Malag, that's why I keep multiple characters across multiple shards. GL just doesn't cut it anymore. I just can't bring myself to cough up the money to transfer all of my chars off.

for the most part i agree with you about Gl, but it also depends on the time,

jsut did the spawn now, 1;30 pm est, 6-7 people here at cove, thoguh it did start out kinda light

nu'jelm on the other hand, usually pretty empty,

Aye, both nu'jelm and cove had vanguards, and nobody to fight them when I went there the other evening.

I noticed the vanguard in nu'jelm switch their spawn point to directly in front of the town square, from their original spawn point inside of the chapel...

I'm not sure exactly how it's set up, but I can see why it would create a challenge, having a group of vanguards teleport behind you and suddenly spawn more stuff there while you're already fighting the mobs in front of you.

Nice design 'feature' .

On a side note, I think Draconi is just trying to get us all killed.

Well, I take back everything I said about GL in this thread.

Apparently you just can't play at night I was home from work yesterday, and found several very fun and helpful people in Cove and Papua.

i think great lakes plays during the day and banksits at night, then its early morning/late night despise runs. seems like that,

sometimes when im in the nujelm spawn i swear there is a gm watching me and spawning monsters all around just as im gaining the upperhand in a fight, i cant kill a thing in that town,

on the plus side, my horse gets lots of exercise runing up and down the main city street.

Not sure if this was a bug or not, but it seems like the loot tonight on the Vanguards was open to everyone. Me and another person were killing the vanguards, and it has gotten to the point that I can near solo them with my bush archer, so really the other person was just helping, but everytime I looted I saw both the shield and the sword, and then they would disappear as if the other person had looted them.

If this is the case, then I am hoping it is a bug. I am all for allowing people the chance to get the items, but this is bad! Now people can do just enough damage to get loot rights and it doesn't come down to who worked the hardest, it comes down to who can loot the fastest.

I believe the same issue was with fighting the fallen warriors in moonglow, that the plane sword or shield was available in all aspects of the corpse so became a first to grab it item. Which sucks, as Maroite pointed out that you do the brunt of the work someone comes by with a couple hits and when you go to loot you see the item and then the other person grabs it first. One of the reasons I quit going to moonglow rift to fight as it got frustrating to have to race to loot.

Yeah its one thing making the mobs killable by all builds, but making the loot free for all was really the wrong thing to do. It just makes the community less likely to want to participate because there is always going to be some greedy person who loots all of them. I know on one of the Vanguards we killed I only looted the sword, and left the shield cause I thought it was bugged, but on the next one we killed she looted both of the items.

I hope this is a bug and not working as intended.

I was getting shields and the othe rperson was getting swords as of two days ago. I'm sure it was the RNG giving me the shields every time though.

I have been doing the spawn on a regular basis on Great Lakes. When i can pull a Controllers and solo him on my sammy i get both shield and sword but if anyone hits it once i only get one. So looks like 1 hit in certain fights gets ya a shield or sword.