Are there any servers out there still doing the Island Control event? If so when/where? Would like to get my hands on Settler’s gear but my server has not done it in some time.
Hope hangs on champion loot fixing people’s motivation to do that world boss along with others. As it stands, it’s far too time-consuming and difficult for the lousy 2 rares reward it gives. Can easily do at least 3 other world bosses in that time.
Basically this event needs a TON of work. If you switch to YB and message me when I’m on I can organize a group for island control, but I will not do queen.
Queen is a very poor event for a few reasons. 1, extra mobs that spawn decimate zergs and are very hard to kill. 2, very lagg. 3, timers/pugs make it hard to organize. 4, rewards aren’t worth it.
That was the last time I tried to do queen. We had around 15, if not less, doing the pre event and initial fight. Thanks to timers at the end we had around 30, if not more. They scaled the event, agroed more vets and other karka, then when they died they didn’t bother rezzing. Once I finally go down I see that there are like 20 dead players just sitting there waiting to be rezzed. It’s despicable.
We’re having a discussion about the issue in another thread in this forum that I posted.
I’m not sure why you need so many people? Camp Karka is the hardest camp to clear so do that first. You can then send two people to each of the other camps to clear them simultaneously. I’m guessing the queen would then spawn before any of the camps are attacked again. This means you only really need the minimum number of people to take the queen down.
I’m not sure why you need so many people? Camp Karka is the hardest camp to clear so do that first. You can then send two people to each of the other camps to clear them simultaneously. I’m guessing the queen would then spawn before any of the camps are attacked again. This means you only really need the minimum number of people to take the queen down.
The problem is that to do it with a small group it requires some good coordination and players. Not many want to bother uncapping the camps because of lack of rewards and time. Then when the queen spawns her timer goes up and you get entire zergs porting in to scale/lag the event.
Hope hangs on champion loot fixing people’s motivation to do that world boss along with others. As it stands, it’s far too time-consuming and difficult for the lousy 2 rares reward it gives. Can easily do at least 3 other world bosses in that time.
Nah the problem is that the camps don’t STAY held like Temples do.
I was in the one by the Queen we had just cleared back out after killing the Queen 90 seconds ago, and I got exactly 30 second in which to look through that Merch’s Settler’s gear before it went right back into contested again and next thing I know there’s 30 crazed Karka’s rolling right over us again. ….Who’s bright Idea was that one? You’d have to really HATE your players as a Dungeon Master to ever pull some kitten move like that in most RPG games. And here’s the one billed more as “Casual friendly / No grind” than any other …. haha good joke.
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…as for Servers that do it daily…
NSP almost always does it around 7pm PST…. give or take 20-30 minutes. B/c That’s all dependent on how quick we get through Balthazar right before that. So if you wanna catch it at night, then you have to show up in Malchor’s & Straights and look for all the Commander Tags and follow them till they’re done with Balthazar & Eye. Then they immediately all move to Southsun after that. So you’d need to be able to set aside a whole hour for a guaranteed clear. Anyone who can’t set aside an hour and let another group do all the work for them, should probably keep that to themselves b/c they’d just sound entitled as all hell if that was still too much of a burdern for them
And if you’re not an experienced player…
… who doesn’t know exactly where to stand every few minutes, then stay out of our way please. The LAST THING we need is a bunch of ranged Zerker idiots standing right on top of the NPC escort or our Mid/Backline support attracting aggro and shadowsteps & Poisonblobs right to the last place we could possibly want it. …if you’re melee, that’s different, feel free to jump in, YOLO like it’s 4th of July b/c atleast we know you’re doing decent damage and keeping the mobs busy where we want them kept.
Hope hangs on champion loot fixing people’s motivation to do that world boss along with others. As it stands, it’s far too time-consuming and difficult for the lousy 2 rares reward it gives. Can easily do at least 3 other world bosses in that time.
Nah the problem is that the camps don’t STAY held like Temples do.
