Last night after multiple DCs and server restarts, we ran this event from Forward Camp all the way to finality and that was the most fun I’ve had in weeks. This is definitely my favorite event chain outside of Orr. I have one suggestion for improvement and one wishlist item.
Improvement: Make the splendid chest despawn when the gate respawns and only spawn upon downing the boss. For the last few weeks we’ve had too many people QQing in chat to let the pre-boss event fail because it takes too long to restart and they’d rather “Fail Farm” the event than play the kitten game.
I’ll grant that it seems the patch has alleviated some of this by making the event spawn faster but not allowing access to the reward until doing the work might eliminate the rest of this farming mentality and get people all working together as intended. – Better ‘splendid loot’ would be nice too but that’s already a topic elsewhere.
Besides, if you’re only in it for quick DE turn around, go to Kessex and run the chain down there. This is a fight that requires work, if not tactics – yet another thread… and it should be more than running a zerg circuit.
Wishlist: Alter the way North Pasture and Southforge camps are held and make it less time consuming to fall all the way back to Seraph’s Landing. IMO this chain, from start to finish, is some of the most fun to be had in the game right now. Falling back and starting from the beginning is much more fun and would actually be more efficient for farming XP and Karma if it wasn’t for the 10 (15?) min fail timer on those two camps. Here are a few of my ideas that up the ante a bit if these camps haven’t fallen to the centaur after five+ (?) tries;
- Bring in a boss and decrease the fail time (each success decreases the next fail timer)
- Impose a two camp minimum
- Impose a seraph morale meter (right now they can all die as long as the centaur do too)
I’d love to hear any further suggestions (I realize this isn’t the Suggestions forum but lets have a thread that’s not QQing for a change )