Robe of the Whistling Fists.

[Trax]

Attenion Monks: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TURN THIS IN YET, you will lose your items.

Robe of the Whistling Fists -Brother Balatin - When charming Brother Balatin he does not respond to hails, nor does he return the Robe of the Whistling Fists after handing in your Robe of the Lost Circle and the two metal pipes.

All three of my items were lost. The quest NPC does not reject the items either as if they were incorrect. Please look into this..

To recap on the bug so people don't think it's still broken.

This morning I charmed Brother Balatin and handed him my Robe of the Lost Circle and both metal pipes. However, I did not receive anything in return. In addition there was no quest text at all.

http://rampageguild.com/images/brother%20balatin.jpg


Shortly after the original post was made Amelinda and/or Nilbog had reset the mob/script and he was then responding to Hails and was working as intended. Unfortunately I was left with no Robe, or quest items to turn in.

http://rampageguild.com/images/broken%20brother.jpg

Two other monks have since then completed the Robe of the Whistling Fists quest and it is confirmed to be working. A friendly reminder, hail the mob to make sure it's being responsive. If he doesn't respond to hail (even when not charmed), then it will eat your items.

Thank you Amelinda and Nilbog for promptly looking into this issue.

[Szeth]

Did Hoku's get eaten or was this a violent coup?

[Bruman]

Awesome. I'm sure it'll be fixed before I have time for two 30 hour camps, but I'm sure you'll get your stuff back.

Unless magic happens and Betrayer spawns in 1 hour, but that totally never happens, right!

[Rais]

lol is all can be said

[kanras]

Just tried this and it worked fine.

[Amirite]

Attenion Monks: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TURN THIS IN YET, you will lose your items.

Robe of the Whistling Fists -Brother Balatin - When charming Brother Balatin he does not respond to hails, nor does he return the Robe of the Whistling Fists after handing in your Robe of the Lost Circle and the two metal pipes.

All three of my items were lost. The quest NPC does not reject the items either as if they were incorrect. Please look into this..

hope you weren't fd

[nilbog]

Not entirely sure what's wrong with this, but after reloading scripts for DL, he responded and worked for me.

If he responds to your hails, it should be gtg.

As far as reimbursements, make individual posts in petition/exploit: reimbursement.

[Trax]

Edited my first post to consolidate.

[Rais]

Just to add to this issue

Brother Balatin's spawn/placeholder is having a tendency to spawn under the pyramid. I had Amelinda help with it, but I can see this causing an issue with it spawning out of agro range.

[Trax]

Can I get a GM to chime and and confirm if you can in fact MQ the Robe of the Whistling Fists quest?

[nilbog]

Brother Balatin's spawn/placeholder is having a tendency to spawn under the pyramid.

Added an additional check in his script, for next patch.

Can I get a GM to chime and and confirm if you can in fact MQ the Robe of the Whistling Fists quest?

yes

[Jjlent]

perun or bisch have you guys finished your epics yet?

[baub]

hokushin just finished his




























































for the second time

[Trax]

Hokushin first on a technicality, due to my quest being bugged!

http://s14.postimage.org/3rx6omzcv/epicdone.jpg

[dianamel]

brother balatin is up again but will not respond to hails to allow us to hand in quest. Anyway to reset the script again please ?

[bylbob]

Yes still bugged, tried charm/sneak/.. no answer to hails.

[nilbog]

No idea what's causing his script not to work when he spawns.

Reloaded scripts in Dreadlands again (11:15 am cst) and he is working atm.

[Rais]

Hasn't spawned since early Sunday morning. Just found out spawn under the world again.

There seems to be two skelly spawns on top of his point. One stays on top, one falls under the world.

Anyway this can be reset or something?

[Xatava]

Is the spawn timer for both of these skeletons on his pyramid 2 hours? I really want to finish this stupid quest but balatin just won't show up. Not sure when one is under the world or just on cool-down from being killed

[Rais]

He is a rare spawn on a 2 hr timer. He spawned after 2 days for me. Random % to spawn, on top of the wrong spawn timer doesn't help.

[nilbog]

Balatin/ph spawn time is fixed with next patch (6 minutes). Additionally the skeleton spawning beneath the pyramid will be removed.

[dianamel]

what is eta of next patch btw?

[Cheech]

Hey nilbog when is next patch? i'm gonna be turning in soon or check to see if hes responsive that is.

[Szeth]

Oh man, killing Balatan just got less fun now that he's a 6 min respawn.

[baub]

YOU MONSTER

[Silentone]

going on 2 days no w/o a chance of him spawning been dowing the PH every 2 hours..(almost) fix plz =/

[Szeth]

I saw him up last night. But don't worry I slayed him for you!

[arsenalpow]

This is why we can't have nice things

[Szeth]

What, he is an undead monk, a scourge upon our order. I had no choice but to cleanse him.

[Bruman]

"Hey guys remembered that time I trolled everyone on P99! Doesn't it make me awesome!"

[Bruman]

Me, Chest, and Dreymon waiting on him to spawn there. I know at least one other monk waiting to do his turn-in. He finally spawned - hailed him. Nothing. Used sneak and hailed - nothing. Got an enchanter to charm, then hailed - nothing. A quick petition later and we get this.

Broadcasts from Amelinda:
HEY you jackasses who think it's funny to kill quest npc's for epic quests. STOP KILLING BROTHER BALATIN or i'm going to look up the encoutner logs and start punishing you :P

in fact now it's broken until patch because every time we reload it ... it can cause MAJOR issues - SO GG assholes.

