Many things have changed since OTF was originally designed to provide extreme challenges and class/game balance for capped players. The fact is that fewer now choose OTF when alternative areas are deemed easier, richer, or simply funner. Players have offered several suggestions to improve the area previously, but without much GM enthusiasm to prioritize such requests. Hopefully someone will deem it finally time to modernize the area to attract a larger player base again.

Here's what I would still like to see:

1. Upgrade the Ithzir so that none of them are ever under age 91. Everything in OTF is dangerous and must be culled immediately to prevent swarm risk. It wastes precious mana to cull things that provide no experience for the effort.

2. An additional pelt or skin other than War Griffins would be nice.

3. An undead critter 91+ would be nice.

4. A lost-n-found NPC booth outside the area to identify the previous owner of a lost item and leave for pick up. Unclaimed items after a month would revert to the finder.

5. Area specialization would be nice too. Once you've killed say 100,000 War Griffins, perhaps their screech would become a bit less terrorizing?

6. The preferred target area for spell 130 should be near the portal exit, not where it is now.


If you build it better, they will come!

Tarakan

I like OTF BECAUSE it is less crowded and easier.

that said, I do think the fogging areas are a little dumb. even with spirit summoning lore I still feel like I hit wrong target most of the time.

I don't think an undead creature really fits the area well.

If Simu is planning on putting a lot of time into developing a hunting area, I'd rather them develop a new one in the Landing or some other place that doesn't have capped hunting. No, Pinefar does not count when you're in the Landing.

~Moredin

My biggest problem with OTF (and this was covered by the original post, which I agree with wholeheartedly) is the low level of the critters in there. I don't find the exp rewards commensurate with the danger. I find the critters on plane 4 / the scatter to be much more dangerous, but the hunting more fulfilling because I'm not in there for 30 minutes grinding grinding grinding in an attempt to get fried.

>>>landing needs a hunting ground, and everyone needs some post cap goals to keep them interested.<<

Seriously; have capped 3 characters and wondering why I still play them.


"If you aren't cheating,
you aren't trying hard enough."

Yes please update OTF, because it's garbage at cap, yet still forces you to kill stuff you can't get exp from.

I'm on board for a Landing hunting area too. The goal of spreading out the population has long been accomplished, and it's time to give the Landing some love again.

~ Methais

Ithzir monk casts provoke and players on the dais suddenly find themselves running towards OTF.

Would be a good way to add post cap hunting allowing you to hunt the phased version of OTF. Not sure what nifty things you could do that would let actions done in one dimension to sometimes carry over into the other.

I would not mind seeing a node in the cottage.

Is there a node anywhere in OTF?

Also, is there any place that lich congregate?

Chad, player of a few

>Is there a node anywhere in OTF?

Yes.

>Also, is there any place that lich congregate?

West woods, after dark.

--Jurp