I’ve noticed this also. Before the game was released they advertised the game as everyone getting the same loot at the end of an event. That obviously was not true.
Some events, like the stupid Fire Elemental event, you will die many many times, and still get no chest of loot.
There is no way that someone can honestly, and I mean honestly say that event is “easy” and kitten it is no big deal." The damage is massive for that area and level and it is ridiculous. It is doable, yes, but very frustrating when you compare it to other world bosses that are not that hard and they are in higher level areas! I mean a group of 30+, that I was in, 95% of us died in less than a second over and over again, most of us were spread out, and NO not all of us were on the dreaded bridge!
Two people got lucky and got in and managed, after dying a lot, to run in circles around the thing and I and a few others managed to find spots to do some DPS, but about the 5th time I died there was no chance as I had no where to dodge and no where to go as I burned up in less than a second. So that is massive damage and something I would never expect in an area that is that low of level. It needs to be taken down a peg or two, I’m not saying make it easy though, but come on!
Its like other games where you always get the posts of people saying how easy the game is for them. Its their way of bragging.
If what they say did happen to be true (I don’t believe it), it would most likely be due to the fact that everyone else took the punishment of death, drawing the elementals away from the person claiming they didn’t die.
Anyone here claiming this event is easy, is outright lieing. That is fact.
This event is way overpowered, especially for the newbie area it is in. I wouldn’t be surprised if its the toughest mob in the game.
They need to get rid of the stupid repair and waypoint costs for this event, because its not fair. Spending 40 minutes fighting it, only for it to be half health, dieing multiple times. The last time I died I went back and the stupid thing was back to full health. That is not fun at all, just a waste of your time and your silver.
Its impossible to defend yourself against 4 elementals chasing you, with a HUGE range to throw their ground lava spells, that you can’t even defend against. All at the same time.
I’d also gladly trade any of our class elites for any other class elites. Our Elites are also not game changing as claimed. I can do as much damage just as fast with my sword or hammer as I can with the Elite. And our damage output is half of what some other classes are. Although I still like playing the Guardian the most. I’m just using my racial elite instead.
I don’t even know what “stability” is in the game. It’s one thing that does tick me off, is all the skills that don’t list the “fine print” about what the skill actually doesn’t work against. A lot of the skills are worthless due to not working as advertised in the tooltip.
I rarely use the staff, but the “Line Of Warding” skill doesn’t work at all against an “Earth Elemental”. Every single one of them walks right through it every time when I tried it in the Diessa Plateau region.
I love this game despite any complaints I have had. Most people are playing the game and never even read the forums. I would say the troll posts are the minority.
I also don’t totally buy the excuse some claim that the server population displayed is only the number of people registered to that server. If that were true, the displayed status would not ever change.
When I was testing some of them out in the PvP Tutorial area, I noticed that Tome of Wrath doesn’t do any more damage than our sword or hammer does. In fact it seems slightly less. I don’t call that an elite skill.
It takes me roughly 18 or so seconds to kill the Tutorial Heavy Golem with the sword. With the Tome of Wrath, spamming the first skill it takes me 20 seconds. The Thief I tried can kill the same Golem in 8 or 9 seconds (although his attack is not area effect)
I did buy the Asura Attack Golem because I had no motivation for the other skills. Its ok but it depends on what your fighting with it. It has helped but some mobs its useless.
I think that travel to waypoints when you die should be free, or greatly reduced. Because if you are in one of the tougher Dynamic Events… like the Fire Elemental event where you die many times, you will run up a huge bill in waypoint travel. That doesn’t even include the huge cost of armor repairs. Its very hard to get revived in that event.
I’ve kind of stopped doing the Fire Elemental event because I’m tired of running up a huge bill of cost. Its wasted money.
I dislike all the “Elite” skills. They really shouldn’t even be using the name “Elite”. I don’t like the type of skills they are, and they also last too short. I’d rather have something totally different.
In the past someone mentioned that the other person doesn’t hear your character say “retreat”, it says something else to them. But I don’t know if that is true or not.
Is there something that affects the duration of the Retreat skill?
I ask because I was almost positive that we were getting 25 seconds for the skill. Yesterday when I looked it was down to 23 seconds, and today when I looked its 20 seconds.
It would be nice if we could choose to use a normal skill in the “Elite” slot. For people like me who are not impressed with any of the “elite” skills. They are anything but elite, as an Asura Guardian.
I know some will disagree with me, but I have seen many who do not like the Elite skills either. Both racial and class.
When I played during the beta, I saw an Asura in heavy armor that I liked. Although now, I think it might have been the mini pet, I’m not sure.
But I was wondering if anyone knows if the Asura can aquire this armor or not? (this screen capture was taken during the beta, I didn’t know how to turn off the interface at the time).
I don’t have the Golem, but from what I have seen in videos of it, its very disappointing, and seems like a waste of points.
For one thing, the Golem where you get into the suit, I was under the impression that you would get to stay in the suit until the suit is destroyed, then you pop out as your normal character, at full health, which is the way it should be. I got that impression from their video of it.
None of the Asura or my Guardian “Elite” skills make me want to buy them. I feel like I would waste points on them. That is sad to say for something that is supposed to be Elite. We should be allowed to put a normal skill in that last box.
I noticed this also, some of the weapons seem just too small on the Asura.
None of my characters use a dagger, but when doing a preview, I noticed the Asura made daggers don’t even have a sharp tip on the end, its rounded or square, which is stupid. Although I don’t care much for the Asura race type weapon design. Its too block shaped.
The video on youtube of the 30 skill point Golem did not impress me. It shows him fighting two bees, which take the Golems health down to half. I don’t consider that an “elite” skill. Definitely not worth 30 points.
I’m not impressed with any of the elite skills the Guardian has. I’ve only been able to test them in the PvP area where you attack the golems. But they are just way too short for an “elite” skill. You even hardly have time to read the tooltip before the thing expires.
I’ve seen warriors and thief’s take the golems down faster than any skill I have, including the elite.
But then again it seems a lot of the skills in this game are way too short of duration.
The fast run speed of 25seconds, seems to be the best value of skill points of all the skills.
Their last beta guardian nerfing did not help things.
The Guardian is definitely NOT overpowered. They already had way too much nerfing in the last beta. If they nerf it again, I will quit the class.
Its posts like this that were the reason for the nerfing. Its a cheap way for other classes to get another class nerfed… pretending they are overpowered.
