Runes of Magic US / AU

95M? That will be cleared soon, I am sure. I bet his mechanics are pretty simple too. Still, it is impressive that L2 toons made it to the boss. Not fighting trash is a good thing.

The image I've seen of that boss shows 40M. 95M must be hard mode. I hope 40M is normal, not easy.

Is this open on US servers now? I was told by GM on these forums that everyone has "the same version" -- within a few days anyway, so if we don't already have it, should be the next patch right?

If those low levels were able to skip the trash (with a little timing), should be really easy for lvl72. Hopefully this means we'll finally have a mento spam faster than DoD (once the avg player can gear for it), cause that has been old for a long time now.

Quoted from "shopguy;568176"

Is this open on US servers now? I was told by GM on these forums that everyone has "the same version" -- within a few days anyway, so if we don't already have it, should be the next patch right?

If those low levels were able to skip the trash (with a little timing), should be really easy for lvl72. Hopefully this means we'll finally have a mento spam faster than DoD (once the avg player can gear for it), cause that has been old for a long time now.

I'm willing to bet they are GM toons who used the item to clear all trash in instances and leave only bosses. Look in item preview, there are orbs upto Toshhm, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that's what was used.

Mayb this is the private server version?

Yea those orbs exist but if you watched the video you would see them avoid the trash mobs and walk to the boss room. And it seems the trash mobs path into the boss room... Interesting...

Actually I created a character on that server to ask what was done and they are saying its 3 stages to get the vortex open. the first stage was the wishing well and gold had to be donated up to a certain amount, then the second stage is outside of varanas and the npc tells you to get 5 of the crystals and donate them to him. He gives you a bag, after so many of them have been donated the next stage will happen.....

Quoted from "Ziav;568403"

I'm willing to bet they are GM toons who used the item to clear all trash in instances and leave only bosses. Look in item preview, there are orbs upto Toshhm, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that's what was used.

Meanwhile wild trash appears in the video.

Supposedly you can open up the vortex now, but it seems the wishing well was taken down (or that phase is over)? Now I'm assuming we have to start collecting darkwater crystals to turnin?

Reading the German forums, and seeing what they did, along with a little help from Paz, I think Clockwork is on the right track to unlocking the instance. Just need...more time >.<

Quoted from "Ravesden;568560"

Reading the German forums, and seeing what they did, along with a little help from Paz, I think Clockwork is on the right track to unlocking the instance. Just need...more time >.<

As did I. we no longer have the wishing well, so I am assuming we need the crystals... just can't seem to find clarification if they are the darkwater shards that you turn in to convert to crystal that count towards opening it..

its the crystals..not the shards :/ he will keep saying bring more until ppl give up or i guess we hit some threshold.

1 spawn seems to be more activate than the others..and it alternates. the activate one had WAY higher drop rate too. for me anyways. 1 out 3..maybe 1:2.5

Quoted from "pazuzzu;568649"

its the crystals..not the shards :/ he will keep saying bring more until ppl give up or i guess we hit some threshold.

1 spawn seems to be more activate than the others..and it alternates. the activate one had WAY higher drop rate too. for me anyways. 1 out 3..maybe 1:2.5

Well as a guild total we've gotten hundreds of shards, and turned in. Still hasn't opened.

Seeing as this takes a server-wide effort, and 95% of the server doesn't even know this thing exists/can be opened...not looking too good on Reni, considering I've probably turned in the most crystals, and only farm when I'm extremely bored.

I still have a few hunches about some things, but hopefully we can get it open before I give up >.<

Hope it works out. We haven't signed up for siege just so we can take that time to farm more crystals. Wish we knew a number at least >_>.

Also wish we knew if it ever closed, or is it opened forever...

Quoted from "bleedingblak;568739"

Hope it works out. We haven't signed up for siege just so we can take that time to farm more crystals. Wish we knew a number at least >_>.

Also wish we knew if it ever closed, or is it opened forever...

Yeah, noticed you guys werent signed up, weird seeing Bteam as the highest rank.

And yeah, if Falakens could display # of crystals obtained or # left to open, would be great. Wonder if Paz or any of the rom welten guys can do their disecting client thingy and come up with the number? *hint hint*

And it does close. From reading the german forums, it stayed open for a period of time, but once you died, you get a 1 hour debuff that prevents you from re-entering the instance. Not sure if it only applies to rezzing out, or priest/druid rezzes as well.

Doesn't look like something that would be particularly farmable given the process needed to open, and the restrictions upon entering.

i have personally turned in over 100 crystals cause i wanna see in there.cmon reni

Quoted from "timthum;568746"

i have personally turned in over 100 crystals cause i wanna see in there.cmon reni

You sure you turned in the Darkwater Crystals, or the Crystal Shards? Crystal shards are what drops off the mobs.

5 Crystal Shards -->turn into Falakens for 1 Darkwater crystal
5 Darkwater Crystals -->turn into Falakens and get a package, and (assumption here) 1 more point towards unlocking Chaos Vortex for the server.

So it takes 25 Crystal Shards (mob drop) to complete 1 turn in of Darkwater Crystals and get +1 toward the number needed to open the instance.

Apparently, according to Paz, 17 guilds rushed to open the chaos vortex, which is basically more than the # of active guilds on Reni, sadly. Seems like its going to take a lot of effort on behalf of a lot of people to open this thing. Upon entering, if what I read was translated correctly, we get to purchase the Moa weapons for "rent" and they expire once you leave the instance. This would help down the 675k pdef monstrosities found inside, but not by much.

It'll be interesting to see how this whole thing works out, we just don't have the dps in any 1 guild to fight these guys. And I'm not even sure if its a 6, 12, or 36 man instance.

The moa weapons that aren't even that much greater than the current tosh weapons?

Quoted from "Borella;568759"

The moa weapons that aren't even that much greater than the current tosh weapons?

Dagger is about ~400 more DPS I think.

http://www.runesdatabase.com/item/213688/death-knell

It's a good chunk, specially if we get to rent them xD

Quoted from "Ravesden;568755"

Apparently, according to Paz, 17 guilds rushed to open the chaos vortex, which is basically more than the # of active guilds on Reni, sadly. Seems like its going to take a lot of effort on behalf of a lot of people to open this thing.

Good thing about PPK is that we can have all our members farming all the channels, every spot.

I didn't want to post this until Artemis got their's opened, but seeing as its been hundreds of crystals... here is the tutorial I wrote up for PPK;

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rkqV…S5YnZw396g/edit