Weekend Update 5.28.18Follow

Yea, it's a bit early - especially since I still have Monday off for a 3 day weekend. But since Nekokirei started the thread, I'll throw in a quick up and then make a final post later Monday or Tuesday.

On Thursday night I was grouped with a buddy of mine with my 20 monk on Coirnav (who happens to stream EQ on twitch), we were running around just trying different things. We hung out in Mistmoore for awhile, that was fun, but we got trained a few times, so we decided to move out. Then we decided to try the birds in Karana and they ended up being a bit to low for us. So we were just running around and at one point we were having problems finding a port back to Commonlands. I jokingly said I should level up my level 4 druid on my 2nd account to port us around. Well, It's Sunday night and said druid is now level 25 and I still have another day of bonus exp to go.

I did all 21 levels starting with Orc Hill, then briefly in Crushbone for a level or two, then to Unrest courtyard, then Main Room and did the final 5 levels this evening in a great Fire Place group.

I did think about hanging out in UR and doing the Basement, but I think I might try to move on to Upper Guk tomorrow for a change of scenery.

So hopefully I'll have a good update on Tuesday after I catch up on some sleep :)

That's awesome Svanhild! You were rockin' it like Hancock man!

I think I have only been to Dulak a few times if that. I seem to recall killing some mobs on the boats, but I could be wrong.

Were you there over the weekend? I thought the weekend had increased rare spawn rates. Spawns like that are the worst!

I've spent many (many (many)) nights in Dulak. Felicite grew up there (fear kiting the boat crews.. pull them up the dock and fear them away.. one night I fell asleep doing this and woke up in the morning to the sound of guls and waves sitting on the dock in my safe spot) and later returning for the (then) tasty gems - I used to clear the entire town and the caves (one of the Necro LoY spell quests has a drop back there).

I've killed Galikor Sevalin dozens of times in the tavern, sometimes on back to back clears. I know the screenshot shows him in the tub, but I see him a lot on the bed.

On the other hand, I have never once seen Architect Vaukin =(

Here are a few threads that might shed some info on the rare spawns.

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/live-update-bugs-12-12-17.245806/page-9#post-3609674

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/76-bonus-on-rare-spawns.233759/page-2#post-3449949

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/76-bonus-on-rare-spawns.233759/#post-3448446

Hey Felicite!

I've pulled the entiritet of the Tavern so many times I've had to trek back to the lighthouse in Gunthak to sell off the loot trash. I think like Vaukin, there's gotta be a trigger mob elsewhere in Dulak's. Seriously, I'm thinking of just leaving my toon there and going to sleep -- maybe in a 24 hour cycle, I'l get the pop I need. Dunno, but it's no joy right now.

My comment really only refers to the rare spawn bonus, thanks to Gidono for finding the threads.




So if LoY zones aren't "easily identifiable as rare" they won't spawn more during the bonus.

Then we get to the more direct question: Are LoY rares sadistic in design?

Based on my experience (love the LoY, spent hours there even after the seeming reduction in gem drops and such) I would say absolutely. I've wiped the one luggald village countless times and only seen the named pig maybe twice... taken a level 85 and wiped the docks/tavern area repeatedly with minimal named showing up, so many boat kills in Dulak, hours to get the named luggald in the Dulak cave to drop the priest weapon with the nice proc... don't get me started on the LoY spell quests.

Long camps, rare % to pop. Possibly convoluted spawn rules... though a low % to spawn named on any timer over 10 minutes is going to feel brutal unless you get lucky.

I will say that most LoY named that I recall hunting did end up spawning in the known PH, though I am vaguely thinking some of them had multiple known static spots (or my beastlord was killing PH that weren't actually PH way back in the day in the Gunthak fort area). Reported LoY info is a little thin though, this is content that people hardly played (or they mass killed for loot drops and didn't bother reporting about the piles of bodies with some named in them) and tend to skip over on progression. The small number of posts on Architect Vaukin and his loot suggest that this is a historically frustrating to get NPC.

Thanks much to everyone, this is why I <3 Alla's. :-)