Posted this on official forum late last night, but wanted to share here too...
Some general feedback after playing on Atlantic Tram side tonight:
- Lag was fixed compared to last few weeks. Kudos on that.
- Spawn rate is so-so. A little slower than before, but was relatively enough stuff to kill. Some areas, like level 3, had very little spawn when I was on.. but the "main room" had plenty of spawn at all times.
- Due to open area nature of Destard as compared to other dungeons, paragons are much more difficult to deal with. As others have pointed out, ranged fighters are basically hitting all the normal spawn and leaving trains of paragons that just destroy you. Especially with the dismount from the Treefellows, melee fighters and sampires have a tough time. There is no where to try to group the paragons into a corner or choke point and create a "grinder" with other players to fight back against them. All players basically just scatter. Difficult to strategize how to deal with this one.
- Drop rate is atrocious. I had less than 10 drops from start to finish after popping a potion. Seeing several others with similar comments in the various Discord servers I am in.
I can understand that strategies for dealing with spawn in this event will need to be different compared to past events due to the unique dungeon layout, but too many paragons and drop rate too low.
Overall, an improvement from a playability perspective, but still need to calibrate further to find the right mix between spawn and drops.
Sidenote: I still hope they re-open Fel side again to give players another option. Had a blast on the weekend event.