The Secret of Quillmane

[Malrubius]

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.) 1 elephant calf a bit east of the aviak-tree (within line of sight), spawns every ~45 seconds in a small area
.) 1 lioness (spawns faster than the calf ~15 seconds), doesnt have a fixed spawn-point and spawns all around the aviak-tree area (need tracker for this one)

Can someone define "aviak-tree"? Is this the main giant tree with the ramp up to the top? Or is it one of the lone trees with a hut at the top that is to the East and the West?

[falkun]

"aviak tree" AKA "KFC".

[Malrubius]

Originally Posted by falkun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"aviak tree" AKA "KFC".

Cool. I always thought of KFC as just the general area of the Aviak city. But I see what was meant by "aviak tree" now, thanks.

[bamzal]

^ yeah, you sure you understand now?

[Malrubius]

Originally Posted by bamzal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ yeah, you sure you understand now?

Oh yeah, I understand all sorts of things now.

[PureEnergy]

HOooooooly crap, good luck getting a job with that mug.
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[Something'Witty]

Hey all,

I have several questions about this method of camping quillmane, but first a little backstory on my attempts to camp the dumb flying horse. So my wife and I tried camping it with me on my monk (killing the calf PH) and my wife on her druid for tracking purposes. We first checked the zone for Quillmane, and it wasn't up. We then isolated the calf PH at the Loc listed and proceeded to kill it every ~45 seconds until it didn't spawn (which took about an hour or so), then my wife ran out into the zone and tracked Quillmane down and killed it (no cloak). After that we set back up killing the calf PH and were confident that we had the cycle figured out. However, about an hour later, the only other person in the zone said they just saw Quillmane by splitpaw (they were camping the gnolls). This confused us since we were still killing calf PHers and as far as we knew, no one was killing lioness' in zone. My wife ran out to track, and sure enough Quillmane was up (no cloak). This time she made sure to check track after Quillmane died and indeed a Lioness spawned right afterwards. We weren't 100% on the timing of said Lioness spawning, but we felt confident that it was the PH and we went back to killing the calf PH. A little while later, this time with no one else in zone, my wife spotted Quillmane on track, again with calf PHers still spawning. Alas, still no cloak. After that, we gave up for the night and I figured I would trying and find some more info.


TLDR - My questions are:

1) Does the lioness PH despawn or are there NPC's in zone that might kill it?

2) Can multiple (i.e., two) Quillmanes be up at the same time? I figure the answer is no, but EQ has surprised me before.

3) I assume that the calf PH and the Lioness PH are not linked, except that either has a chance of spawning Quillmane upon repop. Is this correct?

4) We are also assuming that the three spawn points / paths for Quillmane are not linked to what PH you are killing. Is this correct? The reason I ask is because the Quillmane that spawned from us killing the calf spawned in the east, and the other two that must have been linked to the lioness PH spawned in the west.

5) Finally, does anyone know of a location where a druid can track Quillmane on all three paths that it takes through the zone, or is maxed druid track just not able to see out far enough?

Any information you can provided would be greatly appreciated.




P.S. Back in the day my father-in-law said the worst part of getting his mage's epic was camping Quillmane since he had no way to track. He always thought there had to be some kind of method to get it to spawn more reliably, I figured there was just a set probability of it spawning upon the death of any mob. I guess he was right!

[Thulack]

1.) No as far as i know.
2.)No
3.) Not really sure. ive gotten Quill from both.
4.)Not linked
5.) Druid not able to track all 3 spots at once from what i know.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Something'Witty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TLDR - My questions are:

1) Does the lioness PH despawn or are there NPC's in zone that might kill it?

No. Shouldn't worry about lioness unless it is a target of opportunity. Focus on the elephant calf.

2) Can multiple (i.e., two) Quillmanes be up at the same time? I figure the answer is no, but EQ has surprised me before.

Not that I know.

3) I assume that the calf PH and the Lioness PH are not linked, except that either has a chance of spawning Quillmane upon repop. Is this correct?

Not linked, you are correct.

4) We are also assuming that the three spawn points / paths for Quillmane are not linked to what PH you are killing. Is this correct? The reason I ask is because the Quillmane that spawned from us killing the calf spawned in the east, and the other two that must have been linked to the lioness PH spawned in the west.

Correct. Either PH can spawn a QM at any of the three spots.

5) Finally, does anyone know of a location where a druid can track Quillmane on all three paths that it takes through the zone, or is maxed druid track just not able to see out far enough?

One person on PHs and one tracker are going to have a heck of a time keeping up with the watch. A druid and even ranger for that matter will have to keep running the entire time up and down the pathing lanes as seen on the map here.

By far the easiest way to camp Quillmane is to get at least 4 people, camp 1 at each spawn point, as identified in the link above, and one person on the PHs. Keep killing PHs until QM spawn, then hold the next PH that spawns until QM is dead. Once QM is dead resuming killing the PH. Unless you have a fifth person, don't mess with the lioness, just kill the elephant calf and sit on his spawn point.

[Stinkum]

^ Wow that is completely wrong information. The lioness is extremely essential to triggering QM.