The SOF Tradeskill Quest!

[tank287]

sounds like the change did not go the first time and someone did a live update to fix something there, and this went with it

Was not me!

Nodyin was making some general changes to T3 zones to ease T3 zone difficulty some. (it was in some ways harder than the T4 zone) The changes mostly consisted of respawn time and mob placement. Individual NPC difficulty is ok, but respawn was too fast, and some places mobs overassisted.

They might still look at mob difficulty in regards to their nukeage. At 4.9kac with max shielding/avoidance/full defensive aas I was seeing max hits of 2k but their chaining their insta nukes back to back to back is the problem ffs. Someone needs to look at their casting, that is a problem when ya go from 100% to 10% from their trio of nukes in a round. Same thing with the named in the zone their melee dps is handable but its when you tie that to their (in some case multiple) nukes they insta cast. Can call it a lucky chance on the npc part but it's not luck when it happens as often as it does. And you can mez em and mana tap them for as long as you want they will still cast like a fool on you lol.

[Kahmon]

Anybody found a better place to forage jungle pineapples than the Broodlands?:-P
They easyer to find in the instances?

Got mine for 3pp in bazaar. Be sure to buy 2.

[Zaltak]

Bah some idiot was selling one for 15k on the Tribunal:-(

[Thalos]

I foraged one yesterday whilst in the Nest doing the Exalted book quest and immediately ate it out of habit.... Was about 2 mins later when I suddently realised what I'd done

[Zolina]

Something strange is going on with Preview Reward for the final part of the quest: in addition to the caster and melee Eron's Jewelry, you can select a level 3 heal-over-time potion and a bunch of other very bad rewards (the same ones from the Steamfont slaughter event just before SoF went live). You might want to remove these options because in the heat of the moment, a tradeskiller could lose all of his hard work if he selects a bad option.

[thestormes]

Something strange is going on with Preview Reward for the final part of the quest: in addition to the caster and melee Eron's Jewelry, you can select a level 3 heal-over-time potion and a bunch of other very bad rewards (the same ones from the Steamfont slaughter event just before SoF went live). You might want to remove these options because in the heat of the moment, a tradeskiller could lose all of his hard work if he selects a bad option.

I had that giant list of rewards when I finished. I started looking at them all but got paranoid that I'd select one by mistake so I stopped.

[Zolina]

Found this today on Lucy's, groupable gear with a "Form of ... IV" clicky. Justification for upgrading Eron's Jewelry to Form of Defense IV?

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=101816
Smoldering Mask of Cruelty
AC 42, Flying Kick + 13, Str 21+5, Dex 35+3, Sta 19, Cha 14+4, Wis 32, Int 7+3, 510 hp, 500 mana, 500 end, 16 FR, 29 DR, 24 CR, 16 MR, 25 PR, Combat Effects 3 , Spell Shield 1%, Accuracy 8, Strikethrough 1%, DoT Shielding 1%, Attack 25, Regeneration 3, Mana Regeneration 2, Clairvoyance 3, Effect: Form of Endurance IV, Focus: Reach of the Prismatic III

[Ngreth Thergn]

Something strange is going on with Preview Reward for the final part of the quest: in addition to the caster and melee Eron's Jewelry, you can select a level 3 heal-over-time potion and a bunch of other very bad rewards (the same ones from the Steamfont slaughter event just before SoF went live). You might want to remove these options because in the heat of the moment, a tradeskiller could lose all of his hard work if he selects a bad option.

ok thanks. I will look into that. I may have some Merloc thumping to do!!

[Zolina]

> I may have some Merloc thumping to do!!

Just had a scary mental image of Ngreth as Thumper.

"It's all right. Look!" **thump thump thump thump** "The water's working as intended!"

[Aldier]

I may have some Merloc thumping to do!!

Can you just make this a weekly habit? Can't hurt can it?

[General Sauron]

Idea

I did not see it mentioned on the previous dozen plus pages of posting.

Can an eighth stage of the quest for the item be added with higher stats but requiring a raid? (Ngreth said he could not make the stats better without a raid.)

The precedent for this would be the same as the Coldain ring quest from Velious. The first 9 levels of that ring were groupable, but to get the 10th lvl required a raid.

While Eron's jewelry is good, most raiders wouldnt do it, since they could (not necessarily can) get a better item from a raid.

Opinions?

[Grants]

I did not see it mentioned on the previous dozen plus pages of posting.

Can an eighth stage of the quest for the item be added with higher stats but requiring a raid? (Ngreth said he could not make the stats better without a raid.)

The precedent for this would be the same as the Coldain ring quest from Velious. The first 9 levels of that ring were groupable, but to get the 10th lvl required a raid.

While Eron's jewelry is good, most raiders wouldnt do it, since they could (not necessarily can) get a better item from a raid.

Opinions?

Think that sounds like a great idea actually.

[Zolina]

It was brought up, Ngreth said that doing so would make the casuals/groupers feel like they've been left out, and he could either please the raiders or the casuals but not both. So there are no plans at the moment to add a raid step at the end.

Nevertheless, for mid-tier raiders like me, we'll need a raid to clear out the Steam Factory area, so it's raid gear for us anyway.

[Aldier]

And I will be hated for that, and accused of leaving out everyone else because I have gone an made a raid quest and I hate anyone who does not raid.

This is unfortunately **NOT** something I can win.

There is absolutely 100% NOTHING I can do that will satisfy everyone.

I really want to make this something everyone can do and not something restricted to raiders, or people with raiding friends that can gimp them in.

Raiders will just have to go in with the knowledge that it is a group reward and not a raid reward.

Dug through the pages and found this post in response to someone suggesting a raid be added to the end as an 8th step to bring this in line with raid loots.

[General Sauron]

Raid

I would still vote to have an 8th step put in now for raiders. Besides, 3?! expansions from now, the raid would be groupable anyway...so it would still eventually benefit the groupers.