Not impressed with HOF

Perumummy · Post by **Perumummy** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 2:29 pm

-HOF is pretty stupid. Why make ridiculous monsters (super goblins) when the designers could have just replaced each goblin with 2 frost giants and a mage.

-I think HOF was a bit of a cop out. It would have been much cooler killing lots (and lots) of strong monsters (not souped up ridiculous ones). Give the bosses some extra hit dice and a spiffy new magic weapon with a high level mage or two for back up.

-Anyway, all I'm trying to say is a high level run through the game should have been more like Throne of Bhaal (although the setting would not change just the type and number of monster generally encountered). Strong monsters, more quest experience, not silly souped up ones.

paulsbo · Post by **paulsbo** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 3:23 pm

Yeah, HoF is . . . tedious. I find it absolutely annoying. I'm currently in Kuldahar, and I'm finding that at 25th level characters, about half of the monsters you fight don't even give you experience. That's just super-frustrating, because the fight you go through to kill these megamonsters is nervewracking, only to be rewarded with 93 gp, maybe a gem, and no xp. So far, I've only found one new item worth keeping (the Golden Heart of XXXX), and vendors don't seem to have anything better than what I already have.

I'll play it till the end, but believe me, I'll be forcing myself to do so. After I finish HoF, I'm gonna start brand new with new chars.

Ambiorix · Post by **Ambiorix** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 6:17 pm

Seeing I'm not alone ...: HOF is no fun. Tried it and didn't like it. Goblins working over a 17 level fighter? And if you win you get no XP?

aberrant80 · Post by **aberrant80** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:10 am

it was kinda fun in IWD. it's just that new XP system that takes the fun out of it.

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 8:22 am

So they don't change the XP tables for HoF mode? That's plain stupid. I really hate the way the XP system is rigged in this game.

Skooter327 · Post by **Skooter327** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:42 pm

I second that! I'm just running into it now (in HoF). When I started HoF, I had 2 char's at L.17 (or so), & 4 char's at L.1. I was getting over 2000EXP per goblin! Now I'm by the dam, and those levels have switched to L.20 & L.8, and now I get like 700EXP per orc. It simply defies logic!