EZ Server

Zones Converted to Scripted Loot!

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Halls of Honor [hohonora] was converted yesterday (or Monday?) [04-04-16?].
Plane of Gods [airplane] was converted this morning [04-06-16].
Asylum of Anguish [anguish] was converted this evening [04-06-16].
LDON Floors were converted this morning [04-09-16].
TOFS [frozenshadow] was converted last night and this morning [04-25 to 04-26].
The Abyss [illsalin] was converted just now [4-26-16].

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What does this mean for you? Easier to find spells as they are no longer restricted to certain boss(es), easier for me to adjust/add things on the fly, and more reliable "double loot" participation by the zone. :)

EDIT: Added bonus, Asylum of Anguish now has some checks to recover from wipe on Jelvan, as well as respawning Mata after 90s if you pulled him with bosses or too much trash alive. Enjoy!
EDIT #2: Each floor has 1-2 "common" cards now that drop 1:20 from trash, 1:1 from bosses. The "uncommon" cards range from 1:50 to 1:75 (down from 1:100 to 1:180). Additionally, credits from bosses are either 50 or 100 points, while credits from trash are either 10 or 50. Gem drops have been increased a fair bit, but BULK DROPS (meaning 3-6 or 0, no 1-2 gems per corpse).
EDIT #3: Each TOFS floor should now have progressively more platinum dropping.
EDIT #4: (For T5) Spells are much more common from all bosses, weapons should be more common, accessories are less rare, and cash flow should be significantly better than before!


-Hate

Does this mean Blessing of Ancient Oak II will actually start dropping now?

Would an anguish update mean we get 2 essence's from the final oom chest?
Thanks for the updates

Yup. :-)


-Hate

Just fixed the issue with MCP dropping 0 loot.
Also fixed T4 bosses (minus Warlord) dropping one, instead of two, items.

Also, ANGUISH IS DONE TOO! WOOHOO!


-Hate

Woohoo!

Ran 4 full clears of Anguish and from Matta i got 1 essence in 4 from her. 3 others from trash clearing

Hate Damlin lingering Charge  is currently dropping Waist armor rather than Face.  Not needed for progression but...Makes for a harder UC2 grind.

>_<

Sorry, just fixed. New instance should resolve your issue now!


-Hate

Just did a run, and OMM dropped no loot. the center OMM chest had no essence, no book, book was on the south chest, but no essences in any OMM chest. Also, not one chest of plat looted from mobs, only chests from OMM and jelvan. Freshly created instance.

If this is rng its really bad....72 T2 crystals handed in and not a single essence. Did get 2 GSOA though :P

I guess I needed to bitch publicly before drops turned on. 77, 78 and 79 each got me an essence :P.

LDON converted this morning.


-Hate

That explains the stone of descent's and armor cards that dropped on level 6.  ::)

Stones I can remove. Accident from copy/paste. Cards are still credits, which are still charms. :-P


-Hate

So wait, does this mean now it's harder to obtain Illusionist Cards since they share slot with other cards?

Only Illusionist Cards could drop in 6, this has not changed (mostly). Boss can drop other cards in 6 now though.


-Hate

Ah gotcha

The Stones are still dropping in pub instance. To be exactly just got one off Balrog.

Seeing various cards dropping off lv6 trash instead of Illusionist Card.

Just adjusted loot script to remove Stone from bosses in LDON6. The chance for ANY card did exist in LDON6 before, it was just hilariously rare (more so than charms...).


-Hate

Running T6 now, twice OOM poofed, once with 3 mobs up the other with 1 mob up. waited, waited, waited and he does not respawn.

Also, yeah seems like OOM should go back to his drop of charms and a weapon at least and the OOM chest should at the least drop 1 essence every time, cause doing runs without any essences is well....meh

cash seems....ehh, bad? IDK, I will start paying attention to each run more closely for averages of plat dropping chests and tally it up.

