The Scrivener's Tale: Tradeskill Signature Questline Feedback - Page 7

10-24-2018, 10:02 PM

Oh fine!. Guess my tradeskillers will get the bag the other way! Wink

Niami DenMother · 10-24-2018, 11:16 PM

[BUGs, minor, 2] The Reach of Ivy

1) quest still requires that you collect 3 sap, but only uses one of the sap in the recipe. Leftover vials of sap remain in inventory after you are finished with the quest.
2) When you "Speak to Temry Loneivy in Vegarlson" on first entering the zone, he has a quest feather over his head instead of a quest book.

And for the record, even though this is my 9th run through the TS line, I'm still getting grins out of the stray bits of humor in the line. FOR SCIENCE!

Niami DenMother · 10-24-2018, 11:34 PM

[BUG, minor] Rockin' n Knockin'

If you have to camp after coating your gear with the pollen before you check on the arborians, the hidden flag that makes the arborians non-aggro disappears. This may be a bit of a rude surprise for some folks. BigGrin

I coated my gear, then had to check something on an alt for someone asking questions in discord, then hopped back and the arborians were aggro but updated the quest. Deleted and re-obtained the quest to test that this wasn't a rencent change to the line and they were nonaggro. Yep, this really is minor, but since some squishy will find it out the hard way, I figured I'd best report it in.

Katzandra · 10-24-2018, 11:34 PM

I found the young fire wasp hordes were quite lethal to my ratonga swashbuckling carpenter. He too was wearing the beta gear for solo timelines -- and yes --- pretty much insta-kill. They are really overpowered for a solo zone.

Katzandra · 10-24-2018, 11:46 PM

Fourth time's the charm!

I like using the Nilborien illusion as a temporary mount. This is the first time I noticed the message that told me that it was placed in my mount window. Nice fix!

Gninja · 10-25-2018, 12:13 AM

I added a check on the zone so when you reenter (zoning in or logging in from camping there) the spell gets reapplied to you. This will remain even after the quests are done. Happy harvesting around the arborians Smile

10-25-2018, 01:02 AM

You're the best!

Niami DenMother · 10-25-2018, 01:24 AM

If you think those mobs are too overpowered for the overland zone, you might want to post in the Doomfire zone discussion thread, since it isn't something Gninja can do anything about. Smile

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...omfire-the-burning-lands-outdoor-zone.586709/

10-25-2018, 01:48 AM

Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: A Bee in Need, A Bee Indeed
Questgiver: Recipes for Adventure

It's weird that you get the recipe by walking up to the Bixel Hive. Storywise, we should get the recipe for the sticky traps from the Recipes for Adventure tome, i.e., before we travel to the Hive.

10-25-2018, 04:07 AM

The Scrivener's Tale: Crafting at a Snail's Pace
Ghida Borrell
Return and inform Ghida that l have found Yrag

When you talk to Ghida after finding Yrag there is a spelling mistake in the word "forgot" in "Actually, that's not a bad idea. But let's forgo the spell and just make him an item that will increase his speed."

10-25-2018, 05:37 AM

Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: Animating the Inanimate
Questgiver: Ghida

(1) The first part of my conversation with Ghida didn't make it into my logbook. She actually have me the trunk recipe (aITEM -91871256 -1670996366:Recipe Scroll: Myrist Trunk/a) during that unlogged bit, which happened as soon as I got to the Smith's Gallery after talking to Maelin downstairs.

(2) Ghida game me a second copy of the trunk recipe when I returned to her with all the trunk components:

(1540441539)[Wed Oct 24 23:25:39 2018] aNPC 2696569 Maelin Starpyre:Maelin Starpyre/a says to you, "One was shelved with religious studies in the South Wing Stacks. But books, scrolls, and the like, do seem to wander. Or disappear. I can't recall the title..."

(1540441540)[Wed Oct 24 23:25:40 2018] You say to Maelin Starpyre, "I'll find it."

This is where the initial conversation with Fhida occurred, but was not logged.

(1540441611)[Wed Oct 24 23:26:51 2018] You receive aITEM 912144449 1784981787:High Quality Firing Sheet/a.

(1540441634)[Wed Oct 24 23:27:14 2018] Recipe: "Myrist Trunk" put in recipe book.

(1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You have discovered Crafters' Gallery.

(1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You gain 12 Alternate Advancement experience from exploring a new area!

(1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You convert 10428 experience into AA experience!

(1540441698)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:18 2018] You receive aITEM 1025938010 1520828683 Tongue

lanar Binding Kit/a.

(1540441704)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:24 2018] You receive aITEM -525752964 -186933266:Latch Bindings/a.

(1540441719)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:39 2018] You say, "Hail, Ghida Borrell"

(1540441719)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:39 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Ah, you have returned! What were you able to find?"

(1540441720)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:40 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "I found the recipe within the stacks near here, actually. It read that a high quality firing sheet was needed, as well as prepared malachite shards, a Planar Binding Kit, and latch bindings."

(1540441720)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:40 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Really? That's it? That seems so simple... Hmm. Okay well, I cannot really leave this area right now as I am waiting for a special delivery. Would you be willing to craft this trunk and bring it back to me in my stead?"

(1540441721)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:41 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "Not a problem, I will be back as soon as I have it made."

