Alright. I've been pretty much absent from dungeon running for the last ten days. When I stopped to let all my caps wear off, I noticed the loot was much better. People seemed more upbeat about it. A calm center of tranquility appeared to be forming.
In the last day or so upon logging back in and checking around the dungeons repeatedly and talking to people, I notice several things. Not all the dungeons appear to be respawning properly.
The new coal mines seem to have a randomized spawn setup now, and you'll get a high spawn uber monster, and a low spawn dinky monster together. All the rooms there seem to be lacking in spawn every time I've gone, with only one or two monsters anywhere. Granted, people may be going down there to slaughter ebon cats for their skins, and maybe that's what's keeping the spawn super low, but if that's the case maybe it needs to be permanently cranked up to account for all the people who are just whacking the cats.
The lich tower still seems to be off. Not sure what to make of that.
Sullen Woods appears to be respawning so slowly that I've noticed it being empty when checking. I noticed 10 days ago, too... always seeming to be near-empty or empty, but didn't worry too much about it.
Someone suggested the purple dungeon seemed low, and thought it might be because the outside spawns are killing each other off (jujus and spiders.)
And everything, for whatever reason, seems to be low. I checked every place today, and the only ones that had anything were the ice queen (1 bleakborn per group, rest crystals), the purple dungeon (1 skeletal per group). We had a low alhoon spawn, but the dungeon didn't reset itself after everyone left. I had to log out inside, came back hours later (having accidentally fallen asleep in the meantime) and the place seemingly hadn't reset or grown at all. The junk Tarth left on the floor for other people was still there. The doors were even still open. I'm wondering if this is happening at other places too, because checking around, most of the places seemed completely wiped out.
Anyway. Spawns just seem back to being off. I'm not sure how they were changed, but I've got enough people asking me about it since I've been logging back on that I thought I should make a mention.