I think up to 4-6 captains is the max an area should have at any one time, one is a little easy, how it is now is totally stupid, however watch your dragon when attacking a bard as they can unbond once the tamer is discorded and giving them commands. Right now on our invasion we have 3 red bards, and two yellow ones, a couple of archers, an assassin, and a necro. The MOST people that has been there today at one time to fight is hmmm 4 perhaps 5? Most of the time I was there today was me and my shadow.
Works fine until you get an archer that wants to zip all over the place with dragons and summons in tow. We all try pulling just one captain, it isn't rocket science, but as I said in my other post, this morning within 10 steps inside the entrance I had 9 captains. Most spawned there so always rebounded to the same spot. While we were trying tonight, two 'fresh' spawns happened right on the entrance. Luckily they were manageable with a necro and sampire, however the bards (3 red/2 yellow) ended up winning as two bards were just inside the entrance and although we tried dragging em off to the edge they always ended up back where they started.
I beg to differ regarding your statement: "deffo no feedback given." The list below shows posts regarding the new dungeon that were made by 29 people in the threads about this publish hitting TC1 and when the publish hit Origin and Izumo. These posts include actual feedback from a handful of people who apparently visited the dungeon in person, and quite a few comments or questions about it that did not indicate the poster actually went there or in a few cases specifically stated someone hadn't been there yet but wanted to make an observation or ask a question.
Just out of curiosity how big of a group did the team envision being necessary to finish a pod? Last night we had about 15 people there and of course it was the hydra spawn. I saw some wonderful tactics being used to try to stay alive long enough to kill one hydra but when captains can just walk through energy fields and TEN HYDRAS at full health all breathe at the same time everyone on the screen just gets obliterated. I admit it was very fun having an almost impossible challenge to overcome but after an hour of playing "run back to res station, run back to your body, get slowed by one of the two bards, die to 10 full health hydra blasts, run back to res station" game 20 times, myself and about 12 others all started filtering out shaking our heads. Nothing we tried worked and I don't think even 50 people would have cleared that mess out.
I personally have seen as few as a group of 5 just absolutely demolish a single pod with little effort. Different combinations are going to provide varying levels of difficulty, which is the intention - the same old fight gets stale quickly. As I mentioned in my previous post, we will make tweaks where appropriate. Thanks for your feedback!Thank you for reading our feedback!!
I'll try again today and see how it goes as I need 7 more mini's to trade in! I think certain combinations of spawn and captains are just plain ridiculous in that small of an area with all of them popping back to the exact same spot. Could they at least rebound to random areas in the pod so we have a chance at separating some of these?
-P.E.
Kyronix, it's really disappointing to read this. I've tried now several times to frame an explanation of why I find it so disappointing, but I'm afraid that if I say what I really want to say, it's just going to be deleted by someone from Stratics.
Can you post it you YouTube?!
That's not to say that feedback provided on test center/origin/izumo isn't valuable, it is, and as I've said before we absolutely appreciate it. I should have worded it better. What I mean is that at this stage we are trying to balance things. The core features of the invasion system were reused from the wider invasion. There isn't much else to find in the way of issues that cause problems with overall functionality since it has been in production for a about a month or so. When it comes to balancing the widest audience will provide the most valuable feedback and that's the stage we are at.Kyronix, it's really disappointing to read this. I've tried now several times to frame an explanation of why I find it so disappointing, but I'm afraid that if I say what I really want to say, it's just going to be deleted by someone from Stratics.
Doing a Humanoid sure...... doing dragons, Deamons or the Fey I highly doubt it.
agreed
Saw this problem coming a week before it happened. Small shards ='s screwed. One of my favorite shards is (honestly) lucky to have 3 people on at the same time, let alone wanting to do the same thing at the same time. If by some strange coincidence we can get a group, just one person being interrupted by real life in the dungeon will leave the other 2 to try and see how many death robes they can collect, so may as well kill the less fun stuff because it might yield quicker results. =/
Haven't been able to get a six focus on Oceania for MONTHS. I get a 4 everyday, with my three accounts and three spellweavers at wbb. Without my accounts I doubt I would get a focus at all. Each day I ask and noone comes.
Maybe not but it sure takes a crapload of time. Especially if your chiv is only around 70 so you fizzle to turn it off x 2 then fizzle turning it back on. Why did they change it? Just to make it more tedious?
I think Word of Death was always like that, where it doesn't work without a focus. The problem lies when they changed Arcane Circle to not be able to cast alone. You used to be able to cast it alone and get a level 1 focus [or level 2 at the special double circles] and Word of Death would work, but at very low levels, like 10%, but it was better than nothing.
That's not the case at all. Just because you have to go through town to get to the dungeon, does not mean that the dungeon is in town. My reason being you can still be attacked if you go to the fel side of the blackthorns castle as it should be because it is a "dungeon" in fel not a town. If that was the case then you wouldn't be allowed to attack without getting guard whacked.
