@runagate

They dont scale very far.. I know that now one magicka build dragonknight in light armor can easily solo one alone, its fun, then more people come up, there is a number where it still eels good but when zergs come in, it stops being fun and i dont think they scale to more than 6 players at most. The zergs also pose a FPS drop issue for low perfoormance machines that makes them just spam some aoe since they cant do anything else in 10 fps mode.

Still, the best solution i see is to make group finder work as means of leveling uyp, i was against it in WOW but due this games characteristics, it would be good here.

@Sheva I 7 I

Then, these sets need to drop in dungeons as well or give them as rewards for people not to do them..

Besides apeople i talked at Dolmens, almost all say, that they do it to quickly level to 50.


Hmm.. Now that i think of it, an idea comes to my mind..

What if, there would be a selection of "World instance" you get to play in.. There would be this normal like it is now, and immersive instance where farming is and zerging is punishable by removing right to be at immersive instance.. Not very strict though but still something that way, an instance of world where certain degree of immersion is required as consideration for all players.

Would also be lovely to RP folks and for those that think world is too populated because that sort of instance would be lightly populated compared to normal i think.. Would not require any more or less server capacity as there are allready many instances of any area, all they need is to add flags to them to make player be in certain iunstance.

Dolmens get farmed like this because they spawn in a nice predictable way, offer more experience with less downside to having more players, and they are also done for dailies and jewelry.

World bosses and other events could do with some improving to make them as tantalizing as dolmens.

Some people are never happy , there are only a couple maps people farm sets , and a couple Dohlmens people AFK farm xp. Avoid them it's easier to change your behavior than changing the game.

Should have played at launch and had to solo all the content on the Gold zones.

At least if these rewards would be in an dungeon by group finder, they would not bother players who want to do them for the sake of the fight.

Besides the Dolmenns are just too easy way to get good items, i mean you should do something else than AFK to get those good items, something which reequires you to learn your class to at some basic level.

The drop rate as far as i have seen for purples is not that bad at all and even if ir was, you get good items for no effort, not good.

The problem with me is, that i dont want to just do Dolmens, i want to attack invasion of Molag Bal where ever that happens, if there is no anchor or scouting party, i will help nearby villagers.

I have also recently went throgh all Dolmens with couple of characters to get the achievment and some travels at the same time unlocking few wayshrines here and there, where ever i go, the zerg is there. It has basically been 1 out of 10 times when i have been able to get some enjoyment out of destroying anchors.

Oh how i wish the only way to get gear was through crafting, that way at least item farming would go away and crafters wwould have something profitable to do plus the economy would be better wwithout free drops you sell for gold.

Maybe on solution would be to introduce jewelcrafting allready, remove set drops completely and just add crafting stations here and there to make these sets.

CMFan1966 wrote: »

Okay, maybe I'm going to sound stupid or like a newbie, but I do the dolmen for FUN! And because it's fun, sometimes I'll do them more than once. At my level (44), most of the stuff dropped or in the chest at the end isn't going to carry me through the rest of the game and I'll end up selling it or deconning it. I do like collecting treasure maps and sometimes I get those.

So, yes, I'll linger at a DA and wait for it to drop so I can beat the crap out of monsters bigger than me....not because I'm farming or grinding, but because I'm having a heck of a good time! And I want to do every DA in the game. I am just playing through going for Cadwell's Gold so you never know where I might show up.

I'm not trying to nitpick or fight, but why play a game if it has stopped being fun?

If you ask me, you are doing it right if you just do it for fun.

I also want to do them for fun but the zergs take away the feel of fight, in the worst situations, you cant even land a hit if you play "properly".

I want to do them still, but i dont want so many there.

Perphaps they actually need to be randomised so that one cant do any rotation on them. They clearly are too predictable because the zerg is almpost always there just before the anchor even activates.

Monsters need to scale per player.
Finally boss needs to scale to players in the radius. It should have easily 10M health for the number of players that Zerg them.

