EZ Server

Welcome all Goblins, Witches, Zombies, Ghosts and whoever you are!

Today we celebrate Halloween 2014, the first year without Hunter and we're going to try and live it up and make him smile.

We have an initial launch of events and we plan to do more events throughout the Week.

Hateborne:

• Double Loot enabled from Monday to the end of the WEEK!!!
• Donations now temporarily enabled for double credits through the weekend, see donor page for info
• Halloween Pet Breakdown -> http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=4507.msg57827#msg57827

---

Files

• Located here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50023467/dl/halloween.zip (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50023467/dl/halloween.zip)

(http://i.imgur.com/gTAYGG1.png)

---

(http://i.imgur.com/8uP11nP.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/mYQAhYL.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/uAtG3Gy.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/LqAA4AE.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/hdD6jFu.png)

Cant wait to see what you have planned =)

Nexus looks cool, but anyway to turn music off perma?
it is atmosferic, but can imagine will be anoying with all clients playing it

Thanks for all the hard work guys

All the original Halloween zones are no longer operating?

So I'm guessing Not =(

I am just kinda stunned if this is the case.  Been looking forward to going back to the same olds...a new zone is cool and all but why change what only comes around once a year?  Whats next?  Change Santa Clause on Christmas? ???

OMG server is taking forever to come up!!!!!!  I am so excited for Halloween events!

WOW - Hate, Love, and Akka - THANK YOU! Very excited to partake in this year's Halloween festivities! My first Halloween event was in 2010 - Hunter you will be missed, this one's for you dude!

-Harthek

FYI, Mr. Halloween is giving the same old prompts, nothing about porting to the Halloween zone.

You get new spell file?

I got the files... i don't think anyone is able to get in per /ooc chatter

Yeah so far looks like no one is able to talk to Mr Halloween for a new script - and all seem to have the new files above.

I am extremely hesitant to accept change. When I think Halloween event I think strike augs and stone monster pets. The pets are a goal for me this year. That being said can hate love or akka confirm they are still incorporated. Not looking for spoilers but it would rest my mind and I'm sure others as well.

I'm hoping in this new zone all the old bosses are still a factor ; CG/FG/strike augs are all the fun of the thrill and hunt, and of course our monster pets and shitty rng fun. I'm welcoming to the change as long as we still have the same floor plan as previous halloweens in the mix too :)

When I read this post I wondered why change what was successful, so I can understand some disappointment in change but give it a chance. Appreciate the fact that someone spent their free time to make exciting new memories for us.
I can't wait to try it :)

i think we are all looking forward to it WHEN WE CAN ACCUALY USE IT! so get on hate/akka someone text them tell them to come fix!

Going to sneak up client open and see what's wrong! :-)


-Hate

Thanks Hate.  Not home but looking forward to trying it if working tonight.

not letting anyone zone in says your not experienced enough

^ same, downloaded files, am max level.

My whole raid went in before reboot... YAY!!!

Just initiated shutdown. Texted and left VM for Akkadius, waiting for him to stand it back up.

There was an issue with the zone in DB causing inconsistent behavior. Had to reboot to fix it. :-P


-Hate

I was able to get in and kill some things 10 mins before reboots.  Seemed like the mobs all scaled to level.  Neato

For reasons unknown, not everyone could. Some people couldn't get in as it said they were not high enough, yet others could. The zone was also requiring special status, which no one should have. O_O

-Hate

I like the idea of mobs scaling to level, but is this going to be an expedition type setup that locks out the possibility of helping or being helped by others?  Part of the fun of Halloween was seeing IG spawn emote and being able to ask for or offer help in killing it.

What about the joys of possibly bringing back the older content as well.  I also am with Dimur on not being able to get others into your instance etc...

Also, scaling to level, is that based on the requester? or avg lvl of raid?
Reason I'm asking is I'm T7 but all my alts are just breaking into t6.

^ Would agree with you there, some people are rolling on Tanks that are a few tiers above the rest of the box.  Hopefully not the case.

WRU SERVER?! "quick" reboot my ass!

You know I'm not THAT dumb. :-)

---

Still waiting on Akkadius to stand up? Texting and calling again. Sorry :-(

-Hate

You're quickly scurrying to fix it now. :P

Thanks for bringing this about and helping get it straightened out Hate.   <3

COME ON HALLOWEEN WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-\  :-[  :'(  :o

lol we know quite the opposite, just things can get missed at times. Ty sir!

Dew stocked, snacks Stocked, now make it rain so I don't have to go clean up leaves and can get my Halloween on !!!

So just to clarify, this is on the expedition type instance where you can't add and remove people or is it on the normal, existing instance system where you can add and drop people whenever you want?  It's going to either keep Halloween a social collaboration or it's going to keep people holed up in their own expedition.

Aww the Dew, the sweet green nectar of gamers everywhere! And crap, guess ill go clean the house lol, was trying to avoid that but I have no excuse, just sitting here clicking refresh on server status lol.

Calm down, temporary band-aid for now. There was some miscommunication and it didn't get done last night. I'll setup a proper entrance tonight that allows normal add/remove. :-)


-Hate

I feel like the Roaming Gnome in Catacombs running around the house yelling AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

chomping at the bit to get my Halloween on...in a bad way!

Double loot and new events are not enough for this outrageous downtime. I demand gnome slaves for this inconvenience.

Someone find Akkadius and taze him til he wakes up :P

Are the Halloween weapons and the candy for the Plane of Earth horse and other quest with form the past years still good this this year .. or we starting from scratch with all new zones and quest .. i can hardly wait till the kids go to  bed tonight so i can log on!  

Good thing I went to work today :p

-Anuli

I can't seem to get on to the EQEmu server list at all now... just me?

ah come on WTF!

OK, Dishes done and kitchen cleaned, please stop me from further house cleaning madness!

Haha me to. Wife came home, asked "server down?" :p

ROFL seriously, that's sad for us :). But if I am forced to fold laundry and put it away, I will never be the same again.

 :'( :(

I am really not understanding why we cant just "flip the switch" like Hunter said a thousand times.

flip the switch for Halloween to be on like every other year.

new stuff is cool, add that to the existing core.

I guess im just not getting it.

I and a lot of others took a whole week off for this and .................

I will wait and clean house.....

Where is Akkadius?!?


perhaps there is a reasonable explanation.....

(http://)

Wifes gonna make me do stuff around house soon lol...

My addiction! SOMEONE HELP!

One zone...BU event was a pita with one zone and a few hundred people ...last year was everyone do not move, breath, talk or you will crash the zone......rinse and repeat this year.

This is a pretty good day of my 1 of 2 days off this week lol

Unfortunately for me, I did all the housework stuff before morning reboot so i wouldn't have to step away......damn....now what do I do?

ezserverwiki.com could use some articles written...

/em ducks from the tomatoes thrown at him

AND there's a Halloween section (with nothing in it so far)

Anyone who took work off for this kind of deserves to wait I think..  ::)

WHOOO  MY FIRST COMMENT HERE!!!!  Ill make it good........ HI!!!!!  /waves Furiously

Taking off work and calling sick, not the same. they dont deserve it. :(

Well, let me explain it shortly since you seem irritated that the content you freely consume that is developed without pay isn't immediately available for your unpaying pleasure.

