Falgarholm/Frostshard Lake/Northern Border Progress Thread

[Jakkal]

Okay, I've mostly finished Dargun's Tomb, at least as much as I can right now. So I'm going to go back to updating all the old quests and scripts that I run across. This is for Falgarholm, which was started already, but doesn't look like all the quests were set up, so I'm going to try do that as well.

Once again, like always, I will be going through the quests in the same order that they're in the database (by ID number)

Mapping the Path - Turn in and Completion text are missing. This starts in Falgarholm but ends in Dargun's Tomb's chunk.

[Jakkal]

Roll the Bones - Complete. Updated to current standards. Updated mobs with new loot code.

Howling Has Me Heated - Complete. No changes required

Tall Tales - Complete. Updated to current standards.

Seeds of Power - Complete. Updated to current standards. Updated related objects with current code. Item rewards are not scripted yet.

The Monoliths of Falgarholm - Skipping for now. There's some kind of fuckery going on there and I don't feel like trying to make sense of SOE's mess.

The Fire Pillars of Frostshard Lake - To say that everything was missing about this quest is an understatement. Level, XP, All the text, Objectives, all missing. I was able to piece it together thanks to the various information sites: https://vanguard.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fi ... thard_Lake http://thetelonproject.wikidot.com/adve ... thard-lake I have not touched any of the missing quest text yet, I'm not sure what to put. I'm going to go through all the other quests here first to see if there's some hint about what the questgiver wanted. I also readded the quest rewards as well.

See For Yourself - Complete. Updated mobs with new loot code.

The Truth is in the Toes - Complete. Updated mobs with new loot code.

Additional Proof- Wasn't set up before (not correctly anyway). And it's set up now. NOTE TO SELF: Do the quests for Mimgrar the Blind in Frostshard Lake.

The Great Catch of '36 - Complete. Updated mobs with new loot code.

A Hermit's Only Friends - Updated to current standards.

Mushroom Surprise - Script was erroring out. Fixed it. All working now. Reward is not scripted yet. I might do that tomorrow.

[Jakkal]

Today's Work.

The Reward Item from "Mushroom Surprise" has now been scripted.

Falgarholm: Monumental Discoveries - Looking at this quest and the area, and trying to figure out how this was set up, I've come to the conclusion that this questline, which was added very late in the game, was created by someone that doesn't play Vanguard. It seems to employ weird mechanics that aren't really used elsewhere (Like just getting an item when you enter an area and that's your quest update). Also it seems they're forcing you to click on 10 separate items, which exist in a circle, and don't give you any loot items, and I'm not sure what it gave you. I'm starting to think it might have been popup text. Either way, this is a departure from the normal way VG does things. And because this questline was added so late in the game, none of the wikis have information on it. Due to this, and that I can't figure out what you were supposed to do, I'm altering it so it matches more traditional VG quests.

More on this in a bit when I'm done setting it up.

Falgarholm: Monumental Discoveries- Complete now. Wait no: This quest should be scrapped.

Frostshard Lake: None of these were set up so I went ahead and took care of them.
Cold Nights - Complete
Hidden Meanings - Complete
None Shall Stand - Complete. NOTE: Two of the quest rewards have the exact same stats. The other two items have almost the same stats (Two are the same, and the third is difference). And more absorption crap. I am not fixing items on this pass.
Ice Drake Disparity - Complete. This one is turned in at Wardship.

[Jakkal]

Today's Work:
Falgarholm: Shades of Glories Past - Complete. Updated quest and spawn scripts with new loot handling code.
Falgarholm: Cryptic Findings - This quest lives up to its name because I can't figure it out. Based on the turn-in text, I'm guessing these are dropped off the spirit guys near the cemetary looking part of Falgarholm.

But I'm going to be honest. I'm recommending we scrap this last minute crap they did to Falgarholm in Live VG. No one know about it. No one did it in LIve. And no wikis have info on it. I'm going to recommend that we make Falgarholm an outdoor/indoor 50+ area (perhaps raiding). I believe Falgarholm is a better place for "revised" 50+ content than some of the other areas in game, esp since VG never made use of the interior of it at all. No normal content would be lost with this change and it would give us another playground when we hit level 50.

[AusTerran]

Missing Quest: Poetic Justice: A Hermit's Old Drums
https://www.vgoemulator.net/archive/MMO ... -3087.html

Reward: Drums of the Hermit
https://vanguard.fandom.com/wiki/Song_Composition_Guide (half way down the page is a screenshot of the drums.

Found it as looking for some drums for my friends bard, we did the hermits other two quests to see if it unlocked the drums quest, but it did not

[Jehlicka]

Starting the chunk cleanup.

