Quarm.Guide

by Xanax

Pre-Kunark Launch

Classic 1.9: June 1st, 2024 (1 month)

• Special event: 1 month Kunark-Locked Iksar early access (Level Cap 50, some zones restricted)

We will be performing downtime on June 1st, 2024 at 12pm ET. We will keep the server down for three hours and unlock at 3pm ET. We may run into issues with the deployment of the patch, though we are targeting a 3pm ET unlock time.

Upon completion of the maintenance, Patch 1.9 will be deployed to the server and Iksars will be available for creation. They will be able to play in Kunark zones and cannot leave Kunark. Non-Iksars cannot enter Kunark zones. Please note that mules are unavailable for Iksar characters until July 1st, 2024 at 3pm ET, when Kunark officially launches.

Pre-Kunark Epic Content

Just so there’s no surprises on launch day, we will be enabling Patch 2.0 content (including epic drops) when we release Patch 1.9. This means that you can gather epic pieces on Kunark with your level 50 Iksars, or with the characters not within Kunark.

• Wraith of a Shissir will drop in Patch 2.0

``Content does NOT include features like:

• Level 60
• Access to Kunark zones for non Iksars
• Access to Classic zones for Iksars``

The zones being restricted on Pre-Kunark launch are the following:

• Veeshan’s Peak
• Kunark Instances

Those will be available on the 1st of July.

All Kunark raid creatures will have natural spawn times during the Iksar Early Access period.

For the sake of intra-continent travel, the following zones are considered Kunark zones:

• Timorous Deep
• Firiona Vie
• The Overthere

If an Iksar attempts to zone into a non-Kunark zone, they will be teleported to Cabilis instead. If a non-Iksar attempts to zone into a Kunark zone, they will be teleported to East Commonlands instead.

Kunark Launch

Kunark 2.0 (July 1st, 2024))

• Kunark is accessible.
• Iksar creatable.
• Nurga and Droga pre revamp
• Chardok pre revamp.
• Level Cap 60, 0 AA
• Legacy Items enabled.
• Epic Items enabled.

Kunark 2.3: October 1st, 2024 (3 months)

• Cazic Thule / Innoruuk given minor damage boost over classic.

Kunark 2.6: Jan 1st, 2025 (2 months)

• Kunark Legacy Items ‘disabled’ and no-trade versions of legacy loot are added.
• A single tradeskill allowed above 200 is added.

Kunark 2.9: March 1st, 2025 (1 month)

• Pre-Velious patch.
• Gnomes appear, wanting help crafting a new feat of gnomish engineering that will allow their expedition to reach an island they saw in the distance…

Legacy Items and Respawn Rates

• Lord Begurgle’s Crown will now drop off any aqua goblin at the same rate as Lord Begurgle.
• Sebilis Crypt named are now 100% chance to spawn and the placeholders’ loot (Scroll of the Dark) has been moved to the main bosses.
• Hierophant’s Cloak will now drop at 0.2% of the time off of any krup froglok, similar to the Runebranded Girdle.
• The Fungus Covered Scale Tunic and Fungus Covered Great Staff from the Myconid Spore King in Sebilis are now legacy items and no-drop. The drop rates of all 3 items have been boosted for those two legacy items. The minimum required level to loot these two items is set to 50.
• Myconid Creatures (excluding the spore king) now drop a tradable copy of the Fungus Covered Great Staff and Fungus Covered Scale Tunic (Fungus Covered Great Stick, Fungus Covered Scale Shirt)
• Circlet of Shadows is now permanently the pre-nerf Circlet of Shadow. Any named creature in Droga can now drop the tradable Circlet of Shadow at 100% chance with a legacy loot restriction of Level 35 and a 30-day lockout timer.

• Reduced the spawn timer of ‘an angry goblin’ from 3 days with variance to 15 minutes.

• Various Kunark dungeons have been flagged as reduced respawn dungeons.

