As it is now, if you destroy the totem before the Shaman arrives you end the event. Sooo people run up ignore warnings destroy the totem and run off laughing.
Joy..
Patch notes:
•Svanir Shaman Chief
•Once the boss is activated, a message will appear in the meta-event UI indicating that a powerful Sons of Svanir Shaman has been spotted in the Maw. If the event chain that involves protecting Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl tribe is not active at this time, it will begin immediately.
•Scholar Brogun will only wait five minutes for player assistance, instead of forever.
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•If Scholar Brogun dies and is not resurrected by a player for a total of five minutes, the event chain will fail.
• * If the event to destroy the dragon totem has succeeded when the boss is not activated, Scholar Brogun will declare victory and return to Krennak’s homestead without fighting the shaman. *
First of all, sorry if I failed an event you were in :P
And now seriously, I do not know if this is a bug or actual pre-disposition in order to correctly fulfill the event (which would be silly…) But I was hitting it, no warning popped up, nobody screamed that I am a dumbo, a couple of us just bursted it down and the event was over. I had no idea what happened….
Sooo, that’s why that event halted after the totem was destroyed the other night? You have to wait till the boss shows up?? I thought he only showed up after the dragon totem was destroyed. That he was the follow up event.
If this is correct, this event is going to repeatedly fail.
As it is now, if you destroy the totem before the • * If the event to destroy the dragon totem has succeeded when the boss is not activated, Scholar Brogun will declare victory and return to Krennak’s homestead without fighting the shaman. *
If the Shaman will not appear if the Dragon Totem is burned down too fast, and that is intentional instead of just a bug, then that is just idiotic. I logged in yesterday specifically to run the Frozen Maw chain, we did everything like we normally do, the Totem went down in seconds, no one said anything about a change, and the Shaman never showed up. We figured it was bugged, but if this is accurate, anyone who wants to can attack the totem prematurely and deny the event boss to the entire server….
Destroying the totem does not stop the shaman from appearing if he is in his spawn window(shown by a UI message)
If you do the grawl/totem outside of the shaman spawn window then the event will end, if you do the grawl/totem when the shaman spawn window is active then he will appear and you can then proceed to kill him – pretty simple and straigh forward tbh.
The following low-level-zone world bosses will activate at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past the hour in this rotation:
Great Jungle Wurm (Caledon Forest)
Shadow Behemoth (Queensdale)
Svanir Shaman Chief (Wayfarer Foothills)
Fire Elemental (Metrica Province)
The shaman will activate at the times stated above, if you do the grawl/totem outside of these times then he will not spawn, simple as
Okay, forgive my ignorance here, but the implication then is that Scholar Brogan can activate outside the Svanir Shaman window. If the BOSSES activate in a rotation, does that mean Scholar Brogan sets off on the escort and totem portion of the chain anyway every 15 minutes and 45 minutes after the hour, but the Shaman only appears after the Totem every fourth time?
It would save a lot of confusion if Scholar Brogan only activated inside the Svanir Shaman boss window and just stayed put the rest of the time. Mistaking it for a boss event until after the Totem disappears and you find out you wasted your time is going to be a bummer.
Okay, forgive my ignorance here, but the implication then is that Scholar Brogan can activate outside the Svanir Shaman window. If the BOSSES activate in a rotation, does that mean Scholar Brogan sets off on the escort and totem portion of the chain anyway every 15 minutes and 45 minutes after the hour, but the Shaman only appears after the Totem every fourth time?
It would save a lot of confusion if Scholar Brogan only activated inside the Svanir Shaman boss window and just stayed put the rest of the time. Mistaking it for a boss event until after the Totem disappears and you find out you wasted your time is going to be a bummer.
For the jungle wurm
“The event to protect Gamarien as he scouts Wychmire Swamp is no longer part of the Great Jungle Wurm event chain, but it now occurs when the boss event chain is not active.”
For the maw:
“Once the boss is activated, a message will appear in the meta-event UI indicating that a powerful Sons of Svanir Shaman has been spotted in the Maw. If the event chain that involves protecting Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl tribe is not active at this time, it will begin immediately.”
“If the event to destroy the dragon totem has succeeded when the boss is not activated, Scholar Brogun will declare victory and return to Krennak’s homestead without fighting the shaman.”
It sounds like Brogan’s event is like Gamarien’s. It can activate and he does his thing independent of the Maw event.
For the jungle wurm
“The event to protect Gamarien as he scouts Wychmire Swamp is no longer part of the Great Jungle Wurm event chain, but it now occurs when the boss event chain is not active.”
For the maw:
“Once the boss is activated, a message will appear in the meta-event UI indicating that a powerful Sons of Svanir Shaman has been spotted in the Maw. If the event chain that involves protecting Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl tribe is not active at this time, it will begin immediately.”
“If the event to destroy the dragon totem has succeeded when the boss is not activated, Scholar Brogun will declare victory and return to Krennak’s homestead without fighting the shaman.”
It sounds like Brogan’s event is like Gamarien’s. It can activate and he does his thing independent of the Maw event.
That is quite silly and causes a lot of confusion. I remember I did the chain leading to the maw on FSP yesterday and we spawned the shaman, but there wasn’t enough of us, so because the timer is there we decided to pick up a few people and organize on Underworld. The difference was about 7 minutes (took us a bit to understand that we won’t have enough time to deal the damage), so we hopped servers, activated the event chain and by that point the shaman was just outside the window therefore it failed. If we would have known that we would have invested time still attempting it on FSP somehow. Perhaps prevent those events from triggering if the boss isn’t in the window?
It IS silly and already is causing confusion. Last night we spent ridiculous amounts of time doing pres that ended up with no boss spawning, even though it was at the right time – presumably one of the other bosses spawned somewhere else at that time. It was choatic and confusing.
My hope is that the programmers of the online timers will manage to get their heads around the oddities of the schedule, and so in a few days we may be able to use timers again.
I’ve tried it more times than I care to admit, and unless I stumble on a group that has progressed beyond the totem segment, it ends with the totem. I’m tired of trying and going to quit trying. I came to this game to enjoy myself, that is not the result. The camps are full of angry players, complaning and logging off. I’m just tired of more and more disapointments. It really feels like what the players want doesn’t matter at all. We want new content, not and update that just reworks existing content to the point of utter confusion.
