Bilge Farfathom

[Daldaen]

Incase anyone is wondering how this spawn works. Stop now if you don't want to know some of how it works.

The Fight:

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x205/Daldaen/EQ000008-2.jpg


He is a level 35 shaman. Has roughly 700-750 health. Summons a level 20-30~ wolf pet that has about 1200~ health.

Casts most shaman spells, blind, ice nuke, heal, poison/disease DoTs, and SoW + normal buffs.

One Starfire gets him to run, One root finishes him.


http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x205/Daldaen/Bilgespawn.jpg

Spawns:
Spawn point 1, up in the hills, ALWAYS a aqua goblin shaman PHer
Spawn point 2, underwater just south of Fantastic 4 spawn point, goblin PHer
Spawn point 3, north side of island on the slant, goblin PHer
Spawn point 4, ~unsure~ but in the hills around that region


Camping Style/Methods: Got 3 possible options for camping him.

1. Clear PHers. This is one of the most futile of all the methods. You will spawn him this way, but you are in better luck to camp an actual loot camp in a dungeon than the try this way if you're purely after cash.
2. AFK / Tracking. Find something to do, another game, read a book, study, do some work and check track every 5-10minutes for him. Few places you can stand for this, on center island is about the best of them. This is probably the best method if you have the time available.
3. AFK / Audio Trigger. Basically this is the one I do. AFK at the Fantastic 4 camp. Make an audio trigger such as "Bilge Farfathom". Mine is a tad more intricate so people don't fuck with me. You'll want to be just doing option 2 except you need to check less often and if he comes up to attack you, the game will make a noise and tell you so you can kill him.

For options 2 and 3 an alternative program is GamText Triggers. I asked Rogean himself about half a year back if it was approve and acceptable to use, and he said it was. Basically how it functions is you have to have /log on before you use it. The program reads from your log file (while EQ writes to it simultaneously). When it comes across key words or phrases it'll overlay a text that you set. It's the 1st Download button under "GamTextTriggers v1.0.0"

http://gambosoft.com/Pages/Downloads.htm

Here is a quick read of how it functions / how to use it.

http://gambosoft.com/Pages/GamTextTriggers_Features.htm


Drop Rates:
Drop rate on PKT is about... 1/5 since the fix. He can spawn 2 or 3 times in an hour or not at all for 12 hours (unless someone beat me to the spawn each time). I find 0 evidence that supports he is on a timed spawn and Dwigus' spawn is irrelevant also.

My proof:

[Fri Oct 01 18:00:13 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Oct 02 00:32:47 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Oct 02 01:02:34 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Oct 02 02:50:03 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Oct 02 02:50:05 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Tue Oct 05 15:00:09 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Oct 05 15:00:11 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Wed Oct 06 23:25:00 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Wed Oct 06 23:25:02 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Thu Oct 07 23:22:56 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Thu Oct 07 23:23:05 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sun Oct 10 12:26:08 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sun Oct 10 12:26:10 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sun Oct 24 00:17:41 2010] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sun Oct 24 00:17:44 2010] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--

