Is this too easy?

Using an alt in South Longfall Wetland, 2 Skull.

Adventure level 22
Cloth fancy merchant armor, not enhancements
Hard Maple Staff +4
Blessing of Honor +1.5 Combat Focus
Blessing of Sacrifice +1.5 Combat Health
No food buffs

Just got attacked by 5 spiders who were all yellow, and used a single health potion part way through the battle, might not have need to, but wanted to be safe.

Is this too easy? Seems like I shouldn't be able to do Tier 2 yet, at least without food and being more careful.

 

Yes It has been and is.

 

I agree, thats too easy. 5 greens, maybe. 5 yellows should be way harder than that! like run away at 50% health without killing any of them hard,

 

yeppers way to easy,

 

It feels like a tough call without knowing actual xp per kill on the yellows, vs. xp per kill on greens nearby.

It may be a slight mathematical boundary case, not significant monster difficulty difference, causing a different mob color without much added mob difficulty level. Dunno.

 

Um, what skills? Just auto attacks?

 

Have you ever fished with Bait? This is it let them run with it for a wile then you yank the hook into the mouth. Sadly this is the perfect example if it.

Still screwed up but . . .

 

in reality there is much fishing without bait. Shiny lures actually work. Unless you consider lures bate, then I understand. Lures could = bait i guess.

 

When i started duo with buddy.. played 30 min in T1. Straight to T3 for a couple days. Straight to T5.

Pretty sure we never touched 2 or 4 at all despitr there being hundreds of them.

Sounds normal to me.
And that was before knowing how to play easily. Lol

 

Just for curiosity's sake, what exactly sort of spiders were they ?
Wolf, Brown, Red........... ??

 

What were you hitting them with ?

 

You were just there

Wolf I think. But also the bandits, I could take 5 at a time.

Now, I know what I'm doing, but still, that seems a bit excessive.

I'm using the staff +4. It's pretty generic, but does have +15% spell damage.

And I'm wearing cotton merchant clothes. I think I could only be less armored if I was naked.

So the only thing in that area that does any real damage is the poison gas vents. Those do 18 damage, and will kill me fairly quickly if I let them. Everything else, I could perhaps leave the computer and let them beat on me and still be ok. Maybe not, certainly not if there's a gang of them, but they are all yellow/orange, so it shouldn't be possible with any of them I would assume.

 

So I just stood there for over a minute being chewed on by a small crocodile, repeated several times. They are yellow. I am typing this up while one chews on me right now, not worried about it.

So since I wasn't even attacking or using Dodge, I think the only relevant stats are:

Healthy: 28
Strength: 58
Health: 240

My adventure level is still 24. What determines that anyway?

 

Just letting 4 yellow Relic Hunters hurl fireballs at me, I lasted about 35 seconds before I was halfway down, and started getting nervous, and counterattacked. They were spread out, so it took me 1 minute to kill all four, and a healing potion due to me already being on fire and halfway dead.

 

XP earned.

 

So if I've got a bunch in my pool, unused, then I'm effectively at a higher Adventure level than I'm functioning at? This character has 600k in her pool thanks to Oracle use and login bonuses.

 

I believe so. You could technically be AL100 and not have any skill above it's starting value. I was confused by that, too. I assumed it was applied xp, but early on, I had turned everything to maintain to build my pool, and noticed I was still gaining adventurer levels. I'm not sure that's what's going on here, though. Yellow mobs should still be doing decent enough damage, I would think.

 

Unless maybe the spread between green/yellow/orange/red increases at higher levels? So a yellow mob at AL50 might be quite a bit higher than you, while at 22 a yellow mob might be only a little above you, even if it's almost orange.

 

I think they turned down damage in lower levels and perhaps turned it a little too far.