EZ Server

In reluctance of giving a very long Halloween event this last Labor day that many exploited, Halloween will be running for the week through the 8th noon CST with some key changes

• Original Magorian cooldown has been returned
• Magorian reset exploit is removed
• The ability to bypass realm checks has been removed
• Realm counts increased to 15
• Zone pulls in the realms are disallowed (Tired of constant griefing complaints and the zone was never meant to be zone pulled to begin with)
• Minimum level 72 required to enter Plane of Regret

Halloween

• Both Halloween events are enabled
• Only Double Loot is enabled (Not double credits)

Have a safe Halloween everyone

The EZ Team

could u please be more specific as to what the original cool down means, is this per realm per so many hours ? getting the message "it doesn't appear this shrine is responsive at this time" First attempt to spawn him in the realm we are in.

the timer is if i recall correctly 12hrs after he is killed, or it could be 24hrs its been a while.

So will there be a new zone anytime soon since Halloween sucks now?

I love all of this except for one part:


I think with adding the extra realms you will have less people getting in the way of others. I hit the labor day event hard and only had 1 person come in and zone pull over top of me. 99% of the time when this happens it's a simple matter of letting the person know you are in the zone and they are apologetic and will find a different realm. Basically the people that can't work that stuff out between themselves have some growing up to do.

As it stands without being able to zone pull this I have no desire to finish the last couple of diamonds I need for my necklace quest.

I think it is unfair to the people that still needs items in HS an giving the players that have all the items an unfair advantage.  If it was like other zones I could see it maybe be the zone is only up a few times a year.

Thanks for allowing the event to take place at all Akka..

Tank

As it stands without being able to zone pull this I have no desire to finish the last couple of diamonds I need for my necklace quest.
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I don't understand. The necklace pieces drop at one camp.  You don't need zone pull for that camp.  Just pull the assassin camp walk away and come back 15 minutes and pull again and finish the necklace. It is a nice necklace and I hope this one item becomes an item that becomes upgradeable in the future as the player it was lovingly named after is no longer alive.

Is it perhaps possible to limit the radius of the Scorpion Spear in HW zone, to make it more of an area pull, than a zone pull? Perhaps 750 yards/feet/meters, whatever the unit of measurement is in EQ. That would essentially pull one camp at a time, still add some efficiency for people who can do it, while limiting the griefing complaints?

Wow really ? an event we all look forward to and appreciate to get double loot, zp,s doubles, triples, and some nice items.


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As it stands without being able to zone pull this I have no desire to finish the last couple of diamonds I need for my necklace quest.

Are you really that lazy that u can't pull 20 ish mobs in one small spot every 10 mins ?

Yeah really

Double down! Hey guy I really appreciate all the hard work you put into this FOR FREE but what you did sucked and I want you to do something else for me for free so I can bitch about that too mmm-kay thanks!

No ZP's kinda sucks the joy out of working to that point of being able to and now i cant  :'(

I think there is a better solution to this than just getting rid of ZPing. Let's get rid of the 15 Public Zones. They don't work right anyway.
Instead allow people to create their own instances of Hill of Shade and allow people to ZP in their own instance.

Thanks for the event.  Was able to make a lot of progress and try out the new HW zone.

Its not just about the necklace.  How about the generator.  Without zps its next to impossible to even think about getting one.

And yet people obtained them prior to zone pulling...

First halloween event I got neck done on my warrior when i was only MOSTLY t9 geared. No ZP. The zone was not meant to be zone pulled.

    What zone was 'meant' to be zone pulled? People out gear the zone, and then can zone pull it, which is what seemed to have happened with HW, unless I'm missing something. I just zone pulled my way through T5 in about 8 hours, and yet, I understand that people used to complete the zone the intended way, with intended level gear, but it took months to accomplish. Is the argument that HW zone should be a special case because it's a limited event?

I think that's exactly what it is, a special case, as it is a non progression event zone and a chance to get some nice gear normally not available to us.

