Excelsior Hunting Event

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Excelsior Hunting Event

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Greetings hunters! It is once again time to sharpen your arrows and re-wrap your bow grips for a hunting event!

For the next 4 weeks, participants will be hunting the Britannian Stag.

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Killing these stags will frequently yield a trophy. Look on their corpses for these trophies:
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They will vary depending on the stag's weight, the points on its rack, and the overall quality of the harvested trophy. These trophies are not permanent items, but are used to calculate your total score at the end of the quest. The score ranges are as follows:

Weight: 150-350 lbs (x 0.1) [Example: Weight of 217 = Score of 21.7]
Rack: 4-24 point [Score of 4-24]
Quality: Poor (10), Fair (15), Average (20), Above Average (25), Superior (30), Peerless (35) [Score of 10-35]

Total Score = Weight Score + Rack Score + Quality Score

Participants are allowed to submit only one trophy during this event, so it is to the advantage of each player to only keep their highest valued trophy and trash their lowest ones. All trophies are bound to their looter and will not be counted if this person is different from the one submitting the trophy. There is nothing against keeping a few extra trophies for decoration, but keep in mind that they are temporary and will be deleted after the completion of the quest.

The last hunting day will be March 4th and will end at 8:00am shard time. After this time, there will be a 3-day period where players can submit their trophies. On March 7th at 8:00am shard time, submissions will no longer be accepted and the results will be calculated. There will be multiple rewards for the highest scoring participants as well as a general reward for all participants. Please remember the dates and times of importance. If you are unable to log in during the 3-day period after hunting, then you will need to submit your best trophy prior to the deadline.

All trophies are submitted by dropping them into the chest inside the hunting cabin. You can access the cabin and the event area via the gate in Moonglow, to the west of the bank.

Please Note:
-One submission per account. Multiple submissions on one character or account will disqualify you from the event.
-When you submit your trophy, you are done with the quest. There are no redos or "I accidentally submitted the wrong trophy" excuses that will result with a resubmission.
- Any attempt to exploit this event, trade trophies or otherwise circumvent the mechanics/rules will result in disqualification for all involved.

The Behavior of the Britannian Stag:

The younger and adolescent stags of this species freely roam around the event area. However, the older and more dominant males tend to be more wary of humans and are more difficult to locate.

There are also 2 non-repeatable quests in the event area, updated for 2014. Visit the town to the North of the hunting lodge to check them out. In addition, if you're lucky enough to find a Treasure Troll, you can turn the chest in to Treasure Tom in town for a special reward.

The rewards will be posted the week before closing.

Happy Hunting!

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looks like fun! is the event area marked or is it the whole shard?
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thank you again for this return... :) good hunting all!!!
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+Nyx, thank you so much. This event is really fun and gives me something to do. I'm not strong enough for the Valentine's event so an event I can do in the meantime is refreshing. I completed the Valentine's event once though and I am happy with that.

Again thank you and happy hunting everyone. :)
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You should try the Vday quest this weekend with the temporary buff cloak we gave out for the 8th anniversary :)
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Hehe, I did. I died lol. Love the cloak. Helps with para hunts. And the port bank stone is awesome. Thank you. :)
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I have created a simple calculator in excel so that you can work out the total points of the trophy that you find.

Just enter the three values weight/rack and quality in the boxes. There are drop down fields for rack and quality.

You can also keep a record of your highest to date to compare too.

See attached

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Nice job mate. Cheers!

One comment: does yours update the weight points? I just tried and the sheet counts 7 points no mather the weight input.
I've changed E3 to (D3*0,1)

I'm not using Excel though, so it might have been a conversion issue.
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So much fun :) What a welcome break from regular grinding and a great reason to go see Felucca revamped. Thank you!!

[Edit]: I have one question: Will the treasure troll keys and/or chests persist or poof when the event ends? I like them a lot + would save for deco but I wouldn't like to save them for nothing, lol.
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This is the first event i have taken part in since starting, and it has been awesome. I have been developing slowly and staying pretty much to myself, so the stag hunting event has been a very good learning experience. I love this event and am looking forward to more, this is an awesome shard to be a part of!
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Can I ask, what happens if you are not logged in on the shard from the 4th-7th? I've submited my trophy head already and think it is an ok one. :-)
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The results are in and rewards have been sent out. Rewards will appear as a white sealed package in the top left of your bank box. If you did not receive one, you were either disqualified or did not submit a trophy in time.

The winners:
1st Place: Thomas Covenant - 93.2 - 300 ED
2nd Place: Monet - 92.7 - 200 ED
3rd Place: Elijah Ray - 92.4 - 100 ED
4th Place: Frostie - 92.1 - 50 ED
5th Place: Lust - 91.9 - 25 ED


Hope everyone enjoyed the event :)
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Congratulations to the winners. Well done! And again, thanks to +Nyx and +V for hosting such a fun event.
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Thanks Cygnus :) And thanks very much for the event +Nyx and +Veritas - I had a great time with it! Was out there almost every day chasing stags and trophies. The fun was much appreciated :)
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Thank you very much for the Event +Nyx and +Veritas.

It was a lot of fun. I really also enjoyed the other quests that were non repeatable. That was really fun as well. I got the crawler shell necklace, I couldn't quite find all the snakes- too many collector's of souls milling about, hehe.

Thank you guys. Congratulations to all the winners. :)
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