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Playing Gauntlgrym? Please post your feedback in this thread!
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Playing Gauntlgrym? Please post your feedback in this thread!
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While you run like crazy to get the buffs, allies and bases at pvp, some ppl just chill! You depend on too many people...
Its boring, there's no connection, at least for me, betwen so many players! I just run around getting chests and killing some boring adds to get a NOT challenging dg.
Is this end game? =\
(My team has won three consecutive pvps in GG by a landslide, yet the other faction won the Event every time)
Phase 1) Farming for stuff is stupid and boring. I was hoping this would be more integrated pvp and pve. Perhaps a conquest map with a mini-boss and a main boss. The towers would affect the difficulty of the main boss and killing the mini boss would give us an easier time of taking down the towers, or something like that. At least give us a boss fight or something to do besides simply farming. BORING.
Phase 2) As mentioned, we need 20 man queues or a change to the gametype. Zerging with randoms is lame as hell.
Phase 3) Super simple dungeons with loot pinatas at the end. I do need some of these drops, especially the t2 weapons, but it's not worth wasting 2 hours and 40 minutes of my life for a *chance* at t2 loot.
Yeah, the first 2 parts are kinda annoying, seem like a waste of time... giving rewards for scoring is a must, also make those 20 min, not 30...
Overall, the feel is the same that the overall feel of the game... there is a diamond somewhere, but is so raw and you have the feeling that the ones on charge of polishing it are making it with a sledge hammer... GG could be like this game... a lot better, brilliant... yet is "meh"
Otherwise its just going to become a do 1 thing then afk fest.
I think I just haven't beat it yet, it seems keep bringing up ads non stop. The rest of game feels great. It would be really good, if we knew in advance then the game would be launching GG, instead of just sitting there waiting for it to be so. In short. I think its a really good design.
I wish it game better gear the vendors. Their orb is equal to one I currently have, and we knew in advance the next time it would pop up.
It really really felt like such a waste of time to do the whole thing and esentially get a few coins. i think 5 or 6 and nothing else! especially as the gear goes for 75 a piece! - and the stats are messed up.. if you want us to play it, include actual loot
So hopefully most of you have gotten to experience GG now. Personally I found the entire experience to be underwhelming because of some simple obvious things that I would like to see changed.
Oh and in the dungeons people are just training all the mobs to the end, and killing the end boss in less than 10 minutes. You can pharm the end bosses without fighting your way through, thus destroying the content.
When I read the announcement it said 20 v 20. Phase 1 gather for advantage in PvP, Phase 2 PvP and the winner wins the ability to enter tier 2 instance.
The reality. 20 v 20 per zone... your entire side vs the other entire side. Sorry if you picked the wrong side because now you will never win even if you win your pvp/gathering every time. Also PvP seems to have absolutely no effect on the end result.
And then you get into the last instance and... 5 man.
How to fix it?
Make your individual ZONE victory decide who gets into the Tier 2. As it is there is zero incentive to play (on the side I've chosen. To be honest I'm not sure why everyone didn't pick their side based on who has the awesome eyepatch) except it's the only way to do that type of PvP.
The other way to fix it? Give better stat rewards for badges. The stat sets are just bad
edit: oh yeah, and please for the love of Kelemvor, learn how to make a boss fight hard by doing something OTHER than spawning more adds. There are other options, please give us variety.
If you don't fix this you'll lose 80%+ of your player base very quickly.
I've seen the question "Is this endgame" repeatedly. If it is, why can we only do it during an event?
I can understand if you made the T2 dungeon only in the event, but at least let us do the main GG portion whenever we want to give our 60's something to do.
And add in PvP levels/titles/progression.
EDIT - Oh and a way to help with the event side - make a 20 man raid dungeon available only during the event. Raids aren't everyone's thing, but it would at least make people want to do it - especially as a 20 man group, not just 4x5man groups of randoms with no co-ordination.
- You should get Grym coins at the end of the game. Period. Even if you didn't do PvP. It's unfair that 1/3rd of the team gets to PvP, and the other 2/3rd's are screwed to farm for the next 30 minutes.
- Put a GS requirement on the crypts. I just got out of Dwarf King after we gave up, because our rogue was so bad we just couldn't do DPS on the boss.
- You should get Crym coins at the start of the crypts. Period. Its unfair to throw 5 people into a dungeon without GS requirements and expect them to defeat a difficult boss for 5 coins and only 1 loot drop.
TL;DR - we should not be punished for having bad teammates. Our rewards depend entirely on our teams performance and should not hold back the good players just because of a few people who don't know how to play the game.
No. Because there's no point. Get tier 2 pvp gear with terrible stat allowances, or get worse-than-CN-gear in a dungeon, if you get lucky enough to actually "win" and get to the "t2" dungeon.
