lvangundy
03-11-2005, 10:38 AM
I glanced through the end of the dragon movement thread and noticed a bit about the increased forest fights..
I wanted to say something about this earlier but hadn't got around to it.
In short, this does seem to make leveling faster. The first 6-7 levels were practically a breeze and my experience bar was constantly blue. Most of the master challenges were started from truancy, not me looking for a challenge.
However after I reached level 7 or 8 and had almost maxed out my equipment the extra forest fights became costly and difficult. I've posted more about that in the other thread in the Village Square but don't want to bring that issue here. Right now I have a total of 27 forest fights with the donation buff. After the first 10 per day (with the forest fights being so difficult at my level) all buffs run out and I either have to spend the money to feed my mount, or run out of skill points to use to heal.
I think the donation bonus is a little too buff, and only awards the early levels but becomes a hassle in the upper levels. An example would be lacking the necessity for money after you max. out your weapon levels. You gain gold extremely fast during the 1-6 stages, have almost enough money to purchase the highest level weapons. Then the next levels are spent collecting a mass amount of money that becomes useless after a DK.
I wanted to say something about this earlier but hadn't got around to it.
In short, this does seem to make leveling faster. The first 6-7 levels were practically a breeze and my experience bar was constantly blue. Most of the master challenges were started from truancy, not me looking for a challenge.
However after I reached level 7 or 8 and had almost maxed out my equipment the extra forest fights became costly and difficult. I've posted more about that in the other thread in the Village Square but don't want to bring that issue here. Right now I have a total of 27 forest fights with the donation buff. After the first 10 per day (with the forest fights being so difficult at my level) all buffs run out and I either have to spend the money to feed my mount, or run out of skill points to use to heal.
I think the donation bonus is a little too buff, and only awards the early levels but becomes a hassle in the upper levels. An example would be lacking the necessity for money after you max. out your weapon levels. You gain gold extremely fast during the 1-6 stages, have almost enough money to purchase the highest level weapons. Then the next levels are spent collecting a mass amount of money that becomes useless after a DK.