Talk:Horn of the Goblin General/@comment-644793-20171127202119

So to sum it up, so far the most likely conditions to summon the goblin army are:

1) Have a high standing with a Goblin faction (actually being a goblin is unnecessary)

2) Have levels in the General job class

3) Be attacking or under attack by overwhelmingly superior numbers of enemies (much higher leveled enemies may also count)

This would explain why the item was rarely if ever used to its full power ingame. To have a good standing with a Goblin faction, the player would presumably need to be of the goblin race or some other race allied to goblins (maybe ogres or orcs). Considering that heteromorphic players were rare in Yggdrasil to begin with, there can't have been all that many that fulfilled even the first two conditions. The third condition was the nail in the item's coffin. By the time most players got to the kind of battles that would trigger the Horn (high-level bosses and armies), they would not be wasting a valuable inventory slot on a low-level noob item.

Enri triggering the full effect was actually thanks to the quirks of the New World, where summoned mobs do not despawn over time like they probably would have in Yggdrasil. This allowed Enri to create her own Goblin faction the first time she used a Horn.