Spawning Quillmane

[Gerf]

I decided to play around with spawning quillmane following the guide here (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1063641). I spent quite a while running around tracking and killing lionesses and calves in the suggested area; however, none of them were targetable by the "/target #" trick. This trick did target the named gnolls as the guide suggests.

Does anyone know if this trick still works or if anything notable changed since the guide was written 2 years ago?

Thanks for any info.

[B4EQWASCOOL]

Try this. Log in, go to EC, or if you're gloriously red /ooc from anywhere, "WTB Peggy cloak." Makes that fucking unicorn appear every time for me.

[ridiculousmoose]

It was changed a while back. No longer works that way.

[maestrom]

what did /target # do?

[-Catherin-]

what did /target # do?

There was a hidden symbol in a named placeholder's name that allowed you to target them using that command, literally allowing you to identify the placeholder. it was changed so that it won't work on things like Quillmane anymore

[zanderklocke]

Yeah. Can't edit the guide.

[baalzy]

the p99 page specifically says the /target # trick doesnt work anymore, before you get to the guide which was written before that was patched. if you're a tracking class it shouldn't be too hard to nail down which lion/calf are the PHs.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Do yourself a favor and find three friends to sit at spawn points while you kill ph's. It's a total pita camp, and the last thing you will need is spawning Quillmane, but then it gets ganked because it's on other end of zone. Unless you are doing this at total off-hours, I would not recommend doing this solo. It willlead to heartbreak.

[Swish]

Can confirm I did once gank a Quillmane that was unattended and I was too naive at the time to know how the whole setup worked. No cloak though :(

[Pipip]

I've given up farming quillmane, mainly because I've only ever gotten the stupid pants to drop. He's easy enough to spawn when someone isn't already doing it. He also looks really cool

[Videri]

I've spawned a lot of Quillmanes and gotten about 8 cloaks to drop for myself and my friends. I'm riding in a car right now, so I'm going to take this opportunity to nerd out and share what I've observed.

There are exactly 2 trigger mobs up at all times: one lioness and one elephant calf. Not every lioness or elephant calf is a trigger; only one of each can trigger Quillmane. Each one respawns instantly when killed. They spawn anywhere in the region approximately bounded by:
• the hill south of the Aviak village
• the low hill east of the Aviak village
• the southern edge of Splitpaw

The correct mobs either head straight north or walk westward for a while and then turn north. Once they start moving north, they go almost to Splitpaw and then turn around and go south. From then onward, they will then patrol north and south indefinitely until killed.

They head just a hair off due north or south. If you see a lioness or elephant calf moving at an angle more than, say, 30 degrees or so off due north or due south, it is not a trigger mob and you might as well not kill it. If you have a tracker with you, definitely don't kill it because you'll mess up the tracking order.

Another clue is that the correct lioness has exactly 94 hit points. If you hit it for 30 and it loses about a third of its hp bar, you've got the right one. I don't know if the correct elephant calf has a certain HP total.

When you kill a trigger mob, it respawns instantly in the region I described above. It also gives a small chance to spawn Quillmane. I believe this is also instant. Note that the placeholder mobs continue to spawn even when Quillmane is up. For this reason, I think they should be regarded as triggers rather than as placeholders.

Once you have killed the right lioness and/or the right elephant calf, you can start using track (for rangers, sort by "normal") to confirm each lioness or calf is the right mob. As long as you only kill the correct lioness and calf and don't kill the wrong ones, if you see a lioness or elephant calf on the top of the track list, you know it's the right one. This is why I prefer people don't kill other lionesses or elephant calves in the zone.

Once you have killed some trigger mobs, you need to check if Quillmane has spawned. She (I think it's a she) can spawn at any of the three locations on the wiki, and she paths as described there, but also sometimes moves north and south along the western wall.

I have seen people killing lionesses and elephant calves out near Quillmane's northeastern or southeastern spawn areas in an attempt to get a cloak. I can't say for sure that this doesn't work, but if it does work, you should notice the lionesses and elephant calves respawning instantly. If they do not respawn instantly somewhere nearby, you're just wasting time and you should go to the Aviak village.

Hope this helps.

[falkun]

He also looks really cool

Go to PoSky. Quillmanes, Quillmanes everywhere /BuzzLightyearWave.