Rare Spawns DO become broken, I'm sure you can agree

[thikk]

... and he was dead. So disappointed.

Remaining: All of Gloamwood (havent started), Nytami, Predator and Pandora. Pandora is so annoying to get to for Defiants.

[Leif]

It's silly to think that these 2 are getting killed that regularly that they're never up on such a low pop server...

Tempest potentially could be, by rifts once players stroll near enough to him. I looked for that fella for quite a while until I found em, and thereafter I saw him constantly. Cruel RNG, possibly, I guess.

[Kazenokami]

The only 2 places I really know to look for these 2 are:

Moonshade: Around Kirna's Arbor and that field just south of it

Swirling: Up in mage's mark by the cabin and there's some kind of event thing someplace that I have no idea what it looks like or where it is :P I'm wondering if people are confused about it with the Drake's event because I keep getting answers very similar to his.

Any help on these 2 would be greatly appreciated

[Highland]

The only 2 places I really know to look for these 2 are:

Moonshade: Around Kirna's Arbor and that field just south of it

Swirling: Up in mage's mark by the cabin and there's some kind of event thing someplace that I have no idea what it looks like or where it is :P I'm wondering if people are confused about it with the Drake's event because I keep getting answers very similar to his.

Any help on these 2 would be greatly appreciated

Swirling event is at 3950,1725, on the ice. There will be gray circles appearing on the floor, like concrete circles, you need to jump from one to the other, whilst that happens they start giving a blue elemental light off it, and also there is a circle in the middle (in that corner with the ice) that shows which ones are active. All 3 need to be activated and smoke appears, ~5-10 seconds later swirling tempest will spawn.

Moonshade, He can spawn both points, at Kirna's arbor and top:
Rift Zam: http://rift.zam.com/en/npc.html?riftnpc=537108861
Map of walking path:
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/...arEmissary.jpg

For me he started on top (where they say end)
Got em both yesterday, aelfwar after server restart though.

Need sea scuttler (freemarch) and ironfang (Scarwood) for hunter, so should have it today


Btw: I camped aelfwar by moving from start to end (on that map), for a while, I wasn't standing next to him when he spawned, I've got the feeling that he will spawn on the opposite spawnpoint then you are standing, if someone near both, it won't spawn (THIS IS A THEORY)

[Kazenokami]

Thanks for the info Highland, hopefully this will get them for me shortly too!!

Edit: Lol, logged in right after I posted this at Aelfwar's southern spawn point and he was there whee!!! One to go!!!

[Highland]

Thanks for the info Highland, hopefully this will get them for me shortly too!!

Edit: Lol, logged in right after I posted this at Aelfwar's southern spawn point and he was there whee!!! One to go!!!

Gz, I got squirrles now, awesome stuff

[ilex011]

gahhh I feel so lame- I've sat here waiting for Acalon (sp?) to spawn for 2 hours and no dice. The 2 crocs spawn about 5 min after killing them, but no rare Acalon. I should be in bed as I have to work tomorrow, but I want to bump off this guy!!!

[Alex113]

Swirling event is at 3950,1725, on the ice. There will be gray circles appearing on the floor, like concrete circles, you need to jump from one to the other, whilst that happens they start giving a blue elemental light off it, and also there is a circle in the middle (in that corner with the ice) that shows which ones are active. All 3 need to be activated and smoke appears, ~5-10 seconds later swirling tempest will spawn.

Moonshade, He can spawn both points, at Kirna's arbor and top:
Rift Zam: http://rift.zam.com/en/npc.html?riftnpc=537108861
Map of walking path:
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/...arEmissary.jpg

For me he started on top (where they say end)
Got em both yesterday, aelfwar after server restart though.

