I been wanting to level up since the end of the halloween event. I like to role play and do all the stuff but a lot of the events in in the 1-5 area of Queensdale either don’t spawn or seem to spawn only every few days. Some say they are triggered from succeeding this or failing that. I try that since there is so few ppl in there to begin with so I can control what even suceeds or fails but a lot still don’t spawn or very very rarely as in I saw the rogue bull only 2 times since the end of the Halloween event.
I afk waiting hours playing a different game to see if stuff would spawn. The bridge event seem to be working but now its not, the windmill assualt has ever shown up once.
Does anyone have any solid facts why this is happening? Is it because of lack of people in the area, bugs etc? I know some events were bugged such as Mepi’s Ranch is now working but the Bull etc. hasn’t been showing.
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Yeah, i noticed that the Windmill event never spawns when i’m playing my alts in Queensdale…. when i was levelling my main it was up every time i ran past.
Some DE’s do break for as yet undiscovered reasons, while other DE’s only show up when certain pre-conditions are met. If you’re convinced that a DE is broken (like the Secrets in the Swamp meta-event on some servers), best thing to do is to submit a bug report.
I’ve never seen the Secrets in the Swamp event activate when I’ve been nearby. The Queensdale bandit events seem to spawn frequently (except the barricade the bridge event) including attack the farm (both the renown heart and the cow ranch farm), poison the water => kill toxic ooze (if previous event failed), blow up the pipes => fix the pipes, etc. The centaurs attack the garrison regularly, and the various caravan / escort events become available regularly. The harpies attack the dam, the giant wurm pops up, and the elder elementalist says hello every now and then. I’ve NOT seen the windmill attack or rogue bull since halloween, and I do my daily achievements almost exclusively in Queensdale each day. I really like the area, so I hang out there to get that done.
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The problem, simply put, is that many events tend to cease functioning within a day or so of a server reset. Sad, but true.
If you ever want to see a zone “alive”, log in within a few hours of a server reset and be amazed at how many events pop up that you likely had no idea existed.
This game is really cool when events (the meat of the leveling process) actually work. Unfortunately, that rarely seems to be the case, and the developers don’t seem to feel that fixing it is a priority. I mean, I know they say it is, but we’ve had this problem since launch and here we still are with no improvements.
Some seem to need other events to be done in a certain order and/or areas are in control, but theres not enough peeps anymore to let this happen it seems.
Queensdale is not suffering from a lack of people to kick off events, nor are most of the events there so grand in scale that they can’t be handled by one person. They are simply broken. These events will trigger off even if there is only one person in the area if you visit them within hours of a server reset. However, after they’ve run a number of time something in the scripting breaks down. It’s a known issue.
The original post specifically mentioned the bull event. I’ve watched that activate with only a couple of players in the immediate area (which is rare, as that is a fairly busy part of the zone). However, that particular event is notorious for eventually breaking down, even when that corner of the zone gets extremely busy.
I actually saw the Rogue Bull event pop up just this morning on Tarnished Coast. Only the second time I’ve ever seen it despite taking 5 characters through Queensdale.
I wonder if people acutally pay attention to the popus stating information about the zones status.
Take the ‘Secrets in the Swamp’ meta event. Whenever I go to this zone, most of the time I read ‘The swamp lies dormant’. However, on occasions I read ‘Drive back Underworld creatures by destroying portals in the Heartwoods’.
These events need to be accomplished in order for the meta-event to continue towards finaly battling a boss.
We know that, but there HAVE been some cases where Secrets in the Swamp remained dormant for well over 5 hours (and yes, I can attest to this because I DID spend 5 hours there once waiting for it to spawn). It’s supposed to trigger about once every 2 or 3 hours, according to the devs. In such cases it can be hard to figure out if the event is truly broken or whether you just have horribly unlucky timing. :P (Once Secrets DOES pop, it can be over in less than 15 mins if there’s lots of people around the Swamp to complete the various pre-events.)
Yes, some of those events realy seem to be broken or so.
When I did queensdale the first time, there were some events that were so regulary like most of the other stuff now, but they never happen nowdays.
One example is the whole swamp event chain.
Another one which comes to my mind is the stuff in the monastery. Where have all those centaures gone that frome time to time raided it for some good beer?
It’s like this event never existed in the first place.
And probably there is even more I didn’t even notice it dissapeared
makes me kinda sad, bacause some areas feel totaly empty without theire events. Thats boring
I’m sorry about the dead centaur bodies. I did solo their entire camp at ‘Righteous Hoofmoot’ yesterday. I was like…wooooow that was exhilarating.
I did come across some centaur invasion though. It seems that the ‘Cave Troll’ and the one with the bandits attacking the farm events happen very often.
It seems that the ‘Cave Troll’ and the one with the bandits attacking the farm events happen very often.
Cave Troll event seems to start up whenever someone tries to take the rune in the troll cave. There’s usually someone around who’ll pick it up and get swatted.
As far as I can see, the ranch gets attacked by the bandits every time someone walks past the place if the very short timer has expired.
There are a few npc’s around Queensdale who start up DE’s if you talk to them, it’s worth having a wander around.
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I’ve also noticed lots of missing DE in queensdale. In the vicinity of the first 5 hearts the windmill, drake-broodmother, roadblock, the quiz in the cave, earth-elemental at the dam, escort cocooned worker at orchard and rampaging bull events never happend and I’ve spend several hours looking/waiting for them. I’m playing on Aurora Glade. Also people are complaing about shadow-behemoth not spawning “for weeks”. I couldn’t confirm that one though.
Are these bugged and missing events different from server to server?
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