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Hey All/Akk,

Do we have any information on when this event will start?  I know it is going to be all new.

Just trying to plan some days off.  LoL

Likewise!

Any info would be of great help :)

How do you know dis?

akka said so

Aye, Akkadius has came on a few times and talked with us about the New Halloween event and asked our thoughts on what we would like to see added/changed/deleted etc, then he has given us quick little status updates here and there.

Peace

I guess i should log on more often then hehehe  ;D

We will announce in the near future here, stay tuned

I hope this even runs through Halloween and a bit after! I couldn't get off time before but can after.

I can say it will run for an extended period. It will be a blast

Awsome!!!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED !!!   Thanks akka, rent and anyone else who contributed !!!

I like this!

Still no information?  /sad face

"Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see."

You are a good man Charlie Brown.....

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KKBVz-0OslQ/maxresdefault.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChlW283_33s

Try this instead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePSR7gFt7s4

Hell yeah, no school like the old school.

I am soooo looking forward to this event. The build up to this has been all very exciting, and it is happening later than most of us expected which is why there are those that are upset. I was honestly chomping at the bit as well but used the time to focus and grind out my gnoll gear, so I feel I am very much more prepared now. I channeled all my frustration into getting that done, and I am fortunate to have friends that helped a ton (shoutout to my homies Grogan and Iamthedevil.)

Bottom line is that I am thankful for all of the crazy volunteer hours Akka, Rent, Hate and anyone else put into this game. Seriously, they provide entertainment for us on a level that rivals any other game I own, no matter what I keep coming back here. Some of us are dissapointed in the timing, I realize debugging and many late nights are apart of this, and it's difficult to time such a thing for everyone (ie: impossible.)

I have decided to take it all in stride and be thankful for whatever they have planned for us, and in the meantime I am not scheduling my life around it. I am going out with my girls tonight trick-or-treating after having made deals with the devil to get this day off.

Stay positive, relax and have fun guys.

CONFIRMED STARTS TONIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!  WOOOOOOOOOP

How is it confirmed?  There is no post about it or anything.

Rent said to tell everyone it starts tonight.

IAMEXCITE

Kudos for the new content. graphics and concepts that went into the new Haloween event -  it looks really awesome.  However the rewards will come only to those that are already geared to the hilt, the rest of us that are somewhat lower than that are disappointed (as you can see from OOC) since the event should be fun for all and a way to  enhance or get some items that will help.  Loot tables have hit an all time low and this wont help anyone lower or raise any enthusiasm to log on.

Back to T10, grinding Gnolls,

This isn't how I wanna spend my Halloween killing 3 mobs.

https://imgur.com/PZ8LGPD

Folks - this is as brand new event.

Things are a challenge, don't throw a fit if you die on the first try, the full extent of the Halloween goodness is not even enabled yet, an official post hasn't even been made yet.

There are tons of rewards in this zone worthwhile - and if we need to make slight adjustments downwards on trash I will do just that. We want a challenge of course but we don't want it to be ridiculous

You can also try teaming up with people

Have patience, there is a lot going on right now. Adjustments are imminent and won't take long

You sound like a socialist QQ baby snowflake.     Just quit gaming and find your safe space.     

Sounds great. Wish I can join on the fun. Can't get to server select. China internet blows donkey balls lolz

Awesome, are you scaling it for lower levels as well?  We all waited for this awesome event thinking it had everyone in mind.  Hell, I took a day off of work for it.  Bog was kind enough to allow me to tag along - i was ZERO help, and often times slowed him down because of my crew being ONE shotted several times.  If this was ONLY for T10+ people than i would think you would have made that abundantly clear to the lower level folks on the server.   I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but we are a community of folks.  The zone looks awesome, and you guys did an amazing job on it.  Wish I could load up and party in there, but I can't.  Not all of us are T10, yet.  I'm cool with the uber's having their own playground (they deserve it), but no event for the lower levels...no double loot?

Nukinfutz

He said the event would be on for a long time. It's the first night. I'm sure there will be DL or something or scaling. If I was Akka and too many people complained I would just turn it off and forget DL just to say "f u" - honestly. It's obvious the thing isn't even fully turned on yet (he said this above) - he hasn't even made an official announcement.

I love the content and potential rewards.
However, I have to admit that if DL was turned on, I would hunt elsewhere since I am only "in T10" and not T10 geared and killing is too slow.
But, despite that, I think the zone is cool and it gives me incentive to beef up to do that...maybe next year.

One big thing to me: I would prefer instancing capability.  Last night i was getting trained by people, just like in old school EQ.
only thing missing was the zoneline...

We allready had DL for a few days what are you complaining about ?

Actually, I did not complain about DL at all, I simply said if it was enabled I wouldn't be in the Halloween zone.

