Brother Balatin

[Daliant17447]

is working as intended. ~6 minute spawn time. PHer is a plaguebone skeleton on the top of one of the smaller wizard spires in DL. Brother Balatin is undead and will agro you.

[kanras]

Aggro is working as intended.

[Versus]

Charm also works for MQ

[Peddler]

Is Brother Balatin working as intended yet? He's not up ATM and I'm wondering if I should be hanging around waiting for him to spawn.

[Ambrotos]

He isn't always up. You have to kill the place holder to spawn him.

What is wrong with him?

[Amuck]

i just did my 3 item turn in, got nothing in return, a bit bitter. i used sneak tactic, put one item in trade, fd wipe agro, sneak, other 2 items, i got all responses from my hail to I follow the brotherhood of the lost circle, i am ready for drape, did turn in got nadda. so dont do it how i did it. I did it like that on live and it worked, here not so much. so please learn from what i did just have someone charm him i suppose. really really hoping to get reimbursement as it took forever to get the 3 items

[Serin]

i just did my 3 item turn in, got nothing in return, a bit bitter. i used sneak tactic, put one item in trade, fd wipe agro, sneak, other 2 items, i got all responses from my hail to I follow the brotherhood of the lost circle, i am ready for drape, did turn in got nadda. so dont do it how i did it. I did it like that on live and it worked, here not so much. so please learn from what i did just have someone charm him i suppose. really really hoping to get reimbursement as it took forever to get the 3 items

yeah, good luck on that one.. Guildie of mine has had a petition in for about a month or so.. and hasn't even heard a peep from a GM about the reimbursement one way or the other.. So, g'luck.. and sorry it didn't work for you..

[Amuck]

Ya i figured, its a free game, im not gunna stress on it. @ raster right now

[kanras]

Sneak handin worked fine for me, exactly as you described it.

[Tulvinous]

i just did my 3 item turn in, got nothing in return, a bit bitter. i used sneak tactic, put one item in trade, fd wipe agro, sneak, other 2 items, i got all responses from my hail to I follow the brotherhood of the lost circle, i am ready for drape, did turn in got nadda. so dont do it how i did it. I did it like that on live and it worked, here not so much. so please learn from what i did just have someone charm him i suppose. really really hoping to get reimbursement as it took forever to get the 3 items

I get the whole thing of handing in one item first, but you create a higher chance of making a mistake IMO. I have done this twice now(once for epic and once again for an extra robe) with no problem and simply doing one master turn in.

I walked up from behind with sneak activated, con him for indiff, hail him and receive correct reply that he's working(get attacked), I run him off a few feet and fd, wait for him to return to spawn point, sneak from behind, con once more, and turn all 3 items in at once. Doing this ensures a few things that he is responding socially, attacks because hes KoS when face to face, and that he paths back so I'm sure I'm standing behind him for turn in.

I do recall, relevant to this instance or not but back on live in the velious era for armor quests and MQ's... people would purposely hand in junk items or partial items like the gems only to screw over people. What I mean is for example; on Monday I turn in a chardok pipe only but on Tuesday you turn in all 3 items, it would bug and eat all your items(esp if the chardok pipe was in the first trade slot). The NPC would retain the item until the rest of the quest was handed in, there was no time frame before the NPC reset.

Maybe the NPC was bugged, maybe you made a mistake, and or maybe someone is screwing with the turn in process. Also it's absolutely not needed unless it's a triggered spawn/item you receive back to prompt each quest dialog, you can simply just turn the quest items in and hit trade.

[Silentone]

actually i is needed, if you do not get a triggered response back from Brother B. that means he is broken.

[Amuck]

Thanks for the info bud. I played back on live when it came out as well. I am detail oriented. I followed step by step for turn in as you described. It could be someone did turn something in and bounced out. I just did the turn in on a FRESH brother, i had killed a few plaguebones this time did the turn in and GOT the robe. So its a little weird that I did not get it last time. Im praying i get my items back so I can keep this gorgeous robe! And Thank you everyone for the replys, this community is a real help, that why I posted what I did. I want it all to go smoothly ! Ty Ty Ty Ty !

[Yanomamo]

My guildie just did the turn in earlier tonight and Balatin ate his items. he was responding to Hail. Hoping to get this fixed so it doesnt happen to other monks.

[nilbog]

I don't see anything wrong with Balatin. Tried a few different ways of turning in the 2 pipes and robe.

[Ele]

Used sneak turn in on Sunday 04/08 just fine. Snuck up behind Balatin, hailed him, received text prompt, instantly aggro'd. I feigned him off, re-applied sneak, and did the turn in from behind for a shiny robe.

[Kados]

this NPC must be bugged, hes certainly not spawning every 6 minutes anymore. ive been here over an hour with 0 ph.

[Lostprophets]

this NPC must be bugged, hes certainly not spawning every 6 minutes anymore. ive been here over an hour with 0 ph.

When he was last up, he was eating peoples robe/pipes last i heard/knew as well. (Successful Sneak/Indiff Con, Hailed, Responsive, Aggro, FD, Successful Sneak/Indiff Con, Items eaten)

It's a little frustrating to see others still having issues with the monk epic in general.

Hopefully Nilbog/Ambrotos and gang will have time to fix it soon. They've been really helpful with it being bugged and have been reimbursing items as necessary, Just hope everyone gets their items reimbursed that have had issues recently as well as in the past.

[Ambrotos]

I saw he was up, went to him hailed him while he attacked and he responded. I FD'ed. He reset, and then I used sneak and turned in all the items.

I just did the turn in while sneaking and got the robe. I don't know what could be going on for some people.

[Lostprophets]

Did you just try it today Ambrotos?

When my friend got theirs eaten was roughly a week ago when the server was having random lag spikes (especially in Seb). They haven't heard anything back on the petition yet.

[Ambrotos]

I did it about 5 days ago. It was a fresh Brother B that spawned. Maybe there is an issue with people turning the items in after someone else because he isn't despawning?

[Lostprophets]

I dunno, something isn't right atm.

I just hope something turns up for the people having issues, seems like at least every few weeks I hear something something is messed up with some part of the monk epic (never heard much about other epics..they seem pretty solid/stable), or someone got something eaten.

the pipes are a time sink from hell unless you get super lucky...I feel bad for anybody that has lost them.