Observations and Thoughts for Saturday's 10/15/2022 Monster Bash

[Cid]

Thanks Dan for putting together the bash last Saturday.

These are just a few of my thoughts.

1. 1,000,000 hp monster was great! By my clock it took just under 3 min for the players involved to bring it down.
2. While I did not receive any of the rare drops, I did get something unexpected in my pack. I have no idea how this happened but a Quiver of the elements, a bag of sending and a pouch with gems in it just suddenly appeared in my pack. If anyone is missing these items, contact me and I will gladly return them to you.
3. I guess the main thing that bothered me was when the battles are / were over and the ground is covered with corpses, I had trouble locating the rabbit corpse. I was later informed that the corpse was named as a Void Demon?
4. Finally, I had a second acct running and that toon, who was standing outside the bash arena, was teleported into the arena and died....ouch. Not complaining here so no sour grapes from me but that toon remained as a ghost for the rest of the event.

I can't speak for everyone but all in all, I thought it was well run. Nice Job Dan!

 

[Dan]

Thanks Dan for putting together the bash last Saturday.

These are just a few of my thoughts.

1. 1,000,000 hp monster was great! By my clock it took just under 3 min for the players involved to bring it down.
2. While I did not receive any of the rare drops, I did get something unexpected in my pack. I have no idea how this happened but a Quiver of the elements, a bag of sending and a pouch with gems in it just suddenly appeared in my pack. If anyone is missing these items, contact me and I will gladly return them to you.
3. I guess the main thing that bothered me was when the battles are / were over and the ground is covered with corpses, I had trouble locating the rabbit corpse. I was later informed that the corpse was named as a Void Demon?
4. Finally, I had a second acct running and that toon, who was standing outside the bash arena, was teleported into the arena and died....ouch. Not complaining here so no sour grapes from me but that toon remained as a ghost for the rest of the event.

I can't speak for everyone but all in all, I thought it was well run. Nice Job Dan!

1. If you thought 1mil was decent wait for this weekend's monster bash! I have coded Heritage to accept up to 5 million and want to test that next.
3. The rabbits were just renamed and re-skinned Dark Fathers. IE - I spawned a dark father then did [set name "Doom Rabbit" [set BodyValue 1545 so when it died it's corpse name is whatever it's main type was. Nothing I can really do about that when doing these events on the fly. What I can do is add more breaks in between waves during the monster bash to account for spawn decay.
4. Yeah, so if a boss has a "teleport to me" ability it looks for any target in range. Usually, these bosses are confined to specific areas - like peerless, but in the wild anyone can be a target, being outside the Arena won't save you.

 

[Dan]

Oh, and for #2 - a lot of the event bosses were paragons and the Quiver of Elements is a paragon arty. Probably just got one of those.

 

[Omalley]

3. The rabbits were just renamed and re-skinned Dark Fathers. IE - I spawned a dark father then did [set name "Doom Rabbit" [set BodyValue 1545 so when it died it's corpse name is whatever it's main type was. Nothing I can really do about that when doing these events on the fly. What I can do is add more breaks in between waves during the monster bash to account for spawn decay.

[corpsenameoverride or "DarkFather/Name/Rabbit/CorpseNameOverride/rabbit corpse" and drop that in an xmlspawer