Illuminator

I started raiding in T6. There are T5 contested that I didn't even know about till late T7. There were a shit-ton of them.

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KFizzle

i didnt raid much T5, i started in T6 as well ... but i remember a TON of contested, heck i'd stumble across them all the time and still do see 'new' ones from time to time, like "Who the heck is that dude? I dont remember him...oh well, whatever."

T6 had a FEW contesteds (Not nearly as many), like the dragons which were sorta contested (spawned), and Terrorantula and Meathooks but not a 'lot' of them...T7 Has so few that I can only think of a few (Non eof, eof added the avatars and pumpkin head).

I happen to be on Nektulos, and that is a server right now where like EVERY Contested of note is currently being farmed by Disso. Now i know we could 'move' and that undoubtedly would be some peoples advice, but i wouldnt mind a shot at a contested or two. A mob that spawns once every 7 days and has a guild farming it after it spawns, doesnt seem too contested to me. I dont know if they had higher respawn timers or there just were that many more of them (spread over alot of different zones, so they werent like all in the Bonemire for example) but i know what i'd like to see.

Add about 4-5 more regular x4 contesteds, put them and a couple more on like shorter timers (like 2 days or something) and add like 5-7 x2 (i really think they need to make more x2 content) contesteds and it would be alot better.

I mean i doubt if ONE guild can lock down ALL That shit the way Disso has shit locked now, if there were those additional contesteds on the new timers

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Arangor

It really wouldn't take a whole lot to stick a few more x4 contested around to keep people happy. I think they're worrying about other things like itemization instead right now, but who knows. Shit, they could even just steal one of the strats someone's posted in the raid mob design thread so there's no thinking involved.

Slippery

I'd be happy with a couple copy pasted T5 contesteds turned into T7 mobs. *shrug*

Elvanshalee

That's an easy one to answer.
Lots of contested with varied difficulties.
A plethora of items that could drop with interesting abilities.
For instance: Cryptic Metallic Coat
(not all effects are shown but at least you get an item link)
The pains and sufferings of Brutal Acts of War and the Hard Kra'thuk, the hard Lord Nagalik. They could bring back Lord nagalik right now as a level 76 contested and if he still had Wrath of Fury at that level he did at t5 scaled to t7.. Yikes!

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Arangor

Yeh, copy and pasted mobs with bumped up levels would even suffice.

BTW Elvanshalee the effect of that BP says "When target takes 1.8 this spell has a chance..."

Elvanshalee

Here's the effects of the BP:

When equipped:

• When target takes any damage this spell has a 7% chance to cast weakness on target's attacker. Lasts for 1 minute, 12 seconds.
  • Decreases Strength of target by 35.

When equipped:

• On a successful hostile spell this spell has a chance to cast Lethargy on target of spell. Lasts for 1 minute 12 seconds. This effect will trigger an average of 1.8 times per minute.
  • Decreases Attack speed of target by 10.9-18.1
  • Only affects targets level 60 and below (this was added a bit after KoS went live to force upgrades)
• When target uses a combat art this spell has a 5% chance to cast Lethargy on target of combat art. Lasts for 1 minute 12 seconds.
  • Decreases Attack Speed of target by 10.9-18.1
  • Only affects targets level 60 and below
• On a successful hostile spell this spell has a chance to cast Ice Blast on target of spell. This effect will trigger an average of 1.8 times per minute.
  • Inflicts 181-301 cold damage on target. (at 238 int)
• When target uses a combat art this spell has a 5% chance to cast Ice Blast on target of combat art.
  • Inflicts 181-301 cold damage on target.

Not bad for T5 eh?

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Llewrend

I disagree. TDS had every x4 locked down and most x2's, only losing x4's once every like 3 or 4 months, oh and Snarks, t5 pwns you

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Khalan

I know in Malice, From April 2005 to the Launch of DOF we lost Alangria x 1 and I believe Knubed x 1. Otherwise we killed every contested every time.

So yeah it was possible to lock down almost every mob 100% of the time.

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