how to get guaranteed dragons plague ?

[p00se2]

planning to kill off the towns before i enter unmoored world to see what will happen

any guaranteed (quick) way to get infected ? or find infected pawns in the rift for hiring ?


also wondering if its a 1time thing - will the plague begone after my pawn will purge a place ?

thank you

[Umbral Priestess]

What level are you, i know for a fact one of the capcom official pawns is infected. and depending on level i can tell you which one. assuming RC is a factor.

[ffrotty]

it's a one time thing, some npcs will respawn the next day, others will stay dead.

the only way of telling in a rift is a very (very) subtle reddish/purple glow to the eyes, if the pawn has their eyes covered you won't see it. in game as it gets worse the glow intensifies and they're supposed to act different but it's easy to miss the acting out.

in short, I think nothing will happen if you do that as there's nothing special about it happening except your pawns will talk about it.

for it to have full impact you'd have to do 5 areas that are considered populated, including the first mining area.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Umbral Priestess:

What level are you, i know for a fact one of the capcom official pawns is infected. and depending on level i can tell you which one. assuming RC is a factor.

it doesn't work that way unless every single time someone hired the pawn they never triggered it

[Seraphiel Darkstar]

hm, how can you *not* find an infected pawn? every time I enter riftstone I see at least one red eyed pawn, often several. my level if 50ish tho, perhaps there is less infection at higher levels, because dragons die too fast to infect a pawn?

[p00se2]

Originally posted by Umbral Priestess:

What level are you, i know for a fact one of the capcom official pawns is infected. and depending on level i can tell you which one. assuming RC is a factor.

lvl85
13k RC

[p00se2]

Originally posted by Seraphiel Darkstar:

hm, how can you *not* find an infected pawn? every time I enter riftstone I see at least one red eyed pawn, often several. my level if 50ish tho, perhaps there is less infection at higher levels, because dragons die too fast to infect a pawn?

well i cant get their eyes big enough and actually see whats happening in there
also im colorblind and it makes identifying certain shades of red very difficult

[Zaris]

More or less all npc will respawn some days later (i read 7 days) which includes quest npc and vendors. Triggering the plague removes ALL pawns from your group and you have to rehire them at a riftstone.

All in all a funny but pointless mechanic but it also has a "hidden" bonus, it fixes quest states and guard behavior. In my game i made the Batthal jail guards aggro and they wouldn't reset, getting Hugo out of prison also didn't progressed because of that. After the plague and respawn Hugo was out (instead dead) and guards were normal again.

[Umbral Priestess]

Originally posted by ffrotty:

Originally posted by Umbral Priestess:

What level are you, i know for a fact one of the capcom official pawns is infected. and depending on level i can tell you which one. assuming RC is a factor.

it doesn't work that way unless every single time someone hired the pawn they never triggered it

I meann its a capcom pawn, they don't exactly check to cleanse them.

Originally posted by p00se2:

Originally posted by Umbral Priestess:

What level are you, i know for a fact one of the capcom official pawns is infected. and depending on level i can tell you which one. assuming RC is a factor.

lvl85
13k RC

Its the fem human level 39 sphinxparent, you'll know it because it has a ton of hearts and thumbs up. of course a quest pawn got infected, and i last checked it yesterday so it there is a good chance she's still got it.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Zaris:

More or less all npc will respawn some days later (i read 7 days) which includes quest npc and vendors. Triggering the plague removes ALL pawns from your group and you have to rehire them at a riftstone.

All in all a funny but pointless mechanic but it also has a "hidden" bonus, it fixes quest states and guard behavior. In my game i made the Batthal jail guards aggro and they wouldn't reset, getting Hugo out of prison also didn't progressed because of that. After the plague and respawn Hugo was out (instead dead) and guards were normal again.

many of them are overnight. i was stuck when i blew up vern where i couldn't go to masquerade because my gear was in the inn who was dead. i needed to rez brant and sven to proceed, as they didn't respawn.

when i went to see the list it was 50-100 npcs dead, but a lot of vendors and quest related ones were overnight respawns

[p00se2]

i had my pawn be snippy and tell me to shut up a few times but it never triggered the plague sequence when i rested in beds

or pawns attacked me after being grabbed by a dragon
but that went away after i killed the pawn

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Umbral Priestess:

Originally posted by ffrotty:

it doesn't work that way unless every single time someone hired the pawn they never triggered it

I meann its a capcom pawn, they don't exactly check to cleanse them.

I know what you meant. When they trigger the plague it goes away. So for that one to "always have the plague" means people are not triggering it... unlikely.

Originally posted by p00se2:

lvl85
13k RC

Its the fem human level 39 sphinxparent, you'll know it because it has a ton of hearts and thumbs up. of course a quest pawn got infected, and i last checked it yesterday so it there is a good chance she's still got it. [/quote]


Just checked and in my game they don't have red eyes

[Umbral Priestess]

No red eyes but i got the notice about plaque. so it's early stage.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by p00se2:

i had my pawn be snippy and tell me to shut up a few times but it never triggered the plague sequence when i rested in beds :lunar2019deadpanpig:

or pawns attacked me after being grabbed by a dragon
but that went away after i killed the pawn

The pawns attacking you is because the dragon has that ability, it's not the same. Your pawn being snippy / saying to shut up is definitely the plague.

it takes a while / days of resting, if you get it again. it has to progress to where they will not do a command when you tell them.

[p00se2]

thank you for all the info and replies