Jan 03, 2019 - FYI Artificial Intelligence and New Invasions

[Amairgen]

Okay . . two things FYI:

1) Several new forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been completed and tested on the Test Server. These are now on the server and will be phased in. At the moment you may find that Dragons, Cyclops, Ancient Liches, Titans and Mollochs could become more interesting to fight. Others may be given a random chance for other forms of AI in the future. Also the drops on these will be become more interesting than the 'plain old'.

2) Initial testing of some new Invasion systems has been underway for some time. The major version of these required updating and recompiling of the game's Core. The new Core is now up and active on the live shard so the way is open to bring in the new systems. At the moment I am working on new and varied monsters to be part of these invasions. I anticipate this will be completed by mid month.

Cheers and Happy New Year

[alk760]

Any chance you've toned down the mana regen rates on the new AI mobs because I was unable to kill the ancient lich with any of my charactors.

looking forward to test out the Titan's and Mollochs

[Amairgen]

Jan 3, 2019 8:21:53 GMT -8 alk760 said:

Any chance you've toned down the mana regen rates on the new AI mobs because I was unable to kill the ancient lich with any of my charactors.

I will look at that . . I did cool down their 'Heal' chance because I thought that was more of a problem than their ability to cast damage spells.

[alk760]

I never killed one because they always had mana to heal but maybe just reducing the chance they heal will be enough.

[Amairgen]

Let me know how it goes - thanks

[alk760]

Unsuccessful with my Warrior your lich is now 7 and 0.

I also checked out the new Titans and Cyclops while using a mage and
I was able to kill them and it was quite a thrill until i was massively overwhelmed and i had to tuck tail and get out of there.

I still need to try a few other chars but i'm afraid you've made them much too strong and the Para drain spell they get is insanely over powered. if fighting more than 1 mob you most certainly will die if your affected.

I get what your doing and a lot of thies new mobs will be really fun with a group so maybe use them as boss types and not so much on the basic mobs.

i keep trying to get people to go with me but everyone is afraid it seems.

[Amairgen]

The thing with the Lich for a warrior is (you have to stay on them so they do not heal). I can tweak the 'chance to heal' down a bit if needed.

I am trying to identify exactly what they are using for the 'Para drain'. I ran into that only once on the test server and I agree if you get hit with it . . it is really alarming. Do you know what spell would cause that?

Mages can distract mobs with summons while they pick away at the group but it is still a fun exerciser for them. *grins*

Thanks for the feed back.

[Figger]

Are the named Liches in Challenge Tower the ancient liches, they are tougher than the boss on that level. I kill the boss and die a few times trying to kill the named ones and the boss's corpse decays before i can look through all of it. Or a named one respawns while looting the boss and it kills me a few times. Get them out of the tower.

[alk760]

Jan 8, 2019 9:42:06 GMT -8 Figger said:

Get them out of the tower.

 Haha I totally hear you man.
 Liches rule the shard.

And with the Titan's being buffed i've not been to Atlantis which is also full of Liches..

Difficulty is important but at this point difficulty becomes impossible..

[markros]

The titans are quite the pain as they spawn near the pyramid east of Wisp Dungeon where you need to do the ancient necomancy quest. Having the quest monster despawn because you got curbstomped by one of those guys before you got to loot the quest item was not a fun experience.

[alk760]

My problem in Devious was not from one named Lich but in fact every named lich is an issue in there.

Dubious dragons that have said AI are a bit weaker but still not plesent to fight.

When I was fighting Titans I was on a mage with 255 SDI and in no way was it easy and i wondered how lesser geared players might handle such a foe.

I have my answer and I feel the dial needs to be turned down on the casters that inherit the new AI.
It takes a long time pecing together a 200+ SDI set with a maximum achievable of 266 so being the all mighty mage I am I still can not kill certain trash mobs and it has been less fun since the update because now i cant explore 80% of the Tartarus Dungeons.

[Figger]

as i asked before, either only put them in special dungeon areas or make a quest for them but dont put them everywhere. Yes, u are making it more interesting for experienced players but impossible for the rest of us.

[Figger]

please stop the named/ancient liches from respawning on 4th floor of challenge tower, i finally killed all of them and then another one spawns and by the time i finished killing it, the boss's corpse decayed.

[alk760]

it's not just the Ancient Liches in the tower Fig... it's basically every caster with that para-drain spell tradium or not. Such a spell needs to be reserved for groups verses boss type fights.

[Amairgen]

Trying to track it down. They do not have any 'Drain' powers so I suspect it is a combo of spells that make it look like that