ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I don't understand the purpose of having the orc patrols in the far east. Before getting to Far East the adventurers parties could give you some unique challenges and decent early gears, but by the time you get to Far East your character development should be almost complete and you should already have good gears that you do not have to look for the orc patrols.

When you could clear Dreadfell your character should be decently strong that orc patrols cannot do you much harm unless you are not being careful. Given their frequent spawn, as they are now they are more like a constant annoyance rather than enjoyable challenges. So I suggest either remove them completely, or greatly reduce their spawn frequency (to adventurers' / Ziguranth's level) but buff them up.

...You mean you know a secret to not getting horribly murdered by orc patrols?
They're harder than prides with a bad layout.

Individual orc patrols are either a picnic or a ball of murder. The problem is not knowing until you get there.

On higher difficulties, they are very dangerous. I also think that the first time you go the East, they can be dangerous on normal too.

There was suppose to be some fix after the Orc Breeding Pits that would have reduced the spawning rate but I guess there wasn't any. I'm all for making the encounters less frequent. They are really pretty common and tedious to avoid since they follow you around.

They are generally easy on normal difficulty. But maybe its because I'm generally level 30 when I get to the East?

HousePet wrote:They are generally easy on normal difficulty. But maybe its because I'm generally level 30 when I get to the East?

Every time I start to think that one turns out lethal.

Look, how about we just reduce their spawn rate after a pride is killed? And as more and more are killed, they spawn less and less, until you see like one every once and awhile.

I did have a lot of difficulty with one yesterday, but since I was a necromancer and there was Kra'Tor the Gluttonous and an Orc Mage Hunter, I think that was reasonable.