Malice changes and concerns (Spoilers)

Malice: We reconstructed the skeleton/barrier puzzle using the new interactive system and updated the clue letter to reference gems instead of letters. More work on improving Malice is scheduled for R46.

My concern with the barrier puzzle is that there is no way to get to an Ankh if you cannot get past the barrier, which there is one just beyond it in the tunnel with the gold nodes.

I recommend putting one in the Rotunda with Samael and Muriel so that players do not have to wait 5 minutes to be revived after dying.

I also recommend removing all the Liches from Malice since they are too difficult to fight for an AL 40 or 50 character where the journal says they can do this now and for the AL 50 character this should not be challenging for them.

 

I just went through Malice again today and had to fight through five Liches to get through the dungeon to complete it with the new barrier in place.



This one spawned in a bad place, right near the Ankh after going through the barrier after it is gone.



Here are two more in the room with Anapa. The Lich Archers can be challenging, they are still yellow to me at AL84.

 

I have to say I am slightly amused in a very masochistic manner. The place that was already the hardest part of the story line is now harder..? One of two things I think needs to happen with Malice: Samael actually remains his usable pet NPC self past meeting with the ghost (and gets his banish undead spell fixed to do more than zero damage) OR we see zero liches in here. This place is seriously rough and for the journal to say "all good in the hood" at AL ~50 is all wrong.

 

We do plan to have Samael accompany you once you break him free from Muriel next release.

 

Great! Please don't overlook fixing his banish undead spell doing zero damage Lum!

 

Sounds great. I plan on replaying the main story again next month with the reset on the QA and live servers.