What should the upcoming hotzones be? (late 2011)Follow

Official boards community rep stated in a thread that hotzones are going to be changed sometime after Veil of Alaris launch...

So what zones should they do? I'd like something different myself (no repeats or threepeats).

My vote is for LDoN... but they'd need to do a regular set of zones as well just to make it work for various playstyles.

I don't see the need for new drops or quests by the way (if that is the reason we have to wait so long for the hotzones to be changed I would rather see the precedent dropped).


Not that this forum sways the devs, but I'm curious what the alla folk would like to see.

As long as they continue to offer the aug drops in the old hot zones, like they do now, then agreed, no need to offer new ones.... go to the new hot zone for good XP, go to the former hot zones for augs.

As far as what zones, a nice mix of outdoor/kitable zones and dungeons would be good, swapping each time (ie. 50 outdoor, 55 dungeon, 60 outdoor, 65 dungeon), so that the kiters don't get locked out of viable zones to go to.

Oh, and keep Nadox. It is, quite simply, the best PL zone ever :)

Tat

If creating new Augs is a problem the developers could just use previous hotzone augs in some of the new hotzones. It shouldn't be too much additional work for the skeleton crew/developers at this time.

I would like to see an 85 hotzone such as "Old Bloodfields"(lots of mobs) or "Brells Rest" added to the mix.

At lvl 40 Dreadlands was my favorite as it had fast respawn and plenty mobs/camps.... At level 75 Direwind Cliffs would be a nice change also.

Edited, Nov 3rd 2011 8:18am by hexeez

I would like to see augs in the new hot zones but they can recycle some of the existing augs if they renamed them to get around the lore tag.

My understanding is they have done nothing with/to LDoN since it was the current expac. So I am pretty sure that 65 is the hardest it gets level wise.

Edit: posts below update that SOE upped the level of access beyond 70 in LDoN.


Edited, Nov 4th 2011 9:52pm by snailish

That's too bad that they didn't keep them scaling with the rising level cap, for those of us who really didn't get to see them when they were current.

Yes, I know I can shroud, to make them a challenge, but I can't shroud to a druid (that I know of), so I can't shroud as my native class.

Anyway, thanks for the info )

Tat

Mob level has been unchanged since the inception of LDoN, but access level has continued to rise upto SoD expansion, where it topped out at 82 average group level, with slightly greater than 10 level span at those levels. I haven't tried raids lately to know if the average raid level is capped or not, nor what the exact raid level span limit is. Most of the rest of the limits are listed in this thread however: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/fcluster/gotopost.pl?mid=127563779851314685

As far as the OP question, I don't really have any preferences for new, never used hot zones, however, the idea of using instances, I wouldn't mind seeing the GoD Sewers instances hot. They're kinda rough, even today, but I remember how exciting they were back in the day, when they were new. And there is some descent drops there, and can be done solo (no need for more than one person in the expedition).

Yther Ore.