Hunting The Lost in Kings Row

[RikOz]

I'm starting to suspect that something is "off" with regard to The Lost spawning in Kings Row. I've gotten a mission to hunt Lost on a few different characters now, and I'm having a really difficult time finding any.

 

I've repeatedly visited a location where I clearly remember being able to dependably find Lost when I played in 2011-12 - it's the area around a particular skyscraper up towards the northwest corner of KR, near the entrance to the next zone (I want to say Skyway, but I'm not looking at a map right now). I've looked there during both day and night cycles, and there is never anybody there but Skulls, Skulls, and more Skulls. In fact, the whole zone is practically nothing but Skulls, with an occasional Clockwork spawn, and Circle of Thorns on the rooftops.

 

It's possible I'm actually visiting the wrong building - there are identical buildings elsewhere - but I'm just not seeing many Lost at all these days. Is it possible that i25 inadvertently nerfed Lost spawns?

[The Fifth Horseman]

The spawns aren't on the rooftops IIRC

[Impish Kat]

I remember them being somewhat northwesterly... by the smoke stacks

[Adeon Hawkwood]

I agree. I went to Kings Row to find some lost for the Midnighters and the places I recall seeing them spawn before (the courtyard area in the west) were all full of skulls. I did find some down in the south though.

[Healix]

I always head due south, where the war wall is..behind cyclone fences, in back yards and next to steps.

[nmiodrag]

NE are higher levels - 14 and 15. I found them in SW appropriate for level 9 mission.

[EmmySky]

Just south of the hospital and traveling east behind buildings and such is where I always find them.  

[Vard]

I spent the better part of an hour looking for Lost and gave up. They should rename Kings Row “Scull City.”

[Captain Fabulous]

42 minutes ago, Vard said:

I spent the better part of an hour looking for Lost and gave up. They should rename Kings Row “Scull City.”

In general you can find them along the eastern side of the zone, especially in the area that juts out in the northeast.

[bustacap]

I always go to the hollows and search the hills and and neghborhoods just north oif the zone entrance. 

[GM Crumpet]

2 hours ago, bustacap said:

I always go to the hollows and search the hills and and neghborhoods just north oif the zone entrance. 

It might be a zone specific hunt, but otherwise for something like the lost cure then yes the Hollows and the hills to the west of the entrance has them in abundance

[JKCarrier]

Zone-specific hunts are the worst. Either the faction you're looking for is near-impossible to find, or the ones that are there con purple to your level. This happens so often, I have to think it's deliberate. Thank goodness for auto-complete.

[GM Crumpet]

14 hours ago, JKCarrier said:

Zone-specific hunts are the worst. Either the faction you're looking for is near-impossible to find, or the ones that are there con purple to your level. This happens so often, I have to think it's deliberate. Thank goodness for auto-complete.

Nah area specific hunts is a specific zone are even worse. "Defeat 20 redcaps in the Misty woods". Like, I know it's Croatoa, but where in Croatoa? Do I just fly around till it tells me I'm in the misty woods? Then why is that area quiet and empty? 

[Troo]

3 minutes ago, GM Crumpet said:

Like, I know it's Croatoa, but where in Croatoa?

 

Neighborhood pins on the map, right?

 

[Bionic_Flea]

[Reveal]  https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Veteran_Reward_Powers#Reveal

 

Then Hover over white dots on in-game map to see Neighborhood names.  The one here circled in red is Misty Wood:

 

[GM Crumpet]

1 hour ago, Troo said:

 

Neighborhood pins on the map, right?

 

Aint nobody got time for that!!

 

And I'm talking more about newer players than us old timey wimey wibbly wobbly players.

[laudwic]

On 5/27/2019 at 3:08 PM, RikOz said:

I'm starting to suspect that something is "off" with regard to The Lost spawning in Kings Row. I've gotten a mission to hunt Lost on a few different characters now, and I'm having a really difficult time finding any.

 

I've repeatedly visited a location where I clearly remember being able to dependably find Lost when I played in 2011-12 - it's the area around a particular skyscraper up towards the northwest corner of KR, near the entrance to the next zone (I want to say Skyway, but I'm not looking at a map right now). I've looked there during both day and night cycles, and there is never anybody there but Skulls, Skulls, and more Skulls. In fact, the whole zone is practically nothing but Skulls, with an occasional Clockwork spawn, and Circle of Thorns on the rooftops.

 

It's possible I'm actually visiting the wrong building - there are identical buildings elsewhere - but I'm just not seeing many Lost at all these days. Is it possible that i25 inadvertently nerfed Lost spawns?

 

You're thinking of the truly old days with Circle of Thornes.  

 

For the lost, go south of the tram in between the buildings at the lower end of the map.  I've never had a problem finding 20 to cure there.

[JKCarrier]

4 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

Nah area specific hunts is a specific zone are even worse. "Defeat 20 redcaps in the Misty woods". Like, I know it's Croatoa, but where in Croatoa? Do I just fly around till it tells me I'm in the misty woods? Then why is that area quiet and empty? 

Ok, you got me. That's definitely worse. More than once, I've had to run around and try to pull Redcaps in surrounding neighborhoods across that invisible boundary, so they'd "count". Yeesh.

[GM Crumpet]

7 hours ago, laudwic said:

 

You're thinking of the truly old days with Circle of Thornes.  

 

For the lost, go south of the tram in between the buildings at the lower end of the map.  I've never had a problem finding 20 to cure there.

For the lost cure I never even think of anywhere except the Hollows. They are easy to find and in abundance to the left as you enter.

[lemming]

5 minutes ago, GM Crumpet said:

For the lost cure I never even think of anywhere except the Hollows. They are easy to find and in abundance to the left as you enter.

I just do north Perez, close to the University when you go to Steel

[GM Crumpet]

13 minutes ago, lemming said:

I just do north Perez, close to the University when you go to Steel

They are everywhere. You can find them easily in Faultline too

[lemming]

12 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

They are everywhere. You can find them easily in Faultline too

Main reason for the Lost Cure for me doing it in Perez is being close to the next mission for the arc which is going to the Midnight Club.