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mini-bosses

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I know that mobs respawn quite quickly when you leave the area but how about the mini-boses, they dont always respawn with the rest of the regular mobs. How long before they respawn?
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A shameless bump I know... I promise there will be only one.

So does anybody know. Maybe nobody knows, maybe those who know dont want to share or maybe you think such knowledge and use of such knowledge would be metagaming/powergaming.

I admit if I knew how Id camp the hell out of a boss for xp, loot and gold (not that gold is hard to get). Maybe even use haste and invis to kill one boss quickly, move on to the next, and the next, rinse and repeat. But its not like Im not willing to share, if there was somebody else in the area, I'd leave and let him have his turn or we could party.
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Post by Kelin »

Mmmm sometimes i didn't saw them respawn for like 1 hours, but i don't know, maybe meanwile some caster with invis runned past me and killed them.....
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Post by Joran »

Mini-bosses are broken down into two types:

1) Those that spawn with groups, aka "boss + party". These bosses will only respawn after the entire group has "recharged" to full strength. Usually that takes about 30 minutes to an hour.

2) Those that spawn separately, but with other spawns nearby. These have their own dedicated timers that run independently of their "minions". Timing will vary widely, best to see for yourself in each instance.

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Post by Kelin »

Mmmm tnx for the answer :P

Well anyway right now timers are shorter, usually server crash before respawn timer expires :roll: :P
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Post by Joran »

Timers extend across server restarts. They're driven by the timestamps saved into the database.

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Post by Kelin »

DUH! Unfair move.... :P
Well this explains a lot anyway :)
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