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12/11/2024 Greetings, Beginning today, December 11, 2024 and with each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance the previously described updates to the Shattered Sanctum event will be available World Wide. See you in Britannia, UO Team

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OK, so I snuck in an hour of play time today to do a potion run...

On Atlantic, Solen Hive, 850 luck, potion of Glorious Fortune in full swing on my Sampire build... 109 drops! My best ever result on an dynamic event. I contemplated even reporting this as I hope the drop rate is not turned down. Solen Hive was full of spawn to kill... all the bots are currently broken while the "O-Program" is down. Very little lag. Only was a few other people in there likely due to the timing, but definitely a solid patch. Other people were doing the cities and reporting in guild chat that it was alot less laggy.

The bots being broken make a significant difference... I hope the developers continue to make changes to make the "O-Program" unusable...
 

mihali

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OK, so I snuck in an hour of play time today to do a potion run...

On Atlantic, Solen Hive, 850 luck, potion of Glorious Fortune in full swing on my Sampire build... 109 drops! My best ever result on an dynamic event. I contemplated even reporting this as I hope the drop rate is not turned down. Solen Hive was full of spawn to kill... all the bots are currently broken while the "O-Program" is down. Very little lag. Only was a few other people in there likely due to the timing, but definitely a solid patch. Other people were doing the cities and reporting in guild chat that it was alot less laggy.

The bots being broken make a significant difference... I hope the developers continue to make changes to make the "O-Program" unusable...
Awesome! By the way what is the O-Program and O-Bots?
 

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Did another potion run tonight - Solen Hive only - and got 108 drops.

Handful of other people in the dungeon, no bots though. So this is a game changer for honest players who don't want to have to compete against the AFK "O-Program" bots.

I hope the developers take note and continue to thwart "O-Program" from working.

Awesome! By the way what is the O-Program and O-Bots?
An unmentionable illegal third party program that allows scripted bots to be created.
 

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Awesome! By the way what is the O-Program and O-Bots?
Did another potion run tonight - Solen Hive only - and got 108 drops.

Handful of other people in the dungeon, no bots though. So this is a game changer for honest players who don't want to have to compete against the AFK "O-Program" bots.

I hope the developers take note and continue to thwart "O-Program" from working.


An unmentionable illegal third party program that allows scripted bots to be created.
Can I ask why it's forbidden when we openly can talk about free shards ?
 

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Can I ask why it's forbidden when we openly can talk about free shards ?
I don't think you can in UHall.

But it's funny how the official forums users know that program because Mervyn advertised it for years, but he couldn't do it here.
 

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Well we can talk free shards and you can't log into one without a 3rd party client so kinda doesn't make sense and it's not like the official team can be more unhappy
 

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At this point it does seem a bit silly and outdated to restrict it here.
We all know about those other clients and scripts that are being used.
I used to want them all banned but if that happened UO is done I feel so wth live and let live I guess.
 

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@Merlin may I ask what sort of template you are using? I'm getting no where near that number of drops lucky if I get 15 on in solen hive. Using a tamer / mage with detect and lock picking. My luck is 1070 I think with no potion.
 

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Does being hidden affect drop rate? I thought a few events back they changed it so that your chance of getting a drop from a mob while hidden was super super low? Morgana could that be the difference in your rate as well (in addition to the difference between a tamer and a sampire).
 

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Using a potion is insanely better!! my sdi tamer does fine I hate the I need to rush feeling so don't use potion very often but am ahead of getting what I want enough that I put my ship back out and resumed some fishing
 

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Does being hidden affect drop rate? I thought a few events back they changed it so that your chance of getting a drop from a mob while hidden was super super low? Morgana could that be the difference in your rate as well (in addition to the difference between a tamer and a sampire).
they added that in years ago and ive asked every once in a while and every once in a while they confirm its still in.
so i have to assume its still in.
which makes me smile when i see all those stealth tamers at events complaining that they get little to no drops.
 

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Did the T Map boss encounter get more difficult?

We have soooo many of the guys in robes the whole time. We used to kill the one or two gates and ignore the ones walking around. Now they pour out of gates the whole time. It's taking 10 minutes or more just to kill them enough to get close to the boss.

Afterwards it's near impossible to clean up the mess.

You can be hidden and get drop from him. A player got a bag in Luna when they left halfway thru.
 

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Solen hive with a store potion yields about a 100 drops for me (an hour). I don’t use luck.

I only avoid it when drakes are in there. Way better than farming in town.
 

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The tweak they made to the detect hidden and chests also didn’t go unnoticed. great quality of life change!

