Curse

TheRaven · Aug 30, 2007, 02:54 PM // 14:54

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Originally Posted by Rudhraighe O'Hagan

I moved 3 nesting materials off of my main character to storage for room to adventure till friday now i cannot move or trade them, place in storage nor return them to the character that bought them from the collector, Now i need to Replace all my "Locked" nests and delete the old ones ;( ~Rud

Awww geez, if that's the case, I'm gonna be really pissed when I get home.

I moved all the items to a minor Level 5 NF only character for a moment so that she could show them to the great warthog hunter guy outside the Great Hall.

I was planning on putting them back in storage and transferring them to my normal char this evening. It wouldn't be that bad if I could just go get the stuff again, but i dread trying to farm 5 skales and 5 wings again.

GloryFox · Aug 30, 2007, 03:11 PM // 15:11

I can just see this at ANET HQ

Developer 1: Whats that?
Developer 2: Moa bird egg.

Developer 1: Whats it for?
Developer 2: I don't know but players seem to be enjoying this little useless items, so we thought we would add some more.

Developer 1: LOL thats so funny, remember the tattered girls cape?
Developer 2: Yeah from Kryta, that had player running around for months, boy that was funny.

Developer 1: How are those bug fixes coming along.
Developer 2: I don't know but this is more entertaining.

Developer 1: Ok just checking, what do you want from KFC?
Developer 2: OH! you just gave me an idea how about a Hot Rock of some kind in the Fire Islands. OR a way of boiling the Moa Egg.

Developer 1: Thats so funny. This will have em running around for months. I wonder what kind of conspiracy theory's will end up on those fan forums.

Bathory_Swain · Aug 30, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15

LMFAO GloryFox

Dude that's great...

brian78wa · Aug 30, 2007, 03:38 PM // 15:38

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Originally Posted by lakatz

For those of you who haven't farmed your bog skale fins yet, I didn't see the suggestion here, and I think I read every post, but last night I farmed Tears of the Fallen. I only had to zone once after I got there, and I spent about 1.5 hours to get five fins. There are a lot more skales concentrated in a smaller area than the area outside Lion's Arch (which is the area I saw recommended here), and it's just north of Twin Serpent Lakes where Gruhn the Fisher is located.

1 1/2 hours wtf??? Either thats a horrible place to farm for them or youre just really slow. I went outside of LA and to the right and had 10 of them in 15 minutes.

Another Felldspar · Aug 30, 2007, 03:53 PM // 15:53

@ Glory Fox and Bathory Swain:

No, it isn’t great.

Have you ever been a dungeon master for a pen and paper group of players and created something that your players have chased around, played, had fun with, been forced to think about? Have you ever watched a group come up with bizarre ideas, and then watched them come up with dead on solutions? Have you seen the sense of achievement and accomplishment in a group when it finally comes together? It’s great fun and personally rewarding.

Some of that fun attitude is very evident in Linsey’s (the developer) talk page that was linked to this thread. If you don’t want to play, then don’t play. If you want to wait and let someone else do the leg work and the puzzlements and then play when it’s easy and you have step-by-step instructions then do that. But don’t insult the developer that has put out the thought and effort and creativity to produce this little gem. Reading that kind of nonsense steals my fun, and it will steal hers.

Aye

arcanemacabre · Aug 30, 2007, 03:58 PM // 15:58

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Originally Posted by TheRaven

Awww geez, if that's the case, I'm gonna be really pissed when I get home.

I moved all the items to a minor Level 5 NF only character for a moment so that she could show them to the great warthog hunter guy outside the Great Hall.

I was planning on putting them back in storage and transferring them to my normal char this evening. It wouldn't be that bad if I could just go get the stuff again, but i dread trying to farm 5 skales and 5 wings again.

Wait, now before you panic, try this little trick used to move /bonus items to your storage:

1) Have an item in your character's inventory that can be moved to your storage box, like let's say a Gray Dye.

2) Go to your storage and drag the Gray Dye (or whatever) onto the slot where the Nesting Material is in your storage.

3) Viola! The items should switch places. The Nesting Material will now be in your character's inventory, while the Gray Dye (or whatever) will be in your storage box.

This should work - hopefully.

Master Mxyzptlk · Aug 30, 2007, 04:11 PM // 16:11

thats what I said earlier. It wont help them putting it into storage from their mule, however, which, as he said, was his problem, it being on his NF only level 5 character.

zwei2stein · Aug 30, 2007, 04:11 PM // 16:11

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Originally Posted by Ayelet Feldspar

@ Glory Fox and Bathory Swain:

No, it isn’t great.

