I think high levels need a new area that's profitable for them to use without go multibashing several medium areas, i've seen too many people use it, even top 100's in experience do it.

and i'm falling into the same trap myself, almost, i do go to challenging areas sometimes, but it's not as rewarding as bash out medicore areas with speed. (Krokani Tower? Gorgogs anyone?)...

I think the whole concept could detract high levels from farming the medicore spots, and the medicore could strife to reach the higher ones for profit/challenge instead of grinding the medicore ones....

Anyway, I dont have any hard suggestions right now, just wanted to get my opinions and ideas out...

I'm not sure, but like you can clean out 4-5 areas by yourself, which leads to areas getting overhunted.. maybe make them all just more challenging, time consuming and rewarding on each area, so you can't bash them all out?

And.. I think some areas could use a review.. like Tolborolla valley, that quest... and the reward from it... made me want to explode

lol undervault?

No.

The Undervault is horrid bashing, especially if for Magnagorans/Glooms. You'll be much better off hunting on Astral, or Catacombs.

(Unless, of course, there is Undervault 2 in production.)

can't you make 40-50k an UV run just by killing the kephera down there?

It's his favorite bashingground.

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No.


No.

Won't comment on where I see you hunting, then!

Just ignore Synl, he's notorious for trying to hoard the UV for himself.

I've found the UV amazing for bashing and gold...if only those pesky adoraths weren't there...

Still need to give us an illithoid corpse taker that doesn't take 12 hours to raise.

Someday.

Undervault is nice. I don't care what anyone says. Great essence too.

One of these days I'll actually go down there to bash and not to kill people.

Undervault is really amazing.. however having said that

1. I only was able to comfortably bash in there when i got forcefield and circle 75. Before that, its a matter of luck and a lot of running not to be killed by fishers and adorath.. that place is tough for a circle 65-low 70'ish person.

2. It needs a lot of preparation. That place is a potion sink.

I think that players of a certain level is stuck somewhere. They cant do krokani-gorgogs reliably as every one hunts in there and undervault is full of risks..

Personally, i would love to have another gorgogs caves or something that is more accessable in prime. perhaps a cave of gorgogs that team and attack? or perhaps a cave of gravediggers bigger than the one right now..

Release them into the seas and have a blast.

I need somewhere to bash

Make a new area in the desert - the Great Pyramids.

The Undervault is very good bashing, for Mag/Glom and for Seren/Celest. Kephera are usually in groups and don't move enough which can make them difficult, but they are very good (read: much better than illithoids) for gold, and the experience isn't horrible. It's not as good as linked astral, but it is much more accessible if you don't have a cubix or can't survive mass-linking. Illithoids are not as great (but not horrible) for gold, but better for experience and essence since every one has a worm. I don't think they are as numerous as the kephera, but definitely nothing to turn your nose up at. I hunt them more than astral.



You just don't want the competition!



Erm...again...we have one. It might be considered a bug, but at this point it is definitely an intentional one because of that very fact. We might as well enjoy it until the divine fix it up.



This is only somewhat valid. The problem is that people don't hunt krokani/aslarans or gorgogs for experience. At high levels, they are absolutely worthless for experience. People hunt them because they are the best gold in the game for the short time it takes to kill them. If another area were added to compete in that regard, it would have an effect on the economy. Areas which yield a lot of gold will always be visited and overrun by high level people looking to make gold more quickly than they can otherwise. If more high-gold-yield areas were added, people would just run through them more and end up richer than they are. There's not really an easy way to escape places like gorgogs/krokani/aslarans being bashed out constantly, even though there are alternatives available (see: UV).

Other than making gorgogs and aslaran/krokani crap gold, of course.

EDIT: err, in the more metaphorical "not very good gold" sense

I thought you were onto something, up until the edit.

Fecal currency could really add something...

Guess it's time to go find that thread of Aiakon's again.