Spawn's And Such {Collective Player Suggestions}

[Maragaram]

PCs don't leave blood puddles when they die anymore, sadly.

(Btw, if they no longer leave puddles, then we can no longer use -investigate to know the causes of death?)

PC's still leave blood puddles, as they always have. The catch is that a blood puddle appears when you hit negative hit-points. If you get hit so hard that you die without ever hitting the negative countdown for bleeding out, you won't leave a puddle.

Yes they do. The PC in question simply has to enter the -1 - -10 bleeding zone. If you kill them outright without them entering this, then they don't (and never have) leave one.

Are you two sure about this? Lately, whenever one of my characters has entered bleedout, they leave behind a black scorch mark on the ground instead of a blood puddle. And I'm pretty sure I've seen other characters leaving behind scorch marks when they die, too. And even the bodies of the miners in the Iron Mines have scorch marks instead of blood puddles now. Unless the scorch marks are supposed to be blood puddles? They don't look anything like blood though.

[Dr_Hazard89]

I see blood puddles left regularly, and the miners have blood puddles for me too o_o;

[Ferret Roll]

Adalbrandt killed a werewolf PC just last night, and the werewolf left a bloodstain when it hit negative hp.

If you're using some kind of texture pack change, then it may have made the bloodstain in your files get changed with scorch-marks, maybe? Which would explain why you're not seeing them. Or maybe it is a bloodstain and something went weird with the color settings for the game.

[Barradoor]

A large amount of the humanoid creatures on the server become harder to hit upon failing and being held by hold monster/person. These include
Barbarians in the brog mountains
the zhetawhatever their name is in the manor
most giants
yetis
hobgoblins
lizardmen.

It's like they're activating improved expertise.

[IndifferentPerson]

SCORCH MARKS, I have that problem. Which file is it?!

[Maragaram]

I don't think there IS a file that's responsible, because I don't use any texture packs. The only overrides I even have for NWN are the regular portrait and voiceset packs. That's it. This change happened sometime within the last few months for me, and I definitely haven't downloaded anything new either.... Which makes this all the more worrying. :/

[Jack Oat]

Grave Worms

UD - Bone Fields & nearby areas

Reason: They're a bit too much for the area. 8-10 AB with a DC 16 CON/Disease-on-hit EVERY time that does 3 CON damage/hit, and stacks. Additionally, 5/- DR is a bit much, especially for less XP than regular Fallen critters give.

EDIT: And regeneration. Let's not forget that.

[Twily]

SCORCH MARKS, I have that problem. Which file is it?!

Check the violence setting. If it's all the way down blood puddles appear as scorch marks, and pikes with heads on them become plain headless pikes(there's probably a few other things I haven't noticed).

[Yellena]

I am sometimes seeing sorch marks, and my violence is at maximum...
Yeah I played Mortal Kombat

[NauNatha]

Tune down the Cloakers Irongron! They went from awesome to never going to be worth it under any circumstances. Ever.
Remove their concealment. OR get rid of their spell breaches. Pretty please?

[Cloak and Lager]

Tune down the Cloakers Irongron! They went from awesome to never going to be worth it under any circumstances. Ever.
Remove their concealment. OR get rid of their spell breaches. Pretty please?

It isn't so much a question of concealment or spell breach as much as their new extremely high AB. Either their AB needs to be reduced, or the xp gain from killing them needs to be increased. With the recent update Burning Shores and the Cloaker Spiral became insanely difficult without any noticeable change in gold and xp; making these dungeons effectively not worth the effort in my experience.

[NauNatha]

A nuclear response to a few powerbuilds circle-grinding it.

[Razmo_de]

With the recent update Burning Shores and the Cloaker Spiral became insanely difficult without any noticeable change in gold and xp; making these dungeons effectively not worth the effort in my experience.

I agree that one or two easy epic areas would be nice.
Most epic areas do have that 'the server needs even more insanely difficult dungeons'-feel.

A nuclear response to a few powerbuilds circle-grinding it.

