R233

There is DtU on test server.
After I defeated the boss I get the chest of lairs without to clear the secret lairs dungeon, because all monsters disappear.
Is it a features or a bug?

 

It sounds like the old lair bug.

 

yes
they fixed ........................................... .

 

There's a Stellar Gold event in release 233_6.

By the splash screen description, we need Stellar Gold Essence in order to kill mobs in the Skyfall Arena, and we can drop that special Essence by killing unique "golden monsters" in Scaling Natural Dungeons, but those golden monsters are also immune to normal attacks ... so you have to buy essence in order to kill the SND golden mobs in order to kill Skyfall Arena mobs?

And the offers to purchase Stellar Gold Essence don't add up: 324 andermant for 499 essence, 714 ander for 999 ess, 1,599 ander for 1,499 ess. In other words, you pay more per ess if you buy larger bundled quantities??? Some strange economics there.

I have a vague recollection that a variation of this event ran in the past, but I don't believe I participated.

UPDATE: I bought 499 ess. There were 4 sets of ~6 golden monsters in Hailstone Mountains (Painful difficulty). Each set of golden mobs had only one champion-like monster; only that one monster dropped ess. Each time, it dropped only 6 ess ... my underpowered level 40 ranger used 322 event ess to win 24 event ess ... so for it to be profitable to farm event ess, the drop rate needs to be increased by more than a factor of 10. What the heck?

UPDATE2: At least some of the mobs follow you throughout the dungeon; they have a limitless roaming range, so you either have to kill them (with essence you don't have) or constantly evade them. In other words, like the giant eggs in the horrendous Spring event, you'll probably stop playing SNDs until after the event is over. Not a wise move by BP/DSO; if they continue to encourage users to stop playing, guess what? They'll stop playing. Permanently.