[Jehlicka]

resources/links:
https://capelski.home.xs4all.nl/images/ ... arholm.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20070712204 ... algarholm/
vg walkthrough : https://web.archive.org/web/20130206132 ... ge/parts/1
https://www.gamesvillage.it/forum/showt ... oes/page10

JOB TO DO:


Check whole chunk state --done
-- central hilly area is almost empty, have to be repopulated --done

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Test all available quests
-4607 (leads to Dargun's Tomb) --ok
--5304 (leads to Northern Highlands) --ok
--5442 --ok
--5347--WRONG POI! Leading to Magi Hold --fixed
--5349 The Truth is in the Toes is probably not well scripted. Quest summary says: "Slay frostwing claws and frostwind claws until a drake front claw is found. Bring the drake front claw to Hendar at the Northern Border." The issue is, that here is no mob called Frostwind Claw; also, Frostwing Claw has a script upon him to drop Drake Tale Scale, not the Claw. --checked with Jakkal, all is ok
--5348 --ok
--5350 --ok
--4628 --ok
--4629 --ok
--4688 --ok
--5497 --ok
--5498 --ok

Mobs needed to complete the quests
--Wolves and Mountin Lions (15 slain)
--Wolves near the Northern Border (8 slain)
--Spirit Keeprs (enough to drop 8 Spirit Necklaces (33% chance) )
--Troll (10 slain)
--Frostwing and Frostwind Tallon (enough to drop 6 Drake Tale Scales (35% chance) )
--Frostwing and Frostwind Claws (kill to loot 1 Drake Front Claw)
--Bloodfist Ogre (25 slain in Frostshard Lake tho!)
--Followers of Torkald (30 slain in Frostshard Lake tho!)
--Thrall ones (enogh to lott 3 Troll Thick Hide - in Nortern Highland tho!)

Set harevstable mobs + combine plants/trees/nods etc --done
-- all resources combined --done
-- skinning --all done
Mountain Goat
Swiftclaw Hunter
Swiftfang Prowler
Great Swiftfang
Stonesnap Delver
Longclaw Demolisher
Tamed Dire Wolf
Palle
Techj
Khahz
Great Swiftfang Stalker
Swiftclaw Slasher
Swiftclaw Stalker
Swifttail Prowler
Mountain Growler
Longclaw Mauler
Darkpaw Mauler
Frostwind Talon
Frostwing Claw
Frostwing Talon
Stonesnap Crusher
Longclaw Destroyer
Icewing Claw

Mobs placement/combination /pathing
--need to check flying mobs Icewing Destroyer, how many do I need? There is 167 spawns atm!!!!!! // Update: I decided to decrease their population rapidly = I'll place jut one per each monolith as the air guardians --done
--mobs along the main road--done
--mobs on the walls --done
--mobs behind/around the fortress --done
--open area mobs --done

Named combined
The Heimkar + Ancestral Guardian (222728)


NPC scripts check +NPC pathing
--Griffon Trainer --created
--Sentinel Harr and Sentinel Khejl were prolly pathers (multiple spawns) in VG live, have to check from where/where to they were pathing (followers?) //or guards of the named Horrat (the Nomad)? --ok
--there are two mobs/wolves called Techj and Khahz (multiple spawns as well), IMHO they belong to Khejl and Harr --ok
--Ancestral Guardian + The Heimkar - wolven ghosts appearing together, I'd say they were combined --ok
--NPC or mob? Guardian of the Balance - have to check it --leaving this NPC as it is

[Jehlicka]

Cleanup done.
Discord updated:
"Chunk Falgarholm, clean up done, chunk playable. Two important things: do not report the quest The Monoliths of Falgarholm, will be scripted later. Also, we decided to leave Falgarholm fortress as it is now and redesign its content to 50+ lvl zone (some day later), so do not report any spawns mess pls."

[Jehlicka]

Northern Highlands - cleanup starting (I put the notes here despite the name of the thread "Northern Border", which is in fact just a name of the gate)

[Jehlicka]

JOB TO DO:
1. check whole chunk stat --wip

--the dungeon Blood Seeker Den (Fandom info) has in the game diff name: Dark Eye Hold. What's the correct name??? --keeping the Dark eye Hold
..found small house with two unscripted NPCs: Crazy Lady Vock and Madman Prin...who are they??? --both scripted
--so many mobs Coldbay ones, but no related quest? Strange. --just made cleanup in their area, no more stuff to do there
..good news: I have already set harvesting mobs here (years ago:) )

--only one quest starts/finishes here: Test of Ghalnn: Dark Eye Gnolls.
more info here: https://www.vgoemulator.net/archive/Ang ... k_Eye_Hold
-based on that: Ravenous Darkness 34x4 (spawns only after the 24th gnoll is killed for the quest) --set its pawn to 0 for now
needed item to start the quest: http://editor.vgoemulator.net:9302/item ... id=1323660

--again, too many5* Icewing Destroyers (53), need to be reduced/replaced/assign the movement //reduced to 9 with random movement --done

Dark Eye Hold dungeon clean up --done
Path between dungeon and the Dark eye Drop --done
--Dark Eye Drop area --done
--Valus camps -one big mess. And nightmare. All around mixed combined with not combined ones. Have to click every single one to check combine list. Take damn long time. NOT happy. Found their Boss Telorok - have to make him either pather or well guarded boss. --done
--Coldbay area - crabs, clams, sirens... --done
--found sealed cave dungeon, nothing inside, imho it used to be accessible in VG live --for the future use
--northern peninsula area --done

--all the mobs should have max random 250, terrain is pretty rocky and tiny within the chunk --done