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The spawn does not seem to working correctly in the dungeon compared to literally every other event where spawn was everywhere.
Like I said, go check it out for yourself on ATL. It's not even 1pm and it's already hard finding enough stuff to kill; just wait until prime time. We either need the spawn increased or Fel to be open up (based on the initial drop rate - I didn't think needed to be open but it's clear that with the drop rate as of today it does).
"Stuff is spawning in wrong facet on ATL, you accidentally made it spawn in tram instead of fel"
Fel should be opened up to help lag and spawn.
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I managed to get a lot of stuff. But people I know couldn't play the first two days. They're struggling just to be able to get the ankh or jawbone... The gear isn't even an achievable goal.
Definitely a slow down. Dialing down any delay on respawn would be great.
Mob spawns, instantly dead, 2 seconds later another mob spawns, instantly dead. A paragon spawns, dead 3 seconds later. The spawn coming in piece meal like this allows the script Archers/Throwers to instantly focus fire non-paragons down before legit players can even damage it.
Try a happy medium? A BIT more spawn....not much just a little.
not sure what all the complaints are about. (Atlantic shard)”
Thanks to those who have helped confirm what I was seeing.
Btw this is ATL at 6:30am today. It kind of confirms what @PlayerSkillFTW was saying where the multiboxing archers/throwers/thunderstormers are able to just hang out right in this area and afk script easily and not as noticeably because this is literally where all the spawn is.
Meanwhile here is what the rest of the first floor (the biggest part of the dungeon) looks like; as you can see there is a whole lot of nothing to kill. I'm actually kind of competing against others for kills because there is so little spawn outside of the 2nd level entrance.
That said, as it stands right now it's probably the worst it has been since the event started with my drops being the lowest they have been all event. As others have mentioned it's almost impossible to do any damage to things in wither / thunderstorm alley and the rest of the main floor is empty so I'm running around literally for a minute or 2 just to kill a drake (and that's if I beat someone else to it).
The spawn either needs to be increased across the entire dungeon (ie in the center / in the east / far north in the back) with the amount of paragons turned down OR we need Fel opened up. A third option would be to just put it back like it was day 1 which means lots more drops (and lag) for everyone. At least on the first day, we had some solid rewards for the lag we were getting. Now the lag is still there when you try to kill stuff in thunderstorm alley but you don't receive any reward for it.
As others have said, please consider tweaking the dungeon. While I realize the crazy drop rate may have been unintended, people were having a blast. I know some like to say, "it was a scripters dream." Perhaps that's true but the situation now is only benefiting the scripting bots with multiple characters set up to cross heal. The average player, and returning players no longer stand a chance in the dungeon.
On Wednesday night, using a potion, I got ~100 drops, plenty of death robes, a lot of laughs and fun with the community. General chat was hopping with people picking at each other. There was plenty of death but loads of excitement. People were healing, rezzing, helping each other. Lag? Yep, that part sucked for sure. But it wasn't unplayable.
On Thursday night, after the changes, using a potion, I got 15 drops. Most things that spawned were paragon, when you could find spawn. On level 3, you had a paragon AW and a paragon greater dragon. It took two hours and multiple tries to clear that only to have another paragon AW spawn. The paragons for the events are beefed up and extremely difficult to kill. It takes a group and it takes forever. We saw this in Hythloth with people leaving the paragon Balrons because they took too long to kill. The difference in Destard is almost every paragon is too hard to kill and there is nowhere to lock them up.
Last night people were frustrated. Paragon rates were through the roof, normal critters were hard to find and drops were abysmal. In addition, the prices for the dungeon items doubled overnight. How on earth is a casual player or a returning player without a large group supposed to do this event?
Oh, you say, they can go gather Easter Eggs. Please don't misunderstand, I'm very grateful that you put another option in for the dungeon items. However, the "drop" rate is lower even than the dungeon. If you CAN collect 100 eggs in an hour on a shard with a medium population, all competing for the eggs, that is the equivalent of 10 drops an hour. At that rate, to get one spellbook, it will take someone 25 hours.
I've heard it stated, we want people to work together for these. Honestly, at least on Catskills, that's exactly what WAS happening. Now, not so much. It's changed from everyone grouping up, cheering each other on, and helping each other to "let me grab all I can for me".
Please look at this. There has got to be something between 200 drops an hour with a reasonable chance at success and 10 drops an hour with a swarm of paragons that are deadly and impossible for any group less than 5 to kill reasonably.