Have you ever been a dungeon master for a pen and paper group of players and created something that your players have chased around, played, had fun with, been forced to think about? Have you ever watched a group come up with bizarre ideas, and then watched them come up with dead on solutions? Have you seen the sense of achievement and accomplishment in a group when it finally comes together? It’s great fun and personally rewarding.

Some of that fun attitude is very evident in Linsey’s (the developer) talk page that was linked to this thread. If you don’t want to play, then don’t play. If you want to wait and let someone else do the leg work and the puzzlements and then play when it’s easy and you have step-by-step instructions then do that. But don’t insult the developer that has put out the thought and effort and creativity to produce this little gem. Reading that kind of nonsense steals my fun, and it will steal hers.

Aye

You act like they were slandering anet for creating it or something.

They act in way that lots of roleplayers would once they exhausted 'serious' part of secret: humorously. I just dont get how you can get insluted when someone is not taking it 100% seriously.

Do you have sense of humor?

It part of having fun, you know.

But whatever.

arcanemacabre · Aug 30, 2007, 04:22 PM // 16:22

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Originally Posted by Master Mxyzptlk

thats what I said earlier. It wont help them putting it into storage from their mule, however, which, as he said, was his problem, it being on his NF only level 5 character.

So... umm... do the reverse? Move a dye from storage on top of the Nesting Material in their character's inventory and watch as they switch places? I mean it does work both ways. No idea why it wouldn't.

MSecorsky · Aug 30, 2007, 04:26 PM // 16:26

Has anyone tried double-clicking on the nesting material or the eggs to see if they can be combined?

brian78wa · Aug 30, 2007, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ayelet Feldspar

@ Glory Fox and Bathory Swain:

No, it isn’t great.

Have you ever been a dungeon master for a pen and paper group of players and created something that your players have chased around, played, had fun with, been forced to think about? Have you ever watched a group come up with bizarre ideas, and then watched them come up with dead on solutions? Have you seen the sense of achievement and accomplishment in a group when it finally comes together? It’s great fun and personally rewarding.

Some of that fun attitude is very evident in Linsey’s (the developer) talk page that was linked to this thread. If you don’t want to play, then don’t play. If you want to wait and let someone else do the leg work and the puzzlements and then play when it’s easy and you have step-by-step instructions then do that. But don’t insult the developer that has put out the thought and effort and creativity to produce this little gem. Reading that kind of nonsense steals my fun, and it will steal hers.

Aye

First of all lol @ dungeon master. get a life.
Second he wasnt insulting anyone it was a little comedy. So lighten up.

zwei2stein · Aug 30, 2007, 04:33 PM // 16:33

Anyway, for people having trouble farming Wings, this is my run:

It is quite fast in normal mode, and you meet two bosses (who can drop greens and also: when bosses drop collectibles, they drop stack of 2-3)

In hardmode, this doubles as nice SS farm and is not that much slower. Just get BHA with MM and breeze throught them.

As bonus, if you follow this path you will not aggro any non-harpy mosnters, meaning that you wont loose time on them. As another bonus, it gets you close to collector so when run is finished you can scash your wings asap.

You meet about 15 groups of harpies.

brian78wa · Aug 30, 2007, 04:44 PM // 16:44

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Anyway, for people having trouble farming Wings, this is my run:

It is quite fast in normal mode, and you meet two bosses (who can drop greens and also: when bosses drop collectibles, they drop stack of 2-3)

In hardmode, this doubles as nice SS farm and is not that much slower. Just get BHA with MM and breeze throught them.

As bonus, if you follow this path you will not aggro any non-harpy mosnters, meaning that you wont loose time on them. As another bonus, it gets you close to collector so when run is finished you can scash your wings asap.

You meet about 15 groups of harpies.

thanks for posting this one. Ive been going through Forum Highlands outside thicard. this looks alot better.

WarKaster · Aug 30, 2007, 04:46 PM // 16:46

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Originally Posted by MSecorsky

Has anyone tried double-clicking on the nesting material or the eggs to see if they can be combined?

yes....I have also tried dropping every thing in front of the original nest. In front of random moa birds........which now gets me to thinking.....has anyone dropped the crap by the uncapped black moa?

EDIT: meant Un-Capped Black Moa. Fixed now.

Ben-A-BoO · Aug 30, 2007, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Nope,
Nesting material now has an edited description:
"Fragile. (Can not be dropped or traded)."

Erhm, Anet? what's the purpose of this?
Giving people another reason to buy an expansion, making one of the items untradeable?
Not a nice move after people started to stack them up and play around with different solutions on different chars ...

Did put me off for now, even if it is not a problem for me...

Timebandit

deathbyone · Aug 30, 2007, 05:14 PM // 17:14

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Erhm, Anet? what's the purpose of this?
Giving people another reason to buy an expansion, making one of the items untradeable?
Not a nice move after people started to stack them up and play around with different solutions on different chars ...

