U11, humbling?

[rodallec]

How did everyone that ran the new and upgraded content find it?

completed some normal master artificer runs. healed one. looks like we will be using pots for easy completions
epic and elite were insane and alot of fun. wiped at titans need to figure out a good strategy.

I (accidently) piked lord of the blades but it sounded crazy.

Ran elite shroud because for some reason i thought i read the loot was increased or there woud be extra chests... did anyone else think that or was i dreaming? anyway, harry was a beast. BEAST! was chaos.

velah was just a dragged out version of pre u11 ev6. sucks for healers it seems.

DQ seemed to have more hp but we had a few healers in group and it was no problem.

So the new content and upgrades all seem to be more sp intensive, what do you guys think and what have you tried?

[rodarius]

From what I have seen, once again success is even more loaded off to the healers. We will see how it effects pugs, but I do understand every cleric refusing to invest even more that they already have to.

I do believe either giving pots to clerics will be reinvented or we will see a lot less raiding with pugs

[Rhev]

Lol I've already become of the mindset I won't use pots with pugs. Mostly because of the rarity of being compensated when things go south. Although, I kinda of look foward to the added difficulty.

[Arshan]

Lol I've already become of the mindset I won't use pots with pugs. Mostly because of the rarity of being compensated when things go south. Although, I kinda of look foward to the added difficulty.

Paradoxaly it's prolly in pugs you'd need to chug pots
Happened to me too much to chug 30 in a bad w/e and have nothing back.
Gotta run new content still hehe, but i tend to run with people that avoid too much pots use so it's a good point... almost.

I guess the "giving back pots" policy would really be cool to be back. After all on a tod if everyone gives a pot, a single one, it's still 5 for each healer (assuming they are 2). Could say 2 to not forget casters.

Well elite ToD will still prolly ask more than a couple pots anyway.

[Hendrik]

How did everyone that ran the new and upgraded content find it?

The three Quests, amazing! VERY enjoyable. Bladesworn Pallys are no joke....



Ran them all Elite and I must say, they hit the mark spot on with Elite difficulty! PERFECT balance in difficulty IMO.

Only played around in one of the Raids - no serious attempt just a feet wetting experience - what I learned is that I MUST flag my Music of Makers Virt Bard asap!

[RumbIe]

I'll say that weapons Shipment caught us all of guard on elite. We made it to the gate, killed the impostors or whatever they are when you first arrive and wasn't really paying attention waiting for the first "wave" to spawn figuring it would be 2 up top and two down below, but just faster. Like as soon as you kill all 4 2 more appear.

We were grossly mistaken. All of a sudden like 40 tiefling archers appear out of nowhere and start machine gun style blasting us with arrows. No one could get settled trying to cover both sides and we all died. Levels were 18-20 with one healer and 2 arcanes. Tried again on hard and succeeded but was still crazy. After several waves of archers devils spawn then orthons, back to archers, more orthons, those winged purple she-devil things like the end boss in Big Top, archers, orthons, devils. Insanity. I was laying down circle of deaths for the level drains then wailing like crazy. The Sorc was dropping ice storms and we were all umping around trying to stay alive and not get boxed in which meant death.

After all that we were too worried to just let the titan do all the work and didn't know if that mechanic changed and it could be killed so we ended up with aggro a few times, but not too bad. 2 chests at the end all with junk. Pew pew.

However the excitement and shock of it being new and challenging was nice. I don't think I've ever seen that many mobs spawning or on teh screen at once any where.

[LafoMamone]

I'll say that weapons Shipment caught us all of guard on elite.

3-manned elite WS last night, and I have to say I like the changes they made to it. Fights are a lot more frantic and exciting now, no more *yawn* while waiting endlessly on Liella to complete her spell. The loot was still garbage though.

[ballsz]

3-manned elite WS last night, and I have to say I like the changes they made to it. Fights are a lot more frantic and exciting now, no more *yawn* while waiting endlessly on Liella to complete her spell. The loot was still garbage though.

Agreed, it was a lot more fun. Loot still sucks.

