Last night about 8 or 9 of us got together to test out the new 1a area Twilight Jungle. Stigs new are that was influenced by the poll "what do you seesk while trainning". We grouped together got the key (sunstone) to enter and as soon as we went in boom. pretty colors and nice descriptions. It also didnt take long to notice 1) we were gonna have to map it and 2)there were new mobs here. So amapping we went at first we took mostly adv manas with a few back up heals for incase. After we killed the first mob we knew what idea won in the poll, high gold. i believe the first mob we killed dropped over 800 gold and the second mob dropped like 1200. Took us about 4 squares to realizes when moving everyone loses stam, and if you dont have stam when the party leader moves you get left behind. We mapped a majority of the area before deciding we didnt have enough mana to continue without risking possible death. During this time we found another key, the Moonstone and figured it may be a key to the second lvl of this new area. We left the area to regroup and come back to finish the map. Anywho we spent a good 4-6 hours down there total got us some pretty good gold, and did find a boss, Red Dragon! whupped him by the skin of our teeth and attempted to leave. this is where we noticed the biggest issue. We went back to the place where we got the Moonstone (which was the key out, not to the second lvl) It HADNT spawned the whole time we were down there. Either that or staff did well playing on the thought patterns of players and threw us all for a loop. Do all end all we got hungry and thirsty so we died out.
I Love the gold in the new area, its good and with a decent party can be very proffitable. also in this new area you will make leveling gold loooooong before you have the required exp. We didnt get a drop from the boss so we dont exactly know whats comin from this area. and i know when mapping a new area it is kind of slow. But overall it was a fun time golding and mapping, all up til the dying out point, which was our own faults.
That being said, the stam loss, ktps, along with mapping made the trip long and challenging and while the gold is great, if it isnt some how faster, or cheaper to go i dont know that it will be used to its full potential.
Thanks staff for creating, balancing and introducing the area.(its very well rounded) id like to add that we had a mage with us and the area seems very balanced, wether you are beaming stuff or beatting it up with clubs.
Also: i do not belive the area is set up for solo training, it could be ok for some classes but i highly doubt it
Edited by Silk, 21 April 2012 - 05:25 PM.
