NEWS [UO.Com] Special Alert! Krampus Spotted!

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December 6, 2022 Special Alert! Citizens are advised to take caution as the vile creature known as Krampus has been spotted in the lands of Britannia! Krampus will conclude on or about January 5, 2023

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[Naitch]

thanks for the update.... rip van winkle

 

[DasDarkOne]

I'm still pretty new.
Where does one find krampus ?
And is he hard for a sampire to fight ?
Thanks for your response !

 

[Deschet]

I'm still pretty new.
Where does one find krampus ?
And is he hard for a sampire to fight ?
Thanks for your response !

Ultima Online Krampus Event | uo-cah.com

www.uo-cah.com

 

[gwen]

I'm still pretty new.
Where does one find krampus ?
And is he hard for a sampire to fight ?
Thanks for your response !

He is very bad for samphire to fight : corrupted life aura. Better switch Necro to healing . Or use other templates : Ninja , mystic , etc....

 

[Poo]

i wish we could choose to reset our city trade quest.
my poor tamer has to collect soooooo much stuff to do each quest!

 

[Drakelord]

me to

 

[MalagAste]

Sadly with as many tamers as I have they all are up to at least 4 or 5 things

 

[Lady Michelle]

 

[gwen]

i wish we could choose to reset our city trade quest.
my poor tamer has to collect soooooo much stuff to do each quest!

put all Magery and Necro reagents and all potions in your runner bank box . And if bank box is not full - first 3 circle of Mage spells.
Saves a lot of time

 

[Coco_Zamis_DF]

Any useful rewards?

 

[Kir]

Recipe for this

And new star Hue 2754

 

[Lindae Lives]

I am still trying to figure out the true meaning of Christmas.

 

[Keven2002]

He is very bad for samphire to fight : corrupted life aura. Better switch Necro to healing . Or use other templates : Ninja , mystic , etc....

He doesn't have corrupted leech on ATL... I use my sampire all the time.

 

[dvv]

“on or about”

 

[Deschet]

Not sure I've seen this answered elsewhere.

Can you run your 3 trade orders, log off if you have something else you need to do, and then log back on later to have your runs apply to the next Krampus round?

Ran 3 on LS earlier today and then had to wait another 2 hours before Krampus finally got popped. Don't have time for that (especially considering the number of people just standing around the trade ministers for those 2 hours).

Thanks

 

[James [W^H]]

Not sure I've seen this answered elsewhere.

Can you run your 3 trade orders, log off if you have something else you need to do, and then log back on later to have your runs apply to the next Krampus round?

Ran 3 on LS earlier today and then had to wait another 2 hours before Krampus finally got popped. Don't have time for that (especially considering the number of people just standing around the trade ministers for those 2 hours).

Thanks

Yes

 

[James [W^H]]

@Deschet, Another thing to keep in mind with Krampus. If for some reason you don’t get looting rights, your three runs are still good for the next Krampus.

 

[Keven2002]

Not sure if anyone knows the answer to this or not but I'm curious to know.

I know we need to RUN 3 trade runs (ie no moongates) to get a Krampus drop guarantee. I also know that Krampus has a chance of spawning after 20 or so trade runs (I think it's 20+ or 25+).

So my question is; for spawning Krampus do those 20+ orders that go towards spawning him need to be RUN or just completed (ie turned in). Said a different way, will the levels of ambushers keep increasing (eventually to Krampus or even minions) even if using moongates?

 

[Deschet]

Part 3 of the UO-CAH write-up explicitly states "For a trade order run to count, you cannot use a moongate." So according to them, they need to be 'run'.

 

[Keven2002]

Part 3 of the UO-CAH write-up explicitly states "For a trade order run to count, you cannot use a moongate." So according to them, they need to be 'run'.

That's for the run to count towards your 3 trade runs for the guaranteed drop (it's under the reward section - ie section 3). So if someone runs 3 trade runs via the moongate they wouldn't get the guarantee. I'm aware of that part but I don't think that explicitly means towards spawning Krampus.