Hunter died. Hunter left no notes. Basher reached out to a few people and chose Akkadius and I to pick up the pieces. What was "flip a switch" for Hunter, is an unknown number of variables, scripts, queries, and other quest file changes that we did not have knowledge of. Personal scripts on his desktop, in his email, or memorized bits were lost when he died. So that "switch" had to be rediscovered (partially) and worked with from there.

In addition, if you want us to stop building content and feed you Halloween with no new bosses or new pets, all with t6 being the end game...we could. Akkadius, Love, and I could walk and you could stay in your never expanding sandbox.

Lastly, Akkadius and I put more unpaid hours into the server monthly than most people put in paid hours to their job. Little less entitlement would be appreciated.

---

To the rest, I'm really sorry. I'm trying to get this back up as soon as possible. No word from Akkadius yet, but still harassing every 15-30min (while I'm at work too :-D). The rewards and craziness from this year should be VERY worth the temporary wait. Even so, even CRAZIER bits set for this weekend. :-D


-Hate

My first Declaration is that we receive Half off the prices in the EZ Credit Store for our pain and Suffering....

yup. stop being d-bags guys - have some patience.

Hate - I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of us GREATLY appreciate your work, and realize (at least to small part) what a large amount of work and what a huge job you and Akka have taken on.

The whiners (which I have been occasionally... though I'll claim "constructive criticism" status) are always heard louder than the ones that are happy. That and the happy ones don't post to say "I'm happy".

Except that random "Enough !" all is well thread from Duluum a while back, lol

Anyway, please realize that the majority of us are very happy with what you've done (you and Akka) with the server... even with the few hicupps.

THANK YOU!!!
- collectively, EZServer (signature forged by Darpey)

Fuck entitled bitches.    

Thanks for all that you do Hate.

Take your time, I know a lot of people are jittery because of this being their favorite seasonal event on this server. Though it probably means nothing I apologize on their behalf. I respect and am grateful for all the work and continued work you and Akk have and are doing. Please don't let random complaints deter you and please know that there truly are people not only excited for the events you have created this week for us, but the continued work you will do.

Hah TinkleyToys, I'm aware and not hating. That sense of entitlement towards free stuff needs to stop, but even from this thread (and those texting me), most of you ladies/gents/trolls are being awesome about it. :-)


-Hate

^ support Darpey on this. I took off all week but I do have lots of free time so am in no hurry.

Thanks Hate,

Yup yup getting a lot of stuff I had to do during this week so once everything is settled and polished it will be all good to go, thanks hate and akk for you time and efforts!!

Guess I'll try to uproot the #1 DH on the leaderboards for greater rifts on d3 while we wait huehuehuehue

It's hard to offer feedback either positive or negative on things we have no knowledge of, so with all due respect to the amount of effort you guys put in, you should expect people to try to wrap their brains around the development thought process.  I doubt anyone knew that the Halloween switch or whatever it is that Hunter used was lost with his passing, knowing this certainly makes it easier to understand why the old stuff won't be available this year.  I'm definitely looking forward to consuming the new content you guys have busted ass over designing for us...on your own time no less, and I think everyone appreciates that you guys have kept EZ up and running as a respite for us to bide our time in.  
You certainly don't owe anyone an explanation on what you decide to do or why you decide to do it, but try not to take it personally when people ask questions.  

I think he only took the part about wasting people's time part personally.

Not at all irritated by concerns being voiced Dim, only this part:


The "I took time off for this and I can't have it now, this is unacceptable" attitude. :-)

---

Woogie, you nailed it.


-Hate


EDIT: Sent by coworker. LoL why people why?
(http://hugelolcdn.com/i700/313731.jpg)

Best post ever

Hey, how was I to know that the "switch" that Hunter boosted about every year was lost.

on the 2nd part, yeah I took the week off for this, but I also took the week off cause I was forced to pick 2 weeks between now and the end of the year because I never take vacation, so I figured why not for this.

this isn't a pissing contest as to who works more, I am positive you put in ungodly hours on this server unpaid, and of course I enjoy the time you put in to make this damn thing work.

entitled? no, upset? yes. why? this is a magical time of the year on this server, it was Hunter's most loved week. I wanted with all my heart for this week to go off without a hitch, not one single trip.

I am not as high and mighty attitude as most of the server thinks I am from reading my senseless messages in ooc.

and no, I am not, nor is anyone here "entitled" to a good time on demand, for any reason.

but, when you build something up in your mind for so long and it craps at the starting line your mind goes into a bit of a "what the heck" mode.

you should give me one oz of credit to know that I do not "hate" you, nor do I completely blame you for these events that im sure are out of your control.

I am frustrated that the event didn't kick off grandly and magical like I had envisioned it in my mind, that's all.

As someone who did not take off time from work for this event....and now reading this from said work....HAHAHAHAHA!!

lol...


I hope its up before I get home in a few hours...


if not



WORLD OF TANKS.....


blow some shit up...:)

Hah, a ton of us at the very least worked our schedules around at work to be a massive part of this. Thats both extremely sad and a testament to the passion we have about this place all rolled into one. ;)

Believe me we appreciate the hell out of your work on here and am amazed by the sheer volume of new and revised content you and Love have put out in the last few months. The server itself is a ferrari compared to a pinto it was thanks to Akk's involvement server side through admin, eqemu tweaks, etc..

I spent the good part of the morning laughing at people in ooc who were despondent that the only thing going on was a serverwide double loot extravaganza. Denis Leary said it  best: "Life Sucks, Get a fucking helmet!"

Wow Rent, you are human after all :) I think you are softening up on us lol.

Rent, the server niceguy! *hug*

Death to the undead!

I am just as frustrated as I am sure Hate, Love and Akka are, but on the other side.

I have zero doubt in my mind that Hate is doing everything he can to make this event work correctly.

Just as I have zero doubt in my mind that I am frustrated that it isn't working.

So, as usual, I said the first thoughts that popped into my head.

wrong words? maybe, whatever.

I am sure by the end of the week this will all be a funny gag reel in one of the videos that will be made and posted for this event.

just born of total frustration. on the positive side though, I did get my bike out to wash it lol

I saw rent doing it, too:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lOh1QL9wKd8/UB8SEdPbOCI/AAAAAAAAF74/0nVbnO-mPqE/s1600/7-22+P+washing+Bike+2.jpg)

lol awesome.

Rent looks younger then i thought he was

I was picturing this was what he looked like after he took it out for a spin
                                               V
                                               V
                                               V

hahahaa Pee-Wee...that's Rent FO SHO! hahahahaaha he laughs that way too when you talk to him on the phone.


I will also say that I agree with Dimur....had everyone known that this year was a start from scratch because we lost all server Halloween stuff when hunter moved on....then the reaction would have been MUCH different.  Knowing that now, it makes you look at things differently.