(1540441721)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:41 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Excellent! I look forward to admiring your work."

(1540441722)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:42 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "Thanks!"

(1540441723)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:43 2018] You receive aITEM 418039193 1839683240:Embolden Spellbook/a.

(1540441723)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:43 2018] You receive aITEM -91871256 -1670996366:Recipe Scroll: Myrist Trunk/a.

(1540441725)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:45 2018] You have already learned all you can from this item.

Niami DenMother · 10-25-2018, 05:58 AM

Actually, forgo means to do without (something) or to pass up voluntarily. Smile

Gninja · 10-25-2018, 08:34 AM

Some of the NPCs arent going to show a feather/book on the map but might show it over their heads. I'm not sure there is a way to fix this because they do not use the normal quest offer/update system. It has to be scripted sometimes when you have two NPCs talking at same time.

Gninja · 10-25-2018, 08:37 AM

Whilhelmina said: ↑

“The Scrivener's Tale: The Reach of the Ivy
I gathered all the pottery parts, then went on to FAIL the craft on third bar on the step "Craft the pottery". I only got one of the shard of broken pottery back. I still have 2 vials of sticky sap in store as it only uses one, but the quest requires 3 shards of broken pottery, so I'm missing 2 and there's no pottery to smash around anymore. None of the NPC gives me back some shards and the bag next to Temry is not clickable either. So I'm stuck.

I deleted the quest and took it back. I had only 1 vial and 2 potteries to collect (it counted what I already had in inventory)
I had to destroy the extra recipe-book from inventory.

On turn in, Temry Loneivy in Vegarlson still only has a feather and not a book above his head.”

Will take a look at the pottery. It should only give you a book if you don't already have it. I will fix Temry's feather... if possible.

Intended

See my previous post about feathers on map. This is one of those cases like Scrivener.

Will take a look

10-25-2018, 08:43 AM

Proof of Power

Speed is 150 now after patch today not 20, thank you for that

The quest is now very confusing as clicky option in the quest window does nothing, but says it will click the illusion from your inventory but when you look in inventory there is nothing there

There was nothing to suggest that a mount / mount window is involved.

10-25-2018, 08:51 AM

Ok enough is enough. I am working on The Scrivener's Tale: Difficulties Delivering and trying to get the strange bag, which is right by some young fire wasps that no matter what I do, I aggro and they insta-kill me. I know I can go see an NPC in zone and buy the bag from someone but, yes, that is a pain. Please move the bag so it is nowhere near the darn wasps!

I am on a tradeskill alt, BTW. She is wearing the gear from the box at the beginning part of the library.

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 03:45 PM

Already done!

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 03:48 PM

Nice fix. Aw..... only in the zone? I didn't check with my guy that got the mount version (I will later), but does the illusion work as an appearance mount or does it have to be your main mount?

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 04:00 PM

I started yet another toon through the crafting timeline to take better notes on how the recipes sort. I wrote some observations down late in the questline earlier. I am taking detailed notes on how recipes sort this time through. Most of the recipes sort as recipe scrolls. A few sort as quest items. I think this list is complete but I am in the process of double checking it.

These are the recipes that I have observed to sort as quest items:

Enhanced Spirit of the Wolf Scroll (Escargot Overclocking)

Protective Coating (In Preparation for Anything)

Decay Suspension Scroll (In Preparation for Anything)

Divine Antibiotic Potion (Custodial Refurbishment)

Indestructible Cookie (Copper for a Tale)

Additionally, the Embolden Spell Book used in Animating the Inanimate sorts as a bauble which is technically correct I suppose but it was confusing trying to find it the first time with the way my bags are set to sort.

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 04:14 PM

This is probably a pipe dream but I might as well put it out there!

While doing the beta crafting timelines, I haven't dared to use my harvesting outfits because they make characters pretty squishy. It occurred to me that it would be really nice to have a way to equip harvesting/trade skill gear without disturbing our adventuring gear. We already have appearance gear equipped with our adventuring gear. How nice it would be to reward our previous endeavors in trade skills by having a special place to keep items equipped and save the layouts (ie crafting vs harvesting) like we do for appearance and adventuring outfits! (Insert sound track of Aerosmith's Dream On. )

Afterthought (Dream big?): Perhaps there could be a way to toggle appearance between crafting gear and adventuring gear if no items were equipped as appearance items.......

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 04:36 PM

Dear sweet, kind, considerate and thoughtful Gninja, can we please have some dewpalm lumber nodes in Doomfire, the Burning Lands fall to the ground where they are not being guarded by nasty waspies and the hordes of young fire wasps???
The only ones I seem to be able to track are really tricky grabs for less well developed 110 adventurers in beta gear. My adventuring alts have no trouble killing and surviving the dang things but its irksome with the mostly tradeskill alts. Cool

Having some lumber tumble into the cemetery area would be really nice!

Wow I found some lumber on the ground! (Methinks it gets snapped up quickly when its accessible!)

10-25-2018, 04:37 PM

I have sets defined for Crafting, Harvesting, Tinkering, Transmute/Adorn, and War Gear on all my characters. If I'm harvesting in an area where it's too dangerous to wear all my harvesting boost gear, I wear my War Gear with the Earring of the Solstice, Cloak of Harvesting, and maybe the Coldain Prayer Shawl.

