Raster of Guk - debunking exaggerated claims

[mrquincy]

Hey Monks,

I bought a long sock and I'm planning to take Raster this weekend. I added some spawn probabilities to the Raster wiki a few weeks ago, and I'm about to put them to the test. Reading forum-lore online however is making me nervous...here's the deal...

1. Almost every account I've read [1][2][3] says that Raster has a spawn rate of 5%. Fine.
2. It's easy to verify that a PH or Raster can be forced to spawn 3 times daily. Great.

It's also very common for people to claim up to a 200+ hour camp! When I heard this, I thought, surely this must be game time versus RL time...240 EQ hours is 12 RL hours. Plausible. The same source (link 1) which claimed a 200 hour max camp says a 40 hour average camp however, and if we assume this is game time, then that's only 2 RL hours. Clearly, when this person says 200+ hour camp, they mean 200+ RL hours.

So one of several things is true:

1. Raster's spawn rate is less than 5%
2. Raster's spawn rate is conditionally dependent on some other variables.
3. People are really, really terrible at estimating time.

I have my fingers crossed that it's option 3...