EZ Server

Greetings EZ! This is the time of year that we all look forward to! Fortunately you guys have been spoiled with having the Halloween off-season times because it was enjoyed so much but we are bringing back the 2017 event along with events from years prior and potentially some special events this year as well?  ;)

You can find some interesting stats on the year that this event was released: http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=5468.msg69956#msg69956

Event Details

• A special new zone will be available for players T9+
• Special Global Halloween drops will appear in all existing tiers
• The older 2014 Halloween event is also active for those who wish to take advantage of it
• The event will END on Nov 5th Monday 12PM Noon CDT
• Double Credits will be available for a limited time
• Changelog for this event will be kept up to date in this thread and in the in-game #viewchangelog

Files

• Files for this event can be found in game logging in for the first time or typing #halloween in Nexus
• Files can also be found here: http://ezserver.online/halloween_2017.zip

We hope you guys have a blast and if you liked the event - drop a comment in this thread!

As someone that has missed the last few HW events, is the candy used for anything now?

Im up to T7 so cant do the T9 zone yet -  do the old boss chains only spawn in the new zone?

Lastly, pirate coins?

Sorry for all the questions!

More realms, please? Or ability to create instances?

x2

more realm / or isntance x3

I hope we can get a few more realms  :)

Thank you for adding a few more realms, much appreatiated!

 ;D

Anyone else having a hard time logging in right now?

I tried to log in this morning, and am not even getting a list of available servers, or time outs.

I think the burning question of the day is "was there a problem with the reset last night or is this this the new drop rate for zp, doubles and triples for the Halloween event now going forward".  No post about changes so are we safe to assume the reboot hosed the Halloween event last night and will be fixed soon ?

This halloween event is no longer worth the time.  I've resorted to doing actual work irl over the event I looked forward to for so long.  What a disappointment.

Drop rate of ZP items seems to be what it should be. Got 1 spear each pull on two pulls in hoh which is about what it was at for the end of the event last year after all the drop rate tuning.

I just did a big bunch of complete clears of HoH, LP, and ToV with zero ZPs and zero DL/TL items.

I did the same including qvic
I did get a couple of zone pulls
But no where near what was dropping before reset
Oh well  :(

Red

I don't like to say this often but grow up guy....these guys bust their butt FOR NOTHING...no fan fair....no money....and then someone like you makes a comment like this...maybe look at the reason changes were/were not made because people were exploiting content......

Woah started earlier than expected! Too bad my laptop is still busted :(

Enjoy all!

Let me preface by saying, I really like the server. I spent money on it at the start of the event. However, I think it would just be cool to get confirmation if there was a purposeful change.

I'm not sure what you guys are going on about out about regarding loot in the normal tiered zones, that is just ONE aspect of the many events we have going on

The entire reasoning for having loot in those zones available is so that folks who may not necessarily be up in the upper tier can still enjoy getting some of these items to help them super charge the progression they already have to do. These items are not meant to be a shower of loot as they are meant for amplifying gameplay in a fun and powerful way, naturally they are going to be more on the uncommon side

Just today alone, in all zones BUT Plane of Regret, there has been:

• 481 Zone Wide Pull Drops
• 68 DL Instance Drops
• 47 TL Instance Drops

In ONLY in Plane of Regret

• 226 Zone Wide Pull Drops
• 81 DL Instance Drops
• 27 TL Instance Drops

If anything, I'm thinking normalized zones need to be adjusted a tad to be inline with the top end event, and the top end needs slight adjustment as well which I will do now

Also, the event is going on for a LONG period (2 weeks), you have time to take advantage of it and make it worthwhile and the rates are plenty reasonable. There are ALOT of things to get out of this event outside of these three items.

Come on folks, stop throwing fits over a special event that we put together for you. You can simply do your progression just as you were

+1

This post will earn me some haters.... but I saw this coming.

Raise concerns about something that was implemented for people to receive and enjoy in all tiers, but in no way was a definite guarantee for every pull, then something will get changed in the end... and not always for the better ie...the Zone Pullers.

RNG is a bitch and as soon as you understand that and learn to accept it.. then less things get looked at and changed. You have a lucky streak and then you don't. Simple as that.. and yes.. that can be server wide.

Akk hit the nail on the head with his post. If they change something, ie drop rates, etc.. they post it on the forums and changelog. Akk and Rent have been pretty transparent with everything they do to the server to benefit us or balance things. There was a lot of /ooc posts and concern over something that now will be changed and balanced. Basically ask and you shall receive and accept that sometimes its not always for the better....

Oh and congrats to those that received a portion of the 700+ zone pullers (that were suppose to be rare in drop rate) that dropped today, cause I received 0 of that portion. Haven't logged in today.  :D

...my 1 copper...

