Wing of the Gryphon- need better respawning of spirits

ellmarie

I can't stand these types of quests! Up until this one, items needed to complete quest have respawned pretty quickly. The Wing of the Gryphon was the worst. Let's not have many spirits walking around that you have to steal from. I was in there running around forever trying to find a spirit, while someone would come running up and also try to steal from the same spirit. Boy these types of quests really bring out the worst in some players. Need a better respawn rate on this one!

PeacefulAnarchy

Those aren't the spirits to steal from. there's one specific spirit to steal from and multiple people can steal from them.

valenwood_vegan

Yeah something was wrong with this quest when I went through it also - I and many other players were running around in circles for 5 min, possibly a bit more, and there was no spirit to be found. Eventually one spawned and I was able to complete the quest, but I think people may be killing it (perhaps with the blade of woe?) and then it's not spawning again for a while.

I didn't really bother to further investigate, but if it *is* killable... it shouldn't be.

Necrotech_Master

i actually would say i had a more annoying time with the one to pick flowers near moonmont

the flowers are not instanced so there were a few times it was trying "beat other players to the flowers" or keep running around to look for them

thankfully they were respawning fairly quickly which lessened the annoyance but still, a quest objective should not be consumed if its a player outside of your group

Nathrai

I don't think it's killable, but it seems to despawn. I had one vanish right before my eyes.

I think the one I stole from at the end was at a different place, though. So maybe they are set to respawn at different places, so you can retry upon failure (since they become wary when you botch the skill check)?

xylena_lazarow

It can definitely die or despawn and it's extremely slow to respawn. Multiple players trying to pickpocket the same ghost interfere with each other and put it on cooldown, which is also egregiously long. When you finally get a chance, the pickpocket minigame itself is still a pointless dice roll. Terrible game experience and design, players should never be interfering with other players finishing an overworld PvE quest in this game.

ellmarie

Wow, only one particular spirit?! No wonder! Yeah, had a really hard time. Great that mulitiple people can steal, but wow, respawn is awful. And I only have more alts to do this for! Yikes!

TaSheen

Try doing it off-peak for your server. There shouldn't be so many others in the way?

ellmarie

Well luckily on today and weird how quiet it is on day 2!!!

ellmarie

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i actually would say i had a more annoying time with the one to pick flowers near moonmont

the flowers are not instanced so there were a few times it was trying "beat other players to the flowers" or keep running around to look for them

thankfully they were respawning fairly quickly which lessened the annoyance but still, a quest objective should not be consumed if its a player outside of your group

This....yes and when other players are not killing enemies but just dragging them around, priceless.