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It's that time, I'm starting to count down the days til Halloween and doing my best to schedule myself off at work to facilitate a total devotion to the grindy grind.  To any newer players that haven't experienced Halloween events on EZ, it's the most anticipated event we have with a shitload of Halloween-Event-Only drops.  Hopefully someone will take the ball and run with it and flesh out what that means, but I wanted to find out if we can get the zone either truly instanced or have at least 30 realms of the zone available.

We've been stuck at T10 for years now just backfarming shit for alts it seems, and a lot of people are at the point where they can keep over half the mobs in the zone down easily before it starts respawning and that's gonna mean the 6 realms we have are gonna be crowded and people waiting on respawns.  If that ends up being the case, it's just gonna piss people off and encourage them to not bother.  The biggest draw to playing on EZ is the instancing factor, being able to set up in a zone for a grind of whatever time you determine and get to it, you can hit it as hard as you want and repop every 10 mins if you clear shit out before it respawns.  You get to move at your own pace, you can put as little effort in as you care to and still progress or you can hit it hard and ball out...the fact that you can create your own zones to do it in allows for all sorts of dynamic playstyles and doing things at a pace you are comfortable with is a great design.

Another point I'd like to address is that Halloween is very much an end game grind right now.  Sure, the global drops are super cool for people unable to do much in the Cursed Garden zone, let alone the Plane of Regret, but they don't really get the same rush.  When I first rolled onto EZ, Halloween was spread across multiple zones from Unrest to Plane of Disease, Plane of Fear, and a handful of other zones with undead themes.  You'd just sit and kill trash in those zones over and over until you popped a mini named...the mini named would have a chance to chain to another mini named and another all the way through to the Stone Monster.  I think it went something like Werewolf(or some other lower level mini), Innoruk(or some other God mini),Cazic Thule(3rd tier mini, always him and his annoying knockback), then Stone Monster(annoying mez).  The first boss would drop candy or some similar crap, the second boss would drop a no-stat familiar item that was cool to get because you had a portable buff bot and candy, the third dropped a stat familiar item and loot from the first 2's loot tables as well as some FG/CG items randomly, and Stone Monster dropped the end game familiar along with strike 5 augs, scepter of time upgrades, high level crafting ores and blue diamond gear.  It was super common to see people get to CT and get wiped out and ask for help killing it and people would chomp at the bit to help because there was a chance to pop SM and have a chance at the familiar.  It worked out awesome for everyone, because lower level toons would get as far as they could in the chain and call in backup if needed and the backup would generally be only after the SM familiar.

Each year the same event would run and there would be another higher tier chain added, after SM it was Insane Goblin, then Black Unicorn items/weapons with people pooling all their candy to hand in and spawn it...but there would always be stuff that anyone 71+ could participate in.  I'm fortunate to be at the point in the game where I can enjoy the custom Halloween content, but I can imagine it wouldn't be the same rush for newer players who are just grinding what they do the rest of the year and collecting some super useful items rarely along the way. 

tldr; Dimur went off on a tangent again, Halloween is fun, enjoy it while you can...what do people like/hate about it?

I would like to see instanced PoR or more realms. Devs don't want this, but I can see no good reason not to. All the players have wanted this since the third time the zone was available. PoR is the only reason I find myself wanting to log on and play at this point.

It would be super awesome with some new cool items as well. Be it a questline og just drops.

Trick or treat.

<3 Miss you guys, just not enough to come back  :'(

Definitely agree, why cant it be instanced or even a zone that would be up all the time without the zp's doubles and triples until new content actually becomes reality, then throw those items in for halloween or special events or other holidays. Can we think outside the box with very little time/effort involved instead of just nerf ?

We need instances and decent drop rates or this is going to yet again just be a disappointing non-event that will further push people away.