When zp's were introduced, it was a nice way of back farming early content etc, and allowed to be zone pulled so you had less grind to bring up alts, farm essences for UW etc

I doubt HW was considered zp able when first introduced, but now it is, getting keystones way faster than intended, not to mention the insane amount of zps/DL-TL tokens/essences etc to be gained compared to normal zones wasn't even thought of

Just my thoughts, and to be honest i agree with the decision, its still fun and possible to do. Its one zone - live with it  ;D
(just imagine what it would be like going back to farming without zps in normal zones)

Thanks for the event akkadius

Red

Anyone out there that can fix anything anymore ?

Awsome to see a T11 TBD on the wiki page but are there going to be mandatory reward items that will be needed to be purchased (10.5 group cure) in order to progress in the new zone ?

     Farm some stuff and trade people for credits. There's plenty of people who will trade credits for any number of things that you can farm. Might be some tough farms for things like GSOA's or GSS's, but OC essences are worth a mint, and just require time.

     I have no idea what T11 might require, but it's nothing you're ever forced to spend your money on, credits are tradeable.

Easy enuf just thought it may be helpful to possibly get a heads up, seems like a select few have an inside track on the future expansion requirements. ie 3 pieces of UA months before 10.5 was ever released.

Yeah, it would be a damn shame if someone already had over 2 full groups in full UA and enough banked GSS to test the requirements with other toons.  The only way anyone could possibly know is if they had secret insider info not publicly avaialable.

Zone pulling was for me one of the most fun things to do on EZ because it was actually challenging. I was the first to ZP both T10 and the HW zone back in the days. and I can tell you it took a lot of practice, timing, and working out what spells and abilities to use.

It's with the necklace as it is farming other stuff like Svartmane, fastest if you kill and rotate realms/instances, not ZP'ing. That's also the best strategy when it comes to farming spesific gemstones :)

Thought Maslow was the first...

He wasn't.

Maslow was the first who get all the HW stuff completed

To be fair, most everyone with a full UA warrior zone pulled the halloween zone the second it was enabled. Not all survived not all failed, but pretty much everyone matching the above did it within a few minutes of each other lol.

To be fair, that's because I told them how to do it successfully, but that's beside the point. People figure out stuff eventually, especially those that like to push the limits, some just don't care. ZPing is tons of fun when it gives you a challenge, eventually everything is trivial.

Draca, that's awesome.  Hope it comes through.  Sounds like fun.  Thanks for taking this on!  Love the zone idea as well.

(boss chains....boss chains....  :)  )

just a Question about the ZPs in Helloween Zone ... how it works now ?

1. ZP's didnt pull mobs anymore there ?
2. ZP's will get as an reward haha ( reward = roleback of the Helloween Release day ) ?
3. Mobs in Helloween didnt move far Away from Spawn point ?
4. Mobs will lose Aggro by Range ?

around 2years i did last Helloween event and back the days all was fine there with ZPs and want to know why exactly isnt allowed anymore what the reasons and no way to allow it by instance or waht ever ? getting bosses up there is more then pain without Monsta Pulls and running around can be danger from time to time !?
how Helloween will work in the future ?

sorry for my english btw. !

Poker,  ZP's just don't do anything in Halloween zone now, if you try to cast it, it just gives you it back. You can pull mobs as far as you want in the zone, they don't leash, but yes, they can be a pain to run around and pull. As you might have read in this thread, there were a handful of assholes, myself included, who took advantage of a spawn bug with the end boss, Magorian, and used him as a loot pinata.  While this no doubt was the catalyst for the changes, there has always been conflicts with people zone pulling instances, when other people are trying to kill it normally, which inevitably made it back to the forums, or Akkadius directly. I doubt, given the grief it has always caused, that zone pulls will be re-instituted in HW, but they do still drop there.

-Drac

thanks Draca

hope on CoH pull i can catch enough to be effectiv on boss pops... first 3 events i was happy to get one of the second bosses per day !

Stuff keeps vanishing from this thread  :o

I know all the secrets

Edit:- another post removed 

Tank