I'd like to see punishment given out for dick behavior, instead of punishment threatened after the fact. That'd stop a lot of dick behavior from happening in the first place, if people were a little more afraid of being banned. But not my call, /shrug

Thanks Szeth. I mean, I know this means the trolls win, and you're delighted. Oh well.

[Silentone]

ugh, just lost my robe and 2 pipes. is there reinbursment for this or do we need to do the whole robe and pipes again?

[Rais]

Silentone

Should have followed the information that is in this bug report. Would have saved yourself time and energy. Good luck on the rest of the quest.



Not entirely sure what's wrong with this, but after reloading scripts for DL, he responded and worked for me.

If he responds to your hails, it should be gtg.

As far as reimbursements, make individual posts in petition/exploit: reimbursement.


I haven't seen it fail yet if he responds to your hails. So if he didn't respond you shouldn't have handed it in. Follow the information Nilbog has posted. I quoted it for you.

[Silentone]

ya i see that now of course, i guess after 2 days of trying to get him to spawn when i saw him i got over excited. Last thing i remeber reading was that it was fine now...=/

[Szeth]

Amelinda needn't waste her time. She has better things to do than to dig through weeks of logs just to find out it wasn't me.

Trololol

[Amelinda]

No szeth. Unfortunately for you i looked at the logs.

[arsenalpow]

Mr. Northstar
on the pyramid
with the candlesti... err Tstaff

[Ele]

Amelinda needn't waste her time. She has better things to do than to dig through weeks of logs just to find out it wasn't me.

Trololol

No szeth. Unfortunately for you i looked at the logs.

http://i.imgur.com/jWmeN.gif

[nilbog]

Not entirely sure what's wrong with this, but after reloading scripts for DL, he responded and worked for me.

If he responds to your hails, it should be gtg.

As far as reimbursements, make individual posts in petition/exploit: reimbursement.

Reloaded his script again. Should be up and working.

[Bruman]

Reloaded his script again. Should be up and working.

Thanks nilbog. Hopefully noone kills him again before I get home tonight from work.

[Rais]

Reloaded his script again. Should be up and working.

Would him being up for over 30 mins make him bug out since he is suppose to despawn after that time?

[kanras]

No, he doesn't have a depop yet because we don't have a good way to depop only when not aggro'd.

[Bruman]

Thanks nilbog. Hopefully noone kills him again before I get home tonight from work.

Yay, buddy went ahead and took care of it for me (he had today off).

[Amelinda]

Would him being up for over 30 mins make him bug out since he is suppose to despawn after that time?

he spawns bugged. we have to fix him by reloading the perl script.

wouldn't have to reload perl script if he didn't have to spawn. *sigh*

[kanras]

Brother Balatin script wonkiness fixed, pending update.

[sabil28]

Brother Balatin is not responding to hails again with puppet string charmed/enchanter charmed. or sneaked behind. Amelinda tried resetting last night but it did not work. So about 8 or 9 monks on server are stuck at this part of the epic to turn in pipes/ROLC in for Robe of the Whistling Fists.. including me.. =(

[Rais]

Nilbog said he just reset it today.

[sabil28]

disregard my post, sorry i was typing it then afk'd for an hr or so and it happened while i was afk! just got robe. thank you so much for resetting it

[EverquestJunkie]

Can we get a ETA on the next patch?

Kinda unreal so many of the monk epic mobs/turnin npcs are bugged and we are now sitting here twiddling are thumbs waiting while other classes get to progress on there epic

[baub]

No, he doesn't have a depop yet because we don't have a good way to depop only when not aggro'd.

he spawns bugged. we have to fix him by reloading the perl script.

wouldn't have to reload perl script if he didn't have to spawn. *sigh*

someone was nice enough to kill him again in the last 24 hours fyi!

expect a petition when i finally get him to pop and he's bugged :(

[chief]

he ate all my items=/ I didnt see this post until after I turned them in of course, FML!

[baub]

ok i lied it was more then 24 hours ago, but some ass still killed him, sorry about your items chief

[Sat Feb 04 01:43:42 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'
[Sat Feb 04 01:43:42 2012] Brother Balatin turns to you. A transparent human face materalizes upon the skull. As he speaks the smell of rotted rat corpses rushes into your face. You must fight the urge to vomit.
[Sat Feb 04 01:43:42 2012] Brother Balatin says, 'What discipline do you follow?'

Paying handsomely for the name of the perp who fucked it up!

[Szeth]

WASNT ME THIS TIME. TO THE LOGS!

[baub]

He's up again, but very anti-social

[Tue Feb 07 11:18:39 2012] Brother Balatin regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
[Tue Feb 07 11:18:41 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'
[Tue Feb 07 11:18:41 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'
[Tue Feb 07 11:18:41 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'
[Tue Feb 07 11:18:41 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'
[Tue Feb 07 11:18:41 2012] You say, 'Hail, Brother Balatin'

[ShinraTensei]

Yep, he also ate my items. Didn't know about this thread until I asked about it in guild... So now the wait begins.... (waiting period for reimbursement... and npc reset)

Maybe he should be made to be temporarily super hard to kill before his script is fixed?

[nilbog]

He is temporarily (until next patch or zone resets) fixed in game. At patch time, he will be fixed for real.