Visions of Grandeur

It is indeed working again, thank you!!!

Ok, can't edit .. time expired i guess... new break in Shackle of Tynnonium quest...

a_tome_keeper gave our hapless monk the "Dim White Tome"

http://mqemulator.net/item.php?id=18467

it reads:

“Made from the mud, but fired to use. The Frogloks use it to bring what is filtered. Within the swamp town you will find and return to the Court of Pain to the one who would have you earn your sparring armor.”

Obtained the Earthenware Bowl at -1262, -1411, +28 in Swamp of No Hope's Froglok Village... returned to Cabilis' Court of Pain...

http://mqemulator.net/item.php?id=22922#

all four GM Monks say "I have no need of this, you may have it back"...

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If this isn't easily fixable, perhaps questing monks can return to the tome keeper since he doesn't despawn and get another, different subquest? It runs the risk of losing their Shackle of Steel perhaps?

Please advise, and thanks again for the funnest server in years.

Player error. Again time has expired to edit or delete this... Please delete previous post.

Monks must hand both the Kaesora Tome AND the scavenged item in to the appropriate GM.

Heck wrote:I wonder if it would be appropriate to ask for a bump in the quality of the final reward for this quest also, since, by the time players would be able to obtain this, even junk drops from certain Luclin zones outclass this crazy time consuming convoluted questline and rep grind. It maybe should at least be a viable alternative to Sleeper's and NToV drops; maybe 13/20 or 15/20? Maybe even a little more; but not over-unity.

Ya, epics are generally pretty terrible reward for the effort once the game goes beyond Kunark, but tbh, some weren't very worthwhile even then. However, upgrading one pretty much means upgrading them all, which means individually considered tweaks for every class. And as you say, when people can get junk drops that are better, it's a little pointless, but how good do you have to make them where junk drop for lv65 players don't compete? You can get better weapons than that from normal Veksar named.

I've been making tweaks to make epic mobs less painful when people have issues with them to make them much less of a pain, and that's fine because it helps to ferry the nostalgia along, but actually trying to make them balanced around the time and effort is a bit of a wild goose chase without also making pretty sweeping changes. I think it would be interesting to rebalance the entire raid game around lv65 characters, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

Heck wrote:PS EDIT: Allow me to question the wisdom of this quest's idiotic designer too (Robe of the Whistling Fists, needed by all Monks pursuing their epic and so on): you will note upon success that it LOWERS Swift Tail reputation by FIFTY points unmodified... at 10x that would be FIVE HUNDRED REP lower, with a faction that is obscenely difficult to raise to for non Iksar Monks.

Does this actually cause a problem, or is it just an annoyance? Also, why would the faction hit be 10x? The faction increase mod only works on kills, and it's only 3x even then. This shouldn't affect quest faction changes.

Rathe mountains, is over run with Humans! Every snake in zone has a human model. Funny seeing all those snake people wandering around. (This was a few days ago, might be fixed already?)

Good answers, thanks so much, things are really okay and there is little room for big improvements now.

... now I know why snakes all still kick ... they're trick-or-treat Humans-- all dressed up!

Dumluk wrote:Rathe mountains, is over run with Humans! Every snake in zone has a human model. Funny seeing all those snake people wandering around. (This was a few days ago, might be fixed already?)

lol, it's the first I've heard of it, I'll take a look.

plane of Sky seemed bugged
guardians lords vanquishers and other trash were all respawning
(usually vanquishers killed = no trash respawns...)

just now in sky.

bee island... only 3 key pieces dropped.. should be more..

The key loot of interest is called a "Dull Dragon Scale" and drops 8 at a time off of the three "Bzzazzt" and 2 at a time off of the boss mob Bazzt Zzzt

Not sure about the respawning compared to live. I don't see any scripts that affect that, so it may be a result of faster repop times or just emulator wonkiness. If it's actively breaking the zone, I'll try to find a way to fix it though.

I just went and slaughtered all the bees, and they all dropped more keys than intended. Bazzt Zzzt dropped 3 when he should only drop 2, and all 3 Bzzazzts dropped 15 each instead of 8. Corrected the amounts.

