Post:Tuesday Tidings - 43 - Forest Bandits - 12/16/2020 - 00:32

Tuesday Tidings - 43 - Forest Bandits · on 12/16/2020 00:32	1806
Happy Tuesday, folks! Back in ye olden days of 2018, I posted a survey to gather feedback on hunting areas, and it was re-shared in 2019. Two responses (Myrsha from Prime and Uzmam from Plat) pointed out that forest bandits were missing from Ilaya Taipa. In digging, it turned out they were disabled years and years ago because they weren't updated for the new magic with x3 changes. Paklin took an interest, and thanks to his efforts, forest bandits of Ilaya Taipa are back! There are variants, but these will typically spawn with an estimated level of 36-44. They had an old gimmick -- if they killed you, they would loot all of the coins from your corpse and stuff them in a pouch for later retrieval. This has been changed. If they kill you, they'll apply a temporary (less than an hour) reduction to the amount of coins/gems you find from continuing to hunt them. To be clear: this debuff only affects treasure that comes from bandits, not any other creature, and it won't last long provided you don't keep dying. Similarly, being bandits, they do periodically loot any gems left lying on the ground. If you're interested in their treasure, be sure to pick it up, otherwise you're going to need to sift through their pouches to recover the gems! Big thanks to Paklin for doing the work to get these bandits huntable again, to Ulerith for documenting why they were removed back in 2010, and to the players who brought the issue to our attention! Zadraes (for the team!) (Also, it released several hours ago with the tweet, I'm just way late getting it to the forums, sorry about that!)
This message was originally posted in Discussions with DragonRealms Staff and Players / Game Master and Official Announcements, by DR-ZADRAES on the play.net forums.