Is compassion sage spawn from Zealots and Controllers broken in Exodus dungeon?

[Spellbound]

Have spent many hours in there, but haven't found even one on corpses.

 

[Chrille]

You only find them on controllers corpses, been some weeks since I was down there and then I got one. They are rather rare as a drop.

 

[Spellbound]

grrrrr...grind some more

 

[Adell of Catskills]

I miss the controllers in blackthorn. They were greate source for sage

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[popps]

Have spent many hours in there, but haven't found even one on corpses.

Out of curiosity, are you using it to Gain in Compassion Virtue ?

If so, ain't it better to just Escort 5 NPCs ?

I mean, to my knowledge, in 24 hours only 1 Bottle of Compassion Sage can be used and it provides the equivalent gain in the Compassion Virtue of 5 NPC escorts...

But how long it takes to loot 1 Bottle of Compassion Sage from Controllers ?

Given how rare a drop it is, my guess is that one would be better off just Escorting NPCs even if one considers the 5 minutes downtime in between Escorts....

 

[Spellbound]

Compassion sage is faster than escorting NPCs and Bravehorn hart quest on my dexer. Except when you depend on the RNG!

But complaining seems to help:

 

[Cinderella]

in less than 5 minutes, I can get one here in Ilshenar.
take moongate to Ilshenar, Compassion.
follow the mountain south to the gympsy camp and go inside the passage.
when through the passage, go south to the area shown.
cords in pic, but you can see the area on the map, whether you use CC or EC

 

[Spellbound]

Thank you, Cinderella!

 

[Adell of Catskills]

Yes ty

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[Basara]

That was where used to farm them (and golems) back when the buildings were intact.

I still go there for music gears.

 

[Dot_Warner]

You can escort 5 NPCs and use the sage every day, making Compassion gain much quicker.

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

Compassion Sage drop chance is based on Luck, last i checked.

 

[GarthGrey]

NPC escorts should have been changed back to the way it used to be where you could take multiple NPCs to the same town. It's a freaking moongate the mage casts, it's meant for multiple people to travel through. We were limited to one back in the day for whatever stupid reason and it could all be changed back to the way it was with a simple few keystrokes code change, if this current dev team weren't so hell bent on making incredibly silly HUGE changes, while refusing to make little ones that would make the game much more enjoyable.

 

[MalagAste]

NPC escorts should have been changed back to the way it used to be where you could take multiple NPCs to the same town. It's a freaking moongate the mage casts, it's meant for multiple people to travel through. We were limited to one back in the day for whatever stupid reason and it could all be changed back to the way it was with a simple few keystrokes code change, if this current dev team weren't so hell bent on making incredibly silly HUGE changes, while refusing to make little ones that would make the game much more enjoyable.

But ... but I thought we were playing Ultima Tedium Online...

 

[Basara]

It was changed when they made escorts part of the new quest system in Mondain's Legacy.

Before then, you could escort as many regular escorts, and as many rescues as you could get.

The downside was that some of the quests wouldn't work right. For example, you could only get escorts wanting to go to "any dungeon" (or rescues found in a dungeon out of it to their destination) with Gate Travel, due to the orientation of the server lines (crossing in or out of the dungeon through an entrance was not a straight line but a jump to the "black" areas you see in UO Automap, where the dungeon interiors and T2A were put). Occasionally, the same would happen trying to go through a permanent moongate in a direction opposite your line of travel. If you got too much room between you and the escort following, they could despawn when you crossed a server line, and if they were stale (near despawn at the time they were picked up), they could disappear when you crossed a server line after their original despawn time.

Some people even claimed it was impossible to go across ANY server line with an escort - and i was called a liar when I proved them wrong and provided screencaps as evidence.

• I picked up FIVE rescues on Trinsic Barrier Island (that, alas, no longer occur there).
• WALKED them to Britain, dropped one off, acquired an escort in the middle of town. (back to 5)
• Picked up another rescue somewhere between East Britain and the Compassion Crossroads (up to 6)
• Delivered 1 of the 6 to Cove. (down to 5)
• Delivered 2 of the 5 to Minoc (down to 3)
• Lost one from probably staleness crossing the server line by Minoc gate (down to 2)
• Finished the delivery by getting the last 2 to Vesper.

So I had as many as 6 escorts at one time (7 total), and delivered 6, only losing one.

And, I had fun WALKING them there (character was a paladin on a swampy), fighting more brigands on the way, and stuff attacking me along the way. 10-15 minutes after I started, I had all 5 compassion gains for the day, plus a spare that I just got gold for.

I REALLY wish that was brought back, just with the crossing fixed. For that matter, they could redo the brigand (with or without prisoner) and other non-gypsy special spawns (wasn't there one with evil mage/cultists and a sacrificial prisoner to rescue?) with something similar to the Trade order ambush code - just not requiring you to be on a quest, just that a PC was passing through a specific area of a subserver.

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

(wasn't there one with evil mage/cultists and a sacrificial prisoner to rescue?)

I remember that. That was a long ass time ago. Around the time that Lizmen, Ratman and a Gazer would occasionally attack Britain.

Prisoner Rescues give twice the Compassion of a regular Escort, and there's a guaranteed Prisoner spawn inside the Orc Cave. Prisoner Rescues and normal Escorts share the same 5x limit for Compassion gains a day, so always do Prisoner Rescues if you can. There used to be no cooldown on Prisoner Rescues, but they changed that awhile back to have the same 5 min cooldown as the regular Escorts.

You could also use +Magery items along with a Gate Travel scroll to gate Prisoner Rescues around even on a dexxer. Tome of Lost Knowledge+Treatise on Alchemy Talisman+15 Magery Ring+15 Magery Bracelet is 50 Magery, enough to use a Gate Travel scroll and have it sometimes succeed with enough attempts. Using a Scroll gives +20 to that skill for that spellcast. +Magery/Eval Mark of Travesty would also make it easier, and you can get Rings/Bracelets with up to +20 Magery.