I would not be in favor of basically allowing you the stats from both adventure and harvesting gear at the same time, because you know some people would equip double adventure gear for the extra stats. I think you have to make a decision about how much risk you are willing to take to get your big harvesting boosts.

Also, if you want a whole new window of gear like the appearance tab added to the Character window, that's not something to slide into mid-Beta. That would be an added improvement for next year some time.

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 05:06 PM

Sigrdrifa said: ↑

“I have sets defined for Crafting, Harvesting, Tinkering, Transmute/Adorn, and War Gear on all my characters. If I'm harvesting in an area where it's too dangerous to wear all my harvesting boost gear, I wear my War Gear with the Earring of the Solstice, Cloak of Harvesting, and maybe the Coldain Prayer Shawl.

I would not be in favor of basically allowing you the stats from both adventure and harvesting gear at the same time, because you know some people would equip double adventure gear for the extra stats. I think you have to make a decision about how much risk you are willing to take to get your big harvesting boosts.

Also, if you want a whole new window of gear like the appearance tab added to the Character window, that's not something to slide into mid-Beta. That would be an added improvement for next year some time.”

I have different sets of gear set up as well. And of course I am sure most of us have shown up to raid in crafting gear. In my fantasy, only trade skilling items could be equipped in the new window and no adventuring stats would be added from the area. I know this is a pipe dream and not likely to be implemented, but its a shame to have a pack full of clever gear that isn't as useful as it might be. This really was just something to throw out there that occurred to me during beta testing. I figured it could go in the scrap pile or the suggestions list as warranted.

It really hasn't been as big of an issue before this expansion. In PoP, I could easily wear my crafting outfits on my main characters and be confident that their merc could protect them. In this expansion, my raid toon died while harvesting in her harvesting gear with her merc up. That never happened before...........so it is a bit of a beta issue!

10-25-2018, 05:15 PM

Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: The Proof of Power
Questgiver: Recipes for Adventure

(1) Adding the /cry instruction explicitly to the quest journal text is too much hand-holding, I think. I'd rather see the Recipes for Adventure book repeat the line "CRY out to Xegony!" several times, with CRY really emphasized.

(2) The instructions about using the Celestial Nilborien Illusion from the mount window are clear and easily followed.

(3) The Celestial Nilborien Illusion does nothing except provide a flying mount that can't be overridden by your appearance mount. It does NOT make you non-aggro from, say, real nilboriens.Why even bother with it at all, period?

(3A) Why even bother making the Celestial Nilborien Illusion a mount? Yeah, if we go flying off on our regular mount, the illusion disappears, but while we're standing on the ground, an illusion would show up, right?

(3B) Suggestion: wearing the Celestial Nilborien Illusion should make you safe from aggro, and the illusion should break if you try to engage in combat, harvest, etc. while using it... whether it remains a as mount or reverts to a true illusion.

(3B) While I was over here typing out this feedback, the mount dismounted me and shut itself off. If its gonna do that, there should be a timer up in the top of the quest journal HUD counting down how long you have exactly before the illusion shuts off in bold red numbers. Yes, the maintained window has that info, but who checks on mount timers? Normal mounts don't expire in 15 minutes! If it's a mount, it should stay active until you unequip it. If it's an illusion, 15 minutes is fine. But if it's a 15 minute mount, then that timer should be in your face, because otherwise it's going to expire on some people while they are flying because they took a bio or otherwise dawdled before flying off in it.

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 05:20 PM

WOW..... I think getting the Divine Weapons of Ro recipe as a reward for Difficulties Delivering is new. Very nice!
..........Except I am getting the feeling we may have to have a set of weapons for each zone!?

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 06:12 PM

I really appreciated the hand holding. Emote commands aren't really used that much these days so it is a good reminder for those who never used them or forgot about them!

Gninja · 10-25-2018, 06:23 PM

It does not work as an appearance mount, sorry. Frown

Katzandra · 10-25-2018, 06:39 PM

I appreciate all the hard work you put into this issue and applaud you for the success in a solution that is fun! We can relive the story anytime we return to the zone...........as long as the nostalgia passes in less than 15 minutes!

Now I am going to [ctrl z] and crouch sheepishly before I make my next suggestion on this issue Eek

.

As I was standing by the workbench at the entrance to the Wind zone while summoning an engraved desk to craft the illusion spell, it occurred to me that perhaps a mount might be better crafted as a jewelry item using the workbench that is in the zone already! (/e duck, cover and run.)

10-26-2018, 06:59 PM

The Scrivener's Tale: Animating the inanimate
Just so you know: if you fail the recipe, you have several options:
1/ click TWICE on the bag next to Ghida and you'll get everything back but the malachite shards (I got the latch bindings the second time I clicked and not the first one)
2/ When buying a second time the malachite shards, you'll see that the other ingredients are now on the merchant for 12 plats each, in case you miss a third time.
Her bag respawns too.
(you're obviously not reimbursed for the extra cash spent)

I love options, it's very well done.

I'll look back at my previous feedbacks now...

The Scrivener's Tale: Crafting at a Snail's Pace
Thanks for pointing in the general direction of the snail!

