RocknRolla
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Hi all,
I played for a few hours last night in a new Symphony of the Fey attempt. It was a party of 2 with 2 same-level hirelings. We leveled from 1 to 4 in Borderlands, clearing the wilderness first.
Our first mote appeared while we were in battle, and we accidentally chopped it down to negative HP before we recognized it as a mote. We both then played lutes to try to get it to activate, but it was just inactive. We assumed you can't activate it after killing it?
Our second mote, we also hit. But didn't kill before playing. We both played, and after a short wait it activated. We killed the mobs and we both played lutes again. A green disk of particles kind of exploded from it each time each of us played and after that we both had about +12 additional endurance on our lutes.
Our third through sixth (or more?) motes were all in quest in the caves of chaos. We were levels 2 through 4 during this with all quests played on elite. From the write up, I think that means our base quest levels were 3. So we were right at level for many, and maybe 1 level above for a couple of them before the end quest where it's base level of 2 would put it right our level of 4 on elite.
We got two in-quest motes to activate and one of them progressed enough for us to kill the end boss of the mote. My friend played his lute, and reported that he got the green explosion graphic and his lute gained a few points. I got no graphic or effect on my screen, so played my lute too. Still no graphic happened, but it looks like I may have gotten the benefit. I think My lute was up about 10 in endurance.
For the other one that started to work, in the middle of battle while clicking to try to attack, I accidentally clicked the mote. An NPC dialog popped up. I forget what it said, but remember it was telling me something about how to activate it. However, after dismissing that dialog, no further mobs spawned and the mote was inactive. No end boss for this mote. Playing couldn't restart it or get the reward.
The other two motes were just inactive from the start. Nothing we could do would activate. It wasn't far from a shrine for one, so I even shrined to get 3 more attempts at playing. (I may have miscounted the total number of motes... There were more than two that were just inactive.)
Long story short this was theoretically very fun, but having literally only 1 out of 6+ motes work has been an absolute buzz-kill. I want to try again, but not until I either understand the rules, or can have some reasonable expectation of fun vs. unexplained repeated failure with no apparent path to success. What are other people's experiences with this?
(Edited to add info gathered so far.)
I played for a few hours last night in a new Symphony of the Fey attempt. It was a party of 2 with 2 same-level hirelings. We leveled from 1 to 4 in Borderlands, clearing the wilderness first.
Our first mote appeared while we were in battle, and we accidentally chopped it down to negative HP before we recognized it as a mote. We both then played lutes to try to get it to activate, but it was just inactive. We assumed you can't activate it after killing it?
- Is that true? If you hit (or kill) a mote before playing, does it impact the game at all? If so, what are the rules on this?
ANSWERED: It has no impact.
Our second mote, we also hit. But didn't kill before playing. We both played, and after a short wait it activated. We killed the mobs and we both played lutes again. A green disk of particles kind of exploded from it each time each of us played and after that we both had about +12 additional endurance on our lutes.
- Do we both need to play, or do both of us just have to be standing next to it to get credit?
ANSWERED: For both activation and reward, only one player needs to play.
Our third through sixth (or more?) motes were all in quest in the caves of chaos. We were levels 2 through 4 during this with all quests played on elite. From the write up, I think that means our base quest levels were 3. So we were right at level for many, and maybe 1 level above for a couple of them before the end quest where it's base level of 2 would put it right our level of 4 on elite.
We got two in-quest motes to activate and one of them progressed enough for us to kill the end boss of the mote. My friend played his lute, and reported that he got the green explosion graphic and his lute gained a few points. I got no graphic or effect on my screen, so played my lute too. Still no graphic happened, but it looks like I may have gotten the benefit. I think My lute was up about 10 in endurance.
For the other one that started to work, in the middle of battle while clicking to try to attack, I accidentally clicked the mote. An NPC dialog popped up. I forget what it said, but remember it was telling me something about how to activate it. However, after dismissing that dialog, no further mobs spawned and the mote was inactive. No end boss for this mote. Playing couldn't restart it or get the reward.
- Is there a known bug where activating the NPC dialog cancels or deactivates the mote?
NEED MORE INFO: People were confused by this as it apparently is not supposed to have an NPC dialog at all. But it definitely did for the two cases where I accidentally clicked on the mote during battle. And in those cases, it deactivated.
The other two motes were just inactive from the start. Nothing we could do would activate. It wasn't far from a shrine for one, so I even shrined to get 3 more attempts at playing. (I may have miscounted the total number of motes... There were more than two that were just inactive.)
- Are there known bugs where they might just be inactive? Is there a die roll and a person might not get it on a bad roll? Are there conflicts like if a party member plays a summer lute, and someone else plays a winter lute it will fail, etc?
INFERRED PARTIAL ANSWER: There is no die roll. There are bugs where they just don't work. But apparently not nearly as often as happened to me last night.
NEED MORE INFO: Still no info on what (if anything) triggers or helps avoid buggy motes.
Long story short this was theoretically very fun, but having literally only 1 out of 6+ motes work has been an absolute buzz-kill. I want to try again, but not until I either understand the rules, or can have some reasonable expectation of fun vs. unexplained repeated failure with no apparent path to success. What are other people's experiences with this?
(Edited to add info gathered so far.)
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