Lord Xythex is correct. Trackers can simply get to him faster. And for whatever reason, they're convinced that magicians are sitting in CoM farming jade reavers so they're justified in farming Quillmane's cloak. I can't speak to that because the only times I've been in CoM was to help people get their epic drops (like the jade reaver).
I now have the cloak. It took me at least 3 Quillmane kills to do it which probably isn't so bad. Considering the time I spent in SK waiting for that spawn, killing everything in the zone, it was a bit painful. Of course the couple times I talked friends (including tracker buddies) Quillmane got all shy and refused to make an appearance.
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I just find it hard to believe that some higher level druid/whatever (gotta be to outdamage a mage working on his epic) is hanging out in SK for hours and hours and hours just on the off chance that Quill will spawn
Believe it. I saw Quillmane many times and was only able to kill him 3. If a druid or ranger and a mage see Quillmane at the same moment, they
will get to him first (a ranger's arrows are a lot faster than my spells or pet.) Even when I've been in the zone first /ooc-ing that I was going after Quillmane for my epic, it made no difference.
To be fair, I've also had a total stranger keep Quillmane rooted for me until I could get to him, and it was my druid friend who told me when the Fabled Quillmane was up and ran him around the zone until I got there. And by the way, a troll was trying to KS it off the druid when I arrived.
I refuse to have KS fights with people. It's just an ugly way to spend my gaming time. I made an exception in this case.