Did put me off for now, even if it is not a problem for me...

Well if this really is a reward only for those that have bought all the chapters then this makes perfect sense. Why should people that have not be able to buy these items? Not much of a reward anymore if you let that happen.

arcanemacabre · Aug 30, 2007, 05:16 PM // 17:16

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Originally Posted by arcanemacabre

So... umm... do the reverse? Move a dye from storage on top of the Nesting Material in their character's inventory and watch as they switch places? I mean it does work both ways. No idea why it wouldn't.

Correcting myself. Just tried this and no, it does not work. I had mine in my storage already, and was able to move it over to my warrior, only to find I cannot move it back, not even using the switch/replace item method.

Well, I guess you just need to get another one, not a big deal. Takes like what, 10-15 minutes of farming with a full team? Less when solo? Pssh.

lakatz · Aug 30, 2007, 05:22 PM // 17:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Anyway, for people having trouble farming Wings, this is my run:

It is quite fast in normal mode, and you meet two bosses (who can drop greens and also: when bosses drop collectibles, they drop stack of 2-3)

In hardmode, this doubles as nice SS farm and is not that much slower. Just get BHA with MM and breeze throught them.

As bonus, if you follow this path you will not aggro any non-harpy mosnters, meaning that you wont loose time on them. As another bonus, it gets you close to collector so when run is finished you can scash your wings asap.

You meet about 15 groups of harpies.

I like this one better for skree wings as well.

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Originally Posted by Brian78wa

First of all lol @ dungeon master. get a life.
Second he wasnt insulting anyone it was a little comedy. So lighten up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian78wa

1 1/2 hours wtf??? Either thats a horrible place to farm for them or youre just really slow. I went outside of LA and to the right and had 10 of them in 15 minutes..

First of all... did you forget to take your meds this morning? Or do you maybe need to up the dosage a tad? You're a nasty little fellow today aren't you.

Second of all... yeah your point is good (even if it was terribly ill stated). I was in the game for a total of 1-1/2 hours and that included trips to the merchants and to the two different collectors with my fins and wings. I probably spent less than an hour once I got to Tears of the Fallen. If you read my next post (after the one you quoted) you'll see I started from Fisherman's Haven and killed everything there first... and yeah, I'm an adult with a real life, who likes to savor my fun diversions such as GW... so yeah, I take my time. I take breaks while screens are loading and things like that... and I was also savoring a bowl of Haagen Dazs Caramel Cone while I played... mmm mmm mmm.... so yeah... 1-1/2 hours was really good time and good fun for 5 fins.

Third of all... difficult to believe that you got 10 in 15 mins just outside of LA. If you truly did, it was utterly amazing luck. If you read this thread, you'll see there are a FEW people who found that area very slow farming. I find it slow as well compared to Tears of the Fallen. Like I said, in TotF the skales are much more concentrated (bigger mobs) in a smaller area (less travelling). It would really be wise to check it out (and know of what you speak) before you speak about it again.

brian78wa · Aug 30, 2007, 05:38 PM // 17:38

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Originally Posted by lakatz

I like this one better for skree wings as well.

First of all... did you forget to take your meds this morning? Or do you maybe need to up the dosage a tad? You're a nasty little fellow today aren't you.

Today? lol Im the type that tells it how it is. I dont believe in beating around the bush. If someones slow I say so if someones stupid I say so. People need to quit being so sensitive.

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Originally Posted by lakatz

Third of all... difficult to believe that you got 10 in 15 mins just outside of LA. If you truly did, it was utterly amazing luck. If you read this thread, you'll see there are a FEW people who found that area very slow farming. I find it slow as well compared to Tears of the Fallen. Like I said, in TotF the skales are much more concentrated (bigger mobs) in a smaller area (less travelling). It would really be wise to check it out (and know of what you speak) before you speak about it again.

Theres a bunch of low lvl skales right outside of LA it takes like 1-2 hits to kill 1. theres a boss there that drops them as well got 3 just from him. It took 2 runs to get 10 skales. which took all of about 10-15 minutes. its really not hard.

Lord Feathers · Aug 30, 2007, 05:39 PM // 17:39

Well my guess is that if this is indeed a mini-pet moa that folks can get much like some of the promotional things ANET has done such as the grey giant quest then it only makes sense that they are making this item untradable and more then likely limiting a gold mini-pet to one per character or one per acct. Guess we wait and see but it makes sense to limit a mini if they want it to be special and not something farmed the hell out of and folks go " oh yeah " one of those kinda like the mini-pig, which was a really cool thing for the event but in no way is it special since folks simply farmed the hell out of them to sell. This makes sense