I wish peeps would train me, it would be like autopull, save wear and tear on my wrists and tendons!

can anyone link the download for the files we gotta download? I can't get into game again haha

Arrelas Bonescourger, gnome npc mob eastern part of zone by the farm area cons scowls, doesn't see invis and lists quest mob above her head...can't get her to respond without trying to kill me.
Tomb, objects in the graveyard area agro and are killable, annoying with targeting issues but not a real hindrance otherwise.
NW part of zone, spire looking thing has 3 deathcrows in it, can AE them out with angerbomb, but they spawn inside the object itself so you don't see them initially.
Drunken Sailor's Wife mobs on the boats are a pain to pull due to line of sight issues, can board at least one of the boats and clear it but can't get to other mobs that map shows likely below deck.
SSE underground undead tunnels are a bit of a pain, cramped quarters and when mobs can't path to you they pop onto you  and behind you instead of in front so you take a good chunk of dmg.
Succor point takes you to the southern tunnel of the zone but you can't get back through, succor point should be moved to inside the initial cave.
Foxy eats your coins, no matter how many you have, when you follow her gamble text.

noted. thank you for the zone feedback.

Rent,
The zone is really hard for non  tier 10-completed people.
At least, that's my mileage.
Some data : I'm in the middle of OC, 2 UW (10&8), 3 char flagged for tier 10.
In the halloween event, I can pull 2 mobs max.
Some mobs death AOE will wipe my raid, but my war.
Never had such a challenge so far in the game (since  i haven't been on tier 10)

Do you plan to temper difficulty based on group/Raid level, or is that too much work to do for this year  ?

doonald

Foxy also eats anything handed to her, ate my only aug that I had drop in the 4 hours I have been in zone.

The drop rate is almost non existant for my T10 gnolls geared UW11 earring50 max SOA everyone else in core strike augs group. I have had 5 coins and an aug which were all eaten.

The more geared are getting named but even there the reward v time is horrible at this time and useless (the upgraded foxy aug is damn weak for a lore item) unless it progresses which we really haven't seen yet. The zone pull item I saw in ooc is neat but impractical with just 1 charge and no way to recharge it.

tl;dr The drop rate is abyssmal and I have no progress made on the quests. I have not had one named pop for me, though I know others that kill faster have.  I have also seen a gnome with a quest that does not respond to hails and attacks me, forget name he was in a grave yard. I'm also seeing some mobs with weird characters for names (the wisp lookin critters.)

It's obvious that what is currently in place is geared towards people that are in t10. So lets not complain about the difficulty or lack of content for lower tier players until the event is actually released please. Akka has already stated that the full event is not out yet.
That being said, I doubt they are going to make the entire event exclusive to t10 players (Technically it isn't right now anyway because anyone can zone in and join a raid. Even if they can't help they can still get stuff that the other groups don't want. Yes that is no fun but I said technically) So they are probably going to do something for everyone else as well.

If I had to take a guess I would say that they dropped it as is to test the difficulty for t10 players while also testing event mechanics. They probably don't need to test difficulty for lower tiers because at this point they should have a pretty good idea of where the challenge for those tiers needs to be.

So in the end if we could please keep from complaining or asking about other parts of the event until AFTER it's been fully released I'm sure Rent and Akka would much appreciate it as they put a lot of work into this. We get to have an idea of what the Halloween is going to be like before it's been fully and properly implemented, lets not push our luck and piss off the people that are trying to make it fun for everyone. (Information, problems, and bugs of course should be mentioned for fixing mechanics and tuning)

I also understand more about the event after seeing some oocs from Rent and whatnot. Seems our thinking of this as a typical halloween very limited event is what is clouding our judgement of it.

This is a more long time event with elements that will unlock as we progress. Attacking it with this mindset makes everything seem much more logical than it otherwise did, although it is still very slow going for me.

I will put in more time today and see how it goes, this is a server wide event that will have some undoubtedly cool rewards.

It just occurred to me that rampage seems to be focusing a single target with multiple hits. So the warrior is tanking as usual and then the rampage just focuses one of my bards and only hits them, which drops them low enough for low hp agro and they get whacked.
Is the rampage supposed to only be hitting one toon?

Wasn't it changed at some point years ago to indicate if it was single or AE? Like single just says Rampage and AE says Wild Rampage?

I thought Wild Rampage was just random targets while Rampage was highest agro after tank.

We allready had DL for a few days what are you complaining about ?

Yes Brunna we're all aware of that, try to keep up with the direction of the posts, guess reading comprehension isn't one of your stronger attributes.

Guys, we need to band together and figure this out. We have been given an opportunity to be apart of a living, progressive event. Let's figure out how to move forward. I have pieced this together based on clues from others and what the gms have said.