The Scrivener's Tale: Escargot Overclocking
Spell casts just fine now

The Scrivener's Tale: In preparation for Anything
That one has been fixed for a while. Harvesting the 2 parts in a row is way better (even if still somewhat weird, but hey, one can understand doing one shopping list then the next)

The Scrivener's Tale: Incumbent Incubation
Dialog with Zuvet still says that I grabbed the gems (Zuvet says "I see you managed to get them to part ways with the gems (...)" and I answer:"I kind of just took them when they weren't looking, they had the beds so they didn't bother chasing me. Whait, what test?"). We only have "place beds" when clicking where the beds should be. Perhaps change the text to say "place bed and gather gems".

(yay for the map in Doomfire btw, waypoints are unreliable in this zone and it helps a lot)

The Scrivener's Tale: Difficulties Delivering
I'm unsure of the phrasing on turn in to Mourndax. He says "Excellent! How did you get so many? I doubt it possible to collect that many in that short amount of time." English is not my first language but it seems off somewhat.

The Scrivener's Tale: Source of Discontent
The healing stones use quite a bit of resources. I can understand it for big beds like in Doomfire, but 8/25/20/20/50 x6 is a bit steep. (quest text is fixed to speak only about stones, that's perfect)
Tried failing the roguefurt recipe to no avail, it works!
Dylindra is still lacking a spell casting animation while she works on the rune at the end.

The Scrivener's Tale: Custodial Refurbishment
Failed the craft on purpose and we get the Blessed runestone back without problem.
(need to say: gaaaaah, the hearts! I much prefer to be a gangrene! *evil grin*)

The Scrivener's Tale: The Reach of the Ivy
Recipe now uses the 3 vials of sap on top of the 3 pottery fragments but there's still no way to get them back if you fail the craft.
And yay! You managed to give him a book above his head!

The Scrivener's Tale: Followup Friendships
Quest feathers next to the mob names are a great help for that one, thanks.

The Scrivener's Tale: Copper for a Tale
In the recipe for Indestructible Cookies, there's twice "wandervine fruits" in the build components, one time 2 fruits and once 6 fruits.

The Scrivener's Tale: The Proof of Power
I tend to like the (/cry) in quest helper. I often don't think about emotes during quests.
Thanks for adding "from the mount window" to the quest text!

The Scrivener's Tale
If it's not possible to add a feather to the Scrivener, could the text in the quest say "Speak directly to the Scrivener in Myrist's Mezzanine" instead?

And yay, I don't hear supra-loud mumbling anymore!

Could we get a box of Celestial Zephyren Crystal, Celestial Obsidian Ore and on the buffer pretty please? So that we can test the 3 new recipe books ("Divine Weapons of Ro", "Divine Weapons of Sky" and "Divine Weapons of Rathe", rewards for the quests Difficulties Delivering, Custodial Refurbishment and Back to the Library. Shhh! )

10-26-2018, 11:28 PM

Quest: The Scrivener's Tale
Step: Speak directly to the Scrivener

(1) The Scrivener has a quest book over his head, but no book is showing on the map, and it should.

(2) I went through the dialog. Ghida's speech at the very end flashed on-screen but didn't wait for me to click it before it disappeared. I can of course read what she said via the chat window, but the dialog shouldn't be closing itself that way.

10-24-2018, 11:34 PM	#183
Niami DenMother Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[BUG, minor] Rockin' n Knockin' If you have to camp after coating your gear with the pollen before you check on the arborians, the hidden flag that makes the arborians non-aggro disappears. This may be a bit of a rude surprise for some folks. I coated my gear, then had to check something on an alt for someone asking questions in discord, then hopped back and the arborians were aggro but updated the quest. Deleted and re-obtained the quest to test that this wasn't a rencent change to the line and they were nonaggro. Yep, this really is minor, but since some squishy will find it out the hard way, I figured I'd best report it in.

10-24-2018, 11:34 PM	#184
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Anatha said: ↑ “Ok enough is enough. I am working on The Scrivener's Tale: Difficulties Delivering and trying to get the strange bag, which is right by some young fire wasps that no matter what I do, I aggro and they insta-kill me. I know I can go see an NPC in zone and buy the bag from someone but, yes, that is a pain. Please move the bag so it is nowhere near the darn wasps! I am on a tradeskill alt, BTW. She is wearing the gear from the box at the beginning part of the library.” I found the young fire wasp hordes were quite lethal to my ratonga swashbuckling carpenter. He too was wearing the beta gear for solo timelines -- and yes --- pretty much insta-kill. They are really overpowered for a solo zone.

