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Discussion in 'Release 54 Feedback Forum' started by Steevodeevo, Jun 2, 2018.

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  1. Steevodeevo

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    I've always had fun in these 'mini dungeons', but they're really coming on in leaps and bounds.
    This release I've met an ecological surveyor who handed me a Survey document I have to take to town, a bounty hunter, who rewarded me with a chit for a job well done, which I have to take to his boss for a reward.

    The new combat system with the escalating mob waves is very cool. I got the fright of my life after an easy sweep of some green bandits and was then faced with several more plus two yellow Lich's and an orange one!

    Very nice stuff.

    Oh! and now i've just wandered into some other characters who've asked for my help .. I won't spoil it, :)
     
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    I enjoy the variation of the encounters but not the ridiculously escalating mobs. I was fine when it started with greens and happy when a yellow started running to me (though it seemed out of place that he ran straight for me from across the map while I was trying to mine) but very annoyed when an orange with 3x my hit points charged me along with another yellow.
     
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    @zyxe, I had hoped they scaled with the player. If they don't some of these overworld randoms may need to be avoided. The Lich's were a challenge, but surmountable. I had more trouble later on when I got lazy and entered a scrap with no buffs running and half stamina and I got hit with a green zerg, of fire mages and had to limp off with my tail between my legs (don't tell anyone).
     
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    The waves idea is good, the scaling not so much. It essentially means that new ow lower level players cant enjoy encounters without getting wtfpwned.
     
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    Well with the speed nerf encounters are for me now off the table anyways, no way i survive the yellows
     
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    well i'm having fun anyways.
     
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    I really don't like the new scales of enemies. Pretty unfair to throw unbeatable things at players in what should be tier 2 encounters. I enjoy the other parts of them, but there's no incentive really for me to do them now, as I'll just need to run away quickly anyway. I just skip them now, which is sad because I used to always do them.
     
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    I've done a few encounters and found them quite fun. The one with the three liches almost caught me out :) I liked it though.

    Are the quests within them repeatable? They really should be - for gold and/or xp - not other rewards though.
     
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    Yea I believe they are. I had second encounter and they said I needed to hand in the first.
     
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    I'm liking them a lot. Typically, by the time I've collected all the resources, I have done the boss mobs two or three times and maybe even gotten a minor quest.
     
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    I keep seeing things about this speed nerf, but I'm not experiencing it? Is it just to the speed buffs, and not the base move rate?
     
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    While I think it's good that they've moved the virtue armor quests to other encounters.. I worry about new and low level characters feeling like they must avoid road encounters. You need to be respectably high to take the higher tiered 'boss' in those.
     
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    From what I understand, if you're Plate or Mail you wont notice it so much.
     
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    Sure... but I'm a pure archer :D
     
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    I am really enjoying the NEW road encounters.
    However they need to be labeled correctly a tier 2 skeleton encounter with the second round being 3 lich, 2 yellow and 1 orange( I'm level 80). What chance has a low level player got?
    Another was bandits also labeled tier 2 with the second round having a pair of trained wolves both yellow with 1200+ HP, these two are hard to separate, I gave up after a few attempts.

    Overall lots more fun and they seem to have changed the chance to get the pilgrim or bounty hunter in at the end, has happened more frequently than it used to I'm sure.
    Was it just because I wanted them to appear to get those quests done and now i have they appear every second time it seems.
     
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    Just to play Devils Advocate..... the (say Tier 2 Road Encounter) IS a Tier 2 zone.... as long as you completely ignore the large group if creatures on that one side.... ;)
     
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    WOW.
    I decided to take my new tamed pet into a 2 tier Skeleton Encounter.
    I often use my Obsidian Bear pet in these to give him some exercise :)

    This time I took my new Ferocious Red Spider in just to see how he would do.
    He killed everything in a short time. :)
    Usually I don't even have to pull my weapon so I didn't even have it on me.

    THEN...
    The Lich appear in several levels and kill him and almost killed me.
    I ran out with 30 HP left.
    Luckily I could run into a nearby town and Resurrect the new spider before he was totally gone.

    Someone should have told me that things had changed. LOL
    Next time I will go in with eyes wide open... and my weapon drawn.
     
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    There's so many changes that it's easy to overlook though.
     
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    Love the new encounters... when it gets to hard.... run out? Its what I do. :)
     
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