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Witching Night

So far, it seems like there are 3 parts to the event.

Part 1 - Restless Spirits:

These non-aggro mobs are spawning in each of the zones listed below (confirmed sightings in Black Fire Pass). They are non-aggro mobs (the BFP ones are level 24-28). They will spawn in a swirl of purple light and float around for a few seconds before de-spawning. Often, several of them will spawn at a time. Their behavior is pretty random, and they will often despawn in the middle of charging up an ability to attack them. They can be pulled with instant cast abilities. When killed, you get 100 INF (related to the new Live-Event page of the ToK), and have a chance to loot one of the new Witching Night Mask rewards.

There are achievement unlocks (under the Questing category) for Encountering a Restless Spirit, Killing 10, Killing 25. Each of these gives a small amount of xp and no other rewards so far.

Restless Spirits can drop Leather Mask of the Gobbo. This seems to be a fairly common drop, and is BoE.

Part 2 - Witch Covens:

You will find a circle of war mob:Withered Crones around a bubbling cauldron. Kill the crones and examine the pot. it explodes and 6-10 war mob:Restless Spirits spawn. In Chrace there is a coven on the bluff behind the harpies, west of the southeast bridge from the RvR Lake to the HE area.

Part 3 - PQs:
These PQs take place in the RvR lakes of the following zones:
T1-Chrace -The Witching Night
T2-Troll Country
T3-Black Fire Pass-The Witching Hour
S1- Kill 100 Enemy players before they kill 100 of you.<br>
Note that killing players around the Battlefield Objectives or at the Keep does not appear to count towards advancing the PQ. This makes it possible for an inferior force to hold off against a superior force by controlling engagement to areas that actually count towards the PQ.
S2- Kill the Festering Unclean One. He's a level 28 Lord. We took him down easily but we had a full warband with a ton of healing.
Rewards:
We got 3 gold bags, 1 purple bag, and 5 green bags. I didn't win, so I dunno what's in them.
The PQ reset is currently unknown. After 2 minutes, the chest de-spawns, but the new PQ does not begin.
T4-Caledor

A Gaping Skull Mask dropped off of killing Players in RvR lakes during the PQ.

Participating in these events gets you influence. You can see your progress by checking out the new Live Event tab of the Tome of Knowledge.

Influence Rewards:
Basic- Witching Draught
Advanced- Shroud of Dark Tidings, Mantle of Dark Tidings, Cloak of Dark Tidings, Wrap of Dark Tidings
Elite- Delicate Silver Mask

These rewards are selected from the Master Amethyst Wizard in Altdorf and the Raven Sorcerer in the Inevitable City. Both mobs are near the Flight Master.




Edited, Oct 30th 2008 9:46am by Snout

Black Orc has a voke move that's instant, Shadow Warrior has a few instant moves... I'd assume every class has something.

Yeah, not sure the point of needing an instant cast to get em. This means the destructions Mdps classes can't attack them.

I've tried sneaking up and using my basic ranged attack, as well as AoE abilities like Enchanting Beauty... they always just disappear as soon as casting is complete. I'm trying standing on some of the points they pop at now.



Aha, got one by standing on the spawn.

But still, this is really stupid.

Edited, Oct 29th 2008 10:33am by Razishlyat

I found Part 2 (Withered Crones)...

On hte east wide of the Hammerhead Lagoon, across from Nogaz's Boyz. They seem to be three around a cauldron. They didn't despawn or anything and I was able to just kill 'em, and got the Witching tome unlock.

Hm, they don't seem to be respawning. There's probably alternate spots.

Edited, Oct 29th 2008 3:01pm by Razishlyat

Okay found a coven in Marshes of Madness. Roughly 9400, 28000 (almost due east of the Foul Ruins PQ map marker). It has spawned in the exact same spot every time, so they appear static spawn. The critters here at the coven do not despawn if you approach, nor do you need to do any kind of insta-attack. They may be different than the random world monster pops. If you kill the 3-4 Withered Crones around the Cauldron of the Dead then touch the cauldron it explodes and spawns another 6-12 Restless Spirits for your killing pleasure. Got the gobbo mask off one of those. It is a blue item, and is BOE.

I didn't see a witching lord there at all. However, I did kill enough of them that I got a message about something dreadful spawning in the southern area of someplace, didn't notice it at the time. Also, after I killed about 50 of the Withered Crones, they spawned as hostile rather than orange. And later on, they jumped from level 3 to 12 for some reason (maybe someone did one of the PvP camps and that bumped them?)

Now all I need to do is find out where you go for the rewards.

Well they said the PvP area spawns were on a VERY slow timer. Bad call, IMO, but maybe they will fix it.

Still having a lot of difficulty with Dest Crones spawn... I've gotten 3 waves in several hours (watching a movie or three)

I was fighting restless spirits in T4. Just to break some misconceptions...

1. they can be found in any zone. the lvl will be eaqual to the zone.
2. they spawn/despawn on a timer. i think it's around 5 second despawn, and a 30 sec respawn.
3. no matter the lvl.. they die in 2 hits.


Edit: They have a spawn pattern. The ones i fought had 5 spawn spots located within a 250 ish ft radius. the spawns were random, but always in the same few spots.

Edited, Oct 31st 2008 9:35pm by Tenfooterten

I've seen several gaping skull drops, but always in a warparty where my odds of getting one are slim. Most everyone rolls Need on them so... whatever. I wanted to complete the "Kill 10 Witching Lords" quest but can't seem to get an Order party to play intelligently. Most do but the few that don't ruin it for everyone. Heck, why would Chaos want to run out and combat a full warparty when they've got the order lemmings running in one at a time. That's a rhetorical question.