Riot of the Rocketmen 2022

01 January 2022 - 22 January 2022

01 January 2023 - 22 January 2023
11 January 2024 - 27 January 2024

Level requirement: 20
Note: Nothing much should be changed from the previous event iteration, except the progress / rewards, one new craftable Weapon Adornment added.

Shop

• General Shop

	Item	Cost			Item	Cost
	Royal Fireworks	10			50x Royal Fireworks	499
	100x Royal Fireworks	999			500x Royal Fireworks	4999
	Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	50			10x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	499
	40x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	1999

• Shady John

	Item	Cost			Item	Cost
	Royal Fireworks	10			50x Royal Fireworks	499
	100x Royal Fireworks	999			500x Royal Fireworks	4999
	Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	50			10x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	499
	40x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture	1999			Barrel Roll	15999

• Emilia's Shop
• O'Barker's Shop

• Grima's Shop

Quest

• Hostile Acquisition
• Hostile Acquisition (RE)

Progress

Intro

Speak to Professor Jullov in Kingshill
Take the initial quest Hostile Acquisition
Collect 116x Gun Powder from Rocketmen in Scaling Normal Dungeons (see the list below)
Collect a lot of Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture in Scaling Normal Dungeons (see the list below)
Enter Professor Jullov's Laboratory and destroy the Four Machine Babies before they destroy the four crates.
Collect Royal Fireworks and fill up the progress bars before you pass out.

Farming Locations

Note: In this event iteration Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture are dropping from all monsters, not just from Rocketmen. Therefore, noone knows what is the purpose of the Rocketmen spawning on the maps. Probably the whole event was screwed up and bugged.

Once you take the initial quest Hostile Acquisition from Professor Jullov in Kingshill you need to collect 116x Gun Powder in certain Dungeons. Those Dungeons are the same dungeons where you will need to collect Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture in order to access Professor Jullov's Laboratory after you complete the first part of the quest.

Dungeons

There are seven farming dungeons. Depending on your level, strength and preferences you can farm at any place you like on any difficulty.

• Eternal Grove
• Fortress Teganswall
• Eternal Watch
• Temple Sector
• The Gleaming Mountains
• Frog River Delta
• Spiky Valley

Once you enter a dungeon, Rocketmen will start spawning. They are spawning at different spots one by one. Each spot has a group of several Rocketmen.
There are always 8 spawning position in any dungeon, and these spawning locations are random (can be seen on the minimap). Their position can be always the same or it can always change patterns.
The spawning locations depend on 2 factors:
- your position on the map
- whether you are moving or not
If you are moving when you enter a dungeon they will start spawning at a most distant location from your position. The more you move through dungeon the more they change the next location away from you.
That means they would spawn at places you have already been.
However ... there is a trick. If you don't move when you enter a dungeon and wait for them to spawn at all places they will always spawn at same place depending from what entrance you are accessing the dungeon.
This is not working only in in two dungeons:
- Fortress Teganswall - when you enter via Teleport Stone or FBI or Burning Coast they can't be seen on the minimap so you need to move around. If you access through Tegan's Sanctuary or Dragon Caverns and you stay still, they will always spawn at same place.
- Temple Sector - they are never showing up on minimap so you always need to move, no matter from what entrance you came in. Avoid this dungeon.

Note: this behavior has been only tried during solo play. It is not tested in group play.

Below are shown few patterns per dungeon (don't rely on them they may change).

Eternal Grove

Fortress Teganswall

Enter via Tegan's Sanctuary or Dragon Caverns and farm the nearby groups, then reset the map.

Eternal Watch

Temple Sector

Avoid this dungeon.

The Gleaming Mountains

Frog River Delta

Spiky Valley

Enter via Treasure Cave and start counterclockwise.

Our recommendation would be:
- Fortress Teganswall accessed via Tegan's Sanctuary or Dragon Caverns - only the nearby groups then reset the map.
- Spiky Valley accessed via Treasure Cave - it is relatively small dungeon and can be cleared fast.

Professor Jullov's Laboratory

Professor Jullov's Laboratory (2021)
Basic Info
Type	Dungeon
Event	Riot of the Rocketmen 2021
Monster Levels	20-140
Level Requirement	20
Entry Requirement	24x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture 10x Fragment of Infernal Passage needed on Bloodshed
Nearest Urban Area	Kingshill

Level requirement per difficulty:

• Normal - 20
• Painful - 25
• Excruciating - 30
• Fatal - 35
• Infernal - 40
• Merciless - 50
• Bloodshed - 60

Note: Even if the level requirement on Normal Difficulty is 20, the map is closed and can be only opened with the quest. The lowest level farming map (Eternal Grove) has entry requirement of level 21.

Once you are done with the second part of the Hostile Acquisition quest, make sure you have enough Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture before proceeding to the final part of the quest, because you will get Riot of the Rocketmen Attire (3 Hours). Alternatively you can re-take the quest until you are ready.
Those who have gotten the Riot of the Rocketmen Attire from the Rocketman Chest during Winter Solstice Festival 2021, can use it immediately.
Note: Attires are working with quests as well.

The goal is to destroy all four Machine Babies before they destroy all four crates in the center of the map.
If the crates are destroyed you can only take progress and loot from the Pile. You can get extra progress from each saved crate.

Machine Babies will start producing bombs 30 seconds after you cross the entrance line. From that moment on, depending on the number of players in the group they will start activating one after another with a certain time delay in between. If you destroy Machine Baby the next one will be activated immediately.

• Machine Baby's activation delay per number of players

	1 Player	2 Players	3 Players	4 Players	5 Players
Machine Baby 1	30	30	30	30	30
Machine Baby 2	210	150	120	90	35
Machine Baby 3	390	330	300	270	40
Machine Baby 4	580	520	490	460	45

Machine (hasta la vista) Baby is producing mobs with "Terminator"-like names - Bomb-inator and Justice Grant-inator.
The bombs and producing machines are having mechanics like the mechanics in Caverns of the Eternal Storm. Your equipment is useless against them. You will always deal low damage per hit no matter what equipment you are using. That means all players are equal no matter how much damage they have, they will deal same low damage until they fall asleep.
Your skills damage matter.
You will need Travel Speed and Attack Speed as much as possible.

There are Trap Levers that you can activate, but I would not recommend you spending Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture on them. The traps are like damaging the bombs and slowing them down.

If a Crate is badly damaged you can use 3x Professor Jullov's Oiltastic Mixture on Steam Valve and repair the Crate (only once per crate).

Note: Don't forget to take the RE quest. The RE quest was set as a daily quest and can be finished only once a day. Rewards: 1500x Royal Fireworks and 100x

• Progress drop per difficulty

Difficulty	Crate	Pile
Normal	5	20
Painful	10	40
Excruciating	15	65
Fatal	22	90
Infernal	35	130
Merciless	58	230
Bloodshed	115	500

• Crate - displayed progress drop per single crate