Spook

[dspeed]

Anyone have any advice to camp this NM? Somehow when I tried to camp this it always get claim before I can claim it. Thanks in advance for the advices.

[neighbortaru]

Re: Spook

set a claim macro and stand behind the tree where everyone else is so you don't target anything else. also remember he'll respawn 1 hour after the last person killed it, up to a max (iirc) of 4 times in the night.

[dspeed]

Re: Spook

how do i set the claim macro?

[sigraph]

Re: Spook

how do i set the claim macro?

example Nr.1:

/ja Provoke <stnpc>

hit it, and it will target the grave, wait for spook and select it with the blue arrow and Enter.

[Haggai]

Re: Spook

Charm also works well if you have BST unlocked.

[distrox]

Re: Spook

With ur keyboard, stand in front of Tomb, usally Spook will pop in front and u can just hit F8 to target him then use ur /ja provoke macro

[eticket109]

Re: Spook

set a claim macro and stand behind the tree where everyone else is so you don't target anything else. also remember he'll respawn 1 hour after the last person killed it, up to a max (iirc) of 4 times in the night.

Its 3 times, and the 3rd is only about a 50-50 shot.

Spook will appear first shortly after 20:00. the second pop can vary between 23:30-00:30 but sometimes falls out of that range. the third pop is usually between 03:30-04:00.

In the area around the tombstone there are 5 other mobs that will pop: 2 bats and 3 skeletons. the bats pop a bit before the undead usually and have enough seperation on their timer to not cause a problem. the issue comes up with the skellies. they usually pop within seconds of spook. however, if they are all killed a bit before or after spook, then it throws the timing off enough that spook pops alone.

the trick that I always used involved a job that had radar, such as bst or thf. if you set up the respawn timers well enough, you'll know that the only dot to appear in spooks alloted time will be spook.

you can stand to the side behind the tree or behind the tombstone. doing so is only necessary if you use a /targetnpc macro. if you know that spook is spawning next though, you can just use the menu to voke, charm, chi blast, jump or whatever. don't look at the main area of the screen. stay selected on the job ability menu and make sure it will take you thru to the one you want to use. focus on the radar, and as soon as a red dot pops up in the center, spam thru the ja menu. I usually found charm to be the fastest.

it takes a few times thru to really get it down. once you get that strat down you should be able to beat any casual camper with ease. it's about 50/50 on anyone who bots though. I camped spook for about a year off and on and stopped once someone set up a mule that botted and claimed about 80% of the pops. the bot was just high enough to win without much issue but it took forever to kill which always fucked up the spawn rate.

One last note, and my biggest pet peeve. If you can't kill him fast then please don't kill him. I don't mind losing claim to anyone usually... but it always pissed me off to see a level 20 or so grab him and take 5 minutes to kill. while there is no direct formula that I know of, killing him fast typically results in a 3rd pop. By camping him at a low level, people continuously rob other campers of that 3rd chance.

[kRUSTY]

Re: Spook

why bother camping the spook 99% of people who do use bots , my best tip would be go as rng use shadowbind you will even beat a bot 70\30 if u can get in2 the rythm of it an get it off fast

chances are though you'll waste alot of time try to out claim bots at any nm which i the major reason camping nm's blows

its sad that se dont do more about bot users i recently got booted from one of my high end ls's because i was told to use bots to help the ls camp nm's an i refused so i was booted thats ifrit for you alot of ego tripping "single" fools who use every cheat hack an most prob buy there gil as well lame

bring on the server transfer feature SE cant wait ! it cant come quick enuff

[LyonheartLakshmi]

Re: Spook

I was in KRT to do an NPC fellow related quest. I saw that it was around midnight, so I decided to drop by Spook's spawn point to see if I could nab him.

/sea showed that the zone was relatively quiet, with only a few players above level 20 there. When I showed up to the tomb though, there was one player there camping Spook -- a level 17 Galka WAR with no sub. He managed to beat me on claiming Spook when he popped, and seemed to handle Spook with ease (Spook's HP was dropping much faster than his).

Made me realize how RMT friendly this NM is. You can create a new char, and you don't even have to unlock subjobs to be competitive in camping Spook.

[eticket109]

Re: Spook

yeah, there's one guy on our server who's had a mule at spook for years now.