"Elements of Destruction" Signature quests bugs and feedback - Page 6

11-03-2018, 01:19 AM

Quests:
Elements of Destruction: Waves of Order
Elements of Destruction: Layers of Order
Elements of Destruction: Flames of Order
Elements of Destruction: Gusts of Order

Especially if you are forced to run a solo zone more than once, you can easily end up with excess tectonic fragments, onzolan crystals, thermite briquettes, and ephemeral gusts in your bags.

Once each of these quests has been successfully completed, any remaining tectonic fragments, onzolan crystals, thermite briquettes, and ephemeral gusts should be automatically deleted.

Niami DenMother · 11-03-2018, 07:01 AM

nevermind, figured it out

Xianthia · 11-03-2018, 08:06 AM

ah nice workaround, thank you!

Monstuhr · 11-03-2018, 04:24 PM

Yeah, I am not a fan of this. There has never been a sig line that I can recall where you had to run the same SOLO zone more than one time. It is one thing if I could auto-reset the zone and run it back to back (like on beta) but on live, stopping my sig quest for 90 minutes to allow a zone to reset is just a waste of time. This is especially true as was pointed out above concerning the resolve numbers needed to run the heroic versions of these zones.

Now, I will say I just re-ran the sig line last night and got all 19 updates in all 4 zones on one run. Assuming that is the standard, this is fine. If it is anticipated that you are to run these zones more than once, you should reconsider that.

11-03-2018, 09:39 PM

Elements of Destruction: Starpyre's Flames

Only a cosmetic issue, but on the last step when you place the runes on the mural symbols in the middle of the main stacks, the clickies don't align with the circles on the new floor graphics and once placed the 4 floaty things representing the 4 planes don't align with the corresponding floor mural.

11-05-2018, 02:46 PM

Quest name Elements of Destruction: Shadow Casting In The Dark
Quest giver name: Maelin Starpyre
Current quest journal entry: Kill the shadowmen and gather the Void Shard Key
Any other details pertaining to the issue you are encountering killed the Shadowmen but there no clickable Void Shard Key. Zoned out to EL & back in it was there.

11-05-2018, 10:18 PM

I just had the exact same problem. Came here to see if there was a fix, read the message, zoned out to EL, zoned back in and here it was at 89, 45, -108

Additionnaly, the Fount of Power buff doesn't work in the zone and I had huge troubles killing the mobs (with beta scaling gear)

Kaitheel · 11-06-2018, 06:51 PM

That is really odd. I didn't have any luck reproducing this. The Void Shard Key doesn't have a view predicate and is spawned immediately (in one of many possible locations) when the zone is brought up. Perhaps the particle appearance was just not loaded for you, yet? I am not sure.

~ Kaitheel

Kaitheel · 11-06-2018, 06:53 PM

Ah, that is intended. The Fount of Power buff only grants additional power in the Celestial Realms. The Isle of Vul is on Norrath.

~ Kaitheel

11-07-2018, 02:13 AM

Quest: Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos

When fighting Blazeanger, he emotes "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem ill temper is back". There needs to be a possessive in there: "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem's ill temper is back" or else something like, "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem becomes ill tempered again"

Similarly, Cinderstench's emotes need some grammar help:

"Cinderstench, the smoke archon smell wafts through the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's smell wafts through the air" or maybe "Cinderstench, the smoke archon has a smell that wafts through the air"

"Cinderstench, the smoke archon toxins fill the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's toxins fill the air", or perhaps "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fills the air with toxins"

"Cinderstench, the smoke archon fumes spread" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's fumes spread" or better yet, "Cinderstench, the smoke archon spreads fumes"

Chrol · 11-07-2018, 05:06 AM

Sigrdrifa said: ↑

“Quest: Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos

When fighting Blazeanger, he emotes "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem ill temper is back". There needs to be a possessive in there: "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem's ill temper is back" or else something like, "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem becomes ill tempered again"

