Part 3 arrgghh... but a shining light!

Part 3 arrgghh... but a shining light!

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Posted by: Sarathor.2409

Sarathor.2409

I decided to have some fun by doing the tower on my level 64 Mesmer. I made up to the the third part, and just kept dieing over and over. Finally, we get a large group going and I almost made it, then BAM! dead… I said screw it and used a revive orb, which allowed me to make i the rest of the way.

I was initially going to open the chest, since I had a key, but then thought, nah better save it for one of my 80’s so I could get the best rewards from it. Can’t miss a chance at dragonite ore!

Anyway, I wanted to do the instance again for the achievements, preferably the one where you don’t die. I thought, “no one is going to want to take a level 64 mesmer” So I decided to try to solo it. Just to see if I could…

I did. It was actually quite fun. I just ran around like a headless chicken spamming my phantasms and having them to the work, most of the time, only stopping to blurred frenzy every now and again.

During the part where you needed to take care of the portals, I wanted to take it slow, so I killed the mobs, then the portal. When I got to the second portal, I noticed more spawned, so I just said screw it, and killed the last two while dodging mobs. Then when the last portal went down I blinked to the exit and ran like hell.

The only hard part was during one of the phases of the last boss where I had him and two other mobs using ranged attacks. I stuck towards the side of the room to get out of the corrupted pollen effect, and just used my reflects (thank god I was doing the 10/30/0/30/0 dungeon build (although I didn’t have all the points obviously), so I have my two focus skills for reflect, and of course the trusty feedback bubble!

I have to say, at least as a memser, this dungeon is quite easy to solo. I think that if she was level 80, it would have been pretty easy, considering I was up-leveled in sub-par gear.

Oh yeah, I got the achievement where you can’t die while fighting the last boss!

So, all in all, even though I hate the 3rd floor of the tower, it was a pretty fun living story update in my opinion. I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

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Posted by: Ceallach.8740

Ceallach.8740

I did it on my lv 27 Mesmer, although I didn’t get the “did not die” one that time. I got it with a post zerg PUG, w00t.

Whoever says this update isn’t “casual friendly” must be playing a different game. I like it, this update was awesome – but I feel like most “casual” players should be able to “follow the zerg” and if a PUG that picked up someone who said “I’ll go with any group that’s not too particular” (that was me) do it, it can’t be that super hard.

It’s annoying to have to wait around for enough people to do floor 3, but I think without that it would have been all easy and it’s an MMO after all and the chest and time limit give people incentive to be there so we have enough people that even lv 27 Mesmers can get through it. :p

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Posted by: Pixelpumpkin.4608

Pixelpumpkin.4608

I don’t feel that level 3 is too hard per se, but I do feel that

  • the PvE part of the tower scales terribly (= not at all?) with the number of players present, making it way too easy for zergs and way too hard in overflow
  • the waypointing is really expensive – 5 silver to get back to the start of level 3 each time. That get expensive really fast when you keep dying.

(edited by Pixelpumpkin.4608)

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Posted by: Ceallach.8740

Ceallach.8740

Would be really nice if dying just spit you out at the start of that level.

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Posted by: Seras.5702

Seras.5702

I liked the instance. Did it solo first try but with deaths. Just took my dungeon spec Engi in and prayed it’d be ok. It was, though I could make it much easier on myself respeccing. The run through the tower was a lot of fun for me. Got in with a group of about 10 others in overflow and we just fought to the top, no sweat. Gonna give it a try with my 40 Ele next, see how that works out. Should be good XP if I can survive.

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Posted by: uberman.2619

uberman.2619

WTB port golem for level 4.