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The Aquagoblin Story
Long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Aquagoblins could only be found in Dagnor's Cauldron. When killed, those aquagoblins used to raise all the guard factions in Faydwer. Along comes a patch, and some aquagoblins are added to the shoreline of Butcherblock Mountains: sneaky invading aquagoblins disturbing the pleasant shorelines of Butcherblock (and getting in the way of druids kiting dorfs). These new goblins raise the faction of all the guards in Faydwer, and drop loot that sells to merchants for ~4pp each. The old aquagoblins in Dagnor's Cauldron no longer raise guards in Faydwer, just lower "aquagoblin" faction. Phooey on that, you can no longer raise the guard factions by killing level 15-28 goblins. Only the bodies of these newbie aquagoblins will appease the bloodthirsty natures of the EmeraldWarriors, the GemChoppers and the StormGuard.
Wow, level 10 mobs that drop 4pp items about 1 in 3 times? and there are 2 camps of them and they are on 6 minute timers? Talk about major mudflation. A group of teens could rake in several hundred plat per hour. As a level 56 shaman (trying to repair the guard factions that were trashed hunting explorers in the lake of ill manners), I could easily kill all the mobs faster than they could respawn. So could many classes, who would come in, push out the lowbies camping there for exp and cause too much grief. I would not push others out, only coming to the camps when there were no one else camping there.
Along came a patch, and the items that used to sell to vendors for about 4pp each (some stacked also) now sell for a couple of silver. I had great fun killing everything there, and leaving the corpses for anyone who wanted....
"Why aren't you looting the goblins?" asks some stranger.
"I am just killing them for faction," I reply.
"Can I loot the stuff please?" says that someone who did not know they were nerfed.
"Sure, I don't want it. And let's group so you don't have to wait for the 2 minutes for the corpse to unlock" I reply.
"Oh wow, you are the greatest, thank you" comes the reply.
After about 20 minutes of looting everything, they run off to the merchant. I start laughing in real life, because I know what is coming.
"Would you like a charisma buff, so you can get better prices at the merchant?" I ask them. Many times I received no reply, just a message that my group has been disbanded. Within a couple of minutes, I hear /shouts of cursing and screaming when they discover that the items sell to merchants for about 1/20th of what they did the previous week, when everyone and their uncle fought over the camps.
Long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Aquagoblins could only be found in Dagnor's Cauldron. When killed, those aquagoblins used to raise all the guard factions in Faydwer. Along comes a patch, and some aquagoblins are added to the shoreline of Butcherblock Mountains: sneaky invading aquagoblins disturbing the pleasant shorelines of Butcherblock (and getting in the way of druids kiting dorfs). These new goblins raise the faction of all the guards in Faydwer, and drop loot that sells to merchants for ~4pp each. The old aquagoblins in Dagnor's Cauldron no longer raise guards in Faydwer, just lower "aquagoblin" faction. Phooey on that, you can no longer raise the guard factions by killing level 15-28 goblins. Only the bodies of these newbie aquagoblins will appease the bloodthirsty natures of the EmeraldWarriors, the GemChoppers and the StormGuard.
Wow, level 10 mobs that drop 4pp items about 1 in 3 times? and there are 2 camps of them and they are on 6 minute timers? Talk about major mudflation. A group of teens could rake in several hundred plat per hour. As a level 56 shaman (trying to repair the guard factions that were trashed hunting explorers in the lake of ill manners), I could easily kill all the mobs faster than they could respawn. So could many classes, who would come in, push out the lowbies camping there for exp and cause too much grief. I would not push others out, only coming to the camps when there were no one else camping there.
Along came a patch, and the items that used to sell to vendors for about 4pp each (some stacked also) now sell for a couple of silver. I had great fun killing everything there, and leaving the corpses for anyone who wanted....
"Why aren't you looting the goblins?" asks some stranger.
"I am just killing them for faction," I reply.
"Can I loot the stuff please?" says that someone who did not know they were nerfed.
"Sure, I don't want it. And let's group so you don't have to wait for the 2 minutes for the corpse to unlock" I reply.
"Oh wow, you are the greatest, thank you" comes the reply.
After about 20 minutes of looting everything, they run off to the merchant. I start laughing in real life, because I know what is coming.
"Would you like a charisma buff, so you can get better prices at the merchant?" I ask them. Many times I received no reply, just a message that my group has been disbanded. Within a couple of minutes, I hear /shouts of cursing and screaming when they discover that the items sell to merchants for about 1/20th of what they did the previous week, when everyone and their uncle fought over the camps.
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