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Winter Lord

brophog02

By brophog02,
Posted on: 2009-12-02 02:27 in Player Questions

 

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Originally Posted by Kierthos View Post
Okay, I understand that if you beat the city-zone Winter Lord GM, he drops a present, which a few minutes later you can click on to go to the Winter Realm.
Oh jeez, it's gonna be the new Halloween event all over for me. I refuse to stand around and wait for these things to pop up as my time online is often limited and the chances of finding a PUG who have a decent clue what they're doing - assuming I even bother to learn enough to have such a clue myself - is sort of small. Out of about five toons I was more or less running during Halloween, I think I got a couple of badges on one and only one toon got all of them and managed to participate in a fully successful run. (Sure, maybe if I was only running two toons they could have all done that, but I refuse to let my play style be dictated by these things. Tough.)

Oh well, there's always ski run fun!

 

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Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
That said.. I'm going to take that as the "unspawning" counting in the running total of the zone, like I implied in my last post.
It could be is that if Winter Horrdlings "unspawning" counts, you present hunting topped off a count total that others had racked up a bunch of credit towards earlier in the evening.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
It could be is that if Winter Horrdlings "unspawning" counts, you present hunting topped off a count total that others had racked up a bunch of credit towards earlier in the evening.
I'm sure that would be the case. If the auto-kill earns credit, logic tells you that the counter value would eventually be reached. WL spawned toward the end of my stay there, but I was only there long enough to grab my 100 gifts, and leave. I never claimed to have accumulated the whole zone's counter by myself. I was just saying that the auto-kill probably counts, and you might not have to go out of your way to purposely defeat them.

Regardless if other people had contributed to the zone's counter earlier in the night (by killing them or not), I was still solo/alone when it happened.. and if the auto-kill does give credit, then anybody trying hard enough could possibly stay in a zone long enough (hours or not) to exceed the value without help from anybody, and without ever having to kill anything.

On a side note, without being able to personally keep track of it reliably, and without knowing exactly what the zone's counter is on at any given time... I suppose there is still some matter of personal chance as far as being in the right zone and clicking a present at the right time when the counter has reached the right value.

 

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Originally Posted by gec72 View Post
Does the spawning of a Winter Lord throw an alert in the chat window? I was playing Red-Side last night on Champion but don't recall seeing any (did see at least one Rikti alert though...).
It does not.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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Originally Posted by gec72 View Post
Does the spawning of a Winter Lord throw an alert in the chat window? I was playing Red-Side last night on Champion but don't recall seeing any (did see at least one Rikti alert though...).
No, but if you happen to be in the zone where it goes off, you'll see a big purple alert flash on your screen. It's hard to miss.

 

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Hmm...that's unfortunate, but good to know. I'll probably have to make a point to spend some time outside of my normal routine of running between solo missions and the market, and maybe play a little more blue-side during the holidays. Just a wild guess that I'll have a little more luck happening upon it Blue-Side Virtue than Red-Side Champion.

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Anyone can click on the present and go to the instanced co-op zone/mission. Our villainous team successfully defeated LW, and half of them dropped. When we realized that a neighboring instance (accessible via the portal) was having trouble, we recruited a bunch of namby-pamby heroes and rallied to help the second instance win, too.

You can always go in solo and ask for a team. If you do damage to LW, you should still get merits, too. If you want the badge, though, a team will definitely help.

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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5 View Post
Oh jeez, it's gonna be the new Halloween event.
At least it's not night for a month.