Unnecessary bottleneck w/ delve boss for 1st Heart's Day quest

gabbo1928 · February 11

In the new Heart's Day quest, "Heartsick Follies," you are tasked with killing a delve boss. A specific delve boss. The same specific delve boss that everyone else doing the quest has to kill. A normal delve boss, with normal delve boss health, with a crowd of players waiting for it to pop so a couple of them can melt it in under a second while anyone who wasn't ready in that split second (or constantly spamming AOEs) misses out and has to wait even longer.

@ZOS_Kevin, I realize it is unlikely to happen before the end of this 1-week event, but could you pass a suggestion to the team to allow any delve boss kill to satisfy this mission requirement for future years? The quest dialog makes no mention of this delve/boss specifically (only the quest objective), so there is no story-related reason to limit it. Opening it up to any delve boss would allow players to spread the load around to the delve of their choosing so there are fewer players competing for the same kill.

heimdall14_9 · February 11

id like to 2nd and 3rd this as on my main i ran into this issue and on my 3rd ault boss area had 15-20 players just spamming away at aoes boss barley even made it 3 seconds before falling dead

AScarlato · February 11

I'm wondering if this time it needed to be a specific delve as they programmed an NPC to appear in it.

In the future I'd rather they spawn a quest-specific NPC that is "on demand" when you reach the correct location.

heimdall14_9 · February 11

AScarlato wrote: »

I'm wondering if this time it needed to be a specific delve as they programmed an NPC to appear in it.

In the future I'd rather they spawn a quest-specific NPC that is "on demand" when you reach the correct location.

since the npc shows up when you get there they can program any delve tho its more work yes but we're talking an year from now not tomorrow

anadandy · February 11

Funnily enough, I got the achievement for the delve itself (had never done it on this character) so I must have at least gotten one hit in, but the kill didn't count for the event quest. Annoying.

Displaced_Salad · February 11

This has been an issue on every holiday quest since I started playing, in addition to several dailies. I don't think anyone has any intention of fixing this because they know we'll all do it anyway.

BahometZ · February 12

Insane work by ZoS. Abel's grandma could tell you this was a bad idea. Just left half a dozen players at that delve who didn't react in the nano second between spawn and obliteration.

Necrotech_Master · February 12

a task to kill ANY delve boss is fine

tasks to kill a SPECIFIC delve boss do not work well, especially for major events (its slightly less problematic for endeavors but still not great)

Jordan_Black · February 12

Fifteen people all waiting five minutes in a circle to kill a single delve boss when he pops up, spamming AOE like mad, but grouping to all get the kill is unthinkable. Better to wait four cycles, twenty minutes, than...group in an mmorpg :-)

scrappy1342 · February 12

anadandy wrote: »

Funnily enough, I got the achievement for the delve itself (had never done it on this character) so I must have at least gotten one hit in, but the kill didn't count for the event quest. Annoying.

this happened to a friend of mine also. looks like a bug to me

noblecron · February 12

I think it would help if it wasn't a possilbe drop and gaurenteed as well. Just killed a delve boss and looted some nodes and haven't gotten a loot box yet

LootAllTheStuff · February 12

noblecron wrote: »

I think it would help if it wasn't a possilbe drop and gaurenteed as well. Just killed a delve boss and looted some nodes and haven't gotten a loot box yet

Were you either grouped with someone or running a companion? You need to do at least one of those to get the event boxes.

Destai · February 12

I'd love to do the quests, but these kinds of frustrations I'm just not willing to work around anymore. It's surprising to still see these kinds of design decisions made in a game that's over 10 years old. Of course, people are going to stack on the boss; that's a very predictable outcome. Hopefully this kind of thing doesn't happen on future events. I worry it will.

joergino · February 12

anadandy wrote: »

Funnily enough, I got the achievement for the delve itself (had never done it on this character) so I must have at least gotten one hit in, but the kill didn't count for the event quest. Annoying.

Absolutely.