Remove trap still sucks
 

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Does being hidden affect drop rate? I thought a few events back they changed it so that your chance of getting a drop from a mob while hidden was super super low? Morgana could that be the difference in your rate as well (in addition to the difference between a tamer and a sampire).
Yes I believe hiding and or invis does still affect drop rate. Yes agreed the I think the difference is simply being a tamer. I try to kill as many of the mobs as possible while mounted, but I do walk around a lot trying to find chests. This template with the detect and lock picking added is painful being a mage. I don't have room for meditation. I'm also thinking being a mage is a penalty because I can't drop them as quickly. With out the mana supply to fire off meteor shower all the time I can only pick away at a mob. Would love to know how the reward point system works. I'm going to change my template around and try no taming.
 

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The tweak they made to the detect hidden and chests also didn’t go unnoticed. great quality of life change!

Remove trap still sucks
What was the tweak made to the chests??? I don't use remove trap simply no room. Telekinesis is working for me.
 

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What was the tweak made to the chests??? I don't use remove trap simply no room. Telekinesis is working for me.
They appear to have increased the success rate of detect hidden when revealing chests now.

It no longer takes me 6 tries to reveal a chest.

Telekinesis is the best you can use at the moment.
 

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They appear to have increased the success rate of detect hidden when revealing chests now.

It no longer takes me 6 tries to reveal a chest.

Telekinesis is the best you can use at the moment.
Ah gotcha.
 

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that's why I hang my hat it Tennessee ? (for real lol)
 

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They appear to have increased the success rate of detect hidden when revealing chests now.

It no longer takes me 6 tries to reveal a chest.

Telekinesis is the best you can use at the moment.
Six tries? Omg at three I get pissed and consider abandoning it, lol but Ive been there
 

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Interesting I have 100 also but it normally takes me 3 to 6 tries to find the chest. Ty for responding
 

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Spawn in Yew made a paragon dog...is that supposed to happen?! lolol
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Got it, I didn't know/didn't read that :) ok thanks
In the ant holes, I've killed all of the mobs in para form. Queen, beetle, and ant lion take a while.

The named skeles could spawn as paras in Nu Jelmn. Those took a while to kill.
 

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price of drops are fallen....too much drops, really too much!!
Bears cost 200 points. I have 6 built tamers. You mean I can earn enough points to buy the items I want and don't have to buy them from others for a change?

I also need the armor items. I need about 20 zombies. 5 more green flames and at least 3 of everything else. That's a lot of points!

Ya that's terrible...
 

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price of drops are fallen....too much drops, really too much!!
I think it's easier to just buy the drops from scripters instead of constant death and only getting 5 drops an hour. So please let them do their Thang and let the prices go down
 

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I think it's easier to just buy the drops from scripters instead of constant death and only getting 5 drops an hour. So please let them do their Thang and let the prices go down
"I'm too lazy to make a Sampire, so I rather bots just run rampant so I personally can benefit."
 

mihali

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price of drops are fallen....too much drops, really too much!!
No not really too much. Would hold off on comments like these, since the devs are looking in here time to time. You get 100 times more drops if you get the potion from the uo store. It is always like this : After these events are on a while, the prices of drops diminish. Nothing new. Some of us play for the challenge and the grind of it. And of course the drops are ok.:)
 

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No not really too much. Would hold off on comments like these, since the devs are looking in here time to time. You get 100 times more drops if you get the potion from the uo store.
I'd say it's more like 2x-2.5x the drops lol. Really depends on your kit and whats spawning. Drake and Garg spawns can easily be wasted potions if you get bad luck with too many of their para's popping up at once.
 

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I like the way the devs made this event. Lots of different things to do. Been playing UO more in the past few weeks than I have in the past year or two. Hope they continue this event till early Feb.
 

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I agree. First with the manifest of evil boss and colored mares, the city invasions and now the inclusion of Solen Hive. Lots to do and excellent rewards list.
 

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Bears cost 200 points. I have 6 built tamers. You mean I can earn enough points to buy the items I want and don't have to buy them from others for a change?

I also need the armor items. I need about 20 zombies. 5 more green flames and at least 3 of everything else. That's a lot of points!

Ya that's terrible...
you need a lot of drops lol :D
anyway i'm ok and happy that price go down, i'm not ok on what dev doing against scripters and multibox
But its ok, i enjoy the game anyway :)
Hope you ìll get all you need
 

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"I'm too lazy to make a Sampire, so I rather bots just run rampant so I personally can benefit."
I tried my sampire, who had some dust on him mind you, and the first blood oath from a skele mage had me like, "K, I will use my tamer" lol

Absolutely hate the undead gargs, too. Even the scripters sometimes die to the paras.

The suits the scripters wear you'd have to have a small fortune to get the event items they own.
 

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my best char is an archer with chivalry and one of my best-usefull skill is "hiding", yes "hiding"!
When i'm in trouble, run and hide.
it safe my ass always LOL
 
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