Make Jade encounter in Bloodstone Fen a daily
Just finished my third failed Jade Construct encounter today… all spawned during the Hablion encounter, and since they are very narrowly time-constrained (i.e. if you don’t get enough people working the encounter within the first 15-30 seconds of the first construct to spawn, you are behind and the encounter will fail), ALL were doomed to fail.
Please make this encounter a daily, so people have a reason to do them. Many players seem to feel that the rewards are not commensurate with the time required (in which case the balance is wrong and there is no reason to have the encounter in the game).
Please don’t make it a daily. It is already a high-reward activity, giving people plenty of reason to do it. In contrast to the other map-specific dailies, it’s long, really long. I’d hate to think that anyone felt this was something they should do.
If you really want to kill the UG, use the LFG. There are frequently requests for help.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
It is already a high-reward activity, giving people plenty of reason to do it.
Well, making sure Jades spawn at off-times relative to Hablion might be sufficient. If Hablion is up, in my experience people typically ignore this event. And today, Hablion and Jades were spawning at the same time (and I saw no taxis to Jades on other maps, during the 2 hours I spent on the map trying). Serial failure was the direct/unavoidable consequence.
And I have lost track of the number of times I have observed comments in map chat to the effect “not worth the time”, “insufficient reward”, “you are better off doing other things”, and etc. So, I am not sure your opinion regarding the relative value of this event is widely shared.
Finally, while I often check the LFG tool while in Bloodstone Fen, and post a taxi there myself whenever this event starts on my current map, the fact is that even when the event is completed successfully, no-one makes use of the taxi, or only when I change the taxi description to “UG”. The LFG tool is great… except when it is not.
For whatever reason, it really seems like people are just as happy to skip this event, and since it can’t be done with just a few people, like as not I have to skip it as well.
and since it can’t be done with just a few people
It can be done with 3-5 people, but in DPS races like this with smaller numbers, people need to be doing competent DPS. The problem is, most people don’t, and since scaling is balanced to become easier with more, people just zerg and think that’s the way. If everyone learned to jump off the little hills and weave the glider barrage into their rotation, it’d be much easier. Not only is it very high damage, it can also nearly solo break the bar.
They could easily make it a daily however, but it’d be hablion or the guardian, or one of the jades.
It is already a high-reward activity, giving people plenty of reason to do it.
Well, making sure Jades spawn at off-times relative to Hablion might be sufficient. If Hablion is up, in my experience people typically ignore this event. And today, Hablion and Jades were spawning at the same time (and I saw no taxis to Jades on other maps, during the 2 hours I spent on the map trying). Serial failure was the direct/unavoidable consequence.
And I have lost track of the number of times I have observed comments in map chat to the effect “not worth the time”, “insufficient reward”, “you are better off doing other things”, and etc. So, I am not sure your opinion regarding the relative value of this event is widely shared.
Finally, while I often check the LFG tool while in Bloodstone Fen, and post a taxi there myself whenever this event starts on my current map, the fact is that even when the event is completed successfully, no-one makes use of the taxi, or only when I change the taxi description to “UG”. The LFG tool is great… except when it is not.
For whatever reason, it really seems like people are just as happy to skip this event, and since it can’t be done with just a few people, like as not I have to skip it as well.
Rather than adjust the timing for Hablion vs Jade+UG, I think it would be okay just to drop Hablion as a daily. EB only has three dailies; I think BF can get by with just three, also. That would eliminate the conflict without creating a lot of work for devs.
I don’t help at Jade any longer, because it’s one of the most boring event chains in the game, in my opinion. It’s a series of nearly identical fights followed by an incredibly long event. The only value I can see in making it take so long to do each step is to give everyone in the map enough time to reach the UG.
When the map was fresh, people farmed it obsessively for the guaranteed blood rubies. Now that the map has been matched by EB in some ways and that it’s Halloween, of course fewer people are interested — same as fewer are doing Silverwastes or even AB/ML.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Part of it is so many people are on the halloween map that it’s hard to fill normally profitable areas like bloodstone fen, silverwastes, etc.