Mob Re-spawn rate in IC

bardx86

Who great Idea was to have the mobs re-spawn so quickly? Stupid! It's making PVP almost impossible.

Preyfar

Spawn rate is tied to how many players are in the area. It's mostly dynamic to make sure there's always something to do. Given it's a hybrid PVP/PVE area you're going to have a large mix of both.

Ghanima_Atreides

No, they definitely changed the spawn rate of mobs. I have spent a lot of time in the IC, mostly focused on PvE stuff (grinding, farming, etc.). As such I got pretty familiar with mobs and their respawn rates; in particular the Xivkyn on platforms accompanied by two skeletons in the Memorial district. That's a convenient way of completing the daily for that district, because they respawn quickly and the skeletons are always on hand to plant geodes on once you are done killing them, but now the respawn rate is downright absurd. It's every few seconds as opposed to a minute or so like it was before.

Other random mobs in Elven Gardens also respawn quicker; you can no longer clear even a small area (like an alley) by the time you're done with the last group the first is already back. IMO that's excessive.

bardx86

Ghanima_Atreides wrote: »

No, they definitely changed the spawn rate of mobs. I have spent a lot of time in the IC, mostly focused on PvE stuff (grinding, farming, etc.). As such I got pretty familiar with mobs and their respawn rates; in particular the Xivkyn on platforms accompanied by two skeletons in the Memorial district. That's a convenient way of completing the daily for that district, because they respawn quickly and the skeletons are always on hand to plant geodes on once you are done killing them, but now the respawn rate is downright absurd. It's every few seconds as opposed to a minute or so like it was before.

Other random mobs in Elven Gardens also respawn quicker; you can no longer clear even a small area (like an alley) by the time you're done with the last group the first is already back. IMO that's excessive.

Exactly! Its bad enough that there are so many mobs that agro during pvp, now its not possible to even clear them out for a few minutes. It's agro mob feast PVP, sucks!

kargen27

I was just going to turn in some bone shards and other similar items and can't get to the vaults for all the mobs in the way. As far as I could tell I was the only one in the zone (never saw anyone else) and a mob of three would spawn before I could get all three dead. Great way to farm monstrous teeth I suppose as the mob is always there. With good regen I can stand there all day and kill the same mob of three over and over and over with zero waiting for respawn until my fingers bleed I suppose.

Without using AOE I could farm one mob of three all night. Using AOE I might have to go back and forth (what six maybe seven steps) and farm two mobs. Might as well take advantage and top off all my trophies to 60. Won't take long at all but turning them in could become a pain in the butt I suppose.

This couldn't be something that was done on purpose. It is just silly from a PVE standpoint and gotta be frustrating as hell from a PVP point of view.

FortheloveofKrist

Isn't it fun! You can collect Monstrous Teeth like piñata candy!

However, it does make those mob-guarded chests damn near impossible to pick. I think force-lock + autoloot might work. But I haven't tried.

phillyboy7897

It's wrecking our console duel spot in arena /QQ

Agree OP it's 4-5 times quicker respawns

Cazic

Spawn rate is definitely increased by a large amount in IC. This has been the case on PC since the Thieve's Guild update.

Last night I was in a group that camped the center Arena for about an hour. Battle would restart after 30 seconds every time. Got 10-15 chests really quickly.

It really should be fixed or reverted back.

KingYogi415

The bosses now insta respawn. Cool but very broken.