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Why did they shut colored mares off, origin?

flappy6

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Nevermind just got a grey one after 2 hours..... maybe they decreased it or something
 

Keven2002

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Nevermind just got a grey one after 2 hours..... maybe they decreased it or something
Gotta love that RNG! I tried last night for about an hour or so (no totem) and only got 1 void mare in that period. That said, whenever I don't use a totem I rarely would see anything outside shiny/void. With a totem I usually get at least 1 or 2 Shogun grey.
 

flappy6

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It's crazy that you have to basically buy it, I been trying without totems. I've gotten a 2 slot green and a couple 3 slot demonic but no purple
 

Pawain

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I think the purple are the most rare. So that fits.
 

Keven2002

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It's crazy that you have to basically buy it, I been trying without totems. I've gotten a 2 slot green and a couple 3 slot demonic but no purple
I used a bunch of totems (I think 20+) and eventually got a purple but it was a 3 slot (was hoping for a 2 slot). It felt great to see the purple spawn (was using a totem) but given the amount of time/totems it took to get there, I couldn't justify doing it all again (granted it's supposedly RNG...but when you are ~20k mares in without a purple...it doesn't feel that way).

Since then whenever I have less than an hour or so to play I go hit a mare spawn to see what I get (no totems) and it's definitely slim pickings. What I haven't figured out is whether the RNG is spawn location specific or whole world (shard) specific (ie any new mare spawned might be colored). I seemed to have more luck hopping around (without a totem) killing 20 mares here and 20 mares there rather than grinding one spot... which seems different than when I was using totems because I'd drop a charge or two and get nothing but shiny/voids or shoguns but the next charge would give me green & demonic. It's been hard to make heads or tails of what to do. I'm also not sure if the calculation is based on anytime a mare spawns or if it's like some sort of a subset qualifier.

That said, there have been people that have posted saying they tamed a purple without a totem so it does seem to happen.

This is a bit off topic but when people pay real $$ for an item to improve chances, I think they (me included) feel a little entitled to eventually getting the thing they are buying said item for. At one point I thought it was a little like SoS where you need to kind of force the ASOS to pop but opening 30 at a time, so I spent 6.5 hours (20 totem charges) straight killing mares without a single purple spawning. Meanwhile I read around that same time about people taming their second and third purple mare and some of those were without a totem. Just doesn't seem like that makes much sense to pay for in game items. That said, I do think the totem will give you more colors in general if you are looking for something like a 2 slot demonic.
 

G.v.P

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Did they ever confirm rates? I thought Purple was essentially like a Blaze Cu Sidhe?
 

Keven2002

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Did they ever confirm rates? I thought Purple was essentially like a Blaze Cu Sidhe?
They didn't confirm rates but yea purple was the blaze. I lost track of how many mares I went through before I finally got a purple mare; it had to be well over 10k. That said, other have said they got a purple mare within a few hours of hunting. Love that RNG.
 

JohnnyO

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They said the 25th. Maybe they got shut off with the new publish though.
 

Keven2002

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This is what they said on UO.com. It does say they stop spawning with release of 119 (not Feb 25th).

The only tricky thing would be that they say "WW release" - they do give a date on that of Feb 25th. Might be a little bit of a snafu. Are you sure they aren't spawning?

It won't get your totems back if they stopped spawning but might be good to bring up to the Dev team if they maybe should have kept them going until next week for everyone.

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Odin of Europa

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The roadmap says they will no longer spawn as of the WW release of pub 119.

It hasn't been released WW yet.
 

flappy6

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I don't expect anything, it's a doggie dog world even more in UO haha just warning others I guess 5bucks for totem not that big of a deal I guess
 

Anon McDougle

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The roadmap says they will no longer spawn as of the WW release of pub 119.

It hasn't been released WW yet.
If the publish ending it is live I
On a shard of course it will be ended there I give the developers more gruff then anyone but they are guilt free here..
 

JohnnyO

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They did send an email at the end of January saying they would stop spawning Feb 25th. Which would be the source of the confusion.
 

Pawain

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If the publish ending it is live I
On a shard of course it will be ended there I give the developers more gruff then anyone but they are guilt free here..
Now you see why they don't like to post specific dates.

Last Newsletter.
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The latest says :
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I can see why it should coincide with the shards release.
 

egglett

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Well for my last few totems it may as well of been turned off anyway
:cursing:
 
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