AC in Sro

[Sizzle]

Wondering if anyone has seen the AC spawn in Sro as of lately?

I had some issues with PHers i think or im just not killing the correct ones, the dervs that wander and SGs are that little hill east of the DE camp... follow instructions on Zam and a couple of my PHs spawned @ 5 instead of 8. Yes i killed them at 10am like it says. wondering if spawn times might be messed up here or not. anyway if anyone has seen the AC in sro or can help me out here that'd be awesome thanks in advance :)

[Stickyfingers]

Camp it in OOT Imo. I don't know the deal with SRO, but I have like never seen it pop there, even camped it with a friend for like 8 hours with no pop in SRo. Went to OOT and got it to pop within an hour in the two times I have camped it.

[Sizzle]

yea that was my next step to do the OOT AC. Will just need to find some help go go warrior solo? O.O Thanks for the info.

[Chodan]

My buddy just got the AC in sro yesterday, so yes, it still does spawn.

I hear people saying there is a trick to spawn him however, I'm not sure about tricks so I suggest you just murder everything that moves.

[Izzni]

Your problem is that 8pm isn't night. You need to kill at 11am instead of 10am.

As for details on getting him to spawn:
There are three spawns in the dame spot. One on a 6 min timer, one on a 20ish minute timer, and a last on a 30.6666 minute timer. The 30.66666 minute one is the ACs PH, once you figure out which one it is you don't even have to kill the other two.

I had him spawn on Sunday, so this isn't hearsay.

[Chodan]

Post a screenshot and a loc of these spawns, sir! Thank you :)

[Izzni]

Look for someone sitting on a hill in So Ro. The spawn point is about 20 feet in front of them. And no, the static zombie has nothing to do with anything.

[Qaedain]

ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION SROHusamAncientNightfall
MONSTER_1_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME an_ancient_cyclops
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 10

MONSTER_2_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_mummy
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 20

MONSTER_3_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 10

MONSTER_4_NAME a_dervish_cutthroat
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30

MONSTER_5_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 30

Translated
The Ancient Cyclops has five placeholders:
A Desert Madman (30% spawn chance)
A Dervish Cutthroat (30% spawn chance)
A Mummy (20% spawn chance)
A Sand Giant (10% spawn chance)
A Desert Madman (10%)
-------------
TOTAL: 100%

The 10% "A Desert Madman" can also be the Ancient Cyclops, and he only spawns at night: 9 PM - 7 AM game time.

[darkblade717]

I was there for over 24 hours straight and it didn't spawn. Someone suggested trying it out in OoT, despite the mob being a little harder. With some not so bad XP off of the cyclops PH I got him in a couple hours.

[Crover_CT99]

Camp it in OOT Imo. I don't know the deal with SRO, but I have like never seen it pop there, even camped it with a friend for like 8 hours with no pop in SRo. Went to OOT and got it to pop within an hour in the two times I have camped it.

I am echoing the statements above. There is some serious EQ voodoo involved in the SRO one, and from my experience it spawns far less than OOT.

Experiences will vary, but I was part of getting 3 rings at the OOT camp, and each time it was within 2 hours. Once it was the 3rd or 4th spawn.

Good luck!

[HippoNipple]

What are the specifics on the OOT AC? I have always gone for the SRO one, mostly because I could solo it the earliest (sometime in early 30's).

I looked up the AC in OOT and got several different answers, I guess his spawn loc/ph changed as time went on.

On p1999 what island is he on, and what is the PH?

Also what does my necro need to be to solo?

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

no voodoo, it isn't like live tho. shoot me a tell in game, if i'm near sro, i'll show you.

[PhelanKA]

Also what does my necro need to be to solo?

If ZAM is accurate and he is 31-32 you should be able to easily solo him at 29+ provided you are SOW'd. I was soloing giants at 28, but it was rough at times. However they are more along the lines of ~35. Also I highly recommend using Engulfing Darkness instead of the level 29 snare (Dooming) in order to conserve mana in case you get a few resists. Just kite it with darkness, boil blood, leach, lich spell on, and let your pet do the work. Also keep your level 1 disease dot up in case you need to get aggro away from your pet.

[Gibcarver]

I camped the Sro spawn for 20 hours straight with nothing, then after 3 hours (on my birthday no less!) of killing the 30 minute PH he spawned.

On live my total camp time was almost a hundred hours(weeks of a few hours at a time) so this time around it seemed easy =D

[astarothel]

I already spilled the beans on how to optimally camp SRo AC on P99 in another thread on these boards.

[Izzni]

The massive amount of confusion stems from a few things:

1) Night and day are an hour off on this server.
2) The AC spawned in more than one spot on Live, or at least it used to.
3) Bullshit theories about how killing various static mobs has an effect on things.

The reason why the AC spawns in one spot on this server is that a EQ developer supposedly spilled the beans in a forum post as to how it worked, and everyone takes what the guy said as the gospel for some reason.

[Qaedain]

Not supposedly. He did it on 12/3/2008 (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=143508#2086357).

He posted it because the JBoots quest no longer involved the AC at that point.

[mmiles8]

1) Night and day are an hour off on this server

Not anymore. Night runs from 8 to 6 now. This may be your issue.

[azeth]

ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION SROHusamAncientNightfall
MONSTER_1_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME an_ancient_cyclops
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_2_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_mummy
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 20
MONSTER_3_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_4_NAME a_dervish_cutthroat
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30
MONSTER_5_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 30

[Omnimorph]

I got ac the other day in South ro. I was dubious about the times on this server so was leaving the phs till 11. This necro chap kills my phs at 10 I tell him ac is camped etc, he moves on, ph spawns I kill it and at 6am just as I'm about to log, ac spawns :) so not only does he spawn, the timer on this server works just like on live so you can have 2 chances per night.

[Izzni]

You would have proven it worked like it does on live if it had spawned at 8pm. It spawnng at 6am really doesn't tell you anything other than 6am still being considered night.

[mmiles8]

I said this on the previous page but perhaps you missed it. Night is no longer an hour off on the server. Night runs from 8 to 6 now. Go to Kith and see for yourself.