I understand that you like it but i just think it will not hurt anyone if they have to make an effort in the process.

I also play mostly solo as my friends are rarely online but i still want to play with random people in the open world and make an effort in each battle i fight.

Tapio75 wrote: »

One thing could also be that generals in anchors that are too low for your level wont credit to achievment but i think that is too hars.. People should be abl to farm for generals BUT they should need to make an effort fighting at achors.

No VR should be credited for killing a non-VR General, ever.
And if you are in Cadwell's Silver range Generals should only count for you in Silver zones. And same for Gold.

However, the General spawn mechanic would need adjusting for that... no totally random Generals in VR zones, they need to stick to the same spawning patterns as in non-VR zones.

It's often like that doing VR dolmens to. You'll never get credit for all enemies unless you play in the middle of the night.

With multiple players at anchors, you wont have time to tag all enemies for exp and loot. Most things die in 1-3 seconds. Sometimes you get no exp at all, unless you just stand there and spam executioner. Dolmens now are clearly balanced for solo'ers or maybe a duo, yet there's naturally going to be way more people there, resulting in unpleasant game play.

Topic: Higher levels zerging lowbie spots sucks, I agree. I only heal or do light attacks myself, if I'm doing a Dolmen in a lower level zone. I'm not getting exp for the kills anyway, so there's absolutely no reason to kill everything in one AoE, other than being a d-bag. I also know by experience how *** it is with inconsiderate people at dolmens. Try doing the pinion achievements for purple dye, after you cleared all waves and still fighting the last Harvested, some guy always pops out of sneak and clicks/steals all of them

MornaBaine wrote: »

I would LOVE for them to adjust the rate at which Generals appear. Farming for achievements is SUCH a pain and the only ones I bother with are the ones that give you dyes. Unfortunately, because they have ALSO made all the best dyes PvP achievements I and many others will NEVER see, you have a lot of players going for the other achievements. The red from the Dolmen Generals achievement is one of the better reds that is even REMOTELY achievable. Dyes should have NEVER been tied to achievements as they are purely a cosmetic item and it's even more ridiculous that they are the ONLY thing worth having tied to the achievements.

So what's that expression? Oh yeah...

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

It's the best dye system implementation I have seen. There are enough of each color that you're not forced to do something you don't enjoy to get a color you like.

Tapio75 wrote: »

For me, veterans and generally people that are way too high for anchors, especially in low level zones... Make those anchors highly frustrating and unenjoyable..

Barely i can even lay a hit on enemies before swarm of those veterans kill it in less than a second.. Anchors end up being places to stand and spam some skill button to hope getting hit to something..

This can not go on..

I know this will get much opposition as players seem to hate making an effort to do something but still.. I think all players should downscale to the level which anchors are.. Or all anchors should be like Cyrodil and players should upscale to them but this would make it too hard for lowbies me thinks..

One thing could also be that generals in anchors that are too low for your level wont credit to achievment but i think that is too hars.. People should be abl to farm for generals BUT they should need to make an effort fighting at achors.

Yes, i dont think you have the right to faceroll enemies just because you dont want to make that hard of an effort to grind for generals..

1.) Be Templar.

2.) Blazing Shield.

3.) Kill entire dolmen before others can find it.

I'm a V4 and yesterday went and caught up a dolmen I'd forgotten about back in I dunno Malabal Tor or something VERY low-level for me. And yeah, I pretty much decimated it with no trouble.

The only reason I did it, was basically to get the achievement. Didn't really care about XP or rewards or anything, I just needed the "black" circle to go white and get that Regional achievement for killing that one.

I agree it's kind of silly when a high-ranked player mows down a low-level boss or dolmen or whatever, but what's the alternative?

Perhaps if you're high enough level, you get a checkbox that basically allows you to "claim" the achievement and mark it done without having to actually do it, since it's a waste of everyone's time and can frustrate low-level folks trying to legitimately defeat the thing.

I would say that aside from getting credit for taking down that specific anchor a player that is enough levels above the mobs to not get xp shouldn't get credit for pinions or generals either.

