fingered skeleton  

About 4 hours into the camp. Best spot is between 2 and 3 on the old Kurns Tower EQ ATlas map at the intersection. Just kill everything that enters the hallway.

2.5 inch: 3 drops
3 inch: 1 drop
4 inch: 4 drops

Still waiting on a 3.1 inch

Freaking Jester has popped more without me messing with his placeholders than the fingered has with me killing everything that even dares put its foot in the hallway between 2 and 3 on the old EQ Atlas map.

Day 2, popped only twice yesterday and dropped 3.1" finger both times, sigh, another time sink quest.....

The fingered skeleton is located at 27, 33, -38. When you come down the stairs and enter the stables area/hallway, its the stables on the left. According to other posts, he roams from there to the stairs and back, but I haven't confirmed that yet. I'm still trying for the last 2 fingers. I got one twice so far.

I've been camping this mob for weeks in order to do the shackle quests and monk epic 1.0. Why? Because I feel like it and for bragging rights.
Now here's what I found while wasting hours and days of my time. The "fingered skeleton" no longer spawns on the Erollisi Marr server. Undead Jesters? Absolutely they spawn like crazy and so does Crackling Bones. You will only ever see the "thick-boned skeleton" PH for the fingered and it appears 99% of the time.
So save yourself precious time and energy and forget this BS quest.

watch for dots when at low health

I was just camping the Undead Jester for nearly 2 hours and decided to kill the Fingered Skeleton near there for my 25 Monk Iksar. Happy to say that I killed him four times and got the 3", 4", 3.1", and 2.5" fingers in that order, and I only had to kill him four times...now if only the Undead Jester could do that...but, alas, I'm still camping him...

just poped right on top of me at loc
neg126 pos41 right at the bottom of the
south stairs.

Also, spawn spot for the Jester is pos184 pos129...just in the doorway between the other 2 stables. Killed him 4 times in 2 hours, 2x berserker club.

GL.

Edited, Thu Mar 11 20:32:09 2004

I've been camping the Fingered Skeleton for about a week straight, every evening, and just camping out in the hallway at the end of the night. Starting to wonder if I'll ever get out, since the only thing I leave for are bandages :) So far I've gotten the 2.5", the 3", and the 4", I'm still missing the 3.1" finger. I've often considered bring my main in there just so I didn't have to destroy the FS and cash I'm picking up, but at least the XP is decent...sort of...

Here's the down-low on what I've gathered: Each mob in the vicinity, including the Fingered Skelly is on an 18m 18s timer, give or take a few seconds. Solo at level 21/22 I could keep the 3 spawns in the room to the south, the 5 spawns in all three rooms, and the fingered skelly spawn cleared, unless I ran out of bandages, or ran into a few hitches with more than one caster in a room. I've only died twice while there, once while chasing a green into a bunch of his friends, and another time when a FD failed after getting nuked for 181. The key to staying alive is PATIENCE.

Each spawn can be one of these mobs:
Burynai excavator
Burynai Excavator
Burynai sapper
Burynai burrower
Lesser iceboned skeleton
Lesser charboned skeleton
Greater Skeleton
Greater Scalebone
Thick Boned Skeleton (this being the rarest of all possibilities)

The burynai can be shaman, necromancers, or warriors. The skeletons are warriors.

The spawn in the north-west corner of the middle of the three rooms can also occasionally spawn a Skeleton Cook. I've seen him 3 times, and he's never been anything but a melee, and always been a light blue con. I have yet to see any of his special drops.

The mob that wanders the hallway from it's spawn point just to the north, down to the middle of the south room is your Fingered Skeleton PH. He will spawn in one of two locations(Approximated with a ruler to an EQatlas map); p25, p50 or n70, p40. More often than not he spawns at the northernmost loc. If you sit in the hallway, in between the north room and the middle room, you will agro the PH and nothing else, without any problems. Beware where you're sitting though, the mob that you'll find in the southern room of the 3 actually spawns in the hallway before wandering into the room, and will occasionally wander back out to the hallway, so you want to make sure you're out of his agro radius. I've found that the Fingered Skeleton pops about every other spawn, occasionally skipping one, and sometimes doubling up. His common drops seem to be a FS scimitar or hammer, a burynai mask, the occasional bone chips, and the 2.5" and 3" fingers. The 3.1" and 4" fingers seem to be the rarest from what I've seen durning the camp, and in previous posts. Killing anything else in the area has no effect on the spawn rate that I can tell. I just did it to get some xp and break up the boredom ;)

Tips for keeping the area cleared:
-Casters WILL heal through walls, every time. There is only one place I found to be out of their range: the southeast corner of the room all the way to your south, so clear that room first! You'll have to pull your mobs there, and get them pushed tight into the corner to avoid the heals.

-Greens SUCK!! I can't really give you any solid tips for killing them, as they haven't really stuck to any method. Your best bet: FD if you get Clinging Darkness while you're attacking a green, and FD if they are sowed. So far killing them has gone best when pulling them to the corner previously mentioned, and chasing them down for the kill. They usually only get as far as the stables, and then I can FD agro off from anything else.

-Multiple casters in one room SUCK!! I almost died numerous times, and actually died once trying to pull the middle room with two necros and a shaman in it, two of which were dark blue to me. Finally managed to seperate them safely after an hour or so by clearing the room all the way to the south, and FD pulling to the corner they can't be healed from. I had to force myself to be very very patient, and it took more than one attempt.

-This is the perfect time to practice your FD pulling technique. Just remember to have infinite amounts of PATIENCE or you will die.

If anyone has any questions of me or if I missed anything, reply to the post, and I will be sure to check it :)

Zorakthe
22 Iksar Monk
The Rathe

What one of the previous posters said is correct, all you have to do it sit and the Fingered or his PH will aggro you. On the eqatlas map there are three rooms at #3 on the map. I sat in the hall in front of the doorway to the most southern of those three rooms. I faced south. Sometimes I saw him walking towards me, and sometimes I never saw him and he aggroed me from behind...so I never figured out where he popped or what path he roamed...but sitting at this spot works, either he or his PH aggroed me about every 18/19 minutes without fail. I had to kill him 6 times to get the four different fingers, and he popped on an average of about once an hour for me. The four different fingers are, since I have not seen anyone list them all: 2.5 inch, 3 inch, 3.1 inch, and 4 inch. Hope this helps.

He spawns at the end of the hallway with only 3 stable rooms in them (first emtpy, second 2 burynai, 3rd one burynai) saw him 4 times in about 2 hours killing the spawn at that spot, drop all fingers in a row, no doubles.