Vacant Zones

[zaneosak]

Originally Posted by Wurl [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There are a few problems with this, from the perspective of a solo or duo player:
1. Travel time to check a new spot. Any spot could be camped on the server, and if you waste time running to an out-of-the-way spot that's camped then suddenly that 2 hours looks a lot more reasonable.
2. In a busy zone you always have the option to "/camp" and try again later, and you can be confident a group will be there waiting for you.
2. Eating one death due to trying an area you're not familiar with sets you back a ridiculous amount of time.

Once you weigh in those risks, it actually makes more sense to sit and wait for a group spot in one of the safe, reliable leveling spots.

I guess I dont see the risk at all. These arent new spots you need to "check" or "Feel out" everybody knows at this point what zones are what. /who all <zone> will easily get you checking population without running there.

If Unrest is full, you can go to Dagnor's Cauldron with a buddy in the mid teens and kill Undertows and Goblins (just avoid tidal lord) if you dont want to run.

As far as running, yes its a committment but there are some zones like South Karana with normal ZEM bonus that have infinite mobs 15-25 , you could bring a group of 3 from unrest lfg queue and slaughter anything you want, aviak camp for example would hold up good in that range.

But if you think of the vast number of zones on all continents that are empty even at 100% normal no bonus XP it could be equivalent to fighting over fireplace mobs in unrest.

Maybe I am wrong -- but hopefully people branch out. I am assuming at least we will see more people in Guk besides Scryer and Zoneline to LGUK, there is tons of camps in there and the XP is actually higher than unrest.

Najena is also highly underrated, people get scared because of all the casters but if you can crawl to the goblin caves and set up camp near the front, it's not bad. ZEM is nice there too.