10-25-2018, 12:13 AM	#186
Gninja Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Niami DenMother said: ↑ “[BUG, minor] Rockin' n Knockin' If you have to camp after coating your gear with the pollen before you check on the arborians, the hidden flag that makes the arborians non-aggro disappears. This may be a bit of a rude surprise for some folks. I coated my gear, then had to check something on an alt for someone asking questions in discord, then hopped back and the arborians were aggro but updated the quest. Deleted and re-obtained the quest to test that this wasn't a rencent change to the line and they were nonaggro. Yep, this really is minor, but since some squishy will find it out the hard way, I figured I'd best report it in.” I added a check on the zone so when you reenter (zoning in or logging in from camping there) the spell gets reapplied to you. This will remain even after the quests are done. Happy harvesting around the arborians

10-25-2018, 01:24 AM	#188
Niami DenMother Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Katzandra said: ↑ “I found the young fire wasp hordes were quite lethal to my ratonga swashbuckling carpenter. He too was wearing the beta gear for solo timelines -- and yes --- pretty much insta-kill. They are really overpowered for a solo zone.” If you think those mobs are too overpowered for the overland zone, you might want to post in the Doomfire zone discussion thread, since it isn't something Gninja can do anything about. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...omfire-the-burning-lands-outdoor-zone.586709/

10-25-2018, 05:37 AM	#191
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: Animating the Inanimate Questgiver: Ghida (1) The first part of my conversation with Ghida didn't make it into my logbook. She actually have me the trunk recipe (aITEM -91871256 -1670996366:Recipe Scroll: Myrist Trunk/a) during that unlogged bit, which happened as soon as I got to the Smith's Gallery after talking to Maelin downstairs. (2) Ghida game me a second copy of the trunk recipe when I returned to her with all the trunk components: (1540441539)[Wed Oct 24 23:25:39 2018] aNPC 2696569 Maelin Starpyre:Maelin Starpyre/a says to you, "One was shelved with religious studies in the South Wing Stacks. But books, scrolls, and the like, do seem to wander. Or disappear. I can't recall the title..." (1540441540)[Wed Oct 24 23:25:40 2018] You say to Maelin Starpyre, "I'll find it." This is where the initial conversation with Fhida occurred, but was not logged. (1540441611)[Wed Oct 24 23:26:51 2018] You receive aITEM 912144449 1784981787:High Quality Firing Sheet/a. (1540441634)[Wed Oct 24 23:27:14 2018] Recipe: "Myrist Trunk" put in recipe book. (1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You have discovered Crafters' Gallery. (1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You gain 12 Alternate Advancement experience from exploring a new area! (1540441693)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:13 2018] You convert 10428 experience into AA experience! (1540441698)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:18 2018] You receive aITEM 1025938010 1520828683lanar Binding Kit/a. (1540441704)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:24 2018] You receive aITEM -525752964 -186933266:Latch Bindings/a. (1540441719)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:39 2018] You say, "Hail, Ghida Borrell" (1540441719)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:39 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Ah, you have returned! What were you able to find?" (1540441720)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:40 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "I found the recipe within the stacks near here, actually. It read that a high quality firing sheet was needed, as well as prepared malachite shards, a Planar Binding Kit, and latch bindings." (1540441720)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:40 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Really? That's it? That seems so simple... Hmm. Okay well, I cannot really leave this area right now as I am waiting for a special delivery. Would you be willing to craft this trunk and bring it back to me in my stead?" (1540441721)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:41 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "Not a problem, I will be back as soon as I have it made." (1540441721)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:41 2018] aNPC 2696966 Ghida Borrell:Ghida Borrell/a says to you, "Excellent! I look forward to admiring your work." (1540441722)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:42 2018] You say to Ghida Borrell, "Thanks!" (1540441723)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:43 2018] You receive aITEM 418039193 1839683240:Embolden Spellbook/a. (1540441723)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:43 2018] You receive aITEM -91871256 -1670996366:Recipe Scroll: Myrist Trunk/a. (1540441725)[Wed Oct 24 23:28:45 2018] You have already learned all you can from this item.

10-24-2018, 10:02 PM	#181
Anatha New Member Posts: n/a	Oh fine!. Guess my tradeskillers will get the bag the other way!

10-24-2018, 11:16 PM	#182
Niami DenMother Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	[BUGs, minor, 2] The Reach of Ivy 1) quest still requires that you collect 3 sap, but only uses one of the sap in the recipe. Leftover vials of sap remain in inventory after you are finished with the quest. 2) When you "Speak to Temry Loneivy in Vegarlson" on first entering the zone, he has a quest feather over his head instead of a quest book. And for the record, even though this is my 9th run through the TS line, I'm still getting grins out of the stray bits of humor in the line. FOR SCIENCE!

10-24-2018, 11:46 PM	#185
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Fourth time's the charm! I like using the Nilborien illusion as a temporary mount. This is the first time I noticed the message that told me that it was placed in my mount window. Nice fix!

10-25-2018, 01:02 AM	#187
Whilhelmina Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	You're the best!

10-25-2018, 01:48 AM	#189
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: A Bee in Need, A Bee Indeed Questgiver: Recipes for Adventure It's weird that you get the recipe by walking up to the Bixel Hive. Storywise, we should get the recipe for the sticky traps from the Recipes for Adventure tome, i.e., before we travel to the Hive.

10-25-2018, 04:07 AM	#190
Pidz Member Posts: n/a	The Scrivener's Tale: Crafting at a Snail's Pace Ghida Borrell Return and inform Ghida that l have found Yrag When you talk to Ghida after finding Yrag there is a spelling mistake in the word "forgot" in "Actually, that's not a bad idea. But let's forgo the spell and just make him an item that will increase his speed."

