For all those interested in the Dark Sprites in the dungeon of the Haven Castle, I believe they're in the Adan'f Range and I give them a big A+.
They seem much easier than Adan'f, to me anyway.

>describe sprite
The dark sprite is dressed in a black gossamer dress that is frayed and tattered along the bottom edges. Her eyes are as dark as coal and appear to be looking straight through to your soul. Her dark hair is shoulder length and gnarled. You almost catch a glimpse of a row of razor-sharp teeth, but when you turn to look directly at her, you see nothing but her maniacal, close-mouthed smirk that seems to taunt you and chill you at the same time.

>recall sprite
You recall a dark sprite casts the paeldryth's wrath spell.

You recall a dark sprite casts the confound enemies and curse of zachriedek spells.

You recall that a dark sprite sometimes carries its loot in locked boxes.
Roundtime: 7 sec.

Just thought I'd give people a head's up.


- Terra

I take it you need blessed weapons?

Also I thought there was four levels of them?


Player of Drevid

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http://www.phiiskeep.homestead.com/Barbarian.html

Cylons... why debugging matters.

They are cursed, so blessed weapons help but are not necessary.

There are different levels, through the hallway, door, passage, etc. in the dungeon.

I want to go back and say these creatures are amazing. I will, without a doubt, be hunting here.

Awesome job to everyone who had a hand in creating these.

The difficulty level is great. So far I've found some that fight bare handed, the ones through the hallway use stiletto's, through the passage they use daggers and the ones through the corridor have a scimitar and armor.

Look forward to more details later! Thank you Team Awesome!


- Terra

I really appreciate the new hunting area. But since you went to the effort to make 4 different level sprits, is it possible to make at least one that teaches in the 400 and 500+ range? None of the 4 areas I found (so I assume I found all 4 levels) taught me. There is a real lack of high level hunting for premies and overall lack in this province anyway, perfect time to change that, make one of these sprite areas real nasty for us!

Normal for all premium hunting areas.

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TG, TG, GL, et al.
Also: Moo.

Yes please!

Felicini

>I really appreciate the new hunting area. But since you went to the effort to make 4 different level sprits, is it possible to make at least one that teaches in the 400 and 500+ range? None of the 4 areas I found (so I assume I found all 4 levels) taught me. There is a real lack of high level hunting for premies and overall lack in this province anyway, perfect time to change that, make one of these sprite areas real nasty for us!

>Also, could you look into HUNT working for premium hunting?

I've relayed the request.


ASGM Zadraes
Premium Liaison
ALAE GM (Platinum)
Logistics Lead

In case I haven't said it enough times, thank you for all the hard work put into this release.
It really is an awesome release and everyone who had their hands in the pot did an amazing job!

Thank you!


- Terra

I just want to say I haven't had this much fun hunting in a long time. Thank you so much for this new area.


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Oleveir says, "One must be careful around the angry ODS women."

I really really like the dark sprites so please take this as constructive rather than a grip.

After spending more time in the dark sprite area I'm starting to get a tad frustrated. The spells are a challenge and doable but they will poof themselves to another room with bolts in them and since I'm using quads I'm losing them slowly when I can't find the sprite again. I'm not sure if they are degenning with them or just becoming really elusive after moving 2 rooms away from me.

The gen feels really slow and they don't seem to even try to find the hunters in the area. I can use hunt to try and track them down but they tend to degen before I get out of the RT for it and move 1-2 rooms to get there.


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Oleveir says, "One must be careful around the angry ODS women."

This is in the passage area and this is the message that I see to go with it.

The dark sprite stops advancing on you.
Without warning, a dark sprite disappears into her surroundings. Though you can't see her, you can hear her laughter echoing from the south.

aimThere is nothing else to face!
At what are you trying to aim?

This one I found in the room south of me.

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Oleveir says, "One must be careful around the angry ODS women."

Ah. That's the normal movement messaging for them. If you're not engaged to them, they're free to wander.

I'll check with a few folks to see what I can find out about lodged weaponry and how that affects the movement logic. No promises anything can be done since that's inside core critter stuff and not this particular critter, though.


ASGM Zadraes
Premium Liaison
ALAE GM (Platinum)
Logistics Lead

I keep forgetting about Dark Sprites and I was one of the ones that really loved them.

I forget, how low do they teach? I need to find a good area where I can train my defenses, but also backtrain some lower weapons.


- Terra

I too am curious as to how hard the lowest dark sprites are. Also, how tough are the red-bristled gremlins?

I am looking for a premium hunting area around croc level, but with a better spawn.

Gremlins are gryphons with boxes and (sometimes) armor. The unarmed ones (b.&f. gryphons) are mixed in with the ones with shields and parry (y.gryphons).

~Hunter Hanryu
http://drplat.com/CombatEquipmentCompendium.xls