This dungeon just felt and played better than any others ive experienced in this game. It felt epic, urgent, and you felt connected to the characters in what you were doing as well as why you were there.
Really enjoyed this dungeon I said to my party mates “This is the best dungeon ArenaNet has made so far in this game.”
We were a PUG composed of 4 rangers and 1 mesmer… and we still succeeded! It was tricky, we wiped a couple times, but we were able to stand back and figure out WHY we wiped. When we had learned the mechanics, we succeeded, and had a great time doing so.
I can honestly say that was the most fun I have had in a dungeon since game release. The trash mobs did not have excessively high HP pools, but they had some mechanics that needed a little thinking to counter. Both major battles were exciting, and filled the party chat with “OMG” and “Ohhhh we are in for it now…” and lots of laughter!
Keep it up ArenaNet. Truly a terrific gaming experience.
Probably the one problem I truly had was when I tried my second run (after needing to get off for work) we ran into the Translucent Ooze Champion and its little minions. I felt like I was in Orr again. sigh
I felt none of what you are describing. The dungeon looks great, as all things do in Guild Wars 2. But the writing is still cringeworthy. I don’t care about he characters at all, and their lines sound like something out of a bad B-movie. I found the obstacles to be obnoxious. All the jumping and dodging becomes tedious after you done it ten times. And we just did the exact same thing in the Super Adventure Box boss fight. I’d much rather see a boss with precise animations, that can kill me in three hits, instead of a boss that does the same flashy move fifty times, with barely any consequence. I always feel like bosses in Guild Wars 2 are either overpowered, because you can’t read their animations or see their AoE circles clearly, or underpowered, because their hits deals next to no damage. Both things were the case in this dungeon. Just my opinion, it’s okay if you don’t agree.
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I didn’t feel like I was suddenly the worst player in the game. It was interesting and the pace was great. The enemies didnt feel stupidly overpowered, and the final,fight was interesting and exciting.
Best part of the whole dungeon – after the testing arena, the Engineer that pops up like “HAAAAA!”, who is level 1. Smacked him in the face and that was that. I hadn’t laughed that hard in weeks.
It was fun, looked great and all that. But the same old boring problem persists, lack of loot for the work done. There is really no point, for me atleast, to run it again. There just isnt anything special about it the second run.
The glove token reward from the meta achievment was kinda nice, if it wasnt for the fact that the gloves just looks awkward on most armor sets. I’m still saving the token, because I dont know which toon the gloves will fit on. If the color of the molten effect would be dyable it would be different, but currently it only looks decent on my warrior, but there there problem comes with shoulders and clipping issues, due to too big spikes on the molten part of the gloves. On other toons they are just too bulky.
Why do stuff need to be so pointy, why couldnt the molten metal parts be on the gloves and not halfway up the arm of the character?
This is a great temporary dungeon. If this were to be made permanent, it’ll be waaaay too easy.
Many current dungeons are easier than this one. Difficulty-wise it falls somewhere in the middle.
They are only easier because you’ve done them multiple times already. Try doing this dungeon 5x a day (for all 5 char slots) for the next few days, then tell me how bored you are of the now-cute-then-cheesy box dodge thingy.
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They are only easier because you’ve done them multiple times already. Try doing this dungeon 5x a day (for all 5 char slots) for the next few days, then tell me how bored you are of the now-cute-then-cheesy box dodge thingy.
Still miles better than the many HP sponges that can be afk’d while on auto-attack that we have in current dungeons. Also, I don’t do the same dungeon 5 times a day. Once a day is just fine, and if it gets boring, once every few days.
This is a great temporary dungeon. If this were to be made permanent, it’ll be waaaay too easy.
Many current dungeons are easier than this one. Difficulty-wise it falls somewhere in the middle.
They are only easier because you’ve done them multiple times already. Try doing this dungeon 5x a day (for all 5 char slots) for the next few days, then tell me how bored you are of the now-cute-then-cheesy box dodge thingy.
Practice makes perfect. Do really expect them to release a dungeon every hour, or every day for you? because you find it too easy because you’ve done it repeatedly? I hope you answer no.
I liked the dungeon overall. I liked the living story too also mostly. Only I felt it took too long to reach its conclusion. I know this is a test for the living story system and I’m all for this kind of dynamic content, but it’s going to have to come out within the space of around a month rather than over say 2-3 I think.
