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Feedback on mod16 release & wondering where the new dungeon went
hugienwn
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 54 Arc User
Greetings! I am excited that Undermountain is released -- finished the campaign, and enjoyed my time leveling my wizard to 80 in the Undermountain zones. Congrats to the dev team on a huge update. It took me about 7-8 hours to take my main character through the new storyline/campaign, and that was reading & listening to all the dialogue, doing all the quests, earning all the achievements/titles, and fully exploring each zone. I was taking my time and soaking it all in. As always, especially impressed with the art/environments/systems/QoL changes.
But now that that's done, I'm wondering... apart from Master Expeditions (which seem fun, at least IMO), as an endgame player, what am I supposed to do? Why is Lair of the Mad Mage missing from the release? Why has there been zero communication about that?
This awkward "what do I do now" situation is exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of level 70 group content is suffering from horrible scaling issues (I've heard especially bad things about Demogorgon and Tiamat). Most players I know are waiting for "the devs to fix it" before bothering to step foot in another queue. And yet, tomorrow's patch notes make no mention of this elephant in the room -- not even to say "we're aware of the scaling problems and will have a fix soon"... perhaps there is somewhere else that that communication has taken place, but if there is, I didn't find it. And, for the record, I am a big fan of the removal of the buff meta & facetanking, and totally support the idea of making tanking/healing relevant again -- which is why the reports of the broken-ness of scaling in certain raids are a bummer.
To summarize, my feedback is as follows: I liked Undermountain a lot, but the state of the rest of the game is concerning. The fact that the new dungeon is missing is awkward -- this is a communication fail, plain and simple. The fact that level 70 group content is so badly broken is embarrassing -- the QA team did not do a good job here. The fact that there is a patch going out tomorrow that makes no mention of either of these two massive problems is, IMO, inexcusable. These are the kinds of things that drive players crazy, and that taint an otherwise great new chapter of content for the game.
But now that that's done, I'm wondering... apart from Master Expeditions (which seem fun, at least IMO), as an endgame player, what am I supposed to do? Why is Lair of the Mad Mage missing from the release? Why has there been zero communication about that?
This awkward "what do I do now" situation is exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of level 70 group content is suffering from horrible scaling issues (I've heard especially bad things about Demogorgon and Tiamat). Most players I know are waiting for "the devs to fix it" before bothering to step foot in another queue. And yet, tomorrow's patch notes make no mention of this elephant in the room -- not even to say "we're aware of the scaling problems and will have a fix soon"... perhaps there is somewhere else that that communication has taken place, but if there is, I didn't find it. And, for the record, I am a big fan of the removal of the buff meta & facetanking, and totally support the idea of making tanking/healing relevant again -- which is why the reports of the broken-ness of scaling in certain raids are a bummer.
To summarize, my feedback is as follows: I liked Undermountain a lot, but the state of the rest of the game is concerning. The fact that the new dungeon is missing is awkward -- this is a communication fail, plain and simple. The fact that level 70 group content is so badly broken is embarrassing -- the QA team did not do a good job here. The fact that there is a patch going out tomorrow that makes no mention of either of these two massive problems is, IMO, inexcusable. These are the kinds of things that drive players crazy, and that taint an otherwise great new chapter of content for the game.
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Devs I really really love what u hve done for the game but I am a oathbound paladin and I should be able to the job I am supposed to do and that is heal and tank myself to help the team but at the moment that is a no go and u really need to sort it fast.
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Scaling is a huge problem right now. It's poorly executed and needs to be addressed ASAP. Most of the content is unplayable right now because of this. Downscaling is far too aggressive. The math doesn't add up or make sense.
LotMM was in preview, I wonder why it's not on live?