Went out and did my first Champ Spawn with my alliance mates. Was quite an experience and I had a great time. Was thrilled to see a 105 power scroll in my pack.. hehe

What strategies do you guys use when doing a Champ Spawn? I'm curious to see what kind of tips people might have since I'm brand new to the whole thing! :cheesy:

Depends on template(s), basics are frequently check avenues of approach (for raiders), stick together during tier's 3 and 4, move towards idol when tier 4 comes around.

Also depends on which spawn you are doing. Some spawns I would use pets, others I would stick with magery so my poor beasties didn't die so much.

Well you asked for it Syderbite......

Ok well first off you want to remember these following points:
1) You want to do it as FAST as possible, the less time you spend there the less time you have to get raided.

2) Expect to get raided, unfortunitly if you play Catskills you will probably get raided every spawn because MrTact in his infinate wisdom decided to make Exorcism totally useless.

3) Do not do the following Champ Spawns inside dungeons: Despise/Rat Spawn, Terrathan Keep/Spider Spawn or Reptile/Destard spawn(although we do get away with Destard more than once in a while). The main reasons is this is where the big guilds check for spawners to raid.

4) Know your character. There are few templates that do well at all spawns.

5) Listen to experiance, if you have any characters in your guild that have experiance at champ spawns make sure to listen to them.

6) Teamspeak is a very useful tool in champ spawns.

7) Do not use Enemy of One until the final tier or at all if you can do without it. It will get you killed quickly.

Ok those were just some quick pointers. Now here is a spawn by spawn pointer thingy:


Rat Spawn: EASIEST spawn to do. However very hard to find because of it. It will always spawn in the bottom of Despise, but it is also the most heavily camped spawn. Best for Tamers.

First Tier-Giant Rats and Slimes, release some EVs, poison fields, withers EQs whatever you want. Trick is to kill as many as you can as fast as you can. IF you are a warrior, find a high hit area weapon or use lighting strike.

Second Tier- Ratmen and Dire wolves, see tier one for strategy. But becareful of the Direwolves Pack Instinct, it can be hard hitting if you get surronded.

Third Tier- Rat Mages and Hell Hounds. This is usually the hardest tier. If you have a repond slayer bring it to kill the rat mages in a hit or two(especially if your a mage) and EV the Hounds.

Fourth Tier- Rat Archers and Silver Sepents. EVs and LOTs of them.

Champion- Barrcoon is pretty easy. He spawns a group of rats on you. He can also turn you into a rat(dismounting you and turning you grey).
Best way to avoid the rat turning is polymorph prior to attacking him or put on some savage kin paint. I believe he is weak vs Repond and Fire. FYI he too will change into a Rat and spawn a bunch of rats around him. If you are doing the spawn with friends I wouldn't worry about the turning grey thing, just tell them to not use Area Effect Spells(if your a warrior).


Reptile Spawn: Second Easiest and will always spawn in Destard. Use a reptile slayer if you have it. Best for Bards.


First Tier- Snakes and Lizardmen, pretty easy, Poison Fields from a Nox Mage work well, so does wither and ChainLighting

Second Tier- Ophidian warriors/Enforcers and Lava Lizards, just kill them as fast as possible, Chain Lighting works well.

Third Tier- Ophidian Mages and Drakes, this is where it gets tough. Kill the mages and then the drakes last thing you need if 12 mages casting on you. One Explosion/E Bolt combo usually takes down a Mage for me with a Reptile Slayer Spellbook.

Fourth Tier- Dragons and Avengers/Errants, tough but not too bad. I would suggest EVs for the Errants and Avengers and Chain Lighting for the dragons.

Champion- Rikkor is the easiest champ of them all. Drag him to a ledge and just start Mindblasting him(Mindblast doesn't work for Mage Slayer Books). Will die pretty quick, his specials include a EQ that does a lot of damage, wear High PR and you should only take 20-30 damage. He does it once every 10-20 seconds. And he doesn't cast spells, if you sick pets on him you just need to heal them using a combo of 2-3 mages or wands and normal G healing spells.


Undead Spawn: Third Easiest and the easiest for a warrior(pure mages have trouble here), it will always spawn in Deciet and is not normally. Use an undead slayer if you got it. Best for warriors. If you don't have a warrior, use a Necro mage and Wraith form.


First Tier- Wraiths and Ghouls, lots of chain lighting, or just wack em with an undead slayer.

Second Tier- Bone Magi and Mummies, Watch out for the Blood Oath from the magi, kill them in one hit and it does no damage, don't kill them in one hit you are screwed lol. Necro mages should use Wraith Form, Metorswarm and an Undead Slayer.

