Red piwi spawn As far as I can tell, the red piwi spawns only in astrub and bonta. Since arches do not spawn in f2p areas, this means that the arch red piwi is found only in bonta, which implies that to get it, you need to clear militia mobs. I assume it used to be much much easier to get this little guy.

My guess is that this behavior is an unexpected side effect of removing arches from f2p. Overlooking one difficult case is not surprising with 286 arches. Anyway, if this is unintentional, red piwi spawn should be added somewhere else, like sufokia or amakna.

Well Militia guys are easy to kill, just take forever thanks to the 10000 square map of bonta (yes the number is slightly exaggerated). The bigger problem is sometimes red piwi arch spawns IN militia mobs, which are unable to be souled...

Well, it also essentially means that you need to be brak to get it, or even better have one brak character and one bonta character. some of the other arches require you be aligned, but none of them require you to have particular alignments

Hadn't thought of that either, guess cause I am always brakmar so never thought about what I would do if I was bonta :x.

Yep. Best to have a high level str brak char to farm mobs, and have a bonta alt run around the city to check if there's one. You can't soul militia mobs either, what a pain.

Yes.

But I think we're ignoring the main point. People are saying it's doable. Fine. My point is that I suspect that having it this difficult was not the intention --- I suspect that needing to kill militia mobs is an unintended side effect of removing arches from f2p.

I'm looking for some sort of confirmation that indeed this was intended.

Bonta and Brakmar are not the only possible spawns for piwi's, there is also Sufokia and some parts of Amakna (The village), the area by -2, 0.

It is rather frustrating to see an arch in a militia mob, ive always seen it as a bug and hopefully this wont happen in 2.0

This post has been edited by Mentor-III: 25 Oct 2009, 21:05

I don't think piwis spawn in brak, do they? Just bonta I thought.


And I am talking specifically about the RED piwi. I believe the only p2p in which red piwis spawn is Bonta. All OTHER piwis spawn in sufokia and amakna, but I have never seen a red piwi in either of those locations.

I was entirely wrong, looks like reds do not pawn in Bonta or Sufokia. I honeslty apologize for spreading misinformation. I havent gotten to the point of Eternal Harvest where i have gone after arch piwis, and you never notice until you pay attention.

They arent in brakmar either, iunno why i thought they were. Sorry again.

This post has been edited by Mentor-III: 26 Oct 2009, 13:50

Checked every map in the Village, not one... odd.

RED PIWI IS A LIE! (apparently)
Red Piwi (Arch)
Red Piwi spawns ?

if an arch monster spawns with a mob that cant be souled i think its clear it shouldn't be happening

i think its most definatly a wrong intention rather than a bug, and hopefully will be amended

Yes, I think everyone is agreed that arch monsters spawning in nonsoulable mobs is stupid and should be fixed, but that is no the point of this thread. I am asking one very simple question:

Did the game designers intentionally decide that the only place a red piwi arch should spawn is in an area that requires killing militiamen in order to get piwis to spawn? Or is this behavior a mistake?

If it's a mistake, it should be fixed, either adding red piwis to other piwi areas or allowing the arch to spawn somewhere even if the regular red piwi doesn't.

If it's intentional, it's annoying, but I'll live with it.

Given that the arch used to spawn in astrub, I would assume it's a mistake, as moving it only to bonta is a huge increase in difficulty.

What more do you want? A Piwi playhouse? teehee...
The way i see it, this isnt very high priority on Ankamas list.

Well, I erroneously assumed that perhaps ankama employees read these sections of the forum. I was trying to assess whether this is even on their list of things to fix, or whether they consider it to be the intended behavior. Assuming it is a bug, I have not said anything about priority.

A piwi playhouse sounds like a dungeon to me. I certainly do not want that, as I'm really concerned about the arch, and arches don't spawn in dungeons. It's easy to find red piwis. It's just not easy to find red piwis in an area where the red piwi arch is permitted.

And while this may not be a high-priority item, many "fixes" (like adding red piwis to sufokia, for example) would take a developer (familiar with the dofus source code) at most 5 minutes to apply, assuming that the code is written in a half-way decent manner. I don't know how ankama operates, but in general things with easy fixes are often moved earlier in the queue.

This post has been edited by heresaname: 27 Oct 2009, 19:46

You obviously never got to the Eternal Harvest part where you need the soul of the piwi arch, missed the point of the thread, and tried to be funny.

This post has been edited by Gabezim: 28 Oct 2009, 18:35

bug that stuck a quest is a high priority especially if it is so easy to fix

Piwi playhouse hahaha you soooo.....
not funny

Perhaps i should've typed "Sarcasm" in big bright red letters for you to understand. With 2.0 coming soon (along with a multitude of bugs) adding in a red piwi mob isn't such a big deal. If you were familiar with the way ankama works, you would all realize this probably either wont be fixed anytime soon, or be fixed along with 2.0. Got a beta key? Check it out yourself if they spawn elsewhere. I heard there are 4 mobs per map now so that is a very high possibility.

So unlike some of the other people above me, i will provide advice.
1. Wait it out. (At least till 2.0)
2. Look for the red piwi.
3. Buy the red piwi.

This post has been edited by Phatballerz: 1 Nov 2009, 21:08