Greetings from Dead Simon

[Renley]

Quick question Dead Simon! In regards to rarespawns not on the achievement table. Is this supposed to be like this or were some rare overlooked? Reason being, while being one rare away in Silverwood, I got excited stumbling upon Drangor only to find out he does not count towards the achievement. Highly disappointed! Thanks in advance.

[Arkeid]

Rare MOBs not spawning: These things do not spawn via any method or theory that I have read about on these forums so far. I am suspicious of the ones that have not ever shown up in any DB though so I will take a look at that and let you know.

Am I reading this too broadly? Do rare mobs have triggers and not spawn timers? This might explain why it's so hard to find the dang things...

[Ailurion]

Am I reading this too broadly? Do rare mobs have triggers and not spawn timers? This might explain why it's so hard to find the dang things...

This still wouldn't make sense considering how many spawn often after a server restart. If a trigger were the mechanic then they would not spawn on a restart, unless a restart somehow triggers the trigger.

I've gone cross-eyed.

[Wani]

What if there is only a certain ammount of monsters per spawn..

Lets say there is spawn A. At spawn A, there are 5 Dwarf spawns. In order to get the rare to spawn, you have to kill the Dwarfs to give the rare a chance to spawn?

BUT if there is a trigger to spawn them, camping the rares would be useless? Dx
Oh god how many hours i have wasted..

[TonyDanza]

First off thanks for all the kind words, just like all parts of Rift pretty much everything we do is a team effort. So there are a lot of other people who deserve part of your praise and I will leave it up to them if they want to come and say hi. For example I did not write all the excellent Lore that goes along with the artifacts and some of the placement in pots and lamps was not done by me. You can blame me for most of the more dangerous and out of the way ones, along with the cairns, puzzles and a bunch of other secret stuff. Secrets and puzzles have always been one of my favorite things in games and you can expect this to continue, we have some awesome ideas coming your way in the future. Now to some of the questions and comments in this thread.

I am not going to answer anything specific about how things work. Apart from anything else I would hate to shut down the amazing theory crafting that goes on in this Forum as I really enjoy reading that, especially the ones that are either really close to how things work or the ones that are so incredibly wrong. There are also some really good ideas posted in this thread and this forum in general. I cannot say for sure which will get implemented but don’t be surprised if you start to see some of them showing up in future updates.

The Magic Ticket: I can neither confirm nor deny that there is a use for this but I will say that I still have mine

Rare MOBs not spawning: These things do not spawn via any method or theory that I have read about on these forums so far. I am suspicious of the ones that have not ever shown up in any DB though so I will take a look at that and let you know.

Artifact Spawning: Without giving too much away I will confirm that Random Numbers play a part so nothing is certain. In general we certainly did implement risk or time verses reward, so your extra efforts are not wasted.

Token of Batu: That Bahimi has been trying to get rid of that Token for ages. She has no use for it and neither do you

I will continue to read frequently and post randomly on this forum. In the mean time I am happy that you are having a good time in Telara, as I am having fun there also. If I didn’t answer your question it is either that I don’t have an answer for you yet, I don’t want to give away a secret or as you have probably worked out by now I am just and evil bastard and want to keep you guessing

As always keep searching

- Simon

So you're who we have to thank for the Scarlet Gorge Cairn?

Then let me just say:

THANK YOU! All my money, just take it and give me more cairns like that!

[Adeezha]

^^^ *sings* Hold me closer, Tony Danza! (apologies to Elton John).

Erm yeah, hello, my name is Adeezha and I am a fluff addict. Damn you and your fiendishness Mr. Simon and crew.

Oh, so if you're reading this might I request a cut on the cooldown for Scotty's Sheeping Wand? Or even make it AoE (cackle). My thirst for drive-by sheepings must be sated!

[Cregan]

Oh, so if you're reading this might I request a cut on the cooldown for Scotty's Sheeping Wand? Or even make it AoE (cackle). My thirst for drive-by sheepings must be sated!

/signed!

[Pass]

The rare mobs I cant ever find will finally get some attention. Im so afraid were going to find out they're not broken at all, we just cant find them.

This will help me sleep at night.

[Darkartist]

The rare mobs I cant ever find will finally get some attention. Im so afraid were going to find out they're not broken at all, we just cant find them.

This will help me sleep at night.

Three of these alone are in Stonefield, which made it incredibly tough to get the achievement. Finally got it though.

[littleedge]

Dead Simon, if you're the one who placed all the artifacts around Ruston in Stillmoor, I thank you. And go persuade your boss to give the guy who built Ruston (or guys) a little bonus. The whole roof jumping thing is great.

[Marnii]

Dear Dead Simon and friends...you are all my new favorite people and I simply love your shinies and puzzles....I spend more time running around doing that then leveling now o_O I love running around where people usually don't and finding tons and tons of shinies...usually one that takes simply forever to get but I feel oh so accomplished when I get it cuz its usually a harder to find shiny

I too agree tho with the idea of a different vendor that may give different rewards/options for my excess shinies that I have tons of (even after giving to friends and alts!)

Keep the random, harder to get shinies and puzzles and secrets coming!! Loves them!!

[Smeegs]

So I finally got to 200 sets and was excited to become a shiny. But when I used it, I just became invisible v_v

[Kaelani]

Hey Dead Simon,

Also, I would like to see some more and intresting things in the Lucky Coin Vendor.
The Albino Tortigan, seriously?

I definitely second this...

The reward for completing 100 collections should allow a selection of which 110% speed mount you get.
I'd rather use my 90% speed ape than a 110% speed turtle.
Please add a little more diversity in the choice of mounts!

[joshmiller83]

If you have an Achievement listed in your log you should be able to complete it. The only exception to this is if you have the show all characters check box checked and you have characters of the opposite faction. In this situation you will see achievements for both sides and obviously you can only actually do the ones for your current faction.

This is actually broke or not working... I DO NOT have a Guardian character and when checking show all characters to compare my 3 Defiant characters I see Guardian only achievements as well... I wish this could be fixed.

[Anashka]

First, apologies if this has been asked before...

But Simon, is there any word on fixing the meta Droughtlands achievement for Guardians? There are two achievements listed in the meta that are defiants only. Myself and a few people I know of on the forums here would have had shard firsts (and might still get them) if it were fixed.