ZEM's Zone Exp Modifiers

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acrobat

Dalayan Beginner
Hi im making this after that post i made in general discussion.

Anyway, its not that i think First Ruins (FR) is not deserving of its 30% ZEM its just that i think its not helping the game really.

So at level 28 or so, i did really well in the badlands and a few other places for exp. But if it wasnt for being camped... i would have spent all my time in FR, because the exp seemed that little bit better.

Its true those warlocks can kill a noob like me fast and they did many times :p but my concern is that people just go for the best exp and that zone seems like one of the best exp zones. So all others around that level range are too empty, and FR is often overcamped. It only takes 1 level 28 or so mage to camp the zone in. They show up... and every mob upto the ramp is camped.

Anyway its not just FR, Stormkeep was similar and so was Sirens, but luckily those zones never seemed overcamped to me.

However now im 60+ im finding its happening again a bit with that Eldenal's Mansion zone. Its the only zone that i can solo in and get about 4% exp for each kill. And because of that its often over camped too ;(

Its only a small zone so once a group takes the zone in, its camped unless you have a powerfull group to goto the undead or castle.

When travelling around i found some other dark blue mobs that i can solo in places like The Blight. But even altho they had tons of HP and hit hard, they only gave tiny exp compared to Eldenals.

So thats my suggestion :lol: Make more zones have a 30% or so ZEM so there isnt just 1 perfect place for each level range.

I dont know the world well enough to suggest what zones and what mobs are worthy of a ZEM. So someone else will have to do the hard work... :lol: But my suggestion is to help balance it a bit more. So instead of everyone camping eldenal's, make Mielech or somewhere have the same ZEM. And maybe some other places.

BTW Great server, this doesnt really annoy me its just what i think might be nice.
 
Powerful group?

You don't need a 'powerful group' to go to the undead valley or castle.

My monk / shaman (both 65, 3-6aas) duo's in undead valley with little downtime. Sure the kills are long, but whatever.

A guildy's 65 rogue / cleric duo took out lots of mobs in the castle. Granted he is very well AA'd.

Also, as wiz reminded all of us in announce the other night, there are xp zones that have higher level mobs, with higher ZEMs than Eld's.

Mielech's Depth
Plane of Air
Plane of Torment
Fire Grotto

Hell, if you can tear through mobs in Velk's Pit, the xp is barely worse than Eld's, and there are some fairly nice dagger drops, for twinking friends and alts. ;)

Also, with the new task system, hopefully, everything will be less camped.
 
Maybe it's psychological, but I do agree Eld's seems to have the best exp to mob difficulty ratio in the game by a wide margin.
 
For some reason Elds seems to attract people like lizards to crickets too...I know there are far better zones, but the xp seems good still. Might leave there soon due to over camping, and I really have developed a high hatred to the wizards ;(
 
Hmm well its definatly not psychological, because in sirens grotto (40% ZEM?) i get about 1% per kill because altho dark blue they are sorta low level and whatever. (even altho they are hard mobs :O)

But in Eldenals i get 4% per kill and 5% against those Gargoiles. With exp like that..... you will not catch me in any other zone :lol:

Mielechs is one of my favourate zones in live, and it is here too. Altho the exp is not good enough. Maybe in the crypt area its the same as Eldenals, but near the zone in area its 2% per kill, so i have to kill twice the amount of mobs than i do in eldenals.

As for the Fire Grotto etc.... The exp there may be good but its not easy to solo. Eldenals has a bunch of single spawns and the spawns that come in 2's are easily pacified/harmonied. Once they are split up, its a great place to tear through solo.

The undead is not doable at all unlike someone suggested. With a pair of 65's with raid gear and a bunch of AA's then ok.... but i dont have an alt and im not a warrior, so to do the undead requires me finding a bunch of other people... and in that case we can goto lots of places. My main concern is soloing.

The last thing i would want to see is Eldenals get nerfed (even altho it was changed slightly recently). What i would like, is for zone in mobs in Mielech and other places, match the zone in mobs of eldenals. Im not sure if they have the same HP or anything so maybe its a dumb request.... but AFAIK they seem equally difficult for me to kill solo. If the frogs started giving 4 and 5% per kill like eldenals... then i will happily relocate my favourate exping spot to there instead :)

But for now.. thats not gunna happen.

Also in Mielech there is lots of those Golems that i cannot kill solo. So going left is out of the questions. Going straight requires me using harmony to split the group of 3 mobs. And often one is a necro which is kinda hard to kill.

I havnt tried going right yet.

I suppose its an ideal place for me to solo too... its just the exp :(

I will try those other zones listed above by someone, but from what ive heard they are harder to solo in than Eldenals.

Also, i wondered if lower level zones might have a similar issue. I didnt explore the exp in too many but i noticed most where empty almost all the time and if they should maybe have an exp boost to make them more popular. And also when someone asks where is good for a level 20 or so, maybe people will suggest somewhere besides the warrens :lol:
 
As an aside, the single greatest source of exp in the game is probably onegrouping the bottom of misery
 
What sucks more is getting disease ae'd for 1100dd by L65 trash mobs and dot'd to death before you even realise you were afflicted with something.


But yeah aaxp is nice.
 
personally I find misery to be a death trap with no loot and terrible xp, also the zone in is boobytrapped with triplines and pungi pits...EVER...
 
Wow eldenals sure got nerfed good since i made this post :O

i hope it wasnt because of this post :lol:

Anyway things seem pretty balanced now to me.
 
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