Miscellaneous: Befallen Event/Revamp Thread

Aalderon Crystafire · #1 10-08-2016, 11:22 PM

This thread is for any and all data regarding the Primordial Malice takeover of Befallen that should occur on our server's timeline. I think possibly before Stonebrunt came? June 2001.

Here's what we have so far from Maximum's original thread (thank you!).

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Originally Posted by maximum

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Originally Posted by Pipsqueak

Did a search for a shimmering ruby stiletto that someone referenced off one of those npcs. There's posts referring to a two week revamp relating to a group of dark elves in wc. Sounds like a gm story event that mixed up befallen for a short period. Would be neat to see it added to p99.

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Originally Posted by Ele

*The acolytes have performed the classhole summoning ritual.*

The revamp of Befallen seems to be part of an on-going set GM events and didn't spread out to all servers at once, but on a rolling basis as the GMs went around doing the event. Then some servers had the revamp taken away and reverted to the lowbie skeleton/rat version of Befallen, while others still had the DE infestation version. Some places report it as "Drow Infestation," "Death of Lanys," or "Malevolence." Lanys T'Vyl events. And also Malevolence.

Either it means they wanted each server to be its own dynamic world or they ran short on GMs/care to implement it evenly across all the servers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20011024....shtml?zone=23

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/z...3&p=2#comments

http://forums.evercrest.com/f/thread...Two_Thumbs_Up_

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/show...light=befallen

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1.) Don't be fooled by the cons. Everything up top is easy green to my 30th. But on the third level the guardians and other DEs are mostly blue, they are not low blues either. Many are necros and can put a hurting on you with DoTs. One named hit me for 120 although now that i think about it, it might have been a backstab. As mentioned earlier, even at 57th every thing agros. We had a full group of 30ths and got into trouble a few times.

2.) Fast and erratic spawns. Spawn time is real quick. Also several times, out of nowhere we would get 2-3 spawns popping right on top of us.

3.) Funky pathing. Nothing too new here. Down on the 3rd level, stuff sometimes wont follow you but will turn around and run deeper in, agroing more.

4.) No keys!! There are no keys to the locked doors. Either they were left out intentionally to make rogues more attractive or was a mistake on Verant's part. This can make things very rough for CR due to the fast spawns and everything agroing.

5.) Pristine studded leather drops down on the 3rd level and is no-drop. Its slighty better than splitpaw hide (least the gloves where at ac:5, +2 wis, +10 mana (maybe +5)). It looks like tizmak/ulthork armor. Got a tunic for my druid, AC 14 and some other minor stats (no wis). Also got several 11/30 swords and a 8/30 dagger with minor +stats (both droppable).

6.) The franticness of the dungeon really adds to the excitement in my opinion. A very fun night for our group of 30ths.

We also know that the duration of the revamp varied from one server to the next. Can we find what the shortest and longest duration of the revamp were so our developers can have that information and use their discretion with it?

Also, I don't see any faction hits labelled on any of the mobs linked. Can we find out if they used Primordial Malice? We already have this faction and the hits for it (negative when raising Neriak factions) on P99 although I think we shouldn't, yet. Was it introduced with this event? Removed after it?

Please continue to post any relevant links/quotes so we can get this in.

@Telin and Nilbog: if there are certain specifics regarding this content that you need to make this happen briefly outline them here so we know what to prioritize.