BejaProphet wrote: »Versispellis wrote: »CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »I could support this on Harrow storms. But leave the dragons as pass/fail. If anything should be hard whether you are ready for it or not, it’s dragons.
Have you tried killing a dragon with 4 CP 810's in damage gear? I have, many times. It takes about 20 minutes.
Yes, dragons should be hard, but saying "well too bad if no one is there because it's *old* content, you should FAIL because only 3 people showed up" is... the exact kind of attitude the devs seem to have.
And it will ultimately drive me away from ESO. I'm tried of only being able to get certain items during events and the first 2 weeks of a content drop, because no one is around afterwards.
I've tried doing them with 2, and I can assue you it takes way faster than that, and also fairly easy if both of you are paying attention (easier yet if one of you is tanky). I've also never had issues killing ads with >1 people there. I don't want to scream l2p, but if it's an issue you're regularly having, perhaps you could look into some slight adjustments to your build and/or fight strategy to speed it up
Leave the dragons difficulty alone. This is literally the only open world encounter you cannot easily solo, this is a DRAGON and you're no Dragonborn, it SHOULD be hard. This is a gorgeous, epic fight, imo best thing they have ever done to open world, let's not screw it up by endless nerfs like other parts of the game. If anything, I wish the rewards could scale depending on number of people so with less people there you'd be getting bigger rewards, that'd be fair, but I don't think the dragons themselves should be easier. If nothing else, I'm sure you can find a group to do them, like 4 capable people would be more than enough for fast and easy experience (not 30 seconds, but not 20 minutes either).
Yeah, I was coming here to say. . . the other day I did a dragon with one other random person, who was a healer, and I'm a DD. It took us about 10 minutes. It was really challenging, yes, but it can be done. I know that's not exactly normal, of course.
I'm confused when people say there's no one running these things, too. Maybe that's a PC thing. On PS4 NA, there's always a train running back and forth between the two dragons in S. Elsweyr. In N. Elsweyr, they're a little more cautious, but I've had a lot of luck encouraging people by engaging the dragons first--yes, even the ones in the south. It's not rare for me to hold my own and keep from dying until someone shows up, it happens that quickly. It seems like there's always people waiting for someone to be brave.
I have the same experience in Xbox. If you show them somebody is surviving against it, they join in.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »Versispellis wrote: »CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »I could support this on Harrow storms. But leave the dragons as pass/fail. If anything should be hard whether you are ready for it or not, it’s dragons.
Have you tried killing a dragon with 4 CP 810's in damage gear? I have, many times. It takes about 20 minutes.
Yes, dragons should be hard, but saying "well too bad if no one is there because it's *old* content, you should FAIL because only 3 people showed up" is... the exact kind of attitude the devs seem to have.
And it will ultimately drive me away from ESO. I'm tried of only being able to get certain items during events and the first 2 weeks of a content drop, because no one is around afterwards.
I've tried doing them with 2, and I can assue you it takes way faster than that, and also fairly easy if both of you are paying attention (easier yet if one of you is tanky). I've also never had issues killing ads with >1 people there. I don't want to scream l2p, but if it's an issue you're regularly having, perhaps you could look into some slight adjustments to your build and/or fight strategy to speed it up
Leave the dragons difficulty alone. This is literally the only open world encounter you cannot easily solo, this is a DRAGON and you're no Dragonborn, it SHOULD be hard. This is a gorgeous, epic fight, imo best thing they have ever done to open world, let's not screw it up by endless nerfs like other parts of the game. If anything, I wish the rewards could scale depending on number of people so with less people there you'd be getting bigger rewards, that'd be fair, but I don't think the dragons themselves should be easier. If nothing else, I'm sure you can find a group to do them, like 4 capable people would be more than enough for fast and easy experience (not 30 seconds, but not 20 minutes either).
Yeah, I was coming here to say. . . the other day I did a dragon with one other random person, who was a healer, and I'm a DD. It took us about 10 minutes. It was really challenging, yes, but it can be done. I know that's not exactly normal, of course.
I'm confused when people say there's no one running these things, too. Maybe that's a PC thing. On PS4 NA, there's always a train running back and forth between the two dragons in S. Elsweyr. In N. Elsweyr, they're a little more cautious, but I've had a lot of luck encouraging people by engaging the dragons first--yes, even the ones in the south. It's not rare for me to hold my own and keep from dying until someone shows up, it happens that quickly. It seems like there's always people waiting for someone to be brave.
