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Smilkers
01-05-2012, 03:47 AM
Have been sitting where the tottering gorillas are supposed to be in EJ, but nothing seems to be respawning. None on track for 20 minutes now. I went north of stairs, as the wiki (and allakhazam) indicate.

Deanob
01-05-2012, 04:07 AM
confirmed working OK

Smilkers
01-05-2012, 04:34 AM
Just checked, still nothing. No gorilla spawns up here at all, to be clear. Will sit a little longer.

Smilkers
01-05-2012, 04:57 AM
Still nothing.

Smilkers
01-05-2012, 12:54 PM
Still no tottering gorillas.

Gmal
01-05-2012, 01:57 PM
He was up yesterday when we went to COM so I know hes working.

Smilkers
01-05-2012, 02:20 PM
I will check back later, but I really don't think so.

The totterings are NOT spawning on top of the plateau where they are supposed to be.

edit: I've run around this general plateau area for close to 2 hrs total without seeing a single tottering

Szeth
01-05-2012, 02:33 PM
If the area they're "supposed to be" isn't yielding anything... and you have a skill called track... maybe go look elsewhere?

I don't want to sound condescending but multiple people HAVE found them.

Keltai
01-05-2012, 04:23 PM
I spent hours in EJ yesterday before Smilkers posted this bug report, I killed 2 of them earlier in the day and scouted the [entire] zone for almost 6 hours and found none. I even killed other shit hoping they would pop, so he is not the only one making this claim.



EDIT: Checking EJ as this is posted, still none.

nilbog
01-05-2012, 08:41 PM
Kill more npcs. (high level ones)

Similar to magelo shows, it can spawn in a multitude of locations.

http://eq.magelo.com/npc/11294

Smilkers
01-05-2012, 08:54 PM
If the area they're "supposed to be" isn't yielding anything... and you have a skill called track... maybe go look elsewhere?

I don't want to sound condescending but multiple people HAVE found them.

I hear you, man. But so far my experience with the wiki is 100% accuracy. Guess this is an exception.

And thanks for the response, Nilbog. Have just run into nothing wrong with the wiki thus far, so it definitely seems like something is up with those spawn points in the northwest.
Will give it another shot running around elsewhere in the zone.

(thanks for backing me up, too, Keltai)

Daldaen
01-06-2012, 12:57 AM
Kill more npcs. (high level ones)

Similar to magelo shows, it can spawn in a multitude of locations.

http://eq.magelo.com/npc/11294

Those can spawn in a multitude of locations yes. But the ones that are Placeholders for Tainted/Corrupted only spawn on the upper plateau.

Seen here:

http://eq.magelo.com/npc/53443/tainted-gorilla

Uthgaard
01-06-2012, 08:02 AM
The tottering density is really high in the upper corner, looks like it's most likely a second spawngroup on top of the regular gorrillas.

nilbog
01-06-2012, 02:20 PM
Sigh. Guys, I didn't write the druid epic. The OP of this bug report stated how tottering gorillas weren't in abundance. If the root cause was a lack of tainted gorillas, I would have focused my attention on that :T

Will look into it some more in a while.

Daldaen
01-06-2012, 02:29 PM
Yea... I guess Smilkers wasn't exactly clear

Tottering Gorillas are the PHers for tainted gorillas. So the PHer for the mob wasn't spawning is the issue I believe. Atleast they *should* be the PHer for the tainteds.

And those that are PHers should only spawn in the North West corner of the zone and roam around the the plateau never on the jungle base floor. Up where Severelious spawns.

Smilkers
01-06-2012, 07:22 PM
Yea... I guess Smilkers wasn't exactly clear

Tottering Gorillas are the PHers for tainted gorillas. So the PHer for the mob wasn't spawning is the issue I believe. Atleast they *should* be the PHer for the tainteds.

And those that are PHers should only spawn in the North West corner of the zone and roam around the the plateau never on the jungle base floor. Up where Severelious spawns.

