I went to Everfrost Peaks again to look into the newbie area again, which is currently devoid of mobs. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this wasn't the case last month. The mobs that I was able to see appear to be pathing correctly, and track shows an appropriate amount of mobs for the area, I suspect that the missing mobs are pathing through the mountains. Mobs in other areas are pathing through walls as if they weren't there (the pathing minotaurs in the Minotaur Cave in Steamfont Mountains is an excellent example of this, as it happens very often there - every few seconds some minotaur is walking through a wall).
Here you can see a wolf that has pathed part-way up the wall but is still visible and stopped short.
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I frapsed a
three minute video overlooking the entrance to the newbie area, this is the area that seems the most affected, other areas are affected to varying degrees. I put some music in this one so it won't be like watching paint dry.
And in case you were wondering if the wolf at 2:01 was a respawn, and that maybe the mobs had all been killed: The wolf didn't spawn there, it warped to there. If it had spawned it would have been above me on the track list shown below. I was one of three people in the zone, one was a level 4 newbie who has been AFK on the ramp for hours, the other was a 27 shaman camping the glacier bear far far away.
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The Lich of Miragul is also currently chilling on the ramp to Halas. He's spawning and reverting to here, as after I engaged him and died, he went right back to this point again. Luckily, he cons indifferent.
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[Mon Aug 02 10:34:16 2010] You say, 'Hail, Lich of Miragul'
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:16 2010] Lich of Miragul says, 'Areeeeewwwww'
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:26 2010] Lich of Miragul regards you indifferently -- he appears to be quite formidable.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:29 2010] You have finished memorizing Drifting Death.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:36 2010] You begin casting Drifting Death.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:41 2010] Your target resisted the Drifting Death spell.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:42 2010] Lich of Miragul tries to crush YOU, but misses!
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:42 2010] Lich of Miragul crushes YOU for 98 points of damage.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:42 2010] Lich of Miragul was hit by non-melee for 5 points of damage.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:42 2010] Lich of Miragul was pierced by thorns.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:42 2010] Lich of Miragul tries to crush YOU, but misses!
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:45 2010] You begin casting Drifting Death.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] Lich of Miragul tries to crush YOU, but YOU dodge!
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] You feel a tugging at your soul. You have taken 1500 points of damage.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] You have been knocked unconscious!
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] You have been slain by Lich of Miragul!
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] Your spell is interrupted.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] You have lost experience.
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] Returning to Everfrost, please wait...
[Mon Aug 02 10:34:46 2010] LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
[Mon Aug 02 10:35:05 2010] You have entered Everfrost.
He also procced
Deadly Lifetap. His live version (Miragul) should proc this, but the Lich of Miragul should not.