• a sarnak courier and its spawngroup is now set to 17s, with a 6% chance of spawn. The chance to loot the Goblin Gazughi Ring is now 2%. The Goblin Gazughi Ring is now a legacy item that is lootable at level 15, and the lockout time is 30 days. The intent of this is to make the Goblin Gazughi Ring camp similar to Quillmane. (edited)
• Lord Gimblox now spawns more frequently over other NPCs in his spawngroup. The timer for Gimblox to spawn has been reduced to 15 minutes.
• Eldreth in Lake Rathetear now respawns after 15 minutes.
• Shmendrik Lavawalker in Lake Rathetear now respawns after 15 minutes.
• Astral Projection in Lake Of Ill Omen and Overthere is now a 15 minute respawn timer, and is now charm immune.
• Founy Jestands now spawns with the parchment 100% of the time, and 4 of them can drop.
• Tani N’Mar now spawns with the parchment 100% of the time, and 4 of them can drop.
• a seeker in Solusek Temple is now a 15 minute respawn timer.
• Naxot Deepwater in Burning Wood is now a 15 minute respawn timer.
• The General’s Dark Elves in Kithicor are now 15 minute spawns. Legacy loot applies to all special items from the Dark Elves - 46 to loot, 30 day lockout. This does not affect the turnin for the General.
• Yendar Starpyre is now a 15 minute respawn. The Shining Metallic Robe from Yendar is now subject to legacy loot (level 46, 30 day lockout)
• Shmendrik Lavawalker is now a 15 minute spawn.
• Unjeweled Dragon Head Hilt is now a 30 second respawn timer.
• Severely Damaged Dragon Head Hilt is now a 30 second respawn timer.
• a mountain giant patriarch now spawns more frequently.
• Gated all of the Chardok 2.0 items from dropping in Chardok. This is a stopgap until the zone can be un-revamped.
• an iksar betrayed in Chardok now spawns much more frequently.
• a drolvarg pawbuster and a drolvarg warlord will now share the same spots with the bodyguards (4 spawns total) and all now have 15 minute respawns.
• Warlord will drop the Petrified Werewolf Skull 100% of the time.
• Both the Metal Pipe and Petrified Werewolf Skull are now subject to legacy loot (level 46, 30 day lockout) to prevent griefing and farming.
• Brother Balatin now spawns 100% of the time.
• a fire sprite is now a 2 minute respawn timer.
• a sleeping ogre is now a 5 minute respawn timer.
• Kaiaren is now a 5 minute respawn timer, and is now charm immune.
• Eldrig the Old now spawns separately at 100% chance on his own spawn group every 15 minutes.
• Nezekezena now spawns separately at 100% chance on his own spawn group every 15 minutes.
• Swapped the name of the Fungus Covered Scale Tunic/Shirt. The Shirt is now the no-drop item.
• Swapped the name of the Fungus Covered Great Staff/Stick. The Stick is now the no-drop item.
• Any Scarab or Sebilite creature in Sebilis now has a 0.2% chance of dropping a Runed Fighters Staff. - - This item is Legacy Loot and requires level 50 to loot.
• Boogoog can now drop Mosscovered Branch and Mosscovered Twig randomly.
• Both are Legacy Loot items that require level 20 to loot.
• Jade Chokidai Prod now drops off of any mid level (conscript) or higher sarnak in the Lake of Ill Omen at 5% chance, including the Chancellor of Di`Zok, who now drops the Prod at 5% chance.
• Up to two Xalgozian Fangs can now drop off of any “Xalgoz” creature in Kaesora at 5% per roll. Xalgoz himself also has this drop chance adjusted to the same rate.
• An Undead Bard is now an 18 hour repop in Open World and Instances.
• Script-Spawned Trakanon is no longer hostile and will not social with the creatures around him.
• Script-Spawned Trakanon now only drops the Bard Epic piece required to progress.
• Cazel will now respawn every 15 minutes. Additionally, Cazel is no longer associated with a hidden KOS faction.
• The One Key in The Overthere is now a 5 second spawn timer.
• Jade Chokidai Prod is now no-drop. The Key to Charasis can no longer be multiquested.
• Added 4 additional Froglok Hunter / Forager standalone spawns to Trakanon’s Teeth.
• Added 4 additional Ancient Jarsath standalone spawns to Firiona Vie.
• Book of Charm and Sacrifice is now a 5 second respawn. Additionally, it now appears in instances.
• According to a sneaky rogue, the Book of Souls in hate is up every 5 seconds now.
• The Tangrin is now a 15 minute spawn. YetiQuest returns!
• Felia Goldwing is now a 100% chance to spawn.
• Vessel Drozlin and Verina Tomb are now 15 minute spawns without variance.
• Slixin Klex now drops his loot 100% of the time for the Magician Epic, and now is a 15 minute respawn.
• Undertow will now drop his Blazing Wand 100% of the time.
• Burning Embers is now a guaranteed drop from any of the named Wurms.