I was in the one by the Queen we had just cleared back out after killing the Queen 90 seconds ago, and I got exactly 30 second in which to look through that Merch’s Settler’s gear before it went right back into contested again and next thing I know there’s 30 crazed Karka’s rolling right over us again. ….Who’s bright Idea was that one? You’d have to really HATE your players as a Dungeon Master to ever pull some kitten move like that in most RPG games. And here’s the one billed more as “Casual friendly / No grind” than any other …. haha good joke.
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…as for Servers that do it daily…
NSP almost always does it around 7pm PST…. give or take 20-30 minutes. B/c That’s all dependent on how quick we get through Balthazar right before that. So if you wanna catch it at night, then you have to show up in Malchor’s & Straights and look for all the Commander Tags and follow them till they’re done with Balthazar & Eye. Then they immediately all move to Southsun after that. So you’d need to be able to set aside a whole hour for a guaranteed clear. Anyone who can’t set aside an hour and let another group do all the work for them, should probably keep that to themselves b/c they’d just sound entitled as all hell if that was still too much of a burdern for them
And if you’re not an experienced player…
… who doesn’t know exactly where to stand every few minutes, then stay out of our way please. The LAST THING we need is a bunch of ranged Zerker idiots standing right on top of the NPC escort or our Mid/Backline support attracting aggro and shadowsteps & Poisonblobs right to the last place we could possibly want it. …if you’re melee, that’s different, feel free to jump in, YOLO like it’s 4th of July b/c atleast we know you’re doing decent damage and keeping the mobs busy where we want them kept.
I’m on Fort Aspenwood and we run it almost every day, usually in the downtime between other bosses. Some weeknights we don’t get around to it, but someone’s always pushing for it and these days we do it more often than not.
Some people did guest last night who were looking for Balth/Karka. I think most of them met up with the main Force and even made it into Southsun before the Overflow Queue took over. One or two of them even helped us start the Pact pre’s early which helped us complete the entire temple Tour 20 minutes ahead of time. They asked questions; They were observant of what was happening around them. That was terrific, so thank you to those players, their presence is very much welcome and appreciated.
When people chill too much, the events break down and stop succeeding.
The entire game would become irrelevant and pointless if everything was as dumbed down as your hippy drum circle XP farms in Queensdale… (which by tomorrow will also be end-game l00t & Exotic Skin farms too which will eventually get nerfed and just lead to even more Crying from the unskilled & entitled masses who should be learning to appreciate and seek out challenges, not avoid them simply b/c they can fail)
I’ve been trying to do the Karka Queen content, but the recent living story/champ update has thrown everything off. If you know of a server, or better yet, a guild on a specific server, that has a very set-in-stone schedule for doing the Karka Queen event, please tell me. Reply here, send me a PM via the forums, or mail message me in game with the details. I’d very much appreciate it.
Basically this event needs a TON of work. If you switch to YB and message me when I’m on I can organize a group for island control, but I will not do queen.
Queen is a very poor event for a few reasons. 1, extra mobs that spawn decimate zergs and are very hard to kill. 2, very lagg. 3, timers/pugs make it hard to organize. 4, rewards aren’t worth it.
That was the last time I tried to do queen. We had around 15, if not less, doing the pre event and initial fight. Thanks to timers at the end we had around 30, if not more. They scaled the event, agroed more vets and other karka, then when they died they didn’t bother rezzing. Once I finally go down I see that there are like 20 dead players just sitting there waiting to be rezzed. It’s despicable.
We’re having a discussion about the issue in another thread in this forum that I posted.
I am amazed how well you did with that lag. Kudo’s you deserved the kill.
Looking for a server to do this as well. I’ve been trying to get some settler gear for a few weeks now, but have no idea what the status of the event is on any server. Do NSP and FA still do this consistently?
We still do it every night on FA, but the only way to know when is to stick with the boss-train all night or wait in Southsun for us to show up. Train starts at 8PM EST.
These settler vendors are the stupidest thing in the entire game. I just got on NSP tonight, spent like 2 hours clearing the camps with other people, finally got 4/4 settlements…and within 10 seconds, it was back to 3/4. I didn’t even have time to get to the vendor before we dropped a settlement.
The only way you can get this gear is to literally camp at the vendor until everyone has cleared the camps for you. You can’t even participate because if you do, you’ll probably miss those few seconds when the vendors are available.
