Increasing Risk v. Reward in PvE low-level grinding.

Penguinos

This mirrors a much older post that I read, but I didn't see my solution in there. So I made a new post rather than necroing the old post!

An example of the title:
Say that you're level 10, and you want to level up. Depending on your skill, you may be able to use CC on a large group of enemies, killing them one by one or simultaneously.

By the road, you have groups of 1-2 enemies, maybe three max.
Slightly further in might be an encampment. There would spawn a group of 8-9 mobs, whose AI tells them to surround the player. A newbie, even if they knew about the spot, likely wouldn't be able to time CCs and kill the mobs one by one. A veteran player, on the other hand, would have the skill to grind 3-4x as efficiently as the noobs by the road.

In both examples, the levels of mobs would be the same. The difference is just in the difficulty of the mobs.

Penguinos

Regarding node progression affecting this, as a node would progress to a higher level, these encampments would send out groups of 4-5 mobs to the road maybe once an hour or so. These would be the same level as before the node advanced.

However, the mobs in the encampments themselves would be of a higher level. This allows for, using the above example, level 10 groups of mobs attacking players by the road, while level 20 mobs are in the original encampment.

For people to be able to find the encampments easier, the group of mobs attacking the road wouldn't just spawn on the road. They would actually travel to the road.