Yes...maybe if various issues with the Avenger were solved, Prime hunting would be better too.

I am being fair, but just saying why that things like that worry me. But the hunting area topics have been more about not enough areas for mid-high bashing. I at least thought that was how the general hunting area topics went.


@Vendetta, don't feel bad... I tried to get to Muud and ended up lost in some stupid ass maze under balach and never even made it after being frustrated for 1-2 hours of random wandering.

I hate that part. Rika got me directions though.

The UV is nice, except for the following two facts:
-Celestians can't hunt Kephera
-While hunting Illithoid, and if there's any Ninjakari down there, I'll most likely get hunted down and killed. And it's a praying death.

Granted, I can see the RP reasoning behind both. It's just that recently, the risk of getting jumped while I just want to mindlessly bash has gotten too great. Time for me to find a new bashing place!

Other good bashing places I've heard about include Shallach and the Presidio...but I think both places are also guarded by Mag? I'll look into Muud next.

As for Duum, I've heard about it, but can't seem to get into it from the room on Caffrey's map... I think I'm missing a secret way to get in. Time to poke stuff?

Caffrey's map only works for going from Duum into Balach, and not the other way around.

Fixed.

Hmpf, I swear it wasn't like that when I first mapped it.

Anyway, it's just 3 loop systems as far as I can tell.

Yup. If you hunt Illithoid, you're enemied to half the UV and quite jumpable. Big reason why I don't go

Half the UV? Hardly. There's lots of cave-critters in neutral territory for you to hunt now!

Or hunt the Kepherans. Your allies won't jump you there. Hopefully. Just RP that you see them as illithoids.

Yeah, that'll totally get Celest to let me off the hook for breaking the laws

Oh, duh. I'll have to explore Muud a bit more now to find that entrance...at least there's good bashing there.



It's half the UV from an ideological stance, I suppose. And no, I don't think that RP reason is going to get you around the law and a bunch of angry, zealous light-followers.

Another note: those who have jumped me while I was hunting illithoid have done it through a gem of cloaking. Had no idea said people were there until, well, they were pinning my leg or whippipng me with a chain...now I've learned to check the help files too. But, the point still stands: unless you're a decent combatant (probably even a -good- combatant?), the risks of being jumped while hunting Illithoid are quite strong...

Awwww. I hope they didn't lose too much in terms of what kind of experience they were worth. At least it didn't get nerfed until after I made demigod off of it!

The UV tunnels critters are what got me to demigod, and it was better than Astral for that -- a fact I didn't spread around to avoid the competition. Sure, no conglutination, so the praying deaths hurt, but there were so many fewer deaths I still came out ahead. (And that's even without a vitae/spores combination, and with me only getting resurgem or immolate about half the time.) I'd only gain about 85-95% as much experience per hour as I would doing double-links on Astral, but after you add in all the time I'd spend trying to get to a viable sphere and deal with other people sharing the sphere, it came out slightly ahead on a per-day basis. (Cubix owners and people who can make their own spores will probably find Astral still comes out slightly ahead -- at least when it's not drained.) And you could just hunt as long as you wanted and never run out of prey or bump into anyone else.

The tendency of the aggros to cluster does make things dangerous, but part of the issue is just adjusting the way you think. If you're a serious basher you're probably in the habit of completely cleaning an area before you go on to the next. But the UV just goes on and on and on. If you see a cluster, just go another way or skip it. There'll always be more UV to hunt in. I took a few people to the UV and most of them had trouble breaking the habit of cleaning out an area before moving on, as I had myself for a while.

Acrune, this is what you do. You kill kepherans, and if someone asks you if you were killing them, you say NO! That bastard Revan/Synl/Ildaudid/Kaervas/or insert any other name of your choice, may want to pick a name of a small person though, that way you can say "He killed them, dropped the corpses and ran when I came!! I have all these corpses because of that bastard!!"

That is how you bend the law

OK, inspired by other people's testimonials I tried hunting in the UV for 10 minutes, and got a bit less than 1% (at level 81). What am I doing wrong, or is this how hunting is supposed to be from now on?

I'll have to say you're doing something wrong. I managed 1% per ~12 minutes at 96ish.

Ya never know, now that they weakened some of the mobs there. the exp may not be the same.

And then they punch me without declaring to see if it works

Hmm OK, well at level 81 I get 0.12% from the cave-fishers. I also get 0.08% from gorgogs, which I can kill a lot more of within a shorter time period.

3%-4% in... half an hour? My PvE enthusiasm has died again

That would be awful mean of a city mate to do. >.>



Wait till you get to like 95+ 3-4% in 1/2 an hour would be dreamy!!

You better not!

Try the illithoid. I always found kephera better than the mobs in the tunnels.