Staff Question: Why Unclassic Variance on Shady Goblin?

[nilbog]

It's hard to remember the day I wrote this quest, almost a year and a half ago, much less the details.

Willing to fix it if it's wrong. I'm not sure how to interpret the last 2 posts in this thread if someone wants to translate.

[Para99]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's hard to remember the day I wrote this quest, almost a year and a half ago, much less the details.

Willing to fix it if it's wrong. I'm not sure how to interpret the last 2 posts in this thread if someone wants to translate.

A lot of the Zam posts suggest it was nerfed on the June 5, 2002 patch and was a 24 hour spawn before that but I didn't spend much time other than that looking. I referenced it in the other shady goblin thread my bad my post didn't make sense without the context.

Shady Goblin has been missing on Vallon Zek since the June 5th patch. Has anybody seen him at all? On any server? Any information would be helpful. If you find yourself in Warlisk Woods, please pay his spot a visit. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] It's driving me nuts. Hope you all have better luck than I do at finding him.

I've Been trying to catch him up for about 4 days on Ayonae Ro and have yet to see him, and I have been trying to check every couple hours and I have yet to see him either. Knowing VI they probably broke the spawn in one of their last patches. I hope they fix this soon if that truely is the case as I hate being stuck on part of a quest because of a fooked up spawn.

Xegony server reporting in. I know of at least one other person doing the quest on my server and he has not been able to find shady either. The only thing that makes sense is that Verant made a stealth change and decided to either increase the spawn time or they changed the name of the mob to something else.

Just a suggestion: maybe try talking to some of the NPC's in the area could yield some results. I'm not exactly liked there so until my faction with the lizzies is a bit higher I won't be trying to get any info from them.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's hard to remember the day I wrote this quest, almost a year and a half ago, much less the details.

Willing to fix it if it's wrong. I'm not sure how to interpret the last 2 posts in this thread if someone wants to translate.

Thank you Lord Nilbog! (And as an aside I'm just now realizing the irony of you of all people answering a post about an unclassic goblin.) It sounds like maybe this was just a case of crossed wires and not a deliberate decision after all.

Originally Posted by Para99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A lot of the Zam posts suggest it was nerfed on the June 5, 2002 patch and was a 24 hour spawn before that but I didn't spend much time other than that looking. I referenced it in the other shady goblin thread my bad my post didn't make sense without the context.

Thank you Para99 for the summaries! And if this isn't enough I'd be happy to find more evidence.

[Para99]

Here's another thread from July 2002 saying he was broken and saying there was a Monkly Business thread about it being broken, Monkly Business thread wasn't captured by Wayback machine. 4 different people in this thread saying it was recently broken
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thec...lin-t2886.html

Jul 02, 2002 #1
What I haven't been able to do is track down the shady goblin in Warslik Woods. I've read a couple of boards that have reported him missing. If this quest is broken, I'd sure like to know so that I can /feedback, /bug, /whatever until it gets fixed.

Jul 03, 2002 #2
Pretty sure that the spawn is currently broken (ie he's not spawning). I'm stuck on the same step and havent seen him for weeks.

Jul 03, 2002 #3
Same exactly problem, im at the shady goblin part and he isn't spawning. Most likely broken as others have said

Jul 08, 2002 #4
The shady goblin bit seems broken indeed...;(