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Simple question... what, in your opinion.. is the worst camp ever? for my money... Lhrancs Bracer from Howling Stones... must've spent two weeks up there... that sk still owes me

I doubt I will ever be convinced anything is as rare as King Xorbb.

Since I have tried to camp him various ways for waaay more time than is sane over the years I have to consider him a bad camp.

The epic 1.0s have lots of horrid timesinks for sure.

I'm gonna take a weird position on the whole camp / placeholder / rare spawn thing. To me it can be a love hate kinda thing. If you just walked in, killed the mob, looted, and went off to the next thing, would there be any sense of relief/accomplishment when you finished?

If every rare mob was spawned and dropped his rare loot every time, there wouldn't be rare loot and people talking about the epic journeys they had getting it. I appreciate the epicness EQ provides in even mundane encounters.

Having said all that, I remember back when there was always someone sitting in Iceclad Ocean, waiting for (something) to spawn so he could alert his guild and take it down. I dunno what it was but the effort required couldn't possibly have been worth camping a spawn 24x7. Everquest was a game of extreme time sink and it is still evolving from that into a game that is more friendly but still challenging to people that have other things to do aside from play and play.

It's a tough balance. I don't envy the devs in always making every encounter perfect.

Stormfeather for the Eyepatch of Plunder. At the time, it was one of the very few clicky haste items and, for most classes, the only usable one. I once thought about getting it a year or so ago until I looked it up and realized the 15% haste was a joke compared to just buying haste potions.

I don't remember any insanely long placeholder camps since I usually got lucky on spawns or else just didn't bother with them. But I do remember spending several days trying to get Dylin Starshine for the Testament of Vanear quest waaaayyyy back in the early days of EQ. The ***** of it was that he's on a six hour timer but, back then, if you left the spawn point, chances were you'd return to find someone else claimed it. And, of course, if you were there but AFK when he spawned, someone else would yoink him. So I'd wind up going AFK to sleep and setting my alarm for 5 1/2 hours to give me time to get up and try to get him.

That was my very first "real" quest (something more involved than "bring me orc belts") and I was proud as punch of that book for the longest time.

Barkingturtle your avatar scares me

I was lucky and only had to camp Stormfeather for 18 out of 24 hours, as I was lucky that I was there when he had died previously. So I got there around the minimum time he was supposed to respawn and started waiting. I camped him for about 12 hours, took a nap for 6, and then came back for another 6 when he finally spawned.

At the time that was the longest/hardest camp. Not because he was hard or it was hard to get to... but because it was just soooo damn boring. LOL I must have killed hundreds of wandering cougars in that time. Just to do anything while waiting.

More recently, the longest camp I did was Library Director Eslissar in Kurn's Library. I didn't have to compete for the camp because I was doing it late night/early morning just me and my merc. I camped it for 6 hours a few different nights, and 3-4 hours a couple other nights. All total I camped him for about 36 hours. I gave away essences, gear and augs to guildies and their alts, and finally he popped after about a week and a half camping this nearly every night.

They recently raised his spawn rate. /shakefist @ SoE LOL

I agree with the above posters that if it were easy, it wouldn't feel like much of an accomplishment. I have a level 65 hunter in WoW, but it doesn't feel the same when I get a new piece of gear or finish one of it's cookie cutter quests. It all seems rather bland, despite the cartoony graphics and fun little "pop culture" and humorous quirks they put into it.

EQ has that sense of accomplishment that many other mmo's lack.

And camping augs and essences and gear for hundreds of hours? Well, that just adds to the grandeur of the goal.

Bad camps are the one you are currently on, it just gets worse as time flows on...


The worst camp ever, is the one on the horizon (because you know it will take more time than the last camp)...

That stupid half-elf mask in Jaggedpine...camped that forever, and a bard in my guild was camping it at the same time ( well, when I wasn't there, of course )

Never got it...I love illusion masks and the like, but gave up on that one ( well, switched servers, too )

Edited, Nov 19th 2009 12:58pm by yenwangweh

Vaniki in Dragon Necropolis for the Willsapper. Only real good thing about it was that mobs still gave some xp. Almost 3 years now I think since I got it. I literally never left that zone for 3 months. Anytime my bags were full, I would log in my druid account, transfer items and have hime sell. I hated the camp and loved it with a passion.

Anyone besides me in here ever done the Whistling Fists quest?

The final task is a turn-in to Cazic-Thule in Fear. However, every Paladin in Norrath killed him like clockwork. Add to that hassle the fact that one had to kill or evade everything in Fear except C-T himself and that made for one hell of a long wait to finish the quest.

I'll add that when I finished, I did it solo at lvl 56.

I remember the first time I did the "temp" quest being really long...


but part of that was because at the time people thought you had to kill ALL the mobs on the beach, so I was doing that,which meant I was only killing the placeholder every 60th(?) mob...

Second time took me two kills...

My least favorite...yet the one I remember being most excited about after I got my drop...was the VT shard from Maiden's Eye. I seriously almost shed a tear of joy after finally getting that drop. Not only was the camp stupid long, but at the time, you also had to compete with the people that wanted to use the zone for experience.

Come to think of it, most of Luclin was filled with crazy long camps...VT shards, Shissar Ring, Shissar Bane weapons, Seru Bane weapons...

Anyway, like some others I have also gotten lucky on some camps...I have done the 1.0's for Warrior, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Ranger, and Mage and can't really recall any horrible time at any one camp.

Like someone else mentioned above, my first real camping that I did was for Dylin Starshine or wahtever his name was for the Testament of Venear quest. I still remember finally getting him at 4am before work one day...made me smile all day even though I got like 2 hours sleep. Good times.

of all the time I've spent playing EQ and camping him I have NEVER seen Lord Gimblox. NEVER.
I gave up and moved on.