Talk:Archmage Tarixus

Hi. I just noticed, in the final mission of the "Forging the Blackwand" SA, it has 'Portals (3X)' under notable npcs. I did this mission once, and found..I'd estimate in the 30's or 40's of portals, in, as the article says, random places. Unsure if this is intentional or not...

Also note; The portals spawn Behemoths which can see through all forms of stealth and invisibility, including Hide.

Abyssal 20:54, 27 December 2006 (PST)

I was the one who added that note, I remember those portals.

As we all know, these portals can spawn in regular Oranbegan maps, but only in one room (the infamous portals room, which has ten or so of them). In this mission instead, those portals could be anywhere: regular rooms, corridors, boss rooms...anywhere. Their behavior was not strange: they spawned the same old demons (behemoths) as regular ones do. They auto-agro on nearby players, just like regular ones, so nothing strange there. The location is the strange part here. I did the mission twice, with a different char each time, and both times I saw three of them. I don't know if I have understood this correctly: Have you found like 30 or 40 of those portals in this mission? Or is that the level? :-?

--Yakovlev 06:38, 29 December 2006 (PST)

I meant the number of portals. I had explored maybe half the map, and time was running out, and I had already found about 20...just in random places, as you described. In a team of two, a Stalker and a Dominator, it was pretty much impossible... Abyssal 09:56, 29 December 2006 (PST)

So you found 20 of those things? O_O

I suposse it is possible, since that mission is the end of a Story Arc and those missions may have surprises in them... It is just that i wasn't expecting something like this... So the number of portal increases with the team size, then? In a solo mission I only saw 3. Perhaps it is time to put a team together, visit this mission again and see what happens... And it was timed, so this is going to be a headache =/. I'll add this to the list of things to do, it's all I can do for now. Thanks for the info, Abyssal! =D

--Yakovlev 05:18, 30 December 2006 (PST)

Forging the Blackwand Mission

(PORTALS: For some reason, this mission tends to place Portals in places where they shouldn't be. They are in random rooms and even in corridors, and act just like regular portals, spawning Behemoths just the same way as the regular Portals do. Just be warned that they can be placed anywhere. I have no idea if this is intended or a bug.)