NPC Spawn Issue: Larik Z`Vole spawning issue

[Erati]

Someone had to point this out, I mentioned it earlier in one of the rancourous ghasts posts but I believe the necromancer Larik Z`Vole i also on a day/night spawn trigger at the ruins which obviously doesnt work right since they implemented a few static spots just to get the ghasts to pop. But since the ghasts work now, its only half the battle since the necromancer wont pop so we can finish the stupid quest.

Anyway I just wanted to make a note of this and bring it to the attention of someone who looks into these issues, its not the end of the world atm obv, but this is something that should be mentioned since we can all now get one step away from a root click neck.

Thanks again for all your efforts Devs "applauds"

Erati

[Goobles]

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6524

All weekend, I only had the necro spawn twice. The placeholder for him spawns on the lower step of the undead obelisk(approx. 0, pos 2200) and takes about 15 minutes, real life time, to respawn... this means that the in-game time goes forward about 4-5 hours between the spawns. I found that killing the placeholder(usually a skeleton) at around 8pm game time would have another pop around midnight, and that was usually the necro. When the pop was at different times, say, 2am, it was always a skeleton. Luck? Chance? Maybe, not sure. Also, only once during the weekend I had the Ghoul Boss spawn. He was NOT on the upper step of the obelisk, he was on the hill right in front of the obelisk. High blue to me, 35 cleric. Fear kited him and had no problems.

The first time I killed the necro, I gated to Steamfont and waited there for two full minutes for the courier. I was standing around the gnomes but no courier ever showed up. I eventually found him safe and sound in the Tier`Dal camp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The second time I killed the necro, I immediately ran to the Tier`Dal camp and waited on the hill just to the east of the camp. I was standing at approximate loc of neg 780, pos 980, facing east. After about 30 seconds, the courier came running straight towards me, from the east. Rooted, and blasted twice for 265 each. He was still alive after that so I had to melee him for a few hits before he went down.

The ghasts are the longest part of the whole quests. I've killed about 13 and have only 2 hearts. What I usually do is camp for the necro, and kill the surrounding static undead. After the four static undead around the obelisk are dead, I cast Sense Dead. For the next 15 minutes or so, I hunt the sensed dead and eventually will get one or two ghasts per hour or so. They seem to spawn at different times, but mostly during the night. You will find an odd one at 5pm or so sometimes.

[Erati]

Goobles,

having done this quest on live and spoken to other people who have camped it here, it makes no sense to link Alla for information in this case since here spawns are different on our emulator. Yes, somethings are identical and Alla is a great resource, but there WAS an obv problem getting the day/night spawns working in Lesser and prob other zones on our emulator. The only time the necromancer spawned for me on live was during night, same with the ghasts. The ghasts did not work on here til they were forced into static spawns, however no one ever thought to ask if the necromancer works too. I have never seen him, nor have heard anyone seeing him. I was just bringing the topic to the attention of someone who would know if she is spawnable right now or not......

ty for bumping the thread though

Erati

[Goobles]

Perhaps by posting the reports from Live, we can lessen the dev's loads of work.(research + coding). It might actually encourage them to get something done if we take the initiative of doing the research for them.

[nilbog]

When posting a bug report, please first scan the forums and use the search function to check if the bug has been submitted already.

If you have not found a post for the bug, then you may post a new thread. Please be as specific as possible when making a bug report. Include NPC names, zone, links to the quest & as much detail as you can.

Perhaps by posting the reports from Live, we can lessen the dev's loads of work.(research + coding). It might actually encourage them to get something done if we take the initiative of doing the research for them.

Thank you Goobles. That is absolutely correct.

[Erati]

I appologize Goobles, I thought you were referring me to read the Alla posts to figure out how to get the thing to spawn, not informing the DEVs information about it.

My mistake, thats what I get for trying to read forums at 2:30 am I guess [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Erati

[Erati]

bump de bump

I really appreciate the Devs fixing the rancorous ghasts but in order to make the work worthwhile the necromancer has to spawn in order to advance the quest to final stage.

