Kobold end fight

[Roman]

Why the changes to living spells in Kobold? Even when making an evasion save players still receive bludgeon damage, and they now spam scorching ray which also offers no save.

I don't mind making a quest more difficult, but these changes do not allow a build to be improved or made better to overcome the new challenges. Aside from scarabs to counter the scorching ray, there is nothing to improve on to counter the new attacks.

Even more frustrating is that changes like this narrow the options of play to a limited number of strategies. How very boring. That can't be the conclusion the Dev's intended.

[Goldeneye]

Good builds were making the quest too easy - that had to be changed.

[MrCow]

Meteor Swarm got a damage boost (to try and make it a viable player cast spell) and Scorching Ray was always painful as living spells cast spells as if maximized. Ooze puppet however makes them very potent allies for that fight.

[Angelus_dead]

In addition, you're probably running into some of the buggy scaling that can cause inflated damage for full parties.

PS. Lemee say that being a cleric in there reminds me a lot of healing through Abbot Inferno...

[pumagirl418]

Good builds were making the quest too easy - that had to be changed.

please tell me this was sarcasm...



if good builds make it look easy, then how can average or below average succeed when the quest is made tougher...

[hydra_ex]

The only time I tried this quest since mod 9 came out was a duo run (just to see what was up). I was on my warchanter, and my guildy was on his rogue. Pretty much a set up for failure. Just went in, not much strategy.

Surprisingly, we almost beat it (had the efreet at 10%). Even without ooze puppet, if we had a proper cleric in there we would have been just fine.

Sure, its harder, but still easily doable.

[abull74]

I solo'd the quest on my WF 2rog/2paly/12sorc, on normal....once on hard but I went through several SP pots, before the Mod....so, yes...some builds were making it an easy solo quest. The Dev's don't like to see this, as it leads them to think that they wasted their time trying to make a long, hard , high end quest.

This same build, although not me, solo'd the Reaver Raid. The Dev's came in and changed that raid as well, because they felt shamed.

I AM THE FPOON!!!

[Pyromaniac]

That can't be the conclusion the Dev's intended.

Actually I think its probably working as intended. Normally the dev's ramp up the difficulty on old content when they aren't happy that people are soloing it. Don't know why amping up old content is a good use of resources, but it happens every mod.

[Bilger]

Spells where bugged before the blunt damage was never supposed to be evaded. They have fixed that and that is why ya feeling the extra damage.

Really no healing is needed(accept on self) set up blade barrier at top let party beat kobald everything else hits blades and kite them through hall that you set up with blade barriers should need to do very lil party healing and just have to keep self up not that hard IMO.