I also agree with Rent, in that we build these things up...Halloween events on EZ are Legen....wait for it.....DARY!

As a member of this community I can not read the administrators minds...so we have a tendency to assume, sometime the worst.  the only way to combat that is COMMUNICATION!  let us know whats going on...then there wont be such a huge shit storm.

i see Akk replying on other posts... maaaan my addiction is acting up atm :p

I have no doubt that it will be worth the wait, and even have faith that we will get 1 more day tacked on for today's little hick-up. Soo my only real question.. wtf don't I have Hate's cell # ... wtf bro!

SERVER UP!

Official developer notice on Halloween event..

http://youtu.be/yoy4_h7Pb3M

yeah im happy for you all, you get a day more... i have to go have "fun" with some "friends" we havent seen in a long time... i LOOOVE my wife...  :'(

I got up. Saw all of this, much wow.

Server up.

When I said we'd be doing different events throughout the week, we planned on doing quite a few things throughout the week.

Either way things should be hopping.

Coffee time, this guy needs to wake up.

Zone controllers need to go.

WAY to much effects going on....kills performance in the zone.  Ping is off the charts...toons link dead on zoning left and right.

Need to be able to eliminate the fog...eliminate the npc graphics....make instances....all this so it is easier to get all your boxes into a zone

all of my toons crashed zoneing in...wont load now.....will try agian later

I see people taking time off to play this week... and I'm like, I wish man... I just started a new job and haven't even gotten any PTO yet... Oh well... hopefully I can work extra a couple days and have a short Friday... then the weekend will come and I literally won't sleep... :D

Some feedback... The fog really has to go. I wanna enjoy the zone and the gfx but I can't see anything until I run into it. The old pop chain should make a come back randomly with a medium pop rate w/old rewards as well in addition to the random pop of the zone.

Im not trying to sound greedy, honestly, but to quote someone else (forget who), Halloween is like Christmas. This doesn't feel anything like it, more a grind for minimal reward. I know you got some other things planned for the week but I hope you remember not everyone is going to be able to make the other events due to RL.

A safespot to afk in would be nice ( roamers go straight thru the quest area in House Garden)

Oh ya. 2 mobs at zone in wiping ppl out. Maybe remove those 2 ?

The old pop chain is there with a guaranteed spawn chance. In addition, the chance to chain bosses is BETTER than last year (by a large margin).

---

I @#%@ed that up and fixed spot on Mr.Halloween just now.

---

In addition, quest hand ins (cook/snow nose) have been fixed. Also, all bosses grant members on hatelist (i.e. participating) a token per kill.

Sorry and keep'em coming!


-Hate

thanks for fixing the spawn rate, but imo its just a HAIR too high, too many named.

JUST A HAIR tho, don't go wild nerf bat

I haven't got one.. so to high? hmmm rng if we talking same thing (no chainz for me).. ok got 1

My quick feedback

I'm having fun in this zone, it's nice to have some new scenery to grind in.  It's also nice to be able to actually kill mobs that aren't green or very light blue and get some solid experience doing so.  That being said, the mobs are pretty tame even though they were scaled to be appropriate for the level.  This is considering T9 max geared mobs so take it for what it's worth, the challenge may vary by tier and be higher for others.  Given that the event is a very short part of the overall picture, I don't see it as a big problem, we all grind to get to Halloween and it doesn't have to be edge of your seat risk to be fun.  The spawn rate of the named seems to be decent enough, a bit more than I remember getting last year but I think a lot of that can be attributed to grinding greens as opposed to real mobs.  The quests are a good bonus, it's pretty reasonable to get the currency and it's nice to knock things out as you go.  The experience in the Halloween zone is very solid and at reboot Hate said we can expect to get coin as an additional perk.  Overall, after a few hiccups it's turned into a very good event for me.

I had also written a long diatribe regarding the reactions people had on the first day of this content even being live, but I deleted it because it really doesn't have a place in this thread and wouldn't offer anything constructive.  Spawn rates are good, exp rates are solid, plat is being added, Hate mentioned offering up a bit more information on the effects of the higher tier click familiars so people can plan which ones to put on their toons, things were addressed and sounds like they will be adjusted as needed so it should be an excellent Halloween event moving forward.

hear hear

What is command to remove expedition and start over?  I have one toon I need to add but no clue how to do it.

Hate,
I killed a bunch of CT, a few SM and IG and I nor my crew got any tokens for killing them. You probably mean the harder boss but just checking. Oh and Snow is not giving anything on candy turn in, gave around 10 candies and nada.

Having fun, really like the balance for all levels. Nice job all :)

Missing the charms and strike augs a bit since they don't seem to drop but over all cool.
Any chance you could add SLS, strike augs and charms to drop and or vendor? Not really interested in what you could buy on there as I'm getting them from the mobs.

I think you guys did Hunter proud.

Type #expedition for a list of cmds

i had a small window to play last light ... awesome job ... i had a blast!

He said strike augs would be making an apperance later in the week.or hinted at it.

RNG hates me no bosses yet....

There are guaranteed spawns in place. Haven't figured it out yet.

I am assuming clear all of one type of mob before respawns.  But haven't tried yet.

---

Cazic Thule: (T3)

• 10k HP

Stone Monster: (T4)

• 15% Stonewall
• 15% Spell Mitigation
• 15% Spell Reflect Chance
• 25k HP

Insane Goblin: (T5)

• 17% Stonewall
• 25% Spell Mitigation
• 25% Spell Reflect Chance
• 65k HP

Black Unicorn: (T6)

• 15% Spell Mitigation
• 175% Movement Speed
• 65% Spell Haste*
• 125% Melee Haste
• 100k HP

Chilled Devil: (T7)

• 250 point increased Cold Resist Cap
• 35% Spell Mitigation
• ~40% Sympathetic Proc (Proc on Cast) of Icestrike VI
• 75k HP

Arcing Demon: (T8)

• 250 point increased Magic Resist Cap
• 150k HP
• 12.5% HP Increase (Stacks with Ancient Oak!)

Mistress of Flame: (T9)

• 250 point increased Fire Resist Cap
• ~15% Melee Proc of Kaldar's Heavenly Fire (stats)
• 6666 Damage Shield
• 100k HP*

-Hate



* = Subject to scale up as it may not be as powerful as originally though.
* = Somehow this was missed and will be there on next reboot.

Thank you for the pet info Hate, would you by chance be willing to break down how *some* of this event works as it is time sensitive content.  Most may only be able to play for a few hours if that during this event time.

.

Thanks for clearing this up hat, I've been wondering. I still don't get any stats for new pets and I got the spell file.

I have had the diablo dude spawn a couple of named for me...one a CT and one the arch(arking?) deamon... could not say why or how but he does...shouts in zone about doing mayhem... Also killed his little assistant that was red con...died in a 1 round....not sure what that was...

Over all good..

Boss spawn rate was awesome to start ...got a couple of chains up to but not including the flame thing....never seeen that... but then for 4 hours it went flat...got 3 CT and no chains...RNG! i guess. ....

plat would be nice....strike augs would be better....over all good stuff but after one night I am done...so...I guess its just double loot for the rest of the week.


thanks for all the hard work!

