Barren zones

[Braveguard]

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

OK...he may well have not been in the right place in the Rathe Mtns....but in the WK, I hunted in 1999 (the year, not project) around Tower 1 and now i can run around for 10 minutes and rarely see one thing (well maybe a few green beetles) to hunt. And i swear lions were far more densely populated as they used to wander by and gang up on me. One thing NOT different in WK is the lethality of those damn bandits....

I think you're right. I was with live from the beginning and WK was one of my favorite "second step" zones because it had plenty of mobs, a place to sell and safe points (guard towers). I used to hunt bears there for the skins and I would get dozens per hour. I just got to level 6 last night with my druid and decided to go there. I walked all the way to the far tower and around it looking for mobs and then back to QH. I saw one lion the entire time. The place should be crawling with bears, beetles, lions and spiders. Nothing.

Maybe spawn rate is based on server population... or maybe it's tuned down for performance. Dunno. I am positive that the wandering spawns are not nearly as proliferate as live was in the day.