close gap between desert and azira

[narrow thicket]

i've met many people that did not know that they should move to azria already because usually they would not move on at their level.

i dont have the data but i guess some people might lose interest at this phase of the game because the game is very drawn out at muffrin/popcrank and when i told them to move on to medumet already they are like "woah whats this, so easy to kill and so much exp, i wish i knew earlier".

they just did not know that there is a strange/unusual def+exp thingy going on between popcrank and medumet. so i think its better to flatten this gap

[frigid cargo]

Please not! The desert is strong and the end point for all auto farm bots. Nothing should change, or the bots came to azria too.

[gloomy bison]

desert is a nightmare to grind

[sick flame]

Medumet and popcrank have - for all relevant purposes - the "same" defense.
There is also nothing strange going on with the exp.

What you/they observed is that desert monsters actually have block, while azria monster do not bar the default. monster block is based on their parry stat but higher monster level has a negative effect on that. E.g. if there are 2 monsters, both have 200 parry then the level 1 monster has max block, while the level 200 monster has none.

Azria monsters are severly underpowered.

[narrow thicket]

ok interesting

[tacit cliff]

I was told that desert mobs have rage, increasing their attack above that of azria. And honestly, after having been told that, i tried medumets and could easily aoe them. Still wondering how factual that info i got was

[gloomy bison]

The mob count and its density are the issue not the mob’s stat itself.

[sick flame]

Then the TC opening post doesn't make sense, because he links his observations to the monsters.
Does not change that Azria monsters are severely underpowered.