Hammerknell Chronicle: A Botter Wet Dream

[-Swag-]

So, here's all that's wrong with the HK Chronicle at the moment.

• The adds in front of Prince/King can be aggroed without aggroing Prince/King
• The adds respawn instantly and indefinitely
• The adds give XP
• The adds drop loot
• You can easily position yourself to auto-aggro the adds when they spawn and be close enough to the always-up Rune Vessel to keep the massive damage buff on you indefinitely
• Since it's an instance, there's nobody around to report you for botting
• As a Warrior with decent gear, I was easily able to kill non-stop for half an hour (before I got bored, could have kept going forever). Plenty of poorly-geared healer specs could do so as well.

Knowing Trion, there's no way they'll fix this before release, if they even read this.

[-Swag-]

Ok, forget about botters. You can dominate this for XP with a simple 2-button looped macro (though it requires refreshing buffs every hour and you can't loot). In other words, someone who actually cares enough to put effort into their macro/script can dominate this place very easily.

Bonus: They keep spawning after king/prince are killed, so you can clear them to make life even easier.

This is actually pretty nice for testing AAs I suppose, but it had better not make it live.

[-Swag-]

Took about 6 hours to max out one plane (Death) with my horribly inefficient macro (that's with the big test bonus xp, of course).

[Ayu]

Took about 6 hours to max out one plane (Death) with my horribly inefficient macro (that's with the big test bonus xp, of course).

Not a good thing to admit botting/macroing on forums mate.

But you shouldn't really worry about the adds respawning im pretty darn sure it'll be fixed. It would really be stupid not to do that.

[Elgarr]

So, here's all that's wrong with the HK Chronicle at the moment.

• The adds in front of Prince/King can be aggroed without aggroing Prince/King
• The adds respawn instantly and indefinitely
• The adds give XP
• The adds drop loot
• You can easily position yourself to auto-aggro the adds when they spawn and be close enough to the always-up Rune Vessel to keep the massive damage buff on you indefinitely
• Since it's an instance, there's nobody around to report you for botting
• As a Warrior with decent gear, I was easily able to kill non-stop for half an hour (before I got bored, could have kept going forever). Plenty of poorly-geared healer specs could do so as well.

Knowing Trion, there's no way they'll fix this before release, if they even read this.

And this is why there is a PTS

Thanks for posting these, yes the devs will fix these, if they didnt, they wouldnt deserve to be working for Trion

[Xvvt]

Not a good thing to admit botting/macroing on forums mate.

But you shouldn't really worry about the adds respawning im pretty darn sure it'll be fixed. It would really be stupid not to do that.

I think he did a great job of testing and reporting it. I guarantee you if people like him didn't report it, it would go live.

[-Swag-]

Not a good thing to admit botting/macroing on forums mate.

*shrug*

a) It's test.
b) It was botting like this is botting.

An actual scripted bot would have been killing about 3-4 times faster (would have been clicking runebound vessels) and would have been looting. Might have pulled around 150-170p in that time, which isn't great.

[Magetron]

*shrug*

a) It's test.
b) It was botting like this is botting.

An actual scripted bot would have been killing about 3-4 times faster (would have been clicking runebound vessels) and would have been looting. Might have pulled around 150-170p in that time, which isn't great.

You don't even have to explain yourself, forget that guy. You are doing exactly what you should be doing on public test.

[NerfMePlease]

There is another farm similar to this that has been in live since Headstart.



LETS LOWER THE DROP RATE FOR ALL INSTANCES INSTEAD OF FIXING THE FARM SPOT

[Daglar]

Thanks for the bug report. Everything on PTS is in flux, the chronicles especially.

We do not promote up all of our changes immediatly so sometimes there is a mixture of working as intended, and not working as intended.

We'll make sure that the appropriate person has this fixed internally.

[Randhi]

submit a bug report on test server? Or are we not supposed to use the feedback on test server? I know that's what I did, after farming a few dings of AA on test, checking to see if there was some trick like kill at at once, or in a specific order. Nope, just a bug. Also, it wasn't like this in the first iteration.

To the person stating that there's been a bug like this since startup, I hope that you've reported it instead of abuse it?

[Daglar]

There is another farm similar to this that has been in live since Headstart.



LETS LOWER THE DROP RATE FOR ALL INSTANCES INSTEAD OF FIXING THE FARM SPOT

Feel free to PM me with the information about this other mysterious spot

[-Swag-]

submit a bug report on test server? Or are we not supposed to use the feedback on test server? I know that's what I did, after farming a few dings of AA on test, checking to see if there was some trick like kill at at once, or in a specific order. Nope, just a bug. Also, it wasn't like this in the first iteration.

To the person stating that there's been a bug like this since startup, I hope that you've reported it instead of abuse it?

These guys didn't exist in the first iteration. They were added as a response to our complaints that the boss fights were way easier than trash fights (though I think it's kind of lame that the solution was to add trash to boss fights).

[Xvvt]

Thanks for the bug report. Everything on PTS is in flux, the chronicles especially.

We do not promote up all of our changes immediatly so sometimes there is a mixture of working as intended, and not working as intended.

We'll make sure that the appropriate person has this fixed internally.

See, great job Swag!

[Adrominon]

Hammerknell Chronicle: A Botter Wet Dream

•The adds in front of Prince/King can be aggroed without aggroing Prince/King !Fixed, now King aggros too!
•The adds respawn instantly and indefinitely !Fixed, i killd all 3 adds and no respawn of trash!
•The adds give XP !as no respawning now happen anymore its ok!
•The adds drop loot !didnt got any loot from Adds today!
•You can easily position yourself to auto-aggro the adds when they spawn and be close enough to the always-up Rune Vessel to keep the massive damage buff on you indefinitely !3sec cast to get the buff from runes, i got all time interrupted today after Aggroing King!

I dont know if Trion really changed it or not, but most things didnt work anymore as i cleared HH 2 times today with different Specs of my Warrior..