10-25-2018, 05:58 AM	#192
Niami DenMother Well-Known Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Pidz said: ↑ “The Scrivener's Tale: Crafting at a Snail's Pace Ghida Borrell Return and inform Ghida that l have found Yrag When you talk to Ghida after finding Yrag there is a spelling mistake in the word "forgot" in "Actually, that's not a bad idea. But let's forgo the spell and just make him an item that will increase his speed."” Actually, forgo means to do without (something) or to pass up voluntarily.

10-25-2018, 08:34 AM	#193
Gninja Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Some of the NPCs arent going to show a feather/book on the map but might show it over their heads. I'm not sure there is a way to fix this because they do not use the normal quest offer/update system. It has to be scripted sometimes when you have two NPCs talking at same time.

10-25-2018, 08:37 AM	#194
Gninja Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Whilhelmina said: ↑ “The Scrivener's Tale: The Reach of the Ivy I gathered all the pottery parts, then went on to FAIL the craft on third bar on the step "Craft the pottery". I only got one of the shard of broken pottery back. I still have 2 vials of sticky sap in store as it only uses one, but the quest requires 3 shards of broken pottery, so I'm missing 2 and there's no pottery to smash around anymore. None of the NPC gives me back some shards and the bag next to Temry is not clickable either. So I'm stuck. I deleted the quest and took it back. I had only 1 vial and 2 potteries to collect (it counted what I already had in inventory) I had to destroy the extra recipe-book from inventory. On turn in, Temry Loneivy in Vegarlson still only has a feather and not a book above his head.” Will take a look at the pottery. It should only give you a book if you don't already have it. I will fix Temry's feather... if possible. Whilhelmina said: ↑ “The Scrivener's Tale: Followup Friendships The journal still says "Catalog Entry I: ???". I don't remember if it was intended or not from previous discussions here.” Intended Whilhelmina said: ↑ “The Scrivener's Tale: Back to the Library. Shhh! Cookie is obviously still hidden with no book on the map (even if he has one above his head)” See my previous post about feathers on map. This is one of those cases like Scrivener. Whilhelmina said: ↑ “The Scrivener's Tale: A Crafter's Plea Perhaps it would be best to bring up the whisp to Xegony's altar AFTER the craft as it disappears once the craft updates (and the table is at the zone entrance)” Will take a look

10-25-2018, 08:43 AM	#195
olleran Member Posts: n/a	Proof of Power Speed is 150 now after patch today not 20, thank you for that The quest is now very confusing as clicky option in the quest window does nothing, but says it will click the illusion from your inventory but when you look in inventory there is nothing there There was nothing to suggest that a mount / mount window is involved.

10-25-2018, 08:51 AM	#196
Anatha New Member Posts: n/a	Ok enough is enough. I am working on The Scrivener's Tale: Difficulties Delivering and trying to get the strange bag, which is right by some young fire wasps that no matter what I do, I aggro and they insta-kill me. I know I can go see an NPC in zone and buy the bag from someone but, yes, that is a pain. Please move the bag so it is nowhere near the darn wasps! I am on a tradeskill alt, BTW. She is wearing the gear from the box at the beginning part of the library.

10-25-2018, 03:45 PM	#197
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Niami DenMother said: ↑ “If you think those mobs are too overpowered for the overland zone, you might want to post in the Doomfire zone discussion thread, since it isn't something Gninja can do anything about. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...omfire-the-burning-lands-outdoor-zone.586709/” Already done!

10-25-2018, 03:48 PM	#198
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Gninja said: ↑ “I got the illusion figured out (Shoutout: With a little halp from Caith!) Hope to get it applied to beta asap. Btw... The illusion will now be a permanent item you can keep. You will still only be able to use it in that specific zone though.” Nice fix. Aw..... only in the zone? I didn't check with my guy that got the mount version (I will later), but does the illusion work as an appearance mount or does it have to be your main mount?

10-25-2018, 04:00 PM	#199
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Katzandra said: ↑ “Running a fourth toon through the trade skill beta. Skramble has pack 4 set for recipe scrolls and pack 3 for quest items. I noticed that the first recipe for the quest line dropped in pack 4. At some point, the recipes started sorting as quest items. It was a bit confusing at first because I was looking for the recipe in the recipe pack! Added note: On the Mourndax quest the first recipe sorted as a recipe.......” I started yet another toon through the crafting timeline to take better notes on how the recipes sort. I wrote some observations down late in the questline earlier. I am taking detailed notes on how recipes sort this time through. Most of the recipes sort as recipe scrolls. A few sort as quest items. I think this list is complete but I am in the process of double checking it. These are the recipes that I have observed to sort as quest items: Enhanced Spirit of the Wolf Scroll (Escargot Overclocking) Protective Coating (In Preparation for Anything) Decay Suspension Scroll (In Preparation for Anything) Divine Antibiotic Potion (Custodial Refurbishment) Indestructible Cookie (Copper for a Tale) Additionally, the Embolden Spell Book used in Animating the Inanimate sorts as a bauble which is technically correct I suppose but it was confusing trying to find it the first time with the way my bags are set to sort.

