A small update.

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A small update.

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Added more Fate Statues.
Buffed Dragons in the Lost City.
Buffed rewards for Lost City Dragons, they now have the chance to drop twice as many Forge stones, the will also drop Dragon Forged items.
In addition, they will now drop a party chest with said rewards.

Please let me know if there are any issues.
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Sounds like a great update! Thanks!
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I forgot to add that certain Dragon Forged items can give higher stats than the ones you can make at the Mystic Forge.
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Awesome! That means that the "Bringer of Whoop-Ass" will be worth the killing... :)
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Great work!! The master dungeon master strikes again!
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We went through the lost city yesterday. A few observations:

We missed the portal, we were standing around discussion our loot and the portal disappeared. Being too lazy to walk all the way out, we decided to stay until respawn. We barely survived (again) but this time the return portal was only up about 5 seconds, so we missed it again. So, in order to do some proper testing, we stayed again (obviously not farming...). This time we got no loot, but the portal was up long enough that we actually could get out.

So, basically, one suggestion and two observations:
- Can you set the return portal to live a bit longer?
- We didn't get loot every time, I guess that's by design.
- We got some great Dragon Forged loot. Some of it we couldn't use (wrong class, wrong preferred weapon, etc), but I got lucky and got myself an awesome Waraxe. Thank you! It seems most of the Dragon Forged items are placed very neatly between "best you can find/buy elsewhere" and "best you can Forge", which felt quite right.
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1.I changed the code that controls when the portal despawns. Please let me know.
2.Yes.
3.Cool.
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Oh, forgot the most obvious observation. The place is AWESOME!!!!

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Could you up the chest drop rate for the dragons more? Kebs and I just killed one--Death from Shadows-- six times and got one chest. It's no fun for that little of the rewards.
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When a PC first kills the Dragon, you have a 100% chance to get a chest, after that, the odds are lower for obvious reasons.

I will be experimenting with instancing again soon, so hopefully, I can address farming in a more positive way.
Ron wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:51 pm Could you up the chest drop rate for the dragon a little more Kebs and I just killed one--Death from Shadows-- six times and got one chest. It's no fun for that little of the rewards.
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Cool, thanks. I killed it a few more times at least 3 within the last few hours and got no reward chest. At least you're looking into it. Greatly appreciated. Cheers!
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