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Question about hill giant population
I haven't run over to rathe to check this, but have the numbers of hill giants been put back to normal on green / teal, or is it stupidly sparse like blue was. I vividly remember on live quadding hill giants on live, while there were groups of varying size on both sides of the mountain pulling and killing giants as well as others quadding as well, and there was rarely ever a time when there were none up. It used to be anything that pathed on or around the hill was a ph (not the static spawns, and basilisks and drakes also having chance to spawn their associated named). On blue there were like 6 or 7 spawns and killing the pathing trash had no effect on them.
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Find some proof, file a bug, and we'll have more hill giants.
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This next one is somewhat out of era but it's a lot more specific: Quote:
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Last edited by Dolalin; 01-12-2020 at 03:50 PM..
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This has been on my to do list, but I needed more evidence first.
I found this comment a few years ago: Quote:
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Thank you Dol for finding evidence....on blue someone had told me that the spawn rate had been nerfed the same way seafury gems were so I just accepted it, although its driven me nuts because I know Ive leveled many chars there quadding and grouping
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While not definitive proof, there a tons of posts about how there are way more hill giants up than blue has ever had.
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...6&p=3#comments RE: Basilisks Quote Reply # Jun 14 2001 at 5:19 PM Rating: Good paugod Scholar 28 posts The Hill Giant Valley in the South West corner of the zone is where most Basilisks hang out. I have heard reports that Basilisks are placeholders for the HGs but do not know this for a fact. I do know that when there are a lot of HGs around there are few Basilisks and when there are a lot of Basilisks there a few HGs. I have heard that Giant Skellys are also placeholders for HGs. The very best place to hunt is the North West corner of this Valley. You usually see the Basilisks on top of the Hill, near the tower and they sometimes wander down the side of the hill. On the East side of this valley area there are also a lot of Bailisks but this area is very dangerous as HGs get bunched up from various pulls and you can become trained on very quickly with HGs, cyclopses, Giant Skellies and what not. The drake also roams this area. The reason for these trains is that Druids are very effective against HGs and they like to train them, dot them and kill them in packs. Sometimes they pull more than they can handle and they clear out leaving wandering problems for other groups. The North West area of this valley is the least vulnerable to this and there are pockets inside where you will not agro wanderings Mobs. ____________________________ Alarick Paladin Lvl 45 Forbringers of Fate Also quite a few people mentioning how they are in full groups killing giants....that would just be straight up stupid to do if there were only the 5 or 6 spawns we currently have. | ||
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Glad to see this getting some attention. I went there killing everything for an hour and was sad it didn't help and then stopped lol.
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If I am not mistaken, there should be six spawns of HGs that then wander. Basilisks were then able to spawn HGs in addition to the six that are currently spawning on P99. However, I have no idea what the PH/HG ratios were. I did know that we tended to slaughter everything we could find to get more HGs to spawn. That area used to be able to support 2.5ish groups.
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Ive seen more than 15 hill giants up at once, there used to be 2 or 3 full groups on each side of mountain on vaz, plus usually 1 or 2 (or more) druids / wizzies quadding them. Anything that moves on or around the hill was a ph, basilisks, bears, giants skellys, cyclops, lizards drakes....everything except static spawns were ph's
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Last edited by Kalamurv; 01-13-2020 at 12:59 AM..
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Can't add much from my memory banks other than on test server there were plenty of times where no hill giants were in RM at all. So there are certainly no HG only spawn points. It was common knowledge at the time that the basilisks spawned them near that hill area.
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