10-25-2018, 04:14 PM	#200
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	This is probably a pipe dream but I might as well put it out there! While doing the beta crafting timelines, I haven't dared to use my harvesting outfits because they make characters pretty squishy. It occurred to me that it would be really nice to have a way to equip harvesting/trade skill gear without disturbing our adventuring gear. We already have appearance gear equipped with our adventuring gear. How nice it would be to reward our previous endeavors in trade skills by having a special place to keep items equipped and save the layouts (ie crafting vs harvesting) like we do for appearance and adventuring outfits! (Insert sound track of Aerosmith's Dream On. ) Afterthought (Dream big?): Perhaps there could be a way to toggle appearance between crafting gear and adventuring gear if no items were equipped as appearance items.......

10-25-2018, 04:36 PM	#201
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Dear sweet, kind, considerate and thoughtful Gninja, can we please have some dewpalm lumber nodes in Doomfire, the Burning Lands fall to the ground where they are not being guarded by nasty waspies and the hordes of young fire wasps??? The only ones I seem to be able to track are really tricky grabs for less well developed 110 adventurers in beta gear. My adventuring alts have no trouble killing and surviving the dang things but its irksome with the mostly tradeskill alts. Having some lumber tumble into the cemetery area would be really nice! Wow I found some lumber on the ground! (Methinks it gets snapped up quickly when its accessible!)

10-25-2018, 04:37 PM	#202
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Katzandra said: ↑ “It occurred to me that it would be really nice to have a way to equip harvesting/trade skill gear without disturbing our adventuring gear.” I have sets defined for Crafting, Harvesting, Tinkering, Transmute/Adorn, and War Gear on all my characters. If I'm harvesting in an area where it's too dangerous to wear all my harvesting boost gear, I wear my War Gear with the Earring of the Solstice, Cloak of Harvesting, and maybe the Coldain Prayer Shawl. I would not be in favor of basically allowing you the stats from both adventure and harvesting gear at the same time, because you know some people would equip double adventure gear for the extra stats. I think you have to make a decision about how much risk you are willing to take to get your big harvesting boosts. Also, if you want a whole new window of gear like the appearance tab added to the Character window, that's not something to slide into mid-Beta. That would be an added improvement for next year some time.

10-25-2018, 05:06 PM	#203
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Sigrdrifa said: ↑ “I have sets defined for Crafting, Harvesting, Tinkering, Transmute/Adorn, and War Gear on all my characters. If I'm harvesting in an area where it's too dangerous to wear all my harvesting boost gear, I wear my War Gear with the Earring of the Solstice, Cloak of Harvesting, and maybe the Coldain Prayer Shawl. I would not be in favor of basically allowing you the stats from both adventure and harvesting gear at the same time, because you know some people would equip double adventure gear for the extra stats. I think you have to make a decision about how much risk you are willing to take to get your big harvesting boosts. Also, if you want a whole new window of gear like the appearance tab added to the Character window, that's not something to slide into mid-Beta. That would be an added improvement for next year some time.” I have different sets of gear set up as well. And of course I am sure most of us have shown up to raid in crafting gear. In my fantasy, only trade skilling items could be equipped in the new window and no adventuring stats would be added from the area. I know this is a pipe dream and not likely to be implemented, but its a shame to have a pack full of clever gear that isn't as useful as it might be. This really was just something to throw out there that occurred to me during beta testing. I figured it could go in the scrap pile or the suggestions list as warranted. It really hasn't been as big of an issue before this expansion. In PoP, I could easily wear my crafting outfits on my main characters and be confident that their merc could protect them. In this expansion, my raid toon died while harvesting in her harvesting gear with her merc up. That never happened before...........so it is a bit of a beta issue!

10-25-2018, 05:15 PM	#204
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: The Proof of Power Questgiver: Recipes for Adventure (1) Adding the /cry instruction explicitly to the quest journal text is too much hand-holding, I think. I'd rather see the Recipes for Adventure book repeat the line "CRY out to Xegony!" several times, with CRY really emphasized. (2) The instructions about using the Celestial Nilborien Illusion from the mount window are clear and easily followed. (3) The Celestial Nilborien Illusion does nothing except provide a flying mount that can't be overridden by your appearance mount. It does NOT make you non-aggro from, say, real nilboriens.Why even bother with it at all, period? (3A) Why even bother making the Celestial Nilborien Illusion a mount? Yeah, if we go flying off on our regular mount, the illusion disappears, but while we're standing on the ground, an illusion would show up, right? (3B) Suggestion: wearing the Celestial Nilborien Illusion should make you safe from aggro, and the illusion should break if you try to engage in combat, harvest, etc. while using it... whether it remains a as mount or reverts to a true illusion. (3B) While I was over here typing out this feedback, the mount dismounted me and shut itself off. If its gonna do that, there should be a timer up in the top of the quest journal HUD counting down how long you have exactly before the illusion shuts off in bold red numbers. Yes, the maintained window has that info, but who checks on mount timers? Normal mounts don't expire in 15 minutes! If it's a mount, it should stay active until you unequip it. If it's an illusion, 15 minutes is fine. But if it's a 15 minute mount, then that timer should be in your face, because otherwise it's going to expire on some people while they are flying because they took a bio or otherwise dawdled before flying off in it.

10-25-2018, 05:20 PM	#205
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	WOW..... I think getting the Divine Weapons of Ro recipe as a reward for Difficulties Delivering is new. Very nice! ..........Except I am getting the feeling we may have to have a set of weapons for each zone!?

