Pained Soul - respawn timer
 

I've been playing EQ for 15 years. I get that we need a level of difficulty to make this game what it is. However, I spoke with GM Braknar tonight to confirm and spawn times for 'pained soul' are slightly less than 1 per 40 hours and creating a bottle neck for a lot of really nice folks that just want to see VP content.

If there is some way you can adjust the timer I think many folks would be happy.
I was on Ozxx from ~1:30a.m EST to 10pm EST on 1/21/2016 and had 2 people prior to me, Ubenla and another person and got zilched. Sad when people have to give friends their info so they can keep a camp just so they can have lunch for an hour with their daughter.

Thank you for your consideration.
Fixx, 60 cleric
Townsaver, 60 war
Ozxx, 60 magician

So what's the bug?

Not classic.. NEXT

No bug report on Pained Soul will ever change anything. It is notoriously a low % chance to spawn and as a result is likely to be streaky and prone to bad random number generation.

If you think it's broken, it's likely a sample size issue.

If it doesn't spawn for 1 month straight, then there is probably something wrong. But if you're basing it off only 40 hours, that can definitely happen.

In my experience, a Pained Soul in 1hr40 minute is really fast. I thought it was a ~6m respawn with a ~4 hour average...I waited 16 hours for mine.

he is discussing an average of 1 pained soul per 40 hours

ahh. my bad.

I got mine in 6 minutes. This adds nothing to the thread, I just like to brag. RNG ftw.

It is an extremely low chance of spawn though, but I have heard of him going back to back a couple times as well.