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First let me say I like the effort that was put into this holloween by the Devs.. but... after tonight.. I was a little dissapointed... the red undead spawn... started of good.. but as usual got exploited by easy monsters that die in one hit and a crappy loot system on grim...

But really disappointed me tonight was the "fix" for it.. we got a ton of health and power added to the spawn.. basically making em more powerful then paragons..

Now this would be fine and all.. but heres the problem... at first this spawn was enjoyable by "ALL" players.. even the new players could hop in for some easy kills and cool items.. and as much it was exploited they STILL had a chance to get one...

now do they???? not likely.. I have chars with 70 resists taking 50-60 per hit quite often even with 120 bushido and parry...

So we go from something everyone can enjoy to making it pretty much something most the people that were exploiting it can still do.. all the while alienating the players we are trying to draw in.. the new player....

Honestly I think the devs completely lost touch what its like to be a new player... and this is real disappointing

P.S. before anyone trys to flame me because of this I personaly had no problem killing the spawn... so this isnt about me wining because its to hard... its because it went from fun for all to fun for some
The spawn is a little insane I think it should be toned down a bit.

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why do some people have to complain about stuff that's not a big deal. This event can still be fun for all.

If some newb wants to do this red spawn stuff, let them join up with someone, it's a mmorpg. they're not completely helpless. even other newbs. (not like i've seen a 'Young' player in 2 years anyway)

It's not like these lanterns are the greatest thing ever.

there's still trick or treating.

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I think it should be toned down too. my fencer hardly stands a chance against them anymore even with an all 70's suits. mages and archers can just stand back and hit them. I don't mind them being harder but not quite this hard.

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Even so, the monsters are too tough as far as I'm concerned. They should either be on the same level as their normal monster-types, or perhaps slightly tougher - but not by much. Not like the spawn I've encountered today - Skeletal Knights with over 1,000hp, Lich Lords with over 2,000hp... The increasing-difficulty is an interesting concept, but it's allowing these creatures to advance in difficulty too quickly, and to a much-too-high level.

Since the publish update, most of the people I usually see out hunting at the graveyards are now just sitting around Luna waiting for the next Grim Reaper to be lured there.

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I think its great, I nearly DIED!

On a heavier note, the shard of the dead vampire/faction system is fubared beyond belief.

Me & a buddy lost blessed & insured items alike, the system is supposed to turn you red and then you turn blue when dead? Nope, you just stayed red and so the shrines to rez couldnt rez you, and corpses turned into zombies and walked away with your regs... pretty messy, not fun stuff.

More of a hassle then it is fun.

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Seems they like one hit kills..........I'm an archer and avoided most of it.

one bad ass lisch teleported onto me and instantly killed me not one time but before he despawned he got me 4 times.

I've had great fun but when anything hits you for over 200 hp its well not very challanging to your skills.

My mule could have done just as well at surviving.

I'm back to chopping wood after tonight but, thanks for a lot of fun for 3 days and a lot of frustration tonight.

Trying not to complain but you really passed up my characters and their skills and my skills tonight.

Tragedy + time = humor

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I'm not even a new player (115 magery)...and i peeked in hidden to watch a mage and her 2 evs get toasted in 5 seconds flat.

So...no fighting for me....AGAIN what a surprise. I resorted to looting timer-up corpses with my thief-stealther to get 2 lanterns.

Draconi UO Designer

Hey, I think this might've been missed since I posted it in another thread, but here's a quick rundown:

The spawn will increase it's difficulty if it's beaten too quickly by players. If the next round is beyond the players' abilities, it will continually tone down until it finds a good spot.

The balance to this is that there's more than one graveyard to be fighting in; so if you can't handle one, try looking for another that's been ignored for a while and has a more decayed difficulty.

The reason it was so easy before was because it was decaying infinitely downward, making it impossible to raise the difficulty on ignored graveyards even after dozens of fights.

They were complaining that it was too easy, then they were complaining that now it's too hard? I don't get some people. Let's just go have some fun.

I agree

I like that they made them harder...too bad I missed the announcement though. I recalled to the Cove grave yard for a little fun and a Lich Lord kicked my butt in 2 hits. 68, 64...dead. I was like holy crap!! What just happened?!

It's an interesting design. I'm not sure if I necessarily agree with it though, especially since I am very much against the idea of any creature one-shotting players, but it's interesting nonetheless. But one thing is for sure, and that's that it is far better than how they were beforehand.

I like it.