I have the same experience in Xbox. If you show them somebody is surviving against it, they join in.
Look, I’ve tried this. I’m not using my tank, usually my stamblade or magwarden. I can do about 10% of the dragons health before I make a mistake and die. IF other players show up the problem becomes someone staying alive so the fight doesn’t reset. PC has a lot of older gamers (think 60s plus) esp in the mornings, whose reaction times are slow. I’m 40s with hand/wrist issues that impede reactions, and I have to use controller, and on PC that means added latency.
Telling people to “git gud” and acting like everyone should be able to solo or duo dragons is elitist. I paid for this content and I’d like to be able to do it on my own schedule. Not having to rearrange my life so I can play a game during prime time. Or only play on weekends.
This is also ONE type of encounter in the world of 30+ zones full of mobs, quest bosses and dolmens dying to 3 light attacks, world bosses and geysers taking a little bit more but generally not too much (I'm not gonna mention Harrowstorms because I haven't really done them much yet). Literally 99.99% of open world is geared towards people who want to RP naked fist fighting or otherwise not pay any attention to the game mechanics (I'm sorry if I sound salty, but as a player who actually enjoys both mechanics AND storylines of open world, this really upsets me) and this is not about to change. Please leave the remaining 0.01% of the content alone for those of us who do enjoy more challenging encounters.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »Versispellis wrote: »CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »I could support this on Harrow storms. But leave the dragons as pass/fail. If anything should be hard whether you are ready for it or not, it’s dragons.
Have you tried killing a dragon with 4 CP 810's in damage gear? I have, many times. It takes about 20 minutes.
Yes, dragons should be hard, but saying "well too bad if no one is there because it's *old* content, you should FAIL because only 3 people showed up" is... the exact kind of attitude the devs seem to have.
And it will ultimately drive me away from ESO. I'm tried of only being able to get certain items during events and the first 2 weeks of a content drop, because no one is around afterwards.
I've tried doing them with 2, and I can assue you it takes way faster than that, and also fairly easy if both of you are paying attention (easier yet if one of you is tanky). I've also never had issues killing ads with >1 people there. I don't want to scream l2p, but if it's an issue you're regularly having, perhaps you could look into some slight adjustments to your build and/or fight strategy to speed it up
Leave the dragons difficulty alone. This is literally the only open world encounter you cannot easily solo, this is a DRAGON and you're no Dragonborn, it SHOULD be hard. This is a gorgeous, epic fight, imo best thing they have ever done to open world, let's not screw it up by endless nerfs like other parts of the game. If anything, I wish the rewards could scale depending on number of people so with less people there you'd be getting bigger rewards, that'd be fair, but I don't think the dragons themselves should be easier. If nothing else, I'm sure you can find a group to do them, like 4 capable people would be more than enough for fast and easy experience (not 30 seconds, but not 20 minutes either).
Yeah, I was coming here to say. . . the other day I did a dragon with one other random person, who was a healer, and I'm a DD. It took us about 10 minutes. It was really challenging, yes, but it can be done. I know that's not exactly normal, of course.
I'm confused when people say there's no one running these things, too. Maybe that's a PC thing. On PS4 NA, there's always a train running back and forth between the two dragons in S. Elsweyr. In N. Elsweyr, they're a little more cautious, but I've had a lot of luck encouraging people by engaging the dragons first--yes, even the ones in the south. It's not rare for me to hold my own and keep from dying until someone shows up, it happens that quickly. It seems like there's always people waiting for someone to be brave.
I have the same experience in Xbox. If you show them somebody is surviving against it, they join in.
Look, I’ve tried this. I’m not using my tank, usually my stamblade or magwarden. I can do about 10% of the dragons health before I make a mistake and die. IF other players show up the problem becomes someone staying alive so the fight doesn’t reset. PC has a lot of older gamers (think 60s plus) esp in the mornings, whose reaction times are slow. I’m 40s with hand/wrist issues that impede reactions, and I have to use controller, and on PC that means added latency.
