Hello FunCom,
I just need to ask a question about the recent “outdoors area boss hunting” patch that went in recently.
While I understand the logic behind such a change, in that it gives more places to hunt and especially is nice for those that prefer to do hunting outdoors, there has been a major negative side effect.
Namely, many of the new outdoor boss mobs have spawns and wander points on top of many of the mission spots. The end result is that since the patch went in, nearly every time I exit a mission with and want nothing more than to get to an insurance terminal and hold onto my 75% of a level of exp, I generally wind up dead in 30 seconds when I zone out.
I cannot zone back in as the mission is complete and cannot be re-entered.
I cannot outrun the boss mob as it is much faster than I am.
I cannot kill the mob as it is dark read and eats me pretty fast.
I cannot get friends and kill it before the mission since it just respawns an hour later.
There simply is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. It is a forced death waiting to happen regardless of anything that the player can do.
The crux of the matter is that this patch has brought countless, extremely frustrating deaths to players who are forced to lose massive exp every time they get caught.
Like 90% of the population I cannot afford a Yalm so using that to outrun them is not an option. My run sped is maxed and even have on run buffs when I exit team missions and yet I and others still wind up dead.
You need to move the bosses away from mission locations. This is very aggravating for players.
Do you have any idea how defeated and unhappy players are when they spend time getting together and traveling to a mission location to find the mission location camped by a Boss mob and be forced to either give up and travel back to a city to get a new mission or face unconditional death after the mission and thus lose what they have striven for?
In all of AO, I’m one of the happier people. I appreciate the many things in the game that “get it right”. Especially compared to many other games. But this one thing has frustrated me so much in the past week that I am near to canceling my account based on this one single factor.
My last 4 game sessions have ended in misery and a clear state of "I gained nothing from having played today" due to these uncontrollable losses.
Are you aware that even level 20 characters get missions to locations that have level 50+ bosses sitting on them? This can lead to nothing but frustration and a loss of new player enjoyment of the game. At 63, 90% of the mission locations I get are out in the boon docks and half of them seem to be camped by a Boss mob. It's destroying the game enjoyment.
I know that you guys want this game to be fun, so please listen to me and look into this. Give us hope right away or there’s simply no reason to log back in except to give my stuff away to my Org. members.