On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 silky@... wrote:

>
> MM castle is simply stunning - too bad it's so deadly few ever get to
> appreciate it.

This is actually turning out to be a blessing with the servers
as overcrowded as they are. My guild was in there last night,
and I think the max number of people in the zone the entire
time was 22. At one point, there were 10 people in the zone,
8 of them were from our guild, and 2 were some folks camping
the room next door.

Because of its buggy nature, I don't think MM mobs ever got
the upgrades other mobs got. I was pulling singles for a
L30-40 group, and they were knocking everything dead within 6
song cycles (roughly 20 seconds). Most of the MM mobs are
blue until about L43. In comparison, I was in a L40-46 group
the previous day killing greater kobolds in Sol B, some of
which turn green at L46 (so only a 3-4 level difference from
the MM mobs). The fights took about a minute. Because you
can kill MM stuff 3x faster than kobolds in Sol B (which most
already regard as a rather easy) for just slightly less
experience, the exp you get in MM is insane. A couple of the
folks I was pulling for said they'd gotten 4 bubbles in the 3
hours we were there.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...