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7-10 JUMP Shadows needs to really go away.  As of late it seems he is a jumping nightmare on me... upwards of double digits..

if only there was a way to cap it..

Yup, killing him 7 times just to have another group run to him after the 8th just to kill him is pretty lame.

Couldnt agree more. Especially since his drops seem to have gotten more lame lately. Killed him yesterday for an oceanlord token, a brawler V1 and the 3.5 book.... jumped 7 times for that?

I doubt it is even possible, but I would love to see the drops increase with every shadowstep :)

Stopped doing him after the "fix" last week, just not worth it.

Yeah I hear ya walk, but the problem is its not worth killing avatars either most times. I cleared two whole wings and half of a third the other day and saw 1 token, an oceanlord of course. At least Shadow you know will eventually drop something, albeit, not much.

I haven't been able to log in recently.  Are the drop rates really that bad?  I had assumed Hunter made the changes to make HoH a little easier but it sounds like the token and aug drop rates are so low that this was actually a nerf.

The drop rate is suck. :/

Easy fix to that is a group or guild zone...

Like the idea of adding to the loot table every time he hops especially when he hops of 10 times.

Considering the drop rate was 1:16 BEFORE the reduction, that would be a good start.  Seems more like 1:50 now.  I cleared 2-1/2 areas of HoH (about 100 avatars?) and got grand total = 2 tokens.. :(

There is a way to fix it, the question is: does bossman feel it's a NEEDED fix?

If Shadow is jumping 7-8 times, RNG is using the sandpaper condom. If jumps is 10+, RNG is also using Tabasco sauce as lube.

I've got 5 kills in last few days, most jumped was 4. Admittedly, 5 is a small SMALL sample size...still there it is.

-Hate

I remember Hunter saying that Shadow should not jump more than 2-3 times a while back.  But now that he decided to make HoH harder for everyone maybe he wants 7-10 jumps.

Are there any players that are boxing and fully geared in T4 with Maxed UC, RoA and Scepter?

T4, UC, ROA yes.

As far as I know, only one character has the maxed Scepter, so no.

Alright, so tonight I decided to chase Shadow around and see if I couldn't find one of the 20 charms I need for my UC.... He shadowstepped me 14 times that I could count and I still didn't get the damn kill because the server was shutting down. Now I do not know what is going on, but he never shadowstepped on me past 8 times... and that was one time that he did that.

Tonight I had killed him around 15-20 times with each one being only around 2-5 times for shadowstepping. I would have simply, zoned out and came back in to try again, but waiting on a first spawn of 30minutes I wasn't looking forward to it.

Hunter,

I love you server, my all time favorite server, but could you please put a cap on Shadow? I do not like chasing him for one V1 charm upgrade and maybe a V2.

Thanks,
Kingmen/Fally.

P.s. I am not the only that has had this kind of problem. It was brought to my attention that earlier today, someone else had encountered the exact same issue which resulted in a total of 19 Shadow Steps.

Maybe you can make him Shadow Step a little less? Chasing him around is really annoying as it is without doing it for XX amount of times and him only dropping the same loot.

Also, I second :

Not sure what kind of coding that'd take but that last idea is pretty cool. Sort of like a Shadow lottery.

Random, just like the 2.5 Epic Book, this 3.5 Epic Book is random chance etc.

Having the same problems with shadow taking 15 to 20 hops. I had a guildy tell me the same thing last night over 25 hops and he was not able to stay on any longer to see if he could kill him.

Hunter can we have cap even if its like 10 this is getting insane.

Stales

Its a RNG set at 1/3 chance of not teleporting.

Is it a one time only check per engagement?  I've heard some speculation that there's less chance of him shadow stepping if you kill him faster.  I kill fairly slow and the most I've had is 4 steps, and the fewest is zero.  That's in a fairly small sampling including one chase this weekend where he stepped three times before I got him. 

I would think that yeah, him Shadowstepping and your killing rate would have some kind of affect on it, as I can kill shadow in roughly 4-5 minutes with no issues (Meaning him not shadowstepping).

If I didn't need shadow to finish my UCs, then I wouldn't even dare touch him unless I felt it was necessary ehhe.

But to answer you, I am not entirely sure if it has some kind of affect on his ability, but I would think it would... since EQ is more "Real life"1 based logic than any other game.


1. It is based off more realistic views than that of any other game. For example, you receive less hits from the front than the back, etc.