NPC Spawn Issue: Cazic Thule

[Dolalin]

I found a PoF guide on the XegonyAlliance website, last updated March 2001, which describes Cazic's death touch behaviour a little:

Cazic Thule Says Your Name

When you see this, it means that Cazic Thule is kind of annoyed with the entire concept of people "raiding" his plane, and he decided to take matters into his own hands. If the person who gets the death touch was in the West camp at that time, Cazic Thule now is aggro on the entire camp and will begin to death touch someone every 30 seconds or so. When this happens, you will have to do one of two things:

If you are fighting something, kill it and kill it fast. After that, watch for the raid leader to call the CAMP command. When you see this, sit and camp, and pray you save your ass. Leave the game for 3 minutes, then return to the game. This will clear the Cazic aggro on the party. If you are not fighting, just look for the camp command. Do not camp until requested to do so. The leader makes that decision, and you will look like a cowardly fool if you camp out with no command only to find that the person that caught the death touch was not in the camp. Save some embarrassment and wait for the signal.

also:

Once you have pulled as many MOBs as you possible can without aggroing Cazic himself, get everyone to buff up. Once everyone
is buffed, designate someone as the death touch sacrifice (usually a gnome) and rush Cazic.

When your sacrifice gets there, he will be death touched first thing. If Cazic doesn't seem to be awake, have him cast on Cazic.
That'll get his attention fast. Once the death touch has passed, kill Cazic.

When Cazic is aggro, MOBs that are anywhere nearby will come after you. So if you haven't killed some MOBs yet, prepare to mez
the train that comes when you are killing Cazic. Sometimes you'll have 1 glare lord that's still alive. No big deal when this happens,
just kill CT and get a chanter to mez the glare.

and:

Fighting Cazic Thule

To prepare, cancel all the buffs you have on and, when given the signal, place 4 disposable buffs (or "crap buffs") on yourself. My
personal preference is to use J-Boots first, as you can quickly reactivate them after they are debuffed. At the command, begin
normal buffs. Put Dead Man Floating or Levitate on as the final buff, as this negates his Gravity Flux damage. Wait for the call, and
charge him and kill him. Not really much to it. Like dragons, casters want to wait until the halfway mark to begin casting on Cazic
Thule while the tanks work it down for the first half. Cazic isn't very magic resistant, so casters are going to do really well here. He
hits for 400 sometimes so he's a pretty rough melee MOB. He also death touches people every 30 seconds. If you have a lot of
magic resistance, they're a slim chance you could survive this, but it's not bloody likely. Tanks are essential. They MUST interrupt
him using bash, stun, etc. Casters, when not casting, have to stay out of melee range. Healers are an absolute must considering
how much damage Cazic will do to the tanks and how long they have to fight him. He has the ability to dispell buffs as well, but the
worst part of this is the MOBs in the zone running at you. That's right. The moment he's attacked, he will summon everything left in
the zone at you. This is why you want to do Cazic last. You want to clear all the MOBs in the zone that you can away before taking
him on. There's a big trick to doing Cazic though, and that's Fear. Cazic is extremely susceptible to Fear spells. If you keep him
Feared and just plow him with large scale DoTs and such, you can't fail.

Seems Cazic 1.0 should be fearable (if he isn't already).

And some spawn info:

The respawn cycle on MOBs in PoF is 13-14 hours with Cazic and Draco set to one week.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010706...s/pofguide.pdf

[Dolalin]

A few more interesting things from that guide.

1) CT 1.0 should be deathtouching during the Dracoliche fight (if he doesn't already)?

Dracoliche - This looks like a huge Ashenbone Drake from Plane of Hate. If you have never seen one of those, you have never seen anything that looks like a Dracoliche. All I can say is that it looks like Vox or Nagafen died, decomposed, then returned to life with just its bones. This is Cazic Thule’s number one guardian. This bone dragon is a shadowknight with a pet. Attacking the Dracoliche always aggros Cazic himself, and throughout the battle with Draco, Cazic will be death-touching constantly, as well as sending in reinforcements.

2) Fright, Dread and Terror during Fear 1.0 only had coin loot? And also aggroed Cazic for the DT spam I guess:

Fright, Dread, and Terror - These are Cazic Thule’s little buddies that have temples located around the zone. They are large versions of the three golems from Cazic Thule. Fighting any one of these will also aggro Cazic. They drop nothing but some spare change. Their special skill is usually Blind.

Original source of the guide is this webpage captured March 2001:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010306.../pofguide.html

[Dolalin]

More confirmation that Cazic 1.0 should be both snareable and fearable:

Easiest way to kill Cazic is the same way every necro kills outdoor mobs, plain and simple:

Engulfing Darkness, Fear, pet, nuke.

Cazic is very susceptible to fear spells, making him easy as hell to kill. Basically, using this method, not only will it require minimal amounts of people, but it will also end up with almost no deaths. Keep him feared, DoT'd, have people nuke, and put all the pets/tanks on him, and he'll drop in no time with no problems whatsoever.

http://web.archive.org/web/200103062...zicthule2.html

[Dolalin]

Looks like CT's death touch was not zonewide until hateplane release:

Nov 16, 1999

Never put dear in it, but I have got go ask you, why was Cazic Thule's touch
of death upped to be zone wide? He's instaklling people that are on the
other side of the zone. I mean..why is he even doing it if he's not aggro on
them? Fear plane is hard enough as it is. The zone in point is not safe,
finding a spot or area to set up fort is not easy...it's actually very, very
difficult...and now you add these zone spanning touches of death. Please
remove it (asking nicely of course =)). Being instantly killed by a monster
you can't even see while in the middle of a fight with 3 level 52+ mobs is
not uh...something to be desired.

I'm asking...suggesting...that you look over the changes that you've made to
the plane of fear, in regards to the zone wide death touch(and remove
it)...

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.game...m/a3Jakm02oBoJ

[nilbog]

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

The respawn cycle on MOBs in PoF is 13-14 hours with Cazic and Draco set to one week.

There seems to be a lot of evidence pointing towards 8-16 hours for fearplane respawn. Anyone know if this changed in era (pre-Luclin) ?

[nilbog]

All research discovered so far indicates an 8-16 hour respawn of common npcs in fearplane. Currently, they are all exactly 8 hours.

This will likely change prior to next patch, so any contradictory evidence would be appreciated.

[nilbog]

Pending update:

-Common npcs in the Plane of Fear have an 8-16 hour respawn time

[Dolalin]

Screenshot of a pre-revamp CT raid where they are calling to re-fear CT in shout:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040304...l/eq000103.jpg

And another call to fear him in OOC:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040304...l/eq000098.jpg

[Dolalin]

Found a screenshot of someone looting the post-revamp Cazic pre-Luclin, in case it's useful.

He dropped 8p 19g 19s 3c and had 4 loot table items (three cloaks and a pauldron) plus a cash drop (earring).

https://web.archive.org/web/20060502...s/eq000185.jpg

[Dolalin]

That screenshot, despite its URL path, *could* have happened during Luclin, so I've kept looking for more occurences of 4 drops from post-revamp CT (which I'm not sure is possible on P99 at the moment).

The Enlightened Dark guild page has kill/loot history all through velious and I found another instance of 4 drops from CT in April 2001.

a Brain (Cinella), a Cloak (Motts), and two Chokers (Tywin and Themy in time for Ranger BotB =).

https://web.archive.org/web/20031203...s.html?month=2

It didn't happen all the time; their previous and subsequent kills were 3 drops. But it could happen.

Again, not sure if this is correct/incorrect on P99 as I haven't raided in ages. But documenting it just in case.