Searching for Sages and Wizards

[JPierreD]

Lupa Lapu, Toprak Minor, Dwilight. There's a clubfooted sage in there.

[Tom]

They can be found but they're broken.
http://bugs.battlemaster.org/view.php?id=6210

fixed now

[Beldragos]

Today an Adventurer player send out an OOC message about an apparently broken sage.  I tried to pass on the message via the Bugtracker but it would not let me log on or even create an account.  I figured I would come here and paste the message since this is my only other chance to do so.

Out-of-Character from runnak   (19 minutes ago)
Message sent to everyone in "Hunters of Dwilight" (18 recipients)
Lol what a lame bug

I find a sage in Itau, he sais he can repair stuff for a thief's hand. I have the item i have the hand. When i click repair it sais.

"Cannot find that sage" -_-

Maarten Cornelis

[Tom]

also fixed now. thanks.

[Vaylon Kenadell]

How long are sages/wizards supposed to stay in one area? I've been in the same area as this wizard for at least a week now.

[Tom]

How long are sages/wizards supposed to stay in one area? I've been in the same area as this wizard for at least a week now.

it depends... there's no fixed time.

[Velax]

They seem to be much harder to find now. I haven't seen a single one aside from the one I found right after the changes went live, almost a month ago. Before I would have seen at least four or five in that time.

[Tom]

There was also a bug that made it even harder to find them. I fixed that yesterday, so it should be quite a bit easier now (bug fixed and a few more sages).

[Madmonk77]

For me, its nearly impossible to find a sage now. I found one and then he dissapeared after I repaired one item, and I had 2 to repair!

Are we supposed to not be able to repair our different items with the same sage?

[Tom]

Sometimes he will stay, sometimes he will leave.

And again, please check the area now, your experiences for the past week or two were tainted by a bug that made it much more difficult to find a sage than it should have been.

[Madmonk77]

The thing is that in a region A they told me they saw "Pericles" passing by, but when I check the surrounding regions there is no "Pericles" around and when I go back to the region A they still say the same to me, and clearly "Pericles" is not around anymore...

Another thing in another region B: I repaired one of my items with "Shirari", after that she disappeared, after that I get the message that "Shirari" was seen passing by, again I check all the surrounding regions and far beyond too and there is no "Shirari" around, later on I return to the region A and the same message is still there but there is no "Shirari" nowhere...

It's kind of frustrating to me.

[egamma]

The thing is that in a region A they told me they saw "Pericles" passing by, but when I check the surrounding regions there is no "Pericles" around and when I go back to the region A they still say the same to me, and clearly "Pericles" is not around anymore...

Another thing in another region B: I repaired one of my items with "Shirari", after that she disappeared, after that I get the message that "Shirari" was seen passing by, again I check all the surrounding regions and far beyond too and there is no "Shirari" around, later on I return to the region A and the same message is still there but there is no "Shirari" nowhere...

It's kind of frustrating to me.

How are you checking, exactly?

[Tom]

Uh, actually, there was a bug in the code. Sorry for that. The message was misleading so far, it is correct now.

Also please note that sages and wizards often travel a lot slower than nobles, not having horses and stopping at small villages along the way to chat with the peasants, or to meditate in a caves. It can take several days for them to arrive at their next destination. As long as you get that "passed through recently" message, they are at most one region away.

[cenrae]

Where is this "passed through recently" message found? I still have not found a sage or wizard though I did hear of two near Itau (Dwilight) but they where gone before I made it there.

[Miriam Ics]

Is this a message about a Sage too?

You hear rumours that Sniss passed through here recently.

Because there is no one called Sniss at Dwillight...