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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 4:17pm

Does Hackman have a massive cooldown or are people just being jerks.

I have a toon that has needed hackman for the blood debt quest for over 6 months. He has never been up when I have checked. In that 6 months only once has anyone ever even announced that he was up and that was only after they killed him and were holding him open for elites. That person told me that he had a 8 hour respawn which is only useful if I am able to be online when that timer ends.

I finally tried 1 last effort. I placed my character very close to Hackman's spawn. He had auto invite on and his pet was out with the name "Ineedhackman." I kept him out for almost a continual 48 hours. Not 1 person even spoke to me or invited the character to kill Hackman. It would not have hurt their rewards at all to invite, but either nobody cared or he never spawned in that 48 hours.

They need a way for quests like this to be auto completed. Possibly have a weaker version of the world boss that they can spawn instantly, but gives nothing for reward except the quest completion. Hippo and Blackstarr could also use this function. Back when my main needed those quests, it was not possible to solo the bosses so people would world shout when they were up. Far too many can solo them now so just steal the boss and give the middle finger to anyone that needs them for quests.

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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 6:03pm

i think the "weak" version of this boss has a 24 hour respawn time while the hardmode one has a 72 hour respawn time. There are people that will kill every world boss within minutes of the server coming up from maintenance (so Tuesday was at 5am ish? he wont be up til Friday 5am ish)

Runewaker tried to deter higher level players by dropping the PoM count to 5 once they are above it's level, but it is just 5 free poms to whoever has the alts to solo it.
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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 6:46pm

Yeah there are some players that will just camp an alt there and have the approximate time that bosses will spawn set to a stop watch lol... so you will probably have to be pretty lucky to find him...
Such a shame that people don't announce killing the normal one for the quest... but then everyone else would know the approximate time he will spawn next and they might lose out on more proofs :minigun: :missilelauncher:
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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 7:35pm

So basically I should just drop the quest and give up? I can't be on at server reset, or at 1 day increments of that time.

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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 7:47pm

I was advised to drop the quest a while back... i picked it back up when a guild member felt like sharing the kill...

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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 9:12pm

It spawns hardmode after maint, killing hardmode has a 72 hour respawn timer, and killing normal mode gives it a 8 hour respawn, killing hardmode will spawn it normal mode next, but killing normal can make it spawn normal or hardmode again after the timer is up.
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Thursday, May 5th 2016, 10:10pm

Resentful hackman has a 72 hour cool down after which the normal one spawns. the normal one has a 8-12 hour cool down, after that there is a chance either the normal one will spawn again or the hard mode. Idk the exact %.

IMO they should just get rid of the whole world bosses dropping myths and have quarterly myth events. This way the few that can solo world bosses won't be able to monopolise it, and myth events means everyone gets a fair chance of farming myths, now whether the player puts in effort to make alts and farm more than others is upto the players. I soloed Hackman for months on govinda and did it for quite some time after merge. can't do it anymore due to the fact that I sold some of my champs dps gear. But when I used to do it, there is no way in hell would I inv other ppl that I didn't need. I didn't inv people not because im a dbag or because I am super greedy. I didn't do it because im not the only one that can solo Hackman. And after maint all the other solo'ers log in, so whoever kills the boss first gets it. So after maint if I log all my alts in and then wait for someone else who needs qeust or w/e to take their sweet time and show up then the chances are someone else will turn up and kill it. And at the end of the day, I would rather kill the boss then let some other solo'er solo it. And secondly if at this point in the game you still need quests like the one related to Hackman and you can't get in on a raid then the chances are, you are either a new player or an inexperienced one, which means there Is a good chance you will mess things up and cause my alts to wipe (I know Hackman is an easy boss, i'm just trying to get a point across). And at the end of the day I really don't want to die a bazillion time.
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Friday, May 6th 2016, 5:43pm

IMO they should just get rid of the whole world bosses dropping myths and have quarterly myth events.


Because that way we won't have this...


This way the few that can solo world bosses won't be able to monopolise it, and myth events means everyone gets a fair chance of farming myths, now whether the player puts in effort to make alts and farm more than others is upto the players. I soloed Hackman for months on govinda and did it for quite some time after merge. can't do it anymore due to the fact that I sold some of my champs dps gear. But when I used to do it, there is no way in hell would I inv other ppl that I didn't need. I didn't inv people not because im a dbag or because I am super greedy. I didn't do it because im not the only one that can solo Hackman. And after maint all the other solo'ers log in, so whoever kills the boss first gets it. So after maint if I log all my alts in and then wait for someone else who needs qeust or w/e to take their sweet time and show up then the chances are someone else will turn up and kill it. And at the end of the day, I would rather kill the boss then let some other solo'er solo it.
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