The lines in first tier gryphons are crazy busy all times of the day. Even down in Shard they are getting out of hand. Is there any way we can have a premie gryphon hunting area in Therengia?

Linkyz

>> Why everyone restricts themselves to the same overpopulated ones per rung I'll never know.

People tend to hunt the stuff without weirdly powerful special attacks (dolomars) or difficult or annoying areas (basilisks/dobeks). Like, basilisks? Great mobs, sure, except you can't HUNT where they are and just getting there as a non-Cleric is time-consuming and can potentially kill you.

Maybe if special attacks were ever rebalanced to not be ridiculously powerful at-level (lookin' at you adders) people would spread out a bit more. But even the stuff you're naming is still gimmicky or terrible for various reasons.

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Thayet
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"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

Just hunt with someone. I will never understand why people refuse to do this.

>> what's wrong with dobeks?

They're in a justice area. You said this in your own post. How is anyone with any kind of AoE supposed to hunt them? I'd love to go there on my Necromancer but lol.

Also they have a special attack (poison) which as I recall is very easy to get hit by and used to give nasty stacking poison, but that might have changed.

>> Just hunt with someone. I will never understand why people refuse to do this.

Hunting with people always screws with training stealth or I would :|

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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com

"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

I get that Stalk increases your stealing bits that it matters to survival primes, but it's such an awful mechanic that I wish it would just die.

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Re: Life mana Spell preps

You raise your hands in the air. You wave them like you just don't care. Somebody says, "Hey!" Somebody says, "Ho!" Somebody screams.

I reiterate that you would see more variety in personal hunting ladders if special attacks were brought into line.

I still cannot hunt ice adders safely. I am over a hundred ranks above their learning cap. I have 50 discipline and 40 stamina. Their special attack still nukes me and would kill me if I didn't spam Siphon Vitality or run away regularly. They are far from the only mob with out of whack special attacks. If there was some tangible benefit to dealing with the extra danger, I and others might attempt it. But there isn't, so why would you?

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Thayet
@thayelf // http://thayette.tumblr.com

"But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all — it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law." — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

I don't know why hunting with people screws up anything. If your scripts or stealth can't handle it, I think you're doing something weirdly.

Just don't use the same types of arrows/throwing weapons. And I don't know how another hunter + 4 critters messes up your stealth - unless the critters are spam retreating the moment you hide and leaving the room, which... I've never seen before.

Accept that occasionally you will skin/loot someone else's kill, and they will do the same to you. Given the benefit of teaching someone in combat, it just always blows my mind that people still insist on reserving a room all to themselves.

>>Hunting with other people is less efficient, period.

Incorrect.

Hey look, I can play that game too. In point of fact I do much better hunting with my hunting partner then I do solo. Both in terms of EXP/hr and in loot generated.

Samsaren

Yeah, I couldn't disagree with you more about this Absolon. Other people in the room at worst results in occasional skinning/looting. It adds an extra two skills being trained from teaching, and the possibility of buffing one another.

In terms of 'skills trained per unit of time' having someone hunt with you is better. In terms of 'loot earned per unit of time' you can also benefit from group spells and their debilitation, increasing the rate you kill.

Ok, cool discussion engagement there.

I personally dislike seeing characters hunt together because there are so many people who multibox or babysit an afk friend. You've got only 1 character actually making kills while they teach a class to their other characters. Meanwhile they're drawing the gen for a room full of creatures that aren't getting killed often or quickly. Yes I can go into their room and kill a few every few minutes but it's annoying. In certain hunting grounds, like basilisks for example, 1 group of hunters destroys the gen rate for the rest of the hunting ground.

Newer hunting grounds like zombie stompers have the pathing design and gen rate where it's not an issue but many older hunting spots just aren't set up for group hunting unless everyone there is making kills.

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