Will.9785

> @"Ashantara.8731" said: > The Drizzlewood meta (the southern part in particular) is way more exhausting (with all the jumping across the map and the treasure spawns at the end^) than any of the DRMs, which are just tedious if anything from having to repeat them daily if you want to do all the collections. > > P.S. CM = Challenge Mode = you are being challenged, hence the time limits and mechanics are fine. > > ^) _before it was updated at least_ You know, come to think of it Drizzlewood was pretty exhausting as well... especially when the north meta first arrived. Good point.

I agree that something needs to be done. Its blatant market manipulation by 1 or 2 guilds with very rich players (i.e. hundreds of thousands of gold). This is harmful to the game in the long run. A new player would instantly be turned off by this if they wanted to go for a legendary. It puts what is already a daunting task for many players even further out of reach. Many may not find it worth the effort and leave the game. People need long term goals like this to stay invested in the game but they need to be reasonably within reach. The carrot on the stick approach only works if the person chasing the carrot actually believes they can get it. A price of 2-3 gold is not fine. You need around 500 for gen 2 legendaries. That's over 1k gold JUST for the coins. Even if you feel like 2-3 gold is fine, at what point does it start to become a problem? Because it can/will reach 3-5 gold before you know it given the manipulation we are seeing right now.

> @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > @"Will.9785" said: > > I agree that the CM for this is too difficult. The timer is too short. > > Get good teammates and it's easily done. Just focus, don't stand in the various AoE (there are safe spots) and dodge the growing circle on time. I've had better luck soloing the CMs to be honest. LFG is been very hit or miss (mostly miss) for me. I've got the mechanics down, I just think the scaling is a bit too high for solo play given all of the things you have to deal with.

I agree that the CM for this is too difficult. The timer is too short. It takes forever just to get the kodan to the shrine. God help you if he gets chilled.

1 DRM with all 3 CMs turned on takes about 15-20 minutes to finish. This includes the 4-5 minutes spent during the "pre" events at the start. They take much longer than fractals. I've cleared fractal 99 CM in just slightly more time than it takes to do the pre-event for these DRMs, to put things in perspective.

End of Dragons could be a reference to the Empire of the Dragons aka the Dragon Empire aka the the rulers of Cantha. They might be trying to trick us into thinking it means the end of all the elder dragons when in fact it means something completely different. Of course, we will probably end up killing at least 1 elder dragon along the way but I'm just saying it doesn't necessarily have to be the end.

I'm on condi renegade in case folks are wondering.

I just did the Brisban Wildlands DRM with all of the CMs enabled 3 times. I did Snowden Drifts yesterday and Gendarran Fields the day before that. The Snowden Drifts time limit by the way is too short. By the time you get the kodan down the path there are only like 6 minutes left. That point aside, every day that I've done them, I've just felt exhausted. Maybe it is just me but I've played though all of the content this game has to offer from Shattered Observatory CM, to Dhum CM, etc and I have never felt so wiped out as I do from playing these and its not even close. They are very tedious and very taxing on you physically. You are constantly dodging or breaking cc or ripping boons or running or jumping while trying to maintain a proper rotation to clear the content within the time limits. Its a bit much. Why they decided to make you repeat the CMs 5 times is beyond me. I've tried grouping up but its virtually impossible to find competent people in LFG. I've had better luck clearing them solo so far... but man do they wipe me out. I can think of a million other things I'd rather be doing in the game than playing these but they force you to grind these for the achievements and usually if you want to craft the legendary trinket at the end of a season you will need to do most of the achievements so that's the only reason I'm doing them. Am I the only person who feels this way about these missions? I hope this isn't a sign of the sort of gameplay we can expect in EOD.