NPC Spawn Issue: Patch Day Respawn

[Caiu]

http://www.monkly-business.net/forum...ll=1#post98571
Lots more evidence in
https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=242181

Currently on patch day all mobs repop as soon as the server is up. This is not correct for the velious era.

Old Norrath:

Lord Nagafen, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Solusek B

Lady Vox, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Permafrost

Phinigel Autropos, level 52, instant, 12 hrs respawn, Kedge Keep

Master Yael, ?, ?, ?, The Hole



Kunark:

Trakanon, level 63+, instant, 3 day respawn, Old Sebilis

Venril Sathir, level 55?, instant, 3 day respawn, Karnor's Castle

Talendor, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Skyfire

Faydedar, level 55, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Timorous Deep

Severilous, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawnEmerald Jungle

Gorenaire, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawnDreadlands

Chardok Royalty, levels 60-65, instant, 2 hrs, Chardok

Veeshan's Peak Dragons, levels 63+, instant, 7 day respawn, Veeshan's Peak



Velious:

Yelinak, level 70, instant, 7 day respawn, Skyshrine

King Tormax, level 70, instant, 7 day respawn, Kael Drakkel

Dain Frosthammer, level 70, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Icewall Keep

Velketor, level 65?, instant, 3 day respawn, Velketor's Labyrinth

Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar, level 63?, instant, 3 day respawn, Velketor's Labyrinth

Zlandicar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Dragon Necropolis

Klandicar, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Western Wastes

Sontatalak, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawnWestern Wastes

Kelorek Dar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Cobalt Scar

Woushi, level 63, 1-3? day spawn, 7? day respawn, Wakening Lands

Darakor the Vindicator, level 63+, instant, 8 hour respawn, Kael Drakkel

Statue of Rallos Zek, level 59, instant, 7 day respawn, Kael Drakkel

Lodizal**, level 60, 18-54 spawn time, 18-54 hour respawn, Iceclad Ocean



Planes:

Tunare, level 63+, instant, 7 days?, Plane of Growth

Wandering Plane of Growth Mobs: 12 hrs

Protectors of Growth: 25 mins

Cazic Thule, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Fear

Innoruuk, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Hate

Maestro of Rancor, level 53, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate

Hate Mini Bosses, ?, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate

Hand of Maestro***, ?, 12 hours after Maestro, 12 hour respawn, Plane of Hate

Dracoliche****, level 53, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Fear

Fear Golems, ?, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Fear

Noble Dojorn, level 63, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Air

tl;dr
Instant spawns: Lord Nagafen, Lady Vox, Phinigel, Trakanon, Venril Sathir, Chardok Royals, VP named, Velketor, Lord Bob, Vindi. Statue of Rallos Zek, Tunare, Cazic Thule, Innoruuk, Hate Minis, Maestro, Noble Djorn, Yelinak, King Tormax, Dozekar, and all NToV named.ref.

1 to 3 day spawns: Dain, Zlandi, Klandi, Sont, Kelorek Dar, Wuoshi.

3 day spawns: Talendor, Gorenaire, Severilous, and Faydedar

Need more info on NToV/WToV named.

[Caiu]

So I went through the Legacy of Steel website. http://legacyofsteel.net/#/archives
October 24, 2001 update from Tigole

Patch Day Vulak



Wow. That's all I can say. Wow.

I can't even put into words how impressed I was with the guild tonight. We absolutely OBLITERATED North ToV. The place is now empty. And what a fantastic time it was. Everyone was in top form. Even when we'd get trained with something, we'd just kill it, loot and move to the next thing. I am way too fucking tired to ramble on tonight. Here's the latest installment of "New to The Nameless" Vulak loot:



Grats to the gnome Krion on that one. Plus Oz got the phatty mask and Crazz got some new gloves.

We also discovered some new loot in ToV as well. Check out this stuff:



Those two are from Zlex. . .



Monkey thingy is off of Cek-whatever. I don't know what his name is, he always dies too fast for me to read it.

Ok time for me to sleep now. What an amazing night. . . Damn, it feels good to be the Evil Empire. . .

This suggests to me that NToV is an instant spawn. Considering the Vulak mechanic it is logical that they would all come up at the same time.

Edit: More evidence from November 8, 2001

Words cannot express how angry I am.

So we're sitting in North ToV after having just killed Lord Vyemm, the hardest dragon there, trying to decide who to award the ownage GLOVES and the nice DAGGERS (2 daggers I might add) when all of the sudden we go conveniently linkdead. Upon trying to log back in I receive the, "This Zone Unavailable" message. Uh oh, I think. This cannot be good. Sure enough, I finally log back in and get raped by Lady Miranella and her two pets. How odd. . .I could remember killing Lady Miranella just a few hours before. . .Of course it's in my log files, we even have the loot fresh off her corpse. As is the Vyemm kill. ALL the other dragons but Vulak were dead.

Well, sure things seem shitty at that point right? But of course there is a GM staff to handle such problems. Easy enough right? But WAIT!! That would involve a GM actually being present on The Nameless. Well, after about 30 minutes of bitching in chat we finally get a GM to show up. How is Verant's FINE customer service going to fix this problem? They decide we're all entitled to a GM res at the zone in!!!! How fucking SWEET of them. We have 2 hours before another patch (way to fucking go QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT on that awesome test of the Patch!!!! Wow lasted a whole, what, 9 hours?). So we're fucked. We're supposed to re-kill the entire North Wing Spawn for the Vulak loot we had just worked all that time to get? Un-fucking-believable.