Black Unicorn:
15% Spell Mitigation
175% Movement Speed
65% Spell Haste*
225% Melee Haste
100k HP

I thought haste was capped on this server?    If so, this this pet is worthless for melee?   If it isn't then why do enchy/bard haste not work and wouldn't being able to hit 2x as fast make this pet completely over powered?  Or am I just not understanding haste that well?   

Btw, I've only been able to play for about 3 hours but I am liking the changes.  I just wish the strike augs would be put back in. 

melee haste DOES work if the delay on your weapon is high enough... it can not get any faster than I think 30 or 35 delay...


UW 2 hander has 100 DELAY SO 300% haste is nice to at least get it close to min delay..

Task Slimy Fur Kebab is borked...no Werewolf Fur drops...only werewolves are at the far west (near mansion) and they don't respawn when killed...think ghosts and scarecrows repopulate when you kill the werewolves.

To the ones freaking about strikes and kits and such I'm pretty sure they have the intention to bring that back (not 100% sure) but just did not have the time yet to have it fully functional and ready to go giving Love/Hate/Akka have a busy life just like the rest of us. Let the week play out and I'm sure you'll have your answer.

7 CT spawned today so far, and a few mobs from Diablo...only one CT chained to SM and stopped, no other mobs have chained.  Plat/gems never made it in either.  Is it possible some of the fixes added last night got reset during server reboot?

I am with dim...the ct that I have had only 1 chained and it went one mob and that was it..

They only pop at midnight. I've cut it down the required amount and increased the chance for them to drop. New instance, reboot, or me manually adjusting (this evening) will resolve it for you. Moved required amount to 5 (down from 25).

---

As for plat bags, I'll double check the scripts. :-)


-Hate

Hate i dont normaly bitch but WTF man seriously just went thru a full cycle comeing form BU to chilled to Arch...as SOON as arch spawned he crashed zone.....and come to find out when that happened... you lose all corpses? really? all that work for nothing....

For werewolves, after clearing their area once I watched every time at midnight when you get the howling emote, they don't seem to be respawning.  Instead of vampires and werewolves, poltergeists and scarecrows keep respawning regardless of time for me.

Also, have killed another 5 CT and 2 spawns from Diablo, zero chains although on one of Diablo's spawn, Black Unicorn, CT popped from the death like he does off normal trash lol.

Awesome !   Thanks.   I actually just switched from dual wielding to the 2 hander.  That makes my choice for which pet to get very easy.

For the record, I'm not sure if the spell haste is even working at all. My wizard's Hateborne's Glacial Gift is 2.4 second cast with worn spell haste + quick damage aa, and is still 2.4 after the unicorn buff. With the 50% spell haste from Timeless: Haste, it drops to 2.0 with or without unicorn buff. Is there a 50% spell haste cap maybe?

Same boat as I was in last night Hate. I got close to 8 CT in 2 hours with no chains. Should I delete my instance?

I assume that would have to be an actual cast spell... or would it proc from augs firing off?  

I love it that the second the boss spawns and something bad happens, it's immediately my fault or my failing instead of one of the dozens of people writing the EQEMU source code or your computer...or people in the sky....or gnomes. He didn't crash me or Love and we spawned nearly 30 of them back to back. Spawning 50 Cazic Thules  did end up crashing our clients as we chained 25mil AOEs and it chained pops.

I'll revisit the code shortly!

---

Kardthe, yes, casted (not proc'ed) spells only.


-Hate

Hi hate ! I'll try to delete the instance and try again later tonight.

Is the zone set up for regular zoning/instancing? or still only expeditions?


Thanks

Troll

Expeditions for now. ;-)


-Hate

Hate not blaming more just bitching lol i guess it came across like that lol just annoying happened to me 2 more tiems....no diea why :( but done for the day...will try it again tomorrow morning

Just a warning - I tried to hand in 3 items to gravedigger at once last night, only received 3 tokens and lost the other two.

Handed in like 10 candy and got 1 token.. also SM mezz not begin resistable is lame  :-\. 3100 resists should count for something  ;)

I have made 3 expeditions today and still have not seen one Werewolf in any of them.... Cleared them all 3 times and nothing.



Btw, still a lot of fun!!  Thanks Akka, Hate, Love

14 CT's and not one chain sir. On zone pops I got some chains +1, +2 and +3 but nothing from CT.

Probably had another dozen or so CT with one that chained to SM and stopped, I want to say another 8 mobs from Diablo and none chained there either.  I've tried killing my expedition a couple times and restarting new ones but every time it's the same stuff...can get CT to spawn at a decent enough rate but lucky to get him to chain into SM and haven't gotten one to go past that.  Any chance one of you boss types could check to see if it's working as intended?

It's like that every year, someone gets bit by the RNG curse.

No it wasn't like that last year at all. I would constantly get a sm to pop. RNG is there but this is two days of the same thing.

Is the donation info the same, because i want to use my Credit card but you dont accept it.....Whats up with that?

Having a similar experience to Dimur and Expletus.  Seen a few CT and one SM off several hours.  Mobs go down somewhat slow (in my opinion) even with 2 groups with mostly UCv3 all T9.  While I do very much enjoy the new content, I'd be willing to guess a huge difference in spawning chains or these new bosses is previous years took 1 click to wipe the zone.  How is Mob HP at lower tiers?  Is the expedition being scaled to the creator?  Are other T9 people with not many UCv3 experiencing high mob HP and low chains as a result?

i was playing around in the new expedition for around ~2hrs when i got home from work yesterday morning and managed to get 4 ct's 2 sm's and 1 IG to spawn fairly easily/quickly. As for the tokens from boss kills, i killed the chilled devil once and no one in my party got a token for the kill.

Hi, I have a few questions:

Whats the best way to beat stone monster? He destroys me right now. I did dispell him, and also did some damage, but he regens pretty good. Also, he charmed my damn tank.

Also, does scaling work based on the player levels and number of players or just the levels? I could try to power up some alts with gear I guess, but wouldn't be worth it if the stuff just gets harder.

After the initial change all mobs were white to my 78 war. I brought in alts around lvl 76 and the mobs respawned blue but white to my 77's. I'm guessing its based on highest vs lowest lvl avg. Which would be 77 for me. As far as stone monster goes his regen was insane for me and constant dispelled didn't effect it.

RNG hates us I guess.   I got about 4 hr's in last night.   Got a bunch of CT's and only 1 SM.    I was watching everyone in OOC brag about all these IG pets they have been rotting and I could only get 1 SM the entire time.  lol

I have a quick question that hopefully doesn't get lost in this giant thread.

Is there a level limit on the higher mobs? Like, since my second group is lvl 74, even Black Unicorn spawned red but adjusted to blue. I was curious if because the average raid level is 75, would I not get arcing whatever/mistress because my raid level is too low?

