Being that DoN is entirely instanced, DoDH is next up and the AoC thread for this expansion basically can be boiled down to one zone and one mob. Dreadspire Keep: Master Vule the Silent Tear As a refresher to the developers who may not have looked at DoDH progression in awhile, in order to get your Demiplane Key you need to complete the quest "Eye Bound" offered by Coldwind Blackfoot in Nektulos. Upon completing this you can turn in items to receive your Monocle of Blood - the key to Demiplane. In order to complete this group task, one player in the group must turn in a quest piece from a prior step and Vule's Eye. The problem is Vule only drops 2 eyes per kill (flags 2 groups or 12 players), and Vule is a raid encounter designed for 24+ players with a multi-day respawn time. Basically this means without the ability to instance Vule, you will see at a maximum, 3-4 guilds entering Demiplane in era of the around 15-20 currently on Phinigel raiding current content, largely due to the success of the AoC system in early expansions. A much more likely scenario would be only 1-2 guilds entering Demiplane by constantly fighting over this single raid spawn to Key all of their mains and boxes. Another thing worthy of considering, this event has a mechanic that will banish players once his hatelist exceeds 24 entities. This is a core part of the event mechanics because it forces you to select certain players to be on his hatelist and delegates other roles to the rest of your raiders. However if players are forced to compete for this target it becomes a total nightmare with multiple guilds on the hatelist getting the competing guild's players randomly banished out of the zone. In short - Please include 1 AoC in DoDH with a functional Master Vule the Silent Tear raid event so that we can normally flag our guilds. Thanks!
Excellent summary. I know that Prathun expressed interest in looking into this later: but that leaves them a (dangerously?) aggressive timeline to meet the Jan 31st launch date of DoD. See https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/omens-of-war-aocs.242829/page-3#post-3575196 for the original comment.
There absolutely needs to be an aoc for Master Vule. Keleborn should also spawn in the dz. If he does not, guilds can and will use him to block other guilds for the expansion win.
