Make Lady Mel Harder

[Veargoth]

anyway to make lady mel spawn harder? perhaps she will kill pets faster and or add harder mobs at her spawn point besides Drevo . I mean for a mob that has a chance to drop awesome loot it is way to easy to farm ya know

[Locke]

Or maybe to put a anti-pet zone at lady Melissandre and any other peerless. But i'm ok with raising lady mel difficulty too

[Katherine]

What about anti-hiding? So people have to kill all the way to reach Mel.

[Cornbread]

Should definitely be harder. Seems quite silly that a mob that can drop the highest weapons in the game along with all of her other nice loot can be killed in 2 minutes without even using pets.

[Agony]

Definitely. The hardest part about Mel is crafting while waiting for her to respawn. She should be much, much harder considering the loot that she drops.

[Dramoor]

I agree

I mean the thing already spawns every 30 minutes so we have to already wait 30 minutes for the respawn for ANYONE in the game, even a new player with a few skills maxxed and some nobles can stealth through and kill to get the highest end weapons given in the game from a mob.

[Adrycks]

Should definitely be harder. Seems quite silly that a mob that can drop the highest weapons in the game along with all of her other nice loot can be killed in 2 minutes without even using pets.

man i want your Wep..killing the lady in 2 minutes:))) I do it in 4. I say yes to the no pets allowed or stronger satyr.

[Relysis]

I might agree, except that she is part of the GOC quest. If it were Dreadhorn with Mel's loot table, I'd say absolutely ramp up the difficulty. Somebody with a pack of nobles should not be able to obtain the top tier looted items in the game, that's true, but I do think they should be able to tackle all of the GOC quest with at most some imps, without having to resort to purchasing the parts or the gem. We could leave rare imp drops and the book on her, and give dreadhorn the high end loot. Requires keys, harder area, harder dreadhorn with no pets allowed would be all good.

I know people basically give Mel's spellbook away, I'm just worried about vet-ifying the normal areas of the shard that are focused on the mid-range player. My first thought above may not be the answer, but I'm sure vets have plenty of content on the way... Mel's table may need to be lowered, but I don't think increasing the difficulty of the area is the answer.

[Yoda]

I would have to agree about the connection to the goc quest, if the loot is too nice change it slightly. but the goc quest is something most midlevel players need to be able to do to advance gear..

if the weapons are too good change that setup etc but locking out the people who have the need for the quest might be counter productive.

[+Nyx]

I agree that the goc quest needs some adjustments. However, I don't know that I would say she needs to be made more difficult per se.

Most of you who replied are a part of the discussion group and know what's coming in terms of new content. I'd venture to say I'd rather see the weapons lady mel can drop modified to be less epic, and instead those 'epic' drop chances be added to something boss-like in the new content. This way the goc quest can still be for middle-of-the-road players, but it's less likely a nooble will end up with a weapon that vets don't have anywhere (currently) to hunt for at their own gear level.

Edit:
Also, +V has been wanting to make lady mel a keyed mob for ages, that might happen at any time when he feels motivated.

[Yoda]

that would be good.. could reduce the lineups a tad if she is summoned from key items.

one of the worst ways to bore yourself silly is arrive at mel at a peak time when 3 or more people are standing waiting to do mel great for the odd conversation about movies or whatnot.. but not exactly action packed

[aaron]

I think all GoC items including the redeemed GoC pieces should be account bound and must be earned by the player.

[grunger]

What about making her anti-solo? Only pets? I'm a vet and I like beeing vet, I invested A LOT of gold in my imps and even an extra slot. I think she shouldn't be harder, we need to think about new players too, not only old experienced with 10 relayers who solo her in few minutes, and now they want a change cause they see, other people can get good stuff too. We all must be able to get the good stuff! Atm we ALL have a chance to kill her and get the goodies, If you make her harder, it will be good stuff only for the ones who already have plenty.
We should think about more about playing ultima and having fun, instead of getting all the good stuff and keep it for yourself!

PS: wich one of you experienced players has a bad wep, gear?

[Severragord]

I agree with grunger. Everybody should have equal chances for getting good stuff. If somebody finds the way to Lady Mel, then go past abeces and dryads and finally reach Lady Mels chamber he is good (or wise to use stealth) to get good stuff. If she would be harder, only top players have oportunity to get goodies and other weak players (such as me) should what? buy stuff? thats not the idea of the game imho. The idea is to have fun and i think that making Lady Mel harder is the best way to get the fun of the stage.

all best.

sorry for my english.

[ahorton12]

i like the idea of lowering her drop chance and putting epic weapons for epic players. when your playing dungeons and dragons you dungeon master doesnt drop holy swords to palidens at level 1. you need to be an epic level for epic power weapons there.