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Killing Red Dragon in WoD - request for clarification

kvetkvet Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,700 Arc User
edited November 2014 in General Discussion (PC)
First off, I understand the issue here - if you kill the red dragon, all the other dragon HEs despawn and people get mad about that. Keep your rage to yourself please, or keep it on Zone which I don't read.

My question is this. I took this note in todays patch notes:
Well of Dragons: Fixed an issue where the dragon encounters could erroneously despawn if certain conditions were met.

To mean the problem where if you kill the Red dragon all the other dragons despawn was fixed. Clearly, since killing the Red dragon STILL causes all the other dragon HEs to despawn, this isn't the case.

That means, I would assume, that this is an intend mechanic. I don't understand why. There's nothing that exists that I've seen in game that leads me to think there's supposed to be some sort of order to those HEs. Futher, it seems strange to me that killing the Red first, but not any of the other dragons, makes all those others vanish.

It's possible this was supposed to be fixed but wasn't (and I simply didn't see this mentioned on the forum), but since the Known Issues post hasn't been updated, I was hoping to find some clarity on this issue.

Is it intended? If so... I'm confused a bit I guess. Can someone explain?

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  • sexwax45sexwax45 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    White, Black, Green, Blue, Red is the preferred order.
  • iambecks1iambecks1 Member Posts: 4,044 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    They do it in order so that everybody can have a chance to get five rewards but they don't seem to take into account that some people have 80% and 50% mounts but yeah , now you can kill them in whatever order you want to , one interesting thing is if you look at the world map when the dragons spawn you can see all five of their icons but one is a lot larger than the others , when that one dies one of the other icons becomes large , maybe that is trying to say what order they are supposed to die in?
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  • ironzerg79ironzerg79 Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 4,942 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    That's interesting...
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  • kvetkvet Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,700 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    But... is it really intended that killing the Red ends all the HEs? It makes no logical sense that I can make out, but since they said they fixed something (not sure what), either A) their fix didn't work, B) it was a fix to something else and this is still considered a bug, or C) this is the intended behavior.

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  • iambecks1iambecks1 Member Posts: 4,044 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    kvet wrote: »
    But... is it really intended that killing the Red ends all the HEs?

    No it was a bug but it is fixed isn't it? yesterday some people killed the red before we finished the circuit but the rest didn't despawn.
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  • trouncedtrounced Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The Greedy zerg like to keep their little pattern of clockwise rotation leaving the red until last.
    Hit whatever dragon you want regardless of the order.
  • twitticlestwitticles Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 92
    edited November 2014
    trounced wrote: »
    The Greedy zerg like to keep their little pattern of clockwise rotation leaving the red until last.
    Hit whatever dragon you want regardless of the order.
    If you're killing the dragons you're doing it for loot as that's the only reward. Why then would you not want to maximize your loot chances?
  • blacksladdiblacksladdi Member Posts: 359 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I try to get Great success on 2-3 dragons so I often do green then blue then red or green then red depending on my mood and how many are zerging to the green then blue and its hp. 5 "been in the zone" rewards isn't going to get me any cloaks or belts so may as well maximize my chance at 2-3 :D

    I thought the killing red dragon before others bug was fixed?
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    iambecks1 wrote: »
    one interesting thing is if you look at the world map when the dragons spawn you can see all five of their icons but one is a lot larger than the others , when that one dies one of the other icons becomes large , maybe that is trying to say what order they are supposed to die in?

    IWD HE icons have been doing this since Mod 4 launched. I hadn't noticed any particular reason for it, but possibly the large icons indicate where the majority of players are already?
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