Mix

I have all my uber lewts already screw the noobs!  ;D

Shuddap noob!  :)

Mix

I hope I didn't come off as throwing a fit. I tried to preface my post: I like the event either way and it even convinced me to go ahead and drop money on the server.

To clarify I think it seemed like the ZP drop specifically had changed (the others are far too rare to estimate off a single day of farming). I believe there would be merit in nerfing the ZP drops (if they were). By having the drops average >1 in a clear (like they were) you have an infinitely replenishing system which was tons of fun but puts a lot of stress to farm farm farm as fast as possible. Over the first several days my stash of ZPs steadily grew. Yesterday my stash went down by 1/3 before I decided that it seemed like the drop on ZPs had changed. So I went to the halloween zone instead and I had lots of fun there.

For me I'd just like to know so I can make an informed decision about what to do, if spears no longer self replenish then I'd like to save them, otherwise I'll keep chugging away with zone pulls.

People are going to interpret my statements however they want, regardless of what I actually say or how I intend for them to come across.  I love the server.  If I was in a position to give money away, I'd still donate to it.  I'm very grateful that it's here and free of cost.  I'm also vaguely aware of the large amount of time sunk into bringing the various ideas to fruition and don't take that for granted.

All that said, I'm still entitled to an opinion and sometimes I'll voice it.  If I think a piece of armor is ugly and say so that doesn't mean I expect someone to come running to fix it.  I'm not trying to exude a sense of entitlement.  People love their drama and it's more dramatic to say, "look at that entitled little bitch" and take that interpretation from my comments.  If that's what you want to do with it.  Go do that.  If you don't care for my opinion, I don't give a shit. Just move on.  No one said anyone had to like me.

When I first came back to EZ server I remarked one time in ooc how it'd be nice if there was a way to pull the whole zone at once in some of the places I'd been farming.  When I said it, I had no idea the zone clicky even existed.  Someone told me about it, said they drop like candy during Halloween, and got me a little excited for the event.  My expectations had been set.  Whether I'm owed a damn thing or not, my expectations had been set.  No differently than they'd have been set if someone said, "hey there's a froglok ghost on ldon lvl 5".  I'd wander in expecting to see a froglok ghost.

When the Halloween event was kicked off, it turned out what someone said was true.  I made my plans and set forth doing what I thought was fun.  Then I felt like I had the carpet pulled out from under my feet.  I realize I'm not owed the Halloween event that someone described a few weeks/months back.  That's fine.  I get that.  My opinion is now that the event is no longer worth my time.  I was disappointed.  That's just my opinion.  The server as a whole is still fun to play on.  I just felt like as a lowly 73, when the ZP drop rate was nuked, ZP was reduced from being something potentially very useful to a party trick I'll be able to do a few times before I run out.

That's ok though, I can just continue progression as though the event never happened.

I appreciate the effort put into the event.  Sorry if I didn't like it as much as you might have hoped.

I get where you are coming from, kuahara...BUT please make sure you get IG for ALL your toons (you will regret it if you don't later on) once you get to the end level you will find the newer of the halloween is a TON of fun....and rewarding.

Voice of Cazic Thule will be very helpful later on, as well.

What's the best method to get drops now that spears don't self-sustain? The drop rates only worked out when you were killing 200+ mobs a minute. I've been working the gravedigger quest which gives three tokens per hand in but it actually doesn't seem to be very fast anymore either (maybe I just got really really really unlucky yesterday though).

Unfamiliar with gravedigger quest...All I ever did was just make a big loop and run all the mobs back to the tunnel (so you didnt get thrown far when that one named spawned....and looted on whatever toon had quest items.

I've only completed T4 so I'm definitely not quite on that level yet. I actually didn't even know housegarden had a tunnel. Maybe it's all about doing the kill quests now but if I focus on them I can only complete a couple a night which would be a little rough to complete.

Seems like this event is causing alot of grief and hate between players. Nerfs daily and everyones upset threw server weather they admit it or not. I think a good idea would be to end the event and do a double loot till it ls over. No more doubles/triples or zone pulls cause its gonna cause more hate and grief to newer players that gotta read ooc.

Wrong idea and offensive to Akka for all the great work he did on Halloween zone. Just add DL to the existing event and problem solved. If we had DL this whole time I doubt anyone would have complained about changes to drop rates.

This whole events been super fun but as far as the drama and grief people are creating because they cant do something is making it more of a problem. Would be easier and alot less drama to turn on DL and call it a old school event. Thatd kill all drama and grief

I agree on DL but no need to turn off Halloween that's just silly.

Hw zone is whats causing all the problems because its public

Many players have been at the top tier for several years. The Halloween zone (T9+) is more or less their only chance of getting some upgrades and experiencing some new content. Even suggesting to shut it down is sad to listen to.

