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Please fix Gate Crashers before this CTA is over - edit: too late! arggggh
frogwalloper
Member Posts: 821 Arc User
Devs I'm begging you - begging you.
Each run takes about ten minutes. They ought to take a third of that.
The lengthy wait between waves and between mobs in each wave is padding this event out by a large amount.
I don't know if it's buggy or working as intended, but there's just way too much downtime.
Doing the math, at this rate it will take me 11 hours, 40 minutes to get the last of the tokens I need - when it probably should not take any more than 4 hours.
Please - a patch, or a postponement while a patch is made - whatever it takes, please trim the length of this skirmish.
Edit: That's 11 hours, 40 minutes a day, btw - a DAY.
34 hours, 20 minutes all told to get three more tokens for 7 characters.
That's ludicrous.
Each run takes about ten minutes. They ought to take a third of that.
The lengthy wait between waves and between mobs in each wave is padding this event out by a large amount.
I don't know if it's buggy or working as intended, but there's just way too much downtime.
Doing the math, at this rate it will take me 11 hours, 40 minutes to get the last of the tokens I need - when it probably should not take any more than 4 hours.
Please - a patch, or a postponement while a patch is made - whatever it takes, please trim the length of this skirmish.
Edit: That's 11 hours, 40 minutes a day, btw - a DAY.
34 hours, 20 minutes all told to get three more tokens for 7 characters.
That's ludicrous.
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- finished one character so far, and that took me nearly two hours.
1 hour, 19 minutes was spent literally standing there waiting.
I see that tales of old's grand retelling lets you buy chapters and tokens for it's finale. So for this final cta of the season, why isn't set up that you could obtain 2 tokens a day? 1 at 5 and 1 at 10 runs respectively.
CTAs are supposed to be fast and 10 runs should take no longer than 50 mins tops per character.
I just ran 4 characters and it took 7 hours to finish that. I have 4 more to do and I have a relative that can't even get their 12 characters done due to it would take 21 hours to run that many 3 days straight.
How about making the tokens available now along with lower it from 10 to 5 devs?
You got the scaling right but missed the length. Gate crashers IS NOT suitable for cta seasons. defend the temple should have been in it or straight to helm.
The second wave lasts about 2 minutes, 30 seconds, and is a bit more off. Sometimes you get several mobs entering from different directions, but they don't use all the entrances like they did before. The long wait time between mobs becomes really noticeable.
The final wave lasts just over 4 minutes, and doesn't seem to be working correctly at all. You only get one mob at a time, and that long wait time between mobs really drags things out.
The wait time between mobs is a pain, but I think what's really buggy is that mobs start arriving one at a time, and in some cases, it's not even a mob just a lone nothic brute. If each wave behaved like the first, this skirmish would take just under five minutes which is still a bit long, really - considering how many we have to run for a token.
This CTA just magnifies the issue even more then past events.
I was going to run it on 2 toons but after day 1 I said f that.
Anyway, toward the end, I landed in a match with three leeches who obviously thought the new guy and I were going to carry them- pffft ha ha ha... yeah. So I private queued during the leaver penalty and found that it was a really pleasant experience solo.
If ever there was a cta that was designed for solo play, this is it. Someone mentioned this months ago, and he/she was right.
Still disgustingly long, but it's not much longer than queuing for it - probably breaks even since there's no wait, and instead of a handful of medallions each match, you walk away with hundreds, and a good bit of loot that sells ok on the AH.
So thanks devs for the great job scaling and for making it solo friendly.
No thanks devs for the absolutely horrific grind. This is up there with grinding for an elemental evil weapon without a wand.