Daidraco
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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You talking about this shit?I thoroughly enjoyed the game (and the sense of humor) but the quest/info window UI felt like a first beta pass or something from SW:G; really not flashy at all for such an out there art style game. The difficulty of the first dungeon (maybe it was just the first dungeon for the "rebels" or whatever; the last boss was like a storm bird or something I think?) was pretty hilarious though. DPS couldn't be assed to have those interrupt shield destroying abilities, so bosses would just continuously murder people, and the deeps couldn't figure shit out. Plus healers were really bad about doing the healing part because (if I remember right) the majority of healing was AE/Cone based, and not tab target. So after failing to interrupt things, the healer was usually too far away to heal and it was just chain wipes. I distinctly remember having to respec as a warrior into something with as many interrupts as possible, gimping my threat and damage output a lot, just so groups could progress. So many newbs quit in frustration over that dungeon, I'm sure. Especially since I think it blocked progress in the game so you couldn't even get to other areas/systems in the game.
Would have been fun with a dedicated group/s, but pugs were just failfests most of the time. Not great for random player retention.
I fucking hated that dungeon. There wasnt shit for people at max lvl when I got there, the first thing we went off to do (or shortly after?) was fucking Veteran for this dungeon. Not having a fucking clue how to do obvious shit in there. Barely doing interrupts, not knowing patterns, the whole 9 yards. To top it off, with as harsh as I am on myself for not knowing shit - people praised me for how well I did at the end of the night. I know we wiped and reset and done all kinds of shit for hours and hours till we beat it.
The next day, join up with some other guildies and and one or two people from the previous days group. And... we started wiping, and wiping and wiping all over again. Even knowing what to do the second time around, depending on the people to know wtf you're talking about when you say to do something was a pipe dream. After like an hour or two of wiping.. I just thought to myself "This shit isnt fun." I logged off and never touched this shit again. Yes, that dungeon is probably the biggest downfall in the whole game. All this game did was prepare me for the ass whipping that I got in WOW's WoD expansion with Mythic raiding.
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