[flech]

"Selling major sp pots for 50k a piece ??!" ... soon braw, soon.

[CaptainPurge]

Clearly this is an effort by Turbine to sell more SP pots

[cdr]

I'm certainly not using any pots on a PUG raid that I'm not given at the outset now.

[Syllph]

If I didn't know better I'd say Turbine found a creative way to reduce caster effectiveness. Pre u11 everyone was complaining that casters were too overpowered. Bla Bla Bla. Turbine knew they couldn't just nerf them or it would cause more drama, but they could make casters need to drink pots and it would sort of solve this issue. People are less wiling, it seems, to play classes that need expensive resources (SP pots.)

My 2 cents and complete guess work.

[Kinerd]

Playing my cleric main, I found myself straining to see the HP bars of my guildmates. Then I said, "why am I bothering with this?" and logged out for the night at the end of the quest.

[moops]

Playing my cleric main, I found myself straining to see the HP bars of my guildmates. Then I said, "why am I bothering with this?" and logged out for the night at the end of the quest.

Yeah the UI is terrible for healing. I play in 1920 x 1080 on 24 inch Monitor--they still manage to take up a ton of real estate while being super super tiny and hard to read. they also blend into the background. I know that except for the Epic dragon I ran that I did some overhealing to compensate for not being able to read the bars right, or quick enough--can't see them in peripheral vision very well anymore.

Pretty much very straining to the eyes, and will not be playing my main alts as much anymore. A girl can't get wrinkles

[mudfud]

Playing my cleric main, I found myself straining to see the HP bars of my guildmates. Then I said, "why am I bothering with this?" and logged out for the night at the end of the quest.

I'm a follower of Moonshine when I heal. It's easier to raise and now I further believe it after the UI changes.

[mudfud]

I liked the new quests. Blown to bits my favorite of the three. Haven't tried the raids yet, but probably today or tomorrow.

Was a nice surprise logging into completionist and getting a mail congratulating and giving me artificer for free. Didn't expect to be doing that again till update 12. Kudos.

Not a fan of the UI, would love it back to how it was.

Looking forward to checking out the new and improved Weapon Shipment. Asked a few people and they just suggested I run it.

Main wilderness area I considered a joke with how easy it was to solo, how wrong I was when I went to explore the other ones alone.

Love the right click on spells on hotbar. Gonna save me a few extra slots now since I can remove the actual feats.

Love the look of Firestorm now.

[rodallec]

Totally forgot to run the new weapons shipment!
I'll check that out today.
Also wanted to say if I could make a wf pally look like one of the bladesworn ones I would TR asap!
The new raids on epic seem crazy and I can't see a full pug doing it for a long time until strategies are made.

I actually didn't do LoB epic but I know the 730hp 100ac tank died within a few seconds.
In MA just a quick thing we've found: sub 450hp and slow healers really won't cut it in the lightning trap..

Can't Wait to see sarlona starting to get some completions of the new raids on epic.

[mudfud]

Also wanted to say if I could make a wf pally look like one of the bladesworn ones I would TR asap!

They remind me of the robots in the movie Ice Pirates for those old like me to remember that movie.

[LolWutRoflstomped]

Totally forgot to run the new weapons shipment!
I'll check that out today.
Also wanted to say if I could make a wf pally look like one of the bladesworn ones I would TR asap!
The new raids on epic seem crazy and I can't see a full pug doing it for a long time until strategies are made.

I actually didn't do LoB epic but I know the 730hp 100ac tank died within a few seconds.
In MA just a quick thing we've found: sub 450hp and slow healers really won't cut it in the lightning trap..

Can't Wait to see sarlona starting to get some completions of the new raids on epic.

I survived fine on with 382 hp on normal joel... lightning trap is EZ on normal

I'm a follower of Moonshine when I heal. It's easier to raise and now I further believe it after the UI changes.

Yes because its much easier to raise with a anti-rez mechanic in place... LOL

[dragon2fire]

I keep hearing people say that the loot is bad at the end of ws. I did two elite runs yesterday. I saw drop one arrow head, one babble, and two plus two books.