Telling people to “git gud” and acting like everyone should be able to solo or duo dragons is elitist. I paid for this content and I’d like to be able to do it on my own schedule. Not having to rearrange my life so I can play a game during prime time. Or only play on weekends.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »This is also ONE type of encounter in the world of 30+ zones full of mobs, quest bosses and dolmens dying to 3 light attacks, world bosses and geysers taking a little bit more but generally not too much (I'm not gonna mention Harrowstorms because I haven't really done them much yet). Literally 99.99% of open world is geared towards people who want to RP naked fist fighting or otherwise not pay any attention to the game mechanics (I'm sorry if I sound salty, but as a player who actually enjoys both mechanics AND storylines of open world, this really upsets me) and this is not about to change. Please leave the remaining 0.01% of the content alone for those of us who do enjoy more challenging encounters.
ANd this is the ONLY type of encounter that drops the lead for the Stained Glass Window - of which I estimate I'll need 6 of for a build. At 40+ for ONE lead... that's a lot of dragons.
Sorry again that asking for 4 flame atros instead of 8 is that horrifying to you - but that's what I'm asking for. When less people are present, asking that dragons present less challenging FLYOVER ONLY encounters.
If you really want challenging, go do sunspire solo. Totally possible, as the bosses have the same number of HP as overland and you can do what you want. Much more challenging flyover mechanics too.
I swear, no one reads do they?
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »I'd argue that the main reason for continuing to grind Harrowstorms is for Vampire furnishing plans, which I get about once every 20-30 Harrowstorms. 40+ dragons for a lead drop? I'm giving up on that too, until some event where all 3 dragons die relatively quickly.
VaranisArano wrote: »I thought Geysers really hit the sweet spot of difficulty. You can do them by yourself and get a miniboss at the end who's not bad for an average player to fight all the way up to doing them in a daily group where a world boss is wrecking people left and right with their AOEs.
It means that I feel comfortable running up to a waiting geyser whether I'm alone or not.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »BejaProphet wrote: »
My favorite is to fight them in damage gear in first person without my ability OR health bars on the screen. It is SOOO epic! But I have to slip on Chudan set when doing that.
So... because you like super hard stuff I shouldn't be able to play at my level?
I hate to break this to you, but this is an MMO, not dark souls. In any game where multiple skill levels exist at the same time, there will be issues. You want a harder game? Make it harder on yourself, not others. Seems like you do that, great. You want it harder? Unallocate your CP. Take off your armor. No weapons or skills, only fists. Go fight a dragon like that. Have fun.
Go solo a trial. NO really, do!
But don't take overland content and make it YOUR PERSONAL thing. Most people do not want to take an hour to solo a dragon. And that's reasonable.
For everyone who complains that ESO (an MMO) is too easy... well, there are plenty of ways to up the difficulty without imposing on others. If that's not enough for you - there are plenty of very difficult single player games. If none of those suit your fancy - make your own games. Unity is easy to learn and free. In a multiplayer environment, expecting overworld content that *everyone* can access to cater to the elite is... selfish. If vMA isn't difficult enough for you, solo a trial. You can walk right into vCR+3 or vAS+2.
This one dislikes Harrowstorms because the Witch-Pikes are (a) just too darn tough for small numbers, and (b) not entirely the most obvious target: the number of players racing around who completely ignore the pikes and go for the monsters, actually causing more bosses to be spawned, are the major reason that harrowstorms spiral out of control.
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »I agree about Geysers, they did hit a sweet spot. I haven't solo'd a geyser, but I've come up on people who are, and they're generally fine until the last boss. I'm sure there are people who can solo them completely.VaranisArano wrote: »
In Northern Elsweyr, I would come across a waiting dragon and just wait for people to come...then it moves on to a different location, and I call it out in zone and wait again...rinse repeat until we maybe have enough people to fight it and not have the battle take forever.
Wait, people show up when you ask? Show me your mysterious ways sensei!
CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »I agree about Geysers, they did hit a sweet spot. I haven't solo'd a geyser, but I've come up on people who are, and they're generally fine until the last boss. I'm sure there are people who can solo them completely.VaranisArano wrote: »
In Northern Elsweyr, I would come across a waiting dragon and just wait for people to come...then it moves on to a different location, and I call it out in zone and wait again...rinse repeat until we maybe have enough people to fight it and not have the battle take forever.
Wait, people show up when you ask? Show me your mysterious ways sensei!
I actually solo'd a geyser all the way till the last boss. Managed to kill that one too, altho it went a bit slow. It was on a magicka sorcerer with a good solo (self-healing) build. So its possible. But I dont recommend it to anyone.
We need more group content, not less.