The new tech.

[bigolbear]

Dear Devs,

First off let me say the new event has been a blast - well thought out, well implemented, excellent humour and voice acting - very enjoyable all round.

However the best bit is the new tech. (im a geeky coder and i apreciate these things)

The dropdown on quest entry to the cove (select the lvl you want to do this quest on) This is excelent. This is the way forward. This system could be integrated into all the current quest mechanics. Letting us play all quests at whatever lvl range we like - modding the mobs inside accordingly.

This would be my suggestion in full - take lvl 10 quest. approached by a group of lvl 10 players - the drop down would look as follows:

1 (casual)
2 (casual)
3 (casual)
4 (casual)
5 (casual)
6 (casual)
7 (casual)
8 (casual)
9 (casual)
10 (normal)
11 (hard)
12 (elite)
13 (elite)
14 (elite)
15 (elite)
16 (elite)
17 (elite)
18 (elite)
19 (elite)
20 (elite)
21 (epic)
22 (epic)
23 (epic)
24 (epic)
25 (epic)
What dy'a think folks. Would be great to hear from a dev on this too to know if this is the planned direction or something similar.

[dunklezhan]

Great - provided there's still a restriction that only allow VIPs (of which I am NOT one) to open on elite while everyone else has to at least do normal +Hard first. They need perks, and that's one of them.

And provided of course that the scaling works properly. I've read feedback on the forums from a few folks that the scaling has been a little off on saves and HPs in the event itself (that might just be the mobs in that quest though given the issues i've had that I really shouldn't have, getting stuns to land on the hobgoblins on solo cave runs with the quest set to 2 levels lower than me).

[andbr22]

Well only stunable monster (with DC over 40) for me was orange named bugbear caster. I never seen to Hold monster held more than 6 seconds unless they have 2 times enerevated earlier.
Jack jibbers is truly epic monster -> killing him takes 10 minutes, and it is not like he can do any harm to you (realy with 5 or 10 dr I rested in shrine while Jack tried to hurt me -> need my offensive cliekies back).

And honestly somehow I don't apriciated this idea (I know TRs would like to have more high end content to get endgame experience), but kobold that wail seems just wrong to me... It would require lot of work (set spells for every enemy caster every level), or you would just got clone wars (generic lv18 caster spells).

[bigolbear]

to dunkel - yes your quite right. hard and elite mode should be locked as standard.

Or rather the choice remains to play the quest at a higher dificulty but the first completion (over lvl) grants you normal favour, the second hard and the 3rd elite.

[Cyr]

Actually crystal cove demonstrated to me that this type of mechanic does not work very well for an extended level range.

Epic levels in the quest were about as gimpy as it came. Some things were different (like the noticably higher saving throws of the mobs due to no minion penalty), but for the most part the mobs were drastically weaker then epic mobs.