Heritage Quest changes

[Jindrack]

For those currently working on Heritage quests, here are the specifics on the changes.  We want these quests to retain challenge but also want them to be more fun.  Please let us know any feedback you have as you work on the quests and encounter these changes.  Please DO NOT repost this information on the forums or anywhere else.  These specifics are for the players of Test server to give us informed feedback.

 

Bag of Sewn Evil Eye:

Chomper now has a PH "a hungry nibbler". Spawn rate 20%, default respawn time (6 min +/- 1 min). Chomper used to be a 2h +/- 1h respawn.

 

Flowing Black Silk Sash

The four mark monks mortal service forms (Lo'volonus, Burdop, Zan Filis, and Tarnis) are now a 45 min +/- 15 min respawn and do not despawn.

The ghost versions of the monks will now despawn after 15 minutes of being triggered instead of 10.

Cythan is now a 45m +/- 15m respawn instead of 2 hours.

 

Ghoulbane

Creator’s spawn rate has increased from 10% to 20% chance and his spawn camps respawn time is now 8m +/- 2m instead of 10m +/- 3m.

 

Golden Efreeti Boots

Foulgill now has a PH "a slightly smelly fish". Spawn rate 20%, default respawn time.

 

Greater Lightstone:

Rama’nai now has a PH "a wandering pride lioness". Spawn rate 20%, default respawn time.

Captain Gaer now has a PH "Sergeant Reag". Spawn rate 20%, default respawn time. Gaer’s group has been made a Heroic x1 instead of a Heroic x2.

Captain Ogof now has a PH "Sergeant Fogo". Spawn rate 20%, default respawn time. Ogof’s group has been made a Heroic x1 instead of a Heroic x2.

Lightbringer Wisp now respawns every 30 minutes vs. 45m +/- 15m and the initial delay has been removed.

Highpriest of Valmarr has had his chance to spawn increased from 10% to 20%

 

Manastone:

Weavemaster has had his chance to spawn increased from 16% to 20%.

 

Polished Granite Tomahawk

Increased success rate of finding granite pieces from 10% to 25%.

 

Screaming Mace

The four named lizardmen (Hukulan the Despoiler, Kaxor the Cenobite, Xilarga the Champion, and Tzugaax the Torturer) have had their chance to spawn increased from 5% to 20%.

Terrorfiends will now update the key stage 33% of the time vs. 20%.

 

Shiny Brass Halberd

Captain T’Sanne’s event has been moved to OOP files and made to reset in 30 minutes after T’Sanne is defeated.

 

Short Sword of the Ykesha

Senrty Goorlux now has a PH "a Deathfist sentry". Spawn rate 20%, default despawn time. Goorlux’s despawn time has been removed, he’ll stay up till killed once he spawns.

Speaking to Rinish, Shelmay, and Wensa now update the whole raid (coming in the next update).

 

Stein of Moggok

The three wander ghost bouncers (Hurd, Flerb, and Fug) now have PHs "a Greenblood bouncer", there wander areas remain the same, ie. Flerb still spawns east of the waterfall. Named have a 20% chance to spawn, default respawn timer.

The pathed ghost bouncer, Prud, also has "a Greenblood bouncer" but it runs the same path as Prud. 20% chance of Prud spawning, 30 minute respawn.

 

Tobrin’s Mystical Eyepatch

Dasicar out in Everfrost will now always stay up and not despawn.

The named (Master Webclaw, Bloodrage, Chieftain Iceburn) have had their chances to spawn increased to 20% from 5-10%.

 

Dwarven Work Boots:

- Bloodtalon could be reduced to a 1 in 4 or 5 chance of spawning, and have a named ph.

 

 

Glowing Black Stone:

- Would like to increase the chance of the books spawning in the libraries to 1 in 4

- Change spawn timer of Al'quylar to 10-30 minutes (currently 30-45 minutes)

 

 

Guise of the Deceiver:

- Increase chance of Billy spawning in game room & chapel to 1 in 4.

 

 

Heirophant's Crook:

- Decrease spawn time of Rukir & Franny from 45 minutes to 10-30.

 

Crown of King Tranix:  (coming in the next update)

Added regular bouldering spawns near Tyrok's spawn.  Chance of finding a bouldering heart has changed from 100% to 15% (the availability of boulderings has increased significantly).

Revamped the banner collection stage.  Now each banner has a unique spawn point and are "harvested".  Each banner can be collected from 6 times before they despawn.  The banner will then respawn in 10 minutes.

