Yeah, I agree about the balancing. I was just suggesting that if the corpse pile up from farming that abuses the AI is a problem then give the AI a chance to hit the farmers on the rocks. That would change the behavior. But yeah, I have my single player game settings changed so that the surge summons is a lot cheaper. Still a grind.
Not sure what you would consider overwhelming. It was just me and my thrall and there were like two one skull spiders, several hell hounds, a couple fungus men and a couple of those pale white humanoids. So maybe 10-12 mobs total?
Those 10-12 were for the duration of the whole Maelstrom? Or was that just the âlast waveâ?
it seems to be some regions of the storm then, people on Official PvE are still reporting Northern Maelstrom spawns are extremely low.
Please! does that mean that insane dark circle will no longer haunt my characters as I move about?
Does that mean the grindy just got more grindy?
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Umm. Not exactly. Basically, more things were spawning in and I couldnât kill them faster than they were arriving. So the numbers just sorta slowly trended up over time. I broke and ran when I started to worry that Iâd get surrounded, stun locked and killed.
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âGodamnit! People are abusing a core mechanic. Lets make the mechanic so underwhelming that its impossible!â
Okay more testing, Northern Maelstrom seems to not work. The ambush spawns rarely happen, and only 3 attack you at once. If you go to the Southern of the Tower, the spawns seem to be working as before.
It wasnât just corpses piling up, though evidence does seem to show that that was part of it.
It was mentioned in another thread on this that cheesing the AI (or perhaps more precisely, something related to the actions involved in doing so) was actually causing more creatures to spawn than intended, even bypassing the server setting that put a cap on that number. Thus all the extra lag. A âfixâ like making the creatures immune to gas or making them able to shoot back would not, in fact, fix this problem. At best, it would discourage average players from cheesing, at least in the maelstrom, but would do nothing about the determined exploiters specifically looking to maximize ??? farming.
Additionally, if there were extra creatures being spawned that were not intended to spawn, that would have a dramatic affect on the rate of ??? acquisition. Which makes it significantly harder to balance that grind.
The Maelstrom definitely feels very milquetoast since this hotfix. Where before the folks on my server used to enjoy banding together to see how long we could slog it out on flat ground before having to flee, now itâs a complete snooze-fest.
Even after looking thru the server settings, nothing really jumps out at me as a means to pump up the number of spawns, or even restore the ramp-up function we were accustomed to.
If the number of spawns are going to remain so low, then we at least need the difficulty (and amount of essence to be had) increased over time.
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Did maelstrom today. Got 262 unstable solo, and 460 in a duo. I like how they balanced the respawn, feels realy nice. Also, for both farming sessions i had constant 70 ping. Awesome.
What region were you in? Coordinates or map region would be great as it seems to be different based on the part of the storm you are in.
Itâs due to the lag they nerfed the amount of mobs during the storm. Until they find a solution to this, donât expect the number of mobs to go back up.
Yea, I understand. Honestly, itâs not as bad as I thought, and Iâm actually coming out ahead on essence. Itâs still pretty exciting, though I do kinda miss the âok, this is too much, time to cut and runâ and go running out with lightning strikes all around you.
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There are lots of good spots where you can farm unstables. The spike in elder respawn will start after 15min.
Also, the number of players will affect the respawn rate, because each player has their own elder respawns, so you can use that to your advantage. Have some players join you and youâll get a swarm faster, but I wouldnât recommend that since it will be more difficult.
I mainly farm here solo:
These images are from today, which is post-patch(after the maelstrom nerf).
Best regards.
I think it is a band aid (hopefully) so people would stop lagging servers to dead stops. My hope is that they will figure out a better way to deal with the lag issues of corpses. But if left unchecked, well just see Exiles for the ill effects of month long cheesing going unchecked until full solution.
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For me I thought it was actually better. I farm solo with my sabertooth on the very edge of the storm, I normally get 7 to 13 unstable ??? in that time, after the patch however they were striking faster and in 2âs which resulted from me getting 33 unstable ??? for my time
Thank you, Thatâs the same South location Iâve also had good luck in. It seems to be an issue with anything North of the Tower.
Try going north of the tower, near the elephants or rhinos, and see if your yield is as high.