You need to look at IPP rare mobs like the other zones PLEASE!

[Griimoire]

I have been playing this game since beta, and been an avid rare mob hunter the past several months. When you guys looked at a few of the older zones and fixed up the rare spawns, it was a much better experience hunting them down. It may have taken a long time, and some rares I have yet to see, but I have managed to complete the zone achievement for all the old world zones....except IPP.

I have circled this zone countless times, humped spawn points, logged in after restarts, went and checked when nobody was playing, and 4 STILL elude me after all this time. I don't know if they get broken or not, but i DO know there is a problem, and its caused by some or all of these things:

1) Ungodly long respawn timers for a few of them
2) Horrid spawn and pat locations, and get killed by guards or invasions
3) Simply get broken and won't spawn

I really don't know about #3, but i know it is some combination of 1 and 2. It is impossible to track these buggers down when they take SO LONG to spawn (especially in comparison to almost every rare mob in this game and other zones) and then promptly get killed by 1 of the 5 million invasions or guard NPC's.

Currently Missing:
--> Frosthide
--> Arctic Peakstalker
--> Mad Hogger
--> Blackblood Drake

What makes matters worse...you need 7 rares of 8, leaving no wiggle room. Every other zone was much more manageable, IPP is a disaster. I don't even want to think about the pain of getting them ALL ~.~

Please, please look at IPP and make some adjustments! PLEASE!

As a side note, I liked what you did with swirling tempest, more than one spawn location on the map... and a neat little rune summon event as well. It was cool

[misticalx]

I'm surprised you have so many left for Iron Pine Peak after putting so much work into it as you have said. I always found Frosthide and Arctic Peakstalker quite easy for the times I would always go around the zone in the past (many, many times). I don't believe either of those specific 2 will die from rifts or invasions either but I could be wrong. But they did spawn quite frequently and I doubt anything changed or broke to make that not happen.

As far as Mad Hogger and Blackblood Drake, I know Mad Hogger is pretty rare and I've only seen Blackblood Drake a handful of times and I'd say that can be too. I always had them though with little effort put into them, right place right time, the last one I needed months ago for Iron Pine Peak was Dagda Skullthumper that took a few weeks of about 1-2 times a day checks. I know a few people that would camp out for weeks for Mad Hogger though and usually find Blackblood Drake at those times or typically camp Mad Hogger, and sometimes go around the zone to look/kill rares, and come back for more camping.

That said, good luck to finding them though. You can try this thread for Blackblood Drake but I've never seen these rare events before. But you may know about it already since you said you found the Swirling Tempest one.

I do agree with you that it would be nice for the old zone rares to be further looked at. Not just for me, since I have them all but 1, but for people in the future that want to do this achievement or those that still only have a few left. I sent Tacitus a message more than a few days ago asking if he ever have had time to look at Nela Valcuthren in Stonefield as that one I find to be the rarest mob in the game and the most ridiculous amount of time wasted to get.

[Griimoire]

I'm surprised you have so many left for Iron Pine Peak after putting so much work into it as you have said. I always found Frosthide and Arctic Peakstalker quite easy for the times I would always go around the zone in the past (many, many times). I don't believe either of those specific 2 will die from rifts or invasions either but I could be wrong. But they did spawn quite frequently and I doubt anything changed or broke to make that not happen.

As far as Mad Hogger and Blackblood Drake, I know Mad Hogger is pretty rare and I've only seen Blackblood Drake a handful of times and I'd say that can be too. I always had them though with little effort put into them, right place right time, the last one I needed months ago for Iron Pine Peak was Dagda Skullthumper that took a few weeks of about 1-2 times a day checks. I know a few people that would camp out for weeks for Mad Hogger though and usually find Blackblood Drake at those times or typically camp Mad Hogger, and sometimes go around the zone to look/kill rares, and come back for more camping.

That said, good luck to finding them though. You can try this thread for Blackblood Drake but I've never seen these rare events before. But you may know about it already since you said you found the Swirling Tempest one.

I do agree with you that it would be nice for the old zone rares to be further looked at. Not just for me, since I have them all but 1, but for people in the future that want to do this achievement or those that still only have a few left. I sent Tacitus a message more than a few days ago asking if he ever have had time to look at Nela Valcuthren in Stonefield as that one I find to be the rarest mob in the game and the most ridiculous amount of time wasted to get.

