Is Scalars ever up... at all?

[Aadia]

Is it just me or is that encounter just ALWAYS down?

I remember the very first day of TOA i went wandering with a few people in Typhon's and we killed the snake not realising what it was yet... looking at it now thank god i received credit on that day as the arti ended up being in my template and i haven't seen it up ever since.

I know so many people who still need this credit for their templates (including me for my sorc) but it's just become impossible to get it.

It just makes me wonder who actually farms it because tbh it doesn't drop anything special!
Lately it's become alot easier to get credit for what used to be the 'impossible' artifacts but the piss easy one has become impossible.

In my opinion it would be good if Mythic actually increased the pop timer, or ... make the encounter much more difficult so you need more people to kill it instead of just a bb with necro or focus cabbie.
This way more people will actually get a chance to see the encounter up and maybe eventually get credit for it.

What are your thoughts?

 

[thergador]

its up most nights around 2am m8 not sure if that helps you if you dont paly that late

 

[Martok]

i can kill it with just my merc and a cleric! its realy easy was up yesterday.

 

[Thadius]

Is it just me or is that encounter just ALWAYS down?

I remember the very first day of TOA i went wandering with a few people in Typhon's and we killed the snake not realising what it was yet... looking at it now thank god i received credit on that day as the arti ended up being in my template and i haven't seen it up ever since.

I know so many people who still need this credit for their templates (including me for my sorc) but it's just become impossible to get it.

It just makes me wonder who actually farms it because tbh it doesn't drop anything special!
Lately it's become alot easier to get credit for what used to be the 'impossible' artifacts but the piss easy one has become impossible.

In my opinion it would be good if Mythic actually increased the pop timer, or ... make the encounter much more difficult so you need more people to kill it instead of just a bb with necro or focus cabbie.
This way more people will actually get a chance to see the encounter up and maybe eventually get credit for it.

What are your thoughts?

It only pops when mass people die and snakes are spawned

Try after a ml6 raid

 

[Aadia]

i can kill it with just my merc and a cleric! its realy easy was up yesterday.

See that's what i mean... it's too easy, which means so many people get left out of credit...

 

[Gazon]

I heard there could be a limit of snakes in the zone so the Scalars one can't spawn. So kill some snakes, then spawn some new ones by suiciding and then there is a chance on of the snakes will be the Scalars one.

 

[leviathane]

it's something like 200 snakes in the zone.

 

[psyco]

its up on pryd

 

[Agrigo]

Prob same in alb as on hib/mid , but you can make it pop afaik.

Get your main char to go to TR and chain as many snakes as you can.

Make a /level 20 minser . sui continusly untill 9(?) invisable snakes are spawned by your death.

If you dont get messages of snakes popping when you sui the zone is capped with snakes (~200) Just kill some more with main.

give it ~15mins and watch the snake pop <sui near the encounter btw>

Activate Arti , level to 10 , then in RvR when you see a valk called Conspiracy take em off and let her hit you in the hands.

 

[Martok]

See that's what i mean... it's too easy, which means so many people get left out of credit...

lol you havent seen my merc in pve mode hell i used to do som the very same way back at the begining of toa!

 

[Vladamir]

You need to have at least 9 'invisible' snakes in the area for scalars to spawn. When you suicide on a mob, if a uraeus spawns before you OR you get a message like "a hissing sound but nothing appears before xxx's corpse", then you're ok. If neither of these messages comes up, theres too many snakes in the area and you have to go snake hunting

 

[Sharaft]

just go out with a cleric, kill urself over and over again till it spawns, if it says "a puff blablabla from ur corpse" it means there are 200 snakes (including pallida and haje urai) so you need to kill snakes to let the cap be open, then start kill urself again,

when you see "You hear a hissing sound but can't see anything" or something linke that it means you spawned an invisible snake.. x 10 = spawn of Maddening Scalars

 

[Aadia]

hmmm might give the suiciding a try with the partner's char (moehahahaha)

Just really seems alot of fuss about such a silly snake though

 

[psyco]

isn't that the point of arti's?

 

[Aadia]

isn't that the point of arti's?

All the others at least have a more reliable pop timer and with enough numbers it's done and over with...

But suiciding for an arti pop and losing xp for it just seems a bit silly (and yes yes i know a lvl 50 or a char you just made for it solves the problem but i hope you see my point)

 

[psyco]

All the others at least have a more reliable pop timer and with enough numbers it's done and over with...

But suiciding for an arti pop and losing xp for it just seems a bit silly (and yes yes i know a lvl 50 or a char you just made for it solves the problem but i hope you see my point)

was CS nefted then?
SOM's rarely up also

if they nefted it anymore, it would be pointless

 

[Andrilyn]

All the others at least have a more reliable pop timer and with enough numbers it's done and over with...

You obviously haven't tried Eternal Plant yet