[Phinigel] Master PoP Instances Testing Thread

This is dumb. Since when is something that requires more than one group, in this case three groups, not raid content.

Glad we had that extra time for beta testing a server for a whole year. These are definitely the right way changes we have been looking for all this time. What a complete joke of a server this has become.

We are the pilot server. Expect another server with phinny ruleset + free trade rules for maximum krono sales.

Can we get a dev confirmation on whether this was intended or a mistake?

We are looking into why the hedge maze event is not working correctly in the Plane of Nightmare instance. Thank you for letting us know!

Prathun all over it, as always. Response within 24 hours. Everybody can settle down now.

Thanks again, Prathun.

Yay Prathun!

Thank you as always for all the work you do for the TLP servers

We're very glad to hear this isn't intentional - thank you, Prathun.

(obligatory request: please do the same for PoStorms...)

Love you

Gurebk, Lord of Krendic is not spawning in Plane of Storms instance. The untargetable version is not up, killing all the giants to trigger him gives his lockout, but there is still no npc to kill.

Thank you Prathun and EQ Dev team, you guys get allot of heat from the chicken littles on these forums, just know allot of us appreciate what you do.

Before you start calling others names like chicken little, please spell your own name properly.

Hate to have to bump this, but there's been no further word on Nightmare and it looks like the Storms instance issue got lost in the noise. Is there any chance in the next few days we can see a hotfix for two NPCs not spawning in instances?

The NPCs in question are:
* Plane of Nightmare - Thelin Poxbourne (starts the Hedge event)
* Plane of Storms - Gurebk, Lord of Krendic (his untargetable version does not spawn in the instance, and clearing the sand giants around him does not spawn / activate him)

Since the PoN change took place on test after last patch was pushed to live, hopefully this is something that won't need a hotfix.

We are cutting it a little close on the PoP release, without word that this is fixed and/or going to be fixed for it.

There was a maintenance last week and there are test update notes for the 20th on what looks like mostly server-side stuff that might not have required a client update. I would not be surprised if the Nightmare / Storms issues were also a part of this.

Just curious - are there supposed to be respawns in PoAir? I don't think it affects much either way, but I was under the impression that respawns were supposed to no longer be a thing. Currently most islands do respawn.

There are many targets in this recent launch without MOTM, for instance:

- All the ring named NPCs in Plane of Earth A (Vagarlson) do not have Mitigation of the Mighty, neither does the final ring boss, the Mystical Arbitor. Only the trigger NPCs have Mitigation of the Mighty, which prevent the rings from spawning in picks.

- Agnarr the Storm Lord and his named Giants in leading up to the event in Bastion of Thunder do not have MOTM. Raids can literally kill multiple Agnarrs back to back by using pickzone.

- The Halls of Honor trial bosses/nameds do not have MOTM. Only the Custodians to trigger the events do.

- In Tactics, Vallon and Tallon standalone variants correctly have the MOTM buff, however, the Rallos Zek cycle (Trigged VZ/TZ, RZ, RZTW) do not have MOTM.

- All of Plane of Time is missing MOTM. Will this trend continue for future content that has instancing already implemented? Time seemed way too easy without MOTM.

Also, I would suggest reducing the triggered Replay timer from 2.5 days down to half a day. Many guilds (mine included) were adversely affected by the server crash on launch night, which caused a few of them to be halted on progression with the instance unable to be retriggered for that amount of time.

This is about the only thing that matters. If they left time how it was on Fippy then it's going to be a cakewalk, same with tacvi, anguish etc, etc.

Got yours and now you want it more difficult for the people behind you. Great job. Friendly reminder. Bert spawned TWICE in open world while you were sitting waiting for your lockout.