10-25-2018, 06:12 PM	#206
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Sigrdrifa said: ↑ “Quest: The Scrivener's Tale: The Proof of Power Questgiver: Recipes for Adventure (1) Adding the /cry instruction explicitly to the quest journal text is too much hand-holding...” I really appreciated the hand holding. Emote commands aren't really used that much these days so it is a good reminder for those who never used them or forgot about them!

10-25-2018, 06:23 PM	#207
Gninja Developer Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 0	Katzandra said: ↑ “Nice fix. Aw..... only in the zone? I didn't check with my guy that got the mount version (I will later), but does the illusion work as an appearance mount or does it have to be your main mount?” It does not work as an appearance mount, sorry.

10-25-2018, 06:39 PM	#208
Katzandra New Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 1	Gninja said: ↑ “It does not work as an appearance mount, sorry. ” I appreciate all the hard work you put into this issue and applaud you for the success in a solution that is fun! We can relive the story anytime we return to the zone...........as long as the nostalgia passes in less than 15 minutes! Now I am going to [ctrl z] and crouch sheepishly before I make my next suggestion on this issue . As I was standing by the workbench at the entrance to the Wind zone while summoning an engraved desk to craft the illusion spell, it occurred to me that perhaps a mount might be better crafted as a jewelry item using the workbench that is in the zone already! (/e duck, cover and run.)

10-26-2018, 06:59 PM	#209
Whilhelmina Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	The Scrivener's Tale: Animating the inanimate Just so you know: if you fail the recipe, you have several options: 1/ click TWICE on the bag next to Ghida and you'll get everything back but the malachite shards (I got the latch bindings the second time I clicked and not the first one) 2/ When buying a second time the malachite shards, you'll see that the other ingredients are now on the merchant for 12 plats each, in case you miss a third time. Her bag respawns too. (you're obviously not reimbursed for the extra cash spent) I love options, it's very well done. I'll look back at my previous feedbacks now... The Scrivener's Tale: Crafting at a Snail's Pace Thanks for pointing in the general direction of the snail! The Scrivener's Tale: Escargot Overclocking Spell casts just fine now The Scrivener's Tale: In preparation for Anything That one has been fixed for a while. Harvesting the 2 parts in a row is way better (even if still somewhat weird, but hey, one can understand doing one shopping list then the next) The Scrivener's Tale: Incumbent Incubation Dialog with Zuvet still says that I grabbed the gems (Zuvet says "I see you managed to get them to part ways with the gems (...)" and I answer:"I kind of just took them when they weren't looking, they had the beds so they didn't bother chasing me. Whait, what test?"). We only have "place beds" when clicking where the beds should be. Perhaps change the text to say "place bed and gather gems". (yay for the map in Doomfire btw, waypoints are unreliable in this zone and it helps a lot) The Scrivener's Tale: Difficulties Delivering I'm unsure of the phrasing on turn in to Mourndax. He says "Excellent! How did you get so many? I doubt it possible to collect that many in that short amount of time." English is not my first language but it seems off somewhat. The Scrivener's Tale: Source of Discontent The healing stones use quite a bit of resources. I can understand it for big beds like in Doomfire, but 8/25/20/20/50 x6 is a bit steep. (quest text is fixed to speak only about stones, that's perfect) Tried failing the roguefurt recipe to no avail, it works! Dylindra is still lacking a spell casting animation while she works on the rune at the end. The Scrivener's Tale: Custodial Refurbishment Failed the craft on purpose and we get the Blessed runestone back without problem. (need to say: gaaaaah, the hearts! I much prefer to be a gangrene! evil grin) The Scrivener's Tale: The Reach of the Ivy Recipe now uses the 3 vials of sap on top of the 3 pottery fragments but there's still no way to get them back if you fail the craft. And yay! You managed to give him a book above his head! The Scrivener's Tale: Followup Friendships Quest feathers next to the mob names are a great help for that one, thanks. The Scrivener's Tale: Copper for a Tale In the recipe for Indestructible Cookies, there's twice "wandervine fruits" in the build components, one time 2 fruits and once 6 fruits. The Scrivener's Tale: The Proof of Power I tend to like the (/cry) in quest helper. I often don't think about emotes during quests. Thanks for adding "from the mount window" to the quest text! The Scrivener's Tale If it's not possible to add a feather to the Scrivener, could the text in the quest say "Speak directly to the Scrivener in Myrist's Mezzanine" instead? And yay, I don't hear supra-loud mumbling anymore! Could we get a box of Celestial Zephyren Crystal, Celestial Obsidian Ore and on the buffer pretty please? So that we can test the 3 new recipe books ("Divine Weapons of Ro", "Divine Weapons of Sky" and "Divine Weapons of Rathe", rewards for the quests Difficulties Delivering, Custodial Refurbishment and Back to the Library. Shhh! )

10-26-2018, 11:28 PM	#210
Sigrdrifa Well-Known Member Posts: n/a	Quest: The Scrivener's Tale Step: Speak directly to the Scrivener (1) The Scrivener has a quest book over his head, but no book is showing on the map, and it should. (2) I went through the dialog. Ghida's speech at the very end flashed on-screen but didn't wait for me to click it before it disappeared. I can of course read what she said via the chat window, but the dialog shouldn't be closing itself that way.