Thinkmeats
War Is Good For Business
Simple enough. For those of you who don't know, or only paid a little attention, RSM is probably the best zone on SoD right now. It's just really, really well done. There are lots of nameds, two different factions to work with, few see invis mobs limiting exploration, a mix of lower and high end mobs, rewards for cleverness and punishments for stupidity. This zone is just plain great. Sure, some of the stuff is too weak for level 65 toons, but the level of the mobs isn't what makes RSM so great. Yes, there are LD problems, but only if you're in the boring blaze camp area anyway. One long corridor with only one wanderer and lots of magma golems? No thanks, I'll take the complex figure 8 with three patrolling imps and god knows what all else balled up.
Fire Grottos, Everchill, Catacombs, and even Cmalath follow a different model--their nameds (for the most part; excepting cata, each of those does have at least a couple normal nameds) spawn on long timers, and the zones themselves are rife with see-invis monsters. Splitting is expected, there are smaller numbers of bigger mobs, et cetera. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what makes RSM different, but FG / EC / Cata / Cmal are fun, but fun in a different way. Groups in those places just play differently than ones in RSM. RSM can kill you just as dead as the other four, but if you die in RSM, it'll be because you wandered at the wrong time, or underestimated the ability of an imp to see you through the wall from the other side of a room, or because one of the two mobs you have rooted got broken when it took aggro on a wayward pet, who hit it with a proc at the wrong time causing it to move from it's carefully selected position under a ledge, adding two of its friends, which all charge at you, and you can't manuever because you have precisely no space to do so without adding even more mobs. God I love RSM.
The next time a high end dungeon gets added, could some of the awesomocity of the sun mines rub off on it? Mobs as thick as thieves, tight quarters, but no crazy cata- or cmal-style see invis / super MR / otherwise-cleverness-mitigating immunities and resistances. Old school. You gotta be fast to sneak past the six imps between you and the figure 8 where you want to be, you have to be able to feel the ball of three patrollers who are right on top of each other because they ate the last poor fool to try coming before they knock on your door and break your skull. But when you do, the zone's a goddamn blast.
RSM FUN FACTS
Fire Grottos, Everchill, Catacombs, and even Cmalath follow a different model--their nameds (for the most part; excepting cata, each of those does have at least a couple normal nameds) spawn on long timers, and the zones themselves are rife with see-invis monsters. Splitting is expected, there are smaller numbers of bigger mobs, et cetera. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what makes RSM different, but FG / EC / Cata / Cmal are fun, but fun in a different way. Groups in those places just play differently than ones in RSM. RSM can kill you just as dead as the other four, but if you die in RSM, it'll be because you wandered at the wrong time, or underestimated the ability of an imp to see you through the wall from the other side of a room, or because one of the two mobs you have rooted got broken when it took aggro on a wayward pet, who hit it with a proc at the wrong time causing it to move from it's carefully selected position under a ledge, adding two of its friends, which all charge at you, and you can't manuever because you have precisely no space to do so without adding even more mobs. God I love RSM.
The next time a high end dungeon gets added, could some of the awesomocity of the sun mines rub off on it? Mobs as thick as thieves, tight quarters, but no crazy cata- or cmal-style see invis / super MR / otherwise-cleverness-mitigating immunities and resistances. Old school. You gotta be fast to sneak past the six imps between you and the figure 8 where you want to be, you have to be able to feel the ball of three patrollers who are right on top of each other because they ate the last poor fool to try coming before they knock on your door and break your skull. But when you do, the zone's a goddamn blast.
RSM FUN FACTS
- * Is really great.
* Has good shit other than blazing crown / blazing viel / ashenstrike
* Whitens your teeth
* I am personally aware of nine different nameds, not counting the raid mob. I suspect there are more--simply looking at the map and knowing where the ones I've found are leads me to believe there are two or three others.
* Will lengthen your penis. If you do not have a penis one will be provided for you by the state.
* All of the loot, save one, is droppable.
* Listens to only the even-numbered tracks on a CD.[/list:u]
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