Suggestion: Balance Froglok Newbie Area

[Syrie Cinders]

Greetings!

This is an observation with regards to the Froglok newbie area/zone outside SM in Sundered Mountains.
After playing a Dark Elf newbie in Greenmist, and an Iksar newbie in Stinger's, i'm amazed at how relatively tough the SoD world is on Frogloks (or how easy it is on Grobb/Oggok folks).

Mobs:
MOBs in SM like to assist each other, even down to the little skitter bugs and feeders.
This means there is not one single mob type in the newbie area that you can pull without fear of assist aggro.
Conversely, things like moss snakes/mosquitos in Stinger's are easy to pull solo with no assist protocol.

Drops/Cash:
Drops in SM appear to all be from 'non-humanoid creature' loot tables.
I.E., things like fur, claws, the very rare odd item (like a cheap gem), and that's it.
So there is no way to 'find' things like newbie armor or weapons on MOBs, you have to purchase/quest for it.
The problem is, sales of the aforementioned are terribly cheap compared to Stingers/Greenmist.
Items in Stinger's can sell for several gold per, such as gator and leech hides.
MOBs in Greenmist drop tons of armor/weapons, such as lizardmen and skellies.
MOBs in SM have neither of the above.

XP
So I thought to myself, maybe SM has the better XP modifier?
From memory, I think it's 10%
Stinger's is 20%, and Greenmist is 15%.

In conclusion, this observation is only my biased observations of only 3 newbie zones.
I don't think Stinger's is too easy, and I don't think SM is too hard... but I do think that they're way out of whack with each other.
Just some low-priority balancing issues for the SoD team to look at/consider someday when they have the time.

 

[khador]

in my opinion, newport is by far the easiest. i tried greenmist with my alts and found it to be atleast 3x harder. i may have gone farther out then i should or something. but newport is just very easy. the mobs are real close to the guards. close to gether so they arent hard to find. and most are real low level. where in greenmist and stingers u find things a bit higher.

 

[Luther Flame]

The first thing I do with my noobs is go to NP.

 

[vistachiri]

yeah the froglock area was pretty worthless from what I remember. As soon as I actually managed to get enough pp/interest, by which point I was like L10 I picked up in np and went "wtf?? ah this is fun.". Now starting a froglock wouldn't phase me as I'd just transfer money to them to port out, but I sure as hell wouldn't start from scratch w/out help on one.

Also is it just me or is the faction quest for the froglocks messed up? When I went there w/my sk and did them it kept talking about my thurgardin faction...well I'm kindly to thurgardin...and the froggies still hate me...well not hate, but dubious.