Moa Eggs...

Artkin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

USA

RARE

W/Mo

I just left LA to kill more skales....there are NONE now where they use to be!

ropes782

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Friends of Sanity [LOCO]

R/Me

My theory:
all of these items together in GW:EN somewhere will make a mini moa. However, this moa can only be obtained ONCE per character (not account) as to limit the number in game. So in a sense there will be a limited number...but you could just keep remaking chars to get the moa which imo is dumb (becuase you have to get your char so far in nightfall and GW:EN to make the moa which is too time consuming i would assume)

most likely if all of these materials can be combined in some way to get a mini moa pet (or something like that) then it will be only one per person. seeing as how nesting material cannot be dropped or traded means that people HAVE to have nightfall to get the special item. Now...whats stopping a person from putting all the items together and mass producing the special item? most likely, whatever these random items make will be a limit of one per char.

Atlas Ravens

Atlas Ravens

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Raven Clan [RAVN]

Mo/

I'm starting to think that this will all result in a consumable. A somewhat potent consumable that requires quite the effort to obtain, and perhaps only one can be crafted and held until it is used. We already have salads, soup, kebobs, golden eggs, cupcakes, etc. A little thank you from anet to those who own all three campaigns + expansion maybe?

Healers Wisper

Healers Wisper

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

Anaheim, CA

BoMB

N/

You know that whatever comes out of these eggs are gonna be customized right? I mean really, they are customozing minipets in HoM, they are not gonna give away a bunch of minis without doing so. I can't belive Anet would allow the amount of farming people are doing for a minipet, can you?

Really I saw a guy with a stack of hardened eggs just last night. 250 runs outside the Fort just seems rediculous.

anyways I really want to see where this is going, hopefully we can find out in less then 12 hours!!!

TheRaven

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

I'm upset that they made the stuff so that I can't put it in storage. I can understand not making the items tradeable or customizing whatever comes from the egg. After all if they do mean for this to be a reward for those who own all the campaigns, then that makes sense.

But, please, please please allow free movement within the account. I would never have transfered the items to a minor mule character if I had known they'd be stuck there.

Sigh, I guess I'll be farming skree wings this evening.

TechnoSword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

International SuperStars

W/Mo

Maybe the minimoa pet becomes "Attached" to you so you can't really trade it because your its mommy =P. Or the mini moa baby is very "fragile" since its so small and stuff and cannot be dropped or traded as well?

Tiny Killer

Tiny Killer

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Oshkosh, WI USA

Exile Champions of Heroic Order [ECHO]

Vekk offers a quest called "Where's My Flippin' Dinner?". I wonder if it is related...

Harmless

Harmless

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Uber Elite Rit Force of Justice Headquarters

What's a Guild? [LoL]

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Artkin
I just left LA to kill more skales....there are NONE now where they use to be!
We experimented and found out if any character in the group had already entered eotn, the scale were gone. We formed a group with characters that hadn't done the preview and the scale were back.

brian78wa

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2006

Spirit Check

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Harmless
We experimented and found out if any character in the group had already entered eotn, the scale were gone. We formed a group with characters that hadn't done the preview and the scale were back.
I went with a guildie who went through EoTn and the skales WERE there just not as much. about 50% of them were there still.

Wilkon Dawes

Wilkon Dawes

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

USA

Order of The Bladed Aatxe [ECTO]

Mo/

where is the location to where you can get the moa egg, because i have a hardened one. but i want a normal moa egg.

Atlas Ravens

Atlas Ravens

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Raven Clan [RAVN]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRaven
I'm upset that they made the stuff so that I can't put it in storage. I can understand not making the items tradeable or customizing whatever comes from the egg. After all if they do mean for this to be a reward for those who own all the campaigns, then that makes sense.

But, please, please please allow free movement within the account. I would never have transfered the items to a minor mule character if I had known they'd be stuck there.

Sigh, I guess I'll be farming skree wings this evening.
I feel your pain, although I was lucky enough to have a couple nesting materials in my storage when the change was made. Got a handful of eggs both hardened and not plus lava rocks there too. Guess there they stay until this thing gets revealed.

One thing is for certain now, the reward is character based and not account based, be it a mini pet, consumable, or whatever.

