Broken Newbie Areas?

jilena · #1 03-03-2010, 03:20 PM

Did something in the last patch affect the newbie areas? It doesn't seem like there are enough mobs in Nektulos or Everfrost by a large degree. I have also seen people complaining about steamfont in ooc.

The first few days I played on here there were tons of mobs in Nektulos and now I have to run around for like 30 seconds to somewhere in the minutes to find one.

I did not play in Everfrost before the patch but having played barbs on live I remember there being almost too many mobs in everfrost with large numbers of them piling up as they endlessly circled through the maze. Now if I sit in one spot maybe one mob shuffles by per minute.

*shrug* just curious if this is intentional or not.

Thanks!

Crone · #2 03-03-2010, 03:26 PM

Noticed the same thing in Innothule Swamp last night. Just dealt with it, but it did seem very barren.

guineapig · #3 03-03-2010, 03:43 PM

There were no patch notes mentioning spawn changes for any of those zones so I;'m guessing the mobs are getting stuck underneath the earth.

I would be curious to see if the mob numbers suddenly jump again next time the servers are brought down for a patch.

**Aeolwind** · #4 03-03-2010, 03:51 PM

There is a large diff from the number of spawns between here and live in the newbie zones. With that said, we've not made any recent changes. I'll see what's up and maybe get a few more added in at some point in the near future.

MATPHAT · #5 03-03-2010, 04:27 PM

New kid here.
Just started a new Troll Shammie (Grackal) and was checking out the swamp for the first time in...6 years?
I noticed a lack of mobs as well.
Wondered if I just remembered it differently.

**Aeolwind** · #6 03-03-2010, 04:37 PM

Primary issue is, that as the game progressed, sony removed mobs from the newbie areas. Hence, the PoPish level of scarcity.

jilena · #7 03-03-2010, 04:38 PM

I assumed maybe the spawn numbers were smaller on here to not have there be an overwhelming number of mobs. The weird part was just that when I started my cleric a few days before the patch there were enough snakes and such in Nek that I was having to watch where I was fighting to avoid getting adds... Yet post patch I actually had to run around between mobs to find another one even with like only 2-3 people in the zone so I was curious hehe.

Morfnblorsh · #8 03-03-2010, 04:52 PM

Anxiously awaiting hearing about the next patch when spawns are adjusted, and seeing petitions about guards getting mowed down by "thousands and thousands of Froglok Tads" in Innothule.

Malrubius · #9 03-03-2010, 06:06 PM

I definitely see (well, saw) this in Steamfont as a newb. There are huge areas of the zone with no mobs.

**Aeolwind** · #10 03-03-2010, 07:02 PM

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Anxiously awaiting hearing about the next patch when spawns are adjusted, and seeing petitions about guards getting mowed down by "thousands and thousands of Froglok Tads" in Innothule.

You tempt me...