Lake of Ill Omen: a sarnak courier - Resolved

[Glitch]

Spawngroups look like they're working great, thanks!
The only problem is that the spawn rate is too low. Currently the courier is set to a 1% spawn chance, and according to alla and other sites about the spawn, farmers were getting him to pop in about 10 to 20 minutes chainkilling PHs as they popped.

Spawn rate needs to be boosted to around 10% chance or so.

He was never supposed to be a particularly rare spawn, it's just his ring that was rare.
That.... is dropping right? ;p

[bordbard]

I agree 100% with Glitch, seems to take way to long to actually get a courier to pop compared to what people have said from live. 10% sounds about right.

-Bord Erline

[Glitch]

Just to provide some backup data for the spawnrate of the courier from alla quotes, average spawn time while following a single spawngroup seems to be around 10-15 minutes.

I finally got this ring after 17 hours and roughly 50 couriers.

[approx. 1 courier every 20 minutes]

followed your spawn table with a ranger to help me, and the courier spawned within fifteen minutes.

you need to keep killing the newest (up on the list with "normal" sorting) spawns that match these and you will get a courier every 15 mins or so.

This is a GREAT post I followed it to a T, and I am getting 2 - 3 courier about every 15 minutes

I got a courior to spawn within 10 minutes and it dropped the hand I needed for the monk quest...

Within 20 minutes I kille dtwo couriers

After that we found another one 15 minutes later

I started getting 1 courier every 5-10 min with this method.

Either way. it's pretty clear that 1 courier every 15 minutes is the average rate that the mob would be popping if you were actively trying to get him to pop while following a single spawngoup.

So after doing the math, on the current 30second repop timers, if the spawn chance of courier was set to 3.333%, it would yield approximately one courier every 15 minutes.

[Fatch]

Originally Posted by Glitch [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just to provide some backup data for the spawnrate of the courier from alla quotes, average spawn time while following a single spawngroup seems to be around 10-15 minutes.


[approx. 1 courier every 20 minutes]

















Either way. it's pretty clear that 1 courier every 15 minutes is the average rate that the mob would be popping if you were actively trying to get him to pop while following a single spawngoup.

So after doing the math, on the current 30second repop timers, if the spawn chance of courier was set to 3.333%, it would yield approximately one courier every 15 minutes.

I agree with Glitch. I did a single spawn group the other day for 4 hours and was getting the courier to spawn once about every 45 minutes. So 3.333% spawn rate for a single spawn group makes perfect sense. Great work Glitch.

[nilbog]

Modified for next patch. Let me know how it works out.

[Isic]

Has this changed? I have been camping the courier for the past 5 days and killed about 10 in 20+ hours of camping. I keep the PH cleared out pretty regularly. It seems he has a very low spawn rate.

[Qualvin]

Yeah I know this is an old post, but I do have to agree with folks here.

Spawn rate for the courier seems to be extremely low.

I've been camping this guy on and off for several weeks now.

yesterday morning, I was finally able to identify one spawn point by the lake which I proceeded to camp for several hours (don't remember exactly). In that time I was averaging about 1 courier an hour or so.

This morning I was able to identify a second spawn point for the cycle which is also showing a similar spawn rate.

All I can say is... this is gonna be a very long camp LOL

Fonix the Tonedeaf bard