• Tarbul Earthstrider is now a unique spawn, and is now balanced versus other spawnpoints for spawn chance.
• Phinigel will now drop a second roll attempt at the Staff of Elemental Mastery: Water when Kunark unlocks at 50% chance.
• Phinigel’s Kedge Backbone is now a 50% roll attempt.
• Venril Sathir’s Remains are now a 1 hour respawn timer and triggered Venril Sathir is no longer hostile.
• Jade Reavers in City of Mist have had their respawn timer greatly reduced.
• Uulump Pujluk is now a 1 hour spawn timer.
• Dolgin Godslayer is now a 1 hour spawn timer.
• a broken golem is now a 1 hour respawn timer.
• an advisor in Mistmoore is now a 15 minute respawn timer.
• Black Dire in Mistmoore is now a 15 minute respawn timer.
• Caradon is now a 15 minute respawn timer.
• Duriek Bloodpool is now a 15 minute respawn timer - down from 3 days.
• Marl Kastane is now a 15 minute respawn timer, down from 3 days. Why did Verant hate Shadowknights?!
• Lhranc is now a 1 hour respawn timer, down from ONE WEEK. What did Shadowknights do to you, Brad?
• Sir Lucan D’Lere is now a 1 hour respawn timer. He didn’t steal the soulfire yet in this timeline, so he’s probably fine to spawn more frequently.
• Kirak Vil is now a… 15 minute spawn timer… down from… ONE WEEK?! Wow, so it’s not just Shadowknights - they just hate KNIGHTS in general!
• Lich of Miragul was already changed, but it’s worth denoting here.
• Keeper of the Tombs is now a 15 minute respawn in open world… down from… -checks notes-… 5 days? WHY
• spectral librarian is now 100% chance to spawn in Kaesora. The Epic drop is now 100% as well.
• spectral librarian now has a chance to drop a Xalgozian fang, too, as it formerly shares a placeholder spot with two minions of Xalgoz.
• Glaron the Wicked is now a 30 minute spawn timer. I nearly typo’d this as day. I now know how the original timers were made.
• Soul Leech, Dark Sword of Blood is now a 50% chance off of Cazic Thule, separate to his normal item pool, due to its use in the Shadowknight Epic.
• High Scale Kirn is now a 1 hour spawn timer, down from 4 in open world and 8 in instanced.
• Decrepit Hide is now a 12% chance off of any Ashenbone Drake in the Plane of Hate.
• Wraith of a Shissir is now a 1 hour spawn timer.
• Essence of a Vampire is now a 9% drop chance.
• Nortlav the Scalekeeper now drops one of every Dragon Scale - Green, Red, and White - upon being defeated. Additionally, he will now spawn during Kunark.
• VP Dragons have had their in combat HP regen set to be in line with other raid creatures (1)
• After a bit of deliberation, VP Dragons will be increased to 38,000, with Phara Dar being 42,000
• Swamp of No Hope and Lake of Ill Omen have had their exp boosted for Kunark Early Access.
• Iksar mules will no longer be able to log in temporarily during Kunark Early Access.
• We opened a second Field of Bone in East Cabilis. There’s a soulbinder next to the newly added POK book located in East Cabilis near the Field of Bone zoneline. This is to help alleviate zone pressure.
• We added a soulbinder to Warsliks Woods. A bonus experience percent of 25% has been added to WW.
• Oops, All Iksar Skeletons! is now available near the Kurn’s Tower entrance for Iksars to de…cluster. - Yes, Box is in that zone.
• Hand Made Backpack can now take a Scaled Wolf Hide as a component.
• Power of Fire is now 9% drop chance from blazing elementals. Power of Fire is now 50% chance from the lava elemental.
• Pearlescent Shard is now 9% drop chance.
• Jennus Lykobar is now a 15 minute respawn.
• Akksstaff is now a 15 minute respawn.
• Torch of the Elements is now 100% drop rate.
• Ooglyn is now a 15 minute respawn.
• Rharzar and Blackwing now have an even spawn chance versus other creatures in their group.
• Faelin Bloodbriar is now a 50/50 spawn chance @ 6min repop for the Druid and Ranger epic.
• Kirak Vil’s respawn time has been further dropped to 15 minutes.
• Due to their 7 day lockout timer, Cazic Thule will now drop his Slime Blood 100% of the time.
• Epic Pieces from Innoruuk will now drop 100% of the time until the release of Velious.
• Legion of Cabilis Guards should be more amenable to attacking Sarnak Collective members.
• The proc hate cap is now limited to early Velious. Warriors, rejoice.
• The warrior epic now does standard hate prior to Velious.
• Adjusted the timeout between going linkdead and getting back into the game. This should be moderately faster.
• Fixed a rare zone crash with the loot lockout system where a player character thought they were in a raid that no longer exists.
• Added Gnome-sized Skeletons to Gnome Necromancers
• The “Lich” line will now turn gnome necromancers into a smaller-in-stature skeleton.
