Funny. On Al'Kabor I beat the trial of execution, 6 boxing, by pulling mobs to a corner and spamming PBAoEs, having casters tank the mobs who were wearing several pieces of 2g vendor cloth and adviser robes.
Yeah, but people in EQ outside of raid guilds were usually EXCEPTIONALLY bad. And they congregated in shitty guilds who wouldn't call them on their pathetic play, too
Raid flagging would've been so much better had it been done on a guild by guild basis. When your guild beat X, guild is flagged for X, everyone in that guild can move beyond
Problem with PoJ trials was they weren't tuned for the groupers just hitting PoP. Lev 60s in group gear found them to hard because of poor gear. Raiders in VT gear and weapons simply walked over them because they had 100hp and 125hp gear while groups were going OMG did you see that 35hp earring that dropped off one of mobs on our tenth failed attempt. Then you had the fact that holy trinity + DPS of group geared players could beat exe trial Cleric, Warrior, Enchanter, Wizard, Rogue(with epic) could get through trials at around level 61 while group geared players of the other classes were failing over and over again. Largely because of level once you hit 65 those trials weren't that hard. But you were locked in four zones until you beat them. PoJ had allot of greens and lite blues even at 60. PoI and PoN was decent until 62-63 then exp rate dropped off. PoD was just a horrible zone outside the castle area and the castle was built for level 65s not level 60s. Outside the castle the zone has the appearance of a giant infected vagina crawling with large agro range bugs and slimes.
Both sitting in a room camping and clearing through an instance to start over is made more interesting by unexpected things happening.
The grinding, the roamers, and the trains didn't make it interesting. It was more pavlovian. The only thing different was the overt danger.
Exactly. I'd rather move forward than consider a couple roamers as the variety of my gaming experience. I'm all for variety but lets try and improve the model now. EQN looks like it may actually make things interesting and I'd love to see if Brad will also attempt this.
To keep it in an interesting way as a type of fake "new-content" that people don't immediately realize the mechanics behind and trivialize it, or go all out with procedurally doing things?
Well considering the scope and audience of this project (if it ever gets kickstarted), vastly changing and improving the formula is unlikely to happen. Given this frame I think enough roamers and random spawns to break monotony is as good as it gets. I try to keep my faint hopes for a genre revolution confined to the EQN thread.
On the surface that sounds right and I'm on board because you *assume* it to be like Everquest then. But you can do your entire paragraph there without roamers and a big enough dungeon that respawn is an hour and you never encounter problems due to that. And each room containing exactly one, tailored-to-a-standard-party group of linked mobs that reset if they leave the room. Bite-sized encounters in a chain. Do you really want that? Hell no.
good point. add what you said into what i said, and it would be even better. also, it is almost 2014, so smarter NPC's would also make for a better dungeon crawl experience.
