mechanotablets...

[Bloodbayne]

Ok so as of right now: the AAAA is able to be made, the holepoker for mechanotablets can be made, we know that the tablets drop from creep reapers, and there is a list of 23 foci/effects. Of those 23, 5 of the 6 melee foci/effects are live. What's the deal with the other 18? Are they ever going to go live? Being a caster and currently working on obtaining the remaining pieces i need, id hate to have to just stop, because the piece i need to add a focus effect isnt live. If there is anyone reading forums that could answer any one of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

[Yslaathx]

I'm stumped too. I think either the drops are bugged, or the caster foci tablets are possibly created through reasearch, though I have no direct evidence of that.

It was posted by a dev that the mechanotabs have a better chance of dropping off higher level creap reapers. I've done the toiler ring and none dropped. I also know Treddlehoop, a level 70 quest giver is killable (this may be a bug also that hes killable), but havent heard of him dropping any tabs. Supposedly there is an instanced mission with higher level creap reapers in it sonewhere, but I've got no leads on that either.

[ahzzyborn]

get your faction up with Bellfast and he'll offer a mission for Corathus Lair where there is a room with yellow and red con creep reapers. however, i havnet had any luck getting menchanotablets from them yet.

[Bloodbayne]

Yslaathx all the tablets get researched into instructions that are then used for the final combine, that is what you are probably thinking about. Thanks for the lead ahzzyborn. Will try it and see what happens. You know what faction lvl is required by chance?

[Redi]

get your faction up with Bellfast and he'll offer a mission for Corathus Lair where there is a room with yellow and red con creep reapers. however, i havnet had any luck getting menchanotablets from them yet.

Yet more farming of the handful of reapers? Or do the tasks give significant faction raises? (I forget on the latter; it may well be the case)

[CaiserSoze]

Zero faction hits on the creeps in that mission (for now, at least)..have not seen any tablets drop off of the creeps or mechano rats in that mission..beat it, haven't found trigger for second mission though.

[Redi]

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

What I meant was - the poster said that you need sufficient faction to get the mission. The main way I know of getting Expedition 328 faction is killing creep reapers, of which there are about 6, at one camp. I don't remember, though, whether the tasks raise faction, and if so, if they do so significantly.

So... does this mean we kill the same creeps over again, if we want to get the mission?

[ahzzyborn]

I believe its high amiable faction that you need. I tried to get it with my bard when he just hit amiable but it didnt work. After a day of clearing creep reapers I was still amiable and he gave me the mission. The phrase I gave him was "what gem?".

little off the subject...Gorthag did you manage to kill the Alpha Larva and see if that did anything? I havnet tried that yet, just killed the named robot and turned in the gem but didnt get anything new.

[CaiserSoze]

Yep, killed Alpha after about a dozen tries, was a bit buggy - that *should* be fixed in patch next week, along with misc other issues in that mission. No faction hits for mission completion either - creep reapers and slipgear quest are the only +faction hits I know of atm...

[Ngreth Thergn]

It is more that the Caster mobs were rarer than anticipated.

So..

WE removed the split of casters drop these... tanks drop these, and now all clockwork drop all.

this will be in the 10/26 patch.

25 may have been the beta list, I do not think it is the live list because about 5 were removed in beta, and one removed post beta (the Items guy made me remove the pet focus one, because we are not allowed too have focus for SK's, Druids, and shaman... and We were conversely not willing to make it class restricted)

[Yslaathx]

Great, thanks for addressing that issue, though it makes me weep that SKs wont ever get a pet focus item

[mithridate]

the Items guy made me remove the pet focus one, because we are not allowed too have focus for SK's, Druids, and shaman...

Hasn't he heard the slogan "Dare To Be Different?"

[Bloodbayne]

TY Ngreth i posted this generally in hopes that you or another person with such info would read and reply when you could. You just made this caster very happy.

[Wymp]

WE removed the split of casters drop these... tanks drop these, and now all clockwork drop all.

this will be in the 10/26 patch.

Is it just the creep reapers or will it be any clockwork creature anywhere that can drop them?

It's really gonna get nasty in CC when all the tablets go live if those few creeps are going to be the only place outside of an instance to get them.

[mithridate]

Even if all mechano-type mobs in CC will drop tablets, you'll be doling out significant hits against the hand that feeds (Bellfast) unless you have some padding thanks to creep farming. So, besides the creeps, it would be nice to have something else give Expedition 328 faction or take away the hits for many of the different types of robo mobs.