Reset explorer areas upon ETR

[mobrien316]

The King's Forest slayer XP is a real loss if you ETR after finishing it on an earlier life. With usual XP bonuses running and with cracking a 30% XP pot for the slayers, you can get about one-eighth of the total XP needed to hit 30 again (you can get about 1,060,000 from the King's Forest, out of the 8,250,000 needed to hit 30). And you can get it in about 75-80 minutes if you are willing to buy a major slayer pot.

There's no "story" reason why a character wouldn't gain experience by exploring the King's Forest. They are back to being level 20, so they should get the XP.


Just a suggestion.

[ssgcmwatson]

I was thinking something very similar in regards to Thunderholm. There's not many options for things to do at 20+ when waiting for raid groups to fill.

[blerkington]

Hi,

Just as a counter-argument, it can be useful not to have those areas reset too.

You can prepare xp rewards in wilderness areas and take them after an ER to speed up progress through the early epic levels, and retaining completed maps can be quite useful too.

But I am in total agreement with you that it would be nice to have some way of doing area resets that doesn't involve TRing.

Perhaps it could be a quest reward for finishing all the slayer, rare and explorers tasks in that area, or maybe even a modestly priced store item that can also drop in game and can be traded or sold on the AH.

Thanks.

[Enoach]

There is benefit in not resetting Explorer/Slayer/Rare encounters on an Epic Reincarnation.

These benefits are not just in preparing a high kill count. This could be ability to port such as Thunderholm, Stormhorns and Wheloon. It could be unlocking the map for those who are more directionally challenged.

I don't think this needs to change at this time.

[ssgcmwatson]

I don't think it should be automatic, but perhaps you could have the option to reset after ETR.

[Mglaxix]

No need to reset any explorer areas after ETR I managed 9 ETR one life with no problems before the last 4 or 5 updates.

The only thing you are looking for is easily obtained XP per minute via the 'Endless Slayer Method'.

Want a Slayer area reset TR plain and simple.

[Hobgoblin]

i would like a slayer reset potion.

but!!!!!!

make it so it resets everything - ie teleport, flagging if depends on mob kills (think this is only thunderholme) and slayer count/ rares etc

[Tscheuss]

ER is NOT TR. No reset of wilderness desired nor required.

[ssgcmwatson]

For me it's less to do with XP and more to do with having something productive to do while waiting for groups to form.

How about make it so you can reset any slayer area (just slayers, not rare/explorers) once you have hit the max for that area?

[Mglaxix]

For me it's less to do with XP and more to do with having something productive to do while waiting for groups to form.

How about make it so you can reset any slayer area (just slayers, not rare/explorers) once you have hit the max for that area?

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Productive hmmm go farm some seeds comms or easy xp runs you can solo......

New idea get all slayer rares and explorers in all areas in heroic and epic then maybe a reset potion.

I still don't like that idea eiter...

Meh just TR and be done with it

[ssgcmwatson]

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Productive hmmm go farm some seeds comms or easy xp runs you can solo......

I don't believe those are options if you are in a raid group.

[mobrien316]

Since some people want to keep the explorers, perhaps another option would simply be to allow players to abandon slayers once you max them. Don't connect it to ETR's, just allow slayers to be abandoned.

I can't imagine many people would max slayers and then abandon it just to do it all again during the same life. But after an ETR, it would be very handy.

[RD2play]

Since some people want to keep the explorers, perhaps another option would simply be to allow players to abandon slayers once you max them. Don't connect it to ETR's, just allow slayers to be abandoned.

I can't imagine many people would max slayers and then abandon it just to do it all again during the same life. But after an ETR, it would be very handy.

I like this option much better, A reset when you maxed your slayers. So it is a choice and not "forced". Maybe with the 3 day timer on it against abuse.

[Chacka_DDO]

I barely do any slayer because its not much fun for me and just only exp. You don't even get favor.
But I like the idea to fight trough a dangerous slayer area to get into a dungeon, this makes a game feel a bit more real for me.

My opinion is the slayer counter, discovery and rares should circle trough, that means after you have everything done you can do everything new.
Why is it possible to run quests over and over again but you cannot do the same on slayer areas?

And even more, I would like to see the map would remain for a character even after a HTR/ITR.
A character drew a map and its therefore a kind of item … well maybe a weak argument but personally I stopped to discover maps at all because its just not worth it, you loose the map anyway in a few days. But I would like to finally discover all maps for all characters if they remain.
NPCs could also have maps for sell...

Next point is, why do you get no slayer counter if someone with a much higher level is in the area?
This is not consistent with the quests, there is no such restriction in epic levels.
But you get not even a count for your own kills and discoveries in slayer areas.

[Thrudh]

The King's Forest slayer XP is a real loss if you ETR after finishing it on an earlier life. With usual XP bonuses running and with cracking a 30% XP pot for the slayers, you can get about one-eighth of the total XP needed to hit 30 again (you can get about 1,060,000 from the King's Forest, out of the 8,250,000 needed to hit 30). And you can get it in about 75-80 minutes if you are willing to buy a major slayer pot.

There's no "story" reason why a character wouldn't gain experience by exploring the King's Forest. They are back to being level 20, so they should get the XP.


Just a suggestion.

You pretty much explained the reason why they DON'T reset the explorer XP. (1/8 the XP needed to hit level 30 in 75 minutes)

How can people not see this? You're lucky they let us do it once per heroic TR. Asking them to let us repeat it per eTR is much more likely to get it fixed than expanded.

I love slayer/explorer areas... I usually heroic TR every 4-5 eTRs for a change of pace but also to reset slayer areas. But we don't need that massive XP bonus from KF, Orchards, and Thunderholme on every single ETR