Zed Sticklebush  

Spent about eighteen hours at the Poachers camp. Only saw Zed Sticklebush twice the whole time.

Did a video guide recently on the camp with some of the strategies. Zed Sticklebush is a RARE spawn but I eventually got the mask. This is by far, one of the worst camps. Mobs were not hard to kill though. https://youtu.be/Um-4mnkTxgg

I went and camped this mo fo right after I did Halfling mask(20+ hours) This took me bout 5-8 hours. I tried both leaving nameds up and kill all. I dont know what was bettr tbh. What I think is better is kill all because while waiting for zed to spawn the other nameds will wander and either dispawn or they die from the animals that they attack.. Zed pop'd 3 times for me twice in Tent same spot both times. Then he spawned at the bondfire and dropped mask.

I was clearing poachers to get Zeb to spawn. I had just killed the last one and ran around to the campfire to wait for the next round and Zeb was there waiting for me. I had at least 6-7 minutes before the normal poachers were due to spawn again so that leads me to believe this particular spawn point west side of the campfire (and maybe others) are not on same spawn timer as generic poachers.

I guess it doesnt matter to me, I dont think I'll ever be back. :)

Well, I can attest to the following.....keeping the other named up is working well. Zed spawns in one of three locations for me. 4th position by the campfire, mouth of "circus" tent by the water, and right side pole closest to water side of "circus" tent if facing in from water side. No pint in killing anything other than the 2 ph's in tent location and keeping campfire clear. Have been here 15 hours over 2 days, Zed has spawned 11 times....zero Burnoose drops. Reminiscent of my GB camp for my pally back in the day, very annoying.

i am now here 9 days over 70 hours clearing camp 9leaving names0 keep west point clear blah bl;ah blah 9 days and no sign of him, hateful game

this bandit dropped the head and the nice sap stained gorget for my core rules druid, just 1 head to go now

Edited, Feb 28th 2009 11:37am by Fleven

As of 8/11/2008 it still drops, Left the names up (didn't seem to really matter) Zed popped in Tent and dropped Burnoose

I have been camping Zed for the mask for four days now. From 5 to 15 hours a day. Basically there are 19 spawn points that pop every respawn and one spawn point that is special at the west side of the fire. The special one does not pop every round in fact more like every 5-10 repops. And it may pop at an off timing from the others. I am not sure yet if it is completely random. The special spawn always spawns a named. Usually Reynold Blackguard. But sometimes Zed. So it will indeed increase the chances of Zed if you leave the nameds up unless they are in the special spawn point. Once Vauriel Sticklebush spawns in the Northern tent, you can ignore that tent, same with yranik in the south-western tent. If Reynold spawns at the fire in any spot aside from the special western spawn point leave him as well. Kill all nameds that spawn in the special point including Elishia Blackguard. Also I camped this with a 54 rogue, a 66 ranger and a 71 sk. The 54 could not single pull, and even the sk got agro from nameds at a much greater distance than trash mobs. So once you get Vauriel and Yranik in the tents, stay far away from those area's as they will agro on you through the tents at a good distance, even when they are grey. Pull from the far end of the big tent and range/spell pull the fire mobs. If you are 60 plus you caneasily single pull the mobs, even the named thus leaving the mobs you want left up in their positions. Just trying to help others and maybe save some painfully boring camping.

i left the names up and got the mask in 6hours from the big tent pretty sure ------->http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q27/glenemarr/EQ000096.jpg helped alot other tent had 1 named up also

So far i have killed this guy 13 times...most ALL times have been from 2-2.5 hour respawns...

at kill #7 he spawned 4 times in 1.5 hours......at this point i havent done anything different, all the same killings


(update...as im writing this)....brb going to go kill Zed....


Bah, kill #14..he respawned 30mins since last kill, he dropped Boots and Head again..

anyways, I guess the fastest way i been killing this camp is to use Ward of Reprisal. im a lvl 75 Cleric and its a lvl 72 spell. Even when Zed is up i still pull the whole camp..(had more Zed's spawn like this so far) Once i pull the whole camp i out run them towards the river and cast WoR.. I kill them in less than a min.

As far as the .."leave the named up" part you guys are talking about. i have done that for 4 hours, and alot of other things.. So far it seems that he is just a random (different spawn points) spawn.. but mostly on a 2-2.5 hour repspawn timer..with some fast respawns built into the timer.

1) He spawns in the big tent in 3 different spots, that i saw myself.

2) He also spawns at the camp fire in 2 spots (when he dropped the Noose, he was at the camp fire...closest to the tent that spawns Reynolds. Now Reynolds also spawns at that camp fire.

I sure want this for my wife and i wont stop untill i get it.. i love her :)

Ill keep you updated on anything new /wave

*NEXT DAY AFTER I GOT NOOSE*

Anyhow all in all i killed him 18 times. only thing i saw different when i got my noose was that at the camp fire, there are 4 mobs that spawn... about 3 hours before #18 Zed spawned, there was only 3 mobs for the next 3 hours... SOOOOoo maybe a tell/tell sign??





Edited, Nov 24th 2006 5:05pm by Nidachi

Okay, he's definately not on a 2 hour timer as some have suggested previously. I had him spawn back to back for me, but after I followed the directions of leaving the named mobs up. Once I did this, I started have him pop all the time!

Edited, Mon Apr 17 14:57:08 2006

As of 03/27/06. Did the camp for about 2 hours. I just killed everything at the firecamp and inside the tent. Saw 2 named at the firecamp and Zed finally spawned in the big tent with 6 spawns inside. Got mine on first kill, just big luck i guess.

Btw the named at the firecamp seems to depop... one spawned while i was looking for someone to join me in a raid to avoid TLC and despawned shortly after (~10 mins).