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  1. Play.4.Fun

    Play.4.Fun Someday Author

    Am I crazy or there is only 3 Ice Minion Defenders on Iron Forest?

    After a 15min on map I only find 3 Ice Minon Defenders near the frozen statue. I need 50 shards to finish quest, so I need to wait them to respawn 17 times and pray that all of them drop shards.
     
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  2. DesertKoala

    DesertKoala Forum Pro

    There are a lot more on that map. There are a bunch on the far west side of the map extending to the north east. If you make a casual looping arc, you can clear that quest in about 30 to 60 minutes max.
     
  3. _Baragain_

    _Baragain_ Living Forum Legend

    There used to be 8-10 per map, but an update about 9-12 months ago changed that. Now it is the most tedious quest below level 40.
     
  4. BigPapa

    BigPapa Forum Overlooker

    The area around the bridge near the entrance to Eternal Watch will have between 3 and 6 that spawn. The map realigns every hour or so and their spawn point and number will change.
     
  5. Play.4.Fun

    Play.4.Fun Someday Author

    Long ago there are much of them in front of entrance to Ethernal Watch... today on that spot are just 3. Little more down, in the village, around big stone you can find slush monsters but no Ice Minions, and thay use to be also on that spot.... so map si EDIT in new realise. Today I just confirm that, 3 of tham and mostly 2 of them drop so its 25 respawn period.
     
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  6. Dragonnns

    Dragonnns Count Count

    Often you'll find others just sitting around waiting for them to spawn. Group up so you all have a chance at the shards.
     
  7. spiro_spula

    spiro_spula Forum Connoisseur

    The way I did it was to only kill the minions outside Eternal Watch and make sure no loot is left on the ground, including healing spheres. Then enter and exit Eternal Watch, and hopefully land in a different instance so you can repeat the process. I got the impression that leaving loot on an instance increases the likelihood of landing in that instance when you enter map. It is much faster to change map, even several times, than to wait for the minions to respawn.
     
  8. Play.4.Fun

    Play.4.Fun Someday Author

    Im not new player.... I play this game almost from the start. So little correction:

    After a 3 days of play. Ice Minion Defenders in Iron Forest can only be find on upper corner of the map and there are 5 of them. To be precise... there are one group of 3 and one group of 2 Ice Minions Defenders and both group respawn on almost same place.
     
  9. MegaNuker

    MegaNuker Forum Ambassador

    This is how I do the quest really fast. I have people from the guild go to iron forest. I the group with the one of them that are on a different map. I kill the minions on one map and use eternal watch to zone into the other drop one person and invite another repeat.
     
  10. Barbie

    Barbie Forum Apprentice

    :p I Finish That Quest In 60 Minutes!
    :eek: Just Keep Waiting For Them To Spawn ( 3 Every Minute ) ..
    :oops: I Always Find Players There , So I Make Group With Them Without Wasting Time!
     
  11. .anonymous1237.

    .anonymous1237. Forum Greenhorn

    I found none on the whole map and i searched for half an hour
     
  12. Graedon

    Graedon Forum Greenhorn

    50 shards from only 4 Ice minions that respawn every 3 minutes and drop 1-3 shards. There used to be far too many Ice Minions making movement through that area almost as tedious as this quest. I completed this quest once over several days on one character, after that I just skip it completely as there is no point to camping for days, I left Everquest a long time ago. The smart thing to do with the changes is reduce the number of shards needed to complete the quest to 10 at the most and each Ice Minion has a 100% drop rate. That last part might be hard for Bigpoint as their devs are really cheap about drop rates.
     
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