Next Public Quest: Pit of the Awakened & Portals
We heard about this in Beta, but Windslasher intends to add more Public Quests in future updates, possibly even to older zones. From the EQ2 Forums:
The Eastern Wastes public quests were pulled from the expansion for use in game updates. I can’t reveal what I’ve created for Pit of the Awakened yet. Sorry!
Also, Gninja has heard our pleas and will be adding zone portals near the Public Quests allowing players to join each other in the same zone for PQs, as well as our personal preference: spreading out into different instances of the Great Divide.
I will be adding a portal in the Othmir area and the Thurgadin docks area in Great Divide and the spires area in Eastern Wastes. Keep an eye on the patch notes for this to be coming to the live servers.
There’s nothing sadder than being part of 60 people unable to complete a Public Quest at Difficulty #5 (x4 raid) because of 8 second casting lag. Folks, FAN OUT into other zones please. As long as you have 24 players smoothly and quickly killing mobs, you’ll get the good loot!
This is not the picture of success:
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Melanore
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Haven’t they talked about an option to auto-join a group/raid while in a Public Quest?
As a healer, I feel really useless since many of my skills can’t be applied outside of a group/raid.
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Luminaire
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I think these are great, the problem you have with raids and public quests you are going to have people piggy backing off the raids and their isn’t really anything you can do about it.
Another thing, last night we were doing public quests in raids and some people were getting Fabled loot, while others were only getting Legendary. What is the criteria for this? Is it just luck of the draw, cause my luck sucks. I constantly finished top 10 in dps parses for these and still only got Legendary. I just want to know if I need to do something else to get Fabled.
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Taree
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Thing is, even if they add portals, it is entirely possible for there to be 60 people at one PQ with no other option of another instance of the zone being open for them to go to, so the PQ’s need to be able to function adequately with this level of attendance.
I’m not sure what the threshold is number-wise for an additional instance of a zone to be opened up, but it sure ain’t as low as 24, so you can’t guarantee there is anywhere else for people to go!
The area starts lagging as soon as a PQ starts up, no matter how many people are about – there seems to be something else wrong over and above just numbers of people in one place.
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Malade
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This is how people can get starter raid loot that normal raiders won’t let in their raid. As near as I can tell 24 random people will still not be able to take down the raid versions, it has to be somewhat coordinated effort.
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Luminaire
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I agree with you Malade, it’s nice gear and I got nice upgrades, I just want to know if it’s luck or something you do to get Fabled to drop. If it’s luck then that really sucks because I really suck when it comes to luck in this game. SOE hates me I think. If it’s performance then I need to know what I’m doing wrong because I was in the top 10 in dps twice and only got Legendary.
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Aceshot
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I ran this as a x10 (yes, 2 full raids and a x2). after hearing of people getting fabled loot with 48+ people there. Over 100 people in the GD zone and lag was nasty. It seems for the RW and the SG public quest the speed you kill stuff matters more than number of people.
And due to what seems like a bug in the zoning between versions, the portals would be much appreciated.
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Dethdlr
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Your personal performance doesn’t matter when it comes to what loot you get, just luck. Feldon posted an article explaining it here. The key part you’re looking for was posted by Windslasher:
On a side note, I did a PQ last night with me and 115 of my closest friends and got a decent upgrade out of it. I had my parser running and counted up the amount of people after we took down the raid version. There were 116 people listed on the parse. Talk about lagtastic. lol
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Lathain
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what suck is diffulty 4 and 5 (raid) drop teir 2 armor is it’s not exquisit reward.
So if your out of luck you get craps, no yellow slot ,)
And if you have the regular set like me the 6 items. You ll have to run it hundred of time for get chest. I got 2 weapon, 2 master, 1 adornment and still no chest.
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Lathain
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Without say adronement are red slot, while everything else including fabled gear have yellow slot.
And you always win an adornment who is not for your class 😉 enjoy the healer adornement as guardian, or the caster one for my scout.
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Lathain
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the ring war is trivial, dont matter the lag. The success key is having someone pulling the second epic enconter to the main group quickly after the start. Fight both epic group in same time. (best to stand in middle of both spawn). Having a group of people killing small enconter outside is good too.
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Mr_Skyfish
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Folks, FAN OUT into other zones please. As long as you have 24 players smoothly and quickly killing mobs, you’ll get the good loot!
Actually no we wont! Don’t tell me things will be better if we FAN out! The LAG still blows A$$ even with 24 or less players!
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Lathain
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Storm Gorge there is nothing better than diffulty 4, no way to get the 5 atm. You success of fail the wave of 20/20/20 or the 12/12/12 you ll end with the 4 name heroic and the 8 squad with the ornate looking crate.
But Ring War event is trivial. The key is having someone able to pull the second epicx2 without die to the raid, they are easy. The common mistake raid doing is standing where chest pop, while you must be way closer, preferably between spawn of both epic enconter so you can react quickly. The only time we have failed to get difficulty 5 in like more 20 try it was because when it started no raid was formed everyone asking for invite so dwarf is dead while people was lfr.
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Feldon
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Difficulty 4 loot is Legendary armor with Yellow slots. Difficulty 5 is Fabled with Yellow slot. Check out today’s update notes cause they are giving us a CHOICE of Yellow or Red Adorns. This is VERY cool. You will now be able to gear up even before doing a bunch of instances.
It’s good that you really can only get 5 pieces of armor from this normally, otherwise we’d replace half our gear in 24 hours. The chest and weapons being rare is probably a good thing.
Mr_Skyfish,
Storm Gorge is pretty laggy no matter what, I agree. But with exactly 24 of us (we ran it at 2AM so low population), it was tolerable and we got the x4 loot. Lag was 1-2 seconds. Ring War is much more forgiving and can handle ~40 players with very little lag. But both areas with 60-100 people = LAG FAIL
There is both client lag and server lag. We can do something about client lag — I turned down to Extreme Performance, hidden Cloaks, hidden Mounts. Nothing we can do about server lag.
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Lathain
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Oups we just success a Sotrm Gorge difficulty 5, dont know what we have done right.
We got the 20 kill then next step was 20/20/20 then we got the 12/12/12 then the final fight was special name epicx4 with 4 boss epicx3 each. Though fight way way harder than ring war. So i was wrong lag is probably the only problem for this event (and the way script is done, lack of flexibility :p)
For weapon i agree it could be even more rare, but the chest as long as it’s for looking cool i cant agree about too rare lol. WTT weapon for chest.
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Lathain
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If only the cloudy token could be used to buy the chest… for like 30-50 token or something like that it could be nice
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