Respawn points are too open and far away from node centers

crydil

While playing over this weekend's test I kept coming into the issue of the Embershrine (sorry if I forgot the exact name) is too far away from the node center or far too open in an area. I think this is a huge problem for developed nodes. For wilderness nodes or even crossroads, this might be fine, its a rough world out there so when you venture into the undeveloped areas you might get punished. But when the nodes are all the way up to village, I think its not great gameplay to have them so exposed/away from the town.

I'll give an examples to help share what I mean.

One time, when I died in Joeva and respawned at the joeva shrine at level 9. I was immediately attacked by a level 11* bear before my screen even loaded the area. Luckily I was able to run for my life and not die a second time incurring the xp debt and material drops again, but I can see players getting stuck in a loop like this, dying and respawning to something that is out of their league because the shrines are just out in the open, nothing to protect them, in a developed node.

At the same time the Joeva shrine is so far away from the town. Takes a few minutes on horse to get to the town with no roads really connecting them. That is a pain imo, the shrines at the village stage should be in the center of town, a safe place to respawn and recover.

I personally think that dying incurs a pretty high penalty already with xp debt and material drop, we don't need to punish people in a developed node by having bad respawn points too.

Caeryl

Agreed, but I'm willing to bet the locations are because of laggy nodes due to condensed population. They moved the shrine in lionhold for that reason. The lack of safe road paths and immediate areas surrounding springs should be fairly easily fixed

willsummon

I found the respawn points to technically be the closest, but did not take into account the closed gates, meaning players had to take the long way around.