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Old 11-06-2019, 08:37 AM
Dolalin Dolalin is offline
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Default Watchman Dexlin in NK shouldn't spawn on every day/night cycle

Currently, Watchman Dexlin in NK spawns every time on the 8am day/night cycle. This doesn't appear to be classic. He should only have a *chance* to spawn, several posts on Alla confirm he was a rare and Bilbis the merchant was the common.

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If you are waiting for Dexlin to spawn, here's how he works, roughly. At 8AM Bilbus Briar (or Dexlin) despawns. About 9AM either Bilbus or Dexlin with spawn in the same place.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...375&p=3#m13380
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Dexlin or Bilbis Briar spawns at 8 am game time, Dexlin being the rare spawn.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...375&p=3#m16564
How frequent was the spawn? Apparently quite rare:

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It took a friend of mine a very very long time to complete this quest, mainly because of the spawn time on Dexlin.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...375&p=3#m11018
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Anyhow, after 2 more Dexlin spawns over the course of the next week I was able to accumulate the necessary 4 bones.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...96843131223740
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switch to chr 2 baby sat BB for sereveal EQ days his disapered and reappeared serveal times but no watchman. i even switched back ever 2-3 days and had chr talk to the GM again.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...99316214214339
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This is the first quest I've completed (other than newbie semi-quests). The biggest problem is that Watchman Dexlin is SO RARE. I actually gave up on the quest after waiting for an entire weekend for him to spawn.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...99316214214339
Based on this I think a 5% spawn chance wouldn't be too far off.
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Old 11-10-2019, 06:46 PM
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(On Green) Watchmen Dexlin spawns at 6am game time, rarely. I saw it up three times total over the course of 5 levels across several days of checking. It looks like if someone fails the turn in by 8PM game time he will spawn the following cycle. This may be what you are observing. Details on the wiki are wildly inaccurate so these failures would be common. My first turn in with Dexlin I failed to get back to him in time, he spawned the next cycle. However after I completed the turn in he wasn't up for the rest of the day. I was frequently checking. I suggest triggering and completing the turn in before the time elapses then observing the frequency of spawns.
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Old 11-11-2019, 10:52 AM
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I spent four levels on my bard kiting wisps in NK on Green, and he was up without fail every day, and every night there was Bilbis. I never saw an exception in the three days I was there.

This isn't to say I'm not mistaken, but that's the behaviour I saw.
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Old 03-11-2020, 03:28 PM
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This is roughly a 50% Dexlin, 50% Bilbus at the moment.

Pending update:

Slightly lowered Dexlin's spawn chance based on research and commentary.
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