Third Tier-Liches and Skeletal Knights. Metor Swarm and Wraith form. warriors should concentrate on the Liches. NO Enemy of One.

Fourth Tier-Lich Lords and Rotting Corpses. Mages EV corpses, Warriors hit the LLs, mages keep the warriors healed.

Champion- Neria probably the second easiest champ, since she isn't aggressive(kinda), she doesn't really chase you down. She does throw Bones at you like the Dark Father, but if you summon earth elementals and attack, she usually dies in about 2-4 minutes and doesn't summon anything bigger than a zombie. Warriors use EoO and watch out for the spawn, because when you do a lot of damage to her she spawns high end stuff(which with EoO can hurt). Undead Slayers don't work for her.(well at least spellbooks don't).


Arachnid Spawn: Fourth Easiest to do, bring some orange Petals for the first tier. Will always spawn in Terrathans Keep, and is also heavily raided if done(because Terra Keep is the entrance to the star room). Best for Mages. Bring an Arachnid Slayer(or very least a spider).


First Tier- Giant Spiders and Giant Scorpions, use some petals and use an Archnid Slayer use Metor Swarm or Chain Lighting. Also Nox Mages do ok here with a DP Poison Field.

Second Tier- Warriors and Drones, fairly easy. Same deal as 1st tier.

Third Tier-Terrathan Mantriarchs and Dread Spiders, EVs and lots of them.

Fourth Tier- Poison Elementals and Avengers, this is a tough one, careful of the poison from both, if you have a bard use them, warriors take out the PEs mages Earth Elly the Avengers or Meteor Swarm them. An elemental Slayer would work well here.

Champion- Metaphis(or something like that), doesn't cast magic, but will paralize you in a web and teleport you to him. get a couple of warriors/earth ellys/pets in to melee him, keep them healed and cured and just cast away with a Arachnid or Spider Slayer. Bring GP pots too.


Abyss Spawn: Second hardest to do, will normally be camped because most people won't do this one because of the difficulty. Will always spawn in Fire Dungeon. Use your Demon Slayers if you got em. Also if you have a female character use her instead of any males(champion and last tier). Best for Bards, mages and Tamers. warriors do ok also.


First Tier- Imps and Greater Mongbats, PAIN IN THE ASS. I HATE IMPS! These things with pack instinct are insane. Best bet is to EV(even though they dispel them a lot of the time) or use a Demon slayer(if your lucky enough to have one) and Chain Lighting. Probably the second hardest tier of the lot.

Second Tier- Gargoyles and Harpies, TONS AND TONS easiest than the first tier. Just go at em.

Third Tier- Buring Gargoyles and Stone Gargoyles, get a gargoyle slayer at the very least and go at them. Beware of the Heat of the Burning gargoyles can make things turn ugly quick.

Fourth Tier- Succubi and Daemons, Succubi will drain the life of any male characters, so Polymorph if your a male mage, and run if your a male warrior. Just use the *drag and kill method.

Champion- Semdiar, I have heard she is pretty easy, but she is FAST. She also basically kills any males who hit her. So female characters doing damage with males healing and you should be fine.


Oaks Spawn: Hardest Spawn to do and very very heavily camped. Fey Slayer if you can use it, but I would just use a really good weapon. Bards are best along with tamers. My only real advice is bring a character with EXTREMELY HIGH KARMA. So you are not attacked by anything for a while. This spawn only spawns in T2A at the Forest Lord Spawn.


First Tier- Pixies and Shadow Wisps. Good Luck. Its just very hard you need 7+ people for this to go "smoothly". If you have a good karma miner, to prepare for this prior to doing this spawn, go there and dig up some Ore Elementals(Valorite and Shadow are best because they don't take a lot of damage from pixies).

Second Tier- Kirins and Wisps, Wisps are non agressive, so you can provoke them onto the Kirins or just provoke the Kirins. Or just kill them all. Best thing to do is kill as many Wisps as possible.(no karma loss)

Third Tier- Unicorns and Centaurs, centaurs are great for arrows and don't take karma loss, someone will have to kill the unicorns, tamer or bards work well and can get their karma really high prior to the spawn.

Fourth Tier- Serpentwine Dragons and Etheral Warriors, now it gets tricky. Contray to popular belief Serpentwine Dragons are actually non aggressive to anyone, if you stand still you will not be attacked by them. So for any bards stand still and provoke them onto Etheral Warriors. By this time you will probably be negitive karma and the warriors will attack you. So deal with them as fast as possible. Tamers must be very very cautious of their pets because Serpentwine Dragons turn pets wild. It does not work on White Wyrms though for some reason(or at least that I remember). But its just best to have a bard provoking them onto warriors.


