On Mon, Feb 05/01, "Cranfill, Wendy" <Wendy_Cranfill@...> wrote:

>
> Believe me the challenge is NOT gone when it still takes a guild of 50
> people with many Donals' 6 hours to kill two dragons. Its not as "heat and
> stir" as you seem to think. Can't even begin to tell you the hours we've
> spent haha. It takes a cleric 30 seconds to cast his bp - its not like its
> instantaneous.
>
> Yes I believe I said I DID read the whole post. I know they will plan to
> downlevel the mobs. I just hope they actually do it. It has nothing to do
> with loot but everything to do with conquoring challenges. I just like the
> challenges to be fair.
>
> Then again, maybe Paradigm sucks and we have no strategy, dunno.

Back when Velious was in beta a friend of mine who was in it told me
they'd upped the hp on mobs past the 32k limit. He was really excited as
he thought now they could drop all the cheezy design tricks they'd had
to use to help the mobs kill you before they went down from limited hp.
As we've seen since release however, VI has a tough time dropping the
cheeze, what with quad hitting for 850 and AoE mana drain. I expect the
"detuning" of those mobs to suffer from the same problem. VI is now
accustomed to cheeze design and can't seem to change now.

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