Leaving low-level content surrounded by L90+ mobs.

[Rustic]

So I end up going into a dungeon zone like Dangruf Wadi.

I find a treasure chest key. Woot!

Then I find out the spawn point for those chests is now surrounded by mobs so IT++ vs. the mobs the keys drop from...they can sneeze on the people who'd normally find those keys and obliterate them. Ditto with some of the NM's- why on earth weren't the chest/NM spawns moved to level-reasonable areas when half of those zones were populated with hostile, extremely high level mobs? It'd be nice not to see some random Geyser Lizard NOT popping in the middle of enough powerful goblins to give an L99 party a run for their money.

Sure, it's lower-level content. But it's silly as heck to see that the dangerous part of fighting the NM isn't the NM, but the "ordinary" monsters surrounding it that are 50-60 levels higher or even more!

[Caketime]

It's all about balance, bro. Stick high level mobs into low level zones, effectively scaring newbies into Abby leeching instead of solo adventuring. Everybody wins! Kind of.

[Alhanelem]

They stuck high level monsters in those areas because they needed to put some somewhere, otherwise abyssea would be the only option. Since areas like dangruf wadi are only minimally visited for a couple things you only have to do once, they were ideal candidates. Still, they could have moved the chest spawns...

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

This is something I discovered recently as well. For missions and quests and such, this is why the Grounds Tomes sell Circumspection for next-to-nothing. But of course popping a chest will automatically drop sneak, and...

[Rustic]

They stuck high level monsters in those areas because they needed to put some somewhere, otherwise abyssea would be the only option. Since areas like dangruf wadi are only minimally visited for a couple things you only have to do once, they were ideal candidates. Still, they could have moved the chest spawns...

Which was my point. Ditto with low level NM's. Sure, they're relatively less visited...but surrounding those NMs/chest spawns with mobs in the 90's rendered them suicide missions for players in the levels to engage them.

"Hey! I just got this fresh blood off a L6 sheep in Gustaberg, what's it for?"

"It spawns a NM leech in a L90 area."

"Does it drop L90 loot?"

"Nah, it's meant for L30 players"

*chucks spawn item*

This is a fundamental error in zone construction that needs fixing. Move the NM and chest spawns to locations where appropriate level players can access them in dungeons that have had their big neighbors move in for high-level GoV play, or up the power and drops on those NM's to match the area they're in and at least move the chests to saner locations.

[Mirage]

Hey guys I had the most insane idea ever. What if lv80+ mobs in mid-level areas didn't aggro?

Nah, I'm just talking crazy now. Nevermind me.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Many don't. It's the exceptions that are the the real pain.

[Mirage]

My point was that they all should.

[Rustic]

My point was that they all should.

Boy, that'd make that inital newbie quest in Zerhun Mines REALLY fun.

[Mirage]

Huh. I'm saying that they all should not aggro.