Is Caleb broken?

Tried spawning him tonight and I have no idea how many Nervas my team defeated. But it was a lot. Heard a report from a member that had tried previously with zero success of spawning him.

Is he broken or have they changed the method?

hes very particular way of spawning, you basically have to kill 100 nerva daemons, and then he will spawn at dusk once 100 daemons have been killed, another caveat is that the demons have to be on thorn isle

basically its just kill nerva daemons till he spawns, sometimes it requires a bit of patience though

Did that a couple times. A full team defeating them. Not getting 100 would be more of a shock.

in my 3+ years of playing i think i have only seen the message of him spawning like 5 times. could have been a lot more as i wasn't specificaly looking for him, but he also is a flying GM if it helps.

A week ago I was on a full team trying to spawn him. By evening #2 There were two full teams still no sign of him. Evening #3 we had 2 1/2 teams hunting. Still nothing. Halfway into night #4 We were down to 1/2 a team looking. Then one of the recently departed teammates spots him on his way back to mainland.
Caleb had been hanging out just off the island with a few buddies way up in the air. :/ I have a feeling we spawned him everyone of those nights and just did not see him.

Yeah so you might want to have two or three people with some form of fly break off at sunset and look on and off the island for the sneaky ba....

oh and FYI there was no event message. Nothing. Nadda. Might have saved us a lot of time and loss of people if there had been.

During the day, we had a team of 8 defeat the Spectral Demons, then when the sun went down, the Event Messege Popped up saying he spawned.

Took us almost 10 minutes to find him, which he was about 500yrds in the air. Good luck finding him once he spawns, thats the hard part.

So...which is it? Event message or no event message? Because that makes a MASSIVE difference to the hunt. And yes, I have villain zone event messages turned on.

There is most certainly an event message once he's out, but getting him to spawn is another story. I was able to get him to come out at least 3 times in the past without any problems, but like others above.. I recently had a full team killing Spectral Demons for over the span 3 day cycles, and he still never appeared. I personally counted over 100 kills for myself alone within one cycle.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but there does seem to be an issue.

I just tried it solo. In one sunup-sundown cycle, I accounted for, going by the combat spam, around 250+ Nerva Spectral kills. With no Event Message of the spawning of Caleb.

I wonder if he's borked in that he'll only spawn after a server reset/reboot.

The event message will sometimes be inaccurate. Last try (2 weeks ago) we gathered together a bunch of us and started slaying ghost on the thorn isle (and near). We killed more then the required number and we did get the event message that he had spawned.
So we went on the search for him... "Oh Caleb, you can run, but you cannot hiiide!"... Well he did manage to elude us until daybreak.
So we hit them ghosts again.
Night time came, there was no event message, but we searched and searched, nothing.
So at next daybreak we slaughtered the ghosts again (narrow minded we? or determined, hellbent?.. yes)
Nighttime came again and we had no event message... and lo and behold one of our team mates found him. And we killed him.

Then the next night circle we saw once again the message that Caleb was spawned. I have a feeling he would be spawned 2 more nights in a row after first getting killed. (But that is me)

I remember trying to solo spawn him not so long ago, and I did see him briefly whilst flying around at night - I actually flew past him before I recognised who it was, and as soon as I spun around to chase him, he'd vanished - so I'm guessing that he does spawn but despawns after a very short period of time.

As for the event messages, I thought they only popped up if the GM was aggroed by a player

Anytime I'm on a Caleb hunt I circle around the island using a "targetcustomnext caleb" bind to check the area in case he's already been spawned previously. Sometimes that is the case.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I'm just wondering whether Caleb has no despawn ability (similar to Winter Lord and Hami). In that case, once spawned, he will float in the air and laugh at your attempts to spawn him again. Given that player needs to be not farther than 100 feet away or so to spot him, it can be the case of why you were having problems to spawn him.

Good lord, a GM that has stealth AND spawns several hundred feet in the air? No wonder I've never been able to find him or confirm whether he was spawned or not. Would be nice if he was made a little easier to find (can't even guess whether or not he's difficult to defeat).

Tried it again today with two different methods. The first was defeating Nerva Spectrals along the beach around Thorn Isle.

No luck.

Second attempt was defeating them up on the actual grass bits.

Again no luck.

Flew around constantly hitting the bind key for Caleb and didn't see a bloody thing. Went up to the ceiling, went to the War Walls, went through the forest on the adjacent island a bit. Not a sign of the bugger.

I'm fresh out of ideas and patience to deal with this.

I just did this today with another group of players on Pinnacle. I'm not sure if there are issues on your server but Pinnale worksd fine.

During the day we defeated the Spectral Demons, kept killing until night time and Caleb spawned with no problems. We did not stop killing after X amount of kills, we kept going, not sure of the exact number needed to be killed, but it could have changed, who knows.

Had the same thing on Guardian a while ago. We were killing like crazy people and could not get him to spawn. Eventually we petitioned it and a GM spawned him.*

I take the point he's hard to find, but sometimes I think he is a little ... more tricky than I'd expect for WAI.

Me and some other Freedom players took him down last night. There was an event message, we headed there, our leader $targetted him for the rest of the team, then he vanished. Once the sun came up, we began killing spectral demons and he came back no problem, but that time there was no event message.

Hi all,

on Virtue 30 mins ago. Unexpectedly got on a Caleb team of 8 and spent three ingame days/nights defeating and not spawning the prey.

I sent a petition and the whole team cheerfully kept at it.

After 40 minutes with no response one member had to go and that started a cascade leaving.

I was sending a second petition and looked up to see I had the star as I was the only one left!

As these things happen I immediately received a tell from a GM informing me Caleb was about to spawn at my location. Eek and he did. But he also took off at great pace and despawned before I could even fire off one attack.

I screamed over every channel I could for the team to get back to Nerva and started to ask the GM for another spawn.

Guys started flocking in and the GM respawned Caleb by me. That was a fun minute trying to respond to the GM, invite the guys back to the team and engage Caleb to stop him clearing off again.

As it happened we got 6 of the team back and took the Ghostie down.

The chat log was definately worth a reread. There were skid marks in the sky where our members did a panic return to the island

The GM was fantastic and understood what was occuring and helped us out, our thanks to her

We never got a proper spawn and never got an event notification.

My advise is to try the usual way and if that is unsuccesful send a petition and give them time to respond. After a decent interval petition again still being very polite!

And just hang in there till they get to you, because the wait is still better than the thankless futile attemps that may never get you the badge. We all had horror stories of earlier attempts.

Have a good spawn