Should all named mobs be given an adept-like code?

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Xumtiil

Dalayan Beginner
On one bright day Taffimai and Maiandra Earthslayer put on their best adventuring gear and set out for the Hidden Temple of Yaralith. Whispered legends told of a prophet who spoke the truth he found in the signs of the stars. Said Speaker was supposed to own a fabulous ring with great powers. Of course, such an important Tal'Yan leader would be heavily guarded, but our heroes would not let that stop them.

Once they had succesfully penetrated the Temple, they were able to devise a fool-proof strategy. Maiandra would use her charm to persuade one of the Tal'Yan's own guard wolves to change sides and fight against its former masters. Taffimai would then sneak up behind the unsuspecting Tal'Yan and drive her rapier through its kidneys. This tactic proved to be a good one and many a Tal'Yan died that day.

Slowly, the couple made their way towards their target, following the barely visible tracks on the dusty cracked marble floor. To their surprise, they also found tracks of some other, more powerful individual, who moved through the temple as if he had some strange form of immunity. There were no traces of invisibility, yet somehow the Tal'Yan left him alone, almost as if they cowered before his might.

After many perils, they made it to the spot where all tracks had been leading to, only to find the Speaker's dead body bleeding on the floor, his right finger chopped off, as if to hastily remove what had been on it. Disappointed, our adventurers returned from whence they came...


luciferblack said:
I think the future of WR lies in the adept code. Not necessarly making everything have to be a red con, but making it so certain mobs can't be farmed as green cons.
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Not keen on that idea, maybe a way to solve it would be to make named in the higher dungeons as common as they are in the lower ones then people would feel less need to farm?
 
Why didn't you just stay in that room and exp? There's tons of mobs that apparently would have given you great exp, and the named mob will keep popping and you could keep getting his ring and earring.

Putting adept code on all nameds would ruin the economy. Low-mid levels wouldn't have anything to buy from the higher levels.

Farming isn't really a crime. Once you're high enough you can spend your time leveling or getting loot. One choice shouldn't be more "moral" than the other.
 
I can't see farming as being profitable in the long run here. The server pop is relatively small, so there is only so much demand for gear. Once that demand is satisfied, there is no need to farm a particular item any longer because there will be too many on the server and the price will plummet. All will get their chance to loot their own uber gear if they are patient.
 
farming isnt profitable?


lets see......

Armplates of Perfection

that's a pharmed item thats more directed at mid 30's than at the higher ups. i can easily sell it for 250p and get more by just xp'ing. same with the Brilliant Golden Band, which has 8ac, 8wis, 8int and a required lvl of 40 on it, can easily sell it for 450p, and it drops off a mob in the same zone thats green to me and everything else.

even at lvl 40, that band is nearly impossible to get as the mobs around it are lvl 50.
 
A dungeon filled with near light blue mobs is bad xp, but still has very lethal potential if you get five of them that gang up on you. Trust me, we've been there for ages, but we've given up after a few days worth of playing time as all we were doing was taking out placeholders for the higher-ups. We've switched back to killing big bad red kiteable mobs in the badlands. At least we get a sense of achievement from taking down a griffon or a hill giant (we're level 31).

Having to kill the same 10 mobs over and over waiting for your item to drop is part of the game, but having it snatched from underneath your nose by someone who didn't have to put in any effort to get it sucks, and ruins my gaming experience. Especially when you know that he/she is probably not going to use it himself, but using it to twink his other character.

It has come so far that people automatically assume that if a level 20-30 character has a nice item, he hasn't procured it himself. I can't count the times that Maiandra has had to suffer being called a twink because she had Guidance of Althuna at level 20, but we honestly killed that River Hag ourselves. Took half an hour or so, but *we* did it.
 
Bad idea because you can't always get a group of folks around your level who are willing to go after that piece of armour or whatever with you. I'm eagerly awaiting the day that I can just go solo the water mage for her robe rather than having to try and talk a group into going after her with me with little reward for them other than XP. While I'm very fond of the adept code and once I started hearing about groups to take them down have been quite vigilant in killing them (have killed both the wind hag and the spectral hunter now and have a piece of gear from each) your normal named mobs just don't have gear that's as kick ass as those mobs that have the adept coding on them.
 
The idea is not to have them have the real adeptcode, as in attacking it when it's red, just that you can't attack it when it's *green*. It would not exclude farming or soloing, you just wouldn't be able to go on doing it with the same mob indefinitely and you wouldn't be able to get the gear at levels where you won't use it anymore on that toon.
Admit that it isn't fair to the people actually trying to group, xp and maybe get some loot in Yaralith if a ranger++ waltzes in, tracks, goes straight for the nameds/ph's, kills them, and is off again. At his level, there is much better loot available on mobs that aren't roadkill.
 
I wouldn't want to play on such a server. You have to admit that it's not fair if a ranger++ waltzes in, tracks, goes straight to named/ph's, and is unable to kill any of them with no one else in the zone.

Part of the thrill of advancement for me is the ability to be able to destroy mobs (trivial or not) to gain certain items that I could not earlier in my career. Sure I might sell an item, but it also might be an item that I really want.

I do agree that it sucks when a legitimate person/group is making their way to a named and a higher up person runs right in and kills the named. It's happened to me before, and I'm sure it will happen again.
 
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