Every year I feel like I have a difficult time locating Krampus when he spawns. I’ll enter the coordinates in, go to the location, and often see nothing. I’ll run around looking for minions or any other people who are searching and might not see anything at all. Sometimes it says “a forest near Vesper”, for example, but the coordinates are somewhere else… like Britain. Is this common? What could I be doing wrong?
Ugh it’s the worst! Or I’m the worst at it. I find it very frustrating. I wish there were other prompts along the way.
They are close on LS. During someones run they will spawn Krampus. I guess the coords are where the minions are at. If that person keeps running maybe the Coords are off a little.
I always find him in that general area.
He just popped on my run. The Coords were exactly where the minions were. But Krampus was about 3 screens away when he appeared.
I heard in chat the other day that you can bump up the level of spawn to spawn Krampus but using moongates (don't need to run the trades); is that correct? I know that we should do at least least "runs" to get a drop but would be good to know if I can help push the spawn by just using moongates for when it's not primetime and he spawns a bit slower.
Btw I think I read somewhere it's a total of 30 trade runs that spawns him (from the first trade run after his death)??
I think it is 25 runs and there is a chance he spawns. Each additional run gets a higher chance.
He always spawn on the coordinates that are given. It's 5 mins from when the info is given until he spawns you either try to find the minions that started the spawn message and help kill them while waiting or just stay where he will spawn. It's as low as 21 runs 1-5 runs spiders, 6-10 elementals, 11-15 serpents, 16-20 wyrms and from 21 minions and a chance for Krampus.
Ya they have to involve RNG in everything. If your lucky then 21. Avg 25. Unlucky 30.
Good info...thanks you guys.
Are you the only player on the shard? You don't call out in chat?
I make gates every time I am at Krampus.
Use a sextant. Usually he spawns near someone on a route. He spawned on me last night. I was at 42 something and 13 something else and the coords given were 43 something and 14 something else...it took him about 5-7 minutes to spawn and he spawned at the exact coords that were given. I never use a map utility program.
I wish we had an in-game map that offered:
1.) Toggling between world map and local radius map.
2.) Ability to plug in coordinates and an as-the-crow-flies line tethers to your destination point on map (Like you find on UOAM).
I've no idea if EC map mechanics are different. But I don't think the CC map has been changed in the whole history of the game. Other than adding new land masses.
Create a compass. I'd buy a compass from the UO store if it offered these features. I think it would be a big boon to helping players get around and get together in the game world. Is this not a doable thing? Why must we go to outside applications for something like this?
In EC you can create waypoints
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was different in EC or not. But every once in a while, when I boot up EC to keep it patched, I take a look at the game world, and I just can't. I don't know where anything is. I don't know how anything works. I mean some stuff is obvious but there's a definite learning curve. But since I truly hate how everything looks, I just close the game back up and boot up my beloved CC.
That said, I really do appreciate the tutorial, Arroth. :-)
I'd still buy a compass from the UO store that I could use in CC.
Still have not seen Krampus at all.
Last 2 times he spawned when I was logged in, the coordinates were inside of Britain.
The last of those times it said "A forest near Vesper". Britain isn't really near Vesper. Also, would he spawn within the boundaries of a city in the first place? I ran to Vesper anyway...no sign of Krampus anywhere on and around the trade route. Definitely no Krampus inside of Britain. Checked the coordinates 3 times to make sure I didn't make a mistake.
Someone calls out in chat asking for a gate to Krampus, no reply. I ask where Krampus is, no reply. This is ATL.
I sincerely feel this encounter is frustrating and not coded well. I keep doing trade runs in the meantime but would like to actually get a reward for my efforts someday.
I put the coordinates in map then run large circle around the area often it gives the spawn message before he's really there you have to kill the minions and other spawn to get him to show then more to make him vulnerable
Yeah this is what I do as well. Didn’t see minions either. Idk this I just annoying me more than anything.
Thanks Keven. Thought formatting of the coordinates was way out in left field someplace. I had trouble reading them the first time and ended up somewhere else. Suspected I had read them wrong so I checked some other UO elements that listed coordinates and found no constancy in how coordinates are listed throughout UO. Anyway, krampus formatting is half right. Minutes look correct.
I've never had any issue with the coordinates working. Over the years I've done hundreds and the only times I didn't find Krampus were when I wrote down the wrong coordinates.
Not trying to be a jerk here but this issue kind of seems like user error instead of error with the code because everyone else I've talked to about not finding Krampus usually admits to just having the wrong coordinates (I don't want people who might not have done Krampus to not even try because someone is telling them it doesn't work).
how do you enter coordinates in the ec map?
Right or is it left click little menu with mark waypoint another screen pops up to enter you can name etc