I think the bosses need to be like the Imperial City bosses if there any enough players, with massive aoes damage ECT. Make it a challenge when it's zerged.

Eleusian wrote: »

Should have played at launch and had to solo all the content on the Gold zones.

Oh God, yes, took me an age to clear them all when there was me and maybe one other in a zone much of the time .. except for the VR12->VR14s farming the VR10 mobs at the end of the last faction zones.

Yes, i played even at beta and the times when dolmen had meaningful challenge were the best dolmen times ever. I prefer soloing them any time over that massive zerg stupidity. Besides before one Tamriel, you could too easily solo them at cap as they did not scale up to your level, that was stupid too but then again, it was nice doing them at level with just few other players.

And even at that time period, the veteran players almost always made the low level dolmens to be just a joke of a game. if you dont want to fight something that does bite back and bites well, you should not be getting any rewards at all.

AFrostWolf wrote: »

Monsters need to scale per player.
Finally boss needs to scale to players in the radius. It should have easily 10M health for the number of players that Zerg them.

I think the bosses need to be like the Imperial City bosses if there any enough players, with massive aoes damage ECT. Make it a challenge when it's zerged.

Monsters need to scale better to player numbers, the idea of DA instance is good, but the open instance should be for 4 players at most since currently, if there are even 6 players, they go down ridiculously easy.

That and the group finder as leveling option AND achors need to drop randomly to prevent systematic rotation which feels almost as bad as using bots.

Been at least once in every dolmen exept Cyro today, every single one has been zerg infested, more than 10 players alwas, more that 20 many times as well.. If i really want to hit something, i need to lower myself to the level of these vermin and start spamming some ability or light attacks. Really sad.

Im glad the achievment is now done, but im also angry and frustrated to know, that when ever one drops, i cant go there and enjoy myself with couple of friends or solo, i have to stay awway as going there poses no enjoyment as they are now and that removes one aspect of the game completely.

That delve boss farming was fixed after launch, now its time to fix dolmen farming.

@Saturn

Yeah, i allready am afraid of the zerg that will be present on the door of my apartment when everyone is going to their home and the constant clanking of door which also happens.

Many places are having too many players in an instance, i am also suffering from the low fps at largely populated cities and worst dolmens get to 15 which in the other hand is not a materr anymore as id rather run away than spam and try to hit somethiing.

UrQuan wrote: »

Tapio75 wrote: »

Monsters need to scale better to player numbers, the idea of DA instance is good, but the open instance should be for 4 players at most since currently, if there are even 6 players, they go down ridiculously easy.

I'd like them to scale better for more players. I think the scaling is fine for low numbers of players, but when there are larger numbers there you're absolutely right that they just go down so easily. I kind of feel like it would be easier to get the scaling right if they were instanced.

I also think that "more mobs to kill" isn't necessarily the way to go with scaling them up when there are more players there, as it means nothing when the mobs instantly die to countless AOEs before they can do anything. Buff the health and/or resistances of the mobs based on the number of players there, as well as increasing the numbers of them. That goes quadruple for the boss - during the Witches Festival I saw dolmen bosses melt to death before they had even fully appeared, just because of the shear number of AOEs people put down on the spawn point. That shouldn't be possible.

Right on. I'm not a fan of instances because I like to see a populated world. But they need more mobs per player that has more health/resistance. And bosses should be like the IC bosses when zerged.

Hmm, one chest a day/Dolmen.. That could be something. Even if its not really harder, you cant just stay and gather these chests the whole day..

Same with XP, like with fighters guild XP per anchor, greatly diminished after first downing of dolmen.

Sadly the "Too many players" issue is not present only at dolmens, its in delves as wwell.. Its not as bad as it was on the launch day, but whenever i go to delve, the places are killed empty, either i have to wait or run through the whole place with nothing to kill.. Then have to stand in "que" for the delve boss if you want any type of meaningful fight, there is always someoine waitin for a boss spawn and the worst is, that while Dolmens are designed to small groups, delves CLEARLY are designed for single player experience judging from strenth of everything inside.