What are the stages of an Astral node's lifecycle?

Kio

Because I'd like to know!

Karlach

Crackling at full, to rainbow halo, to motes, to inner light to no extra description to devoid of energy.

And yes, they're mostly tanked out at the moment, someone went around last night and drained a lot of them again.

Karlach

Kio said:

Morkarion said:

Crackling at full, to rainbow halo, to motes, to inner light to no extra description to devoid of energy.

And yes, they're all mostly tanked out at the moment, someone went around last night and drained them all again.

How does their regeneration work?  I've come to like linking to farm, and would like to do so responsibly.

The higher up the chain, the quicker they take to regenerate. Ideally when they hit motes you tend to wrap up your business and leave. If they get to inner light you should stop straight away. If they're inner light or lower you shouldn't link them.

Inner Light takes about a full RL day to regenerate, motes can get back to a good way into rainbow in a few hours, half a day will fill it back to full. Devoid of energy takes about a 5-6 day period to regenerate from what I've seen, assuming no one was daft enough to link it while it was still dead.

Sagittarius was down for 12 days until yesterday, Leo's almost dead now. Astral linking is great fun, but if someone's irresponsible with it, it ruins it for everyone else. Can't ask people to be nice though, you just hope they realise killing a node also shoots them in the foot because they won't get any more from it either.


Also coning drains a node faster than linking, you're taking 10x the power out of it afterall.

Kio

Morkarion said:

Crackling at full, to rainbow halo, to motes, to inner light to no extra description to devoid of energy.

And yes, they're all mostly tanked out at the moment, someone went around last night and drained them all again.

How does their regeneration work?  I've come to like linking to farm, and would like to do so responsibly.

Lavinya

'Someone went and drained them' Probably because the same people are hunting them down to motes, anyone else that wants to astral hunt has to take whatever is left, I imagine. You don't want people to drain them, leave a few at more than motes! (Or don't complain when people drain them)

Karlach

There's several still at crackling (so ok not all, it was a tiny bit of hyperbole) just not the popular options, scorpions, eagles and parasites are all full. If they're hunting to motes it takes an hour or two at most and they recharge. There's people who actually take nodes and link from Crackling down to dead, especially those who are coning/darklinking/whatever the alternative names are.

Personally I think the lower tier recharge timers are far too long, getting to inner light takes days, getting past that a day in itself. It's hard to get enough people to be patient to just let it go that little bit longer. Otherwise you end up with dead nodes for days on end.

That and some of the creatures need looking at, because there's a reason very few people will ever solo link eagles and parasites for example. Who wants to deal with foreverbalance loss and endless paralysis?