Changes to the Werewolf Quest

UrQuan · April 2015

So I just did the WW quest for the 8th time (and there's a bit of a funny story behind that if you check out another thread I just started), and I noticed 2 things that are different from the last time I did it.

First, they changed it so that the mobs don't respawn while you're still in the instance. This means no more running around farming them after you complete the quest, so no more taking advantage of the fact that you can stay a WW indefinitely in the instance and leveling your WW skill to 10 before you leave. I killed all the mobs after becoming a WW and got the skill line up to 3 before running out of mobs and noticing that they no longer respawn.

Second, it seems to scale down to you level now as well as up. Or at least, everything was set to level 34, which was the same level as my character. I was pretty sure the lowest it would scale before was something like 40-42. Has anyone done it recently on a lower level character and seen it go even lower than 34? I'm curious if there's still a lower limit, or if they just removed the lower limit entirely.

Also, did anyone notice anything in patch notes about changes to this quest, and if so, which patch? Did I somehow completely miss that?

Adryssa_Joneley · April 2015

i went in with a lvl 4 and the mobs were lvl 12, if that helps. But i am bugged on my lvl 11 Khajiit where i cant even transform but the mobs are lvl 12 for him too.

Seravi · April 2015

They did change the levels for the WW quest a few updates back. The lowest level in there is 12 now and the other levels scale based on your characters level.

I never stayed in there to gain levels but I have seen other posts saying mobs no longer respawn in there.

UrQuan · April 2015

Hmm, was this maybe a change with 1.6 then? This is the first time I've done the quest since then.

ProfessorKittyhawk · April 2015

I haven't done the ww quest in ages but hearD the mobs scaled down. Now that means low level players can do it, which isn't really a problem, but if they're going to scale down the ww quest instance, how about doing the same with the vampire quest instance? I know some people can do it at low levels, but I'm not one of them.

Folkb · April 2015

I just did this yesterday on two toons and mobs respawned on me about 4 mins after killing the last mob in the zone. I was able to get to level 10, but I watched twitch streams while waiting for spawns to kill time.

Folkb · April 2015

Adryssa_Joneley wrote: »

i went in with a lvl 4 and the mobs were lvl 12, if that helps. But i am bugged on my lvl 11 Khajiit where i cant even transform but the mobs are lvl 12 for him too.

Are you wearing a costume on that toon? I noticed if you're wearing a costume you cannot transform and your toon gets stuck in a partial form.

UrQuan · April 2015

Folkb wrote: »

I just did this yesterday on two toons and mobs respawned on me about 4 mins after killing the last mob in the zone. I was able to get to level 10, but I watched twitch streams while waiting for spawns to kill time.

Ah, so they just slowed down the respawn? OK, good to know. It used to be that by the time you had done a circuit and killed all the mobs in there, you only had to wait maybe 30 seconds for the first one you killed to respawn. This probably needed to be nerfed, to be honest. I sort of wish that they hadn't made the quest scale down so much, though. It really felt like an achievement the time I did it on a level 18 character, and I know there's someone on the forums (although I can't remember who) who managed it on a level 4 character...

UrQuan · April 2015

Folkb wrote: »

Adryssa_Joneley wrote: »

i went in with a lvl 4 and the mobs were lvl 12, if that helps. But i am bugged on my lvl 11 Khajiit where i cant even transform but the mobs are lvl 12 for him too.

Are you wearing a costume on that toon? I noticed if you're wearing a costume you cannot transform and your toon gets stuck in a partial form.

You mean like this?

Yeah, that happened to me during this go around too... There are more pics of my ridiculous half-transformed state in this thread.

Folkb · April 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

Folkb wrote: »

Adryssa_Joneley wrote: »

i went in with a lvl 4 and the mobs were lvl 12, if that helps. But i am bugged on my lvl 11 Khajiit where i cant even transform but the mobs are lvl 12 for him too.

Are you wearing a costume on that toon? I noticed if you're wearing a costume you cannot transform and your toon gets stuck in a partial form.

You mean like this?

Yeah, that happened to me during this go around too... There are more pics of my ridiculous half-transformed state in this thread.

Lol yes hilarious

MuseTheDrunkenDragon · April 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

Hmm, was this maybe a change with 1.6 then? This is the first time I've done the quest since then.

yup, shortly after 1.6 hit, I was accidentally bitten by a guild mate on a char I had made to see what the lowest level you could attempt the ww quest at ( its level 3), and decided to make the attempt, naked and unarmed as I was, just for the lolz, and was flabbergasted when I succeeded on the first try. I found this change to be rather disappointing, because it means that having a ultra-low-level werewolf doesn't mean anything anymore

Bookwyrm · April 2015

Well this is a bit disappointing--particularly the mobs leveling down, because they had intended for werewolf/vampire characters to be difficult to achieve (at least until a certain level) mostly because they didn't want everyone to be one. I guess they thought since everyone was one it didn't matter, but still...meh. *shrug*

MissBizz · April 2015

Just did this tonight and the mobs do respawn.

I did it awhile ago on another toon, at the time the quest did scale and I was VR and I died multiple times. I tried tonight.. First try. Even picked a different boss

StrykerTheElite · October 2015

Well after the IC patch they reverted it back to mobs don't scale, I am lvl 10 trying to kill lvl 38 troll. Mobs do re spawn though.

BaldusMageezack · October 2015

Did you try logging out and back in to get mobs to respawn?

Cazzy · October 2015

I was VR2 and everything was VR2 for me. I had to hang around for a boss to spawn as there was nothing there when I arrived.

Glaiceana · October 2015

@UrQuan Useful info! Although people seem not able to confirm the lowest scaling. Lv12 sounds about right though. I have an alt that I want bitten as soon as possible, but trying to decide what level to get him to first.

StrykerTheElite · October 2015

thanks to my wife superior crafting abilities, with best gear, pots, food lvl 10 can beat lvl 38 troll.