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I like the idea of a window. It honestly doesn’t have to be a big window either.id say anything like a 10-20min difference should be fine.

Vhaeyne wrote: »

I think the drop rates on named mobs are way too high, and the spawn timers are far too predictable. We shouldn’t be contesting spawns down to the second.

I enjoy the world PvP that comes from fighting over these mobs, but I’d rather be fighting for materials to craft items—not for full items themselves.

As it stands, crafters don’t really need to exist.

We could coast all the way to August just fighting over named mobs on fixed timers, never crafting anything, because no one is motivated to push nodes to the level of the player base.

I agree with you in terms of the issue you are talking about. I would just go about a remedy in a different manner.

Crafting needs to be made more important than it is now (it will be, it is still only partially implemented even for the level range we have now).

I also agree with you in terms of how bad timed spawns are.

However, I don't believe the answer is in lowering drop rates on named mobs, but rather on switching the drops to items that enhance crafted items.

Actual drop rates (the number of valuable items that drop per kill) on named mobs needs to be high. Killing challenge appropriate named mobs should be the single most rewarding activity in the game. You should want to drop literally everything you are doing when presented with a real chance of killing a named mob.

However, this requires those mobs not have a spawn based on time. It should be a window, or better yet, it should be based on kills of appropriate mob types in the region.

Some ideas for combating RMT:

Intrepid has a small department that uses pre-made accounts to "buy" gold from gold seller websites and then ban the seller once the transaction is complete. It could be in small amounts of $ so it's not the most costly and if it's done enough and as efficiently as possible then it will reduce the incentive for gold sellers if there's no way for them to know if they're selling to a real player or getting the honeypot.

I imagine there are some flaws in this so feedback is encouraged.

Ludullu wrote: »

I got no clue how difficult it is to implement all that stuff, but I do find it real damn weird that we've had so much static respawning across the board. Normal mobs should have a +-3min window and named ones should be at least on a +-30m imo. Anything that's valuable enough to attract competition should not be so damn predictable that competition seizes to exist, cause people in the know can simply be there at the respawn time at second 0, get the first hit buff on loot rights and then completely ignore any potential competition completely.

Best L2 contests for content happened during the times when the respawn timer went deep into the + range. With each minute and each failed pvp battle the tension would rise, because THIS one might be the last attempt to remove the competition from the location. And when you did manage to remove them juuuust in time for the respawn - the reward would feel that much better, because it was truly earned.

See, this is where the dynamic of spawning them based on mob kills completely changes things.

If you remove the competition, then the rate at which the appropriate mobs are being killed goes down. As such, you kind of what to keep your competition around, as long as they are killing the appropriate mobs.

If you have both in a game (and players know the basics of each), it can create a bigger range of experiences just due to how a named mob spawn is triggered.

GreatPhilisopher wrote: »

there is a reason every game makes things bigger than they are supposed to be so they dont look weird and out of place like ..well everything in ashes

Perception of weirdness is very subjective. To me, nothing in Ashes is weird (visuals-wise).

To me it looks completely fine. I personally don't want oversized everything for no damn reason.

Xeeg wrote: »

Can we just get rid of boss/monster drops altogether ?

No.