If not it's just RNG then getting about 6 Black Uni's and no arcing demons :( Good thing we can save up tokens to buy them but I wonder how many toons i can get the pets on before the event is over.

also... Loving the plat drops, best part so far! makes it worth ti even if I never saw an arcing demon! :D

Everyone in my expedition is 75. After clearing the first time, everything was respawning blue to me and died in 1 hit. they still gave the same experience as yellows to me which was odd. After about 2 hours, I had killed countless CT's, 4-5 SM's, 6 IG's, and 1 black unicorn. Then everything started respawning to me yellow again. They die kinda slow but they hit like sissybots so I could pull entire areas no problem. But when yellow CT spawned, he would normally DT my tank instantly. The rest of my crew had no problem taking him down, the SM down, and the IG down that spawned after him.

Leave a toon at the zone in area in a safe spot in case you wipe and you don't want the bosses to despawn.

At midnight and Noon it was giving me the notification of howling by the mansion but nothing was happening. No WW were spawning. Also I am not getting tokens for killing bosses. I am only getting tokens on my toon I turn stuff in with. I still have not fully completed a quest so I will let you know later if quests are giving all toons tokens for me.

How do you use the tokens?

I've been wondering/hoping the same thing. Group is lvl 73, got to black unicorn once. Hoping I can get further at my level.

Do you expect to get to kill mistress just cause event is running? Not trying to start a spat... but sometimes your max tier will cap out what you are able to kill.... unless you source outside help...

I don't feel like mid tier players should be able to kill BU and upward without help.


Again not starting anything but your also not entitled to all boss loot if not tiered


Example .. my 1st halloween quest couldn't kill CT...so didn't get the loots till I got help..

When SM was released... I honestly could not kill it till late halloween deep into the event luckly....

BU event was totally broke on my end.. full desync 100... it sucked but I dealt... shit my 2nd war full t9 had .. a CT pet lol till last night

The boss spawn chain is off. I'm not the only one who is saying it. Increase over last year as far as CT goes, but after that the ratio is almost 1 per 10 to go for a SM and 1 of 20 for a IG. I've been going non-stop since 9am (1230 now) and I've yet to see anything higher than an IG. Ton of CT's, handful of Sm and maybe 3 IG's.

I played all last night, once I got CT spawning I got probably 30 or so CT's and 1 SM. I had one MoF just spawn randomly on her own.

Numbers are the same for spawn chance. I have removed the NPC ids and the spawn chance number to keep it mysterious, but it's the SAME code. It's simply checking for the boss ID that is dying, rolling a random number, if it happens to end up being the number '1', spawn the next boss.


-Hate

Thanks for looking into it Hate, it just seems for some reason that the chance to chain seems exceedingly small atm.  Guessing you're at work, but any chance when you are able, could you GM spawn a few CT and see if the chains are firing off subsequent mobs at the rate you're looking for?  Also, werewolves still seem very bugged and I only seem to see them on a zone creation basis and once they're down they don't seem to want to respawn.  Additionally, I haven't had a single fur drop from them for the cook's quest but sample size isn't very large considering the no respawn factor.  Thanks again for the quick replies!

Seems my expeditions are broken.  I ran around and cleared but 0 loot of any kind also no clock or the sounds from the clock.   I didn't have this problem last night.    I destroyed the expedition and started a new one.  Same thing, no money no nothing, no clock gonging at me.

Clock has stopped chiming and mobs aren't dropping anything. Tried 3 different expeditions. others mentioning it in OOC as well.

On it, one moment!

-Hate

You're the man. I don't care what folks say about you when you aren't around.

Wait until you are close to 3400 and you still get mezzed.  
I did find out that there is always 1 person that isn't mezzed.  Usually the  first person who hits him, which is usually my tank, which is the only person who can't clear the group (cure clicky or AA's) .  If he does manage to survive it, then it's a dispel fest to get SM to be able to take damage.  

never realized it did this...you need the EZ cureall


MORE DPS!

all mobs spawning LB now as well for no reason :(

2 toons (enchy and zerker have it)  the ver 3 radiant cure my drood and cleric have take it off too.  The ranger and my tank are the only 2 who can't cure it.  All of that does no good because my warrior doesn't have one.  I guess I will have to remedy that.

As mentioned a dozen times before, people objected HEAVILY to me touching Hunter's work...so it's staying as is. He set the spell as unresistable so it will never be a matter of getting X resists.


-Hate

CT only mob with loot still :(

Mobs respawning again as level 70 again :( still no loot

Might have been said, but if you're having expedition issues, do "/say #expedition" for options

Ok, I fixed a few things and broke one more. Just fixed (for realz) this time and can confirm it's working. Reform or send me a tell for GM repop.


-Hate

Yea my main tank has everything


he is the only toon with 4k resists and 3mill hps ....I am thinking of adding an AE rezz click to my druid just encase of disaster...


My point was that more DPS cures everything:P

Hate,

My average group level is 74 and mobs in instance are leveling to 76. Also No Minion of the Underworld (The Red On) was in there nor Diable (was daytime thought)

working good, CT spawned (Blue) so that seems fixed

My mobs had been even con for most of the event... then they all went to light blue and super easy to kill (ie hard to train them because they died to riposte easy).  Now they are yellow and pretty damned meaty..  Not sure if this is how it is supposed to be or not...  I do have 77's and 75's in my raid.

The trash mob scaling was adjusted due to some slightly awkward setup by people trying to manipulate the system. At this point, it should provide fairly stout npcs without making them trivially easy or unkillable.


-Hate

Yeah I am good with it.

Since your last big reboot, people are seeing significant decrease in pop rates of CT. New expedition doesn't help either.

I Havent logged in for 24 hours but I can almost feel that the spawn rate on (mobx_ubarlewtz) is less than it should be!  Please stop what you are doing and correct my loot drops so I can (acheive_ubarlewtz) before I die...


thank you..

Diablo seems to despawn during daytime hours now, the only issue this presents is with the lack of chains firing to the next named, Diablo was the only reliable source to be able to get the BU+ spawns.  Just making an observation, will still be doing the zone regardless.

I was under the impression that he WAS despawning until today. He should still be up during night hours, giving you slightly delayed spawns. This would really only affect you in a significant fashion if your kill rate was...REALLY REALLY high.

I will continue to keep an eye on it during the course of the event. :-)


-Hate

Well its not bad I should say really slowed me down getting whites. Would be better if it was a bit lower. Im 76 but most all my toons are 74 maybe a compromise in them being 74?

... I just wiped(whole grp) by a Stone Monster....


sigh

was red then turned yellow on me no idea why con changed mid fight

What tier is Stone Monster suppose to be, because if CT is suppose to be T3 and is lvl 75. Diablo just spawned me a Stone Monster that is lvl 80 that I'm scared to even go near.

1 CT in 1 hour.

SM was supposed to T4, but it's honestly on par with a t8 mob.

Just updated the boss pet drop with their tier.
http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=4507.msg57827#msg57827


-Hate

Thanks again Hate for all the fixes today and for all the direct answers to questions you didn't need to answer, it's very much appreciated.

