Instantly killed by low-level creatures after update 50

KrayedoN

Hey, is anyone else having this problem? I'm on the easiest difficulty (Adventurer) in Auridon and I'm constantly getting one-shotted by scamps. I haven't changed anything since I last played.

16BitForestCat

I have only been fighting in the Night Market since U50, but I noticed immediately that enemies were tearing through me like paper in there all of a sudden. It's extra weird because Night Market isn't supposed to be an adjustable difficulty zone. It's not just me, either. Pretty much every group I joined in there has had maximum trouble staying alive, never mind killing anything. Battles are taking much longer than usual and with far more player deaths. Lots of frustrated players dropping group with "everyone else here sucks" attitudes despite not being any less squishy. :P I even changed zones a few times to tweak my difficulty settings and make sure they were on Adventurer, but it didn't alter anything. Either everyone's skills and gear have been nerfed so greatly in the update that our old builds are completely useless now, or something's amiss with the game's difficulty.

16BitForestCat

16BitForestCat wrote: »

Lots of frustrated players dropping group with "everyone else here sucks" attitudes despite not being any less squishy. :P

Heh, it happened again. PUG leader whined, "Literally the worst group I've ever seen" and disbanded group while his whingy self was legit the only one dead.

Night Market is still hitting unusually hard. But I've finished everything I needed to do there. I was just farming Calamitous to max out my collection for the trial sets. Now that that's done, I'll take my Adventurer setting to West Weald and get back to working on quests there. I'm curious to see if the weirdly high enemy damage is a thing outside Auridon and Night Market as well.

EDIT: I'm also wondering if it might be an instance thing as well, since I don't see a lot of reports about it. Maybe the difficulty is messed up in some instances but not all.

EDIT 2: This thread is supposedly "old," so I'm not gonna bump it with a new post. Just wondering what's with the claim that the Night Market gets harder with time, because the devs have never stated that anywhere. Plus, it stayed at the same difficulty till Update 50 and then was a sudden dramatic spike, not a gradual scaling with favor as the post below claims.

Xertasian

i solo trash mob with magika templar. take crimson heavy armor set from castle thorn. use any other dps set. you can literally stand in the mob and kill them. whle self healing.

LootAllTheStuff

KrayedoN wrote: »

Hey, is anyone else having this problem? I'm on the easiest difficulty (Adventurer) in Auridon and I'm constantly getting one-shotted by scamps. I haven't changed anything since I last played.

There was a bug where some characters would be stuck with the wrong difficulty setting. Have you tried toggling it to something else, then either logging out/in or /reloadui?

KrayedoN

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

KrayedoN wrote: »

Hey, is anyone else having this problem? I'm on the easiest difficulty (Adventurer) in Auridon and I'm constantly getting one-shotted by scamps. I haven't changed anything since I last played.

There was a bug where some characters would be stuck with the wrong difficulty setting. Have you tried toggling it to something else, then either logging out/in or /reloadui?

Yeah it seems not to be happening anymore for me personally as of late but I'm wondering if it could also be a latency issue. I'm constantly booted from the game for a slow connection.

KrayedoN

16BitForestCat wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

Lots of frustrated players dropping group with "everyone else here sucks" attitudes despite not being any less squishy. :P

Heh, it happened again. PUG leader whined, "Literally the worst group I've ever seen" and disbanded group while his whingy self was legit the only one dead.

Night Market is still hitting unusually hard. But I've finished everything I needed to do there. I was just farming Calamitous to max out my collection for the trial sets. Now that that's done, I'll take my Adventurer setting to West Weald and get back to working on quests there. I'm curious to see if the weirdly high enemy damage is a thing outside Auridon and Night Market as well.

EDIT: I'm also wondering if it might be an instance thing as well, since I don't see a lot of reports about it. Maybe the difficulty is messed up in some instances but not all.

I'm not sure how anyone has managed to beat anything in the Night Market tbh. I get oneshotted there too

LootAllTheStuff

KrayedoN wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

Lots of frustrated players dropping group with "everyone else here sucks" attitudes despite not being any less squishy. :P

Heh, it happened again. PUG leader whined, "Literally the worst group I've ever seen" and disbanded group while his whingy self was legit the only one dead.

Night Market is still hitting unusually hard. But I've finished everything I needed to do there. I was just farming Calamitous to max out my collection for the trial sets. Now that that's done, I'll take my Adventurer setting to West Weald and get back to working on quests there. I'm curious to see if the weirdly high enemy damage is a thing outside Auridon and Night Market as well.

EDIT: I'm also wondering if it might be an instance thing as well, since I don't see a lot of reports about it. Maybe the difficulty is messed up in some instances but not all.

I'm not sure how anyone has managed to beat anything in the Night Market tbh. I get oneshotted there too

NM is (as advertised) most definitely group and not solo content. It also, apparently, gets tougher as the factions earn progressively more "favour" - things certainly seem to be hitting harder now than they did in the first week.