And for that matter the massager or whatever that instantly pops at the Lesser Fay / Faydark zone after you kill him. Here is a post from the forum on Alla

"Larik Z`Vole: He spawns on the bottom step of the obelisk. I killed him five times and not once did he spawn on the top step. He only spawns at night which begins at 6pm EQ time and ends at about 4-5am EQ time in Lesser Faydark (I'm not sure if that's standard day/night times). He's on a 5 hour respawn timer (that's 5 hours EQ time, which seems to be almost exactly 15 minutes real time). To increase your chances for having him spawn, which seems to be completely random, you want to kill the mob on the lower step at around 2pm EQ time for a night time spawn at 7pm and then another at about 12am midnight. There won't be enough time for a third spawn before day break, so you won't get more than two spawns per evening. He cons blue to a lev 19 CLR and isn't hard to kill. Nothing other than lower level mummies and skeletons spawn on the top step or near the tree or on the hill next to the obelisk. Those are on a shorter timer of 2 hours EQ time. That makes sense so that there is less likelihood of Larik Z`Vole spawning without company. FYI for each of the five times I saw him spawn, I was alone in the zone and standing on the hill overlooking the obelisk. I'm not sure if that matters, but I spent a long time standing elsewhere with and without helpers in the zone without Larik spawning for a very long time (a real time holiday Monday from dusk till dawn... very painful). I killed everything that spawned around the obelisk every 15 minutes, and with much wrath, I might add, when it was just another skeleton/mummy.

Teir`Dal Courier: Why did I kill Larik five times, you ask? To try to catch this stinker. I tried gating back to the GFay zone line to catch him there when he spawns... nada. I waited to see if he showed up at the obelisk to talk to Larik since he's supposed to be delivering messages to the necromancer... nada. I'm not sure where he spawns, but it isn't the GFay zone line. If he does spawn there then he zips past faster than you can gate after killing Larik. From wherever he spawns, he heads straigh to the Teir'Dal camp. I finally got him when I logged out a ranger character just south of the merchants and just a little north and east of the Teir'Dal camp. I had previously found him at the Teir'Dal camp but died horribly trying to fish him out from very tough dark elves. So when Larik spawned for the FIFTH time, I logged in with that ranger (on a second computer, of course), formed a party with that character, killed Larik with the Cleric at the obelisk, picked up the Dark elf courier with the ranger character's tracking, snared the bastard and fought him with the ranger while I ran the cleric to join the battle. Killed the courier, looted the head and crate... then crapped myself and collapsed. Heh.. no seriously I cashed those items in and got the Disciple symbol. "

Hope this helps

Erati

[Aeolwind]

I'll be working on LFay Day/night this week, along with West Commons.

[Waedawen]

Most excellent. Mark me among the people spending 6-7 hours straight to get four ghast hearts, then camp the necromancer in vain.

From a post on Alla --- I showed up in Lfay working on the first and second Tunare quests. The Dark Elf Courier was up in the Tier Dal camp. An easy kill for a 31st level Druid with Harmony.

I camped the necro for 5 more EQ days with no sign of his spawn. Luckily I killed enough ghasts to finish the first quest. I returned to Felwithe and turned in ghast hearts and initiated the second quest by telling Bronzeleaf "I will slay the necromancer".

I returned to Lfay and camped the obelisk for one more EQ day. I arrived at 12pm and killed the placeholder skeleton on the first step. At 7PM the placeholder popped again, but this time was a Mummy instead of the typical skeleton. Around 12AM that EQ day(and exactly 15 minutes after the Mummy was slain) Larik spawned. He and his pet were easily kills, its Equestrielle and the Brownie scouts that you must be careful of.

Theory: The spawn of Larik is triggered by the second quest initiation in Felewithe, and the last place holder before Larik is a Mummy instead of a skeleton.

Good Luck!"

Apart from the guy's Theory, it's another piece of evidence on Larik being place held at the bottom of the obelisk, spawning at Night around midnight, then spawning the Dark Elf Courier upon death in the Northeast-ish (Sorry I can't be more precise) area of the zone working his way to the Teir`Dal camp

[Erati]

Just bumping..

I know theres alot more important things to fix than this one and more than likely the day/night stuff is a difficult one to code but I was wondering if its possible to just make it a rare spawn and forget the day/night stuff. This is only part 2 of a low lvl quest and it would be very useful for people to be able to complete it.


All the devs put in alot of time and energy for something that isnt thier job and I really appreciate how much you all update and inform the playerbase. You provide a great service here and I wanted to just thank you for that.


"crosses fingers Larik is fixed for the next patch"


Erati