Hiedy-ho!
What are your thoughts on the Spider Scavenger Hunt?
I logged in at 9AM my time on Saturday morning and decided to give it a go. (YES, I know that AM means morning...)
I went to Sunvale to start hunting. I knew that our admins LOVE making us quake in terror at their "obvious" hiding places.
Well there was no help channel...and very few people hunting. I created the Spideraid channel and posted the first spider I found. Seya and several others found the other 2 spiders. I had to take off....
Later I finally was able to find the spoilers in discord...The hiding places could not be told in chat they were SO twisted and complicated.
Having to fly...realizing that the "4 of us" meant only 3 to find...At least Sunvale was easy.
Rahu...seriously? Inside a hostile house....and other harder to find spots.
Kur...I gave up because I was not in a party to get the final spider surrounded by mobs. The other 2 were worse to find than Rahu.
I knew reading the list that I would probably fail all but the Sunvale hide and tear-your-hair-out seek.
I did not even try the dungeon hunts.
My thoughts on all of these events:
- The rewards are not worth the hours spent. Sunvale took several of us around 2 hours to find all 3 spiders.
- Many people have limited play time and even with spoilers do not have the time it takes to find the items.
- The regions the events are located in do not cater to lower level players. Sunvale, Kur, Winter Nexus, Rahu, Rahu Sewers, and Yeti Cave! As a mere level 40's thru low 50's combat player I can not handle mob 1 in most of these areas. I could always beg to join a party and get carried, but they RUN thru areas I would love to walk thru and explore.
- Higher level stuff should be well hidden or even guarded. But geez the lowest spiders were pretty hard to find.
- NOTE even the 1 event that had spots in Serbule were not meant for lower level players
I play games to chat with people and have fun. I do not consider looking at a list and knowing all I will find is death and aggravation fun.
MY suggestion is keep the upper level stuff but make it so LOW level players can participate in the events without having to be shown everything or carried everywhere.