Chrono Re delle Ere

Chrono Re delle Ere

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The Land of Hyrule

[GoE]

W/

Well there is a guy screaming all day "Selling fresh fish!" (I just translated by myself, he could be saying it in a different way in english) in Kamadan. I've just thought about giving him the herring, but I don't have any. Plz someone try it

Dark Wolf-KITB

Dark Wolf-KITB

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2007

London

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Suuk
Lol, maybe we get a Mr.T hero soon...
I'll second that. I've always wanted a cabbage bazooka.

lakatz

lakatz

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by brian78wa
Today? lol Im the type that tells it how it is. I dont believe in beating around the bush. If someones slow I say so if someones stupid I say so. People need to quit being so sensitive.
Telling it like it is, ie not beating around the bush, is being direct. It is entirely possible to be direct without being mean spirited, judgmental and critical... not easy though... I know.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Artkin
I just left LA to kill more skales....there are NONE now where they use to be!
Try Tears of the Fallen. Not the usual there either, but tons more than LA in one lil itty bitty area.

zwei2stein

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

Scales are at LA, but spawn was changed: you just have to go a bit north and there is massive spawn.

Funk ee Monk ee

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Legendary Adventurers Guild [LAG]

Please look back in this thread for Gaile's comments. She all but said these were for some sort of picnic. I think that points to something along the lines of the mini pig, collect all this stuff and get that thingy.

Stop reading too much into it!

TechnoSword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

International SuperStars

W/Mo

I farmed a good amount of skales at watchtower coast pretty quick and easy for me just 2 groups between me and skales

brian78wa

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2006

Spirit Check

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by lakatz
Telling it like it is, ie not beating around the bush, is being direct. It is entirely possible to be direct without being mean spirited, judgmental and critical... not easy though... I know.
Not really. People are too damn sensitive and really need to get over it. There are ALOT of people who are truly mean spirited. I am not. I just tell it how it is and if people dont like it thats there problem not mine. So if youre too sensitive to take it then I would suggest crawling in a hole somewhere cause you will never get away from it.

Lil Mystique

Lil Mystique

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

In England soon to be with Leslie ^.^

Slash Afk [afk]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Funk ee Monk ee
Please look back in this thread for Gaile's comments. She all but said these were for some sort of picnic. I think that points to something along the lines of the mini pig, collect all this stuff and get that thingy.

Stop reading too much into it!
Or it could be a clever ruse to throw us all off track

WarKaster

WarKaster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Los Angeles

SlingBlades

D/Mo

ooo oooo picnic!!!!

what wine goes with nesting material??

MSecorsky

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

Did anyone try to dye the eggs yet?

Ben-A-BoO

Ben-A-BoO

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Europe

Quote:
Originally Posted by WarKaster
ooo oooo picnic!!!!

what wine goes with nesting material??
lolol

(12 characters)

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MSecorsky
Did anyone try to dye the eggs yet?
Moa Egg = Easter Egg?

Would fit in nicely with the bunny....

bloodvayne

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MagmaRed
Moa Egg = Easter Egg?

Would fit in nicely with the bunny....
DON'T FOLLOW THE BUNNY!

err.... sorry, mental breakdown

Vigorator

Vigorator

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Noob University [GeD]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MSecorsky
Did anyone try to dye the eggs yet?
I tried but alas you can not

Imaginos

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Artkin
I just left LA to kill more skales....there are NONE now where they use to be!
Go down to the water and head north, bunch there. then go up the path zone in and out and re-kill them all.

Axe Wielding Dame

Axe Wielding Dame

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

I don't know if it was posted here or if the nesting material has been updated, but it turns out that you can neither drop it nor trade it. So I guess the theory of dropping all the materials isn't going to work.

I was wondering if maybe the white moas in GW:EN had anything to do with the hatching of the egg? Perhaps when they run off we should follow them to see if they run to a Moa Herder NPC that could aid in the hatching? Just a thought (and if it has already been posted...I'm sorry, I don't have the time to read through all 12 pages...I'm too busy running around gathering materials).

sabriel warmonger

sabriel warmonger

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

dragon academy

N/R

ohhh yea moas ate stones as well as fish and berries im ashamed 2 call my self a new zealander

RazorEdge

RazorEdge

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Norway

Soul of Destruction

W/

Anyone vanquished Gyala Hatchery yet? Maybe Katherine isn't so busy then. Bleh, probably a longshot.

Andisa Kalorn

Andisa Kalorn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

[PMS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRaven
Awww geez, if that's the case, I'm gonna be really pissed when I get home. I moved all the items to a minor Level 5 NF only character for a moment so that she could show them to the great warthog hunter guy outside the Great Hall.

I was planning on putting them back in storage and transferring them to my normal char this evening. It wouldn't be that bad if I could just go get the stuff again, but i dread trying to farm 5 skales and 5 wings again.

I'm also annoyed with this. How is moving something from a character to storage considered "trading"? Especially when you can move it out of storage just fine.

Sure you can't move bonus weapons around, but you can create them on demand. You can't create these on demand; you gotta farm them again. Even if it's not a huge amount of time, it's still annoying, knowing that you could have just put them in storage.