 

 

Thanks guys

 

Message Edited by Jindrack on 10-27-2005 04:37 PM

Message Edited by Jindrack on 10-28-2005 04:19 PM

[Maldarian]

they sound great so far. One question though. will the BBC quest still require an ebon cluster?

Message Edited by Maldarian on 10-27-2005 11:10 AM

[EtoilePirate]

Remembering what they were like, definitely a big thumbs-up on the PGT and Lightstone changes.  Maybe I will do them with my alt, after all. Also, my main is up to Goorlux in SSOY right now -- those changes sound good.  I'll try to go after him today or tomorrow and leave feedback. Thanks!

[Grimsore]

Some big improvements there, very nice. I ended up hateing that screaming mace quest because of the named lizards and key update we camped forever. (%5 percent for 4 named! ick) Quest should ahve been fun with the instance and all. Sounds like it will be again.

[Sunrayn]

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Jindrack wrote:

 

Dwarven Work Boots:

- Bloodtalon could be reduced to a 1 in 4 or 5 chance of spawning, and have a named ph.

 

 

 

 

Thanks guys

 

Message Edited by Jindrack on 10-27-2005 04:37 PM

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Ok, we tried this one last night.  Group of 5 of us, killed the Majestic Griffon ph. And waited...and waited...then killed another Majestic when he popped...and waited.  Then started killing mightys for exp....Another Majestic popped, killed it.  Then killed mightys and griffons while waiting for the 15 minute respawn on the Majestic.

 

Result, an hour and a half of exp'ing.  Server finally went down at 9:15pm

 

I dont see the improvement here

 

Sunrayn, 45 guard, leader of The Noble Kindred--Test

[bcbroom]

I've done this one a couple of times, but not recently. The last time, I think we only had to clear Mighty Griffons 3-4 times to get BlootTallon to spawn.

I'm also not sure if this HQ is different from others (multiple PHs versus single ones) but the change from 4 phs to 1 is a large reduction in odds that needs to be taken into consideration.

[Grimsore]

The greenblood bouncers (new place holders for the stein heritage bouncers in Feerott) spend most their time on top of trees and other structures. It looks very strange.

[madbx]

Shiny Brass Halberd

Captain T’Sanne’s event has been moved to OOP files and made to reset in 30 minutes after T’Sanne is defeated.

- Now i'm not really sure what OOP files are... but last night we had 3 characters upto this stepin the quest and it appeared the event was there and just needed to be triggered (non targetable mobs up)

But nothing would seem to start the event, it appears non functional

-Nelib

[Jindrack]

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madbx wrote:

Shiny Brass Halberd

Captain T’Sanne’s event has been moved to OOP files and made to reset in 30 minutes after T’Sanne is defeated.

- Now i'm not really sure what OOP files are... but last night we had 3 characters upto this stepin the quest and it appeared the event was there and just needed to be triggered (non targetable mobs up)

But nothing would seem to start the event, it appears non functional

-Nelib

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Thanks for the note, I was able to fix the problem with them not being able to be attacked.  Try it again if you can when you see the change mentioned in the Test server update notes.

[Agathorn]

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Jindrack wrote:

 

Dwarven Work Boots:

- Bloodtalon could be reduced to a 1 in 4 or 5 chance of spawning, and have a named ph.

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Was this indicating what has been changed or was it a note about what might change? THe way its worded sounds kinda like its a maybe will happen change.In any case we spent some time out there tonight working to get Bloodtalon to spawn. Killed every griffon in the area, includin ght majestic which kept spawning. Majestic seemed to be the PHer since there was always only one, but we must have killed it and all the other griffons at least 5 or 6 times, maybe more with no luck on Bloodtalon.

[Kwoung]

Seemed a lot easier to spawn BloodTalon in the past than under this new system. We were at it for quite a while this evening to no avail. Also, I would like to point out, that when every mighty griff was a PH, you felt like you were always getting a bit closer to spawning him with every kill... Now it is just depression when you see yet another PH pop,as you know it is yet another 15 minute wait until you see if it is yet another PH.. or possibly BT.

In the past, popping BT was never an issue, we had great fun killing all the griffs and usually within an hour or so he was up. Tonight, it was not fun at all, we killed for longer than normal and still never saw BT.

I liked the old way better.

[Jindrack]

BT was made a little easier to spawn, from a 1 in 5 chance to a 1 in 4 chance.  It has always been keyed off of one particular spawn, just now that spawn has a unique ph name.  I'll pass on the feedback to the quest's designer, though.

