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I don't think there needs to be UDtD spammage but I think it needs to be cast in Trighton. It pushes people to make risens with a respectable will save, otherwise they can just leave it at some terribly low level and ignore saves completely on the risen build. They can buff ss with the shadow rod before shifting and with the ss pots can put it up on dispell when needed. There are plenty of other instant death effects on the server - wail, fod, prismatic spray, aa death arrow, implosion that non-shifters have to worry about. Its slightly easier for non-shifters to rebuff solo but even being vigilant about rebuffing death protection I have still gotten 1'd many times. It happens and as the server population said, getting 1'd or killed by instant death made the server feel more challenging.

Totally forgot about this when a shifter dragged my poor sneak down to the puzzle - I can confirm it's not a place for *most* high teens - the shifter tore it up

What do you mean? It was to easy for your shifter? What equipment did he have? My paladin at lvl 19 could not solo long down there. I didn't have perticularely good equippment but 40 ish AC and pretty good damage with divine might. So that place sure feels harder now, no doubt.



Just because "one" perticular build, or some builds (sometimes well equipped) has no problems or is able to handle it well enough, then there needs to be something done. That's is not always the case.

I didn't make the area or areas harder by no means, I just made the quest rewards better. So if you do them, you'll get more XP and gold.

Hi Chree, did some more testing in the inferno area.

I still feel the monks are bit much tbh, 1 v 1 they are fine, takes a bit to kill even with 62 ab but its fine, but in a spawn, its just too much, earlier i had 3 monks, 3 servitor casters, a gleeman, one of the other casters, 2 of those dual hammer wielding things (they are new and have 50%conceal and decent ac it seems, which I also feel is maybe a bit too much), an overlord, and 2 regular forgesmiths, and I literally went through more than 40 greater restore pots and several other restore pots in that one encounter.

Now again, if this is the intent, then it is working fine, but if not, then maybe some minor changes need to be made on the spawn rate or the stats on mainly the monks and those dual hammer wielding things.

The character I took there is a water elemental, 20druid/10monk/10fighter, it has 62 ab and 86 ac with 740 hp and good saves, I also have 11 regen, so this was no weak build I took there to test.

Has anyone else had this experience?  But do remember, as a shifter, and solo, I am literally there all by myself, no drones, which is a huge drawback to playing a shifter.

I found another area in the new forge maps, can't remember its name, but it seemed to have good CR's as well, but no random spawns so it seemed a little easier to manage.


All in all, I do like the main changes made to the forgie areas but the inferno seems a little op, but again, that could just be since it's just my single shifter, and maybe that area is not meant to be farmed by a single build w/o drones.

If the new death vault map didn't break due to the max spawn limit I probably wouldn't even bring this up but. It seems those spawns in there spawn something like 15-20 mobs per spawn, idk what the max limit it maybe like 50-60? but once you're unable to rest due to a rest spawn showing up after you clear the map then if you're lucky enough to find a place to rest before the next spawn it's mostly okay, but if you don't find a spot to rest, that next spawn comes and now there's 30-40 mobs to kill. by the time you do rest at that point a 3rd spawn hits which breaks the map as the spawn limit was exceeded that the map can handle. I don't really love the idea of lowering the spawns that spawn in cus I love that there's so many of them, but the problem is that the map is huge, and they dont' all just spawn around your pc like they would in breeding chamber. They spawn all across the map. Which eventually will lead to the map breaking. Not only do you have to deal with fighting 10-15 mobs at once. but then you gota go scout for the other 5 mobs around the map that didn't come running to fight you this eventually just gets the better of your group sooner or later. So my suggestion is to make the spawns all spawn in close enough proximity that they can all see you as soon as they spawn in.

Sounds like someone needs to lookup the word, luring.    Just Kidding, I will tone down the AC of the monk and dual wielder a little.