Cannot find Void Core/Orbs on MoBs corpses ?

popps

I am not sure if this is bad luck on my end, or whether it is intended but, at least with the Dungeon Spawn of Void creatures, I have been spending time (thus reducing my killing rate and, consequentially, of the artifact drops that I could get) to loot Void creatures' corpses in search for mainly Void Cores and Orbs but also for other materials needed for this Event but, so far, could find none (on Classic Client so no quick looting macro as available... have to do it all manually which takes time...).

Since, on Classic Client, the checking and looting of corpses takes a considerable time and this significantly slows down my ability to get artifact drops, I will stop checking the corpses but, I still wanted to know whether I had just bad luck not finding any Void Core/Orbs or other materials needed for the Event, or whether they do not spawn on Void corpses for this Event, period.

Does anyone know ?

For the future, @Kyronix , if there are items/materials needed for the ongoing ToT Event, can you consider making them drop in players' backpack, automatically, thus not having the players have to invest a significant chunk of their time to check and loot corpses, which goes to the expense of the artifact drops that they can earn ?

Mariah

Take a moment to read the publish notes:

https://uo.com/publish-notes/publish-120/

There is no mention of such items falling to mob corpses, only in the satchel which is awarded for the boss fight, which drops to the back pack, and in hidden boxes.

Pawain

How dare they make consumable items.

@popps how many walls did you destroy yesterday?

I did 4 walls and 2 gates.  The consumables are not here in the forum.

azuldemogogu

I personally thought the resource requirements needed to do the event were just a little off. We are almost a month into it and the scarcity of explosives and ammunitions is much lower.. So, it is getting better. Early on I did have some long wait times for someone to have explosives to get through the gates only to be stuck at the catapults. We ended up using explosives on the catapult gates but that was slow and we barely put a dent in it. I have an alchemist and smith but the blackrock and orbs were not in large supply. The economics of my shard are just wonky. Like 5 orbs was going for 5 mil. The explosives at least only take 1 orb but ammunitions takes 3 and some small blackrock which is an uncommon drop on mining. I think I needed a minimum of 2000 swings with the shovel to get 3 pieces of blackrock to make 1 ammunitions kit. (about 20 shovels) The crystalline blackrocks were not too hard to get from just killing dull copper elementals at compassion shrine. If you expect to get the resources from the final boss satchel drop then you have a minimum of 3 events you have to do. So, let's say you get a drop of orbs, crystalline blackrock, and small piece blackrock. You can make 1 ammunitions kit and 2 explosives. I guess that would be fine if everyone at the event was contributing but then again it seems like on my shard crafters have all disappeared because there are pretty much no resources on vendors. Like try to get some peerless reagents. Nope. You better suit up and try to find a hunting party. Luckily, we have had a guy organizing hunts every MWF. 

Still, you're asking every account to have tradesmen and mules and start mining saltpeter. I also bombed a few walls and was not impressed by the artifact drops. So, these explosives were quite expensive and I'd be lucky to get 1 turn-in arty. So, I just stopped making them. I think a big guild has started pooling their members satchel resources and I think have a good supply to get through the first phases as long as they attend. The event pretty much occurs everday at nearly 6:30am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am. So, the 6am and the 12am are pretty rough sometimes. The 6pm is usually the quickest. 

The event is actually really cool when it works out the way I think broadsword intended. I joined the fight on a larger shard and it was kinda cool laying siege. There were tons of catapults and a big fight. The only downside was actually once in Mistas the lag was awful due to so many folks. The commanders that used area lightning seemed to be the worst. All the others were not too bad. I think the one that spawns the draalyrms bogged down pretty good too. 

Just make a GM miner toggle the shovel to blackrock and then I can at least plan out supply instead of just luck of the drop of the fight or mining. Not sure what to do about void orbs. I guess for most void items... orbs, cores, etc.... you have to just go fight tons of monsters in Ter Mur. It is all a bit of a pain. I have another post where I'm asking if anyone has tested the voidbane elixir on those creatures cause then that make obtaining void orbs a bit easier. However, they do seem to be more common item in my satchel drops than the blackrock and especially more common than the void fragments which appears to be super rare.