Glacier Bear / Ice Bone Skeleton Spawn Times

[Hasbinbad]

This spawn time should be much longer than it is according to alla comments:

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=3714

He has an 8hr spawn time. He also has a wandering place holder, a ice bone skeleton. In addition to watching out for Sulon,who doesn't roam, there is also a lvl 45+ lich that walks around down there with his pet, and he is a beating. Keep your eyes open :)
It definately DOES have a 6-8 hour spawn, but it's a rare spawn. Every 6-8 hours there's 2 possible places it can spawn, one by the hall to the necro, and one by hall to the skele shack with the wizard rod for ice comet i believe. But every 6-8 hours it may not spawn, instead, 2 ice bones will.

I killed the ice bones, and instead of porting out and coming back 8 hours later, I waited on a lark, and sure enough, the spawn time is set to like 10 minutes or something. This makes the glacier bear very easy to spawn. This directly contradicts the numerous horror stories listed on alla replies from as early as 2000.

Also, I never saw a level 45+ wandering lich. Coincidence or ??

[mgellan]

This spawn time should be much longer than it is according to alla comments:

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=3714

I killed the ice bones, and instead of porting out and coming back 8 hours later, I waited on a lark, and sure enough, the spawn time is set to like 10 minutes or something. This makes the glacier bear very easy to spawn. This directly contradicts the numerous horror stories listed on alla replies from as early as 2000.

Also, I never saw a level 45+ wandering lich. Coincidence or ??

Actually I think it's 7h 20m (I used to specialize in tracking the GB spawns for my guildies) like clockwork after the skellies died, 10m is way not Classic! The Lich, as I recall, was kind of variable and I certainly didn't go looking for him if he didn't wander by!

Regards,
Mg

[Pyrocat]

I'm fairly certain it's about 8 hours. Only the wandering skeletons have a chance to spawn bears, and they don't respawn in 10 minutes. Perhaps you're killing the static skeletons?

[Hasbinbad]

I'm fairly certain it's about 8 hours. Only the wandering skeletons have a chance to spawn bears, and they don't respawn in 10 minutes. Perhaps you're killing the static skeletons?
On Project 1999, the wandering skeletons spawn every 10 minutes or so.

I was able to spawn the GB in about 45 minutes.

[Droxx]

Hasbin's info on the skellies is correct. They currently spawn in about 10 minutes. The wandering lich (Lich of Miragul) is not seen because it is a mob for the pally epic, and likely won't be seen until the Plane of Air is released.

[Hasbinbad]

Hasbin's info on the skellies is correct. They currently spawn in about 10 minutes. The wandering lich (Lich of Miragul) is not seen because it is a mob for the pally epic, and likely won't be seen until the Plane of Air is released.
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[nilbog]

Fixed, pending update

[Talori]

Well, one of the skels is fixed. There are 2 wandering ice bone skels. You have 1 that is now the correct long timer, but the other one is still on a 7 minute timer. Both are supposed to be on the long timer, and both are supposed to be place holders (killed the other one for almost 7 hrs to see if it was flagged as ph - no bear).

[VictoryARC]

/facepalm

[nilbog]

Well, one of the skels is fixed. There are 2 wandering ice bone skels. You have 1 that is now the correct long timer, but the other one is still on a 7 minute timer. Both are supposed to be on the long timer, and both are supposed to be place holders (killed the other one for almost 7 hrs to see if it was flagged as ph - no bear).

From what I see, there were 3 skeletons wandering there. 2 of which can spawn the glacier bear, every 8 hours.

Pending update:
The 3rd skeleton will be static.

[Phallax]

I was wondering about this when i camped him, got my pelt rather quickly. Glad to see a change. Might up the pricing of the helm also!

[dredge]

From what I see, there were 3 skeletons wandering there. 2 of which can spawn the glacier bear, every 8 hours.

Pending update:
The 3rd skeleton will be static.

so I have been in cave for close to 2 days now and have only seen 2 wondering skeles total

are you sure this isn't broken?

[Extunarian]

In the Nilbog post you quoted you can see he decreased the number of wandering skeletons from 3 to 2.

The correct number of wanderers is 2, both of which should be PH's for the bear, and both should have the ~8 hour respawn time.

The third wanderer was a mistake and was changed to a non-wandering (static) spawn.

[dredge]

Thanks
the info posted here is correct.
I got my pelt

[mgellan]

From what I see, there were 3 skeletons wandering there. 2 of which can spawn the glacier bear, every 8 hours.

Pending update:
The 3rd skeleton will be static.

It would appear that this cycle is currently broken, I've been in the tunnel a few times and only encountered one wandering skeleton once, usually none except the static spawn. I killed that , and the static spawn and no bear spawned 8 hours later. I need this bear please fix thanks!

I've never seen the Lich but that may be because ppl are killing him?

Regards,
Mg