• Iksars under the effect of Illusion: Skeleton (ie; from Amulet of ) will now display as Iksar Skeletons.
• Mini creatures that were set to 3d in Plane of Hate are now set to 2d 18h - this will require the last 3d timer to expire before applying. (edited)
• Some of the throwing weapons that previously caused disconnects should no longer disconnect you. Please report any additional items like that in Discord.
• Tin Banker I and Tin Banker II are no longer associated with a faction.
• Thought Destroyer now has a 9% chance to spawn in Plane of Hate off of the death of any scorn banshee, up from 5%.
• Ghost of Glohnor is now a 15% spawn chance from any Fallen Erudite.
• Fungus Covered Great Saff has been renamed to Fungus Covered Great Staff
• Fungus Covered Great Staff is now a 1% chance to drop off of any fungus man.
• Fungus Covered Scale Tunic is now a 1% chance to drop off of any fungus man.
• Myconid Spore King now spawns 100% of the time, and now drops the legacy no-drop items 100% of the time.
• Fungus Covered Great Staff is now a 0.5% chance to drop off of any fungus man.
• Fungus Covered Scale Tunic is now a 0.5% chance to drop off of any fungus man.
• a shady goblin is now a 900 second respawn timer. You know, I could just write 15 minutes, but it sounds cooler this way.
• You can now loot the Circlet of Shadow at 27.
• Circlet of Shadow is now an instant cast timer.
• Faelin Bloodbriar is now a 2 minute respawn.
• Decrepit Hide boosted to 19% (was: 12%)
• Targrin the Rock is now a 50% spawn chance (was 5%)
• Undead Dragongut Strings is now a 100% drop rate from the normal version of Trakanon.
• Gnarled Staff is now a 100% chance to drop off of the instanced version of Venril Sathir.
• The following creatures can now drop A Piece of a Medallion (Karnors):
  • a cursed hand
  • a Drolvarg warlord
  • undead jailer
  • skeletal scryer
  • Hangnail
  • a drolvarg captain
  • a drolvarg pawbuster
  • skeletal captain
  • skeletal caretaker
• Medallion of the Jarsath (Top) is now a 30 second respawn timer.
• Medallion of the Kylong (Bottom) is now a 30 second respawn timer.
• Medallion of the Obulus (Middle) may now drop off of any skeleton in the Dreadlands.
• Medallion of the Obulus (Bottom) may now drop off of any spectral creature in Trakanon's Teeth.
• Herbalist-adjacent mobs now have a 15% chance of dropping the Manisi herb, including the named creature.
• Himart Kichith will now function as intended.
• Niblik’s Gems quest reward can now drop off of any named Sarnak in Chardok, too.
• Keeper of Souls now drops a guaranteed Pegasus Feather Cloak at 100% chance.
• City of Mist is now a 900 second base spawn time.
• City of Mist is now considered a dungeon with cast outdoors enabled.
• The Herald in Chardok now requires appropriate faction for the Warlord’s head turnin for the Regal Band of Bathezid.
• Staff of the Dreaded Gaze and Blade of Xalgoz now drops off of any “ of Xalgoz" at a 2.5% chance.
• Trakanon can now drop between 7 and 10 teeth. He’s got some big ones!
• Skeletal Warlord no longer has a droplimit of 1 on the table containing the Tranquil Staff.
• Undertow is now a 50/50 chance of spawning in Kedge Keep.
• a bloodgill marauder is now a 5 minute spawn time, and now drops 6 medallion pieces
• The dungeon respawn time changes will now reduce any timer above 12 minutes but below 30 minutes to 12 minutes as opposed to (> 8 minutes -> 8 minutes)
• Pulsing Green Stone will now drop from the standard, non-triggered Venril Sathir at the same rate as the Triggered Venril Sathir.
• Shissar Apothic Staff now drops in place of the Protector staff from Hoshkar.
• The Robe of Invocation now drops at a normal rate from Xygoz.
• Iksar Skeleton Illusions will now use the female skull for female characters.
• a bloodgill goblin now drops the VP medallion at 25% chance instead of a bloodgill marauder. a bloodgill marauder is once again a 8 hour spawn timer and is guaranteed to drop 4 medallions.
• Hierophant’s Cloak is now a Legacy Loot item, and requires 50 to loot.
• It is no longer possible to multiquest the Veeshan’s Peak Key or its subquest medallions.
• It is no longer possible to multiquest the Sebilis key.
• Plane of Sky creatures are now immune to pacify.
• Lheana no longer has an 18 hour respawn timer in instances.
• Althele’s respawn is now 3 minutes.
• The Druid/Ranger Epic NPC in Greater Faydark no longer depops. She also doesn’t have variance of 360 anymore, resulting in a variance time of 35+ years on repop.
• Zordak Ragefire now functions in Nagafen’s Lair (Instanced)
• Mage epic pet minimum damage set to 21 (This was applied yesterday by Secrets but did not get a patch note)

