Khaldun Puzzle Boxes and Stealables

Petra_Fyde

I never found a stealable on Test center, and I did a LOT of testing of it. I've only found one on Europa. But, I've gotten enough cult items to get a belt for my archer, my samurai and my tamer and I've enough Felucca treasure maps to keep me busy for weeks!  
I'm a very happy bunny. To me the maps are more worthwhile than a rare that will just gather virtual dust in a corner. I enjoy digging treasure maps.
@Faeryl, it's been noted somewhere (can't remember who posted it, but my experience supports that post) the boxes have a tendency to congregate in the closed area. I've found as many as 7 in that small space.

Faeryl

Yeah, if I keep it up I'm going to need to claim a third Davies Locker to hold all the maps! I'm already up to about six hundred.

I have more than enough of the cult items and newer deco... plus I've gotten enough artifacts for two spellbooks, three belts, and a pair of boots.

TimSt

If you do the secured room it will supposedly cause the hidden boxes in the rest of dungeon to spawn.

Pawain

Mene_Drachenfels said:

Gidge - where do you play on which shard? Which facet you found them at least? Oh i've even see - Lake Superior. I do this on DF and nothing till now

This could apply to you.  There are players on LS that play 6 to 12 hours a day during these events.  We are fighting in Khaldun 12 or more hours a day.  There are always blue containers on the ground that someone detected. Constant detecting and opening for hours.

These players have found sets of the artifacts.  I think the rate is too low for a casual gamer to find these.  How many hours a week of detecting and opening should it take to find 1?  Not my department.

Mene_Drachenfels

Pawain... fine if you have many good people on LS - we also have this on DF and be sure that i go looking for this 4  to 5 hours every day

Gratz if players on LS are more luckier than others you're really great there!

If this is not your department plz feed your pets

Mervyn

Got my *first relic on Europa

*mass optimism

Gidge

I hit ever square inch of the whole dungeon, even while the spawn is active. Sometimes it isn't worth going back until it resets due to the area affect of those water elemental wanna bes.

Mervyn

@Kyronix probably a bit late now, but the ratio of dread horn mane, corruption, and taint that spawns in the chests is 1:1:1 however to craft scrappers compendiums the resources used ratio is 1:10:10 respectively. Could you adjust the spawn rate accordingly?

Garth_Grey

Yes, please adjust that spawn rate, I'll continue to wait for special ship ammo to be adjusted back to actually spawning again..in any amount.

Mene_Drachenfels

I think Mervyn probably has his full set of relics *thinking*  . . .

 

Still twelve days remaining time of the event from today and I have after 6 weeks of daily mostly 4 - 6 hour search and breaks between through in order to protect my health not yet found a single one. I think I ain't no longer nerves for it. 

 

My honest opinion on the subject:

Bringing Rares into the game is all very well and good, but especially at such events, which are limited in time, they should really be left out. Which I can't understand anymore and want to understand why it has to be done super-rare. Before all should be slowly but surely also this - sorry - crap with the RNG let out. I now have plenty of these new pictures and platinium bars and from the Peculiars' again some not at all and others equal 10 times. I don't know who or what broke the reward system , but it can't go on like this in the long run - it won't keep the ball rolling for long, especially not the newcomers in the game. Please create a way to keep those things permanent in the game so that you have the chance to complete your collections much later - and that's how this game lives.

 

We old veterans would have something to take away the boredom with, the dungeons would still be animated because they are being used, and the new players would have a longer-term motivation reason that keeps them in the game and doesn't immediately drive them away again.

I love this game - for me there is and never was another. This game has some great decoration, and since the new designers are in it - there have been some awsome WOW moments. I love house building in UO and accordingly also decoration. Some of my houses are museums and many collections about the Ultima Online history have to remain incomplete, because as a player you simply don't have a chance to complete them by playing yourself  any longer - by taking them out of the game and thanks to a shitty RNG that blacklists you from the beginning . Nothing is sometimes more disappointing than having to tell a newcomer - sorry, there is no more or there still is, but it costs tens of millions or even platiniums, and in fact many would rather play it themselves - especially at the beginning where everyone has only one coin of gold.

Just my two cents

Mervyn

I have 2 relics. And I’m still missing 3 peculiar items however I have a good few duplicates so am hoping to trade.

I remain content at the rarity as will add value. Also quite like they’re shard bound.

Mervyn

I don’t farm the chests for as long as you. I don’t have lockpicking on my detect hide char, so I don’t bother with the hidden chests, I only do the puzzle boxes. I farm exclusively in fel with 0 luck as can’t enter trammel. I’m not suggesting that my way is the way to go. If I had lockpicking I would do the hidden chests I’m sure. 

Tanager

What are the peculiar items, please?

Mervyn

Mene_Drachenfels said:

Rare stealable decorative relics > very rare

New decorative paintings                relativly common

Decorative counterfeit platinum     relativly common

Blackrock staff is something new and did not come out last year with the Shattered Obelisk Event – Halloween 2017

 Peculiar decorative items of the cult          rarer than pics & plats, but more common than relics

These are special item that come as rare loot from the traders quest during the first circle ot the Shatteres Obelisk Event 2017 from the Ambushers

·         This can be:

·         A daemonic amulet

·         An oddly modified gorget

·         A mysterious rolled map

·         A soul trapped within a phylactery

·         Boline

·         Dried Incense   ( I still miss this in my collection)

·         Folded Stole

·         Goblet

·         Pentagram adorned wand

·         Ritual Tome

·         Scourge

 

 Artifacts of the Cult – relavtivly common

 

Helpful items such as bandages, arrows, bolts, lockpicks, gold and gems

Nice little helpers althouh I even never saw any bolts and arrows

@Tanager

Tanager

Thanks

Mariah

Test center notes, release 4: https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/publish-notes/publish-101/

Swapped arrows and bolts with invisibility potions that can spawn inside hidden puzzle chests.