I have really...really bad RNG. I rarely get lucky where I get things easier than normal. I am sooo sick of IPP. I had no idea about the blackblood drake event, and after some research arctic peakstalker had an event location I didnt know about, so maybe I missed on a couple potential spawns. Either way, no matter how often I circle this zone....i never ever see them. and yes, invasions and rifts spawn all near that area, it is very likely they can die to it.

Mad Hogger spawns from the junk pile or howling caves, and in both instances pats to whitefall to suicide against the town guards, its really stupid. Hell....because of this unless you get super lucky seeing him pop, odds are you will miss him even going between spawn points.

Either way, they still feel off in comparison to most to the other zones and the vast majority of rares. Gloamwood and Moonshade both come to mind actually before they got looked at. Surprisingly Nela was one of the first rares in stonefield I found.

Anyway, IPP sux

[Griimoire]

LOL LOL, I am so ****ing mad right now. I had JUST checked on blackblood drake, not there, I ported to town, went afk for 10 minutes, and my guildie in that span had asked if i needed it, but was forced to kill it right before I got back because another person came and was gonna get it.

GG, THAT is my luck in a nutshell. All that work, to know i lost the spawn in a 10 min afk

[Riane]

LOL LOL, I am so ****ing mad right now. I had JUST checked on blackblood drake, not there, I ported to town, went afk for 10 minutes, and my guildie in that span had asked if i needed it, but was forced to kill it right before I got back because another person came and was gonna get it.

GG, THAT is my luck in a nutshell. All that work, to know i lost the spawn in a 10 min afk

OH GOD.. that reeks of my time spent camping Mangled Exile. I was constantly fighting against Defiant bots that would kill it as soon as it spawned. I had checked there, didn't see it so I went to kill another rare. Just as I go back to check on it I see them killing it from afar. I nerdraged pretty hard.

[misticalx]

yes, invasions and rifts spawn all near that area, it is very likely they can die.

I know invasions and rifts can kill rares but I have seen Arctic Peakstalker pat through a Rift before, that's all.

yes, invasions and rifts spawn all near that area, it is very likely they can die to it.

Mad Hogger spawns from the junk pile or howling caves, and in both instances pats to whitefall to suicide against the town guards, its really stupid. Hell....because of this unless you get super lucky seeing him pop, odds are you will miss him even going between spawn points.

Either way, they still feel off in comparison to most to the other zones and the vast majority of rares. Gloamwood and Moonshade both come to mind actually before they got looked at. Surprisingly Nela was one of the first rares in stonefield I found.

Yup. I wish when they created rares in this game, that they would have thought about this and made sure they could not be killed by them and/or do not have them patrol in such an area. I rather much like rares that pretty much stay a specific spot or only patrol a very small area.

I was very happy with Tacitus looking at the rares before Storm Legion launch, and getting them out really fast too. It helped me with the rares I had left in Gloamwood and 1 in Moonshade that just never spawned for me, even after 10+ server resets, Nytami.

LOL LOL, I am so ****ing mad right now. I had JUST checked on blackblood drake, not there, I ported to town, went afk for 10 minutes, and my guildie in that span had asked if i needed it, but was forced to kill it right before I got back because another person came and was gonna get it.

GG, THAT is my luck in a nutshell. All that work, to know i lost the spawn in a 10 min afk

That really sucks, sorry to hear that. :\ Hopefully it will spawn sometime very soon again for you rather than much later.

[Tacitus]

Yeah, rares in IPP make me unhappy.

I would love to rework them some. Some of those spawns have some SERIOUS jank in them. Unfortunately, they are likely a bit time consuming to smooth out. More than a bit really.

At SOME point, I will circle back to address the IPP rares, but I don't have any empty time to slip it into the schedule at the moment, since I am quite busy with some other tasks. I have some ideas of when I would like to fix IPP some more, but nothing I can commit to at this time.

[Buckman]

Thanks for looking into this. I've been one shy of Ultimate for over 4 months now, the only one missing is of course, Mad Hogger. Been camping, roaming and searching a couple times a day fairly religiously, but to no avail. Very frustrating.

[Zwien]

Could you also do Disciple Ilnageth (Morban rare) . He gets killed asap by Xal'Goll and invasions