Instances and Quakes

• charasis_instanced
• chardok_instanced
• dreadlands_instanced
• emeraldjungle_instanced
• timorous_instanced
• skyfire_instanced
• sebilis_instanced
• karnor_instanced

• veeshan_instanced

• kunark open world targets to respawn on quakes, set their respawn time to 10 days

Events

10/31/2024 Oops, All Goos!

Kunark Era Resists

From Torven of TAKP:

“This change alters the resist spell method to try and mimic the classic, pre-September 2002 resists while keeping the 0-200 scale and -resist adjusts on spells. Switching to the 0-99 scale would be too disruptive and troublesome to implement and would require a lot of database changes, so maintaining much of the PoP era system was desirable. These changes are all gated to late Luclin and earlier.

Changes in this commit:

Lifetaps on client targets are unresistable.
Resist hardcap of 250 in Classic and Kunark eras, 350 after Kunark.
Softcap at 200, overcap returns are half.
Dragon breaths with a lure component hardcoded to be -100 instead of -150.
Immolating Breath and Stun Breath hardcoded to be granted resist modifiers.
Enchanter NPCs will be able to land spells on high resist targets.
Partial hit damage is reduced for 51+ client casters. (it's kept as it is at level 50 and under)
Partial damage taken by clients is increased.

I omitted the resist floors due to how disruptive those would be. In some scenarios the resists are knowingly more lenient (higher caps) in this than in the Kunark decompile because the hardcap back then was rather harsh and the effectiveness per point of resist is reduced in many cases due to the 200 scale, requiring more resist to reach the same mitigation as classic. I also believe that Sony likely altered the resist function at Velious launch to make resisting dragons easier and I can’t say how exactly, but the obvious move would have been to raise the hardcap so that’s what I did.”

Misc

• An elective service will be available during the Kunark pre-release period: Promotion of Iksar Guild Leader character: 2000p

• boost gorgalosk to 2 loots