The Scion has been mentioned as an off-topic mention in another thread, and I think I found another after coming back a few times, then waiting a few hours. 1. Reanimated Nexus Scion - absolutely broken as even the skeletons that appeared on its stretch of grassy hill no longer appear. 2. The Cogsmasher - 16 heroic kobold that is supposed to appear eventually to smash the bixie boppers players release on the kobolds from a quest. It drops a quest item. There used to be comments on EQ2I.com or Zam about this but I don't see them anymore. I thought I once read someone saying you may have to wait 30 minutes after boppers start killing kobolds. I waited a few hours and nothing ever showed up. edit: Found Cogsmasher up after today's update. He only dropped an Adept Healer's Cloak, not the wrench quest drop. Now I wonder how long a wait for him to appear again. I remember broken spawns in EQ I that would only appear after server reset then gradually not appear.
I have killed Cogsmasher 5 times and he continues to drop the cloak but no wrench - ZAM says he drops it 100% of the time, but he never does. Please fix this - I would like to do the quest. Thanks.
I found ONE scorched skeleton spawn on the opposite end of the Scion spot earlier and have had nothing else spawn there. There used to be maybe 3-4 + PH / Scion and nothing there now.
Yeah, the Scion is definitely broken. I've been watching for him for a piece of appearance loot and neither he nor his skelly PH's ever seem to spawn. There's a mechanic here that either we don't understand or is broken.
The Cogsmasher is triggered by the completion of a repeatable quest (Sniffwistle's Superior Attacker) a specific number of times within the zone. It is still functioning correctly, as I have just confirmed both locally and on the Test server. Additionally, the Cogsmasher's Wrench will drop from him 100% of the time, as long as you have not completed the quest "The Cogsmasher". It is not a repeatable quest, so if you have already completed this quest, you will not see the wrench drop. Maybe you were unaware of what triggered it, or of the requirements on the wrench? I also investigated the Reanimated Nexus Scion, but could not find anything wrong with it on my local server or on Test server, either. The Scion is on a regular timed spawn, unrelated to other mobs or player actions. Both Scion and the scorched skeletal wizards are spawning on the stretch of land north-east of the Combine Spires (loc -521 66 220). Maybe the Scion's location changed with the content polish that Greater Faydark underwent several GUs ago? I hope that this helps you! ~Kaitheel
I just sent 3 boppers up, cleared every skeleton again, then went up to see The Cogsmasher up again, and here is the log of what I looted (once again, no wrench): (1334173917)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:57 2012] You start fighting. (1334173917)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:57 2012] YOUR Acceleration Strike hits The Cogsmasher for 77 slashing damage. (1334173917)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:57 2012] \aNPC 6583013 The Cogsmasher:The Cogsmasher\/a says something in Serilian that you don't understand. (1334173917)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:57 2012] \aNPC 6583013 The Cogsmasher:The Cogsmasher\/a says something in Serilian that you don't understand. (1334173917)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:57 2012] The Cogsmasher hits YOU for 58 crushing damage. (133417391[Wed Apr 11 12:51:58 2012] YOU critically hit The Cogsmasher for 235 slashing damage. (133417391[Wed Apr 11 12:51:58 2012] YOU critically hit The Cogsmasher for 266 slashing damage. (133417391[Wed Apr 11 12:51:58 2012] a kobold battler hits YOU for 11 slashing damage. (133417391[Wed Apr 11 12:51:58 2012] Stamper Jeralf tries to crush The Cogsmasher, but misses. (1334173919)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:59 2012] The Cogsmasher hits YOU for 53 crushing damage. (1334173919)[Wed Apr 11 12:51:59 2012] Stamper Jeralf's Vengeful Faith heals YOU for 69 hit points. (1334173920)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:00 2012] YOUR Bloodbath hits a kobold battler for 28 slashing damage. (1334173920)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:00 2012] YOUR Bloodbath hits The Cogsmasher for 79 slashing damage. (1334173920)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:00 2012] Stamper Jeralf hits The Cogsmasher for 49 crushing damage. (1334173921)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:01 2012] YOUR Belly Smash hits The Cogsmasher for 75 slashing damage. (1334173921)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:01 2012] a kobold battler hits YOU for 15 slashing damage. (1334173921)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:01 2012] Stamper Jeralf's Vengeful Faith heals YOU for 66 hit points. (1334173922)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:02 2012] The Cogsmasher tries to crush YOU with Rupture, but YOU riposte. (1334173922)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:02 2012] YOU hit The Cogsmasher for 21 slashing damage. (1334173922)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:02 2012] YOUR Master's Rage hits The Cogsmasher for 148 slashing damage. (1334173922)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:02 2012] The Cogsmasher hits YOU for 54 crushing damage. (1334173922)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:02 2012] Stamper Jeralf's Vengeful Faith heals YOU for 54 hit points. (1334173923)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:03 2012] Stamper Jeralf hits The Cogsmasher for 78 crushing damage. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] YOU critically hit The Cogsmasher for 325 slashing damage. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] YOUR Furious Assault critically hits The Cogsmasher for 117 slashing damage. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] YOU hit The Cogsmasher for 319 slashing damage. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] \#eeee00You gain experience for defeating a public boss! (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] You convert 500 experience into AA experience! (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] You stop fighting. