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So, has anyone tried out the "hot spots" heralded in yesterday's patch message? What was your experience (both in terms of the xp bar and the zone itself)?

After logging in last night, I decided to make a run to Nadox since I already knew roughly how much xp I got in the zone and it'd be a good judge. I was a little worried when I saw 40+ people in Gunthak and then about 25 people in Nadox. The only time I ever saw more than five people in Nadox before was for Innoruuk raids. However, Nadox is a pretty big zone when you get down to it and the groups were mostly on the Gunthak side (Sentinal room, firepit, trap door, Nautilus room and someone pulling from U. Luggalds for the Pureblood drops). Given that the route to Hate's Fury was generating more trains than Umbral Plains does, I decided to just do the rectangular troll room room off of U. Luggalds.

Experience was... better. It wasn't amazing and it wasn't like going to Padual at lvl 64, but four clearings of the room (about five lvl 55 mobs, a lvl 57 and a lvl 58) got me half a yellow in 64. I could have pulled more, but I didn't want to be a pest and, besides, my AEing skills were rusty and I almost got my clock cleaned the first kite as it was The nice thing actually was the company. A bit of chatter about the LoY spell quests or people offering quest drops, some talk about the xp, etc. No fighting for camps or pulls but then again, like I said, Nadox is a bigger zone than I think people give it credit for. It was still BYOG as far as I could tell. I saw one or two LFGs, but I don't think they ever got picked up into groups.

I don't know if this Hot Spot thing will really change things; I expect after the weekend people will filter back into HHK, PoJ, Dawnshroud, PoV or wherever the kids are going these days but it might generate some return traffic to a few of the zones.

I went to Dulak, a zone I am very familiar with having leveled 2 or 3 characters there from ~45-55. With a 56 druid, I killed a few dark blue mobs and was completely underwhelmed with the experience.

I think that the patch message "zones which give a boost to Experience while adventuring in them, in a similar manner to Paludal Caverns" was a little misleading. While I didn't expect a blue bubble per (solo) kill, I did expect to see something along the lines of 1% per kill (and I wasn't getting even that). If they raised the ZEM here, it wasn't very noticable to me with my small sample size. I'm going to spend a few hours here with a more level appropriate character and see what happens.

I hate to be a pessimist, but it wouldn't surprise me if they actually forgot to change the exp. modifiers in all the zones they listed.

Just popped into Nadox with my 44 BL and at a time when it's usually quiet most camps were taken.

An acquaintance let me join him for a few kills at the Shrine Bruisers and instead of a usual 1 to 1.5% per kill I was gaining 2%.

Heading back now ;-)

Hate to say i told you so but i said it was a bad idea on the first day.

oh well at least i know where all the braindead PC types will be now right upto 60.

[quote][/quote]I took the inclusion of Nadox and Hate's Fury in the "Hot Spot" list to mean "Please, for the love of God, someone visit the Ykesha zones! People worked on these! Look! We'll bribe you with extra experience!"

very funny!

I tried out both infected paw and gunthak with my level 37 shammy. However, neither zone seems to give alot of exp. I have to agree with whomever said that SOE might have forgot to increase the zems for these hot spots. The experience earned was less than if I was in OT leveling there. This is all group based experience, not soloing.

On the other hand, it was fun again to kick some gnoll butt again and have some fun in Gunthak on the beach.

55 - 58 still seems very slow!

I hope Hate's Fury is the place to go. That is awful long run to get there. Bascially get a group in PoK beforehand and when someone has to go ur boned cause no way in hell ur gonna get replacements.

I took my necro, at 45, out to Dulak so I could do my Auspice quest. A few guildies were there (shaman and bst, 55 and 59 I think) so we grouped up and hit the Luggald caves. In about 2 hours I finished the last half of 45 and hit 46 (as well as getting my spell drops)...that exp was very good.