Hah, you're welcome. Sorry I was less than super polite today. Work is fairly debilitating as of late. :-)

-Hate

I don't know what I am missing... I keep hearing about Diablo (big red guy in the middle) spawning bosses for plp, but I have not seen anything about/near him, and he doesn't respond to hails or act like a vendor... Any clue for the clearly sleep deprived?

I can no longer kill trash in this zone with 15 characters let alone CT. Zone seems broken now not sure what happened.

All T2-T4 geared toons no chance for any gear in this event as is.

Had fun while it lasted if this is permanent, but I can't imagine this is working as intended.

Had a mob lvl issue earlier.  Have everyone zone out and #e leave, WAIT 5min (with out this it didn't work for me), then re-start the expedition.

Helped me, hope it helps you.

This worked for me. Thank you!

Constructive Feed Back based on a day spent in the event.


1. New content is very refreshing.  Previous Halloween content was stuck at T6 and using original zones. 

2. New chain additions!! 

3. Adding quests/expeditions to the mix.

4. New clicks

5. New Zone

6. More mechanics involving spawns/timers

7.  Plat drops $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Stuff up for discussion:

I understand that providing detailed examples and suggestions as information generates the best results and will try to present this as such.

Content has been tweaked quite a bit since it's release a day or so ago.  I believe it moved from yellow con mobs, to a average scale of the raid (which was abused) which determined mob level by all the toons you had, now I believe it is scaling to your highest toon.  This is almost always going to be someones tank, and often this toon may be higher than other toons as extra effort is often put into the tank in order to progress through tiers.  This being the case, likely puts some players in a "unable to kill or survive" situation, which was observed multiple times in OOC last night. 

Assuming we can't scale mobs anymore due to abuse, a suggested fix with explanations is thus:  Assume that difficulty for Halloween trash mobs doesn't need to be the choke point here, the clicks are the desired loot (excluding money, which is nice).  With this in mind, and your click bosses already tuned to it's appropriate tier, the Trash mobs become the easiest variable to mess with.  Tweaking tier content isn't very time sensitive and is often done over months or even years.  Halloween however is a week at best?  My suggestion is just to lower Trash mob hp (and damage if you see fit, tho at lvl 78 I am able to pull most of the zone and not die as long as the druid is doing his thing).  This would effectively increase spawn rates of click drop bosses without lowering their difficulty.

Quests are a nice added touch.  The honey quest and grave digger npc turn in quests seem just about right.  The kill quests for a single token might be a bit better providing 5-10 tokens as you have have likely amassed 20ish or so tokens before completing any of them.  Have not seen the food rewards but hoping for good things.

And as always, keep up the good work and thank you for all that you do Hate/Akk.

Awesome event all around. I would have loved to see the armor, strikes, and fg/cg items but from what I hear, more events to come with that in mind. If I could recommend a change it would be to add stonewall to the mistress familiar... just so my main could use it instead of the ig t5 item:

Mistress of Flame: (T9)
•250 point increased Fire Resist Cap
•~15% Melee Proc of Kaldar's Heavenly Fire (stats)
•6666 Damage Shield
17% stonewall (18% maybe??? OMG)
•100k HP*

I would disagree with that one Zefire. Only because it would make the IG obsolete. I believe the way it's set up now is a specific familiar for each type of PC you have. Melee, caster, tank and I like how it is. The only one I am scratching my head is the 2nd to the top, I think it's the devil one. Seems Bleh when in comparison to the rest.

Feedback from spending a substantial amount of time yesterday in the zone:

1. Mob hp's are too high when you factor in the pop rate of CT.
2. CT pop rate is too rare after seeing the conversation with Dim and Hate
3. The fog covers up the beauty of the zone - I find myself using the map to navigate and it takes away from the aesthetics. Did you know there is a statue with a pumpkin head? I didn't till I ran into it.
4. All the candy to be turned in for a chance to pop CT again ( like last year) Like a new NPC that does it, maybe boogie man or Jack Skeleton !
5. Decrease the size of the Eyes by 50 or 25%. They are way too big when u get a pack and take up the whole screen

Other than that, it has a great feeling but it doesn't have that "Reward" type feeling as previous years. Its not a complaint as based on my experience with previous halloween. I helped a guy out last night in my zone and he said doing the zone was too hard for him (currently T4) and didn't feel like he was getting anything out of it. I know the amount of work you've put into it and I like others are greatly appreciative of it. I think it just needs a small tweak here or there.

Strike augs, FG/CG stuff, I was admittedly upset they were included as they were in previous years. I know got a feeling I know why they are not, but with how rare it is getting a chain I kinda second guess if I really know why they are not. I keep telling myself they will be at the end of the week in something else and I look forward to the 2nd part of this event.

Please don't take this as QQ wah wah, it's just my personal observations and feelings which some will share, and some will not. That being said Thank you for the hard work you are doing and the time you've put in fixing what you did so far.

Higher tier items tend to do that to most lower end items. The IG made the SM obsolete, but we still love the SM since some cannot get IG...

According to the list IG is tier 5, mistress is T9... so why would I not want to replace it with a T9 familiar?

Some constructive criticism:

1. ) Plat drops are great. Without them I'd be in anguish or Loping or something once i got most of the crew most of the pets. The plats and AAs and quests and such make it worth sticking it out in House Garden.

2. ) The forced spawns from Diablo help lessen the RNG woes one can experience. Nice Touch.

3. ) The move of the zone in point to a place with fewer roamers really helped. Thank You.

4. ) The mob scaling is a little steep, still. But the rewards help soften the 'risk' and the 'grind'. The motes also help with getting the pets from the bosses that are royal weiners to chain to. :)

I've been killing with two guildies in one big instance and it's been a complete blast. Day One was a little scary, but all the kinks worked out fine and this is shaping up to be one of the best Halloween Events EZ has ever seen. Sincerely, thank you Hate/Love/Akk. This was a complete sideways trail to the promised land, but it got there and then some. Its amazing in ways we never even thought possible, exceeding our expectations. If this was all truly from scratch, we owe you a debt of gratitude i'm not sure we can ever pay.

thank you :)

I just wanted to know if it was possible to even spawn it. If so, and I could not kill it (which makes perfect sense) I would ask for help. I do not feel entitled to anything, and I wouldn't care if I never went past BU cuz its still possible to farm tokens off trash and get the pets I want.

I could just stick with my lvl 76 group and leave the second group out of it but I'll take extra AA on them over a small chance to spawn higher tier bosses.

Yeah I bought the arc flame pet for my tank because I figured the t8 pet would likely be better, but is the HP worth the stonewall and spellshield loss?

question if there are events planned are they only in the evening? if so i can only play durning the morning/early afternoon times for now. so if that is the case that sucks unless they will be ongoing events (which is something you hinted at)

I think the script is setup to run on your logging off and ends on you logging on...

Just Kidding.. I have not seen any special events myself besides the cursed garden. Maybe over the weekend.

Well, there will be special events but the whole week is a special event in itself.

Hate and I's 9-5 can be rather taxing so for example last night I found myself just dozing out early because of exhaustion.

We've been working extremely hard to just keep the initial release corrected of any script errors or implementation errors which were not that many considering a lot of work to bring the new Halloween event was done in a very short amount of time with a ton of hustle from the crew.