This comes up a lot, it's generally considered rude for 'over leveled' players to decimate content at the expense of appropriately leveled players. I myself have done lower level dolmens with an over leveled character, but if I see other people there I stand back and whip out the healing staff.

Like I said, it's generally considered rude, but welcome to the internetz.

As a VR14 and recently "cleaning up" things on my maps, I have been doing some dolmens that I either missed altogether or skipped for some reason. I think maybe one was in a non-vet zone, but even the VR zones are mostly "low level". For the most part I did them solo, but just wiping the thing without giving near-by players a chance to see it and get there and get credit didn't seem right, so I waited a few minutes after the chains dropped before I started in on them. Most were out of the way and none showed up, but sometimes they did. Some will be upset if you don't help enough and they die, and some will be upset if you roll over everything and it is too easy for them. You can't satisfy everyone. I tried to shoot for somewhere in the middle, and probably ended up upsetting both groups at one time or another. But I did at least try to be respectful of players on-level (e.g., let them release the pinions). And because of the bug where you don't get the XP for clearing a dolmen, the only thing I got was the missing achievement.

Another thing to consider is that sometimes there are organized events which are things like "clear all public dungeons", "get all skyshards", or "clear all dolmens". There you may get a large group of players, generally of mixed levels, whose purpose is to clear every objective as a group as quickly as reasonable, and move on to the next. I expect it could be frustrating for people who get their dolmen "crashed" by such a group. But realize that people play the game in many different ways, and sometimes they may be in conflict. This is especially true when large groups encounter soloers, due to the very different level of difficulty in the two experiences (i.e., easy for the group so much of the fun may be in doing it quickly, where for the soloer it may be more about just being able to get it done). Whatever the reason, if you don't have a good experience due to other players, you can always do the dolmen again when the conditions are more to your liking.

It is what it is...

If they decide to listen to the possible hundred or so threads filled with suggestions to make the Dolmen events better - perhaps we'll see some changes. So far, that'd be a negative, Ghost Rider.

1. They linked the dye achievements to Dolmens.
2. They set up general spawns to where they show up more in lowbieland than vetland.
3. There is no scaling at Dolmens.

We have to just deal with it for now. Frankly put, I get annoyed when I am soloing a dolmen at level or below testing build ideas and people run up and hit my pinons and scramble to hit the boss to get essentially free credit. Happens all the time.

I've probably skipped half to two-thirds of the dolmens when leveling up. Really, unless it was up and I was fairly close to it, I didn't bother trying to complete it. I never actually waited around for any of them. So, no doubt when I get to the point where I'm achievement hunting as a way to pass the time, I'll likely go back over some of them.

One thing I was thinking of doing: just heal. Let the appropriate leveled players actually kill the mobs, while keeping them healed. Sure, it still takes the challenge out of it (there's not really any challenge unless it's only two appropriately level players anyway- any more than that, and it kind of becomes almost trivial), but they still get the enjoyment of doing the fights, and I still get my Achievement.

Dixa wrote: »

I can almost guarantee you that these vet ranked people doing the level 30 dolmens power leveled up on things like crabs in fungal grotto, and are now going back to get all of the explore and skill points they missed by blowing through the levels.

This is incorrect.

Generals spawn in vetland dolmens in such a way that you could farm dolemens there for months and still not see the 2-4 generals you need to kill.

Meanwhile, you go to the level 5/12/30 zones in your faction and the spawn like hotcakes in comparison.

Nothing was skipped for any of my characters in relation to Dolemens. The spawn mechanics force vets into lowbieland.

Most vets I know don't take enjoyment out of potentially greifing lowbies. But they are forced by game mechanics to possibly grief because the generals they need simply will not spawn at dolemens of their level.

So, no.

Thanks.

Evandus wrote: »

It is what it is...



We have to just deal with it for now. Frankly put, I get annoyed when I am soloing a dolmen at level or below testing build ideas and people run up and hit my pinons and scramble to hit the boss to get essentially free credit. Happens all the time.

LOL, this is an MMO. The pinion belongs to the person who can activate it. Nothing else matters. What does it matter if they get credit for the boss? That affects you how, exactly? Best to roll with it and develop a lowered annoyance threshold.