Yep I had a disconnect the second I walked in there and thought 'this is going to be fun'. The fact that the the EU servers can be on the patchy side is going to be a massive headache for players and ZoS who are going to get yelled at. Totally weird to not have any check points in the year of our Lord 2023.

Lugaldu wrote: »

I was only in 1.4.3 and fought for ages against Molag Kena, who was invulnerable all the time (I don't know if that's how it's meant to be...)

The invuln phase can happen 3-4 times. It's annoying.

Also make sure to stay in the middle of the platform during the big aoe. The red aoe suggests for you to run to the outer edge but if you step into the red circle just barely then you get knocked off the ledge and die. This just happened to me. Never run to the outer edge on the Kena fight or risk dying.

I also dont get it why the quest log tells you "go back in the archive wing" after you have lost your 3 lifes but you cant go back in? Only option is to leave and start again with 0... so stupid.

I would have preferred a time-sensitive leaderboard, so it wouldn't only matter how far you went but how fast you got there as well, and I think that this would invite less drawn out play sessions, because if you wanted a high score you could try going fast (and if you couldn't go fast you could try to then get far). Regardless, the way it's set up now, it's pretty tiresome, not to mention having to start over especially when you wipe in further ahead arcs.

Amen.

Honestly, I don't think I've ever even *looked* at the leaderboards. I don't know what they were thinking.

The MA takes about 45 minutes and *that* has save points!

Most of the players I know, one of the first things they do when they roll a new character is immediately go into their social settings and turn off leaderboard notifications. Because no one cares about those.

It seems they're going for a semi-roguelike experience, which means no save points unlike arenas

I'm personally having a blast with it!

netch_a_sketch wrote: »

It seems they're going for a semi-roguelike experience, which means no save points unlike arenas

I'm personally having a blast with it!

I think there should be an option so that you can decide for yourself whether you want to approach the EA in this form or with save points.

I really don't know what the devs are thinking with this concept... we're not all youngsters with no real responsibilities in life who can play for 5 hours or more at a time. How can someone who has maybe 1.5 hours of playing time in the evening ever experience any success in the EA?

Isnt the whole point of endless archive to go ass far as possible in a single shot? Idn to me adding save point seem to go against the base design of this type of content. Though it woulnt be too much to have some kind of grace period like 5-10 min when crashing.

Dark_Lord_Kuro wrote: »

Though it woulnt be too much to have some kind of grace period like 5-10 min when crashing.

They say there´s a 5 min grace period, but 5 min is nothing when you suddenly lost internet connection, have to make a restart of your computer or got kicked due to inactivity because you went in the kitchen to get yourself a drink!

maboleth wrote: »

Was saying this since Day 1. How Devs didn't see this coming is beyond me.

It's an easy fix:

Want Save? - No Leaderboard

No save - Leaderboard

That's it. If they come up with something even better, great, but this alone should do.

Nice and easy. I hope they'll do it like this. Right now I consider EA as torture and not fun at all. There must be a way to save your progress. There are a million reasons why a person can't hang out in the game for hours on end. So please ZOS, by all means change this!

For me it's exhausting. After arc 1 (solo) I have feeling "ok, it's long enough, I want to finish it and do some other stuff with my life". After arc 2 I was feeled relief when marauder one-shoted me, because it was way too long. Eh, but I had to at least once go to arc 4 for this dye reward...

Too much time is wasted for trash fights without even any reward. There should be at least 50 fortunes for every trash stage (100 in arc 2, 150 in arc 3, etc.).

They should choose one thing - this is long thing so we create save points or everything should be much shorter - you should achieve final form of main boss within 1-1,5h (for average player) - anything longer for one time run is just a joke.

Personally I would short every arc from 5 cycles to 3. Two random bossess and final boss is enough for arc, you can faster achieve higher fortunes values (upgrade once per hour is insulting) and you will not get bored on easier levels if you are pro player. It should take 20-40 minutes which is typical dungeon/trial time. So getting one piece of class gear every 20-40 minutes will healthy, typical level of engagement.