Join the club..... been like that for years. Hunt Echoial until you get a Jack spawn and quit complaining.
I´m pretty sure banner events are new this year.
I remember last year I had a team killing Eochai for three hours in a row in Talos until Jack spawned. It was around 30 Eochai defeats without Jack showing his face.
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Yep. My one and only main gripe about the Halloween event is the low Jack spawn, and also that Zone Alerts don't say "Eochai has spawned in Talos" or "Halloween Jack has appeared in Talos, GET HIM NOW!!!!!!!!!!" |
Originally Posted by Leandro
I remember last year I had a team killing Eochai for three hours in a row in Talos until Jack spawned. It was around 30 Eochai defeats without Jack showing his face.
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Or something similar at least.
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The Banner part of the event has nothing to do with the Eochai/Jack spawn part of the event. They are separate pieces, just as Trick or Treating is separate from them as well (all are linked by the theme, of course, but you can participate in any, all or none independantly of all other parts).
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
I´m pretty sure banner events are new this year.
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Stops the GM´s from spawning.
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Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
The Banner part of the event has nothing to do with the Eochai/Jack spawn part of the event. They are separate pieces, just as Trick or Treating is separate from them as well (all are linked by the theme, of course, but you can participate in any, all or none independantly of all other parts).
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
Stops the GM´s from spawning.
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I was in Atlas last night on Defiant server (about 9.30-10pm) and I saw Eochai running around while the banner event was in progress - it was when I was flying to smack down the Greater Mystic Aspect at the end.
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Was in PI and checked all spawn locations and nothing.
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Originally Posted by Tired Angel
Are you sure?
I was in Atlas last night on Defiant server (about 9.30-10pm) and I saw Eochai running around while the banner event was in progress - it was when I was flying to smack down the Greater Mystic Aspect at the end. |
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Hmmm, I think I will have to keep an eye on that over the next few days
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
Was in PI and checked all spawn locations and nothing.
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Incorrect, I have seen Eochai out and about as Banner events are underway and have not seen them "despawn" due to the event.
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
Stops the GM´s from spawning.
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Hi,
during the test server runs we complained that Pumpkin Head and Jack were spawning too close to the new Event GM. We were having to pull them away so that we could deal with the GM.
And Hi LLeandro, I was on the team with you trying to get Jack last year. That was a proper marathon, and actually not much fun by the end!
But by golly, we persevered and got the glory and the badge eventually
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Yesterday, in Faultline, Eochai was at one of the banners, and had to be cleared so we could attack it without him jumping the squishies. Just after we took down the last banner, he wandered up for round two.|
Originally Posted by Nericus
Incorrect, I have seen Eochai out and about as Banner events are underway and have not seen them "despawn" due to the event.
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I was under the impression that there could only be one Eochai per zone. If so, he definitely respawns during the event. Either way, the event does NOT despawn him.
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Does he have more spawn locations other than tempest quay, nelson borough, monkey island, northeast of portal corp and southwest of ferry?
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IT's either Eochai or Jack, the only time you will see them at the same time is during their normal Croatoa spawns. Also duplicate spawns of them in a zone during the event do not occur....unless there is a doozy of a bug |
Originally Posted by Roderick
Yesterday, in Faultline, Eochai was at one of the banners, and had to be cleared so we could attack it without him jumping the squishies. Just after we took down the last banner, he wandered up for round two.
I was under the impression that there could only be one Eochai per zone. If so, he definitely respawns during the event. Either way, the event does NOT despawn him. |
Still, Jack's spawn rate during Halloween does need some improvement.
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Jack spawns at the same spots as Eochai. Suggest checking Paragonwiki for halloween event maps that show spawn points.
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
Does he have more spawn locations other than tempest quay, nelson borough, monkey island, northeast of portal corp and southwest of ferry?
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i did the same thing. had a team of 5 hunting and killing eochai just to try to find jack. we did this for over 4 hours and did not see jack at all.
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
After huntig eochai upon eochai it gets tiring that a banner event appears and you have to do it all again. With his low spawn rate its getting pretty tedious to get that badge.
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About the only consolation this year is that the GMs are dropping merits now.
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
After huntig eochai upon eochai it gets tiring that a banner event appears and you have to do it all again. With his low spawn rate its getting pretty tedious to get that badge.
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Were at all those locations and no GM
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Jack spawns at the same spots as Eochai. Suggest checking Paragonwiki for halloween event maps that show spawn points.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Incorrect, I have seen Eochai out and about as Banner events are underway and have not seen them "despawn" due to the event.
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I had Eochai spawn within aggro range of the blue banner in Port Oaks. Made things...interesting.
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We had a banner event happen in Grandville on Freedom last night, and as the masses were beating down the defenders and banners, the Arachnos Flyer showed.
This was definitely memorable because the lag went into super-rubberbanding mode for everyone in the zone where it would consistantly rubberband you in your travels and then after a couple minutes, you'd get rubberbanded back to the same spot you were 2 minutes prior. I hadn't rubberbanded this bad since when i played on my old Dell Dimension computer (got a Dell XPS system now and its sweeeet!) during Rikti Invasions in the same zone.
I'm pretty sure Eochi/Jack/normal zone GMs continue to spawn even during the banner event.
What MIGHT be a good suggestion in my case I experienced is for the devs (and this is depending on how they coded the banner event) is to shut off the normal GMs at least during the banner event.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Jack spawns at the same spots as Eochai. Suggest checking Paragonwiki for halloween event maps that show spawn points.
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Originally Posted by TRTerror
Were at all those locations and no GM
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I've gone through Shark, Nerva, St Mart, GV, Talos and Pi. Spawn points are same as before.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Of course, that proves nothing. We have no way of knowing whether the previously existing spawn points were moved, removed or added to when they implemented the banner spawn points.
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We had a situation running the cycle in IP last night where we covered all spawns points a couple of times and found nothing, only to hear someone say..."Hey, there are some pumpkins over here and one ghost..."
We couldn't believe we missed that, but after the ghost was killed Eochai respawned.
Might even be something like that.
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When Eochai falls the respawn checks for its 10% chance to manifest Jack, but for Eochai or Jack to count as a complete kill to trigger the respawn, all the Unseelies must be destroyed. Been that way every year.
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Originally Posted by Grimlek
We had a situation running the cycle in IP last night where we covered all spawns points a couple of times and found nothing, only to hear someone say..."Hey, there are some pumpkins over here and one ghost..."
We couldn't believe we missed that, but after the ghost was killed Eochai respawned. Might even be something like that. |
After huntig eochai upon eochai it gets tiring that a banner event appears and you have to do it all again. With his low spawn rate its getting pretty tedious to get that badge.