This is a poorly designed storyline, it’s worse than killing Zaitan. I destroyed multiple sets of armor trying this. I give up on any more story quests, it just is not worth the trouble and expense it cost me in armor repair. The whole repair cost really is what aggravates me the most, I am double punished for failure, it costs me my hard earned gold to repair, which after all the nerfs, is very hard to come by these days.
I have a warrior with the latest GREEN armor and was using duel axes and rifle. when the enemies storm past the gate, I got the enemy population down to about 10 or so, but with the knockdowns, I am unable to get back up before being destroyed. If I try to pick them off one by one from a distance, new ones start hobbling in one by one replacing the ones that I kill. This is next to impossible to do without help. I never ruined entire sets of armor doing the final storyline where I had to destroy zaitan, why on gods green earth is this so difficult? I can get to level 80 without these storyline quests, they are nothing but expensive repair bills and endless frustration!
PS> Just to show how ridiculous armor repair prices are, I just sold my broken armor to merchant for just under 4 silver, I bought new from TP for about 7 silver. I saved a lot by selling my broken junk, which I just bought one level ago, this system is so messed up and I strongly dislike it! Why is it cheaper to buy new armor? Didn’t the devs take this into consideration?
I can team up with you to do this one if you want, if you play on EU servers.
I found it to be a pretty fun mission. It wants you to focus on a balance between doing enough damage, while at the same time focus on staying alive. If you have a problem with knock downs, consider bringing utility that grant stability, or stun breakers.
Thank you for the offer Milennin, I am on US servers. I was however able to get help in doing this, and was able to finally finish it, albeit a lot poorer because of armor repairs.