What the Hedoublehockeysticks?

Musonius · May 2014

Why is there such a huge jump in difficulty from 1-50 gameplay to VR gameplay? I breezed through 1-50 gameplay with very few instances of needing to make even a second attempt at any mob, boss or regular. The first pub dungeon I go into in VR play and the difficulty is far higher. Right now I'm stuck on the first boss, The Crow Mother, and while I may be able to change up my spec enough to figure her out solo, I am going to have a repair bill in the thousands from the deaths just getting to her AND the several deaths I have in already trying to figure her out.

So I ask why the huge jump in difficulty?

Lazarus_Long · May 2014

Because if it was easy it would get boring. Once you figure out how to survive you do fine.

Azarul · May 2014

Shhhhhh not so loud or they may nerf it. I am loving the higher level difficulty in an mmo for once.

mutharex · May 2014

VR is supposed to be 'endgame' or better harder content (50+ and 50++)

Drew · May 2014

Crow Mother is vulnerable to knockback. I used Fire version of Destructive Clench (Destruction Staff), just try not to get her near walls, or she might stuck there.
Oh, and you can avoid most of mob packs on the way, if you're clever.

About "endgame difficulty" - every other public dungeon on VR that i've seen is easier.

knaveofengland · May 2014

you have to love harder content gives you a challenge, if its to easy then not worth doing , I say keep it hard

Shimizu · May 2014

I play a cloth-wearing-staff-wielding squishy and I agree that the public dungeons did have a large difficulty spike. That being said, its easy to just poke around in the entrance until someone wearing platemail and carrying a huge sword rolls through and starts decimating everything. Follow them around and AoE. Complete quests. Get loot. Not even talking about grouping, though that's certainly an option, just there is rarely a shortage of people coming through the same areas.

Of course, when there is a shortage, it can be frustrating.