Oakwynd Information and FAQ

Will experience and loot remain locked to our FTE champion if they unlock the mob with /yell or does it become a DPS race at that point? This method has no mass aggro share, it has to be cycled and /yell must be fired off per mob?

Thank you so much for that, can you also ask them to combine PoP/LoY/LDoN into 1 because that is one of the main spots for attrition in guilds.

Is Encounter Locking or Legacy Characters (or both?) the experimental feature that may or may not go to Live?

How does FD pulling work with the locking?
For instance, on my SK I usually cast a snare, and then when the adds are clear I stand up, and have only the one mob left.
I then drag to camp and kill.

Will players that are currently locked to an encounter be able to receive buffs/heals from outside of those locked to the encounter?

If yes, will players that heal/buff a player in a locked encounter be added to the hatelist of the encounter?

if yes, will the mob attack them and the player not be able to fight back?
if no, what is to stop players from exploiting this by using an ungrouped set of healers that never need to worry about drawing agro?

With these changes this is a very good ruleset that will be extremely popular imo. Love the heirloom loot. Been wanting this forever. I do see a problem, though. If you allow people to be healed from OOG then this will not end afk AE PLing and it will also be exploited for other purposes. Chain heal a wizzy oog = win.. Guessing this will be addressed because it has to be.

Can I suggest this be moved to the TLP forums and stickied with the current feedback thread locked? This way this can serve as the new feedback thread now that people know what to mostly expect.

Any thoughts on allowing people to link accounts to take advantage of these legacy benefits between them?

"We will make it so No Drop items that are NOT Free-Trade No Drop will automatically be Heirloom items." This is fairly pointless.

Re: FTE - the FAQ does nothing to dispel this as anything but a horrible idea. Greifing is still paramount. Way to not listen to your consumers. Server is DOA.

This is the real question here.

If this really is to ease KS-ing why not just do the less weirdly confusing way, and just implement open tagging?

Q: If a player dies while pulling an NPC, can it be locked by someone else immediately or does it need to revert back to its spawn point?

A: If an NPC no longer has anyone on its hatelist and leaves combat, it will unlock in a short time whether it is at its spawn point or not. Once it is no longer locked, it can then be locked by anyone even if the NPC hasn’t reached its spawn point.

This looks like feign death training is still possible albeit after the mobs unlock after a "short time" instead of immediately.

What's to stop a chanter from locking an epic mob down for 24 or more hours with a mez in this system?

Do you realize how much toxicity first on aggro locking will cause? You're effectively encouraging the group game to become even more toxic than it was before on competitive servers with this.

"We will make it so No Drop items that are NOT Free-Trade No Drop will automatically be Heirloom items. This does not affect items that are already Heirloom, they will stay Heirloom. Note, this rule will be attached to the Legacy Characters Ruleset, so if future servers get the Legacy Characters Ruleset, they will also experience this change."

I'm a bit confused here - what are Free-Trade No Drop items? Does this just mean items on a Free-Trade server that never get set to Free-Trade and instead just keep a No Drop flag, such as Epics?

Huh? No-trade becoming heirloom is awesome. Combined with raid lockouts per char not per account allows main changing based on what's needed and more importantly means that if you have an item you earned it. Assuming FTE is tweaked to remove exploits, this is the best ruleset I've seen yet.

This ruleset will usher in a new era of toxicity for years to come. There's much to discover.

Appreciate the response. Was personally hoping for another, non FTE server option this year, but it's nice to see that DPG is listening and willing to change some things.

"Q: Will this prevent assisting/helping other players?

A: No. If a player would like assistance from someone outside their group or raid, they can target the NPC and use /yell. This will semi-unlock the NPC and allow anyone to attack it. Once unlocked using /yell, the NPC cannot be locked again until it leaves combat, and the original lock is removed."

This seems like out of group PL will still be possible as long as the puller is in the group being PL'd and players use /yell to unlock the mobs once they arrive at the killing zone. Sure it may be a bit harder as they have to cycle through all the NPCs and use /yell fairly quickly, but I doubt that will deter them.

All of these updates seem relatively pointless and not listening to what everyone is asking for.

Yes, anything no-trade on free-trade servers will not be eligible heirloom on Oakwynd.