Dragonslayer Armor and Weapons

[Sand]

When GM popped in game last night the discussion of how the armor was going to be available in game and I mentioned how it was done on live and well I think I didn't give quite the right information.

For complete details you can read here:
http://www.camelotherald.com/article.php?id=388

The armor is given through a quest, and the whole of the quest is fairly long, including farming faction of certain mobs which means lots of killing or repeating a particular side quest.

Anyway, once you get to a certain point of that, you can get the repeatable great hunt quest, each time you complete this you can talk to an npc to pick a piece of dragonslayer armor. What I forgot was the great hunt quest is to kill the 4 ADOLECENT dragons, not the main dragon.

After you have at least 1 armor piece you can then get the quest to do the main dragons (on live it is actually requires doing something to summon the other realms dragons, so you kill those too) for credit it to get the weapon. After the kill, you click on the corpse to get credit then can go to npc for your reward, which is you can pick which weapon you want.

The armor quest was repeatable so you can get all 6 pieces, while the armor quest was a 1 time quest so you can only have one piece but there is an npc where you can exchange for a different one (similar to champ weapons).

The Adolecent dragons were a bit easier than the main dragon, main dragon was suppose to be a 3 group encounter and the adolecents a 1 group, but the difficulty difference wasn't as much as that implies. Dragons were farmed with one group (there were a few different but specific group makeups) and you still needed most of that same group for adolocents since they had a pretty nasty nuke too and they have a lot of adds around them that will come when you pull dragon if not quickly cleared ahead of time.

With that I am not sure what approach you want to use for Storm since even a paritial live approach would be a fair bit of work. Could simply have items drop or do a simplied version of the quest where you simply kill main dragon for choose of item.

I prefer idea of armor and weapons be quest related and one reward per kill as it means everyone gets a class appropriate item from the dragon so would be a more reliable means of obtaining them while not being too easy. This means that you have to bring the toon that wants the armor which in some respects will make encounter more difficult since the toon you want the armor on might not always be the best help in doing the encounter. The cloaks, I think probably have them be drops or a different quest, since I believe they do come from a separate quest on live as well.

With that, if your going to have the armor come from the main dragon, I am thinking dragon needs to be tone down from what it was a couple months ago. I think as one of the few encounters on the server, I don't want it nerfed to a point where people are able to do it with 2 toons, but a full group is not easy too pull together so thinking it should be possible with less than a group if they are well played and well geared players. I don't think it was impossible with a single group when we tried it yet we had 2 + groups and failed, in part because we didn't have a strategy but with how twitchy the dragon was not sure strategy would of helped much so it came down more to luck and lack of sufficiently powerful characters.

[Graveen]

Well, i begin to work on the following implementation:

The npc bard of the drake (harris in TNN) give you a quest: to kill cuuldurach. the reward is you can choose a DS piece suitable for your class or a cloak. non tradable/sellable ofc (hummm remember me the bug where you can trade non tradable items i'll fix).

The drakes are tuned down to be killable with an half group, in addition they are looting halft stones: 12 respecs RA + 12 respecs all.

The weapons - if they are available - will rather drop directly from drakes.

This mean a good hunt for the complete set and the cloak, plus perhaps one day the weapons. Tbh, tuned down, the drake with throw/glare/yell is a nice encounter.

Stay tuned, this is the next feature to come in !

[Sand]

Sounds good.

[Charz]

i hope this will be up soon... im just dieing to suit my vamp in DS armour...

[m00h]

is it added for alb too now ?

[Graveen]

no, but it 'll be really soon.

[Charz]

let us know when we can get our dragonlsyaer stuff...

[Graveen]

of course i'm sure you are reading patch notes faster than anyone

[Charz]

i dont read patch notes.

[chichikuri]

I heart priya now

As do i

Very nice work there Priya


Edit: Dunno when it came back but my Avatar is now working W00t \o/

[Excelio]

So its time to show all my next step.... Have fun with this Demo

Hibernia Weapons - 100%
Midgard Weapons - 20%
Albion Weapons - 0%

[Graveen]

<3

[Charz]

what is the code fer the 1h weap out of curio? *loves the hib DS weaps.*

[Roozzz]

what is the code fer the 1h weap out of curio? *loves the hib DS weaps.*

http://metty.the-bart.org/other/daoc/list.php

[Graveen]

ah iirc i build a script long time ago for mob models, it is easy to generate pics. i could bring it to life

for the items pics, if this is a weapon/effect, my script could work fine, for the objects not automatically.