>Can we please have some high level critters on the mainlands, so we can mix role-playing with training, and I don't have to make the choice between the two??

>Thank you

>Somni

We have been asking for this forever it feels like. And yes I would also be very happy if we had higher circle (similar to celp, super celp, all levels of armidillos) on the mainland. Thank you

Felicini


Felicini

Yes, please. Adult Armadillos level and beyond on both mainlands and on Aesry would be lovely :)

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>>Not sure if anybody's heard the request yet, but can we have some of the highest levels of critter hunting also be on what most of us call "the mainland"?

I'm not a critters person, but the new constructs in Muspar'i and the newly re-figured DragonPriest assassins near Ilithi seem like they would answer some of these requests.

The barge ride to Muspar'i is much shorter than it used to be, more on the order of a ferry ride than a boat ride these days. Also, it now has a Grazhir Shard. As to the assassins, the run from the DP area to Shard is really fast. It may technically be in Forf, but it really does only take a few minutes to go back and forth.

There's definitely room for more, but there are already more options available than there were just a few months ago.

Melete

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Ashu Hhinvi have a shield hard cap around the 730 range and still teach HE at 680, though not quickly.

Assassins can lock shield at 800 in no time flat, so the armor teaching will go at least to 900 if I had to guess.

In the middle of those, the new non-flex resuscitants will teach weapons/parry past 680 easily and shield at 800 easily.

No skinning on any of them, but all three have boxes. Hhinvi have coins/gems, while resuscitants and assassins have gems only.

>>>About that knockdown: It's easy to block/parry/dodge when you can see the creature, but if it ambushes with it, even if you're "not surprised," count on getting knocked down. I'm not sure if that's a bug in ambush itself or in resuscitants, but it's there. You'll spend a lot of time searching them out only to get knocked down before you can bother pointing, or just get instantly knocked down when one spawns.<<<<

Something like this is infuriating to read and I am no where near hunting here. It just seems like a wasted area with critters that drain resources who never get hunted. This seems like a great spot to swap out these buggy weird critters and drop in some solid upper tier ones.

Hunting in general is masochism.

If you don't mind standing up often, there's nothing abnormally difficult about resuscitants. Like any other creature, it's fairly easy to just stand there and learn shield/parry/armor/evasion, and then to start attacking when you want to learn a weapon. They're no harder or easier to hit than any other cursed/undead at their level, and don't require any unusual spells or abilities.

Boar clan has a nice range. Head splitters teach to mid 700's in shield FYI. I would say super celp'ish for armor.

Resuciants (probably just killed the spelling) are pretty cool, but last time I was there you could not use HUNT.

Madigan

I'd be happy if them ruby gryphons didn't keep stunning me and knocking me over, so at least I could try to hunt there for a while.
It would be nice if these annoying things could be taken out, or at least the stun, I can deal with the laying down part, and their level being adjusted higher due to the lack of casting/spells.

Gryphons is a perfect critter to play with, its a good location in Rossmans, and nobody ever hunts the ruby ones because they are so annoying. They could be adjusted rather than create a whole new beast

Somni

I agree, Muspari may be pretty close, but when something happens in Theren, I need to be there asap, not after a 10-15 minute trip on a boat/barge.

For now, until something is changed/created, I guess I'll stick to bashing deer and silver grphons with a collection of weapons

<<but I don't understand not being able to in Misenseor (again unless it's home to a quest I don't know about).

Got me why that was (is) the case. I haven't been back, so maybe it has changed?

Madigan

IIRC don't all "dark" areas have hunt kinda borked, even if you have a light source?

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>>Adults and Elders for example seem to be flawless.

Their only "flaws" are the fact that they use shield and they shoot webs.
- The shield flaw isn't a problem since Dart changed the EXP calcs to be based off of difficulty rather than how much you succeed. Well, I guess it is a "problem" in the fact that I don't kill armadillos as fast as I used to kill super celpeze, which means I'm technically making less money from the skins. But, meh?
- The webbing is only a mild inconvenience totally foreshadowed by the fact that it yields Escaping experience.

The Escaping EXP is the main reason I decided to move to adult armadillos, because Escaping skill is turning into Tactics skill with the skill merger :D

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>> IIRC don't all "dark" areas have hunt kinda borked, even if you have a light source?

Wouldn't the light source only really help you see the critters in front of you anyways? The surrounding rooms themselves don't get any easier to see.

In fact, with a light source, you'd actually lose natural night-vision and lose the ability to see anything past the source of the light anyways.

Just sayin'. Has anyone tested to see if the code checks to see if the critters in the other dark rooms are under any form of illumination before granting success?

- Aristron

>> "This twig here shows that a musk hog went northwest"

First off, from a game play perspective, I really have no problems with being able to hunt and see a hidden player fighting a gazebo in the dark 3 rooms away, given sufficient character skill. I just want to state that.

Hunt helps keep things moving in areas with low-spawn, I'm all for that. Experience gained might be dialed up a bit too much, but meh.

Solely in regards to the logical workings, I'd argue against that. We're not talking about doing ranger stuff at night in the open. Doing the tracking by examining bent stalks is fine there. We're talking the dark areas. These are mainly caves, crypts, underground buildings, and the like with absolutely no light.

In order to do these things, you'd have to have HUNT move you and your light source slowly around the area and move along the trail until you were right on top of the creature. What we're talking about here is typing HUNT in combat, or at least stationary, and seeing that there are six gidii three rooms away.

Even taking the full picture into account, smells lose their directionality pretty fast when in an area with little or no wind. You've also got echoing of sounds off the confined walls. You lose a lot of the feel for the prey from your other senses when you lose the open air breeze.

Again, I'm not saying the game should drop the ability to HUNT in dark areas, I'm just saying that it being a lot more difficult does make sense.

- Aristron

>I don't think there's a quest in Misenseor, at least for Clerics. I thought the GMs just put them in there when they wanted to get rid of the flex skeletons. Are you thinking of Heirophants and the Rezz quest area?

Sure was. I can't remember if it was spawn or something else now, but I know I've heard them referred to as "Resuckitants" for a reason.

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