Ghost of Scrapyard Needs a Cooldown

[Apparition]

Ghost of Scrapyard in Sharkhead Isle needs a cooldown.  He's extremely farmable at the moment.  Defeat 100 picketing Scrapyarders, defeat Ghost of Scrapyard, defeat 100 picketing Scrapyarders, defeat Ghost of Scrapyard, rinse, repeat.  A duo can (and has), repeatedly farmed him for 1+ reward merits per minute.  A team of eight could do it at an even higher rate.

 

I'd strongly suggest adding at least a half hour cooldown if at all possible.

[Razor Cure]

Caleb could also use a BIG tweak. I literally saw him ONCE in 4 years on Live. Seen him once here.

[RobotLove]

1 hour ago, Apparition said:

A duo can (and has), repeatedly farmed him for 1+ reward merits per minute.

You can roll generic alts, grab ninja/beast run, and zoom around atlas for damn near the same rate with less risk.

 

No need to nerf the poor ghost.

Edited September 20, 2020 by RobotLove

[Lines]

60 merits/hour doesn't sound too crazy. That's quite a monotonous method, too.

 

I wonder how high the returns can get with a full team, though. Might be worth testing in depth?

[Mr. Vee]

There are way less boring ways to get a merit a minute or more if that's your thing. Besides, it's not as if merits are particularly valuable. I have tens of thousands parked in hero merits and nothing to spend them on. Keep scrappy easily spawnable for those who do the redside version of that accolade. 

[siolfir]

2 hours ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:

Keep scrappy easily spawnable for those who do the redside version of that accolade. 

This. The ability to force the spawn was added because the accolade was changed from "stay in Siren's Call for five hours" to "defeat Ghost of Scrapyard" but people were having trouble getting it because he wasn't spawning often and had a tendency to wander into drones and black market kill zones when left unattended or allowed to flee.

[Apparition]

9 hours ago, Razor Cure said:

Caleb could also use a BIG tweak. I literally saw him ONCE in 4 years on Live. Seen him once here.

 

There was a theory that some people had on live that a couple of friends of mine and I have pretty much proven on Homecoming.  Caleb doesn't despawn at sunrise if he was not defeated.  He merely goes invisible until sunset.  I.e., if you defeat 100 spectral demons while the sun is up, you may not get the message "The Demon Caleb has been seen, blah, blah, blah," at sunset because Caleb is still out there from the last time he was spawned.  You just have to find him.  Circle around the beaches of Thorn Isle and Primeva.  Sometimes he's on the beach, sometimes he is flying up high.  But he's there, somewhere.

 

Every time I or friends of mine and I have gone around defeating more than enough spectral demons on Nerva and don't receive the spawn announcement at sunset, we go searching around Thorn Isle and Primeva.  Sure enough, Caleb is there.

 

 

4 hours ago, siolfir said:

This. The ability to force the spawn was added because the accolade was changed from "stay in Siren's Call for five hours" to "defeat Ghost of Scrapyard" but people were having trouble getting it because he wasn't spawning often and had a tendency to wander into drones and black market kill zones when left unattended or allowed to flee.

 

I am a red sider, so I am aware.  However, Ghost of Scrapyard's pathing has mostly been fixed, and I sincerely doubt giving him a half-hour cooldown so he can spawn 48 times per day will hinder people's ability to get the badge, especially given red side's population.

[RageusQuitus2]

13 hours ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:

Keep scrappy easily spawnable for those who do the redside version of that accolade. 

I agree.  

[ScarySai]

This doesn't strike me as something that just needs to be fixed. If people want to farm it, let them.

[macskull]

On 9/20/2020 at 4:58 AM, Apparition said:

Ghost of Scrapyard in Sharkhead Isle needs a cooldown.  He's extremely farmable at the moment.  Defeat 100 picketing Scrapyarders, defeat Ghost of Scrapyard, defeat 100 picketing Scrapyarders, defeat Ghost of Scrapyard, rinse, repeat.  A duo can (and has), repeatedly farmed him for 1+ reward merits per minute.  A team of eight could do it at an even higher rate.

 

I'd strongly suggest adding at least a half hour cooldown if at all possible.

Even if you're doing it once every five minutes that's still 120 merits per hour which is okay but not particularly great. There's way more effective ways to earn merits.

[Saiyajinzoningen]

sorry i disagree i'm in the opposite camp. I think all GM's should be force spawnable. No waiting around for random bosses please

[Omega-202]

22 hours ago, macskull said:

Even if you're doing it once every five minutes that's still 120 merits per hour which is okay but not particularly great. There's way more effective ways to earn merits.

Agreed.  Tin/Pex, ITF, (well run) LGTF and a lot of other endgame TFs give about that level of merit reward/minute WITH the benefit of also getting drops and appreciable influence. 

 

I don't see why there's anything wrong with someone wanting to farm Scrapyard.