Get rid of 8 hour windows for Notorious Monsters

[Soranika]

Waiting hours on end for a NM to pop isn't a challenge, it's just comes down to luck of the draw... spawn... whatever.

It's not fun, but it doesn't make anything any particularly harder. But you say nothing to take pride in, I giggle because it's post like these that make me feel good about sticking it through instead of going in a raging fit because an MMO, a game, tested my patience. You know, back when I was younger, games did that, so I'm cool with it.

[Camiie]

Waiting hours on end for a NM to pop isn't a challenge, it's just comes down to luck of the draw... spawn... whatever.

It's not fun, but it doesn't make anything any particularly harder. But you say nothing to take pride in, I giggle because it's post like these that make me feel good about sticking it through instead of going in a raging fit because an MMO, a game, tested my patience. You know, back when I was younger, games did that, so I'm cool with it.

Which games back when you were younger tested your patience by having your character stand around for hours on end waiting? I've been around gaming since the Atari 2600 and while I admit there are many games I never played, I don't recall games like this. Are you talking about Everquest? I'd love to know what games these were so I can avoid them if I ever get in the mood to play old games I never tried.

See the problem isn't that our patience is being tested... it's HOW. Test my patience with a lengthy dungeon full of interesting things to fight. Test my patience by having me kill level relevant things and earn points toward a goal. Test my patience with interesting quest and mission lines where I travel the world.

Don't test my patience by having me wait around for 2 hours for an NM that takes 2 seconds to kill.

[Soranika]

Which games back when you were younger tested your patience by having your character stand around for hours on end waiting? I've been around gaming since the Atari 2600 and while I admit there are many games I never played, I don't recall games like this. Are you talking about Everquest? I'd love to know what games these were so I can avoid them if I ever get in the mood to play old games I never tried.

lol I didn't mean standing around. Games that were really hard that smashes your face in for a single mistake and save feature didn't exist in many of them... or even frustration of remember passcodes to continue in those that didn't have the de facto save system that we know today.

[Camiie]

lol I didn't mean standing around. Games that were really hard that smashes your face in for a single mistake and save feature didn't exist in many of them... or even frustration of remember passcodes to continue in those that didn't have the de facto save system that we know today.

Ah, well I'm not sure I want it to be THAT mean to us, but I'd still take something hard that I can do on my own time over this pure pointless tedium.

[Sekundes]

lol I didn't mean standing around. Games that were really hard that smashes your face in for a single mistake and save feature didn't exist in many of them... or even frustration of remember passcodes to continue in those that didn't have the de facto save system that we know today.

Or make a game where your "continue passcodes" don't work... Hello thar faxanadu.

On topic... I agree that some nms are a problem. I hold a stance fairly close to that of Camiie's. Also, I don't think that adjusting a couple of problem nm's spawn timers or conditions is really going to take that much dev time.

[Calintzpso]

The long waits suck big time when doing Magians. So much so I was able to make a comic about it while waiting for one NM to spawn. It's got chuck testa and rage face in it.

Hell I could write a whole comic book waiting for this crap to pop.

http://goo.gl/0hB2W

Comics language might not be safe for young ones.


Your move SE.

[FrankReynolds]

Waiting hours on end for a NM to pop isn't a challenge, it's just comes down to luck of the draw... spawn... whatever.

It's not fun, but it doesn't make anything any particularly harder. But you say nothing to take pride in, I giggle because it's post like these that make me feel good about sticking it through instead of going in a raging fit because an MMO, a game, tested my patience. You know, back when I was younger, games did that, so I'm cool with it.

I have finished weapons, and will finish more, but can you honestly say that if the pop nm part was all you had to do that you would take any pride in that weapon?

Finishing the harder parts requires some degree of skill / dedication. the 8 hour pop level 30 nms are just lame. No one is gonna brag about killing trumbling truffle or w/e its called 3 times.