Similarly, Cinderstench's emotes need some grammar help:
"Cinderstench, the smoke archon smell wafts through the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's smell wafts through the air" or maybe "Cinderstench, the smoke archon has a smell that wafts through the air"
"Cinderstench, the smoke archon toxins fill the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's toxins fill the air", or perhaps "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fills the air with toxins"
"Cinderstench, the smoke archon fumes spread" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's fumes spread" or better yet, "Cinderstench, the smoke archon spreads fumes"
”

These have already been updated, as well as messaging hinting at what should be done to counter the Toxic Mist.

Alenna · 11-07-2018, 03:57 PM

they show solid black to me as well

Alenna · 11-07-2018, 04:02 PM

I agree it took a friend of mine 4 tries to get all the drops he needed in one zone i'm dreading trying this on live where I will not have the reset bauble to immediately go in again. I've said it before and I'll say it again making it take longer to finish sometime because of bad RNG is not an engaging or challenging mechanic it is just a PITA. took my main character 2 weeks to get one part of her 2.0 done because of the same sort of mechanic, a rare drop off of the end mob in one of the TOT zones not fun at all.that was a horrible gaming experience

11-07-2018, 08:18 PM

Not sure, for my part, there was definitely no trace of the particle/shiny when I was first in the zone. Zoning out and back in made it appear and it wasn't in the zone previously I checked everything 3 times before giving up and checking here, the dark purple thingy wasn't there.
I'm trying to get hubby to preorder and when he does I'll run the zone another time and write you if I find the bug again.

Any way to tone down the mobs in the zone if the fount of power doesn't work? Or maybe it's a scaling gear problem? My pet died over and over and I had real troubles surviving. The buff states that it activates in Planar zones or quest zones, so it made sense to have it activate.

11-08-2018, 09:10 PM

Quest: Elements of Destruction: Pure Adventure

After killing and looting the bixel queen Aurorax, the quest ports you immediately to the encounter with the icecrete rumbler. Then you are returned... to the entrance of the Bixel Hive. Meanwhile, your shiny is up at the very top of the hive near where you slew the queen. It would be nice to return the player to that spot, especially as that's MUCH closer to a portal back to Myrist.

11-12-2018, 09:22 AM

Quest : Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos
Could the respawn of the "a stormstone twister" be a bit faster or the drop rate of the wellstone be upped? I ran the sig 3 times and twice I had to kill 10ish of those to get the wellstone, it was a bit painful.

Additionnaly, why are the tower of Vul zone and the Ward of Chaos Elements player +merc but not 2 players? It's a pain to run on low DPS chars and I don't understand why I can bring a merc and not another me?
Sorry for the late feedback on that one but it took me a while to start two-boxing it.

11-03-2018, 04:24 PM	#154
Monstuhr Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Kaitheel said: ↑ “While it is possible to get enough drops on one run through of any of the zones for these four signature quests (as other players have attested), it will not be typical. It may take you a couple runs of the zones, either on Beta or on live. To help increase the drops for Gusts of Order and Layers of Order, some bosses have a much greater chance to drop the needed items, too. And all of the drops, for all four of the quests, are group-wide so it definitely pays off to run the heroic versions with other players. May the RNG smile upon you! ~ Kaitheel” Yeah, I am not a fan of this. There has never been a sig line that I can recall where you had to run the same SOLO zone more than one time. It is one thing if I could auto-reset the zone and run it back to back (like on beta) but on live, stopping my sig quest for 90 minutes to allow a zone to reset is just a waste of time. This is especially true as was pointed out above concerning the resolve numbers needed to run the heroic versions of these zones. Now, I will say I just re-ran the sig line last night and got all 19 updates in all 4 zones on one run. Assuming that is the standard, this is fine. If it is anticipated that you are to run these zones more than once, you should reconsider that.

