Verina Tomb

This is me, someone who has camped this mob for about 300 hours now, please do something about this mob. I am sorely getting tired of waiting on her only to have 25 people roll in from various guilds and kill her. You can fix the Undead bard but not this trash?

Currently, standing at her spawn after being there since saturday 11pm cdt, and 25 people are waiting on the spawn.

awww that's cute.
come talk to me when you spend multiple weeks without sleeping more than 2 hours a day waiting on vessel.
but good luck to ya. keep doing what you're doing

They sort of fixed it already; her spawn window is much more generous than the original 2 to 7 days.

It took me 9 spawns to get her. I've seen 10 spawns, with 8 of those being in sequence. Waiting 300 hours doesn't add up for me. If you've been there that much, you should know what her window is and thus not be waiting so much.

Ever wonder why those guilds can appear out of thin air? They know when to appear. Leave a char there afk with logging enabled and look at the spawns. It's really not that miserable once you figure it out.

I spent most of that time during Kunark. I was there during most spawn windows but only had myself to try and kill her.

I've personally seen over 16 hours variance in her spawn timer and it's quite possible larger. There is a 4 hours window she spawns in about 75% of the time but, contrary to popular opinion that isn't her window, which can make her very frustrating to get. Also, unscrupulous people have ways of killing of people who are logging for her window, which i've witness multiple times.

I think that 4 hour window is more probable than 75%. Of the 8 samples I have, I saw a 4.5 hour variance. In any case, it's much more workable to have your guild camp some chars there to just hang out for those few hours when she's likely to spawn than the extended period that many think is her (possible?) window.

comparing Verina Tomb and Undead Bard is comparing apples and oranges... Verina while a longer respawn will always be up til shes killed by a PLAYER...

Undead Bard sadly requires not only Trakanon to be killed when hes not a target people kill anymore yet still has the hasten respawn time for being on a TLP server.. Then you had to wait for the undead bard to spawn and then get a group and kill the undead bard spawn before respawned in the short window and killed the undead bard.. So there was always a CHANCE the undead bard wouldn't have been killed by a PLAYER..

I had a harder time with PoH drop than VT. Track a kill, park a couple of epic monks and a cleric there and profit.

While I understand the frustration to an extent, I can't help but think the 300 hours you claim is a gross exaggeration. If it is NOT an exaggeration, then you simply don't know how the spawn works. Because if you spent 300 hours legitimately camping VT at valid spawn windows, it means you have been at every single spawn for about 5 straight months without getting it. You also may want to consider getting some additional friends/support when she is getting close to spawn.

I spent a couple weeks on and off camping VT in mid-Kunark when the major rush had died down. I missed a handful of spawns to massive guild p-socks, but was able to catch a spawn during a weekday morning that was relatively uncontested.

Personally, I think they should just make both VT and VD a 24 hour spawn time +/- a few hours like most raid bosses.

What they should do is make bottleneck mobs' spawn rate increase depending on server population since they refuse to make picks of these zones. It would achieve the same effect.

Of course if they did fix her like they did the undead bard, you'd need a large well-geared raid force instead of a small group. Would that improve your chances much?

Come on over to Lockjaw, Verina is usually just standing there unharassed

Here it comes folks. The slippery slope of people begging for developer intervention when it isn't needed. we don't need this. The variance being around 4-5 hours is fixed enough. Its an epic weapon for a reason. EPIC son... /e whispers softly... "Epic"

Isn't this the fundamental nature of most phini players? They want everything NOW NOW NOW. The people who complained all day on the forums Started on Ragefire, moved to Lockjaw, then to Phini. Anyone who can remember, will note the timeline of complaint threads followed the exact same trend. SO WEIRD.

That's kinda like taking your car to Bud's Sketchy Service and Repair with the open sign only half illuminated and the greasy attendant smells like socks and cabbage, when there is a state of the art repair shop right next door with the same prices. Sure you might have to book an appointment at the good place and wait, but there is a reason that no one goes to Bud's.

Then the people not willing to go to Bud's should stop complaining.

Where I guess "NOW NOW NOW" means before two expansions have passed and the item becomes obsolete?

They should consider themselves lucky, lots of epics are already obsolete. Sorry phini isn't custom crafted for each individual players needs. Earn your loot, or accept that there are other options if you can't handle that '25' other people are needing the same item as you.

LOL at the "earn your loot!" crowd still going strong, still oblivious to the fact that several of the 16 year old epic quests were incredibly poorly designed, a fact that has even been acknowledged by devs who corrected some of the quests, while ignoring others.

Waiting pointlessly for hours and hours doesn't challenge a player's ability, but it might make them reconsider their life choices. Like, "Why am I sitting here staring at a spawn point instead of adventuring, meeting new people, and slaying new enemies?" For those of you like to do pen and paper rpgs, imagine the DM tells you, "Okay guys, we're going to roleplay you waiting for this monster to show up, and we're going to do it in real time! It will be anywhere between 1-6 hours from now, and you don't know when!" The players would roleplay having better things to do and go find a different GM.

Make Verina Tomb a 3-4 group mob that's triggerable and I bet you'll find that people can "earn" their enchanter epics through the power of their ability to socialize and make friends with enough people to do it.

Who says the quests were poorly designed? You… the subject matter expert? Waiting pointlessly does seem ridiculous, but that’s what all of EQ was for the most part. All those things you listed about “why am I sitting here” can still be achieved while camping the spawn. You’re just being close minded about it because you know and understand the best solution that fits everyone. Comparing pen and paper game where it’s a few friends one evening around a table of munchies and monsters is not appropriate to compare to a game requiring large amount of cash, subscribers, and professionals to maintain. They aren’t the same. So yea… DM… go chew on a brick I’m not waiting for that. You’re suggestion seems reasonable and something I would welcome. See…you can offer ideas without being rude and obtuse though. Your social skills might need some polishing.


Good luck to you sir or ma’am.

i'm in the "earn your loot crowd"
i've spent prolly close to 40 hrs from 6 different verina sessions and 3 vessel sessions and im NOT an enchanter

So, who will now raise the Kronos issue and fuel things up, hm ?