I don’t understand how this tower can be considered fun. As soon as you pop into the tower you are beset with a veteran. Now that in itself is not hard. I can usually fight a veteran and a couple of lower levels at once. But the problem is that as soon as you start attacking it other players start running around you and some even tag the thing which causes the game to think there are more players joining in. Well while you are trying to kill the group at least one but most times two other veterans appear and you are toast.
So then I decided to try to do what everyone else does and just run. Well that got me about two or three turns farther. There is at least one veteran in three or four that will either lock you down or simply knock you down. Well when that happens you are toast again. And no one running by is going to even try to rez you since if they try they are downed or killed with you.
So you either have to get lucky and find a zerg going through or get at least two or three others ahead of you to take agro first. Then you might get lucky enough to get past most of the vets that will lock you down or knock you down.
And then there is the plants that explode and take you down to one third health if you are lucky enough to have full health when they hit. And yes a lot of them are avoidable but if you actually go though the first bunch of them when no one has activated any then there is a small path and actually in some places there are several close enough that you have to use all your dodges just to get out of range. Then if one just happens to pop up while you are running through you are toast again.
Now this is all if you get lucky and don’t hit an event that blocks your way. Now if you run into one of those on your way up there is no possible way to get through by yourself and even in some cases with several players. I have seen an event wipe a group of ten trying to do them. So then you have to start all over on that level which adds even more to the event number running through.
Then comes the areas that have the toxin condition. Even the skill that heals the toxin is pretty much useless since the condition is applied immediately after you clear it and has a long enough cool down that you are dead before you can heal enough to get any farther. And this is all done on a necro which has no significant help on dodge recharging and a character with exotic armor along with health and vitality traits maxed. And the armor had added vitality. And since I basically had to run it since there were usually two vets close together with continuous knock down that it also would use up all my DS.
I did finally get to the top by luckily hitting a zerg, but what about those players that can only play on off hours in their area. There is no way to get lucky enough to find a zerg big enough to run them up.
How is this fun?
I don’t necessarily think it matters but I haven no trouble with my zerker mesmer kiting a non-group event champ with 2 veterans. I do agree though, if a few people attack and it causes scaling then that is bad.
Edit: Didn’t notice you stated you were on a necro.
(edited by Hachiman.2470)
As soon as you pop into the tower you are beset with a veteran.
Lucky you, the mob that was standing right in front of me when I ported in for the first time was an Elite and there was another one close by…
Good point on toxic. The removal skill is useless due to the constant application of the condition. Even if you’re in a group you get it removed a couple times and it’s reapplied right away while everyone’s waiting for the cooldown…if anyone used it anyhow, every single PC in the tower last night had the black cloud around their head. Yay for minor annoyances…
(edited by rizzo.1079)