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yeah i loved what they did with the living story and i definitely loved this dungeon, i don’t know why bother to create something so fun to do only temporarily though, i really wish this dungeon can stay or maybe fractalised?
i loved to do it, mobs weren’t overhealth powered, but still needed to be understood to fight properly, i loved the final bosses…
i hope i’ll have that jetpack…
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I liked the dungeon, it was enjoyable and everyone knows the 1st time you run a dungeon you after wipe multiple times but this one we didn’t…makes for a nice change…my favourite was the 2 bosses at the end…
I think the dungeon should have a permanent home somewhere…
This constant temporary content is doing GW2 no favours…
The boss fights had some nice design wherein patterns slowly ramped up and started combining. In terms of evasive gameplay certainly a big step up.
But those were the two bosses, the rest dragged a bit I’d say. Just filler material in between. A lot of action games get criticized when they have endless thrashmob encounters in successive arena battles. (DMC says hello).
End chest rewards being linked to RNG again, not much to say what hasn’t been said a million times. Except maybe GW2 is starting to be a bit all over the place. The Living Story team advancing bosses in dungeons, the dungeon teams starting to create new teamplay in fractals, the SAB being a totally different creature, all three together having entirely different reward schemes depending on the day of the week they were released. It looks like everything is up for being tossed against the wall to see what sticks.
The boss fights had some nice design wherein patterns slowly ramped up and started combining. In terms of evasive gameplay certainly a big step up.
But those were the two bosses, the rest dragged a bit I’d say. Just filler material in between. A lot of action games get criticized when they have endless thrashmob encounters in successive arena battles. (DMC says hello).
End chest rewards being linked to RNG again, not much to say what hasn’t been said a million times. Except maybe GW2 is starting to be a bit all over the place. The Living Story team advancing bosses in dungeons, the dungeon teams starting to create new teamplay in fractals, the SAB being a totally different creature, all three together having entirely different reward schemes depending on the day of the week they were released. It looks like everything is up for being tossed against the wall to see what sticks.
Agreed. My guildies all say the same thing. None of us think Anet knows what they want GW2 to be. It’s all over the place.
Wait 4 days and everyone is burnt out on it… It will be the same. I felt this way with AC and CoF aswell
Do people not know what this phrase means? They can’t burn you out on something, that’s your doing alone. I won’t be burned out on it after four days, or even two weeks, because I have enough common sense and self control to take things at an enjoyable pace.
This is a great temporary dungeon. If this were to be made permanent, it’ll be waaaay too easy.
Many current dungeons are easier than this one. Difficulty-wise it falls somewhere in the middle.
They are only easier because you’ve done them multiple times already. Try doing this dungeon 5x a day (for all 5 char slots) for the next few days, then tell me how bored you are of the now-cute-then-cheesy box dodge thingy.
Do ANYTHING 5x a day and you’ll become bored with it. I don’t care what it is.
Loved the dungeon, had great fun with guildies, enjoyed the trip to the bosses and struggled some with them. It was a nice mix of not too tough and tough enough. Thank you!
Loved it from the beginning till the end,not too tough and yet not too easy,I guess this is due to the temporary state of the dungeon to allow everyone to enjoy it.
We had a lot of fun doing it and loved the Boss fight.
I second this post. I hardly ever play dungeons or fractals because I really dislike them and/or find them boring. This dungeon was fun, didn’t take forever, and was still rewarding. Looked amazing too.
i had a blast but I got to admit it was very challenging. My pug consisted of 2 thief, a ranger, a necro and a warrior. All 80s but still it took 3 tries to beat the duo.
Very fun though. I wished the rewards were a little more idk rewarding?? All i got was junk.
It wasnt bad (i dont like this CoF-Charr-Dredge theme but thats just my perference it wasnt badly done or anything like that..), but i didnt liked the last stage of the final fight it was bunch of OP abilites that werent avoidable so you were forced spam “1” at max range, not that exciting if you ask me…
It was Ok but i didnt liked the last stage of the final fight it was bunch of OP abilites that werent avoidable so you were forced spam “1” at max range, not that exciting if you ask me…
Or you could just use jump?
Its great for doing the monthly vet slayer…80% complete in 1 run…so that means you kill 80 vets in 1 run?
What loot is everyone getting? Done 2 runs so far, 1g to 1.5g per run, pretty poor really…but a few in my party got some rares dropping and 2 exotics…wondering if they had high MF…
Dungeon was great but to easy, with my guildies we basicly one shotted the dungeon, didnt wipe on any of the 2 boss encounters.
I have to say I had a lot of fun in the boss encounters, and it was after all a story mode, but I have to agree with the OP this is how you make a dungeon and I hope in the future to have dragon encounters like this also.
It was well designed with fun mechanics— I generally hate instances with a passion but this was challenging in the good sense. In general, if it seems reasonable that you can complete it one go without failures, even if you actually don’t manage to do it, then it represents a good challenge that can be improved on with some practice. Well, that last boss was a pain though.
This is the way to go for future content.
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I said to my party mates “This is the best dungeon ArenaNet has made so far in this game.”