I tried out GG on the test shard weeks ago, and it's been a while since I've logged into this game, but it's not necessary (see: forums) to do so to see you guys still don't know how to introduce content correctly, or balance classes.
*sigh*
I was really hoping your game could at least hold my attention until FF14/ESO/EQN came out. Have fun with my $200+.
Phase 1 - Boring. Either I kill duergar, collect broken weapons and turn them in for half an hour or I kill duergar, collect harnesses and turn them in for half an hour. Sure there is a duergar/devil thingie to kill and you have to kill the elementals before you can start collecting x item, but it is two sides of the same coin and boring. It needs more variety.
Phase 2 - Now there is some variety. Different things to do over the course of the half hour. The final part of it is buggy though. The carts seem to get stuck and won't move off the tracks for the next one. I have also had my elemental drops disappear on me before I could turn them in. I like this much better than phase 1.
Phase 3 - I like the boss fight mechanics here with them having multiple forms that act differently.
Rewards - Not that great. Phase 1 and 2 need something for time put in besides the shares needed to get into phase 3. Maybe some coins from there as well. If we are just going to get coins out of the chest, then there needs to be more drops from the last boss to even that out. I would also like to see unique items with unique looks coming from the bosses that can't be bought with grym coins or glory.
@headlesshorseman
They probably read something where people that are in a group in a mmo are more likely to stay with the game and spend money, So they force you into that situation.
Because they don't know another way to align players to a faction? Wouldn't count it out.
And from what everyone says about it so far it really is a joke
It's marked as an event like dungeon delves, professions, foundry, etc.
That being said, there are a number of things for Gauntlgrym that you can/should do to improve the desire to enjoy this (visually) amazing instance...
1. There needs to be more rewards for 90 minutes of a players time then 8-12 (running end Dungeon twice) and a single T1/T2 loot for 5 players. Really, it needs to be WORTH the time to do this instance repeatedly.
2. The 20v20 PvP? I've been in the instance 3 times, and never have I made the PvP because 1 out of the 20 people click "No" for whatever random reason. It sucks. Period. Not sure what can be done to fix that, maybe allow the PvP map open for more then just the 30 min window?
3. Please create a smaller PvP map of Gauntlgrym to compliment Hotenow/Rivenscar Ruins for generic PvP. We need more maps there...
Just some ideas, and from a person who will return, either way, I hope they are taken to heart.
Thank you for reading!
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There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread so I'm not going to rehash WHY I think they are good I'll just list a few:
One thing I will say is while I sort of like the basic mechanic for Phase 2 where people run PvP while others run support what I *thought* was going to happen was that we would have to compete with the other team to collect the stuff we needed. Meaning we would all be running around in the same space collecting stuff AND trying to take down the other side.
You asked for feedback so that's just my two cents. Overall I'm still loving GG but there is always room for improvement and so far I've seen a lot of suggestions in this thread that make sense and that I agree with that could improve the feel of GG overall.
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Sadly Grym fell so short of my expectations at the same time, I don't think I will run it again unless I hate myself so much I want to grind for nothing. I want the set, but I don't see myself being able to get it, the set times of such a long event makes it hard to be able to stay active that whole time, which it is needed if you want to gain your coins. You should get a coin or two for doing the phases, and the rights to join the Crypts to stay even after the event to be used later. As someone who earned them, but was unable to finish their run (We couldn't even scratch the T2 Boss without dying horribly) it was hard to log on today seeing that I had nothing for my efforts, I hoped when I saw the Delve was on I could join in a T1 run, only to notice I could not because I wasn't apart of the earlier phases and the only "reward" I gained from my earlier events had disappeared from my inventory. That hurt. I do hope you guys can find a way to make it worth someone setting up their life scheduled to join it, or like some of the other timed events find a way to make it as a incentive like the bonus PVP glory, and not I should only do this, when there is a bonus for it.
Its hard, and a bit sad, I love Cryptic, please stop being silly, I love your year long bugs, I love your light hearted games, please be my Crypic that always was fair and balanced the best they could. Please your MMO's only hope.
i had a great time with the game, and i loved it for what it was.. but there is no endgame, gg is really really disappointing.
I dont mean to whine too much, just want to give you feedback on why i wont log on anymore till module 1 is released. maybe by then the game has changed and exploits/no content isnt as big a problem anymore. - but gg is just horribly bad... make the annoying first 2 phases 10 mins each or make it possible to queue for the parts individually..
Something similar happened to me today , the first GG I did I ended up with both scrolls needed to enter the dungeons but the T1 one was the only one available for me then later I was on the winning side but ended up with only 1 scroll so could only enter the T1 dungeon even though the Dwarf king one was available to me ,and yes , I had fully participated in the PvE and PvP phases , makes no sense to me lol