 

[Chrille]

That's for the run to count towards your 3 trade runs for the guaranteed drop (it's under the reward section - ie section 3). So if someone runs 3 trade runs via the moongate they wouldn't get the guarantee. I'm aware of that part but I don't think that explicitly means towards spawning Krampus.

here it says the same as Deschet tells you.

The Krampus Encounter – Ultima Online

uo.com

 

[Deschet]

@Keven2002. Now understand what you're asking, which is a different question than the one I answered. Link that @Chrille posted says 'moongate shortcuts don't contribute to spawning Krampus'. Think that actually answers your question.

 

[Pawain]

The poster who asked if runs are saved.

You can do 1 run per day, week whatever, and log off and they are saved.
You can do 3 runs and log off and do 3 runs on another toon on the same account. Both will have the drop guarantee when they fight Krampus.
As said, your runs only reset if you get looting rights on Krampus.

They designed the system very well.

Also you can cancel runs. I start in Minoc and only accept Vesper or Brit.

 

[Keven2002]

Thanks all!

 

[Pawain]

Picture of Candy Staff made from each wood please.
Thanks

 

[Larisa]

Picture of Candy Staff made from each wood please.
Thanks

Can be dyed even when using regular wood.

It is a tinkered item for those who don't know.

 

[Deschet]

Thought I saw there was a garg vs. human version in the crafting menu. Would love to see the difference there. Think I got the non-garg version 1st run this year.

 

[Larisa]

Thought I saw there was a garg vs. human version in the crafting menu. Would love to see the difference there. Think I got the non-garg version 1st run this year.

They look the same just faced the other way. And you can make both with the one recipe.

 

[Deschet]

And you can make both with the one recipe.

Good to know. Glad I don't have to grind for the other.

 

[Thargor]

No snow on the ground this year?

 

[Pawain]

No snow on the ground this year?

Hasn't been in a long time. Players complained.

 

[Anon McDougle]

Hasn't been in a long time. Players complained.

Soon

 

[Coco_Zamis_DF]

No snow on the ground this year?

climate change

 

[Naitch]

snow was moved to new legacy

 

[Keven2002]

snow was moved to melted but the climate has been fixed on new legacy and it's now an upgraded feature for playing there

Fixed that for ya

 

[mihali]

Krampus looks like a demon type monster. Does it have a slayer susceptibility as expected (Demon)?
Also its nasty little minions do they have slayers / resists posted somewhere? Ty in advance.

 

[dvv]

Would be great if tinkerers could get some runic kits so we could reforge these.

 

[gwen]

Would be great if tinkerers could get some runic kits so we could reforge these.

tinkering stuff can be reforge with blacksmiths runic (whips for example)
Not sure about staff : have no recipe yet

 

[Deschet]

Do shield orb recipes drop for gargoyles?

Wondering since I'm pretty sure minion hats/boots only drop for humans/elves and earring/talons only drop for gargoyles. Trying to figure out which toon I should be running for the last recipe I'm missing.

 

[Anon McDougle]

Do shield orb recipes drop for gargoyles?

Wondering since I'm pretty sure minion hats/boots only drop for humans/elves and earring/talons only drop for gargoyles. Trying to figure out which toon I should be running for the last recipe I'm missing.

Gargoyles can equip so I'd assume no

 

[Keven2002]

Do shield orb recipes drop for gargoyles?

Wondering since I'm pretty sure minion hats/boots only drop for humans/elves and earring/talons only drop for gargoyles. Trying to figure out which toon I should be running for the last recipe I'm missing.

To my knowledge the orb recipe isn't specifically related to any race and would be attainable for any toon you use.

 

[Keven2002]

Can anyone help confirm that once minions start spawning that marks the 20th (or maybe 21st) trade run needed to spawn Krampus?

