On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, scott brisko wrote:

>
> This may seem like superstition on my part but the goblin wizards in
> Butcherblock seemed to have been given a boost in their nastiness. I was
> soloing these guys at lvl 12 without losing more than two bubbles of damage,
> then recently at level 13 I hit a few once more and almost died a few times.
> I know that things that con the same can vary in potency but this is a big
> difference. I've also noticed this with the skeletons outside of the
> Minotaur Cave in Steamfront, which helped me make my 12th level and turned
> promptly to conning green, only to return to blue now at 14th level.

Same thing happened a couple months ago. My friends and I had
been fighting orcs in Highpass, and the majority of them were
conning green to me at 19. Then came a patch and the majority
were blue again. A couple weeks ago someone on this list
noted that it had happened again, and the Highpass orcs now
give you experience up into your low 20s.

I imagine they're tweaking the level spreads in different
areas to give folks more things to fight, but I wish they'd
announce these things. It can be a major pain to attack
something you'd been killing easily last night, and die to it
tonight; especially once you hit level 25 and the /con
messages are the same for all blues - you cannot tell a low
blue from a high blue.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...