Fixed Hunter of Dranik's Hollows

BUG:
The named NPCs for the achievement "Hunter of Dranik's Hollows" are currently unable to spawn. The 3 instanced zones: Dranik Hollows A (Watering Hole), Dranik Hollows B (Fire Pit), and Dranik Hollows C (Murkglider Hive) were changed in 2022 to no longer have respawnable NPCs in them. This further causes the achievement: "Novice Hunter of Omens of War" and "Omenslayer" to no longer be possible to get as well.

These named CANNOT spawn on instance creation, the only way for them to spawn was for you to clear their initial Placeholder and wait and hope. Because the instances can no longer respawn, this is no longer an option.

This affects the following NPCs:
Watering Hole - Girplan Pathmaker , Discordling Hollower
Fire Pit - Kyv Bowkeeper, Ukun Fleshrender
Murkglider Hive - Inky Murkglider , Silentpaw

Solution: Re-enable respawns inside of these instances. OR make these named NPCs have a chance to spawn after killing X number of NPCs inside of the instances (Similar to Sewers of Nihilia named in GoD).

This was recently marked as "Not a Bug" from the prior thread: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/draniks-scar-named.285054/ . But I have just confirmed yet again that respawns in these instances don't work (I waited an hour).

Please do not check if this is a bug by /respawning the zone, that will obviously cause them to spawn (with sufficient RNG) but players cannot do that.

Wasn't this bug already tagged "confirmed"? Why did you change it to "not a bug"? It is absolutely a bug. Ngreth looked into it and found that many of these mobs have not been killed in years.

I posted on this around Christmas as well - this is content that is still being accessed, the current 'fix' blocks achievements and it's not as though the rampant AFK pharming we have at the moment is affected one iota by stopping respawns in Draniks anymore...

Devs, please look at this post from 2019. While we were talking about an item drop, Prathun explained something that may be relevant to what you are seeing on your internal server for testing versus what we as players see on the external servers:

So, it is entirely possible that internally you are seeing the spawns of the named, but because the base zone does not exist on live servers, the names do not spawn because there is no respawn. The way to test this out, unless things changed on the internal test server, is that if you see aneuk in the base zone you are not looking at live servers, as aneuk never spawn in the instances on live.

Good god, i can't believe this is still a thing. Thank you Bobbybick for confirming this is still a bug and saving us many hours.

We're all still waiting for a fix!

LOL, I tried my best with the last thread. Best of luck with this one Bobby!

This thread only mentions Dranik's Hollows, but doesn't Catacombs of Dranik and Sewers of Dranik both have the exact same problem?

Catacombs of Dranik
A - Dragorn Marshal Greshka & High Enchantress Zy`chia
B - Elite Overlord Vijaz & High Sorceress Vi`tara
C - Elite Pixxt K`illiga & Master of the Watch

Sewers of Dranik
A - Craftsman Ferinio & Stonefoot
B - Nightfang Glider & Silania Janaid
C - Dragorn Foreman & Ukun Sentinel

afaik out of all of these instances, Inky Murkglider in Dranik's Hollows - Murkglider Hive, is the only one that can spawn on instance up, and none of them have any respawns

Yup... still broken.

Get instance, kill trash, no named, drop instance, repeat the process. Never any named.

Got all of the named years ago except 3 in Catacombs of Dranik and have been stuck ever since.

Happy to see this moved to QA status. However, the original thread was up for 2 years with both QA status and confirmed status. Not sure why that thread was not moved back here, with this attached to it, and its not a bug status removed.

So try this for QA - Take your level 125 toon and your rogue merc...wipe out the Hollows instance zones. Zone out go to the NPC and reget the instance or any for A-C...Let us know how many new instances to get to spawn of a nice Named? I did this many times after the bug was reported and never saw a named and gave up. I even tried during bonus named spawn times. Do not repop the zone since we can not. Before this change was introduced the way to get a named to spawn was to kill wait for re-pop and clear again in the areas where they normally spawned.



All EverQuest Live Servers will be brought offline on Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 5:30 AM PT* for an update. Downtime is expected to last approximately 9 hours.



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Achievement Changes: https://achievements.eqresource.com/achievementshistory.php?mdy=08172022
DBStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/dbstrhistory.php?mdy=08172022
EQStr Changes: https://spells.eqresource.com/eqstrhistory.php?mdy=08172022
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Update Notes:
August 17, 2022
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*** Highlights ***
- Made several improvements to achievement processing to improve zone latency.
- The Darkened Sea expansion bundles will be available from August 17 through August 30.
- Increased the default number of available Extended Target Window slots to 20, and removed the alternate ability requirement.