This is a unique experience for this server and may only be a one time thing, so let's see what we can truly do as a team. I have no doubt the rewards are going to be cool and unique as hinted at, we have not even scratched the surface. We nee to clear the zone and see what happens.

So, turns out there are boss chains!! We are starting to get chains of bosses, looks like up to three and you get special loot. Lots of coins, zone pull items, 20k-50k aa crystals and one person got a 300k hp earring! Amaizing stats, starting to get excited about this again.  Kills are damn slow still but will be worth it if I can get a couple of items like that.
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Also saw a kick ass monk wep drop with proc effect:krackin2. Looking forward to discovering more.

Wolverines!

Its a BST/MNK weapon, procs Kracken 2 and another buff that will be looked at soon :)

It sucks, my internet went down last night and I wasn't able to log in at all.
After all my belly aching an moaning about how hard it was, I was really looking forward giving it another go.  I hope my internet is working when I get home tonight. 

I am just into T9 and really don't have any great UWs. My war has a 7 and other than that nothing really to speak of. I haven't even really started the SoA as of yet. Anyway I figured with all the talk of how "hard" the Halloween even is I'd at least give it a shot. I popped in and got smoked almost instantly. I went back a few times got a mob or 2 dead. However, I started playing on EZ about 2.5 years ago and after 3-4 months I took a break for almost 2 years and I am just coming back. I can't do the new event efficiently but that is my fault for not sticking with the server and getting my butt moving. From what I saw of the zone, heard about the zone, and gear I've seen drop (from links) I gotta say my hats off to Akkadius and Rent for their hard work and effort. I really feel it is completely insulting to be complaining over how "hard" the zone is. All in all I just want to say thank you to Akkadius and Rent for what they've done for this event and for the server to keep it going!

Thanks. It is our pleasure to bring new and challenging content to life for our players.

Thank you Akka and Rent!

If this is event is any indication of how T11 is going to be, then sign me up for the long run!

Public Instances

If im in instance 3 and instance 2 drops below the threshold, instance 3 drops from the available realm lists and i can not manually return. This can be annoying if my warrior dies on a pull and i cant rez myself and need to re-enter manually (thats what she said).

Fun zone, seems harder than T10

Akkadius and Rent,

   Nice work on the zone.   It is well designed.    I started yesterday so missed the hard hitting mobs I guess.  


Feedback:

  

• The zone feels like a tier vice an event.    Which is great, however based on the current spawn/drop rates this will be a T10 type of time commitment.
• Some mobs hit pretty darned hard when pulling.    Rogues especially (but this is not new, same as T10)
• As eluded to above, the boss chain percent chance seems a tad low.    I've seen 1 to 3 and only 3 to 2.   I think a total of 9 1st chain bosses.   
       ***To give you some context, 10k coins farmed thus far.

Anyway, nice work!    


Asshats in HoS,

If you did not spawn the boss do not pull the boss.    Ignorance is not an excuse!   That means if you did not get 2 bosses and spawn the Dragon (3rd boss in a chain), do not pull the mfing dragon.   It is that simple.

Chains work like this:    mob --> boss 1 (spawns in place from mob like pb)  --> boss 2 (spawns in place from mob like pb)  --> boss 3 (spawns away from you in a dedicated location in zone).      


  

Grinded out some t1 this morning, got some interesting drops... -.- I've been out of the loop for about 3 years kinda excited to see what comes next. It's awesome!

So far it seems that the only way to spawn bosses is by killing quickly and pulling multiples, which seems fine for anyone fully t10 geared but the mobs hit significantly harder than t10. I can take 10 sarnaks at a time in t10 but a maximum of 3 mobs in here IF they don't slaughter the war on the way back. Rampage is another thing that is preventing decent sized pulls as with just IG my toons will get hit for 800k-1mil 3 times on each rampage so most of the time the ramp will kill them.
Right now it's looking like i'll be unable to spawn anything (Either the spawn rate is just that low or there is something i'm missing that I can't possibly do with only pulling 1-2 mobs at a time, 3 is likely to just kill the warrior in transit).
Also I do want to point out that I definitely appreciate the event and what little I've gotten so far is awesome. I just wanted to state that for someone just barely in t10 the mobs are tuned a bit too difficult to spawn bosses.

Brannyn, the horse is dead man. It's really, really dead..

This zone is designed as a universal challenge. If you can't kill there, they aren't likely going to shift it to accommodate nor add scaling this time around.

I understand Brannyn’s sentiment, since a T10 myself, I have been very cautious in pulling large quantities (I generally pull 4-8) since they do hit that hard.

But like Otto said, I dont think any changes will come any time soon so might as well enjoy the time remaining.

On the other hand, we have another full year of preparation for the next Halloween event :)