tainted seahorse  

I've been camping Kedge the past 4 days working towards the Hunter achievement. I've seen the tainted spawn in the Seahorse Caves most of the time (Where the Matriarch can spawn.) I also have seen him spawn in the room near Phinny where there Patriarch spawns. Much rarer but both points are where Seahorses spawn.

I camped the swirlspines in Phinny's room for 2+ hours and never saw a tainted, but after 1 clearing of the seahorse caves I got the tainted to pop in the room to the left of the mermaid spawn. Corrupted immediately popped upon tainted's death - glad it's not like the barracuda camp!

Just killed corrupted at loc 176, -524

Here's what i did just before he spawned.

KIlled all the seahorses in teh caves and in the temple just outside the caves it just so happened the 3rd one in the temple was up top the round before tainted spawned. Then I swam to the Phiny room and killed the 4 there. The Guardians were up also this time so i kill them also.

Its possible the spawn cycle for tainted is when the third one in tower is up and guardians are up but not sure.

Anyway swam back to caves and tainted popped. Hope this helps.

If he pops in the caves, can he be tracked from zone in?

Note: All room names listed are as they are marked on maps from EQAtlas.

Logged into Kedge tonight on Lanys to do a little scouting, since I'd never been in the zone before. Wandered around a bit, found seahorse caves and killed a few. Decided that soloing there would be possible, but not very safe, especially if tainted were to spawn. Ported out and came back later with some guildies who wanted to do Phinny. Amazingly enough, Tainted was on track so after killing Phinny, we headed off to the caves - except that tainted wasn't there. After much confused tracking around the south room on second floor, I finally decided that the tainted must be on Phinny's level. Sure enough, we went there and found it in "Frenzied Room".

Chatoyan
55 Druid of Emerald Alliance
Lanys

4 of these just spawned..1st in about an hour, next 30 min later, another about 5 minutes later and the next RIGHT after. took em with 65 necro, 58 mage, 59 dru (me), 54 war and 46 druid.

i dun even know my way to the caves. talk about being screwed

Me (58 druid) and my best friend (55 BST) were hanging out one day after a trip to Necropolis in West Wastes. When we got finished there we were all hyper and needed somewhere to go. I suggested we head over to Kedge to see if we couldn't camp this guy (since he was among the last two pieces I needed for epic). Anyhow, neither of us knew where anything was here, but I had a faint memory of some exploring I had done on a raid a while back before everyone was CoH'ed to Phinny's room. I told her to wait in a somewhat safe room near where the well ended after swimming down from the entrance. I invis'ed up and went exploring. I found one room with a seahorse in it, but my guild notified me that it was caves that the tainted spawned in. I swam back to where I started and took a different route.

I eventually stumbled upon somewhat hidden caves guarded by a mermaid, and the caves were filled with seahorses. Anyhow, I went back and guided my friend down there and we killed the mermaid and those little pirahna creatures. I commenced pulling and we had no problem with them. There were clerics and I think even druids in there, but they were wimps to us. Anyhow, after clearing it 2 times, a tainted spawned in the first cave. I got happy and pulled it. Friend sent her fully buffed lvl 54 pet in and we killed the tainted NP. When the corrupted spawned I was at half mana and my friend was full on hp. She started taking hits real quick, and the corrupted was casting those annoying cleric spells on her. I was healing her too quick for my mana to regen fast enough, and went oom when the seahorse was about 60% hp left. She backed off and started letting her pet tank while she healed. I regen'ed my mana back up to 50% when the seahorse was around 35% hp. Friend went back in and started beating it up. Around 20% the seahorse decided it wise to try and cast CH, but my friend and her pet were doing a great job of interrupting him. 2 or 3 minutes later the seahorse was dead and I got my Crystals :)

I hope this helps some of you see that the tainted and the corrupted are both rather easy with the right team.

Sorry for the rather long post :) But I had to tell my tale.

Edited, Tue Jun 24 17:28:36 2003

Went to kill phinny a week ago and he was up. Spawn was right outside the caves near the crack in the wall (entrance to caves) on the side with the pirhanas. Couldn't kill him because most of our phinny group left =(. Went back to kill Phinny a few days later because he didn't drop the staff we were after and no tainted... This time there were 3 groups 55+ heh we wanted the phinny battle done quick. I persuaded them with the help of my druid guildies to try to spawn tainted... cleared all seahorses 3 times, no spawn =( had to leave for schedualed raid.. Of all the tainted/corrupt mobs he seems to be the most ellusive Oh well...

Keep it goin the leafblower is almost yours! Don't give up hope =)

Wyre Wintermute <Twilight Resurrection> 53rd Wanderer of Karana
The Tribunal

The Order of Light on the Rathe camped Kedge about a week ago. We were in there about 5 hours with 12 people lvls 42 - 60 (most were 40 - 50). The tainted seahorse spawned once way in the back of the caves. That was all he cared to show his face. We only had 3 deaths the whole raid and 2 were because people couldn't find their waterstone fast enough.

-Fid

Our guild, Order of the Black Sun (Rathe server), killed 4 of these the other night during our 2nd raid to the Seahorse cave area (camp set up in larger main cave, neg 350, pos 120). The Corrupted Seahorse spawns as soon as the Tainted Seahorses die. 2 spawned in the larger main cave, 1 spawned deeper in the caves and the 4th may have spawned in the tiled room west of the cave or deeper in the caves. We had camped the area at least 4 hours the previous night, and at least 2 hours the night they spawned before seeing them. 2 spawns came within a few kills of each other then after an hour or so the 2nd 2 spawns came close together with constant clearing of the area. The corrupted dropped the Simitar for Druid epic all 4 times. First spawns in both groups of spawns were in the larger main cave.

can anyone tell me where EXACTLY he spawns? im thinking he spawns right in the temple of prexus near the seahorse caves. is this correct?