Major Game Breaking bug or gm gone bad

[therodge]

<p>their have been players on test running around with 50-80k hp and basically max stats, my question is either someone is bugging out hollow hedge or has a dev or gm gone mad and given them the gm uber buff?</p>

[Kurindor_Mythecnea]

<p><span style="color: #ffff00;">who are the players and what is hollow hedge? ;p</span></p>

[therodge]

<p><cite>Seliri@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #ffff00;">who are the players and what is hollow hedge? ;p</span></p></blockquote><p>im didnt take the names down i will next time i get a chance though, i have encountered it twice, one was a wizard (oppisite faction) that had me and a x2 beating on them and although they were taking massive amounts of damage, their hp was going down extreamly slow, and were casting faster and harder then any player could against a group of PC charichters (parsed them at almost 20k dps in a little longer then one minute fight) Edit: cigam this is the live charichter <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=361759122">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...terId=361759122</a></p><p>that said im not trying to get anyone banned they dont deserve that im just curios if this was something given or an exploit</p><p>second was a scout of the same faction who had maxed stats and was runnign around ss with 65k hp ganking people. yes he was in mostly teir 4 but that is just impossible through gear.</p><p>rascouldbe/a says out of character, "varshik, were you get the dev avatar buff? :p"(1251910081)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:01 2009] aPC -1 Varshik:Varshik/a says out of character, "*grin*"(1251910084)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:04 2009] aPC -1 Varshik:Varshik/a says out of character, "that'd be telling"(1251910091)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:11 2009] aPC -1 Cleverascouldbe:Cleverascouldbe/a says out of character, "i want 50k hp! :p"(1251910103)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:23 2009] aPC -1 Wribbit:Wribbit/a says out of character, "he is up there lol"(1251910110)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:30 2009] aPC -1 Cleverascouldbe:Cleverascouldbe/a says out of character, "goodie"</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=1463810104">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...erId=1463810104</a> live charichter</p><p>that said hollow hedge is the nek instance, in the start you get a buff were everytime you kill an enemy it boosts your stats by the end of it your sitting between 50-80k hp similier power 3k hp and power regain, insurmountable dps/haste/spellcrit castingspeed etc (im talking between 500-1000 dps mod etc even though it still caps at 125%)</p><p>at the end you solo a x2 werewolf when you zone out the buff disapears. under normal conditions</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=1463810104"></a></p>

[Bratface]

<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is much like the harclaves encounter, you get uber buffs that help you fight the mob, it only during this encounter that you are this buffed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not a bug or exploit, simply a nifty new encounter.</span></span></p>

[therodge]

<p><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is much like the harclaves encounter, you get uber buffs that help you fight the mob, it only during this encounter that you are this buffed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not a bug or exploit, simply a nifty new encounter.</span></span></p></blockquote><p>you misunderstand me, these people are not in the instance anymore they are in the open world pvping with 50k+ hp to reiterate the x2 i was referring to was a 12 person raid of players not a mob</p>

[timetravelling]

<p>I'll check with gninja and make sure the buffs don't persist through zoning =P</p>

[Gungo]

<p><cite>therodge wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Seliri@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #ffff00;">who are the players and what is hollow hedge? ;p</span></p></blockquote><p>im didnt take the names down i will next time i get a chance though, i have encountered it twice, one was a wizard (oppisite faction) that had me and a x2 beating on them and although they were taking massive amounts of damage, their hp was going down extreamly slow, and were casting faster and harder then any player could against a group of PC charichters (parsed them at almost 20k dps in a little longer then one minute fight) Edit: cigam this is the live charichter <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=361759122">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...terId=361759122</a></p><p>that said im not trying to get anyone banned they dont deserve that im just curios if this was something given or an exploit</p><p>second was a scout of the same faction who had maxed stats and was runnign around ss with 65k hp ganking people. yes he was in mostly teir 4 but that is just impossible through gear.</p><p>rascouldbe/a says out of character, "varshik, were you get the dev avatar buff? :p"(1251910081)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:01 2009] aPC -1 Varshik:Varshik/a says out of character, "*grin*"(1251910084)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:04 2009] aPC -1 Varshik:Varshik/a says out of character, "that'd be telling"(1251910091)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:11 2009] aPC -1 Cleverascouldbe:Cleverascouldbe/a says out of character, "i want 50k hp! :p"(1251910103)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:23 2009] aPC -1 Wribbit:Wribbit/a says out of character, "he is up there lol"(1251910110)[Wed Sep 02 09:48:30 2009] aPC -1 Cleverascouldbe:Cleverascouldbe/a says out of character, "goodie"</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=1463810104">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...erId=1463810104</a> live charichter</p><p>that said hollow hedge is the nek instance, in the start you get a buff were everytime you kill an enemy it boosts your stats by the end of it your sitting between 50-80k hp similier power 3k hp and power regain, insurmountable dps/haste/spellcrit castingspeed etc (im talking between 500-1000 dps mod etc even though it still caps at 125%)</p><p>at the end you solo a x2 werewolf when you zone out the buff disapears. under normal conditions</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=1463810104"></a></p></blockquote><p>I dont think you cna get banned on test i think the idea is to try to bug out the encounters so that they can remove the bugs =P.</p><p>But ya if this buff is breakable and able to be bugged out when this zone goes live. This will be a massive exploit.</p>

[Gninja]

<p>I have been keeping a very close eye on this and I haven't been able to reproduce these buffs coming from the Hollow hedge. This is one of the reasons the zone completely resets when you leave the instance and all those buffs should get stripped whether you zone out naturally or you LD out.</p>