LDONs. Forgotten treasureFollow

This has been talked about quite a bit, but I would love to see Sony tweak the LDoN's some. It would really cure some of the LFG woes for mid/low lvl players I think. 50+ experience in Ldons is horrid.

There is also still some very useful gear/augs (not to mention spells) to be had from em.

I can make 9% exp in 15 minutes worth of hard grinding in Velks.

It took us an hour to get about 6%.

It can be as simple as just giving everyone who journeys into a LDoN dungeon a "double exp" bonus. That would make it about even with regular zones.

After not being able to complete LDoN's for it seems like ever, our lottle family group - the wife and I 2 boxing - finally have gotten a handle on it. I created a Pally, so we could have the puller Pacify, and we are having a blast in the dungeons. Kind of behind the curve, but that's due to our playstyle. No promblem for us with the XP because we don't really play for levels - sometimes really would like to stay about the same level with some of our toons.

We've allways liked them - just never had been able to finish one. And, since we generally play alone, we haven't garnered any input on how best to handle the adds - finally figured out that the best way to handle adds in a dungeon is to make sure you don't have any.

It would be nice to get some decent loot in there though - and actually - I know that we wouldn't refuse the XP if it came our way. We just make another group of characters when one of our groups gets to the mid 60"s and runs out of places to go play.

I thought the LDoN's were great when they came out. At the time you hardly had to go lfg for more than 10 minutes. As interest waned, it became more and more difficult to find people who wanted to do them. Eventually it got to the point where I'd get an invite for an LDoN and then we'd be looking for an interested healer for the next 45 minutes till people in the group got disgusted and disbanded. If you couldn't get one going in about 10 minutes the group would fall apart before you got started.

I agree that an exp bonus for them would revitalize interest again.

Nope you don't even have to have the stone to do the adventures, just the expansion.

Guv

Oh and yea I absolutely loved LDON's, I wish they would do something to make them more appealing to others.
Or let me solo em :)

Guv

My family and I spend a lot of time in LDoN's when we make alts because they are a great place to level up through the 30's. They don't require a a specific group make-up to win and they are a lot of fun. Currently we have a group of a ranger, a rogue, a shaman, and a wizard all in the mid 30's. The ranger (my wife) can tank them fine still, even when we have an add or two. The shaman (my daughter) only has a heal for 350 but with healing potions it is enough. We have no way to single pull but if we get no more than 3 then my wife spends a few rounds of combat on each to get aggro and then the shaman and I (I'm the wizard) use AoE's to burn em down fast. If we get more than 3 then my daughter and I root park and we kill em as fast as we can. It takes team work and we often end up all OOM and low on health but we have not lost an adventure yet!

We just wish that we could do the same with our mains but in the 60's LDoN exp is crap and with a warrior, cleric, druid, bard combo we just don't have enough DPS to handle a hard mission without a big risk of failing. With exp so low and a good chance of failing it just isn't worth the time.

I hope more people start doing ldons again. I still need my Anger 3 augs at 1150 points a piece and I wasn't looking foward to scraping groups together to get a few dozen ldons done.

I did a Ldon last week me then 51 Pally a 49 Rogue and a 42 Shammy we did mob count and finished with 6 min left on ticker the xp wasn't to bad got likr about 12% of a lv in an hour 15. was a lot of fun

To beat a dead horse in order to salvage ldon, a number of things must be done:

1) For the higher levels, increase experience at least on par with MM (I think we heard that above).
2) Even with an experience increase, it would be difficult to attract people, so point values of an adventure should be increased across all levels. There are many spells that are very beneficial to casters as well as a number of augs (which you then need ldon gear) for all classes, which a player cannot obtain without doing a ridiculous number of adventures.
3) Points should not be restricted to a specific adventure site (i.e. Tak or Mistmoore) since that creates discontinuity in people looking for adventures and that ultimately undermines the building of ldon groups. I understand that it cuts into the lore aspects of the Wayfarers, but it must be done to save ldon.
4) Create a MM type reward specific to the 5 ldon adventure camps. That way people will want to do a LGuk or Tak and not simply stick with Mistmoore for example.
5) Perhaps the required number of missions for increasing the power of the Adventurer Stone should be decreased. Trying to complete 1000 or so missions when it's very difficult to even put together a group seems hopelessly out of reach at this point in the life of EQ.

Although my playing style leans more toward solo, I do not believe they should lower the 3 player requirement for adventures because that will undermine the entire purpose of salvaging ldons for all players. I say that with the caveat that ldons and the subsequent rewards must be revamped. If a revamp does not happen, then, by all means, allow players to get their points solo since most people don't want to waste their time with ldon as it is.

Another thing with LDoN's is that some pick up groups are just trouble. I've had a few good experiences, but for the most part it usually got me killed.

I would love to do them if I could find a good group to do them in. I also didn't see anything about some of the armor. It's really not that bad for the levels it's at. But I guess with the new DoN cultural armor it's not that great.

It probably wouldn't do much good, since Sony has nothing to do with this site. Posting it on Sony's forums would probably garner more attention.

no one reads the feedback.