I been camping this guy for almost 3 days now, without luck.
There’s really only 1 spot in the entire Asagard region with a single spawn for an armorer…
I wonder if someone else had luck with him, before I write it off as bugged?
I know the feeling, Ive been at the mounds for 3 days looking for the armorer and blacksmith. Havent seen them, and ive gotten almost 1000 zeal in altars from cycling them. i did manage to get 1 carpenter and 2 smelters though…so not a TOTAL loss.
I actually managed to get Werk, after hearing from another person that she got him.
He has an appearance rate of roughly once every day.
So I can confirm he is not bugged.
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I’ve been camping Beri for a better half of last week till I got her. I was basically playing XCOM2 and just logging into CE once in a while just to check, kill and log off…
I set windows (clock app) timer to 14 minutes. I stand on top of the roof of the house overlooking the armorer spawn spot. I don’t have to worry about aggro that way.
I then keep the spawn spot and my HP bar in view, by calling up the steam overlay, then move my mouse to the other screen, watch a movie, or read the forums, until the timer app chimes. Rinse repeat.
The trick to camping something is to camp it off CD, and stop noobs from killing the named mobs for steel.
in other words: always be there when it most matters. They are rare as it is.
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Does work only spawn in the armorer spot or does he have other spawn points? I had him appear in a group that was chasing me once, got him, drug him back to the wheel, then the server crashed right before I was able to put him in the wheel.
Only one spot, and that’s next to a smelter at the smithy.
Day 4… Still no Njoror.
Sent a message to @Spynosaur_Nicole, asking her kindly to check if Njoror is bugged or not, cuz…
I have every single T4 armorer in the game on PvE official. Some of them twice!
But Njoror… is the only one I still haven’t got, and i’m camping him on CD. I kid you not.
I sit behind the computer for 9 hours straight, daily, just coming back every 14 minutes…
It feels like I’ve done over 150 spawns of Nordheimer armorers till now.
I even have a few Asagarth named carpenters and cooks lol.
This is bad news. Wanted Njoror Battleborn but no sense wasting days if he’s bugged.
Werk can’t make top tier Vanir Armor.
I would have assumed that Werk’s speciality was flawless epic Cimmerian Fur and Cimmerian Steel armor? Does he make that?
I’ve seen some named thralls at New Asagarth since Friday. I saw Beri twice and Manos twice. Still no Njoror.
Day 5 - I’ve set up a base right around the corner of the new Asagarth entrance. After returning to this place every 14 minutes, for the last 5 days, I decided that I might as well live here for the next foreseeable future, until Njoror spawns.
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Day 6 -
Dear Diary,
I have decided to start writing to you, because I can feel my sanity slipping away. It is said that Diaries stave of insanity, and are good repositories of worries, so that we may focus on the tasks at hand during the day instead of brooding about it.
It has been 6 days since I’ve started camping the legendary Njoror Battleborn. My vigil starts at Noon and ends usually at 3:30 am. I check back every 14:30 minutes on the dot, and kill any normal armorer on sight, except those who are attractive and of the female sort…preferably not wearing a top.
I’ve built a base and a public maproom at the entrance of New Asagarth, considering this will be an undertaking of epic proportions timewise - I might as well make this area my domicile.
I am going to fortify this base further, and add some furnishings as time progresses, whenever I don’t feel like farming steel.
I often muse how it would feel like, if Njoror does actually spawn.
Will I be in platinum mood that I have finished my collection, and continue to help beautify the world with public infrastructure and protect and preserve bountiful public areas?
Or will I lose interest after having attained all the armorers in existence, except for the Hyperborean armorer, who is Purge only? Speaking of which, Grrr Legbiter is of the Exile Faction. I might have to build a river outpost for that endeavour.
That is all for today. This 15 minute cycle is nearly up. My long watch begins.
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Now I am invested in your travails.
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Invested? Heck I’m thinking about a new web series.
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They are not bugged. Their spawn rate is just 1% or something instead of 5% or whatever the norm is.
asgarth has a really low spawn chance of named thralls, I did like 10-20 runs through it one day and haven’t found a single thrall with t4
FYI: if you need T4 dancer, then Varkin Fleetfoot (in jungle at Derketos pagoda) has now probably by mistake 100% spaawn rate.
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Day 7
Dear Diary!
Boy do I have a story for you today.
Yesterday I decided to keep a killing-log to motivate myself not to give up.
I did some more before the logging, it was just that I started logging during purge time:
| Day | Time | Armorer |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 17:26 | Armorer I Male |
| 17:41 | Armorer II Female | |
| 17:58 | Armorer II Male | |
| 18:13 | Armorer II Female | |
| 18:29 | Armorer II Female | |
| 18:45 | Armorer II Female | |
| 19:00 | Armorer I Female | |
| 19:16 | Armorer I Male | |
| 19:32 | Armorer I Female | |
| 19:49 | Armorer I Male | |
| 20:05 | Armorer II Male | |
| 20:20 | Armorer II Male | |
| 20:36 | Armorer II Male | |
| 20:52 | Armorer I Male | |
| 21:08 | Armorer II Male | |
| Captured | 21:22 | Armorer III Female |
| 21:40 | Armorer I Male | |
| 21:56 | Armorer I Male |
I also realized that for a camp this crazy, I need to pace myself, because it is not a matter of intensity, but more a matter of sustainability. It’s a marathon, not a race.
I need to turn this into a routine. Considering I need to be online anyway to intercept purges and have the sound in focus, which means always having the game itself in focus…can’t just alt tab to somewhere else and miss a 10 minute purge warning…
However something happened today that was a game changer.
See, my illustrious neighbour
has claimed to have Njoror Battleborn. This is why I never gave up.
But how is it that no one on the forums, or even myself, having captured Oyvind Tall-tree sooner than having seen Njoror, haven’t got him yet? After 7 days of hardcore grinding?
Well. I asked a guildmate of that neighbour if he could make me some flawless Vanir armor or borrow me the thrall for an hour. Being a trusted and reputable man of integrity, he took no issue to borrowing him to me. So he proceeded to search for the crafter. Everywhere he searched… No sign of Njoror. He kept searching… then went from one base to another. Then to outpost. Doubled up on all chests.
It turns out, she never had Njoror to begin with. She was bluffing/boasting about it. It made sense, because I defend her tribes borders, and take good care of her and hers. Allies in blood and all. But when I ask this simple favor, she makes excuses and delays… as if she never had Njoror to begin with, but was trying to hide her bluff.
And so I concluded that Njoror is in fact bugged, for even something with a 1% chance of appearing, needs to appear at least once in 3 days, like Oyvind tall-tree or Hannar of Bossonia did. But non on my entire contact list, nor even those who have always lived near Asagarth, has ever seen Njoror.
I have the following from Asagarth, without even having actively cleared a round of Asagarth each cycle:
5 x Airk Strong-in-the-arm
4 x Janos
1 x Jon the tinkerer
2 x Manos, the handful
1 x Oskar Thunderhead
1 x Oyvind Tall-tree
2 x Rikkart the Baker
3 x Beri
And thus this revelation has freed me from an unhealthy obsession.
It is time to file a bug report.
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Great job, lovely writing.
You make bugs fun and a real entertainment to read each part. Thankies ! 
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