As stated in an earlier comment from 2015 regarding the Ragefire server, the spawn timer on Oakwynd is within a window of 150-170 minutes. I found the best time to kill the placeholder in order to get the live version of Grimrot to spawn was around 2 AM. This would guarantee the next two spawns would be during the day, and sometimes even a third. I never saw live Grimrot spawn after 5 PM or before 6 AM.
I saw four undead Grimrots in 2 and a half days of straight camping him to two live Grimrots. I think I may have just gotten lucky on the undead rather than unlucky on the live. It is a very long and difficult camp.
One note on the necessary faction - my cleric did not get all of the faction hits for killing the undead Grimrots because I needed to use my shadow knight to keep people from stealing the camp. As I found out, ally faction is required with Priests of Life to do the turn-in, and as a dark elf cleric I started at apprehensive.
To remedy this, I started handling in two gold at a time to Lashun Novashine, but it was taking forever at just 1 faction hit per turn in. A friend then advised me that you can simply start a level 1 Karana-worshiping wizard, kill "a koalindl" in the Pool of Jahnda (underneath the UFO), then allow your cleric to loot the Koalindl Fish and turn them in to Enic Ruklin for +100 Priests of Life faction each. This speeds up the process considerably.
Here are the responses I got from Camlend Serbold at each faction level:
Apprehensive:
[Thu Jul 13 18:25:21 2023] You say, 'defend life'
[Thu Jul 13 18:25:22 2023] Camlend Serbold says, 'Your mere presence disgusts me. Please remove yourself from my sight. Until you change yourself and your ways, you are unwelcome in the Temple of Life.'
Indifferent through Warmly:
[Thu Jul 13 18:48:45 2023] You say, 'defend life'
[Thu Jul 13 18:48:45 2023] Camlend Serbold says, 'The Temple of Life smiles upon you, friend... but such a delicate matter can only be entrusted to our most loyal members.'
Ally:
[Fri Jul 14 01:08:56 2023] You say, 'defend life'
[Fri Jul 14 01:08:56 2023] Camlend Serbold says, 'Then go to the Plains of Karana. Somewhere there, Lord Grimrot is hatching his little plan for the Bloodsabers. Bring me his evil scythe and his heart. It is said that upon his death, his soul will be absorbed into this weapon of darkness. Do this and be rewarded.'
Edited, Jul 17th 2023 8:54pm by Venril