Scales run in Gianthold... has the difficulty been modified too much?

[xberto]

I'm fine with the quest being a little more difficult. I mean Dragons, even young ones, should be bad ass. However, after killing three dragons, I would expect, i should find a scale or two. It's been a few runs since I've pulled a scale and I'm starting to get a little discouraged.

[Missing_Minds]

Run it last night, and it was more difficult, the Giants and Dragons had higher saves. The Giant with the White Dragon, was casting Cometfall without doing his taunting gesture and would cast it right away on a wider scale. Giant with Black Dragon, was more resilient to cold based spells. I saw at a point purple numbers, yellow and none at times! And he was healing more than usual, it seems. The Blue Dragon/Giant Combo took 1 minute! So maybe there's a bug of some kind or pure bad luck, but I think someone from QC should take a look.
We only had one wipe on the white dragon, so it's still possible to do it, but beside those "safe spots"( I was not even aware of those) they have modified something else in the AI. And I'm not even mentioning that no skeletons spawns before the Gatekeeper and he appeared, therefore we were not able to complete the quest... Anyway this one I reported in the bug list.

I've never had the gatekeeper appear before the skeletons. That has to be a new bug.
I've also never had the stone giant spam his comet falls without his gesture.
The fire giant may be more resilient to cold. My guess would be a protect spell. However, your spell doing nothing what so ever, I'm betting it didn't count your spell. See my thread here about that.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php...58#post1370658

[LOUDRampart]

Stuff always seems harder when they remove firewalls etc... because now you actually have to have tactics.

Well other tactics at least...

Seems every time the devs change something, someone cries it was made too hard. Give it a week or two, the adventure will be trivial for most again...

[nakedfatguy]

ummm.....all the stuff you are complaining about has been there the whole time. i never use scorching ray on the white giant because it has never worked well. the black giant will always heal the dragon if you dont keep him occupied by whacking on him. As far as safespots go (never seen them myself), apparently you were cheesing the quest and now that you have to do it as intended, you cant hang.

[sigtrent]

Also keep in mind your group.

I've doen the dragons with overall strong groups and they go down easy.

I've done them with slightly weaker groups and its a wipefest! In fact I've had multi wipes with a group, had one character change, and it goes smooth as silk because we shored up a key weakness.