The following should be done based on my assessment:

1. Turn on DL (this is what keeps people happy since they can always go do something else if things change or if they're bored).
2. Increase Halloween related drop rates back to where they were at the beginning of the event this week in regular zones (and make sure they're on for all zones - I didn't see any items besides candy in LP, OC or ToV). I farmed HoH at the beginning of the event using ZPs and it was NOT game breaking by any stretch... Having a small handful of ubers farm some extra ZPs won't matter much in the long run. These people can already zone pull anything they want it just takes a bit longer. The ZPs are no drop and require whoever loots them to be logged in to use. The DL and TL instances go quickly because they are only 1 hr each and much more rare. It's much more concerning that lowbies are very dissatisfied with the event drop rates now that it's been changed. It shows it's been adjusted way too far (I didn't see a single ZP when ZPing HoH 5+ times the other night). I also personally don't see a problem with folks farming GSOAs during the event... who cares if they grind and get a bunch if that's what they choose to do? The price of GSOAs is up to 75M - the economy could use more not less, and there will always be better items in the future...
3. Add maybe 10 or more realms for Halloween zone for 15+ total.
4. Bring drop rates in Halloween zone up to discourage ubers from farming low zones and keep ZP usage disabled in this zone.

Delete the server, problem solved!   So much QQ!    20 years is enough time to mine the salt of noob tears!

how dare you

Complete server reset for New Years.     Let all ubers be forgot!

how could you

How absolutely dare you sir!

outrageous

Don't turn your back on the wolf pack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQGo2IdA9s



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwXUxgszF0

Delete the server, problem solved!   So much QQ!    20 years is enough time to mine the salt of noob tears!

DAM even ignore on the server doesn't drown out Maslow completely, is there a forum /ignore ?

I think people are exaggerating the drop rates or are just getting bad RNG. I was pulling for I think 2 hours or so in loping the other day and was slowly getting more ZP than I was using. I did a few pulls in HoH and was getting at least as many as I was using, further pulling would probably see me slowly losing them but that's what it should be at for lower tiers anyway. It's fine if the high tier players are getting the ZP items because they are at the point where they can pull lower tier zones (up to T9 for some people) and it doesn't really give a ridiculous benefit to them. If you allow lower tier players to get tons of ZP items easily they will power through UWs, Earring, and Rings much sooner than they should be able to.
IMO the Halloween ZP, DL, and TL items end up trivializing much more content and create a much bigger impact than people are giving them credit for.
Getting everything too fast destroys the fun of a game by making it to quick. These items do exactly that so the drop rates as they are right now are perfectly fine in normal zones (if not a tad bit too high actually).

RE: "Getting everything too fast destroys the fun of a game by making it to quick. These items do exactly that so the drop rates as they are right now are perfectly fine in normal zones (if not a tad bit too high actually)."

I totally disagree with you on that. 
Case in point: UW progression.
Example: MPG being removed.  Was it buggy?  Yes.  Are there other options?  Yes.  But, the issue is, there are LESS options than there used to be to get essences and hive shards...and certainly less variety if you got bored with one way of doing it, you had another.
Example: Seemingly less and less lowbies selling GSoAs and Essences.  Is that due to drop rates or less noobies or greedier lowbies?  it doesn't matter, it means less options for players.  Tons of cash but no way to buy the needed parts when no one is selling.  Tons of aa, but no way to invest it into needed things.
Example: Scorpion Tails drop less than in the past.  Are they required?  no.  Did they make the game more fun?  Yes.  Should we be happy with anything?  probably.  But, even if its by design to stop abuse/overuse by some, the fun is lessened a bit.  That doesn't mean we don't want to put in the time and effort to do the grind that is needed, it means we love the fact that Akka thought outside that box by introducing the scorpion tails, DLs, and TLs, and that is awesome.  It was a wonderful idea and an example of how insightful, innovative responses can make the entire game hugely entertaining because we can make a small event anytime WE like.  Talk about player friendly and a great idea.  MORE of that type of thinking, not LESS!!!!

That fits a boxing server mode to me, making the game more fun not less fun. 
Slow and mind-numbingly grindy was never appreciated by players, not back on live and not now.

Then again, I am still working my UWs and progression....and maybe that's the difference in my perception compared to others.
/rant off

Happy Halloween good people of EZ  ;)

I actually think it's the opposite. Those two hours aren't real indicative of the drop rate changes. In the 4 days since nerf they have been roughly as rare as any other drop. I have no idea how many mobs are in loping planes but HoH or qvic seem to be about 1 in 3 or 4 clears down from >1 per pull. Furthermore, there's a threshold where you go from getting more than you use to getting less than you use where even a small adjustment in drop rate can fundamentally alter their purpose... in this case we would all agree that the change pushed us over that threshold. As such, our kill rate has also plummeted so the drop rate went down and the kill rate went down and those two things compound multiplicatively.

Oh noes!

This is some elite level QQ!