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Legacy Campaign BHEs

nachodx22nachodx22 Member Posts: 42 Arc User
in General Discussion (PC)
I think we all know the issue here. We wait hours for a BHE to pop in Icewind Pass or Dwarven Valley. It pops, and before we can change instances (which cannot be done the traditional way) it's dead. If you do manage to get there in time, it dies while you are running to it. If you do get to participate, you STILL aren't guaranteed credit because of a bug when there are too many people! There are people who try and farm this for 3 or 4 days!

The solution? Every week when you release the legacy campaign, greatly increase the frequency of the BHE spawns. Thoughts?
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  • zimxero#8085 zimxero
    zimxero#8085
         Member Posts: 876 Arc User
    I'm sure it would not work with the programming which is timer/event based, but how about selling a Bound-to-Character Summoning Stone for 25 Ardent Coins. This artifact, when used, would summon a BHE in the character's zone.
  • therealprotextherealprotex Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 526 Arc User
    An even more simpler solution: change Sybella's quest.

    My suggestion: The quest is fullfilled if one of the following options is fulfilled:
    - 3 minor or major HEs and 1 epic HE (as it is now)
    - 5 minor and 5 major HEs
    - 15 minor HEs
  • greywyndgreywynd Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 7,158 Arc User
    Simpler? More coding would be involved in that.
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  • therealprotextherealprotex Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 526 Arc User
    I am not sure if it was easier to mess with 5-year-old code that was not created by the current staff than to adjust a quest target of recent code that was written by the current dev team... I know what I would try.
  • b4t1b4tb4t1b4t Member Posts: 275 Arc User
    A solution to this issue is to change the quest and provide info what can be done to complete it.
    I also think there should be alternative ways to completing the quest instead of waiting hours for 1 BHE to spawn.
    The way it is now seems a bit to harsh to be fair and for very small rewards.
    Do not get me wrong the upgrade pet tokens might seem good but with such a low amount for a quest or quest that can take all week to complete seems bit harsh.
    Then again it really is aimed for those that have not completed the campaigned so perhaps the currency is the reward.
    Never the less I believe these quest should be fixed.
  • greywyndgreywynd Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 7,158 Arc User
    b4t1b4t said:


    Then again it really is aimed for those that have not completed the campaigned so perhaps the currency is the reward.

    Is it? Or is it aimed at helping with strongholds?
    I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission. Earth just lost her best defender, so we're here to fight. And if you want to stand in our way, we'll fight you too.
  • callumf#9018 callumf
    callumf#9018
         Member Posts: 1,710 Arc User
    Its Lolz all round. THIS problem was highlighted how many weeks/months ago?

    We got told there would be a fix.

    And banana skin lolz here we are with no fix.

    Its just funny. A real poke in the eye from the devs, who clearly had no idea BHEs only spawn once per million hours in IWD... or perhaps its just a DELIBERATE kick in the eye from the devs who DID know?

    Either way, just too funny that a professional company could make such a forking mess of things
  • mentinmindmakermentinmindmaker Member Posts: 1,492 Arc User
    callumf#9018 said:


    Its just funny. A real poke in the eye from the devs, who clearly had no idea BHEs only spawn once per million hours in IWD... or perhaps its just a DELIBERATE kick in the eye from the devs who DID know?

    To be fair.. the devs might have played the zone way back when IWD was a lot more active. Back then there were 10+ instances of each, all the lesser HEs were killed all the time, and the big HEs took a good time to kill so you could switch.

    Finding a big HE back then was not that hard.

    Times have changed.
  • pitshadepitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User
    There are other epics besides Remo and Beholder but those two were the ones set up to drop Black Ice gear. It seems like the solution is to change the code so that the other 10+ Player HEs count, as they would in any other zone.

    It seems fairly obvious to me that the Challenges were simply set up with a basic template and only modified when it was plainly not going to work, such as with Underdark HEs. It beggars belief to think any testing was actually done when you consider hiw many quests in SKT and Chult don't count but similar quests do. 3/4ths of the Camp Vengeance quests count. The Sosh weeklies and patrols count but not those from Omu. For SKT, none of ths quests in Lonelywood qualify. Going to Shadowmantle, Death Forge and Phantasmal Fortress quests count and the mobs inside count for the Conqueror challenge, but Dread Spire and its mobs don't work.

    There is no rhyme or reason in what counts as an epic because the quest was just thrown together with no checking. The game is looking at the tag that let Remo and Beholder drop BI gear rather than how many players are recommended. Caer Konig is mentioned because its part of the campaign and does count for Adventures and Conqueror (Need for Mead). This is Copypasta Coding when the quests need to be set up individually.
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  • cherryman1cherryman1 Member Posts: 348 Arc User
    I think part of the reason for these quests is to get players into older zones and doing BHE's that were essentially dead. The only BHE that I would like fixed is the one for IceWindale.
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  • flippy#8481 flippy
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         Member Posts: 198 Arc User
    as it is, this quest is simply an obscene joke perpetrated upon the community
  • sandukutupusandukutupu Member Posts: 2,285 Arc User
    Currently all 8 of my characters are retaining the quest on hold until it can be done. I attended 2 Remorhaz in the Icewind Pass, from start to finish, I did not get credit. Users asked, if I mined ore, yes I did, and still no credit. Meanwhile over in the DV I waited with people on the Black Ice Beholder and it was a no show for hours at time. If they cannot repair the quest, it is time to replace it.
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  • callumf#9018 callumf
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         Member Posts: 1,710 Arc User
    sandukutupu said:

    Currently all 8 of my characters are retaining the quest on hold until it can be done. I attended 2 Remorhaz in the Icewind Pass, from start to finish, I did not get credit. Users asked, if I mined ore, yes I did, and still no credit. Meanwhile over in the DV I waited with people on the Black Ice Beholder and it was a no show for hours at time. If they cannot repair the quest, it is time to replace it.

    This
  • adinosiiadinosii Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,294 Arc User
    Yeah....it is a bit...pathetic. I have better things to do with my time than to wait for hours for the Remorhaz to show up and not getting credit when it does.
    Hoping for improvements...
  • pitshadepitshade Member Posts: 5,665 Arc User
    This time around I've had 2 characters complete the quest and 2 characters fail to complete it when the HE spawned. None of them were camping, just doing quests. One failure was because I didn't see the announcement and failed to get there in time. The other failure participated but failed to pass the damage threshold mentioned by Mimicking.

    https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/comment/13118863
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