[Sunrayn]

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Jindrack wrote:

BT was made a little easier to spawn, from a 1 in 5 chance to a 1 in 4 chance.  It has always been keyed off of one particular spawn, just now that spawn has a unique ph name.  I'll pass on the feedback to the quest's designer, though.

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hmmm....then it wasnt mighty griffons that were the ph....elder hawk perhaps?

[Kaknya]

 not necessarily.. basically, if you lay a grid on the ground around the griffon area to the giants, it is litterd with dots that represent spawn points.. one of those specific dots has the possibility of spawning 4 or 5 different creatures. It is one of those dots in particular that has always spawned blood talon. usually it spawned mighty griffons, tho now it will have a specific name you can look for, instead of running around ts killing every mighty griffon you see,

[Shantee]

On the quest The Lost Legend of Lavastorm Onyxlam in Sol Eye(1 of the final 3 fights needed), is a rare spawn.  I know ppl who have camped it for hours on end and never saw him.  It's the only mob stopping at least 2 of us from completing Crown of King Tranix.  After all the running around, you'd think the final 3-4 mobs wouldn't be a huge camp.  I know the Castigator took us awhile as well.  Like 3 or 4 hours or more.  It's a pretty lengthy quest already without adding the final camps to be 8 or 9 hours between spawns.

Message Edited by Shantee on 11-08-2005 03:38 PM

[imbitten]

In the past, To get BT to spawn i always killed the griff that spawned sort of the right of giants.

Message Edited by imbitten on 11-09-2005 10:26 AM

[Tadok]

I really hate to bump such an old thread but as I have been working on a couple of these I felt the need to comment on one in particular. I have been trying for 3 days now to get the named in everfrost to pop for the eyepatch. I have killed the minos around both firepits about 20 times each for 3 days now with no pop of bloodrage. Its to the point now where someone needs to look and see if his spawn is messed up.  If someone could take a look at this I would greatly appricate it. Thanks

 

Labb Accident

[Sunrayn]

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Tadok wrote:

I really hate to bump such an old thread but as I have been working on a couple of these I felt the need to comment on one in particular. I have been trying for 3 days now to get the named in everfrost to pop for the eyepatch. I have killed the minos around both firepits about 20 times each for 3 days now with no pop of bloodrage. Its to the point now where someone needs to look and see if his spawn is messed up.  If someone could take a look at this I would greatly appricate it. Thanks

 

Labb Accident

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I am working on that one in the next couple of days, will see what happens, hopefully can catch you online when/if I have any luck getting him to pop.

 

Sunrayn

[Sephiro]

I will be organizing groups for these heritage quests.

Send me a tell in game or email in game if you want to go on them and which ones.

 

Sephiro

QA/Test Liaison

[Jshail]

as per the update notes posted Dec 2nd 2005 - The starter item for the Screaming Mace Heritage quest now drops as corpse loot rather than in a chest.

 

well today agony was killed by a 60 wiz and a 57 warden and did not drop the starter for the screaming mace on te body is this now a random drop or new bug?

[Jindrack]

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Jshail wrote:

as per the update notes posted Dec 2nd 2005 - The starter item for the Screaming Mace Heritage quest now drops as corpse loot rather than in a chest.

 

well today agony was killed by a 60 wiz and a 57 warden and did not drop the starter for the screaming mace on te body is this now a random drop or new bug?

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It should be in the corpse loot every time.  Looking over the character's data everything looks ok.  If you happen to kill Agony again let me know how if you find the cleric journal on it's corpse.

[Rondari]

 Screaming Mace

The four named lizardmen (Hukulan the Despoiler, Kaxor the Cenobite, Xilarga the Champion, and Tzugaax the Torturer) have had their chance to spawn increased from 5% to 20%.

I think there may still be an issue with these spawn timers.  Specifically the Champion.  We have been spending quite a bit of time in CT lately trying to get a group of us throught this quest.  I think there are about 5 possible spawn points for the Champion and I know Hord cleared them 5 times over with no spawn - That puts it back into the 5% range and way off of the 20% range.

Please take a look at the spawn tables for these again.

Thanks,

Rondari

[Ceruline]

Another note on the SM quest.Same group was going through terrorfiends at a good pace, and ended up giving up after roughly 15 of them failed to give the key update to myself and one other. At a 33% update rate, that has roughly a 0.1% chance of happening (.66^15)- so while it could simply have been a 1/1000 shot of bad luck, it's also possible that it's not updating at the intended rate.

[Jshail]

Spent over two hours in CT yesterday trying to get the champ to spawn.  no such luck

[Ce]

All 4 names plus Agony were up as of last night around 8PM ET.