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] You have killed The Cogsmasher. (1334173924)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:04 2012] Too little too late... Your target is already dead. (1334173925)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:05 2012] a kobold battler tries to slash YOU, but YOU parry. (1334173925)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:05 2012] Stamper Jeralf tries to crush a kobold battler, but misses. (1334173927)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:07 2012] a kobold battler hits YOU for 11 slashing damage. (1334173927)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:07 2012] Stamper Jeralf's Vengeful Faith heals YOU for 11 hit points. (1334173927)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:07 2012] Stamper Jeralf's Hammer Divine Smite hits a kobold battler for 148 divine damage. (1334173927)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:07 2012] You start fighting. (133417392[Wed Apr 11 12:52:08 2012] YOUR Mutilate hits a kobold battler for 25 slashing damage. (133417392[Wed Apr 11 12:52:08 2012] YOUR Mutilate hits a kobold battler for 29 slashing damage. (133417392[Wed Apr 11 12:52:08 2012] Stamper Jeralf hits a kobold battler for 44 crushing damage. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] YOUR Enrage critically increases YOUR hate with a kobold battler by 170 threat. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] YOU hit a kobold battler for 146 slashing damage. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] \aNPC 3418427 a kobold battler:a kobold battler\/a says something in Serilian that you don't understand. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] YOUR Furious Assault hits a kobold battler for 57 slashing damage. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] YOU critically hit a kobold battler for 390 slashing damage. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] You stop fighting. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] You have killed a kobold battler. (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] You convert 161 experience into AA experience! (1334173929)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:09 2012] You convert 106 experience for defeating the encounter into AA experience! (1334173931)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:11 2012] Your share of 28 Copper from the corpse of a kobold battler is 14 Copper. (1334173941)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:21 2012] You loot \aITEM -1542416155 -2105410614:Adept Stalker's Cloak\/a from the Cogsmasher's Chest. (1334173941)[Wed Apr 11 12:52:21 2012] You loot \aITEM -934762449 1125543583:Adept Defender's Choker\/a from the Cogsmasher's Chest.
Kaitheel wrote: Hi Kaitheel, and thanks for posting. My understanding is that there are skelly spawns inside and on the outskirts of the Spires itself, and then, on the hillock nearby that you mentioned, more skeletons among which is the Reanimated Nexus Scion. I have myself seen the Scion, one time. On the hillock as you described. (Anyonia Bayle server) However, I have taken a character, Chronomentored to level 15, and sat on top of the Reanimated Nexus Scion's spawn point, several times at a 4-5 hour stretch. I put that account in the background and do my business elsewhere on another character. At no time has my character been attacked, by the Scion spawning or by a placeholder or any common-spawn mobs on that hill. As the skeletons are aggressive when at-color (i.e. non-Grey), one would resonably assume that my character would have been attacked. I know the sound of a cackling skeleton pretty well, and I assure you that the skeletons were not spawning. Unless there is another mechanic at work here, or the RNS and his placeholders and other common mobs are a greater than 4 hour respawn, I suggest something is wrong with the spawn in this area.
Hi Kaitheel - thanks for posting. I can confirm that I do not have the quest The Cogsmasher completed. I have killed the mob The Cogsmasher several times, both at level 90 and Chronomanced to an appropriate blue/white/yellow con and each time he dropped only the cloak and not the wrench. There are also Cogsmasher chests that stay up for a long time that are special and not lootable by normal waiting periods - will often see 3-6 of them sitting around - not sure if this has any bearing, but wrench is not dropping on live. Thank you.
Thank you for the additional information! As a result of your constructive feedback I was able to find a few issues that may have been interfering with the Scion's spawn timer on Live. I will not know for sure until the next GU is launched and with it these changes, due to the fact that I was unable to reproduce the issue either internally or on Test. You are correct that the Reanimated Nexus Scion used to be on a table with placeholder mobs, but ever since GU58 (Greater Faydark revamp) he has been on a straight forward respawn timer. No triggers. No placeholders.Additionally, I was able to reproduce the lack of Cogsmasher's Wrench, and a solution for that has also been made. It was not functioning the way it should have been due to some buried script which was interfering with the loot. With the next GU you should see these two changes listed amongst the update notes: Greater Faydark Reanimated Nexus Scion should more reliably spawn. The Cogsmasher's Wrench drops from The Cogsmasher as intended.~Kaitheel
Great! Now if only an item dev can fix the many bug reported items screwed up by the various itemization passes (my bug report of the Ring of Fate that is only melee now with no power regen like it used to have, Bonecharmers Etched Femur that is scout only now with a +hate mod, etc). I have alts I refuse to level as I am doing the major quests for each expansion (all pieces of courts' medallions waiting from Maj'dul for Ring of Fate to be fixed for my inq).
Thank you, Kaitheel - really appreciate the quick feedback and that a solution has been found. Thanks again.
Reanimated Nexus Scion does not appear to be fixed. Ran a chrono'd L15 out to the spot as soon as the servers came back up...the mob was in fact up along with the other spawns on the hillock, got him and waited so I could time his respawn. However, he never came back. I was there for approx 3.5 hours and never saw the Scion or any of the common mobs on the hill.
Wirewhisker@Antonia Bayle wrote: Maybe it is longer than 3.5 hours? I just killed it and noticed its level mod is different from what it used to be. I guess fine for today's solo-themed overland EQ II, but why is that little elemental just before New Tunaria still a PITA with a ton of HP? As far as the other skeletons, they seemed to respawn fairly quickly the first clearing (like within 5 minutes), then I waited 45 minutes and gave up.
Brigh wrote: Aye, I noticed that today too. First clear, they all died, OK. Second clear was just 2 or 3 skellies, and they died just fine. Short spawn. After that, 2 hours, no spawns of any kind on the hill. Odd.
