Dolmen difficulty reduced?

Parsifal · March 2015

I have been doing dolmens recently because they seem to give really good experience. I noticed that they seem to be toned way down from what they used to be though. I remember when I first started, some of the dolmens seemed to last for like 10 minutes, and have like 5-8 monsters up at a time. Now, only one monster spawns at a time, and it takes like 3 kills (that basically get one-shot) to destroy each pinion.

Have the dolmens been nerfed in recent patches, or is my memory just a bit foggy?

CaptainObvious · March 2015

It may be based on memory. If you cannot take down opponents fast enough then you will get overwhelmed. So speed of target acquisition and target dispatch increase as you get better as a player.

Course when daedroth stopped being CC'able the dread daedroth "boss" that drops rarely became a bit more difficult to solo.

Enodoc · March 2015

At some point they also seem to have stopped giving "Completion" XP the first time you destroy one (when the map icon goes white). @ZOS_TristanK was that intentional? May we see Completion XP returning for first-time dolmen completion?

WhimsyDragon · March 2015

I was actually wondering about this too. The lower level ones have seemed a lot easier, but it could also be that some players are also more powerful due to champion points? Like there was one that I arrived at with one other player and my immediate thought upon seeing that they were no higher in level than me was that we'd have to wait for another player before starting, but he drove right in and we beat it duo without any problems. That definitely was never the case before! I do appreciate it though in instances where it's hard to find enough players to accomplish the goal. I'm a completionist so it drives me batty if I can't complete everything! I still doubt it could be solo'd at normal level for the zone though.

Parsifal · April 2015

Well I know for a fact that they used to be longer if nothing else. It seems to only take 2-3 kills for each pinion to light up, whereas I remember it taking a ton in the past...like maybe 15 or so.

SHADOW2KK · May 2015

Gotta love the music when you are lighting stuff up in dolmens, really heroic and a adrenaline rush in the heat of battle..

Or maybe that shizzle is just me hehe.