+Colibri wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:17 pm
The champion spawn is located in Felucca, north-east of Vesper. If you exit Vesper through the northern bridge, go straight east.
There's a few new mobs that are part of the champion spawn (orcling, auroch, orc scout).
The champion has new fight mechanics - the Orc Toss - he will throw you to the ground and it will take a while for you to get up. Another player can stand nearby and assist you to get up.
Kudos to Praise for the idea and brainstorming, as well as helping to test it.
For a whole week, the champion spawn has a 3-hour restart timer. It will then be set to the regular 6-8 hour timer.
We already found and fixed a few issues after the initial testing, but there's a few more things that can be done to improve it.
orc champ location.png
Nice to see new content. If you're looking for feedback this is my two cents.
1) The Orc Toss is too frequent. At times 8 of the 10 players fighting Mughragh the boss were flattened.
2) 5 second help timer is too long. 3 would still be an significant delay while not being a major hindrance. At one time 6 of us were in a body pile as those that came to help were flattened themselves.
3) Like Blood/Cove champ there's no real reward for doing this one.
Most champs give decent gold. First orc champ I did UOSteam open corpse/auto loot gold. Got 4300gp from the whole champ spawn. Second I didn't bother. Tier 4 spawn mobs had 60gp on them.
Some champs are great sources of leather. This one does have the bulls at 30 leather and chickens at 50 feathers. But not enough of them spawn during the champ to amount to large numbers.
A special item would make this champ worth while, like the Harrower skull form Oaks, the PS bag from Kronus, or the 135 Pet PS from Doc Apoc. Thinking of the mask of orcish kin, how about a special Orc Armour Set. 1 player getting 1 piece per defeat of the boss would keep it rare. If it was nice armour, like the Dreadnought gear, it would encourage players to do that champ as well as create a new item trade.
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