01:24 . Oct 26 . 2017

Poseidus

Tonight I heard Poseidus has been spawming 4-6 hours after last kill, repeatedly, on all CRZs.  Did a brief search and found others commenting about this on the interwebs - will watch and see if it gets changed back to the world boss timer it used to be on.

At the moment the spawn timer, as it's called, is looking a lot like there are no spawns for 72 hours after a server restart or server maintenance. There are very few reports from time to time of people catching one far far less than 72 hours after a reset or maintenance. Most accounts speak clearly of waiting for 72 hours after servers come up after a reset or maintenance downtime, then only camping for less than a few days before they snag themselves a spawn.

The only known spawn spots are still the same five spawn spots as before 4.1 caused this mob to actually drop a mount. There are four in Shimmering Expanse and one in Abyssal Depths. They are presented in an image above. The other five images above are where you can sit and camp and see the moment there is a spawn. It is not uncommon for people to travel from spot to spot between the five spots. You can be above the water, as every other time in World of Warcraft, and see infinitely downward. So you can fly a pattern covering all five spawn spots and you will be able to see all the way down to the sea floor. This will also set off NPC_Scan / Silver Dragon. You can't see something without it being cached - and both programs trigger from the cache. (among other ways, with Silver Dragon)

It seems to swim around the general area it spawns in. Haven't seen anything really to indicate it strays more than a couple dozen yards from the spawn area.

The fight is interesting, it dies pretty easily and doesn't do too much damage - but it has some tricks. It'll heal the hell out of itself from time to time and do bubble attacks a lot, but it's not hard to kill it. It's a lot like fighting a poorly geared retarded paladin, little less bubble, little more shaman healing spells. If that makes sense. It's not a worry.

You learn Subdued Seahorse. It is the same speed in non-vashj'ir waters as the Sea Turtle mount. It is MUCH slower than the Abyssal Seahorse from the quest in vashj'ir itself.

As always, this section will expand as more information becomes worth posting. There's really not much to this, that we know of anyway.

note: IF YOU KILL POSEIDUS, TELL OTHER CAMPERS. Maybe not the stacking douches, but AT LEAST anyone you see out there that might not be a dick or people you actually know. What pisses people off more than stackers? Finding out after a 2 day camp that somebody nabbed it a few hours before you decided to head out and camp.

note 2: as of jan 5th 2012, you can make trial accounts, invite to party, take in a 2 person mount or have group, will travel, them, to all five spots to watch spawn spots. can't guild them to make them able to summon, but, you can have free eyes. only works in water world though, not storm peaks / deepholm. but uldum, yes. so get to making 90 trial accounts and stake out all the camel spawn spots. Good job Aggrocrombie (and all the people I can't remember before who may or may not have mentioned it.) hahahaha