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Originally Posted by Izmael
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I did the epic a year ago or so and spent a couple months tracking both Verina and Vessel.
Leave rushing to them on quake / server reboot to people who don't know better. You're a chanter, use your brain. Both mobs are casters and will start casting their buffs immediately upon popping.
Set up a Gmail account if you don't have one already. Add it to your mobile phone. Find the most annoying and loud ringtone you can find on the internet and set it as the notification sound for emails which have a subject starting with 'POP:' (Gmail allows that, find a guide somewhere).
Park a level 1 character near the spawn spot and set a GINA trigger (or a 1-line shell script if you run Linux / MacOS and have half a brain) to watch your EQ log file for "<mob of interest> begins to cast a spell" and send you an email when this happens. The email's subject must begin with 'POP:'
Make sure the whole chain works by testing it on common caster mobs somewhere.
Now just log on your tracking mule near Verina or Vessel (doesn't have to be LoS - casting message can be "heard" through walls) whenever you don't play your real characters, and wait to be notified of the mob popping.
This guide works for any caster mob really. I got both Verina and Vessel with minimal effort this way.
From my experience, both Verina and Vessel will be highly contested when they pop. You really have only few minutes to engage the mob. But since with my method, tracking them is so easy, you can afford losing a few spawns to competition and get it when you get it.
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That sounds like a very solid method. Though you don’t need to min/max at EQ like this to get them. In my experience tracking method matters less (with Verina anyway) than your ability to FTE her FAST and survive until she’s down or your friends have shown up.