Feldon If you’ve been planning the mass extinction of Rays and Bulls in the Hole to grind out those 50 shiny new AAs, some ice water has just been thrown on that idea…
From Waters on the EQ2 Forums:
We’ve been watching where folks are playing and keeping an eye on how experience and alternate advancement gain is going since Velious launched. While we make every effort to balance the game during the beta testing period, we sometimes see new information on live servers, and need to make a change based on that info.
In this case, we’re making a couple of changes to experience bonuses that I wanted to let you know about:
We’re lowering the experience bonus in The Hole contested dungeon.
The Hole was giving too much experience when considering the relatively low difficulty of the dungeon and the monsters found there. The Hole is still worth visiting and playing in, but the experience it gives is now better tuned to the difficulty of the zone.We’re increasing the experience bonus in all Velious zones.
This means that you’ll gain more experience, making Velious zones more rewarding with the greater challenges they present. All Velious zones get a good increase in experience, with the Kael Drakkel contested dungeon getting a really big boost.Both of these changes will go in with a hotfix tomorrow.
It makes sense to me. Just look at the quality of the gear that’s rewarded for Velious solo quests. Clearly this would make The Hole a bit easier for folks now.
So nerf RAF, nerf any grind locations…are they TYRING to get people to stop playing new toons?
They nerfed RAF *and* The Hole the same day. Double whammy.
SOE. We don’t do subtle.
S.O.E. Screw Over Everyone. Have a nice day 🙂
I have all lower toons 12 of them and only 1 is 90 ( I love the older content) and I have had my health and power dropped in half, I have tons of useless stats on my gear, my XP gaining options are being nerfed, there are no plans to fix any of the lower lvl itemization, I still have INT on my fighter only gear from before SF went and did the stat changes, The spiffy new flying mounts are for those 85 and up.
So ummm….. Yeah,
Devs, How about some love for the little guys too.
They think they are clever, but it’s pretty obvious. They are doing everything they can to make people want to buy Velious.
Not really sure it to get people to buy Velious though..
If you did not already get it, why would you gind the new 50 AA’s in the hole in the first place ?
I just think its the normal S.O.E way of “fixing” things, nerf nerf nerf..
Pretty sure when someone wants a new job there its the guy with the biggest nerfbat who gets it.
Working ?? Nope..
I like the idea of The hole, mostly because I think solo questing is so damn boring, so for me it was a nice way of getting AA’s without having to do all thoose stupid solo quests, but I guess now they force me to make a choice.. Rift or Soloquesting, not really sure yet which win..
Consider all aspect of the game before you swing the nerfbat S.O.E, with so many users, you have to leave many different options also..
i didn’t even think of going to the hole to grind AAs i was having a blast popping fortune league aa pots and doing quests and experiencing new content i guess im in the minority
yah i want 300 aa too.
James it was a max level expansion, that was clear before it was release, and before you paid for it. That means if your not gunna work your toons to 90, then your probably should not have bothered with it.
the fact : the hole kills are easy and give more than 3000 AA xp
new mobs in velious take longer to kill and reward 200 AA xp
the choice is quick.