Hi,
The first time I did Arah story mode, I did not have the end quest and it was before the 28th january 2013 patch. It was hard because nobody knew the dongeon, what was going to happen, and pretty much every battle was somewhat epic (except last last one).
Though I understand the way the resurection works now might have played a lot in how Arenanet redid the dungeon but to me, this is not a valid reason to have nerfed it so much.
I had to redo it a second time, had the end quest to finish. Up to the mouth, not really much of a change, except the towers (mouth zone) seemed somewhat easier. Just a slight feeling, nothing much. Then the mouth went easy peasy… no death… not much gripping and AoE… strated to feel like this wasn’t the same instance anymore.
In the first run (pre patch)
- First dragon… first time, there always were monsters on the deck, and it took us like 8 or 10 passages to get the dragon down. Ok we had a bit of a hard time targetting the dragon.
- Double dragons… there we actually had to sometime regroup before the canons to empty a bit the space to access the canons. And we were never to the two front canons. Always monsters too…
After patch, i actually got bored… we spent more time looking at the scenery than doing anything.
Now the Zaithan fight…. before the patch:
- took us 45 minutes maybe an hour
- Zojja died like 10 times
- Fighting the 3 eyes at the same time was a pain, especially because at first we were in the stairs and all the monsters popped at the top of it.
- Once Zaithan was on the tower, you still had to fight agains tentaculs and the sorts.
After patch:
- 5 mintues top
- Zojja never got even hit
- Killed the 3 eyes in like a minute… no other monsters coming to kill us
- Nothing on the canons… no tentacles, no mobs….
I really felt cheated on my second run. I was expecting something way more epic in terms of fighting. First time around, had my armor red twice… Second time… never died…
So would you mind tweaking the story mode so that it wasn’t as hard, but not this easy ? In the middle would be good, even on the hard side would be better.
And now for the question to the community, anyone else felt cheated after the patch ? (for those of us who redid it)
Regards,