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So I wonder what happened now on Arkadia. I just went on to hunt oro as I am about to complete this IFN mission atm and recognised that oro young eg. went from lvl 13 to lvl 7. In the release notes of 'Planet Arkadia Update 2012.7' you stated that: I am very eager to know now, why there was a need to adjust the threat level of Arkadian mobs? As it did sound like everything is OK. Personally, I always thought that threat level of pretty much all Arkadian creatures made a lot of sense. Can you please confirm weather or not this adjustment to a lower thread lvl in the case of oro eg. does lead to a decreased average skillgain when interacting with this mob? Looking forward to an answer!
I spent a fifteen minutes looking at carabok just now and it appears that it IS possible that skill gains have been decreased along with "level number". This isn't definitive, just preliminary. I'll need to do more testing to determine whether this is actually the case (I don't want to spend several hours doing that atm).
I have been on them for 3,5 hrs so far and let me assure you that it does seem that skill gains have been nerfed accordingly. I will however give it a few days to get a quick average just to see if it's even worth hunting them anymore. Also, they no longer drop eye oil and are now dropping muscle oil in it's place. I am wondering just what other changes to loot have occurred and what mobs are worth hunting now, if any. Edit: So, after 5 hrs my skill gains are about 50% less than what they once were. Will keep on to see if it's a one off thing or a true nerf...
Weapons ATM. That was what jumped right out when I was checking the gains. Of course all this can be just cyclic too. The other skills such as evade seemed to be about the same but I always try to maximize the amount of hits from Carabok. I am going to be doing this over the next few days to get a quick assessment though. If it's just cyclic, it'll even out fairly quickly.
Thx for feedback Iphigia & Neil! It would be really good if we could get a statement from some official here !! Personally, I doubt it was only the displayed creature lvl that was altered because it doesnt make much sense. Looking forward to an answer !