Designing areas based on grinders or powerbuilds is a bad idea. You gonna need some 'easy' dungeons and of course people will do them more than the 'hard' ones. Thats what the new spawn system is for, to balance the population of these areas. Its not always necessary to 'make things hard' instead.

Other than that, I'm going to say:

Slithering tracker - (medium), everywhere.
stealth, sneak attack, immune to crits&KD, mestils, damage immunity, ...

Not enough xp for these. Placement is about alright, but they need to give more xp.

They would be good enemies for high-end dungeons, yet they are in mid-lvl dungeons and yield low xps. They have been consistently the most serious threat to my lvl 30 character lately.


Streets of Dis-

I would suggest getting rid of hostiles there altogether.
I don't know if the fogs are still the only hostile NPC there. Every time I been there it was just a boring pain to travel an area that has potential to give a party something to RP about.

[Rystefn]

Streets of Dis-

I would suggest getting rid of hostiles there altogether.
I don't know if the fogs are still the only hostile NPC there. Every time I been there it was just a boring pain to travel an area that has potential to give a party something to RP about.

Yes... give us violent muggers, street gangs, and hoofball hooligans shouting "Who Dis!"

[lordsterling]

I for one just want to say thanks to the dev team for all the fun challenges out there. I know the areas/bosses change from time to time and (as this thread proves) you can't please everyone. So yeah.. as for those who complain about things being cheesy.. I politely object. Different spawns take different tactics and teamwork/party composition. Why should adventurers get to have an easy win every time? Sort it out.

[NauNatha]

Ynma Imyn, the Drider Boss on the Peninsula, is an utter joke of a fight, defeatable by almost any solo level 5 or 6 character. The fights outside of the cavern to get to him are harder than he is, yet he gives XP on par with much higher level bosses, and his head of a leader is worth the same as much higher level bosses.

Suggestions: Increase his AC, give him some DR, have him cast enchantment spells and give him focus in that department. HP boost.

[Stath]

Crocodiles (Alligators) in the Cordor Sewers. Crikey.

[Norfildor]

Give some spawns the OnHit: lvl 40 banishment property.

Also, finally take away the Erinyes arrows of PWN!

[Dunshine]

There's good news and bad news about the Slithering Trackers.

- Good news, I've bumped the CR on the medium ones quite a bit.
- Bad news, I noticed the large ones lacked acid sheath... Carefull out there.

[miesny_jez]

Sorry for thread necromancy, I didn't want to make a new thread about it as this one was already exisitng.

- Spitting Fire Bettle Bug (Hapries Lair)
I think their DR is off the charts for the character level range they spawn at.
DR 20 (checked on +2 piercing/slashing), combining with their 40-60 fire damage spit
makes the monster just a painful and tedious fight relying on crits.

- (don't remeber name) The bulette-looking monster spawning in Crystal Caverns
Again DR, it's too high.. make it 5 - 10 but not 20. The rest is fine

- Blue Yeek
Give at least some way to hurt those buggers by mundane chars, not everyone has access to UMD

[Syrima]

- Blue Yeek
Give at least some way to hurt those buggers by mundane chars, not everyone has access to UMD

I think the point of those is just to be an annoyance really that follows you aroud. If you ignore them they literally do nothing.

[miesny_jez]

I know that they are absolutely nonthreatening.. but if we conisder that this is a RP server and we are supposed to behave our characters as real selfs (or at least close to it)

I would be DAMN annoyed if there would some elf-like thing beating on me and I would definitely not ignore it

[The Man of the Moon]

- Blue Yeek
Give at least some way to hurt those buggers by mundane chars, not everyone has access to UMD

I believe some things are meant to be not touchable by mundanes... as there may be aswell things not touchables by magics.

These yeeks are seeming to me like flies eating crap... while the flies are not messing you because bussy with the crap, one doesn't bother them so they became to mess with one

I like the variety, and that each class needed the support of other classes in colaboration to achieve diferent things.

As the lone wolf I am, I like the fact I can't open everything, get everything, get everywhere, because I may need a rogue, a ranger and a mage with me... Makes the world of Arelith more mysterious, wide and emotionant.