XP boost for 3BC

[Deadnettle]

Some quests may be getting a base xp boost. I scanned the list, hoping to see some of my favorite quests from Three Barrel Cove on the list.

Devs, please consider giving 3BC a boost on your next pass. These are some great quests, but often hard to form a group for. Give us a reason to visit the cove (beyond the innate fun of running the quests).

P.S.

Yarrrrgh!

[ThomasHunter]

Yeah, I really love this area. I love the wilderness area and the quests (excepting the puzzle one generally) and the named loot. I have hopes (not realistically) that 3BC would be the Upgrade Pack for 2014. They could build a new raid in there for folks that like raids and all of the named loot could get upgrades similar to GH.

Yeah, I have such high hopes for 3BC!!!

[Zibowskij]

/signed

[Dandonk]

Some of the quests are actually decent xp... except when you count in the run there.

So, some should have more xp, but putting a tangle- or GH-style teleport guy out there would help cut down on travel time, at least beyond the first run. This would really help make 3BC more attractive.

Seeting max level to 9 in area instead of 8 would help make it more friendly to streak runners (this is a common problem in areas).

[Fedora1]

Yep I have always liked 3BC. They could use a boost, as they compete with Sentinals and Delara's/Necro which give better xp.

[kned225]

Its really sad that one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in the game is almost universally ignored.

Better loot didnt help and if they're counting on the xp curve changes to get players out there, its not gonna happen

I would close the area and redevelop it as a higher level zone. Its too nice to throw away or let rot

[Panzermeyer]

Some quests may be getting a base xp boost. I scanned the list, hoping to see some of my favorite quests from Three Barrel Cove on the list.

Devs, please consider giving 3BC a boost on your next pass. These are some great quests, but often hard to form a group for. Give us a reason to visit the cove (beyond the innate fun of running the quests).

P.S.

Yarrrrgh!

Honestly I am not sure the quests themselves need a boost in XP.

They are already providing some good XP. Particularly the fire caves those are great XP at hidden gem of XP at level.

I think where most people have the problem is the run out there.

Picking up the quests should be in a non-explorer area to avoid draining a pot. And a teleporter to the far side of the island. I think you simply add those two things and you would see more people running the quests out there.

[Fedora1]

I would close the area and redevelop it as a higher level zone.

Yeah I think there is just so much content at this level that is easier/more accessible that 3BC is kind of an after thought at best.

[ThomasHunter]

Lots of good ideas here (teleporter, expanding up a level, and/or expanding to new levels).

Note that the devs put up a poll regarding 3BC. I must assume that there is plans of some sort for this area. WOOT!!

[Panzermeyer]

Lots of good ideas here (teleporter, expanding up a level, and/or expanding to new levels).

Note that the devs put up a poll regarding 3BC. I must assume that there is plans of some sort for this area. WOOT!!

Where is this poll?

[Panzermeyer]

Yeah I think there is just so much content at this level that is easier/more accessible that 3BC is kind of an after thought at best.

I am not a fan or removing any content. Options are always good.

Just turning this into Epic as well as Heroic is good enough. Leave the heroic and make Epic versions as well.

[Coyopa]

Yeah, I really love this area. I love the wilderness area and the quests (excepting the puzzle one generally) and the named loot. I have hopes (not realistically) that 3BC would be the Upgrade Pack for 2014. They could build a new raid in there for folks that like raids and all of the named loot could get upgrades similar to GH.

Yeah, I have such high hopes for 3BC!!!

You just need to run Ghost of a Chance more, then. I love that quest. The experience in that quest is pretty good if you take the time to do the puzzle. I have done it enough that I now have it about 80 or 90 percent memorized and even the bits I don't have fully memorized I can look at and know that it is wrong.

[Coyopa]

Yep I have always liked 3BC. They could use a boost, as they compete with Sentinals and Delara's/Necro which give better xp.

I always run 3BC. I don't always get to run *all* of it, especially on a first life character. However, I tend to bank levels and I tend to run quests when I am at level for elite. So, this gives me plenty of time to run Sentinels, Delera's, and 3BC. Of course, different people play different ways. So, I can see where many people miss out on 3BC.

[Pooklebunny]

Don't worry, there'll be a huge boost to people running 3BC now they're front-loading the XP more (which I think is a good thing). Right now, I find I have every intention of visiting 3BC occasionally, but there are so many more easy-to-get-to quests that I'm hard-capped on XP in that range before I know it, and once again my vague plans of killing pirates go out of the window. With much more XP soon to be needed in that level range, there'll be a 3BC resurgence even if they leave everything about it completely untouched.

[Qhualor]

Don't worry, there'll be a huge boost to people running 3BC now they're front-loading the XP more (which I think is a good thing). Right now, I find I have every intention of visiting 3BC occasionally, but there are so many more easy-to-get-to quests that I'm hard-capped on XP in that range before I know it, and once again my vague plans of killing pirates go out of the window. With much more XP soon to be needed in that level range, there'll be a 3BC resurgence even if they leave everything about it completely untouched.

I think so too depending how much the front load is. it takes just as long to run to quests in GH, Necro IV and Vale, but people don't usually complain having to make the run because of the xp. they also don't complain because there are no quests outside the ship portal like there is for quests in 3BC level range. what typically happens in a group, after every GH, Necro IV and Vale quest is that the group runs back to the ship to rebuff and run back out to the next quest waiting on stragglers. in 3BC, I can complete 2-3 quests in the first hour before ship buffs are gone and only have to run back out later on for the next higher level quests when I am a higher level. in other words, at 7 I do all the level 5's. at 8 I do all the level 6's. with 15-20% striders that are very easy to get, plus haste pots, ill deal with the 3 minutes it takes to get to Fire Caves and Scoundrels Run, which are the furthest quests away from wilderness entrance. so a total of 4 minutes from ship portal.

[Pooklebunny]

I think so too depending how much the front load is.

Based on current Lam numbers (current live XP in parentheses)...

1st life L5: 112,000 (90,000)
2nd life L5: 168,000 (104,250)
3rd life L5: 224,000 (118,500)

1st life L6: 160,000 (140,000)
2nd life L6: 240,000 (166,750)
3rd life L6: 320,000 (193,500)

1st life L7: 225,000 (200,000)
2nd life L7: 337,500 (244,750)
3rd life L7: 450,000 (289,500)

1st life L8: 305,000 (270,000)
2nd life L8: 457,500 (339,250)
3rd life L8: 610,000 (408,500)

So, it's a lot more; in excess of 50% more for a 3rd-life toon at L7 although it tails off thereafter (of course) because the overall XP requirement for later lives has been cut. I'm pretty happy about it, and I note that the curve changes very differently for later-life toons than it does for first-life; a very wise move if they're not to put new players off achieving higher (and therefore "spending-money") levels. All in all, as 3BC XP is actually not bad once you get there, I fully expect TR's to be throwing up groups for it, which should in turn get more first-life/new players into the content as VIP's will have a vested interest into encouraging people to buy the pack

[redoubt]

Honestly I am not sure the quests themselves need a boost in XP.

They are already providing some good XP. Particularly the fire caves those are great XP at hidden gem of XP at level.

I think where most people have the problem is the run out there.

Picking up the quests should be in a non-explorer area to avoid draining a pot. And a teleporter to the far side of the island. I think you simply add those two things and you would see more people running the quests out there.

Would boosting the xp in the quest make the run too them seem more worth it?

[Panzermeyer]

Would boosting the xp in the quest make the run too them seem more worth it?

Yes it would since there are so many XP hounds.

But a farshifter out to the other side of the island would also accomplish the same thing.