an old gargoyle  

I am suspecting he is a rare that can spawn in place of any a_destroyed_gargoyle. I did find him in spot 1 and 3 so far on top of enterance to Slabs camp.

He had bag in hand but did not drop Nec 1.5 item. Both kills were no drop pants. LDoN era on Yelinak TLP... Got book on third kill.


https://i.imgur.com/KsYshc5.png

Edited, Apr 17th 2023 12:11pm by Nougat

Paste these into your hole_1 map
P -459.6118, -5.0014, -349.8728, 240, 0, 0, 3, Gargoyles
P -110.3985, -208.4740, -349.8728, 240, 0, 0, 3, Gargoyles
P 28.7823, -123.0701, -347.8728, 240, 0, 0, 3, Gargoyles
P 43.1632, 53.1260, -348.8728, 240, 0, 0, 3, Gargoyles
P -270.7708, -39.8165, -307.8728, 240, 0, 0, 3, Gargoyles

These spots all have potential spawn locations of the Old Gargoyle to my knowledge. Go to the /loc, and look up, they're all on the rooftops, there's at least two in each spot.

Happy hunting!

Edited, Jul 8th 2021 5:15pm by TirpitzLuminare

As you can see from the image (link below) "an old gargoyle" can spawn from the gargoyles on the top of the "castle" that you pass on the way down to the city. I was clearing all gargoyles on the castle and city walls, but stopped before going further down past the broken metal gates that lead into the tunnel to the bottom. Likely any of these can be the PH, though perhaps just a subset. Best just to kill them all.

Image of an old gargoyle on castle wall

Good luck!

Edited, Oct 15th 2019 12:40pm by Wispyr

Title says it all.

Like everyone says just follow the tunnel from zone-in and keep right. eventually you will get to an area with lots of buildings. DPS the gargoyles on the roods to get summoned up. Kill them and its just a matter of keeping on the roofs in this area. Eventually he will spawn, I got him on top of the wall across the courtyard from The Slab. (sign out front). It seems he can spawn anywhere on the roofs in the area so keep them clear.

When you head down from zone in (Paineel), you travel down past the big golem things into the elemental buildings. Travel through the elemental buildings, through a short downward cave, which opens at another building area with gargolyes and golems. Pass this area down a rock ledge corrider, til you see what looks like the entrance of the main city, being guarded by two ghosts. Pass through this, turn right you will come to a pool, above it on the wall is the an Old Gargoyle, which you can snare to make it come to you.

First...Has the updated(standard) gargoyle look. I thought he would have a unique graphic (because he's a named) and thats what is pictured here(as of this posting), but doesn't so that threw me off a bit.

Second...The post that allows you easy access to the rooftops is in the area where it looks like you should be able to jump on the roof because its collapsed but "you just can't quite make it." You will notice a post in the corner and a different roof (red shingles) that you can jump on. This area is also very near the tunnel that brings you down to the lowest part of the zone.

Ok, I'm just stsrting to camp this guy.

I came down the long ramp to the "inner city" and am outside the gates where you can see several gargoyle's sitting up on top.

On one pull I managed to get 10-15 Guardian's of the city on my tail. Woof! No problem for an 84 necro and his pet but it was exciting.

I couldn't find a way to climb on top of the wall but I finally got summoned up there. Usually the mobs came to me. This was good. Till someone on the ground summoned me there.

My pet has a longer attack range then I do, it works well to use /pet attack <name> and then you don't have to bother targeting anyone. That works well if you don't care who gets attacked or who might add.

edit:
wow, came back for day 2 and he had poppped on the end, on the top of the front wall. I pulled him from the ramp

edit #2:
I had brought my druid over to track and let me know if he was up. This worked great as I saw he was up (somewhere) and I just logged in my necro and found him rather easily on the wall as I said above. When I came back a few days later to move my druid out of the zone, I noticed the old gargoyle was up again. So I'm not sure he's as rare these days as people say. But pehaps its just the normal EQ randomness.

Good luck everyone!

Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 9:25am by morromid

loc of post u can hop onto then onto a roof that takes you up... up... and onward thru the fog. To the Old if ya lucky.

231.72, 338.48, -327.17

took loc after i hopped onto roof but its close enough

happy hunting necros

Bluenec on Drinal

added info...

found the spot where u can target all or most of the upper mobs 83.15, 488.03, -280.71

You have to do some creative jumping from roof to roof then a dirt hillside. They are hard to see as they sit or fd but click up on the area above ya and you will find em.. You probably cant get there if you cant clear all the lower gargs anyway. i got trained several times because of mixture of undead and reg mobs. I found it best when clearing gargs up on the catwalk to just to engage at close range so they dont path poorly and train. You can stay up on the hillish area above the path to confuse mobs if u need a sec to fd evac or whatever, i shot my pet at them from there a lot still havent spawned old but GL
74 necro with merc no probs. If your much lower be perpared to levant a lot but id think still soloable. Also if u mem both invis vs undead and reg invis it is easy to get back after levant with min of fighting.

gl


Edited, Mar 27th 2009 1:36am by Ethnepen

If you clear the building, you can run and jump up onto the wall from the right room... there's a little broken chest (or something) that you can use as a ramp to jump up on the wall.

Spawned him yesterday, after killing the first 4 on the front wall, i got summoned by the next one on top of the wall, very good place to be to kill these buggers.

The gargs summon and hit in the 100- 200 range, and are gray, green, and light blue to a 69 necro. There are about 10 spawn points for them, i could reach all of them from where i was. For some of these guys, i let pet tank them completly as i grabbed another one.

WARNING: there is 1 spawn point, all the way in the back, that has BAD PATHING. Be very careful, as i pulled 7 mobs by accident.

I had a few 'an ancient gargoyle' spawn, those were the only ones that were light blue, and hit for about 350 max

After about an hour and a half killing spawns of gargs, an old gargoyle spawned (name not capitalized)

Killed him and he dropped the book.

Good luck to you all on this tome

500 kills and not one Old Gargoyle 9-1-07. Plenty of Ancients and Unmasked changlings though. Either its broken or ive got some crappy luck. From what ive read noone has had any trouble here.