Indeed, and for a change it’s actually making underwater combat fun on the mesmer, rather than the chore best avoided if at all possible that it is on all my other characters.
I hope that if they “fix” it, the fix will just involve updating the tooltip.
The new zone is HARD! I just logged on after missing the main event and decided to check out the new zone. So I got to the new zone saw a Karka and said “Hey! Lets kill that to see what kind of loot I get!”. Needless to say one volley from that young Karka took off half my health and I have like 26k health. Mind you I didn’t die but it caught me off guard lol.
On a side note, I LOVE the artwork in the new zone! Looks awesome in every way!
Hard indeed, but not in a good way. Frustrating, irritating, obnoxious hard. It’s like they took all the worst aspects of boss monsters elsewhere in the game and slapped them on regular enemies in this zone. After exploring the area for 15 minutes I have no desire to ever set foot there again.
Which is a shame, because as you say the place does indeed look lovely. But exploring the rest of it isn’t worth the grief, or armor repair bills.
These guys hit hard. Definitely not a zone to solo run around in, unless maybe you are a plate class.
Heavy armor professions doesn’t fare much better. My 3250 armor guardian with defensive utility skills end up near death fighting even a single regular enemy in melee combat in this area. Unless I’m missing something it seems to be an Extreme Risk – Low Reward area to visit.
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Had the same problem on our server, the Ancient Karka would go instantly fully heal at 70% health, and all conditions on it expired immediately. Gave up seeing the event ever finish after 1 hour.
Moving on to the new island, first event I get into I promptly get my face stomped into the ground without even getting a chance to fight for more than 5 seconds. That’s as long as my Stability buff lasts. After that I spend the remaining 20 seconds being permanently pulled back and forth between 5 different enemies (4 of which spawned right on top of me while fighting the first one) being unable to fight back, heal, flee or do anything at all but die. Not fun. At all.
Armor has seemingly been made totally obsolete in this place. In Orr I could stand my ground against 1 veteran or 3-4 regular foes most of the time (Guardian with 3250 armor and regen about 170 health/second). Here I’m near death after a 1 on 1 with one regular enemy. Trying to melee a veteran is out of the question. (I hate dying. I build my characters defensively and play cautiously. In 250 hours of playing I’ve died 4 times. In 10 minutes on the new island I died twice.)
Massive anticlimax across the board for day 2 of this event. Lost all motivation to play any more GW2 today.
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