It just seems weird that you go from T5 dropping all kinds of plat bags (small ones, but still) and a regular rate of essences. Doing a flag should damn near net you close to 70 or so essences at least. Being how I just did a flag, I ended up with 82 essences from T5.......

Then you come to T6 and its kinda barren by comparison. Not saying T5 is wrong, cause it seems correct for content/progression. At least imo, the drops seem correct in T5.

I've never understood this ever-present fallacy that because one zone drops a certain amount of X item, any zone more difficult needs to drop at minimum X+1 of that item.

The amount of plat/value items dropping in the game has absolutely sky-rocketed over the last year, to the point that it would take multiple tiers of progression dropping 0 plat to even put a dent in the massively inflated economy.

And, ok, point taken. I was just pointing that out. And, we used to all do T6 as our cash crop. Somewhere along the line it changed.


and yes, from an old school approach you are correct. But, not everyone, even some of us older players have a billion + in our banks on several toons. But, I get where you are coming from that the server is plat rich and that plat is very deflated as a currency. The real currencies now are the items, not plat like it was a year ago. However, plat is still used very often in the game to make the augs, UW's, necks, etc, etc and it is still to an extent a viable trade option to lower tier and newer players that are coming up through the ranks.

So, I would have to disagree that we need several non plat dropping tiers to make up this ground, because that would just deplete the older player's bank accounts and force us backwards yet again for yet one more thing, plat to make our newer and newer augs, necks, UW's, etc.

In closing, I still <3 you tho Blarr $$

I agree with Rent, if literally qvic-t5 dropped any less plat when i barely make any to make up for instance repop cost i would have to call my eq days over.

This happened to me as well... It actually takes me about an hour to clear Anguish, so it's a big let down at the end :(

takes me 5 hours!

that must include a nap!

So, it looks like I forgot to include plat bags on trash mobs and typo'ed the npc id for Mata. New instances and they should be dropping goodies again. :)


-Hate

nice, thanks for that Hate

Just completed a t6 run (farming AA) and dint get an esse from any mob nor the one that should have been in the chest at the end....noticed the epic book was in the first chest i opened on the steps (the book is normally in the center chest with the esse)  ???

Did one run in t6 and got the ess at the end, just did another one and got no ess at the end.

The essence rate from trash was potentially too low. Try a new instance if/when possible.


-Hate

Noticed on recent DBL Loot Boss's in T! and T2 were dropping 2 patters but always in pairs of the same. Dragon droped as normal.

Double loot not working in any new instance, all zones I have checked. Is it turned off or some kind of error?

I am getting single drops in T3. Also getting plat from corpses. I thought changing to scripted loot switched that to plat bags?

That was for HoH.

Cleared Anguish and OMM's chests didn't have essence at all. Isn't he supposed be always giving one essence?

This is because we only enacted it for scripted zones. This was my call as I just wanted a temporary  bit of DL to help ease the undoing of the previous day or so of lost time. :-(


-Hate

Testing moving away from the "guaranteed" model. The upside is now ALL mobs can drop essences (up from the one dog-like mob type alone, or ~33 mobs per Anguish clear). The downside, there is no guaranteed essence per clear.

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TOFS now on scripted loot as well. :)


-Hate

Woohoo!

Add T5 to that list. With that, I believe all custom/tier zones are DONE!


-Hate

What is the upside to "scripted" loot?

Double loot on literally at the drop of a hat and it's 100x easier to maintain. I could enable right now, shout "DOUBLE LOOT CREATE INSTANCES" and all instances created at that point would have double loot. No reboot needed. :-)


-Hate

I shouted it and it was not successful...back to the code ;)

We don't believe you Hate. Prove it!!!  ;D ;D ;D

I shouted and neighbor told me to shut the fuck up.

I think I'm doing it wrong.

Dose this mean that ToFS trash can now drop ToFS Essences?
or was scripted just to add ToFS into the double loot zone .. and still only bosses will drop the essences
 

ToFS bosses are the ONLY ones that have ever dropped the esses....