Insta Re-pops: Worse than Wrath was?Follow

This is seriously hampering my ability to enjoy Vash'jir and I suspect the other areas as well:

It is really starting to grate on my nerves (esp with my DK troubles I spoke of in the thread in the DK forum) that the mob respawn rate is so freaking high.

I know it is still the first few days, but honestly, the player density in Vash'jir on Moon Guard wasn't that high, but yet at least 25% of the time, I kill something and the mob immediately respawns before I can loot or skin and I'm getting attacked again.

If I were playing my Paladin, I wouldn't mind it as much, but... if I were, say, a Warrior, Mage, Rogue, or some-such, I wouldn't really enjoy that.

I don't remember instant respawns being this bad in Wrath's release; I know there was some congestion, and some waiting on named mobs, but instant respawns, sometimes 2 and 3 in a row? That's a bit ridiculous. I look around me, see 3-5 players, pull something, kill it, something respawns instantly from its corpse. Kill that, and I'm getting attacked again before I can even loot the first 2 kills. Sometimes I have to kill 4, 5 mobs before I can loot and skin everything.

Maybe it is bad memory, but I seriously don't remember respawns being this broken in Wrath...

I had this happen to me a lot in Vash too, particularly with the naga. But like Locke said, it's easy enough to drag the mobs away from the spawn point so you don't continue to get aggro from respawns.

Yeah, I try to drag them away, but sometimes you do that, and end up dragging yourself into another mob and now you're fighting two at once, instead of 1 then another insta-repopped. And I noticed how lots of mobs (again, in Vash), have wide wandering areas, especially inside of that huge sea creature, those stupid hunters and their overpowered crabs that run the whole length of the outside rim where you need to go to get/turn in quests.

They literally run at mount speed and if you try going down the hill towards the center of the creature, you start getting aggro by warriors and spellcasters instead. Stay up there, and you get another naga and another crab on you...

Edited, Dec 10th 2010 9:23am by Lyrailis

I hear you. Yesterday I nearly died to this - I was doing a quest on a boat in Uldum with very limited movement space. As a result I couldn't pull this mob of his 'insta repop' spot and ended up first fighting two mobs at a time and then about five consecutive mobs. I barely killed the last one after using all my CDs (Shadowfiend, Hymn of Hope, Pain Suppression) and left the fight with about 30% hp and no mana. If I had had another repop there the only reason I would have survived was because it was possible to jump off the boat and evade bug the mobs.

It's a bit of a gamble, really. On one side it can be extremely handy when quest mobs are limited, allowing you to camp one spot and rapidly get all your kills/drops, but on the other hand, especially as a priest, the constant droning of damage really wears on your mana and thus hp pool.

Are all mobs affected server-wide, or is it just new zones?

I remember having a horrible time with those treasure hunter people in that quarry in Borean Tundra when Wrath first came out. IT was just non stop spawns until I either went OOM or burned a CD to get out. It can be a pain but in some cases it is helpful.

Vash has been minor, especially compared to Hyjal. Any quests inside a cave in Hyjal .... ridiculous respawn rates. Killing twice as many as ya need for quests is a given.

>.<

Ack I remember bug reporting that on the beta too!

I have found the respawn timers on Hyjal mobs to be pretty much insufferable. Especially in the later half of the hyjal questline. Those fire dudes kept popping right on top of me and I had to say ***** the loot...mount...and fly away to get away. I could have killed them no problem so it's not a game breaker but when you are trying to turn in the quest and move on it gets a wee bit old.

Actually, I found Hyjal to be fairly tame, except for a few problem areas:

1). Any of the portals to the firelands. OMG. Nasty.
2). Sathria's Ledge. (Skinner's HEAVEN! Lots and Lots of skins and some dragonscales).
3). I'm going to mention this again, the Firelands part where you get your turtle buddy. Mentioned again, because said turtle buddy is set on Aggressive Mode (and you CAN'T change it. Seriously, they should have had him in Defensive mode).

To be fair though, that's what you've got CC for. Stuff like that annoys the crap out of me, and if needed I'll just throw down a fear, mine/herb, and thén deal with the mob and any adds I picked up.

Dear god, the underground prison in Tol Barad. I was PROT and so many spawned they managed to kill me. I think they only stopped because i hadn't looted the 30ish corpses. Having died.

And this would be the other reason I'm not switching to Worgan.