Question on shawl 8, walk the dwarf

[Saleani]

Yesterday (31MAY2004), one of my guildies did the dwarf walk for her shawl 8.

What happened: As the general was walking up the hill, he got stuck in geometry. He then warped to where the first set of dire wolves spawn, and they promptly ate him ("your target is straight ahead....you have lost your target"). He was way ahead of everyone in the dwarf walk as well (normally, because he walks, and everyone else is sowed, the players are way ahead of him). Since he is now dead, she has to repeat the farming part in WL as well as remake the smithed component. I know for sure that she petitioned, but she also logged shortly afterwards as well.

Question: Has anyone else seen this happen?

[Niellya]

It's been happening frequently due to the recent "collision issues". Several threads about it at the Sony boards.

You should probably just wait till they fix all the mob warping problems.

[Anubsin]

Nooo i am almost done with 5 and have everything for 6 im almost there maybe a week togo they need to fix this right away!!

[Airl]

Wish I found this thread before I tried my shawl walk on Tuesday, June 1st.

The exact same thing happened as described in the original post. We were following the General and then he was gone. We ran up to the first spawn poitn and the wolves were there, but the general had apparently already died. Petitioning for my stuff back...

UPDATE: A GM answered my petition and returned my items. Going to try again next Tuesday. I hope the collision fixes in the 6/2/04 patch fixed the problem. If not, I'll know to have people posted at the camps in case the General warps again.

[Erenion]

Any update since the June 2nd Patch? waiting with the stuffs to do it for a few days now.

Erenion

[Liandra]

I had this happen to me too on the 5th

Luckly most of the people I did this with have done it before and normally run ahead to the next spawn point without waiting on the dwarf. So they managed to get there just in time to save him from the wolves. He was down to 22% before we saved him.

After that it went normally. and i got my shawl.

[Amaruk]

8th walk

You should probably just have most of your raid go to the first spawn point and wait for the dwarf to warp to you. I did the walk a couple days ago and we managed to get to the dwarf when he was at around 20%, I did an AE stun and aggroed the lot of them on me. I died but the dwarf survived so i count it as a success. We kept the dwarf resting until he hit 50% and then continued on with the walk. The rest of the walk was uneventful and I aquired my shawl at the end.

The warping issue is just with that first hill. If you position your raid at the first spawn before triggering the event you should have no trouble.

[Obina]

Thanks for warping warning. I shall have my group at the first wolf spot

What is the current suggested army for this these days? The notes say 3 groups 55+. If we have a full group of 65 is that enough? I'll ask for more to attend, but need to know at what point to say "Sorry no, we try this again when we have more"

[Airl]

The warping issue is just with that first hill. If you position your raid at the first spawn before triggering the event you should have no trouble.

I completed the 8th shawl on 6/8/04 (yay me!), and we had pathing problems on all the hills:

• The hill heading to the first ambush point
• The hill heading out of the ocean between ambush 3 and 4
• The hill heading out of the ocean leading to the pirate village

On each occasion, we had someone agro the General, drag him up top, and then the chanter mem-blurred him.

[Airl]

What is the current suggested army for this these days? The notes say 3 groups 55+. If we have a full group of 65 is that enough? I'll ask for more to attend, but need to know at what point to say "Sorry no, we try this again when we have more"

You can do this with a full group of 65s if they are well equipped. You most likely will want a chanter for mem-blur, cleric for heals, and lots of DPS. Two full groups is more than enough to get it done.

[Joltz Panacea]

Got it done for a guild mate a couple months back with 11 people. I'm all ready to try for mine now, but been waiting for the collision issues to get fixed. Just to be on the safe side, I'm planning on 3 groups, 2 groups will be on spawn point detail, while one group will be escort duty .

[Rerashyaka]

Did it today (6/10) with 8 people. Was one of the most disorganized walks I've ever been one, but we still won.

The warping problem still exists, although the only time it happened to me was the first ambush point. This seems to be varying problem though - make sure you have a group one ambush ahead and you should be fine.

Oh, and yaaaay shawl!
now I have to figure out something else to do :-P

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[Tyber]

I read on one of the druid boards that there should be one person always targeting the General in case he decides to get stuck in any of the landscaping. That way they can throw a Flame-lick (or similar spell) at him to drag his butt out of the snow. Just be sure to have the chanter close by for the Memblur. Like most have said, he tends to get stuck at the beginning, but there were other cases told where he was stuck later on in the walk and had to be dug outta the snow.