*** Items ***
- Made Eye of Yar`Lir and Eye of Vishimtar quest items.
- 10th Anniversary Firework Focus items have had a typo corrected in their lore text.


*** Tradeskills ***
- Failing a combine due to insufficient skill will now also display the minimum required skill.


*** Quests & Events ***
- Miragul's Reanimation Formula will now drop from appropriate level 60 Lost Dungeons of Norrath adventures.
- Updated a dialog trigger on Baenar Swiftsong to make it easier to experience the rest of the story they give.
- A Journey Home (Raid): Charm and fear will be removed from players before the chest spawns to prevent an effect on a charmed player killing the chest.
- Removed respawn of NPCs from many mission and raid zones.


*** Spells ***
- Reduced the level of the Planes of Power imbue spells by five levels.
- Updated Outrider's and Blackguard's Synergy to work properly with the appropriate skills.
- Spell damage applied to an NPC target, without a caster, will now use the correct damage reporting channel instead of say.
- Added messaging to the Heals (You) and Heals (Others) channels when a debuff with counters is cured.
- Fixed a bug that caused some bolt and area effect spells to display a small bag.


*** AA ***
- The progression AA Gift of the Keepers, Valor of the Keepers, Embrace of the Keepers, Power of the Keepers, and Sanctity of the Keepers now require level 60.
- Fixed an issue with incorrect ranks of AAs being purchased when using the Buy All button on a mercenary AA.


*** NPCs ***
- Shadow Valley - A remnant of shade can now be tracked.


*** Overseer ***
- The button to retire a selected Agent will now be disabled for Agents that cannot be retired.


*** Progression Servers ***
- Updated the required level of Vaniki's Challenge: Defeat Defense of the City.
- The tutorial will now allow level 6 to 14 players to zone into it on Vaniki.
- Removed the AFK kick from Vaniki.
- The level 60 progression reward has been changed to the Visage of Vaniki. You should receive this reward even if you received the other. We will not be reclaiming the other reward. Enjoy!
- Moved the availability of the Heroic Character quests to when Call of the Forsaken opens instead of when part 2 opens.


*** Miscellaneous ***
- Increased the max number of items that can be sold in one barter transaction from 20 to 100.
- - Holding shift while selling to a buyer will now work if you have less of the item to sell than the transaction cap.
- When you fail to cast a spell that requires out of combat, your timer will be updated.
- Improved the way that achievements are processed in order to reduce zone latency.


*** UI ***
- Corrected an issue where your Heroic Character count would not update correctly at the character select screen.
- Increased the default number of available Extended Target Window slots to 20, and removed the alternate ability requirement.
- Added chat messages when cancelling or completing a trade.
- Updated trade chat messaging to include the quantity of items or coin offered. These messages will now display for both the sender and recipient using the System Messages chat filter.
- The aggro meter is now available when players reach level 20 instead of when Rain of Fear launches.
- The Randomize Loading Music setting should now work properly when unchecked.
- When a selected quest advances to a step involving a different zone, the quest journal will now keep the same quest selected.


- The EverQuest Team
« Last Edit: August 17, 2022, 02:19:15 PM by Riou »

Been happily grinding away at Hunters in omens and finding out these were broken killed a lot of the joy. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. What's the point of having fun achievements if you can't actually obtain them?

Yes it is a bug, even with bonus nameds you get not one named at all

Yea they confirmed it like over a year ago and never fixed it and there fix is to say its not a bug pretty sad.

Not true. You do get 1 named. Inky Murkglider can be up on a new instance.

Lol, we still in QA on this one ayy?

It was in QA for more than 2 years, then someone decided to close it as "not a bug", and now we have this new thread with exactly the same problem and exactly the same ignoring of the issue by putting the "QA in progress" tag on it.

What's the over/under on THIS thread getting marked as "not a bug" and closed?

About a year and half ago. I pulled over 200 instances without a single named. I'd call that bugged and not intended.

I'm trying to finish OOW hunters achievement but this issue seems to be preventing it. This incudes Dranik Hallows,Sewers, and catacombs.

Oakwynd was just unlocked to the Omens Expansion, advertised increased rares with the unlock, yet no one on that server is going to be able to finish this...

no one on any server can finish it. oakwynd is not special.