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thefiresidecat
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I just solo'd a cta. the toon I solo'd it on is not bis. but not a sad sack either. yesterday i easily could solo shores. soloing cta took about 20 health stones. 12 minutes and it felt like I was dealing no damage whatsoever and the adds and final boss were hitting me like a tank. what made cta palatable before was that it was soloable for decent dps toons so you didn't have to deal with the bloodpressure rising leeches. (I realllly hate leeches at least pretend to help)
ctas should be easy imo. really easy. for the alt toons I've seen out there mine is like a ferarri and I was having a stiff time of it.
I haven't tried shores today. I don't know if that is now impossible too. the scaling seems harsh here though. it says I'm a level 8o instead of saying i'm levle 60. (Which is weird) and my stats are literally cut in half.
i'm looking at the logs the biggest hit I have is 17k and it was a real outlier. while I'm getting hit for 54k regularly from grummish. the adds are hitting for about 6000 hit but there are like 10 of them hitting fast and all at once. there is basically never a time when I'm not surrounded by red. I've tried summoning actual comps and I've tried with the augment. nothing makes a lot of difference.
ctas should be easy imo. really easy. for the alt toons I've seen out there mine is like a ferarri and I was having a stiff time of it.
I haven't tried shores today. I don't know if that is now impossible too. the scaling seems harsh here though. it says I'm a level 8o instead of saying i'm levle 60. (Which is weird) and my stats are literally cut in half.
i'm looking at the logs the biggest hit I have is 17k and it was a real outlier. while I'm getting hit for 54k regularly from grummish. the adds are hitting for about 6000 hit but there are like 10 of them hitting fast and all at once. there is basically never a time when I'm not surrounded by red. I've tried summoning actual comps and I've tried with the augment. nothing makes a lot of difference.
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I don't expect YOU to tell me anything. this is feedback for the devs. yes running it as a group can be ok. but I'm not going to do a premade for ancient material and finding a group that would want to in the middle of a new trial drop and double stones drop is a gl proposition. this is something for the noobs. the noobs can't run this without high level help. i've been in a couple 15 minute runs on my healer. the pic above shows a run that failed after 25 minutes (as in the original people left because they could not do it).. LIKE A FREAKING END GAME DUNGEON. that is not what this is. this is an event that you're supposed to be able to do ok at level 15. that means it's supposed to be easy peasy. and end game toon SHOULD be able to do this solo fast because it's something that is supposed to be for low levels to enjoy too. low levels can't do this. the final boss is on par with ras nsi imo. he hits like a freaking tank and so do the adds.
Actual dungeons are meant for groups and not to solo and the rewards are commensurate. This is not that.
and I highly doubt it's on purpose that this is so hard. they've been having some real issues with scaling. that's why tales has been post poned.
and i"m going thru all my health stones anyway even in groups. because the healers have just about zero heals. ppl are dropping like flies on these runs. regardless of what toon I'm using people are dying left and right. if you have less than 100 health you are done for. the adds are hitting fast for about 6k each and there are a lot of them and the bosses are hitting for 60k each. if you're a lower level you really don't have a chance.
the final boss has his ground attack about ever five seconds and he spawns 3 more of the fire archons every time. as a pally healer I was tanking more than healing.
historically I could run thru all my toons for the token about 15 20 minutes a toon. (if you need ten runs they better be guaranteed fast) tonight other than a few gossip breaks I've been on it all night. 10 has been averaging an hour to more than an hour.
I am curious about whether this is harder as a cta than it would've been as the leveling skirmish. I had to solo Defend the Village, and that was grueling, but it wasn't impossible. I'm not sure I could clear this with a bunch of players at a similar level - still want to try, though.
The last boss is the worst with all the knock-back and fire puddles so you don't get close to damage him as a melee.
If you (Devs) want the game to be like this, then you have to update your matchmaking algorithm to provide better group composition. Otherwise this will chase off anyone who isn't part of a "end-game" clique.
@stevexbox#5074
Get away from me with your salami measuring tape. I don't even have salami. sheesh. you seem to miss the point. yes, if you build right and are in a full party of people that are built right this isn't a problem. but this is a levelling que. you shouldn't have to. it's specifically for people who are NOT built right. and if I were to be persistently be making cta que requests in my alliance I'd be laughed right out of it because END GAME alliances don't bother with stuff like cta gues. they're running tomm and codg for the marks. lol.
this is not supposed to be hard content. do you understand that? I'm not sure how else I can phrase it to be easier to understand?
But, the fact that a few times I topped the paingiver chart in groups where the next lowest IL was 20K - on the one hand, that doesn't seem quite right. On the other, this might be the only content in the game where the newbs have ascendancy.
Healing's probably the biggest issue for my lowby too. Those leveling potions totally suck.
level 47 pally.. dealing 1 or 3 damage per swipe. one shot if I even looked at the boss. or groups of minions. in with a high level team so no problem finishing it. if it had been five of me we would have had no hope. my heals were about 2000 per cast which no hope of healing to 87000 which is where my hp was at.
my level 62 levelling ranger had a better time of it. but still not great. better stats than my 24k il ranger in there. higher il. second in paingiver 8 minute game. everyone was lowlevel except for one 22k warlock. the warlock had 1.7 mil dmg I had 622k. if he hadn't been there and it had been another low level I think it would have been a 20 minute run.. which is still not acceptable imo.
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> it doens't matter, the composition. I've ran with healers (am one) and I've ran with tanks; end game tanks, really nice ones that are basically tomm read can tank him. I haven't' seen any low levels that can, personally. heals don't heal anywhere near the amount of the every 3 to 5 second "heatwave" that deals 60k damage.
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> Get away from me with your salami measuring tape. I don't even have salami. sheesh. you seem to miss the point. yes, if you build right and are in a full party of people that are built right this isn't a problem. but this is a levelling que. you shouldn't have to. it's specifically for people who are NOT built right. and if I were to be persistently be making cta que requests in my alliance I'd be laughed right out of it because END GAME alliances don't bother with stuff like cta gues. they're running tomm and codg for the marks. lol.
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> this is not supposed to be hard content. do you understand that? I'm not sure how else I can phrase it to be easier to understand?
Who said it's not suppose to be hard... you.. they have changed the game and all things in the last two months this is the new norm they have said that and it's fine. CODG is a waste of time as is anything but TOMM which we were 5% from beating... we run CTA to help our lower lever guild members like I stated before we help our people alot.
Heck I say make it harder bring in more challenges. Tomorrow when I am on I will show you how easy it is.
as far as I am concerned this conversation between me and you is done. we get it. you have a salami that you want to measure. go elsewhere because I am not playing that game.
I wouldn't even say it's harder. Definitely more time consuming than it used to be. Toss in 10 runs and it's more annoying than anything.
It's highly annoying to go through a 5 minute run on a tank, come in first on dps, damage taken, heals, killls, boredom, and see 2 of the people in there finish up with 3 to 4 digit damage amounts. Had one guy finish a run with under 100 in total damage. You basically trip into 100 damage just by showing up.
I had one run with a barbie, I knew he was attacking because he was next to me almost the whole time swinging away, finished with 23000 total damage. Lets throw 5 toons of that caliber in there alone and see how well that goes.