LFG Cruel's Intentions is something that never leaves my chat window, once I finally got the quest for myself yesterday I waited with about 10 alliance players for him to spawn. I got my dots on asap, and let those guys do all the work. Thank you!

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it's just not in Outlands either. At the Draenei starting point is a quest where you have to kill something like 10 blood elves turn in the quest and then go kill the the blood elf architect.
a) on a high-population server you spend the time camping one spot and tabbing for the spawns which has about a dozen spawns in the area...
b) and getting a bunch of people standing around in one tiny area for the architect was exciting...

As soon as my server opened up for server transfers I was out of there and onto a much quieter server. Don't mind it in the least ^_^

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I think it's the Disneyland effect. Once a new ride opens everybody is trying to get on it. To tell you the truth I think that WoW is the new Disney World.
With Azeroth being the Magic Kingdom and TBC is Epcot center.

Carver

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I haven't noticed that much of an issue with spawns due to this brilliant little maneuver on behalf of Blizz's dev team:

[i]The big news though is that Blizzard has introduced new dynamic spawn rates for Outlands that changes the spawn rate for a Monster based on how many people are in the immediate mini-zone. So when there are 493 people camping the same named quest mob in Hellfire Peninsula on Jan 16, there will be an almost instantaneous respawn of the mob when it dies.[/i]

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Servers are full of players. I think only new servers can solve this problem. Or make like in GW - every party has it's own unique location

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Hey neat, the comments system has been upgraded, a la Engadget!

I've seen this as well, and been frustrated to the point of Alt-F4 on a couple of occasions since the expansion dropped - it does get the heart pounding, no doubt, but I could play Wii, or, say exercise for that. It gets you worked out because it's simply stressful and aggravating.

Not that I'm above spamming Rank 1 Blizzard over a spawn spot, you know, I'd just rather not have to be a jerk and put someone in the same mood I'd be in otherwise - I probably shouldn't let it get to me, but what's the point of attempting to quest if you have to be cutthroat even (with your own faction) to get something done?

The outlands isn't the best example of this. The friggin' Abominable Greench wins, hands down. That was just a miserable, horrible quest to try and get done.

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For one, clicking on the spawn spot is very ineffective. Tab works much better.

Second, it's almost always a good idea if you're solo, just say, "Who needs ____" and then invite them to a group. 5 people trying to tag is much better then just one person, plus it moves the campers along much faster. As soon as the mob is down, it's merely a "Thanks!" and then leave. No fuss, no mess.

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The camp just south of cenarian refuge in Zangermarsh. There's a named mob (non-elite boss) in a tower that you need to kill.
I got there just as someone had finished it off, and had been waiting a few minutes when two other horde arrived. I said "You guys need boss?" and got no reply. Then the boss spawned, the priest tagged and it and went on his way, leaving me and the other hordie to wait for the respawn, which was about 5 minutes. I teamed up with the remaining dude so we could both get the kill.

That REALLY REALLY pissed me off, since I'd been waiting there for awhile (when you're standing around doing nothing in a video game, 10 minutes seems like an eternity) and I had basically offered to team up with the guy so we could all get it done quicker, but he just wanted to be a shit. I can't think of any other reason why someone would do that.

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of course this is going to happen, the expansion just came out last week and there's like 5 million people trying to level up a new toon. Just wait a month and you might have a little more luck.

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I've never had any issues with mob respawns. It seems like when there are alot of players in the area, the mob respawns rather quickly. Then again, I am on Malorne, which is very low pop.

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If you've only made it as far as Zagamarsh or Terrokar forest is in for a real treat in Nagrand. Once you hit 65 you can start a quest line called the Ring of Blood where you're group has to fight arena-style in 6 progressively harder boss fights. The pain is that you can only talk to the NPC who starts and ends the quests between fights. So there's mad clicking from all the groups (Horde and Ally) trying to be the group that starts their fight.

So, you've got approximately 2-3 seconds (if that) to talk to the NPC. If someone else in you're group managed to turn in his quest for round 2 and start round 3 before you've had a chance to turn in, you don't get to start the quest that round. Then you have people ganking, random ogre spawns running in the ring, etc. etc.

It gets *really* frustrating after awhile.

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@ #3 - I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the DL effect being used in a WoW discussion. Thanks... was a much needed smile on my face after a day in the office.

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It's bad in the BE starting area as well. They create a quest similar to one that was mentioned for the Draenei, where you have to frigging kill ONE guy! So everyone is having a freaking convention in the spot waiting for this joker to show up.

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What is this, Everquest?

I thought the game was made to adjust itself to automatically spawn creatures more often based on how often they're being killed. That's how it was when everyone was killing Twilights down in Silithus for CC rep when that first started.

Also, this problem will probably go away in a month or so, when the initial rush has evened itself out a bit.

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This is a major problem. Perhaps realm splits will help, but it would be a nice move on Blizzard's part to bump up the spawn rate on many of these targets. It is literally infuriating to have people repeatedly ninja tagging your targets, especially those of the opposing faction.

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I think the bosses should patrol - and spawn in random locations so that you can't camp...it'd be slightly more fair.

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ahh i click on alliance and 'accidentally' kill them all the time....

the whole 'lets just level truce' has been broken many times on Mug'thol... so it all burn down every alliance I see

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I only really experienced this issue in Hellfire Peninsula. My recommendation; stay ahead (or far behind) of the leveling curve.

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I had a rogue come up to me and try to tag a named quest mob I needed - "ha ha I already finished it, just wanted to be a dick" - not that it mattered, because Explosive Trap is faster than asshole rogues. When I congratulated him on being an ineffective tool, he whined that he just couldn't beat my trap...

What kills me is the sheer number of people who will try to be assholes rather than just say, "Hey, we're both here for the same reason, want to group up?" It won't kill you to split XP with me, and it might save you from having your kill stolen out from under you - I have no qualms about doing that if it's crystal clear someone's trying to do that to me.

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I really do not have problem as I'm only 63 now and I juste left HFP to go to shattrah...

found a quest in terrokar forrest which requires me to kill a named dragonfly on top of a tower, no one there, no problem to kill it (at prime time)

but I found the respawn time in HFP to be insane... the orc camp south-est to the honor hold as insane respawn time... like 0 sec!
it happens me the chain four time the same mob because he was respanwing instantly killed! must escape cos run out of ressource to fight...

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