bug squashing is bugged on deepwood

[rondogoon]

i did this quest yesterday at prime time with no problems and later when the server pop died down on my alts with no problems. however today in the span of 10 minutes i only got 4 bugs to squish.

one bug when jumped on didn't despawn and then 20 seconds later after alot of jumping despawned and then repsawned in the exact same place 3 times in a row instantly...

any other servers having issues with this daily quest?

[thegreenmonkey]

Bugs are rare spawns now since Friday night. All day on 6/29 bugs were plentiful and was able to complete this quest quite easily. When I logged in on 6/30 in the morning, it took me 3 tries in order to complete this quest. Today it took me twice, and that only because I was able to group. The spawn rate was lowered drastically for these bugs with one of the Conquest updates/patches they pushed out between 6/29 and 6/30.

I hope Trion will fix this quest before Phase 2 as I would like to get the associated achievement. As it is now, it would take more than likely an entire day in order to complete it which is unacceptable.

[xanduin246]

I hope Trion will fix this quest before Phase 2 as I would like to get the associated achievement. As it is now, it would take more than likely an entire day in order to complete it which is unacceptable.

killing invasions for the new zone event counts towards the achievement, but you must have kill credit for it

[Jethos]

I'm on Greybriar as well. The amount of bugs that spawn and their respawn rates are so ridiculously low I seriously thought it was a bug (pun not intended), and was going to report it.

[JDTAdmin]

The worst part is, people are so rude as to not join the group, which would make it go faster for everyone. If that was what Trion had intended, they relied on people being friendly and helpful, which has failed.

[Sargonnas_KoA]

After the last patch the bugs spawned pretty quickly. Now its back to barely spawning and me wanting to murder the other ten people standing there trying to get bugs with me.

[JDTAdmin]

After the last patch the bugs spawned pretty quickly. Now its back to barely spawning and me wanting to murder the other ten people standing there trying to get bugs with me.

Group with them, please!

[Jethos]

The worst part is, people are so rude as to not join the group, which would make it go faster for everyone. If that was what Trion had intended, they relied on people being friendly and helpful, which has failed.

To be honest the thought of grouping to complete this never crossed my mind until I read a few posts today recommending it. Other players probably haven't thought of it either (or don't want to) as I didn't receive a party invite for any of the 15 times or so doing this quest so far.

From now on I'll definitely send party invites when anyone else is in the area trying to complete this. However, I wonder if this quest couldn't have been implemented better to eliminate player frustration.

[JDTAdmin]

To be honest the thought of grouping to complete this never crossed my mind until I read a few posts today recommending it. Other players probably haven't thought of it either (or don't want to) as I didn't receive a party invite for any of the 15 times or so doing this quest so far.

From now on I'll definitely send party invites when anyone else is in the area trying to complete this. However, I wonder if this quest couldn't have been implemented better to eliminate player frustration.

I think they should have left the spawn high imho, or have the auto-group popup come into play when in the bug area.

[thegreenmonkey]

To be honest the thought of grouping to complete this never crossed my mind until I read a few posts today recommending it. Other players probably haven't thought of it either (or don't want to) as I didn't receive a party invite for any of the 15 times or so doing this quest so far.

From now on I'll definitely send party invites when anyone else is in the area trying to complete this. However, I wonder if this quest couldn't have been implemented better to eliminate player frustration.

Neither did I, and frankly, I don't think it's a quest to warrant grouping. If the spawn rate is high enough, and there are a sufficient amount of spots then grouping for a simple gather quest is kind of silly. Also, Trion has tied a 300 item achievement to this quest and grouping/waiting for spawns, ultimately taking an entire day, if not longer to gather that many items for a short duration quest is poor design.

World Event quests are fluff. And for the most part, they have no real bearing on the game other than as fluff. For any quest like this to take much longer than a few minutes to complete is asinine. Even more so for a timed quest.

With the broken spawn rate this quest is no longer fun imo. And certainly not worth the time invested for the reward since it potentially eliminates participation in the other quests.

[Sargonnas_KoA]

Neither did I, and frankly, I don't think it's a quest to warrant grouping. If the spawn rate is high enough, and there are a sufficient amount of spots then grouping for a simple gather quest is kind of silly. Also, Trion has tied a 300 item achievement to this quest and grouping/waiting for spawns, ultimately taking an entire day, if not longer to gather that many items for a short duration quest is poor design.

World Event quests are fluff. And for the most part, they have no real bearing on the game other than as fluff. For any quest like this to take much longer than a few minutes to complete is asinine. Even more so for a timed quest.

With the broken spawn rate this quest is no longer fun imo. And certainly not worth the time invested for the reward since it potentially eliminates participation in the other quests.

I didn't really think about grouping for a quest that supposed to be stupid simple. I also very much agree with the above statement.