In Chardok, Herald Telcha does not recharge players' "Regal Band of Bathezid"- my char still has max faction and his ring has zero charges, and the Herald simply says "I have no need of this, playername. You may have it back" and it pops back on your cursor.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=12316

At least he doesn't eat it, but, this was the main reason I wanted to suggest boosting the # of charges, even up to "unlimited" or |-1| or whatever. If there is a working script, feel free to ignore this, but if not, it could be item fixed until there is, if that is possible, given the available tools.

I honestly prefer to solo or to duo/group, rather than box, so perhaps this ring was just a little more important to me than others; given that mobs still have half their original health, plus buffs and heals where/when they do; which is just a little more than traditional "solo" type servers that came before. Again, not complaining, just trying to raise awareness; this item is important, especially for non-DS classes, and still complements the coldain rings- which are much, much harder to obtain. Please check this item/recharge script when you have time.

Thanks again, Control!

=)


http://file3.guildlaunch.net/6951/EQ000 ... gefail.jpg

Not a bug..
But cannot find a pet focus for 60+ pets..
http://www.paullynch.org/eqguide/guides/pet-focuses/ has a list of them... none unlocked yet..

(wasn't playing a pet class in pop era so were pets just unfocused in that era?)

The starting charm has summoner's boon added with the level restriction removed so it works on pets of all levels.

I do think that PoP was mostly focus-free other than the noob quest items. It seems like there may have been a VT and a PoT item, but the brain is fuzzy atm.

Control wrote:The starting charm has summoner's boon added with the level restriction removed so it works on pets of all levels.

oki i will have to look closer at what triggers when i cast a pet. I thought nothing came up.. hence why i asked...

It doesn't trigger a message, so you have to compare with levels/hits.

That was a terrific fix, and no one thought to do this for players, and Pet classes account for about half of all high level characters! No wonder our pets have been able to tank trash and some bosses and will /con yellow at low levels sometimes. Good fix, thanks Control!

Hey bud,

Can you please take a look at the pathing in Plane of Air? Most the elemental mobs and the phoenix birds are going under the floor and you can't hit them at all.

Coldain Ring quest #2.

Boridain (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=6005)
never spawns, so can't give him the axe, do the follow stuff. Not sure if its an easy fix or not but i would love for these quests to be in the game (stacking damage shield is all my love)

Whenever I zone into Nektulos Forest, I end up underground and cannot move. I've tried zoning in from Lavastorm, EC, and using the PoK portal. Any ideas?

I'll check on the coldain quest.

For the Nek zoning, are you using the client linked in this post: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7
If not, give that a try

I had been using the Lair of Nagafen ROF2 download. I fixed the issue by downloading your client and copying all of the nektulos files into my install folder and now I'm good! Thanks.

Hi Control,

My group killed Blood and then Emp Ssraeshza on 11-9-16 around 11 PST and Blood has not yet respawned. Not sure if this is bugged or intended. Or if spawning Blood is related to some trigger I am not aware of, my memory of this encounter is really fuzzy.

Thanks as always for running this project, we are enjoying it greatly!

pailryder wrote:Coldain Ring quest #2.

Boridain (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=6005)
never spawns, so can't give him the axe, do the follow stuff. Not sure if its an easy fix or not but i would love for these quests to be in the game (stacking damage shield is all my love)

Looks like he's just a normal mob until you do the handin to him. Then he spawns a different version of himself. If he wasn't up, someone or something may have killed him? Looks like he's on a 30min repop.

Eatbeast wrote:Hi Control,

My group killed Blood and then Emp Ssraeshza on 11-9-16 around 11 PST and Blood has not yet respawned. Not sure if this is bugged or intended. Or if spawning Blood is related to some trigger I am not aware of, my memory of this encounter is really fuzzy.

Thanks as always for running this project, we are enjoying it greatly!

Doesn't look like anything should be holding up his repop, but I made another tweak to the script. Maybe this one fixes it.

Hi again,

Thanks for working on the Blood/Emp script. We noticed some weirdness again this morning. We killed blood, after a minute or so Emp became targetable and another Blood and untargetable Emp spawned. After killing the targetable Emp we killed Blood and then Emp again. Blood did not respawn a third time.

Will check again later today to see if Blood repoped as normal.

ugh, that's odd, I'll take another look