There are a few stability concerns that I have yet to look at but all in all the server has been incredibly solid after weeding through crashes in the server code over the past many months.

This weekend we should be seeing side events for sure and the next few nights you could see something come out randomly, that is part of the element of surprise and simply participating in a time sensitive event, it all really depends on how things are going and how current things stand. The effort it takes to not only implement these things but balance helping so many people at once while keeping the big picture of the event in mind is mentally exhausting so seeing nothing extra other than fixes and attentiveness the first few days of Halloween is to be expected.

Either way I hope everyone has been enjoying their time and the work put into it, we wanted to make sure it was and is a special time for everyone.

melee haste in game currently says 125% not 225%

Sorry, was reading from the DB and not ingame. 225% = 125% as anything below 100% is a slow. Will fix post.


-Hate

Had some issues by the mansion where mobs were reap awning light blue but we're not engagable. Werewolves,pumpkin heads, and vamps. Didn't seem to affect the poltergeists.

Same here. First clear is ok, then when you hear stuff coming from the mansion.. light blue con pops (usually high noon) and non attackable.

Was pulling Arcing Demon (or whatever the nameds name is) back to my group and was almost to group, in tunnel, when all clients froze.  I have killed this mob every day w/o incident...don't know what was different this time other than having my trader pet up (had just sold abunch of plat bags)....don't know if that gives you info to help smooth that bug out or not /cheers

Black Unicorn pet will bug out and won't respond to /pet get lost or /pet leave commands.

Few updated observations on the latest version of the zone:

1.) Currently I am regularly having to #e destroy, wait 5 minutes, and then attempt to recreate the zone in order to get the trash to con white. However, they seem to quickly revert to yellow cons wiping my group. Rinse and repeat. Putting a team together in a new expedition is difficult. As a result, and unfortunately, it's not worth doing at this point especially since...

2.) When CT does pop, he cons yellow (I think?), but has far far far too much HP, and consistently wipes my 3 groups of T2-T4 geared toons - mostly by tossing them around the zone behind walls and into overpowered trash again and again. I've tried every method, it simply isn't working. Since CT spawns fairly quickly, I'm not even able farm trash (if I can even handle it). I know even if I kill CT I will get some candy, a couple charms, a token per character (right?), and a pet I'm already maxed out on across all characters... clearly not worth it even if it was possible.

3.) Hate to say it, but at this point the zone is again unusable for my characters. I think that says a lot since I am using 15 toons. Can't imagine what people with smaller groups are doing.

4.) Removing the fog was a HUGE plus! Wish I could enjoy the zone now that I can see it!

For now I will head back to DL unless some significant tweaking occurs on bosses/trash for those under T5 - my guess is right now the event is not working for anyone under T5.

As a disclaimer I cannot speak for anyone over T5, but I've heard similar issues across the board.

CT won't throw your toons if they all have levitation on, fwiw

My raid consists of 12, no problem with CT whatsoever (probably because i'm mostly t6 geared with my war being mostly t8 geared with only 2 toons that are t4/t5 geared)
In fact I can easily go through to BU (only one I have problems with is SM because he decides he will attack someone random after mezzing everyone so I have a few deaths but still take him) and don't know about anything beyond BU.

Glad I'm not the only one who was having trouble with him... that combined with the year-long lag I seem to get when I die and zone to nexus made the halloween zone really annoying for me...

this is good to know, I had no idea. I usually dislike levitation, it makes movement seem really weird for me but I'll try this tomorrow

I have lev on all my toons and they still get thrown back

ct has dispelled lev off my goons before throwing on many occasions

Yes he can dispell the top 2 slots of buffs, if you have lev on buried deep in your buffs you won't get thrown.

Anyone know what this error is? Causes my chars to crash and has been happening constantly during the event.

This is a simple fix.  Move your toons into the tunnel.  Have your tanks back to the wall and all the mobs to your front.  When CT spawns and tosses you, you will fly up but the tunnel will stop you from flying all over the place.  Then you don't have to mess with levi or any of that mess that just gets dispelled anyway.

CT is not a mob for t2-4 players either.  He is a solid t5 mob.  So it should be expected to have issues with him.

Expeditions are broke... :-[

corrupted file

So I was curious, what are other peoples strats with the new pets? Mistress of flame on dps seems like a given, but do you do anything else for your tank/off tank?

Any news on the server reboot? wanna get back in and farm.

IG for tank, chilled for caster, mistress for dps.

Honestly, I am just getting all on all and figure it out some other time.

No BU for your zerker?   I may not make it to the mistress in time for the event to end. 

Per the other thread about this, the expeditions and instances are working again. Please reform your groups/raids and restart any dungeon/instance/expedition/lemonparty for fully working lewts.


-Hate

why bu for zerker?

Pfft... nobody uses zerkers on this server

Haste to get their weapon speed down to 30? 

I'm doing Mistress on tank, BU on everyone else. I might put a mistress on one or two other people in main group If I get it. If not idc BU for speed and haste

Hey Anuli,

I'm thinking the same thing, except for my ranger.  His weapon delay is already 15, well 30, since 30 is as low as it can go on this server.
My cleric/druid/enchy have a weapon with 50 delay (with the haste it should be down to the 30) and the spell haste is always welcome. 
I am going to try for a mistress pet for my ranger, but who knows.  He is only at 40 tokens so far.  Hopefully I can knock it out before the end. 

Yep I'd throw it on monk rogue ranger if you get the chance. Can't hurt

can we please get those strike v back onto the mobs like last year. I feel like Clark Griswald after getting my bonus Jelly of the month.

Sorry, but with the crazy amount of platinum dropping in the Halloween zone it should be easy as fuck to make a shitload of strike augs.  No offense, but we aren't farming green content that doesn't drop jack shit in the hopes of spawning a skel/zombie/spec/werewolf/w-e to chain into an SM or IG...we're farming relevant content and getting a solid haul of aa's, platinum and upgraded familiars.  If you feel like you somehow got slighted because we aren't seeing strike 5's fall from the sky then I don't know what to tell you.

Lol.. I am asking to put some strikes on there... Easy tiger, not sending you back to old content. Too much coffee?... Also, if you don't know what to tell someone, opting out of a post is always an option... :0

Pretty sure I knew exactly what to tell you...I gave various reasons why this is anything but a "Jelly of the Month" event.  I simply pointed out all of the benefits we have received during this event over last years event, which if I'm not mistaken, you directly referenced.  Is there a good reason why we should have strike 5's dropping like they did last year, considering the offsetting variables?

aren't there strike 8 augs dropping off the bosses sometimes?

Yessir, various strikes from 2's to 8's have been linked and reported in /ooc.

The fact that you don't  know for certain means that the drop is rare as hell... The benefit of lots of cash is offset by the fact that when you pump this much money into every persons account, you get server inflation...

dime, why so against my suggestion... You offered up a lot of stuff but you realize I only asked for one thing, not to change the world... Relax man, nobody is putting turds in your punch...

