I got 2.5 weeks left in the semester (crunch time), and then I will be willing to do Quillmane 24/7 again for a month straight, still at 4K, still the cheapest price on server. :)

I've looted a half dozen cloaks with never killing the lioness.

That's what I am talking about! I'll look for the bumpage of your EC thread ;P

If you have a fifth wheel that can take the time to hunt the lioness down, sure, but we're going for ezmode with 4 people. elephant calf spawns at the same spot meaning you don't have to move and get a PH every 45 seconds. hunting lioness requires someone to move around KFC to kill it, most likely meaning that elephant will have already respawned and started roaming by the time you get back to it.

Only half a dozen?

You're doing it wrong. If you have four people:

1 person parked on calf
1 person roaming KFC to Paw for lioness (preferably tracker but doesnt need to be)
1 person ping ponging from hermit to cent huts tracking QM
1 person at SW corner where QM can potentially spawn

Using this method I have reliably spawned QM once every 5-10 minutes.

Too much work. lol

QFT. The lionness can be the trigger, but it seems to be a rarity. Calf is way more important to watch, but lionness can cause a missed spawn.

From the EQEmu coding I have seen after researching Quillmane, both calf and lioness have same probability to spawn Quillmane. So rareness based on spawning or not spawning Quillmane is strictly the random number generator. Fastest sure way to spawn Quillmane is keeping both placeholders locked down as this creates twice as many random chances for Quillmane to pop.

However, obviously keeping both placeholders down takes more work/people which is a trade off for number of people on spawn points/tracking near spawn points. Hypothetically, best possible situation is 3 people on the spawn points and 2 people killing placeholders, but this usually isn't feasible/is overboard.

A ranger or druid, or anything for that matter can lock down both the lioness and calf at the same time. Have a bard run the routes at lightning speed checking for the spawn, ez pz; have never been in SK for more than 2-3 hours looking for a cloak for alts/friends.

Question: Does the Calf or Lioness PH respawn if Quillmane is up?

I got my cloak awhile ago camping the calf, and I don't think the calf respawned while Quillmane was up. However, a friend wanted to camp Quillmane last night and he was under the impression that you need two people to do it, one to kill the PH and one to track Quillmane, because the calf does respawn even if Quillmane and the Lioness are both up. Asking around we received three conflicting responses:

1) Yes, the calf PH will always respawn even if Quillmane and the loiness are up.

2) No, once Quillmane spawns from killing the calf PH (and the lioness PH is still up), the calf PH will not respawn.

3) The calf PH will skip a spawn when Quillmane pops, but then respawn at the normal spot ~90 secs after Quillmanes spawn time.

My money is on #2, but I decided to crowd source the official answer.