Quillmane spawn

[Ooloo]

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

And just to add to my post, I wanted the interview with the dev who created the spawn. He says lioness and elephant caves were not it but then goes to say it was part of the lower level spawn cycle. If a lioness is not low level I do not know what is. And if that is the case and that is the best info we have, then there are a lot of spawns which should be taken off the list. Plus, where did the 78 second rule come from and why is that one QM?

If he cannot remember exactly, and there is really no other proof of anything from classic, then it should just have been left alone instead of some frankenstein project.

Since there's no hard documentation and even the original dev can't say with certainty, the next best thing is to emulate the average memory of most players, which is that quillmane was rare af. There were zero guilds during classic selling lev cloak loot rights or requiring every melee raider to have a lev cloak.

It's not like people didn't understand what a rare spawn was back then. People knew what placeholders and named mobs were. Yet there weren't a billion lev cloaks on every server.

[BigPlays]

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

Since there's no hard documentation and even the original dev can't say with certainty, the next best thing is to emulate the average memory of most players, which is that quillmane was rare af. There were zero guilds during classic selling lev cloak loot rights or requiring every melee raider to have a lev cloak.

It's not like people didn't understand what a rare spawn was back then. People knew what placeholders and named mobs were. Yet there weren't a billion lev cloaks on every server.

The problem is that it should never been changed mid server life

[Lune]

Feathered Leggings were certainly a common enough item during live classic trilogy

[unsunghero]

How I feel looking down on inferior classes squabbling over getting a component-less levitate

[Jimjam]

Why not? All other changes are…

[BigPlays]

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

Why not? All other changes are…

Yes per the patches. The QM spawn was never officially changed on live. Every single EMU I have played on had QM spawn the exact same way.

[Jimjam]

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

Yes per the patches. The QM spawn was never officially changed on live. Every single EMU I have played on had QM spawn the exact same way.

So all the other emus are using a faulty guestimation of classic and this fix was supposed to bring p99 closer to classic?

There have been a bajillion changes (supposedly) towards classic that have happened midtimeline of p99 that didn’t happen on live.

There is a very strong precedent of ‘fixing’ things as we go rather than waiting for a new server. There is almost no precedent of waiting for a new server to make ‘classicwards’ fixes.

[knotme]

So the Quillmane change was supposed to make it how it was "supposed" to be. Melee classes etc. were not supposed to really have the levitation devices and Quillmane was supposed to be a special "unicorn" level event. OK, seems legit. So what has changed since the modification. Well, now you MUST have a tracker to track the PH. And shockingly, LR and melees with cloaks still exists. So the change was done for what purpose? I can't complain if the operator of this game makes adjustments, what can I do about it?, but to say a reason is to adjust the number of melee getting cloaks or making it more special is absolutely "Nigerian Prince" level BS. It's ok. It's still FTE. Watch for me in a zone near you =)

[Ooloo]

Yes, it's harder to farm than it was before. But it's still not that hard and you can crank out cloaks all day because it's triggered.

And what do you mean melee weren't supposed to have it? They're like the main people who need it, the caster classes can all cast lev in some form

[Castle2.0]

Got my cloaks n manastones ages ago. Sorry you're tryna get em on hard mode.