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Availability of key restoration components for sun weapon sets

bolt#9204 bolt
bolt#9204
 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 88 Arc User
in General Discussion (PC)
Hi,

I have a couple of things I would like to raise both Barovia related to sun weapon restoration

I honestly do not know what the devs had in mind when they thought up the idea of a randomly appearing merchant with a chance of having Wychwood for sale. I mean there is no skill involved in finding the merchant, most people play at random times of the day so all this randomness means the odds are humungously stacked against players and its just damn frustrating for players that have got through to the end content and cant get the sun weapons because of this type of approach which brings me onto the second point ...

What is the drop rate of sunshards from Straad in Castle Ravenloft? It must be vanishingly small because I have done upwards of 30 runs and got two! This maybe wouldn't be so bad if players were running the dungeon a lot but compared to TONG and CODG they are not, this is largely because in terms of stats to support builds most classes think the latter two dungeons have better gear associated with them. So please review drop rates in the light of this so we stand a chance of getting these restoration components within the normal human lifespan

thx

Comments

  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,527 Arc User
    edited August 2018
    For the Wychwood, I believe you can only get one per week. That means you only need to see him once per week.
    For finding the merchant, if you really want to find him, it is not hard to find and not exactly random neither. It is more or less "same time" in the "same place".
    *** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
    "If if that was the case, if it was something then I probably was chasing. I would have never gotten it. That was the whole point, if you chase something, then sometimes you never get it. uh huh if you put forth to work and all the attitude, next you know it's bestowed upon you." -- Michael Jordan
  • bolt#9204 bolt
    bolt#9204
         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 88 Arc User
    Well Plastic I know of at least 4 spawn locations and he only stays at each location for 2-3 minutes tops before wandering off but if you think he is predictably found same day, same time same place in all instances then please be good enough to share that info because I am sure a lot of people would be interested to know that. Incidentally when you say "same time" is it the same time regardless of your time zone or is the time pegged to one particular time zone and you have to compensate for which country you are in?
  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,527 Arc User
    edited August 2018
    howardb55 said:

    Well Plastic I know of at least 4 spawn locations and he only stays at each location for 2-3 minutes tops before wandering off but if you think he is predictably found same day, same time same place in all instances then please be good enough to share that info because I am sure a lot of people would be interested to know that. Incidentally when you say "same time" is it the same time regardless of your time zone or is the time pegged to one particular time zone and you have to compensate for which country you are in?

    May be I have been lucky. When "the day begins" and our wall clock is around :00 (every hour has :00 regardless time zone), he comes in either the castle or behind the house a bit later (i.e not exactly at :00). Hence, at :00, go to the Castle, wait a bit and if you don't see him. Go to the house. I do that for 6 characters. I believe he stayed there for about 5 minutes.

    Last night, at a :00 (the day begins), my 1st character ran to castle, watched his arrival and caught him. I switched to 2nd character, waited 2 minutes to switch instance. The 2nd character got him in castle. I switched to the 3rd character. I think I would not have time to switch instance. Hence, he went straight to its castle in his alternate instance. He was not there. Then, my 3rd character went to the house. The merchant has just arrived. I switched to the 4th character. He happened to pop in the first instance. He ran to the castle and the merchant just said he had to go. :(

    The one in Howling seems to appear after dark (in the middle of it). I saw him many times there except I usually could not buy anything from him (I usually already bought the stuff). I saw him about 3 times over there last night.
    *** The game can read your mind. If you want it, you won't get it. If you don't expect to get it, you will. ***
    "If if that was the case, if it was something then I probably was chasing. I would have never gotten it. That was the whole point, if you chase something, then sometimes you never get it. uh huh if you put forth to work and all the attitude, next you know it's bestowed upon you." -- Michael Jordan
  • bolt#9204 bolt
    bolt#9204
         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 88 Arc User
    edited September 2018
    Brill :) thx Plastic with that advice I have begun to find the merchant a bit more often though its still a bit hit and miss its a start. I dont suppose you know anything about the sunset shard drop rate or some idea of how many times you would have to run CR before you got enough to restore your weapons, I believe 14 are needed in total for offhand and main hand
    Post edited by bolt#9204 on
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