getting trolls killed in summer festival isnt fun for melee classes.

wylonus

other classes with range attack skills kill those before trolls jump into battle from hills, and i played my tank, barely get any kills if lucky, end up as 31st rank for only 10 kills made in 15 mins, others made over 100 kills.

rhoriangelus

Go to a less populated instance, and don't fight 'with the crowd'. If you see people waiting for/killing trolls, move to another spot. Further in the back tends to be a better spot to fight in. I'm a melee class (TR) and I've done just fine in these events. Yeah, it's annoying if you get a really powerful CW or something running around killing everything, but you can't win every time.

wylonus

will try finding low pops, i had few kills until others came from nowhere.

zebular

In addition to going to a low-pop instance, use charge-like abilities to quickly get to a mob. If your area becomes crowded, go to another one of the spawn areas.

wylonus

oh, yeah, believe me, i used "lunge", but GF are too slow, worst class for speed.
problem is, they get killed before they jump off the hills, i cant even use "lunge" to get up there.

zebular

Do you have a mount? If so what I do on my GFs is stay mounted until I am dismounted from attacking a troll. Use the mount to rush in and start attacking then immediately when you go out of combat, re-mount to be able to run fast to the next mob.

rhoriangelus

Okay, wow. I was working off of how I did last year, since the event seemed more or less the same - however - now I agree with the OP here. This event is SUPER broken now that everyone scales to 60. The people at the top ranks are ranged classes that have 200+ kills and there's 6 minutes left in the event!

beckylunatic

rhoriangelus wrote: »

Okay, wow. I was working off of how I did last year, since the event seemed more or less the same - however - now I agree with the OP here. This event is SUPER broken now that everyone scales to 60. The people at the top ranks are ranged classes that have 200+ kills and there's 6 minutes left in the event!

Another example of how broken the scaling is. Scaled down, you are A GOD. Scaled up, you are dead meat.

gleichgewichtnw

Let ma add some things


The water event is nice but as GF I cant dodge out of the areas. Trolls and water event is nothing that I ever could get a good rank.


And about the KI: The trolls sometimes get stuck in the hills. And the pigs get bugged on the stonewall often.

rhoriangelus

beckylunatic wrote: »

rhoriangelus wrote: »

Okay, wow. I was working off of how I did last year, since the event seemed more or less the same - however - now I agree with the OP here. This event is SUPER broken now that everyone scales to 60. The people at the top ranks are ranged classes that have 200+ kills and there's 6 minutes left in the event!

Another example of how broken the scaling is. Scaled down, you are A GOD. Scaled up, you are dead meat.

I don't understand why they changed it in the first place. Enemies that scaled up to you (instead of you scaling up/down to the enemies) worked just fine. People at 60 had a bit of a challenge (I remember getting cocky and having trolls nearly kill me a few times), people at 10 weren't totally hopeless. With everyone at 60, it means anyone below 60 is doing awful and anyone above 60 is doing fantastic. It's not really fair.

walk2k

cry much? there's 4 events, only 1 is a kill contest, the other 3 are gathering contests, and people still complain #smf
anyway right now the lag is so broken it hardly matters

sockmunkey

Yea the changes to level scaling has screwed things up. But I honestly thought the first few complaints would be about how the new faster mounts and the run speed bonuses have made the chicken chasing event unfair.

blackxxwolf3

if your a gwf try euipping bravery. its what im using. if your a gf use lunging strike and if your a pally im sorry.

skalt112

It will level off. it has always been like this when the festival first starts. you are going to have plenty of time to get the things you want.

vattara

walk2k wrote: »

cry much? there's 4 events, only 1 is a kill contest, the other 3 are gathering contests, and people still complain #smf anyway right now the lag is so broken it hardly matters

The Troll event is the only other source of Filigree and Dyes beside the Daily Celebration of Summer task.
If a player wants to craft (Sunite Fashion, Food stuffs) they need those items. Ranking higher in the Troll kill gives a scaling reward of these items

kolatmaster

blackxxwolf3 wrote: »

if your a gwf try euipping bravery. its what im using. if your a gf use lunging strike and if your a pally im sorry.

*cough*OPsHaveRelentlessAssault*cough*



PS - And Radiant Strike, though it's a shorter range.

nehemiah217

Its not meant to be fun, it's meant to be rewarding. Didn't you get the memo on your Zen receipt?

subnocte

Also low level players. The scaling means that someone at level 10 or so can't get a hit in, while the high end level 70s can one shot them all from ranged attacks. It's very badly designed. Similarly for the flower gathering, low level characters cannot survive the kobolds while higher levels just steal the flowers from under them.

mefxes

I gave up with my OP. Was taking a lot of time and ending with 5 to 10 kills while the winners ended with hundreds.

Changed to my SW and then it's piece of cake.

Not very well planned, I think.

icyphish

Or, if you dont really enjoy the event for whatever the reason, you could just spend the same amount of time on farming something else! Then use the AD you made to just buy the reward off AH!

*Unless you really want the water horse... then good luck!　：Ｄ

plasticbat

icyphish wrote: »

*Unless you really want the water horse... then good luck!　：Ｄ

Getting water horse is next to zero effort. You just need to talk to the lady everyday. No need to do any event.

instynctive

I have just as much fun running my GWF in there as I do my DC.

But then again, I like having fun. So I didn't get 1st place. Oh well. It's a video game. My life continues.

vyperdrive

I've been finding the events a lot of fun. My only small complaint is that I find them about 5 mins too long. My eyes start to get a bit strained with all the effects going off during the troll invasion and the water fight - and there's only so much fun you can have chasing pigs and chickens around!

icyphish

Should've made an epic Boar instead of Blue Ribbon Pig, go little blackie!

walk2k

vattara wrote: »

walk2k wrote: »

cry much? there's 4 events, only 1 is a kill contest, the other 3 are gathering contests, and people still complain #smf anyway right now the lag is so broken it hardly matters

The Troll event is the only other source of Filigree and Dyes beside the Daily Celebration of Summer task.
If a player wants to craft (Sunite Fashion, Food stuffs) they need those items. Ranking higher in the Troll kill gives a scaling reward of these items

wrong you don't need that to make food. if you really want to make the garb you can always buy mats from the AH. or group up with DPS. not everything has to be tuned for a solo tank #ffs shocking, I know.

beckylunatic

walk2k wrote: »

wrong you don't need that to make food. if you really want to make the garb you can always buy mats from the AH. or group up with DPS. not everything has to be tuned for a solo tank #ffs shocking, I know.

Needed to make the Hero's Feasts from portable altars.

The filigrees and dyes appear to sell for considerably more than anything you can make with them, tbh. For the info of anyone looking for profits.

walk2k

I put everything I got (that's not nodrop) on the AH, so there's plenty there. being this is now my 3rd time doing this event, have no real interest. troll fight was better before they added those dumb blocking hay bales (and when AS had unlimited targets... )

championshewolf

I will never understand why people push to get top rank in the summer event. The bonuses you get for gold or silver aren't worth the effort and just getting a point is enough to give you plenty of materials for crafting.