Have you checked general discussion? There is a lengthy thread (another one bites the dust) on it there if you wanted like minded discussion ( i advise keeping it constructive, theres some silly bickering bogging it down)
It was clearly broken. You could get clumps of 20+ skelk on a regular basis, and groups of 2-3+ respawned almost instantly. That’s blatantly absurd on its own, but in a zone with a free +200% MF on top of it? Yeah, it’s more shocking that it took them this long to fix it.
There’s plenty of great farming opportunities in Southsun still. Just because you can’t abuse the skelk anymore is no reason to be disgusted.
It was clearly broken. You could get clumps of 20+ skelk on a regular basis, and groups of 2-3+ respawned almost instantly. That’s blatantly absurd on its own, but in a zone with a free +200% MF on top of it? Yeah, it’s more shocking that it took them this long to fix it.
There’s plenty of great farming opportunities in Southsun still. Just because you can’t abuse the skelk anymore is no reason to be disgusted.
I’ll admit it was heavily populated before but have you been there since patch? I think only 4 skelk in that “oasis” is absurd. It’s so bare in there why have any. And yes OP. I am not pleased either.
It was clearly broken. You could get clumps of 20+ skelk on a regular basis, and groups of 2-3+ respawned almost instantly. That’s blatantly absurd on its own, but in a zone with a free +200% MF on top of it? Yeah, it’s more shocking that it took them this long to fix it.
There’s plenty of great farming opportunities in Southsun still. Just because you can’t abuse the skelk anymore is no reason to be disgusted.
Personally, I haven’t farmed skelk in days due to all the pople there, but.
The placed seemed fine before all this 200% MF buff mess, since skelk were one of the farm spots I visited often before this living story in southsun started, this is kind of upsetting, I mean what happens after they remove the 200% MF buff, and most people leave southsun?
Are these areas just going to remain gutted?
They did the same with Karka just a little while ago.
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On second thought, I don’t think it’s that bad now that I’m on. I apologize for over reacting.
On the plus side this area is now very sparse…atm.
So how many are left?
There used to be about 5 up the inlet
1 on the little sand dune
1 – 2 in front of each nest
1 -2 in the water that you could pull out (near the missing ship)
1-2 ‘’ ’’ " near the little head bit
and a about 4 randoms that appeared
I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
LOL I hope you are wearing exotic chain mail armor as you write this ( I think you might need it)
On second thought, I don’t think it’s that bad now that I’m on. I apologize for over reacting.
On the plus side this area is now very sparse…atm.
So how many are left?
There used to be about 5 up the inlet
1 on the little sand dune
1 – 2 in front of each nest
1 -2 in the water that you could pull out (near the missing ship)
1-2 ‘’ ’’ " near the little head bit
and a about 4 randoms that appeared
Enough for 1, or a party of 5, if anyone else is there, but on a different “page” (killing on their own) the place goes to crap.
Skelk were mostly removed from the middle of that open area most people were farming at, all the ones that are there when you run up the beach are still there, the ones in the water are still there, the one standing by that ship is gone, and the ones in front of the nest don’t spawn as often. ( at least i don’t think, might be the same)
I was there for a very short time, so I would have to look around again.
it’s not the best, and not near as good as it used to be, but it’s still an okay spot for when you need blood, or fangs.
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It’s the principle of why this was done. It was done because people were able to get a decent amount of crates. Its all about people spending money in the gem store. Of course a self proclaimed company “run by gamers” is going to be threatened by elder scrolls mmo and they are trying to make as much money now as they can.
It’s the principle of why this was done. It was done because people were able to get a decent amount of crates. Its all about people spending money in the gem store. Of course a self proclaimed company “run by gamers” is going to be threatened by elder scrolls mmo and they are trying to make as much money now as they can.
So, basically, what you’re saying is that you’d rather not have gotten any content update at all for May. No changes to Southsun and no introduction of new weapon skins, so that people wouldn’t be encouraged to optionally spend money on the game?
I only just figured out it was worthwhile farming that area a few days ago so I am a little cheesed by it but it’s only really a bad thing if they did this and didnt bother to fix the crab grabber achievements, fixes should come before nerfs.
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I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
You’ve obviously never even been to that area. There’s no way you could have been overwhelmed by those skelk.
I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
You’ve obviously never even been to that area. There’s no way you could have been overwhelmed by those skelk.
I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
You’ve obviously never even been to that area. There’s no way you could have been overwhelmed by those skelk.
unless they were walking around with a young karka stuck to their face??? and had their legs removed from the knees and weapons stolen by bandits…….
I can see why the farmers would be annoyed with this, but as a player who doesn’t farm, reducing mob density in an area is a good thing for me. Less chance to get swarmed and overwhelmed when you aren’t looking.
Now if ANet would only do the same with the swarms of sharks in the bay…
You’ve obviously never even been to that area. There’s no way you could have been overwhelmed by those skelk.
pfffffttttt not even
Looks pretty overwhelming to me.
I could have fought my way out of that with one hand tied to my back and with my eyes closed and my figures in my ears……….
So, basically, what you’re saying is that you’d rather not have gotten any content update at all for May. No changes to Southsun and no introduction of new weapon skins, so that people wouldn’t be encouraged to optionally spend money on the game?
Yes, i’d gladly drop the whole southsun living story arc if it meant an end to the stupid RNG box idea.
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I’ve actualy farmed there some times ago, and found out the skelk were way low than the water 1, and there is 1 place where all the skelks get bugged (arround 10 at times!) that can be pulled out and killed, not to count that u can actualy kill something else than Skelk, like Jellyfish, that gives armored (way more expensive than Powerful Blood), Barracuda (even those gives Armored), shark (same there) and Heremit crabs (not a waste of time since they gave me so far 2 steel and +4 wodden chest).
I kinda take back what I said, after spending 30min in this area on land, it isn’t really worth it. (when on land)
Since I am a bm ranger, I generally like to stay on land, so I never noticed most of the skelk underwater, but yeah, the area on land in pretty much gutted.
This is how it was before the southsun events started, I don’t think it was that bad, then again, I wasn’t gathering them up.