Need sea scuttler (freemarch) and ironfang (Scarwood) for hunter, so should have it today


Btw: I camped aelfwar by moving from start to end (on that map), for a while, I wasn't standing next to him when he spawned, I've got the feeling that he will spawn on the opposite spawnpoint then you are standing, if someone near both, it won't spawn (THIS IS A THEORY)

We on the same server> i havent managed to get Aelf. Emisary after looking for him on a daily basis for almost a year. I havent bothered looking since 1.7

[Zerosum]

Completely unrelated but funny. Got the Emmissary kill awhile ago and I wasn't even hunting him. I was fishing on the water nearby and had the camera turned 'in the worse way possible to see emmissary area'.

As I was fishing, these mobs walked into the camera's foreground, as I was facing away from the area. I was zoomed out and saw these big mob models stroll past my screen. Got an oh-sh.. moment and attacked. Only then did I see the diamond.

I was there for less then a min. I was artifact collecting and stopped to take a fishing break. There, proof that the lucky fishing pole is just for fishing. Haha!

[Tacitus]

Wow... I finally got some time to look into this a little. Decided to look up the Aelfwar Emissary as a "worst offender". It's not "broken" - but it's really... not good.

I won't be able to get through all of the rare spawns for 1.10, but I am definitely going to get an improvement for this one in and try to get it in the queue for 1.10. I certainly see why it very quickly becomes super rare after a server reset. >.<

[misticalx]

Wow... I finally got some time to look into this a little. Decided to look up the Aelfwar Emissary as a "worst offender". It's not "broken" - but it's really... not good.

I won't be able to get through all of the rare spawns for 1.10, but I am definitely going to get an improvement for this one in and try to get it in the queue for 1.10. I certainly see why it very quickly becomes super rare after a server reset. >.<

I am very happy to finally hear an update on rare spawns and hope we definitely see a few fixed for 1.10.

While I do not need Aelfwar, I do still need Nytami which for almost 4 months straight after patchs (immediately) I would login for an hour, be the only one (first) in that area for a short time looking to and it would just never spawn as others have had for them so I gave up wasting my time last month.

The same goes for about 5 other rare spawns I need to, which are in Gloamwood and Stonefield. I wasted enough time; 10 months, which trying to get this achievement. I have accomplished much harder achievements in this game and Xbox 360 titles then this one.

[Jinkies79]

Thank you for taking the time to correct this Tacticus. My only remaining rare is the Aelfwar Emissary, which I have more or less given up on ever getting. This fix is the most exciting update to 1.10 for me

[Adastra]

Wow... I finally got some time to look into this a little. Decided to look up the Aelfwar Emissary as a "worst offender". It's not "broken" - but it's really... not good.

I won't be able to get through all of the rare spawns for 1.10, but I am definitely going to get an improvement for this one in and try to get it in the queue for 1.10. I certainly see why it very quickly becomes super rare after a server reset. >.<

Would it be possible to make them less suicidal too? I believe certain rare spawns tend to spawn, then head straight into a town/pile of NPC's to get destroyed within seconds. Another big frustration is rare spawns locations that share Rift spawn locations, resulting in their death unless you happen to keep the area clear all the time.

I also heard that rare spawns do despawn after a certain amount of time passes, why does this happen, seems unnecessary? ~_~

[Sanzor]

Stuck on this too. Been trying to look for Nela Velucthren and Stalker of the Grove many times during a day and haven't had any luck. Most of the rares during my time could be found early in the morning before work, but these 2 completely elude me.

[Tacitus]

Wheee!

I made a pass through all of Moonshade rare spawns and those changes will be in 1.10.

I completely revised how they spawn, and mobs needed for achievements should no longer stop showing up after a server restart (Emmisary was the worst offender, but there were others in MH that were prey to this as well). I also set all of these mobs to have a 5 minute despawn time on their corpse, so you will have an idea if you just barely missed the mob. :P

I will hit additional zones as I can.


*Edit* to add - Trying to hit Gloamwood before I go home for the weekend!

*Edit2* to add - as I hit each zone, one of my changes is that these mobs should NEVER again just despawn on a hard timer without being killed. Coincidentally, that was not actually an issue with MH, but that difference also fed into why Aelfwar Emissary was so rarely seen.

*Edit3* to add - Gloamwood done - and I am going to go home for the weekend! :P