Wondering if anyone has experience with spawning Krampus because up until today I thought we had to keep turning in trade runs until he spawned (going up to 30 + trade runs at times). During early hours when I play that's a pretty big annoyance filling the 5x runs and running them to towns every time. Wondering if once minions spawn if we can just run up and down the road to spawn stuff until Krampus spawns.

 

[Merus]

Can anyone help confirm that once minions start spawning that marks the 20th (or maybe 21st) trade run needed to spawn Krampus?

Wondering if anyone has experience with spawning Krampus because up until today I thought we had to keep turning in trade runs until he spawned (going up to 30 + trade runs at times). During early hours when I play that's a pretty big annoyance filling the 5x runs and running them to towns every time. Wondering if once minions spawn if we can just run up and down the road to spawn stuff until Krampus spawns.

I believe minions represent the last wave of monsters prior to Krampus. Each wave requires a certain number of turn ins to advance. Very similar to a champ spawn… if you want to spawn the boss, you have to advance through the final wave. In the case of Krampus, you do need to turn in trade orders to advance from minions to Krampus.

 

[Poo]

ive wondered about this myself.
being on a small shard there have been nights when it was just 3 or 4 guildmates running the trade quests and it would pop a Krampus.
and i would think to myself.... no one just finished or just started a trade quest, we are all right in the middle of our runs.
so does that mean we just need to do a preset amount of minion spawns OR did we hit the top out on one of our last turn ins and then the next trade run started it will spawn the Krampus any time after?
only the Dev's know.... and maybe not even them anymore.

 

[Merus]

ive wondered about this myself.
being on a small shard there have been nights when it was just 3 or 4 guildmates running the trade quests and it would pop a Krampus.
and i would think to myself.... no one just finished or just started a trade quest, we are all right in the middle of our runs.
so does that mean we just need to do a preset amount of minion spawns OR did we hit the top out on one of our last turn ins and then the next trade run started it will spawn the Krampus any time after?
only the Dev's know.... and maybe not even them anymore.

It is my understanding that once the required number of trade runs have been turned in (which may be a fixed number or a range) that Krampus will spawn as the attacker (in lue of minions)… which means someone has to be running a trade order to trigger the spawn of Krampus.

 

[Keven2002]

It is my understanding that once the required number of trade runs have been turned in (which may be a fixed number or a range) that Krampus will spawn as the attacker (in lue of minions)… which means someone has to be running a trade order to trigger the spawn of Krampus.

It was said in another thread that another possibility would be that on trade run number 21 being turned (assuming that's 20+) that minions begin to spawn. Each time minions spawn there is a chance it's Krampus (each time minions spawn without Krampus, the next spawn increases the odds of it being Krampus...almost like GGS for skills). This would mean that when you see minions spawning, then technically all you need to do is run around outside of town with a trade run (don't actually need to turn it in).

I've tried to experiment with this on ATL the last few days but it's tough because I never know if Krampus is spawning because people turned in trades or just running around. It's also hard to know how many trade runs actually have been turned in because half the ppl on ATL don't communicate in Gen Chat. Probably would need to do this on a dead shard when nobody else is on to verify... but not sure it matters that much to actually test that.

 

[Merus]

It was said in another thread that another possibility would be that on trade run number 21 being turned (assuming that's 20+) that minions begin to spawn. Each time minions spawn there is a chance it's Krampus (each time minions spawn without Krampus, the next spawn increases the odds of it being Krampus...almost like GGS for skills). This would mean that when you see minions spawning, then technically all you need to do is run around outside of town with a trade run (don't actually need to turn it in).

I've tried to experiment with this on ATL the last few days but it's tough because I never know if Krampus is spawning because people turned in trades or just running around. It's also hard to know how many trade runs actually have been turned in because half the ppl on ATL don't communicate in Gen Chat. Probably would need to do this on a dead shard when nobody else is on to verify... but not sure it matters that much to actually test that.

I’ve done a little testing on Napa and I’ve never seen a Krampus spawn on the first or second round of minions, regardless of how much if run back and forth without turning anything in.