11-05-2018, 02:46 PM	#156
Vanhallen New Member Posts: n/a	Quest name Elements of Destruction: Shadow Casting In The Dark Quest giver name: Maelin Starpyre Current quest journal entry: Kill the shadowmen and gather the Void Shard Key Any other details pertaining to the issue you are encountering killed the Shadowmen but there no clickable Void Shard Key. Zoned out to EL & back in it was there.

11-05-2018, 10:18 PM	#157
Whilhelmina Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Vanhallen said: ↑ “ Quest name Elements of Destruction: Shadow Casting In The Dark Quest giver name: Maelin Starpyre Current quest journal entry: Kill the shadowmen and gather the Void Shard Key Any other details pertaining to the issue you are encountering killed the Shadowmen but there no clickable Void Shard Key. Zoned out to EL & back in it was there. ” I just had the exact same problem. Came here to see if there was a fix, read the message, zoned out to EL, zoned back in and here it was at 89, 45, -108 Additionnaly, the Fount of Power buff doesn't work in the zone and I had huge troubles killing the mobs (with beta scaling gear)

11-06-2018, 06:51 PM	#158
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Vanhallen said: ↑ “ Quest name Elements of Destruction: Shadow Casting In The Dark Quest giver name: Maelin Starpyre Current quest journal entry: Kill the shadowmen and gather the Void Shard Key Any other details pertaining to the issue you are encountering killed the Shadowmen but there no clickable Void Shard Key. Zoned out to EL & back in it was there. ” That is really odd. I didn't have any luck reproducing this. The Void Shard Key doesn't have a view predicate and is spawned immediately (in one of many possible locations) when the zone is brought up. Perhaps the particle appearance was just not loaded for you, yet? I am not sure. ~ Kaitheel

11-06-2018, 06:53 PM	#159
Kaitheel Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Whilhelmina said: ↑ “Additionnaly, the Fount of Power buff doesn't work in the zone and I had huge troubles killing the mobs (with beta scaling gear)” Ah, that is intended. The Fount of Power buff only grants additional power in the Celestial Realms. The Isle of Vul is on Norrath. ~ Kaitheel

11-03-2018, 01:19 AM	#151
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quests: Elements of Destruction: Waves of Order Elements of Destruction: Layers of Order Elements of Destruction: Flames of Order Elements of Destruction: Gusts of Order Especially if you are forced to run a solo zone more than once, you can easily end up with excess tectonic fragments, onzolan crystals, thermite briquettes, and ephemeral gusts in your bags. Once each of these quests has been successfully completed, any remaining tectonic fragments, onzolan crystals, thermite briquettes, and ephemeral gusts should be automatically deleted.

11-03-2018, 07:01 AM	#152
Niami DenMother Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	nevermind, figured it out

11-03-2018, 08:06 AM	#153
Xianthia Active Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	ah nice workaround, thank you!

11-03-2018, 09:39 PM	#155
Godelpus New Member Posts: n/a	Elements of Destruction: Starpyre's Flames Only a cosmetic issue, but on the last step when you place the runes on the mural symbols in the middle of the main stacks, the clickies don't align with the circles on the new floor graphics and once placed the 4 floaty things representing the 4 planes don't align with the corresponding floor mural.

11-07-2018, 02:13 AM	#160
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos When fighting Blazeanger, he emotes "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem ill temper is back". There needs to be a possessive in there: "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem's ill temper is back" or else something like, "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem becomes ill tempered again" Similarly, Cinderstench's emotes need some grammar help: "Cinderstench, the smoke archon smell wafts through the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's smell wafts through the air" or maybe "Cinderstench, the smoke archon has a smell that wafts through the air" "Cinderstench, the smoke archon toxins fill the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's toxins fill the air", or perhaps "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fills the air with toxins" "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fumes spread" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's fumes spread" or better yet, "Cinderstench, the smoke archon spreads fumes"