So we have an event where it used to be a glorious reward to all who could kill the higher level bosses.. Sot, armor, Augs, fg/cg items, and all the stuff hunter put in to elevate all the folks who played are not dropping.

The zone and event is fun, but the reward or lack thereof sux. That is my point... Lots of cash? I have tons... 

I also have strike xi... But having them allows me a kickstart on building more toons.

As for relavent content.. Have to wait for t10 for that.

So back to my original point, can we please get those old drops back on the bosses.

Oh, well if you just got a bunch of new shiny toys of course you should feel entitled to getting the old toys that dropped last year.  I'm not against putting any of the old drops on the bosses, I just don't find it very effective to stomp my feet and make disparaging remarks until I get what I want.


This remark here really takes the focus away from the points you brought up regarding a reason to put strike 5's back on the loot tables, your point would have been the focus of the response but instead you insist on claiming that there has been some lack of reward that you deserve to get.  It also directly contradicts the fact that this hasn't been an event devoid of any sort of benefit for time invested, least of all the new familiars with new effects.  I remember Halloween last year and I remember that absolutely nothing had changed because Hunter added nothing new in terms of encounters or loot, and I remember everything being trivial because of level increases.  I'm quite happy with this year's event regardless of whether or not I get a handful of strike 5 augs that I can easily make the other 51 weeks a year out of it, but I'm not opposed to them being on the loot tables either.

Question,
With the zone change yesterday, going the brave route puts you in public. I got 3 CT on there relatively quickly, going the not so brave route provides you your own instance and I did not see any CT in a few clears. What's the diff in the zones? Will named pop in your own instance?

At least you can participate in the event. You're upset because you can't get strike augs like candy - meanwhile, anyone under T5 can't even participate this Halloween. Rare UW, unlimited cash, sick pets and charm upgrades sounds like reason enough to be stoked on this.

To your point on inflation - since newbz can't even farm trash since wednesday, the rich get richer - not everyone is included here. Also, the price of vendor goods doesn't change with inflation.

If I had a complaint it wouldn't be the loot or zone or quests - which are obviously awesome - it would be that there isn't another zone for lower lvl toons to enjoy. One of the things Hunter did was add rare dirty new bosses, but allow lower lvl chars to farm super green trash in easily accessible pub zones for fun rewards (unrest / fear). This wasn't included here and left me feeling rejected. Farming double loot and waiting for players with scrap pet drops isn't much fun. I would rather farm trash for cool stuff. After Wednesday, I was unable to accumulate any more tokens on my toons due to spawn rate of CT and the strength of the trash. Heck I can't even make a video because I can't stay in the zone long enough!

Regardless I think the zone was awesome, just hope next year there is an option for lower lvl toons (even if I'm not one of them by then).

Ok response to me loosing focus per Warrior5, who makes some good points....

put strike v's back in :)

Just make a vid of you being killed by CT ;)

Thinking about it...

So if you were around when Hunter had things like that, then you shouldn't be new and your toons should be able to kill stuff.  If you sit on your tail all year and ONLY come out for Halloween, you do yourself no favors, and only bog the server down for the rest of us who don't.

I think we have found the limit for the server though.  Once you hit 400+ (is 600 on right now) server becomes way too bogged down to play...unless it is all just that one zone.  If that is the case maybe a few zones to spread the laggy-bogged-down-feeling out.  :-\

Not often I say something like this, but will be happy for event to be over, so server can get back to normal.

Zero lag on my end last night 600 plus and right now with 650 on zero issues.

48ms too atm

If I am on in Garden 500ms+ if I am out of it 120(ish)ms...and that's from a normal of 58-65ms......although lately the milliseconds have been going up a lot from what they were...oddly

lol

Trying to log in 7 only 3 log in. Takes multiple attempts to get the other 4 in try and switch zones half the toons crash =(

Can SM get some kind of nerf for this last day of events? Would like to stop dying every 15mins in this zone from how ofter I get him to pop from CT.

or a way to repop zone maybe to remove SM pops so I don't have to constantly zone out and in accounts.

Could ask for help I'm sure someone would assist you.

I guess could always do that, yeah you are right, I'll wait till I get a bunch then ask someone to come destroy them all. I'm having good luck as in chaining to SM quite a bit, but bad luck as I can't kill them.... LOL

Angryface familiar 200% spell damage doesn't stack with ancient vampiric thunder for magic damage. Not a huge deal, just a little disappointing since most damage other than firestrikes or wizard nukes is magic, so any character with chanter buff is only getting +75% magic damage.

Crossposting in Broken Stuff too...

Can't zone into the Halloween zone on my tank. Mr. Halloween says he's in an expedition. however, if I "#e leave" it says I'm not in an expedition. Other toons can get the expedition and zone in just fine, but then if they invite him and he tries to zone in he crashes and has to be zoned out with the Char Mover. At least one other guy was having the same problem, according to /ooc.

Not really a big deal, since I can't really farm it anyway (only T3ish), but annoying anyway.

BTW it wasn't server that was stupid...it was me, err well my computer.  I didn't know that when it acts stupid you should not only unplug the router on your cable internet but also the MODEM in front of it too!  After I powered my computer/router/modem down and left them off for 10 minutes and powered them back up...pinging right back at 60ms....so my bad!  ;D

Might be late, but figured I'd post these tips that I found to kill SM that I found. My group is almost all t5 and some t4. WAR/PAL/MNK/BER/BRD/DRU.

Anyways, I finally just killed my first SM doing this, first time really trying so can't guarantee it's success. Basically, get your warrior to attack SM as soon as possible so they get charmed. Their anger procs break all my pts mez. Since he is charmed SM goes to my pld, the pld can take all the hits NP (well maybe not everyone, mine has 410k hp, so not a big deal at least for this). tab to zerk screen or use a command to stop attacking on him, he will kill your warrior if you don't. When warrior gets uncharmed, should get threat back. Now, to make the fight even easier, spam dispel supposedly to remove his lifetap type proc. I don't because I out beat it's heal. Hope this maybe helps people. I know people said in /ooc that their warrior destroys their group, so probably won't work for a warrior with UW or something.

Same problems I've had for days now. If I relog the toons that crash, I can get them in, but run about a 90% chance of them crashing when they zone. The frustration is not worth the reward

Actually you want to dispel because SM buffs himself frequently with some kind of stonewall. Dispelling this ups your dps and helps you kill ALOT faster

Hmm didn't know that buff, regardless, dps'd him down pretty easy without once I stopped being stupid and killing myself with zerk and making sure proper people were charmed. I am grateful for this tip though to make sure I keep spamming dispel. Do you happen to know how frequent it is put up also?

Something else that helps with SM.  If you get a CT to spawn, and still have mobs up, kill CT, if SM spawns and mezzs you, the other mobs will still hit you, and you will loose the mezz.  Hit your group cure clicky (hopefully you have one on your MT) and go to town.

Yeah all week it was great hardly had any issues then suddenly this weekend the zone just constantly crashes my war like every pull, anyone else have this issue? Also I am guessing the candy I have saved won't be used to buy anything beyond tokens? If not its ok just curious :)