And it just gets on my nerves that I'm stuck with it in my inventory. I can't even have a hero hold it to make room. If I want to make room to pick up lots of items while vanquishing or exploring or whatever, I can't move it out to make space. I just hope there is a solution to this soon... I don't want to be lugging fragile items around for all of GW:EN with my limited storage space.

MoriaOrc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

From the official wiki on Nesting Material

Quote:
The item also cannot be placed in storage after the update. Linsey says this is an unfortunate side-effect of making the item untradeable.
I guess the only way to make an item "un-tradeable" is to make it so it can't leave the inventory it's in, or something.

sassoonssamson

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andisa Kalorn
I'm also annoyed with this. How is moving something from a character to storage considered "trading"? Especially when you can move it out of storage just fine.

Sure you can't move bonus weapons around, but you can create them on demand. You can't create these on demand; you gotta farm them again. Even if it's not a huge amount of time, it's still annoying, knowing that you could have just put them in storage.

And it just gets on my nerves that I'm stuck with it in my inventory. I can't even have a hero hold it to make room. If I want to make room to pick up lots of items while vanquishing or exploring or whatever, I can't move it out to make space. I just hope there is a solution to this soon... I don't want to be lugging fragile items around for all of GW:EN with my limited storage space.
just found out the nest is stuck on warrior now
Warrior has not been to factions or nightfall so i hope otherwise i wll have to farm for the skree wings again

GloryFox

GloryFox

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Good ol' USA, where everyone else wants to be

Now Plays World of Warcraft on Whisperwind

Meanwhile back at ANET HQ

Developer 1: Oh Moa egg and accessories for sale in Kamadan Dis 1.. wow expensive.
Developer 2: You did not buy any did you?

Developer 1: No I thought that was a inside joke?
Developer 2: It is... haha... Lets add nesting material in Elona that will get em busy.

Developer 1: Oh even better, I'll set it up so you can't trade these items. In This way nobody will think they are being scammed, and they are still busy running around. Furthermore no body can blame us.
Developer 2: ROFL... I love developing games.

sassoonssamson

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by GloryFox
Meanwhile back at ANET HQ

Developer 1: Oh Moa egg and accessories for sale in Kamadan Dis 1.. wow expensive.
Developer 2: You did not buy any did you?

Developer 1: No I thought that was a inside joke?
Developer 2: It is... haha... Lets add nesting material in Elona that will get em busy.

Developer 1: Oh even better, I'll set it up so you can't trade these items. In This way nobody will think they are being scammed, and they are still busy running around. Furthermore no body can blame us.
Developer 2: ROFL... I love developing games.
lol good one

Cimoa

Cimoa

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

UK

WIMP

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by sassoonssamson
just found out the nest is stuck on warrior now
Warrior has not been to factions or nightfall so i hope otherwise i wll have to farm for the skree wings again
I think you can work around not being able to place it in storage by dragging an item from storage into the inv slot the nesting material is in.

This should place the item from storage into your inv and the item in your inv into storage. I have not tested it on nesting materials but it works on other items that can not be placed in storage like bonus the weapons.

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

Sadly this don't work I have tried a few time AND they stacked
I had 3. 2 I was going to give away but now I can't.
Guess it's 1 nest per char to stop people who don't have all the campaigns
from getting this little bonus whatever it will turn into.

Smilin' Assassin

Smilin' Assassin

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Cantha

Pixies O Wickid Nawtyness [pixy]

A/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by WarKaster
ooo oooo picnic!!!!

what wine goes with nesting material??
.. hm .. Vabbian~?
.. who would actually swap a Trade Contract for this stuff, or go to the vendor when it's easier to sell the Spores for the same value~?

Sakkaku Kaikou

Sakkaku Kaikou

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

Right up your alley.

Wind Riders [WIND]

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Axe Wielding Dame
I was wondering if maybe the white moas in GW:EN had anything to do with the hatching of the egg? Perhaps when they run off we should follow them to see if they run to a Moa Herder NPC that could aid in the hatching? Just a thought (and if it has already been posted...I'm sorry, I don't have the time to read through all 12 pages...I'm too busy running around gathering materials).
I don't know if they'll have changed it for the official release, but during the preview, when I saw the Moas, I chased after them (<3 the Moas). They ran all the way South and went through another portal. That's when I realized my henchies were all dead from trying to follow me, so....

sassoonssamson

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cimoa
I think you can work around not being able to place it in storage by dragging an item from storage into the inv slot the nesting material is in.

This should place the item from storage into your inv and the item in your inv into storage. I have not tested it on nesting materials but it works on other items that can not be placed in storage like bonus the weapons.

i had tried it before doesnt work

Nomme Moon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Northern Verdant Cascades, Asura territory...I found a GIANT camp of ally untameable Moa Birds and Snow Wurms.

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