11-07-2018, 05:06 AM	#161
Chrol Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Sigrdrifa said: ↑ “Quest: Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos When fighting Blazeanger, he emotes "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem ill temper is back". There needs to be a possessive in there: "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem's ill temper is back" or else something like, "Blazeanger, the lavawurm golem becomes ill tempered again" Similarly, Cinderstench's emotes need some grammar help: "Cinderstench, the smoke archon smell wafts through the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's smell wafts through the air" or maybe "Cinderstench, the smoke archon has a smell that wafts through the air" "Cinderstench, the smoke archon toxins fill the air" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's toxins fill the air", or perhaps "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fills the air with toxins" "Cinderstench, the smoke archon fumes spread" s/b "Cinderstench, the smoke archon's fumes spread" or better yet, "Cinderstench, the smoke archon spreads fumes" ” These have already been updated, as well as messaging hinting at what should be done to counter the Toxic Mist.

11-07-2018, 03:57 PM	#162
Alenna Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Sigrdrifa said: ↑ “Quest Name: Elements if Destruction: Starpyre's Flames Issue: Looks like I do not have the texture file, the runes show as solid black. ” they show solid black to me as well

11-07-2018, 04:02 PM	#163
Alenna Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Sigrdrifa said: ↑ “I think that the zone should be set so that the drops are frequent enough to ALWAYS get you the number needed for the quest. I don't care if that means outlying mobs respawn, or if the drop is made 1 kill = 1 drop, or what. It does make me cranky to head into a zone with a clear objective and fail that objective. This feels like failure.” I agree it took a friend of mine 4 tries to get all the drops he needed in one zone i'm dreading trying this on live where I will not have the reset bauble to immediately go in again. I've said it before and I'll say it again making it take longer to finish sometime because of bad RNG is not an engaging or challenging mechanic it is just a PITA. took my main character 2 weeks to get one part of her 2.0 done because of the same sort of mechanic, a rare drop off of the end mob in one of the TOT zones not fun at all.that was a horrible gaming experience

11-07-2018, 08:18 PM	#164
Whilhelmina Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Kaitheel said: ↑ “That is really odd. I didn't have any luck reproducing this. The Void Shard Key doesn't have a view predicate and is spawned immediately (in one of many possible locations) when the zone is brought up. Perhaps the particle appearance was just not loaded for you, yet? I am not sure. ~ Kaitheel” Not sure, for my part, there was definitely no trace of the particle/shiny when I was first in the zone. Zoning out and back in made it appear and it wasn't in the zone previously I checked everything 3 times before giving up and checking here, the dark purple thingy wasn't there. I'm trying to get hubby to preorder and when he does I'll run the zone another time and write you if I find the bug again. Any way to tone down the mobs in the zone if the fount of power doesn't work? Or maybe it's a scaling gear problem? My pet died over and over and I had real troubles surviving. The buff states that it activates in Planar zones or quest zones, so it made sense to have it activate.

11-08-2018, 09:10 PM	#165
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: Elements of Destruction: Pure Adventure After killing and looting the bixel queen Aurorax, the quest ports you immediately to the encounter with the icecrete rumbler. Then you are returned... to the entrance of the Bixel Hive. Meanwhile, your shiny is up at the very top of the hive near where you slew the queen. It would be nice to return the player to that spot, especially as that's MUCH closer to a portal back to Myrist.

11-12-2018, 09:22 AM	#166
Whilhelmina Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest : Elements of Destruction: Face the Chaos Could the respawn of the "a stormstone twister" be a bit faster or the drop rate of the wellstone be upped? I ran the sig 3 times and twice I had to kill 10ish of those to get the wellstone, it was a bit painful. Additionnaly, why are the tower of Vul zone and the Ward of Chaos Elements player +merc but not 2 players? It's a pain to run on low DPS chars and I don't understand why I can bring a merc and not another me? Sorry for the late feedback on that one but it took me a while to start two-boxing it.