Am I pissed that 3 items of Vyemm loot (good fucking loot for once too) poofed with the rest of the zone? Hell yes. Am I pissed that we were 10 minutes from killing Vulak and instead of getting 3 GODLY items we all got GM resses? Fuck yes. Am I pissed that I got kicked out of chat for asking for a GM to show up in the first place? You bet your ass.

We have proven that we are some of VI's top supporters through the amount of time we spend playing this fucked up game. Not only that but our website and our exploits are 100 percent free PR for VI and their game, Evertest. Well fuck you VI. Anyone who is reading this who has never played EQ -- DON'T. VI has no fucking clue how to treat it's most hardcore fans. They don't deserve a dime of your money. Loyalty and dedication apparently amounts to spit in the eye from Verant. Way to fucking go.

Still need info for WToV named.

[Caiu]

OK seems all of ToV operated on the instant spawn tier. I think that covers all the raid mobs?

http://doa4life.tripod.com/DoA4Life/id11.html
July 6, 2001

VI brought ToV down some time for a patch so our favorite overgrown Cobalt Wyvern, Ikatiar the Venom, was back up. This time he just handed his loots over to us without much trouble. Gozzrem on the other has become the new Hoshkar for us, killing us all with 1-3% of his life left each time. This bitch will die soon though and will be killed repeatedly in retribution for the pain in CR he has caused us.

[Maner]

I would say this would only serve to help A/A keep everything locked down on repops

[Pringles]

bump some spawns should not immediately repop now that we have regular simulated path days

[Pringles]

Furthermore these delayed repops did not have variance until Luclin

Many higher level NPCs now have a random delay before they initially spawn. This means that they will appear at a more random time interval after servers or zones are brought up. This is designed to provide a fairer distribution of these NPCs across all time zones

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20020213.html

[Pringles]

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monk...20.html#p21642

Lets update...

All spawns over 12 hours have a +/- 10-20% to their spawn time. This was added long ago, when the first guild were farming Naggy and casters were farming Hadden to the second.

Mob, Level, spawn time, respawn time, zone

Spawn time is how long after the server resets before the mob spawns.
Respawn time is how long after death before the mob respawns.

Old Norrath:
Lord Nagafen, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Solusek B
Lady Vox, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Permafrost
Phinigel Autropos, level 52, instant, 12 hrs respawn, Kedge Keep
Master Yael, ?, ?, ?, The Hole

Kunark:
Trakanon, level 63+, instant, 3 day respawn, Old Sebilis
Venril Sathir, level 55?, instant, 3 day respawn, Karnor's Castle
Talendor, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Skyfire
Faydedar, level 55, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Timorous Deep
Severilous, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawnEmerald Jungle
Gorenaire, level 60, 3 day spawn, 7 day respawnDreadlands
Chardok Royalty, levels 60-65, instant, 2 hrs, Chardok
Veeshan's Peak Dragons, levels 63+, instant, 7 day respawn, Veeshan's Peak

Velious:
Yelinak, level 70, instant, 7 day respawn, Skyshrine
King Tormax, level 70, instant, 7 day respawn, Kael Drakkel
Dain Frosthammer, level 70, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Icewall Keep
Velketor, level 65?, instant, 3 day respawn, Velketor's Labyrinth
Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar, level 63?, instant, 3 day respawn, Velketor's Labyrinth
Zlandicar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Dragon Necropolis
Klandicar, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Western Wastes
Sontatalak, level 63+, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawnWestern Wastes
Kelorek Dar, level 60, 1-3 day spawn, 7 day respawn, Cobalt Scar
Woushi, level 63, 1-3? day spawn, 7? day respawn, Wakening Lands
Darakor the Vindicator, level 63+, instant, 8 hour respawn, Kael Drakkel
Statue of Rallos Zek, level 59, instant, 7 day respawn, Kael Drakkel
Lodizal**, level 60, 18-54 spawn time, 18-54 hour respawn, Iceclad Ocean

Planes:
Tunare, level 63+, instant, 7 days?, Plane of Growth
Wandering Plane of Growth Mobs: 12 hrs
Protectors of Growth: 25 mins
Cazic Thule, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Fear
Innoruuk, level 55, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Hate
Maestro of Rancor, level 53, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate
Hate Mini Bosses, ?, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Hate
Hand of Maestro***, ?, 12 hours after Maestro, 12 hour respawn, Plane of Hate
Dracoliche****, level 53, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Fear
Fear Golems, ?, instant, 3 day respawn, Plane of Fear
Noble Dojorn, level 63, instant, 7 day respawn, Plane of Air

** - Lodi has a really weird spawn pattern. He tends to spawn every 16-20 hours, but he can skip spawns. But I've never heard of him skipping 3 spawns in a row.

*** - When you kill Maestro, a weak version of the Hand of Maestro will spawn where you killed Maestro. Then 12 hours after you kill that Hand of Maestro, another Hand of Maestro will respawn in the Maestos spot, and this one is as hard as normal Maestro. The Hand will continue to respawn until Maestro spawns again. Or something like that...

**** - I'm not sure if Draco respawns on his own, or only when CT respawns the zone when he spawns.

I don't believe statue is correct but a further source seems to say the same thing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010815...ew/ultra.shtml

Regardless this is a topic about patch day spawns. Sadly I misnamed the actual thread title :P

[Pringles]

bump

[Pringles]

/necrothread

not a lot of patches versus live here so I am surprised this has never been looked at, I think the evidence is fairly compelling.