Jack in Irons? Rediculously rare spawn?

SO what's up with Jack in Irons? 8 hours of killing Eochai, and still not a single badge hunter has spotted Jack during that time. Does he spawn once/day or what.
(Herculon got him earlier)

Yeah, well, were in the same team right now Sing, and i think we just hit killing Eochai ... 35 times.. no Jack..

None in #defiant events has seen him, none in #defiantbadges have seen him... on villains that is...
..except for Herculon about 10 AM today.
...Is the flyer bug bugging Jack too?

Yeah i though we were lucky diddnt quite realise how lucky, have any villains that weren't on my team this morning encountered jack, as i havent heard of another sighting.

Is Jack Piloting the Flier (or riding on top of it cigar in mouth as suggester by @Battler)? maybey he now lives under the sea with friendly crustaceans, as i havent seen him in paragon or the Rogue Isles

As I said in General - in Grandville this evening I was around for two Jack spawns. One I just missed, the second I got. I expect whats happening is teams are getting him, and not broadcasting it.

Seems about okay for a rare, but event spawn.

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SO what's up with Jack in Irons? 8 hours of killing Eochai, and still not a single badge hunter has spotted Jack during that time. Does he spawn once/day or what.

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Erm ... I hate to tell you this, but not long after you, Max and Rabbit logged off for the night, I went back to Grandville for some Trick or Treating, and ... well, before I got any one of those badges he had already spawned three times.

Bet that was a GM spawning'em, due to all angry ppl. Still say there's something seriously wrong with the spawn frequency! Even the Flyer seem to spawn more often, despite the fact that one seems bugged too - still!

Yes, logged off because we had been searching for it all day. I don't care if it spawned a zillion times just after that, the day was no more, and a lot of people had been out looking, and there was NO reports at all! I KNOW there was a lot of people looking in every zone!!!

We killed between 30 and 40 Eochai in Mercy eventually, after searching the other zones for hours. There was NO indication of Jack, because some of us searched other zones while in Mercy. And we had contact with other people through different channels. And I am not talking about the official channels.

Hard to find is one thing, impossible is another. It does not help that it spawned late at evening/night, when a lot of people had simply given up, and gone off to bed.

This was a rather poor start for the event, and only helped to fuel some general resignation and anger towards a system, that failed to deliver.

While MMORPG's may be all about wasting your time, it's a fair assumption that a day searching for something that cannot be found, is a day that could have been used better. ;-)

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We killed between 30 and 40 Eochai in Mercy eventually, after searching the other zones for hours.

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More actually. IIRC your team had defeated him about 30 times before I joined you.

After I joined we took him down 23 more times before giving up.

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We killed between 30 and 40 Eochai in Mercy eventually, after searching the other zones for hours.

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More actually. IIRC your team had defeated him about 30 times before I joined you.

After I joined we took him down 23 more times before giving up.

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Ah, well. Sorry. Lost count, after a while. At least I don't exaggerate then. LOL.

I really had no wish to play today BTW. I'll be back later. ;-)

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first time i loaded my stalker for event and jack was in grand

was same for heroes, first morning it started, we owned him

BUAHHHHAHHA :P

Well... what have I noticed so far:

* Jack has been reported in the morning, mid-day and evenings.
* In-between that he's not spawning?
* It doesn't matter how many Eochai you kill, but as long as Eochai is out, there's no Jack, so you'd better still keep killing him
* Once Jack has spawned once, he seem to respawn several times within a short period. 6 times wednesday and at least 6 on thursday.
* Before and after that he just simply *does* *not* *spawn*!!!
* All villain spawns on Defiant has been in grandville?
* Most spawns has been in the Fab? I know of one spawn in the west spawn point, and heard of one on the N/W beach.

Anything I've missed so far?

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Anything I've missed so far?

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Yeah. Positron says that he won't spawn in a low-level zone, as in below level 20. That means Mercy is out and Cap is chancy. Above that, most of the people are in Grandeville, which would explain why that's the only place he seems to pop up...

We killed Jack in St Martial , in the lvl38-40 cobbled area , full of wailers battling freaks, that was at appx 2.30-3am today.

Sorry the details are a bit sparce but the whole thing was a spur of the moment job as we were on our way to a door mission, and seeing this thread is whats prompted this post.

Anyway hope its of some use to some of you.

Best of luck

We've killed him twice now. Once in Grandville and once in St Martial. Not entirely sure what spawns him truth be told, but we were running around PO at the time killing Eochai about 8 times. Does 'seem' that there are set points where Eochai respawns, so maybe same applies for Jack which should reduce the ammount of faffing around servers searching for him.

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Positron says that he won't spawn in a low-level zone, as in below level 20. That means Mercy is out and Cap is chancy. Above that, most of the people are in Grandeville, which would explain why that's the only place he seems to pop up...

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Yep - it was also confirmed by Bridger (emphasis is mine):

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Exactly. If you want to find Jack, defeat Eochai in any 20+ zone (in City of Heroes terms, that's Talos Island and higher).

Wandering around looking for him won't make him spawn. Only defeating Eochai will do that. And the more Eochais that go down, the more Jacks will spawn.

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