Oracle Quest - Tradeskill parts

[Gwideon]

Gnomish Greetings!

17 kills and 48 hours camping with no anchor. That is too much time to be only bad luck. It is a rare drop at least in Oasis. Consider yourself lucky.

Oasis: Don't just kill ghouls, clear an area. If he doesn't spawn clear at least once in 2 hours clear all wanderers. I can't tell you for centainty but it appears that he may be on a named cycle and will not (or has a lower chance of spawning) when the following are up:

Arthikus
Cazel
Hatar
A Madmen (as apposed to A Dessert Madman)
An Asp (as apposed to A Cistern Asp)

It also appears that there may be at least one common spawn in the cycle. I have found that if I have not gotten him to spawn in 2 hours, I clear wanders in the south the named cycle starts spawning again.

It seems clear that the spawns do not have a fixed spawn location and can spawn at any wandering start location. I have had the Ghoul spawn in 5 different locations. (pretty sure although I did not see him spawn)

If you are hunting him please please do a camp check and respond to camp checks. It is very frustrating to spend hours on end clearing the zone to have someone come up and whack the spawn you caused.

Anyone else have any tips, even a particular spawn dance?

Gwideon
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
in an itty bitty living space
65th Gnomish Wizard LFG!

[Galain]

20 kills and over 50 hours. Not rare my ass.

Oh, and still no anchor.

[sparkx]

After twenty hours and 8 kills without an Anchor drop in Oasis, while clearing the area, I passed by the LDoN sandtrap entrance, and there amongst the fallen adventurer corpses, with nobody else around, was a Ghoul of Takish-Hiz corpse, and yes, upon checking the corpse, was an Anchor just sitting there- Which I promptly looted- So watch for the Ghoul to get snarfed prematurely around the LDoN entrance. Now I just have to hope for the combine to work....

[Adams]

I have the same experience with the Ghoul. I went there with guildy keeping North part of Oasis clean with AoE. In 3 days, I got 6 Ghoul of takish-Hiz to spawn, 0 drop.

Then some 1 told me about the LDoN ZI. ( basicaly, U just sit there with track, U kill NO mob, and the Ghoul will pass close eventualy. ) 3 hours later, I got my Anchor on 1 st kill.

It was maybe just luck but who knows...

Btw, Claps of Sealing is not yet trivial at 221 smithing skill. ( I was lucky )

1 more thing, the effect on Phylactery DO stack with the wizard epic efect =)

And even if the text said U have ure hp drain away, it actualy go up by 2 per tick ( old news I guess )

[KyrosKrane]

Updated to here. Thanks for the trivial update! =)

A bunch of the combines still need more info on the trivial; I also need screenshots for many of the items. If you can help with either, please post here or email me with the info.

The write-up can be found here:

http://www.gamesnet.org/KyrosKrane/Oracle/

[Galain]

I have killed the Ghoul at the zone in. No anchor. Another 6 hours yesterday and I didn't even see a Ghoul. This is really beginning to piss me off.

[Gwideon]

Gnomish Greetings!

Then some 1 told me about the LDoN ZI. ( basicaly, U just sit there with track, U kill NO mob, and the Ghoul will pass close eventualy. ) 3 hours later, I got my Anchor on 1 st kill. - Adams

Don't take this personally Adams, but you're my worst nightmare. It is very likely that someone else killed a mob and caused the spawn that you saw. Perhaps it was a lucky roll of the dice and the person that killed the mob was not looking for the Anchor.

It is apparent from multiple clearing of the zone that he spawns more commonly when you kill other wanderers. To sit at the entrance and cap him when someone else is actively clearing the zone to force a spawn is just wrong.

Please my friends, announce the camp and respect the camp if it is announced. Too many of us have a tremendous time investment already to just selfishly take the spawn that would make that investment pay off.

Gwideon
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
in an itty bitty living space
65th Gnomish Wizard LFG!

[Adams]

I know by experience that some mobs will fight each other by themself in Oasis. At some points, this could trig the Ghoul of Takish to spawn. Some pep report that merchand will kill the Ghoul of Takish if he pass by.

But I agree that I was probably lucky on that kill, although 2 pep so far told me they got the Anchor while waiting at LDoN ZI. (both had no idea of the Anchor utility)

...maybe if we all /bugreport it and ask for a decent drop rate...

just my 2 cp.

[deverin]

Ghoul Kill and Location

I killed the Ghoul two times. the first time I found him on track near the tower in the ground. After I killed him, about 10 minutes later, he popped again. this time I was able to find him AT THE SUMERGED TOWER in Oasis. The location of the tower is 899, 102.
No Anchor first time. Second was the winner.

[Gwideon]

Gnomish Greetings!

Stone Silk Insert
Skill: TAILORING
Status: CONFIRMED

Combine: Insert Pattern + Stone Silk x2 + Spiderling Silk Thread x4
Trivial: > 192, <= 229, skill restricted combine, > 163, <= 171

Update: Sucessfull combine, was not trivial at 207

Gwideon
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
in an itty bitty living space
65th Gnomish Wizard LFG!

[KyrosKrane]

Updated with the new lower-end trivial. Thankee! =)

[Rhyianna]

i can confirm the merchants in SRO do kill the ghoul of takish (sp). i witnessed it as i was racing to try to kill it myself. and they killed it faster than i did so no corpse.

[Aluaeia]

ugh bleh bleh ugh

[Verdandi]

FYI, a link to Kyros's writeup has finally been added to the Quests page, under Multiple Region quests. Sorry that took so long!

[KyrosKrane]

Woohoo! Thankee thankee, Ms. Dandi! =)