UP Spawn Indicators=Targetable mobs? (1 Viewer)

[Marbury]

So I was in UP the other day....and I was just playing around killing random things then i came across something weird.


I did /tar Shak Dathor Warlord and it came up with a green conning mob named
'Spawn DWarlordA"


Naturally I was like neat I just target a spawn location? So then I just sat at the spawn and chilled then BAM He popped within 8minutes and dropped this 74/90 100hp weapon like Great Hammer or something..ran to bazaar and someone gave me 190k and 100EE's within like 10mins....Might have been lucky on sale not sure?

Either way I went back to UP and was wondering what else worked



So I did /war Swormlord and it came up with 'Swarmlord SpawnB' and warped to that spot/chilled....it's a green con invisible, unhittable target. It changed to a mob called "Rubbling Earth" and then about 20seconds later Swarmlord spawned.


Not exactly sure what that is all about but if anyone can confirm what was going on and if that works in other zones that would be excellent...

 

[raistlin8989]

checking this out right now, will post results

Edit: Just checked, /zone umbral, then attempted to /tar swarmlord and /tar shak dathor warlord, and got the typical "there are no spawns matching..." msgs

 

[Elinda]

what plugins are you using?

 

[Mochila]

Tons of zones have these. They're not spawn locs you're targetting they are repop timers. Everyone from Halls of Honor to Plane of Sky can use them that I've seen, probably some oow/god/don/dodh stuff too havent noticed any there yet though . Usually level one mobs with odd names. In PoSky the mobs name spells something if you read it backwards..I forget what it is ..../shrug They also serve as event timers too sometimes

 

[raistlin8989]

i couldn't target any of the spawn tiemrs using /tar warlord or anytthing like that, but /tar spawn targeted "Swarmspawna", but the Swarmcaller thing was already up

 

[Mochila]

Maybe they each have different things for when they're up or down? I have never seen a spawn timer watching for when they are up though....Thats weird but if you test it probably upon his death the SwarmlordSpawnB thing might pop up

 

[Spunge16]

I remember in PoE yuo could tell what rings were up or not just by if "Dustman" or "MudMan" was up and untargetable

Maybe same thing here?

 

[deph2]

well the rings are always up, just if you get loot or not =P

 

[Mochila]

I forget what they were, but they weren't ground spawns or npc's. They were orange color by default on my Mq2map.....in South Karana. The Nice breeze, gentle breeze, coven guard and skeleton something....All by the druid rings, but invisible, unhittable etc. When you /whot them they come up as level 50 shadowmen *TIMER* blatantly in the MQ2chat wind

 

[cbsro]

Timers, Traps, and Triggers are all distinguishable spawn types. you can /mapfilter timer or /who timer, for example.