To put it nicely, my small force lost a DPS race after spawning Miragul tonight. The paladin for which the kill was for, has now lost his turn in pieces to trigger the spawn again. Is this something that DB has a tract record of helping with or no? Thanks
at one point, even with dps racing, if you spawn a mob, that mob is locked to you and if someone "KSs" you, it was a violation. I'm not sure how that works these days, but best to petition. maybe spawned mobs are still handled outside normal dps racing. good luck and let us (at least me) know the results!
On phinigel it was 50/50. AFAIK they never removed an item from a DPS race "winner", but sometimes gave either trigger item or the end item to the person who triggered it. Good luck.
This was also my experience on Phinny. They usually gave the character that triggered the trigger item back.
Which is still pretty , if the mob died just give them the loot. Epic trigger mobs are already blocked enough without people having to do it multiple times.
Indeed. So, Trigger person stands on trigger turn in with DPS crew while guild (on a raid day, in the area anyway) zones in and spawns a pick. Raid group(s) assembled in pick at turn in. Rest of raid zones in and spawns a pick. Trigger and DPS crew pick over ASAP. This seemed to be the most reliable solution. edit: I forgot the most important detail, you send a couple baller grps into the zone first to stand on the turn in and pick over asap after the raid zones in to spawn a pick. If someone at the camp picks over and tries to turn in or DPS race you're ready for it.
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regarding petition, you'd probably have to substantiate that you spawned the mob without contesting another force, which seems difficult to do if your "small force" got out-dpsed i mean, did you spawn it right in front of a raiding guild? and how big of a force did you have? full group? were you out-dpsed by one or two people? or did 2 groups suddenly show up? because there aren't port points close to that area it seems like the success of your petition will lie in these details that were left out of your post
The petition included logs and things of the sort which shows the triggered spawn and engagement etc. we had 7 folks and I assume the couple groups that came in during the fight either picked in or ran in after we did. They weren't present at the time of spawn, but luckily it's already being looked into so we'll have an answer sooner rather than later.
We've had items returned for similar asshattery related things (someone else handing stuff into an npc that spawns after you hand in things to trigger it). Dbg seems to have an opinion on triggered mobs.
Luckily the logs will at least show you are lying about this. This group raced in and tried to steal the turnin. The dps race was their own doing.
I suppose your definition of stealing and mine differ, friend. I also submit to you that "present at the time of the spawn" is up to your interpretation of where "present" is. I see a few members of your party in the ZONE at the time of the pull, nowhere near the spawn point, unless invis'd (which I highly doubt but could be wrong). Once spawned, the encounter was engaged for around 70 seconds, a long time for an EQ encounter, before your force visibly ran through the entrance and immediately engaged Miragul while mine was actively fighting it. I understand that we could have been more prepared for this situation, the group makeup was not at all composed for a DPS race scenario, and that is the fault of ours considering the state of the server. I appreciate the opportunity this has given my group to learn how to combat the less than savory characters that play this game