Champion- There is a Main Champion, Lord Oaks, and a minor champ his Pixie bbbb...queen Silvani. A LOT of the time if someone raids it will be now. They will run in and drag Silvani off while preventing you from chasing them and healing her at the same time.
What happens then is you will need about 500 people to kill lord oaks because as soon as he gets below a certain level of health his queen(no matter where she is) will heal him continually. So normally if you don't get raided you will kill the queen as quickly as possible(she spawns pixies when she attacks you). Then you kill Oaks, Oaks has a life drain like the Etheral Warriors. I have only fought him 3 times, so I am not sure what else he does(because we were in a group of about 50 people each time). But he drops the most prized of all skulls, The White Skull of Knowledge(or was it Wisdom).

Each Champ Drops a Skull(to the players bag):
Barrcoon-Blue Skull of Greed
Rikkor-Orange Skull of Power
Neira- Red Skull of Death
Semidar- Yellow Skull of Pain
Lord Oaks- White Skull of Wisdom or Knowledge.

Gather all 6 skulls and place them in the star room and you will Summon the Harrower(that can be explained later if you want to know about him).


*Drag and Kill method- This is normally used for the last two tiers of the spawn, someone will run in and have about 10-20 things target them and they will drag it out to a clearing outside or on the edge of the champ spawn where everyone is waiting and they will just kill it. This DOES NOT work for the first two tiers(you just don't kill enough things).

Quick FAQ:
Q:Where is the Star Room?
A: When you kill a champion a gate will open for 5 minutes on the altar, this will lead to the star room, you can also go threw Terrathans Keep to get to it. It has a Public Moongate inside it, so you can leave or a teleporter to terra keep.

Q: What is the max number of scrolls you can get per champ?
A:12, 6 normally, then 6 more from Justice.

Q: What does justice do?
A: Use it to protect someone, if they get a scroll you have a chance to get a scroll, 60,80,100 per level(Seeker, Follower, Knight).

Q: How do you get the 12 scrolls, I seem to only get 8-10 max?
A: Two things are happening, you are not protecting everyone, or you are protecting everyone and you are also hitting the champion and being rewarded some scrolls yourself. Another possibility is a Red that is with you is hitting the champion. So what you should do is, protect ALL the blues in the area, have them kill them champ, while you and the reds heal and kill off any spawn that might arise.

Q: Where is the best place to do a champ spawn?
A: Personal Taste really, I do them in T2A whenever I can, but some prefer dungeons.

Q:How Long have you been doing champ Spawns?
A: Since they came out in Felucca. I had done 1 or 2 in Ilshenar prior to that but it felt like I wasted my time.

Q: I have this title now, it says XXXX of the XXXX, what is this and how do I get rid of it?
A: Its a champ title, basically it is ment to show that you have defeated a champion spawn. There are 3 tiers for each title, the third tier is only obtainable from the champion. The other two you get from the champ spawn itself. To get rid of the title you can use the context menu and select toggle monster title.

Q: I have seen a lot of titles XXXX of Evil, how do I get that I can't seem to get it from any champ spawn in Felucca or Trammel?
A: You get it from the Harrower, the level of title from the harrower depends on the number of champ spawn titles you are elligiable for.

Q: I don't like this title how do I switch to one of the others?
A: Kill the other spawn until you get it. Each kill you get gives you "points" for the title, kill more of one spawn than another you will get that spawn title.

Q: My team keeps getting raided by a guild by the title of SX!?, whats going on?
A: Your on Catskills and there is no avoiding it for now. I do pity you along with myself lol

Q: There seem to be these ghosts at the spawns and I have tried exorcism on them but it doesn't work, whats going on?
A: These ghosts are one of two things, they are either legit ghost cams with a player behind it waiting to call in a raid, or they are part of a illegal 3rd party app that lets subscribers to that app see all the champ spawns that are being worked. Exorcism does not work on them because they are not within a 8 tile radius of the altar. I have been asking the Dev team to fix this flaw and thus useless spell, but it has only been taken down as a suggestion by Ando. Hopefully this will be fixed soon enough and let us do champ spawns the way they should be done.

Any questions?

Wow! Thanks for that! *attempts to absorb it all*

Long ago I actually wrote a much longer version of that, made it for my guild on Catskills. Also made one for Doom.

*wonders if he could convince Luis to let him write up a few guides for Doom and Champ Spawns to be placed inside the "quest or skill guides".
Also now that I look at it, perhaps he should combine those into one called "guides" and have subs of quests and skills and General.

When are you doing a champ spawn again? so I can raid and kill you again.

Again? When did you raid and kill me during the spawn the first time? That was the first one I've ever done.