-- it got broken then fixed --

[Mon Feb 21 12:57:37 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Feb 21 12:57:39 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Mon Feb 21 17:22:57 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Feb 21 17:23:00 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Tue Feb 22 21:02:07 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Feb 22 21:02:11 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Wed Feb 23 18:39:40 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Wed Feb 23 18:39:44 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Mon Feb 28 00:23:29 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Feb 28 00:23:56 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Tue Mar 01 13:11:52 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Mar 01 13:11:54 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Tue Mar 01 14:05:27 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Mar 01 14:05:44 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Wed Mar 02 15:56:15 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Wed Mar 02 15:56:18 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Wed Mar 02 21:37:21 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Wed Mar 02 21:39:55 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Fri Mar 04 21:53:39 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Fri Mar 04 21:53:41 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Mar 05 15:57:49 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 05 15:57:55 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Mar 05 20:22:45 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 05 20:22:49 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Mon Mar 07 15:21:24 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Mar 07 15:21:26 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Mon Mar 07 23:20:02 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Mar 07 23:20:04 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Tue Mar 08 12:40:14 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Mar 08 12:40:17 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Thu Mar 10 15:26:15 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Thu Mar 10 15:26:19 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Thu Mar 10 18:08:27 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Thu Mar 10 23:33:23 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Thu Mar 10 23:33:26 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Mon Mar 14 22:46:05 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Mar 14 22:50:03 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Fri Mar 18 22:05:40 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 19 00:35:30 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 19 00:35:36 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Mar 19 10:20:12 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 19 10:20:14 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Sat Mar 19 16:12:17 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Sat Mar 19 16:12:21 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Mon Mar 21 12:41:47 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Mon Mar 21 12:44:23 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--
[Tue Mar 22 12:02:24 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Tue Mar 22 12:02:25 2011] --You have looted a Reed Belt.--
[Wed Mar 23 22:32:48 2011] You have slain Bilge Farfathom!
[Wed Mar 23 22:35:22 2011] --You have looted a Pearl Kedge Totem.--


Good luck! I may stop by at the camp when bored/AFK, but I figured I would share my 'knowledge' to any druids curious and after his two drops.

[Grizlor]

Yeah I was able to flush him out tonight while farming goblins for the event. Pretty much just running around murdering every goblin in the zone with a pet makes it easy. He spawned at 1 for me. I actually saw his pet first and thought it was some stupid druid/ranger who was gonna hose me with tracking haha.

[Nuggie]

As promised, thanks dald.

[Harkor]

Im willing to bet he spawns regardless of clearing ph's is due to the Fab 4 killing his PH at a slow rate.

[Daldaen]

Im willing to bet he spawns regardless of clearing ph's is due to the Fab 4 killing his PH at a slow rate.

Correct which is why I suggest the afk method, much less boring. Excellent time to catch up on work.

[deadreaver777]

This thread is kind of old, but seemed to offer some very helpful info. I just want to respond to it and say that I've killed all 4 of these spawn points for sometime, and I've never seen him spawn. Not to say that the information is false, but I just personally have never gotten him to spawn by killing the goblins at the points listed. Also I just want to say sitting at the Fab 4 camp AFK isn't a good idea. I sat there for about half an hour today just observing the Fab 4's behavior, and they don't even attack Goblins, nor do they attack skeletons. The only monsters I ever saw them attack that came across their path were snakes. That's been my experience with this camp so far... Bilge is still a fable in my book unfortunately -_-

[deadreaver777]

Wow the funniest damn thing just happened, just as I had posted that, I mean LITERALLY after I posted it, I checked back on track, and guess who's up? Bilge Farfathom of course. This is on a live server btw (Vulak TLP) not sure if that matters. I can't confirm how i got him to spawn, all I can say is I did kill the spawns above, along with other random creatures that I saw roaming around. So I can't say 100% it was those spawns... but whatever I got him, and I FINALLY got a wisdom belt for my druid O_O

[impact]

why the hell are you playing on live but posting on p99 im confused

[CastIllum]

Your not having any luck Deadreaver because I don't think he spawns that way on live servers.

Alot of rare named or stuff had to be done with their own coding here on P99 cause some of the zones were so far gone to get that classic feel that had to go old school and im talking but yea. I don't think he spawns the same way on Live as he does P99

[joel.popick]

got him to spawn twice on the island. pin pointed his spawn and kill it every 6.5 minutes. saves me about 2 min waiting for him to path. for an 8 hour camp like bilge thats saving yourself two hours. well if you only count one spawn ;p

[Daldaen]

Mhmm, which is why I suggest my afk method, the 8 hour camp blows unless you're watching TV or doing work and have EQ in the background.

However, seeing that you're on red that isn't really viable due to PKing.