Just got killed by a CR55 drow while banking in ES. Anniversary hi-jinks or a bug? Tons of drow on the loose on argo in ES atm.

Apparently was some mobs in the harbor too

Grand wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 8:23pm:

Too bad. That's actually the kind of community outreach a Community Manager should be doing more of.

Just ... with less "Surprise! Lag + mobs!" and more "Why hello there, mortals. I bet you feel quite safe. But I happen to know the drow have gathered for another attack on Estar. Time is short. Prepare yourselves, or flee!"

Then spawn as many mobs as won't lag the instance. If that number happens to be small, then spawn a fucking Terrasque. For extra nice-nice, ensure an instance 2 is open, which will remain free of all mobs.

A few DM-like interactions in a D&D game ... why has this not been happening for 10 years already?

Revaulting wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 1:15am:


Oh, they've done it before. On the Lamannia server. A couple of times. And surprise-surprise! It was popular, even if it was a bit of a lagfest since it was more than one mob and everyone attacking at the same time.

The last time I remember them doing it though was at the library lighthouse with a bunch of dragons for MOTU Beta I think.

Like you, I've been baffled why they never brought it over to the live servers every once in a while. A Dev popping into the game in a public area as a boss mob and getting beaten down once a week or so just for shits and giggles would seem like an easy community outreach activity.

Seriously, let's say the beatdown on the giant HP mob took 30 minutes or Wayfinder, so less time on the other servers. There are 8 servers, so it would take less than 4 hours for all the servers, if only one turbine employee did this.

lag locking ES and a raid sized lfm filled with a bunch of Cordo cock gobblers begging for him to join and shower them with jizz - that summed up '10th Anniversary' event for Orien .......

I don't think they could really do this anymore. Several classes have all been nerfed down so badly for what works in public areas that as a sorc there was not to many spells that would work. Additionally the CR was way to high. CR 55 on a level 18 toon was a bloodbath. I can imagine the noobs being mowed down in the harbor had it even worse. Additionally cakes don't even work in public areas for whatever reason. So I had to raise out of ES and go back to my airship with a key on cool down and could not get back into the action. I don't think at this point any of the dev's would care to fix the things needing to be done to really fix this as a viable routine event regardless of how much fun it would be. Tabula Rasa GM's used to do this really regularly and I never heard anything but positive feedback for it. Definitely adds to immersion more than a few damaged buildings & smoldering fires in ES.

As a side note I still can't figure out why the destroyed Temple of Amaunator in ES has never been turned into a kickass dungeon. It's sad when the most prominent structure in town just lays there like a fucking forest in a Warhammer 40k tabletop game.

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When word trickled down the F2P's that never spent a dime would probably rage on the forums and cord would have to do to much work spinning it with some BS. Somehow F2P's who never spent a dimes threats of quitting would probably matter. Some asshole's chart would show a descending player base and emergency management meetings would follow. Then the unwashed masses would get Whalers Boxes to. Wait a minute maybe it would be good if this happened. I'm a little on the cheap side myself some months.

Revaulting wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 1:15am:

Wow, that's a fantastic set of ideas, and /signed on the WTF hasn't it been happening all along.

Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 5:48pm:


Cordovan has been putting them in.  He thinks its a hoot.  He's an asshole.

OldCoaly wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 7:43am:


This is of course ignoring that people who have already spent money are more likely to spend more. But you definitely have a firm grasp on turbine thinking.