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Message ID: 19630
Date: Mon Jun 12 20:46:01 BST 2000
Author: Reece, Tom CPT- 25IDL G4
Subject: RE: [eqbards] My day in Kaesora was Re: MM Drum misadventure and Nostrolo Tamborine


My guild plus an allied guild conducted a raid into Kaesora yesterday. All
told we hade 15 people there with me the lowest at 37th level. Raid had two
goals. One, to get as many coins as possible for the bards in my guild.
Second, to kill Xalboz, the boss mob who spawns in the church. Not everyone
got there at the same time so we marshalled at the library to wait for
everyone to arrive. All told we were there about an hour. During that time
it was nonstop pulling. The fallen crypt raider spawned once during this
time. Once everyone showed up, we moved to the lower parts of the dungeon
en masse, killing everything in our way. Once we broke the church area, two
groups remained at the bottom to take down Xalboz if he spawned. My group
moved back up to the library to harvesy coins. All told we were in Kaesora
for about six hours. Unfortunately Xalboz never spawned. However, the
fallen crypt raider spawned a total of five times. So every bard who
attended the raid got a coin. People who had been in Kaesora before were
shocked that the raider spawned so often. Guess the random number generator
god blessed us.

Like someone else mentioned in a previous post, Kaesora is a vastly
underused dungeon. We were there for six hours during peak hours on a
weekend. During that entire time, only two other people (both 50+ level)
entered into the zone. Not certain why there weren't more 30-45 level
people in the zone. Almost every mob in there conned blue to me at 37th
level so its a great place to hunt for my level. My guess is that the
server demographics for E'ci is top heavy. Probably not enough 30-45 level
folks around to cover all the dungeons designed for those levels.

Galtin of E'ci

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Sniderman [mailto:fuzzbone@...]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:21 AM
To: eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] My day in Kaesora was Re: MM Drum misadventure
and Nostrolo Tamborine


I think the failed raider shows how incredibly flawed Verant's Random Number
Generator is. Many things seem to go for hours (days?) without every
triggering; then the RNG goes nuts and pops many many times in a row. We've
had two people so far claim it was "easy to get" and three (counting me)
reporting it difficult. My good friend Darkfox who's on my server and this
list has also reported it's a "Semi-Rare" spawn...

I spent about four hours there. Hooked up with a group 50-55 who were after
the named guy at the Church to get a fang for a quest for a key to get into
Howling Stones and to explore the zone. They cleared the library - no
failed raider - no coin. They had moved on by the time I got there.

Shortly after I joined them - another group came in to camp the library.
They were there a good three hours (by the time I moved on) maybe longer.
Unless they were bullshitting me (which I doubt) - they didn't get a single
Failed Raider - and nothing else dropped the coin. They had a bard in their
group - so I was hoping they'd get two.

I doubt they were bullshitting. If they did get a bunch and were hoarding
them for various reasons; they fairly got the room while my group was
camping elsewhere - why would they lie?

We all know the rules of random sampling - a 2 hour sample of a 30 minute
spawn is 4 samples - you got a 50 pct hit. Another group got six tried and
0 pct hit... (Plus my groups sample - they cleared the room only once
though)

Slyde Katzenjammer
43 Bard of Xegony
Still Needing his Kaesora Coin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylly Songsynger [mailto:jgs@...]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:03 AM
To: eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Re: MM Drum misadventure and Nostrolo Tamborine


<cough>bullshit<cough>

Kaesora is virtually deserted on Inny. Like I posted, been there 2 times
now. First time, cleared into the Library and presto there was the coin
guy. Second time, cleared library, no coin, cleared the other stuff in the
area, library re-spawned and we got the coin guy. Less than 2 hours. Might
have been the 3rd time to clear the Library but seems to be a fast 30 min
timer in that zone.

Sylly



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