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Any updates for the event? Changes, times, weapons, etc?

Any use for the BU weapons from last year?

I am so excited for tomorrow!!!!!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

is kinda like day before X-mas as a kid!    ;D

Only thing i know for certain is what hunter has posted or said in ooc himself.

Date oct25 - 31st
BU weapons WILL have a boost to them during holloween.
everything else  ???

suspect it will come online at server reset in aprox 7hrs 45min.

Sounds about right.

I haven't changed anything to our Halloween script yet, so it'll be same as last year. Might tweak stuff as needed.

Should be easier than last year cause combat rounds are slower giving less chance for zone crashing, and players have more HP and DPS as well.

BU Weapons will have their dmg increased for duration of Halloween.

Sceptres will drop the same as last year too, haven't changed that either.

ess's, strike augs, 5.0 books? I was around for last years event, but dont remember much of it lol

the 5.0 books last year was a joke from the top geared players. They really weren't dropping :)

Can't freaking wait!!!

I knew that, I was hoping :D I hate that F'ing zone... :P

Thanks for the Info Hunter. Is the Black unicorn still gona be up and work in instances? And by up i mean the candy collector?

Awesome, can't wait!

I missed the last years halloween event. Anyone want to write up a quick guide ?

Helloween comin this weekend ?

So far everything will be the SAME as last year for the event.

I disabled auto boot up after server comes down, so I can catch it, put in the Halloween Event, and see that its working.

Might be down for a few hours though, cause I got headache and going to take a nap now.

Server will come up with Halloween stuff when I wake up.

Halloween Event is now open.

I haven't had a chance to update the BU weapons yet, but will do it soon, within 1 day here. Just need time to edit and reboot later.

potimea wasn't static zone so I made it static (after already bringing the server up) but I also just made the shutdown time to 500 seconds so hopefully the dynamic public one stays open even without players for 500 seconds.

Everything else is exact same as last year, so feel free to write a guide if you played it last year.

Perhaps someone would be kind enough to write a quick overview of whats going on?

I'll be online tomorrow night (thats your afternoon/late afternoon), if anyone wants to team up and have some fun :)

no we dont like u

A short guide on what zones and how the chains work would be very appreciated if anyone finds the time.  :)

Sure you do!

Here's something quick to get you started:

Zones: Disease, Decay, Kaesora, Fear, Hate, Charasis, Veksar, Kurn, CoMist, Nightmare, Unrest, Befallen

Mobs: Kill trash and a T1 will spawn (zombie, scarecrow, etc). Kill a T1 and that has a chance to spawn T2 (Inny, Tribunal, Rallos, etc). From there a chance for Cazic, then Stone Monster, then Insane Goblin.

Candy is for turning in to collector for CG/FG items and a random Cazic spawn. Also to spawn Black Unicorn in Earth.

Historically, Hunter has given credits for videos made during the event.

Lots of fun, can't wait to get  off work.

Thanks for the guide!  If anyone gets a chance to answer, about what kind of box setup is needed for cazic and stone monster?

I was wondering the same!

cazic is originally T4 but he's more like 2 groups of T5
i believe stone monster can be done without any trouble with 2 groups of T6

with the UW's and BU weapons in play i'm sure they're a little more beefed

Would highly suggest to anyone plaing in an instance that is not familiar with content to leave a toon parked to save the instance and not kill near the zone in if you are seeking assistance at any point.

Are the current trash spawns at the adjusted level from last year? I am clearing zone after zone and getting hardly any boss spawns. Ive had a few conversations and apparently im not the only one.

idk if its possible to raise the level of some of the trash by like...10 levels, but the cap increase to lvl 76/77 is making it really hard to agro anything you dont cast on in all of these zones.

Yea not getting a ton of spawns either

4 hours 2 ct nothing higher only getting basic spawns :/

5 minutes in Fearplane i poped a spawn set to stone monster (took him out with just Fliker's group / auged out 6.0's / no war)

nothing past a T2 since

No NPC in Fear instance to hand in candy?

Spawn rate was slow on day one last year too, but picked up the next day.  I played about 11 hours today, had 6 or 7 CTs and 2 SMs.  No goblins.

