I've been here for almost 4 years now and I'm still in category #1 (along with Nekhy, I guess). I find many areas quite difficult and there are parts of the server I may never see as a result.

Amia is, AFAIK, intended to cater to everyone from #1 to #3 and in general does so quite well. It is possible to reach 30th without ever visiting certain places (I've levelled 2 PCs to 30th and never visited Beholders, Sahuagin 1x, Illithids 2-4x, Actand 3-5x, Yuan-ti 5-8x, Manor of Mourn 8-15x [but never the boss], Spires & Abyss lots). People will always make builds that can solo many of these areas - does that make them too easy? Not for most people.

If you get bored because you can kill practically everything on the server with one hand tied behind your back and blind, it doesnt seem reasonable to me to up the difficulty of the server but, as many have suggested, to make it harder on yourself. Set yourself a challenge.

I personally dont find killing everything interesting enough to invest the time in learning how to do #3, though I've taken some steps toward #2. You could give me the uberest powerbuild and I'd still die horribly. If I ever leave Amia for good, it wont be because the spawns are too easy.

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I agree with Xaviera, just because you can power pwn with any build on this server, an RP server I might add, is great. But where does that leave those who don't or choose not to. It is however sad that the people with behind the curtain access agree that this server should be tailored to the power crew and as a result those without that gaming experience must powerbuild as well just to survive. It simply serves to deny many areas to players who might otherwise have something to contribute.

There are plenty of power servers out there, does Amia need to be one as well?

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I am not sure who you're referring to. Not a single DM or Designer thinks that we should make Amia more difficult, judging by the topic. Very few players seem to think so.

Amia has gotten easier, if anything: spawns now give more XP, so you can stick to lower level stuff. There was a time when I could barely solo trolls on my WM for 6 XP a pop, or so. I can now do it easily for 15 XP per kill, on a similar build, without any "tricks of the trade." In the past, 15-20 was "OK" XP for a kill, in a mediocre party. A poorly built/played druid (haha, no offence to whoever recognizes himself here!) and a barbarian took on the beetles last night for 40 XP a kill.

40 XP. That's insane. There was a time when you had to have a party of four to do the Spires for 40 XP (unless you were really good). 60 XP was orgastic, and rarely seen. Now it's the norm in large or well-played parties.

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Actually I think all the +5 bosses should be made harder, with few exceptions, and every area should have tons of variety but that's a bit different story, I think.

And yeah, especially towards higher levels, in a party you can get 60-80 XP a monster in the abyss or beholders or actand or something. Sahuagin, etc.

It's funny because compared to an old server I was on, this is horrifically slow. Like, if you got less than 150 XP a monster it was time to pack up and move on. Ahh, action servers.

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I would mind upping the top challenges and variety, either. But yeah, that's a bit different than giving the trolls more AC or whatnot, which is what actually affects people.

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If I may however. One thing to please be aware of, is that some timezones have such a small number of players on that partying can't always take place. They when some players get on, finding a party is a near impossible thing to do.

So judging monsters by how difficult they are with a party can be a bit wrong. As it can isolate a whole timezone of the server who may not be able to access parties are regularly as other timezones. Can then make hunting extremely hard, and very unpleasent.

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