So how exactly are you supposed to get the badge for defeating Caleb?

When 1, the big ectoplasmic pancake spawns but you spend the entire night cycle flying around trying to find him but fail to somehow miss the giant ghost thing, and 2, you spend the next day cycle beating the crap of out lesser ghosts, only when nightime rolls around, he doesn't spawn. We didn't even get the spawn message. The first spawn message was what drew me to the zone in the first place and I spent a good 15 minutes flying around at the very tippy top of the map looking for the guy.

This is the second time I've tried to take on Caleb and failed outright to have him be FINDABLE once we got him to spawn.

It's REALLY getting annoying.

Getting him to spawn is so time consuming in and of itself, having to play hide and seek with him is downright obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

from what i know of caleb, he has some stealth on him so have to be within about 100 ft of him to even see him unless you have very good perception

he does not immediatly despawn upon daylight and can be flying around almost anywhere in nerva, once hes done flying he will go to seemingly random spots and just camp out (this is likely the case since he didnt despawn), when he does spawn he is usually about 100 ft in the air (coupled with the stealth its a bad combination) plus he also moves fairly fast too

i personally feel that the caleb GM spawnings and stuff need to be more standardized (put on a timer or something so hes up more consistently and have more designated spawn/end spots like the ghost of scrapyard)

Don't really want to reinvent the wheel, but there are a lot of threads in this forum with great advice on how to find him once he's spawned, where people have successfully looked, etc. It's obviously a situation that people encounter quite a bit, as it comes up so regularly, so I recommend searching for the various threads, giving them a read and then trying to get a team together. Hopefully you'll find some of the advice worthwhile and will be successful. (Arcana's post, for example, is full of win as usual.)

Best of luck!

I have seen a heap of different methods on how to get him. Have tried them all..and have still only seen him TWICE IN FOUR years. The spawning is clearly totally buggy, and it seems to be more luck than anything else.

i wish he just had more uptime, i made my ill/cold rogue so i could actually hunt more GMs since blueside has twice the number of GMs with pretty much all of them being on timer spawns

redside has 4 GMs, but only 1 of them is regularly up (scrapyard if you havent guessed lol)

deathsurge is up every now and then (he gets killed pretty quick)

caleb is rare as heck and should have his spawning/pathing changed

and the arachnos flier is on a long timer but once spawned is only around for about 20 min and is just overall easier to get the badge for in an STF

Caleb will never de-spawn. Once you get the message that he has spawned he will be in Nerva until 1) Someone defeats him or 2) The server is reset. So, if you get the message and don't find him, you do not need to go back and kill more ghosts. If you kill ghosts all day and do not get the message it means he was already there in the first place.

When hunting Caleb after he spawns, set up a bind or macro to target the ghosts that are following him (assuming that no one has already take out all the ghosts) and don't try to target Caleb himself. He moves too quickly and has too much stealth for him to stay targeted unless you happen to be almost on top of him. So target a Spectral Daemon. You can follow them until you get close enough to Caleb to maintain a target and follow him instead.

When I was looking for him with my main; we had about 8-16 people looking for him.

Someone finally found him just a tad NW of the Thorn Isle...he was in the water probably about 50-100 yards from the island/shore.

Setting up a macro/bind helps too.

I brought my scrapper villain side to work on the villain badges.
Does running Focus Acc give enough perception to find him or do you still need yellows?

I flew all around Thorn Isle with a macro set to a button with his name on it clicking it repeatedly and got nothing.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Caleb has no known stealth powers.