Pagans? No more good xp down there....

Try to play Pagans.... In c5 I gain 30-33 points per buffround (77lvl) in 4 ppl party. Now hardly 25 (usually 20-23), with the same party. The mobs are yellow to me... but I miss many many many many times in a raw. Not only me, all the party. Even if our BD dances the dance for Accuracy, we miss again.

im very disappointed with NCSOFT.

from the Interlude Patch Notes:

The ordinary monsters in the following hunting grounds have been set at level 80.
<ul type="square"> Pagan Temple, Monastery of Silence, Imperial Cemetery, Forge of the Gods, Dimensional Rift, Ketra/Varka Silenos Stronghold
In hunting grounds that are above level 80, the ordinary monsters have all been changed to level 80. But the monsters’ abilities and rewards remain the same as before, except for treasure chests.

basicly that means that there aren't any lvl81+ mobs anymore (= XP reduced but difficulty still the same)?! :eek:

I thought it meant exp stayed the same but they are lower level. So it should be easier killing them now.

I thought it meant exp stayed the same but they are lower level. So it should be easier killing them now.

thats what i figured
some of those mobs are dark red at lvl 78 so the accuracy thing was a real kick in the teeth

Seriously hope the exp stays the same (hope the "rewards stay the same" thing they mention in the notes not only is about the drops/spoils...), because otherwise grinding will just become more stupid. Pagans/MoS/FoG/IT is where we grind, so it would be seriously uncool if the exp there took a nosedive. Where else should we go then for acceptable exp? :(

Dino Island of course!

Dino Island of course!

place looks cool but the XP is dire for difficulty of the mobs

Yup. Killing one dino on the pts at 4x rates in a trio was like 31k exp and it beat us within an inch of our lives taking it down.

Aren't there several ways to making them weaker?

Yes, some quest but from what I understand you still have to kick a ton of harder than hard dino butt before you even get to that point.

The place wasn't that bad.. until we got about 10 of them on us... then it was uhoh time. (prolly worth noting that we only made it about 200 feet from the beach before this happened.)

Yes, some quest but from what I understand you still have to kick a ton of harder than hard dino butt before you even get to that point.

im pretty sure the weaken dino stuff we all heard about was only for the trex
you can buy the trap stones from an npc on a tiny island to the south of dino land for 750 adena each and the NPC told me they are to weaken big daddy

prove me wrong, but i aint paying for your brezes

I think I'll go visit dino island today. It would be cool if this area showed blood spatters where people have died.

I have salvation I'm all good thanks.

You may be right though, about that trex though. I honestly don't know either.

The Interlude notes clearly say:

The Tyrannosaurus can go into a frenzy during battle. Use of the Trap skill during frenzy makes them easier for hunting.

The mobs we tried on my PTS visit there (no Tyrannosaurus among them, though) weren't way too hard for a full group with 2 Warlords. XP sucked, though, and MP Elixir drops were definitely a developers' sick joke.

I am curious to see Dino island but am usually not on very long so hard to form a party. So I have some questions:

1&gt; Are there level restrictions to get to the island? I'd like to bring a 60 prophet and 72 SE to provide buffs and leave them at the starting location on the beach (which I think is non-aggro ???)

2&gt; If I don't care about XP rate and only want to take a peak at the new dinos is it possible to walk around a bit (solo) without pulling aggro on a bunch of dinos? I might be OK pulling aggro on one but more than one from what I hear would be impossible to survive solo.

3&gt; I'm a 76 storm screamer with about 2500 matk - is that high enough to Fear a dino if I pull aggro?

I really just want to look at the place and maybe try to kill one or two dinos just for fun. I'd rather not have to use a BSOE either.

Maybe I should explore with my Prophet and use Return2 to save the BSOEs.

1. yup go crazy
2. basically imposible to pull just 1 dino without lure
3. no idea and the prophet with return is prolly the way to explore the place

dinos hit a lvl 79 dorf in +0 IC heavy for 400-700 damage so try not to get hit

lol in UR we just tank 4 trexes and aoe them.
no problem.

after that we pull the whole cave and aoe that too.

Pagans is still good exp, here's a tip on how to kill the high-evasion sacrifices:

Whoever is the targeter takes the aggro, DD's run beside or behind the mob for high accuracy. No kill speed drop if you're actually playing and not stupidly spamming assist.

lol in UR we just tank 4 trexes and aoe them.
no problem.

after that we pull the whole cave and aoe that too.

screenshots or it never happened...
nah actually dont bother it never happened :P

nah idk its prolly posible
but then ive been to IT, FOG and high ketra in B grade with se buffs so im kinda used to me doing jack damage and getting hit for half my hp :/

Maybe I should explore with my Prophet and use Return2 to save the BSOEs.

Make a lvl1 DE fighter and swim there to save your Prophet's XP.

I have salvation I'm all good thanks.

You may be right though, about that trex though. I honestly don't know either.

is there some secreat to getting those books? Weve taken 4+ pt's and hunted for hours w/ no sb drops

I'm calling BS as well unless they had like, 100 warlords. That are all hero.

With spammable celestial shield.

I have salvation I'm all good thanks.

You may be right though, about that trex though. I honestly don't know either.

is there some secreat to getting those books? Weve taken 4+ pt's and hunted for hours w/ no sb drops




tok why do you keep asking? its obvious that they are rare drops. ncsoft isnt known for making things easy. on pts i only saw 1 sb drop on dino island 2 times(at 4x rates).

too much, the quest is ridiculous.

like, worse than ally lvl 5.

and we got 1 book within 5 hours of hunting at dino island in the forest area. anti-summoning field...

I'm calling BS as well unless they had like, 100 warlords. That are all hero.

With spammable celestial shield.

UR is all hero's ...and most of them have subbed warlord, doesn't surprise me, UR can do stuff that the normal man can't, cause thats just how awesome they are.

also theres the fact that WE bartz players are way better then players on other servers.

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I'm calling BS as well unless they had like, 100 warlords. That are all hero.

With spammable celestial shield.



UR is all hero's ...and most of them have subbed warlord, doesn't surprise me, UR can do stuff that the normal man can't, cause thats just how awesome they are.

also theres the fact that WE bartz players are way better then players on other servers.

so hows those heroes skills working for your wl subs?
awesome im sure

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