mob would be usefull, 58 bard want to know my chance to solo this thing

killed this one the other morning... dropped the Tiny Cloak of Darkest Night and of course I can't use it.. I would love to use this to get in and out of places I am KOS...

Well, it rotted away... so I killed more.. but didn't see another drop all morning.

One thing about hunting in Stormhammer.. I have complete ownership of this zone.. spent 3 hours here.. all alone.. me and my shammy..

Cloak is now Bard, Rogue only. All races. Has a 1.0 second cast time on the item description and is self-only. This named is part of the caller quest in FG where you get waves and waves of mobs. 2 group doable for 50 to 55 level range. 1 group doable for the high end if very good. May have some deaths till you get the hang of the quests and whats going to happen.

Hello Norrathians, Just curious to all of you that have killed this dude as to how hard he is. I really want this thing(Cloak), being a rogue and all lol. Me and some friends were thinking about fetching one fer me, ya think a 52paladin, 49shaman, 40 rogue, 40 ranger, and a 40-some-odd cleric(Not sure whut lvl she is atm havntbeen on fer a while) could take this MOB? Plz reply if ya got anything that might be helpful.