Exactly.

Tottering gorillas in the NW corner are what we need to kill in order to spawn our Tainted gorilla.
(no other gorillas elsewhere in zone will ever spawn our tainted, according to the wiki/magelo/allakhazam).

Without tottering gorillas spawning in the NW corner, we can never kill our Tainted gorilla.
I hope this is clear.

As of today, there are still no tottering gorillas spawning on the plateau.

Smilkers
01-06-2012, 07:24 PM
Sigh. Guys, I didn't write the druid epic. The OP of this bug report stated how tottering gorillas weren't in abundance. If the root cause was a lack of tainted gorillas, I would have focused my attention on that :T

Will look into it some more in a while.

And it's not just that they are not in abundance... there is not a single gorilla spawning on the upper plateau. None.
Thanks in advance (and so far) for the help, mods/GM-peoples.

Keltai
01-06-2012, 11:22 PM
Checked EJ again today with a ranger friend.. No tottering gorillas. And the ideas brought to the table (killing higher lvl mobs in zone, killing other gorillas on the plateau as well as on the ground area) I have tried. I have yet to hear of any spawning after the initial 2 I killed a couple days ago, and I have been pretty persistent with asking other ppl in zone if they've come across any.


Edit: A single tottering gorilla popped on the plateau [8:37 PST] PROGRESS =D

Daldaen
01-07-2012, 02:46 AM
Okay I have found the single tottering gorilla Keltai mentions, it has a 7min repop...

It spawns roughly near [Sat Jan 07 00:47:32 2012] Your Location is 3671.95, 2387.42, -17.71

Respawn is around 7 minutes:

[Sat Jan 07 00:30:11 2012] You have slain a tottering gorilla!
[Sat Jan 07 00:39:36 2012] You have slain a tottering gorilla!
[Sat Jan 07 00:47:22 2012] You have slain a tottering gorilla!
[Sat Jan 07 00:53:40 2012] You have slain tainted gorilla!
[Sat Jan 07 00:54:53 2012] You have slain corrupted gorilla!

The tainted that spawned started pathing down into the pit near CoM, which afaik isn't classic, it should stay up on the plateau.

Also there are supposed to be 3 tottering gorillas that could yield a tainted spawn, not one.

Smilkers
01-07-2012, 04:08 AM
Thank you for clearing it up, Daldaen!

Keltai
01-07-2012, 04:48 AM
I just got my corrupted. I sat up here on the plateau and killed everything pretty much.. leeches, skellys, mosquitos, trakaraptors.. about 25 mobs in total.

And a tainted popped, from what? Who knows lol but it worked this time =)

Smilkers
01-07-2012, 05:48 PM
So it seems like there are other mobs within the Tottering gorilla spawn cycle.

Just go to the location Daldaen listed and kill everything that walks past you.
I got my Tainted gorilla to spawn off of a mosquito.

Handull
01-10-2012, 07:59 PM
I found a spawn at 3700, 2400 that has "a tottering gorilla" on it. Last pop was a mosquito of some kind. This is my 3rd pop sitting at this loc, and my 2nd tottering. Seems to have a 7min repop. Hopefully it won't take much longer :)

EDIT: didn't take too long to get the corrupted after sitting at the spawn point

Beebo
01-15-2012, 11:16 PM
I got the tainted to spawn at that location...however it did not take just a little while...it took a long while. I resorted to quad kiting everything on the plateau only to be shamed by having the damn thing spawn on the spawn point I camped for 6 hours.

Beebo
01-15-2012, 11:21 PM
haha look how old my sig is

kanras
01-19-2012, 01:40 PM
Tottering gorillas in the NW corner are what we need to kill in order to spawn our Tainted gorilla.
(no other gorillas elsewhere in zone will ever spawn our tainted, according to the wiki/magelo/allakhazam).


Fixed, pending update.