Adept Questions

[Sibro]

Hey there! I have some questions on adepts no one has been able to answer in-game. I've also checked the Wiki and searched the forums, but I came up empty. I would think some of these would be common questions, so maybe I am just bad at searching = (

A: What is the respawn on adepts? Is it a fixed time of several hours or days, random within a range of time, only one spawn per reboot...?

B: I heard someone mention adepts can ONLY be hit by melee within 3 levels of their max engage, and can only be cast on within 2 levels of max engage. Example: for adept with max engage 30, only melee players level 27, 28, 29, and 30 can hit the adept, and only casters level 28 to 30 can cast on it? That doesn't seem right to me, but I don't know. Is there even a minimum level?

C: have any big changes happened to adepts in the past few months? I used to kill the lower ones with just one group of 6, but now I hear you need 2 or 3 full groups to kill adepts? That seems like a big change to me - but no one has been able to answer it.

D: Do any adepts have placeholders? Maybe until the adept respawns, or maybe you need to kill the placeholder for the adept to spawn? I do not think the Beetle Queen or Rabb the Rat does, but I noticed the hut where Spectral Hunter used to be now has "an undead citizen" where he used to spawn and I do not see the Hunter anymore. I checked both day and night and it is the same, so that is not it. Maybe he was moved elsewhere?

E: Have any adepts ever been taken out of the game?

Thanks!

 

[Tryfaen]

Hey there! I have some questions on adepts no one has been able to answer in-game. I've also checked the Wiki and searched the forums, but I came up empty. I would think some of these would be common questions, so maybe I am just bad at searching = (

A: What is the respawn on adepts? Is it a fixed time of several hours or days, random within a range of time, only one spawn per reboot...?

B: I heard someone mention adepts can ONLY be hit by melee within 3 levels of their max engage, and can only be cast on within 2 levels of max engage. Example: for adept with max engage 30, only melee players level 27, 28, 29, and 30 can hit the adept, and only casters level 28 to 30 can cast on it? That doesn't seem right to me, but I don't know. Is there even a minimum level?

C: have any big changes happened to adepts in the past few months? I used to kill the lower ones with just one group of 6, but now I hear you need 2 or 3 full groups to kill adepts? That seems like a big change to me - but no one has been able to answer it.

D: Do any adepts have placeholders? Maybe until the adept respawns, or maybe you need to kill the placeholder for the adept to spawn? I do not think the Beetle Queen or Rabb the Rat does, but I noticed the hut where Spectral Hunter used to be now has "an undead citizen" where he used to spawn and I do not see the Hunter anymore. I checked both day and night and it is the same, so that is not it. Maybe he was moved elsewhere?

E: Have any adepts ever been taken out of the game?

A. 1 day for the lowest ones, 3 days for all the others I believe.

B. Not really. Adepts con red to the max engage level so the farther you are from the max engage the more spell resists and melee misses you will get so a level 10 vs a lvl 14 max engage adept will do less than a lvl 13 of the same class with equal gear on that mob.

C. Adepts used to be balanced for larger numbers(back when raid caps were 36) but now they are balanced for 2 groups since the raid cap is now 18.

D. Adepts do not have place holders.

E. No.

 

[Minerios]

Regarding B), it used to be that you wouldn't be able to do any damage to a target 7 levels above you. It's been changed but some people might still go by the old rules.

Regarding C), the change Tryfaen mentionned is fairly new so feel free to report Adepts that seem to be too hard to take down with only 2 groups.

 

[Sibro]

Awesome! Thank you so much for the responses - I was really getting paranoid I had something stuck on my face or something, because I knew SOMEONE had to know these answers ; )

I hope to be "experimenting" with quite a few adepts, so I'll be sure to let you know if things seem unbalanced = )

Thanks again!!

 

[Kelval]

Regarding B), it used to be that you wouldn't be able to do any damage to a target 7 levels above you. It's been changed but some people might still go by the old rules.

I have been in an adept raid, the adept being 8 lvls higher than me. I did hit it.... Once! I hope it helped mitigate a bit of the damage at least...