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so how are we supposed to get the dragon fangs for new strongholds gear?
lemonchill
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i moved from a small guild to a big guild hoping i would be able to farm the dragons event at SH to get enough dragon fangs for the upcoming new guild gear, and guess what: the situation with big guild was same as with little guild (both guilds are very active) we are lucky if we can make one dragon event a day and i must add i need to be online at a certain time to actually be able to run with enough ppl.
im sorry but i cant be 24hrs online and/or i cant always make time to do that event when there are actually enough ppl from my guild online.
this matter should be addressed and re-considered by the devs. maybe the hardcore pvp guilds were able to farm that event but as for other guilds? i have my Doubts.
im sorry but i cant be 24hrs online and/or i cant always make time to do that event when there are actually enough ppl from my guild online.
this matter should be addressed and re-considered by the devs. maybe the hardcore pvp guilds were able to farm that event but as for other guilds? i have my Doubts.
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I gave up on those fangs, my current Elven armor serves me well and i would bet my wallet on it, that Underdark brings everything new and everything we grind hard now will be obsolete again. Of course those of you, who want to min/max your toons, my strategy doesn't work, personally i hate it too, but the entire SH system bleeds from more wounds.
Something which could have been made nice- still with huge patch- turned out into a grind fest, only manageable by huge and wealthy guilds (or as we can see already, some exploiting guilds...) and the entire boon structure isn't well thought either.
If Devs want to keep many people occupied and in the game, they need to understand, that players need a goal, they can clearly see and achieve. BUT how to keep guildies occupied in long term, with so high demands, that most players can't reach and here we come to the point of boons again. If a medium guild can't achieve those necessary boons in time, they will be stumped into the dirt in PVP. That freaking gap between players is already huge, now to top it with these boons, ah...
Let the massacre begin! Hard to swallow, i know, but it will be so, unless Devs don't change strategy and modify accordingly.
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Think of it as "attunement" in other games or "factioning". They want you to pile up some new currency to get some new shiny from some new faction previously unheard of.
And hopefully pay them for the privilege of a new grind with real money. I'm sure they will introduce something on the PvP side that you need to pay for as well to get at the gear.
That's why they hid the new boons behind PvP content or massive material sinks, so you will pay for a shortcut in material needs, and force you to group up for PvP "privilege" to populate their broken PvP model. You need lot's and lot's of cheese (boons)/(gear) to sucker the hamsters into the PvP hamster wheel.
As to the dragon thing and it being a bug, it's not a bug. They told in the dev blog about how the dragon fight was going to go down, that it was designed that way, so that if you drop the dragons at or near the same time you can get increased rewards, but that once one was killed then it despawned shortly there after. That folks were going to have to "experiment" and "figure it out" on how to do the dragons in the proper sequence and time to get maximum rewards.
If you read closely you would have understood that you were going to have to split your 20 group up to do seperate dragons, and co-ordinate so that one didn't get snuffed to far ahead of the others, and that controlling the ADDs were going to be crutial since they were going to be buffing the dragons.
That said, others have made very good points here as well. It may not be worth your time/effort to buy the new pieces, but if you really really just want them, there's always the Zen store option for the Strongbox keys.
I don't collect Protector Seals, so I'm not going to be getting shiny new Dragonflight. Also, I am dubious about the new PVP, which has its own currency--I doubt Lionsmane is in my future. I'll be in my Elemental Executioner gear at least until Underdark.
In the meantime, I use my guildmarks for poker chips.
We have been collecting the boxes that drop from the event, and we have all committed to buying some keys, to open them in order to get our first pieces. We just upgraded our GH to 4... so we are duly excited to get busy. We are not heavily geared but we are all VERY SKILLED at our chosen classes. I believe the highest iL in the guild is 3.3 to 3.5. The average is about 2.6.
We can take down Red, 5 to 7 people, in 9 minutes. I am not bragging... this is the way that we manage things... with what we have
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One can ride from the wizard to red in less than a minute with a slow mount.
That said, even an average guild in terms of gear, can take down 2 dragons of you can pull together 20 or so members, and 10 or 12 of you is plenty for 1.
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That beeing said, in one run, the other 12 players killing the second dragon struggled and would have failed, if they had not had the extra minute after the first kill.
The dps depends on buffs/ debuffs and good gear. If you dont have one or/and the other, it is difficult, even for 12 ppl, to kill one dragon.
Something does not make sense to me.
You also should talk to the wizard and ask him about how to fight the dragons, he tells you what the mechanics are.
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We, too, are enjoying the journey. Everyone is collecting up whatever stuff that's needed for the coffer, banging out their own grinds and quests, and we will go randomly beat on a dragon when there's more than half a dozen people online.
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I can now make sense of why one wants to buy that.
Be proactive.