Some Kael questions

[Tarathiel]

i quit live shortly after kunark came out so im eagerly anticipating velious, it will be entirely new content for me /happydance

[Lagaidh]

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

i quit live shortly after kunark came out so im eagerly anticipating velious, it will be entirely new content for me /happydance

Oh how I envy you for your Velious innocence! You are in for amazing magic. I'm partially lucky: there's plenty of Velious I never got to. I never saw original PoM and I think the only raids I ever did were outdoor dragons and pieces of Kael. I did get a bucket hat (DWF custom helm).

I can't wait for that.

I wish I still had the screenshots of the following. Once I got a port to Lavastorm from a guildie female wood-elf druid. After we zoned in, she had the dwarven custom helm on her head, but it was turned 90 degrees. The big horn poking out forward and the small horn backwards. I laughed pretty hard because it looked so silly, and I was high as a kite.

WHY o WHY did I delete all those old screenshots!?

[bulbousaur]

I remember all of those helmet bugs, they were freakin hilarious.

[nilbog]

Thanks for replies so far.

I came across this bit of information which I never experienced nor noticed.

Most of the named mobs in this area will have their placeholders despawn after a certain amount of time (I think 6-8 hours) and the named mob will spawn in its place. The placeholders can be killed and force a spawn on the named guys.
http://www.angelfire.com/freak/eqjon...kael/kael1.htm

6. Should Kael placeholder npcs despawn after a certain amount of time? Which ones, and how long should it take?

Adding 6 to the OP.

[nilbog]

7. After the Statue of Rallos Zek is dead, how long should the Idol stay spawned? How long should the AOW stay spawned? What I'm asking is.. is it possible to kill Statue, then 5 days later have a Statue respawn up at the same time as an unkilled Idol/AoW.

[Asher]

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

7. After the Statue of Rallos Zek is dead, how long should the Idol stay spawned? How long should the AOW stay spawned? What I'm asking is.. is it possible to kill Statue, then 5 days later have a Statue up at the same time as Idol/AoW due to respawn.

I wish I could remember this. Why not hit up the EQMac forums? I am sure someone in Temerity could answer that question for you. I don't think that would have changed between Velious and early PoP.

Asher

[nilbog]

No thanks. If their admins do not desire our server to be discussed there, then I won't violate that rule.

[Gwence]

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

7. After the Statue of Rallos Zek is dead, how long should the Idol stay spawned? How long should the AOW stay spawned? What I'm asking is.. is it possible to kill Statue, then 5 days later have a Statue respawn up at the same time as an unkilled Idol/AoW.

There's no idol on velious release, but it's a pretty strong possibility it did get added in before Luclin release.

In that case, idol does not despawn ever. There was 2 idols up on alkabor few weeks ago after we killed statues. And yea, gonna assume that to mean you could get back to back aow's if you were so inclined.

Makes sense really, it never occurred on live in my experience becasue the guild that killed statue was probably there for AoW, if not, there was another guild waiting for it, so that scenario never came about.

[Qian]

Here's a little I found talking about a patch around 2002-02-14 on:

http://www.mobhunter.com/mobhunter_a...563729945.html

Previously, when the Statue of Rallos Zek was killed, the Avatar of War would spawn for around 45-60 minutes. If no one defeated him during that time, the AoW would despawn.

[Ele]

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

7. After the Statue of Rallos Zek is dead, how long should the Idol stay spawned? How long should the AOW stay spawned? What I'm asking is.. is it possible to kill Statue, then 5 days later have a Statue respawn up at the same time as an unkilled Idol/AoW.

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

Here's a little I found talking about a patch around 2002-02-14 on:

http://www.mobhunter.com/mobhunter_a...563729945.html

According to Qian's link, we shouldn't have Idol of Rallos Zek at launch. Statue should immediately spawn AoW.

Then the problem arose that one guild would kill the Statue without being able to fight the AoW, so any guild that could kill big bad was unable to do so until the Statue respawned. This was another of those problems that arose because of time zone differences.

According to a thread on the Safehouse, a big change now eliminates that problem. After the Statue dies, a new mob called The Idol of Rallos Zek spawns. This new guy doesn't drop any loot; he's merely a trigger mob. Kill the Idol (who is still pretty tough) and the AoW rides again.

I do remember a few times on my live server that the non-#1 guilds would kill Statue and then attempt AoW and fail causing the #1 guild to claim the whole thing as a waste since he would despawn after an hour.