Bumping this old thread. I need help on this. Respawn times are the absolute hardest thing to research and it's taking up a lot of my time with not much to show for it. This is something the community can assist with. Velious is particularly difficult because Sony changed the respawn timers for several bosses mid-era. Even on ones that haven't changed, there are a lot of contradictory claims. Also there were many patches in that time period. What I need, specifically are: The time from death to respawn The variance window on respawn from death The variance window after server boot Where you got the information (web links, logs, your head, which server, etc) How confident you are in the claim The bosses I'm particularly having trouble on are: Lendiniara the Keeper (seen convincing evidence of both 3 and 7 days, with variance) Zlandicar Klandicar (I see AK log evidence of 4 day respawns, so either 3 days with variance or that weird 3-6 day range mentioned in web links, but I also find 7 day claims) Gozzrem and Telkorenar ST Warders (either 5 or 6 days; unknown variance if any. leaning on 6 days at this point)
Variance in database is a single value, so it functions as a +/-. Correct listing would be the second one.
So I did some comparison on these Timer sheets that are pretty similar all over the web. (Im only comparing Zlandicar and Klandicar as they are some of the timers requested) 10-21-2001 Zlandicar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Dragon Necropolis Klandicar, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Western Wastes Source: http://www.monkly-business.net/forums/showpost.php?p=98571&postcount=25 03-08-2002 Zlandicar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 3-6 day respawn, Dragon Necropolis Klandicar, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 3-6 day respawn, Western Wastes Source: http://jadedynasty.yuku.com/topic/1253/Uber-Rare-Mobs-Tiered-and-Possible-Respawn-Times#.V7pTyfmLRhF 18-12-2003 Zlandicar, level 65, 1-3 day spawn, 3-6 day respawn, Dragon Necropolis Klandicar, level 70, 1-3 day spawn, 3-6 day respawn, Western Wastes Source: http://www.antonius-bayle.org/index.php?topic=1790.0;nowap I also found http://eqdiary.tripod.com/quests/spawns.htm which seems to be from 2002-2003 aswell, but has lots of missing pieces. 7 day respawn changed to a 3-6 between 2001-2002. (before AK timeline) But anyways, for Zlandicar I found a post that is from 2013 that has interesting information. It seems Zlandicar does infact have a pretty big variance (more then 12 hours). This post is relevant because it shows similarities to the 2002-2003 timers and it seems unchanged on Live. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=5441#m1385256571176547161 Here is a post claiming 3 days for Both: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=5441#m106129670886290 Here is a post claiming 3-5 days http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=5441&p=2#m102204398149523 I can't find any evidence saying it spawned between the 5th and 6th day So I would say its a safebet to put Zlandicar and Klandicar at 4 days +/- 24 hours. This seems accurate
Does anyone remember what time on Wednesday mornings AK reset? I think it was something like 4 AM or 5 AM EST, but don't don't remember exactly. I ask because I'm trying to recall Tormax's AK spawn behavior. I killed him a lot on AK, and remember sometimes catching an early pop (killing him around 10 AM EST), and sometimes not seeing a pop until late Wednesday night EST. Which might've been ~20 hours from server up. I'm 95% sure Tormax was a 7 day respawn, not 5. He was almost exclusively a Wednesday farm. If the respawn had variance, it was small: +/- a couple of hours tops. Dozekar was also random after server up, but my recollection is that he tended to spawn earlier than Tormax. Doze was a <5 day respawn with higher variance than Tormax; possibly 4.5 days +/- 12 hours? Or even 4 days +/- 24 hours? Doze was weird.
Stamm said this on Allakhazam, regarding Dozekar's respawn time: "After an obscene number of kills, this is the closest I can estimate it: After server rest: 12h +/- 12 hours After kill: 5 days and 12 hours +/- 12 hours" That matches logs of around 5 to 6 days between kills. Wish finding timers was always that easy.
Yeah, there was hardly any variance. I was GMT at the time and I was able to make almost every reset at 10:00 AM.