Also having trouble aggroing mobs. 4 hours in fear only 2 T2 and about 10 T1, zero CT or SM

Finally got an SM - wiped and had all corpses despawn, including Cazic.  Back to grinding more i guess

/sigh

Keep an alt in a safe spot and /tell Natedog when you get SM to spawn :)

What was the last tier during last Halloween Event (2012), maybe Tier 6 Anguish? We're up to Tier 9 now... so lot of end game players will be well OP to destroy any final Halloween Bosses, so give them a shout and I'm sure they'll help you.

Players managed it last year when T6 was the final tier for gear, and we didn't have as much ranked items for millions of HP either.

BU Weapons have been updated and will increased damage after reboot. The highest weapons will have 300k dmg stat, compared to UW Greatstaff that only has 150k dmg. So they'll be very useful during this event, until end of Oct 31st, so maybe some players might choose to take advantage of their weapons to help progress through a few tiers as a short term PL. :)

What is a BU weapons and where would you get one?

I'm having an awful time with the spawn chain. Ton of T1 /T2... rest is non-existant

Finally got one to spawn (SM). This is supposed to be fun... where is the fun in getting charmed over and over?

I missed the quote from Hunter as a design goal.


-Hate

I see what you're doing. Just frustrated a little bit. Taking a break. Sorry !

Hardly. Just making note. You get game changing items once a year. Gotta work for it. *whipcrack*


-Hate

I wish Hunter would take away the ability to spawn the BU in public. Would really help with the lag.

Yea, it sucks you cant even get into a a instance bcause of all the peeps doin the Crash_the_zone dance waiting to see if someone might spawn one in public.

my power went out 2mins after I killed IG. lol close call.

I don't get charmed? - Perhaps your resists are just too weak...

nah, just make it 2-3 zones that you can spawn BU in

Whether it's 1 2 or 10 zones when people spawn them in public loads of people will show up. It will lock down the zone. Spreading it over zones will not make people not go to those zones, it will just make them go to each one.

spawn rate on all the bosses (from killing trash + turning in candy) seems really, really low, similar to rate at start last year

I agree on the spawn rate, seems really low today but who knows...could just be bad RNG.  I know I'm not seeing many emotes for SM/IG and server population is pretty high.

Hunter are you doing the video contest this year?

No nothing official but I might offer a few credits if someone made a nice new original video for Halloween.

Added the BU Event to poearthb

I kill too fast to record anything  :P

Would be a 30 second video of 100 different kills   8)

... and a bag of chips, eh?

That was from last year's Halloween thread after people pointed out bad spawn rates, was that carried over to this year or are we still at the rate we initially started with last year?  Just asking because I've been logging kills and am running right around 1 CT per 9 T2 mobs.  Also, what is the rate set at for Cazic from candy hand ins?  I know today Karbuk handed in over 800 without a spawn and I handed in 1311 tonight before I got a CT, handed in another 300+ after that and didn't see a second one.

I got 2 CT around 350 candies.

Around 1 CT Every 20-30 T2's on my end.

I've seen about 7 CT's and gotten 1 SM.

I've seen about 25 rank 1's and 15 rank 2's

So on average it's around 4-5 hours before I see one CT on pulls / pops.

Yup same here
seen 2 SM sinnce the beginning of the event
  ???

Ya, 844 candy so far without a CT. I'd chalk it up to bad RNG, but seems a lot of us are seeing these numbers.

I havent kept track of T1/T2 bosses, but ive only managed around 7 CT and 1 Stone Monster, in 19 hours playtime. 14 hours of that was straight play on Friday, the other time was from last night.

I think I may go destroy Anguish and finish my crew for T7 instead

Bad RNG tonight? from 2:30 to 6pm (Now) 1 CT.

going on hour 3 of not 1 ct myself, but not turning candy in yet

Ive logged about 11 hours playing and seen zero spawn CT, but ive got 2 CT from turn-in, I guess I got lucky

All throughout the spawn rate this year for me and mine has been so so.....last 2 days it was downright horrid. Between 3 people 1200+ candy and 1 CT, no SM.

 Well this was my first Halloween event and I had a great time. I just want to thank Natedog, Dimurwar, and Marxist for taking down my Halloween bosses.

 Unfortunately I didnt get any IG spawns, perhaps next time when I am am at least semi-uber.

yep, good event. Thx to Dim I did manage to get one SM pet lol

I did get 4 CT's to spawn tho! zero SMs on my spawns

darn work and real life got in the way lol

Thanks for the event H
Good event , not many CT / SM either

But big thanks to Yeejek and Wargod for the help with them

Hope my team can take em next time, unless it changes next year