Finally grouped up and cleared the entire dungeon in Altenvault. It was awesome, to say the least. Nobody wanted to go back to questing so we found another huge dungeon but strangely no mobs inside, just a named one at the very bottom.
Still, I realize this is just a fraction of the content and the majority of content is the quests. Subbing will be a tough decsion, one I really have to think about.
well i disagree a bit and call it 1 step forwared, many steps yet to come
as i see that your main point of complain is about the lack of social/grouping content i feel you are judging the game to early. i share with you the love of the combat system wich for me, coupled with the great atmosphere set by graphics, sound and world design. also the tcos launch was really smooth and within days the devs worked on the little quirks that needed to be ironed out. for me this is the solid basis i missed in many games lately like aoc and even war. so i do believe that with a growing community the game will develope into more of a group play game.
i base this on these toughts: 1. the untypical character setups allow for open grouping without having to wait for that precious healer, buffer or tank 2. they alreaddy introduced a group instance just days ago and i think many more will follow 3. with their concept of the high houses they just need to slap on a "high house channel" and youll easily find people with the same goals and motive to do group quests 4. the whole shard theme screams for exploration
so rather then seeing your points as steps backward i see them as untapped potential of a game that hopefully will be here to stay
This is a great post craynlon. There seems to be a deeper game laying ahead of this very theme park beginning. However first impressions mean everything in today's crowded market. I leveled 1 of each archetype to 7. 3/4 of my time was on auto-run, running and running and then some more running, from one end of a zone to the other, back to town, back across the zone, round and round we go. This is not "time well spent". Maybe 1/10 quests had any action involved. It should be vice-versa if you want to keep me entertained with your quests.
I hope at the very least that the dungeon xp off mobs/bosses is worth alot more than the sad XP you get from outdoor mobs.
You must of passed a lot of the encounter quests in the starter area. Too bad. WHile that said yes there were a lot of travel quests in the first starter I am wondering if you went into the second zone at all and took the quests there? A lot fo encouter quests there. ANd if it is a quest that had you looking for items in the area, you will have plenty of encounters.
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Finally grouped up and cleared the entire dungeon in Altenvault. It was awesome, to say the least. Nobody wanted to go back to questing so we found another huge dungeon but strangely no mobs inside, just a named one at the very bottom.
Still, I realize this is just a fraction of the content and the majority of content is the quests. Subbing will be a tough decsion, one I really have to think about.
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This is a great post craynlon. There seems to be a deeper game laying ahead of this very theme park beginning. However first impressions mean everything in today's crowded market. I leveled 1 of each archetype to 7. 3/4 of my time was on auto-run, running and running and then some more running, from one end of a zone to the other, back to town, back across the zone, round and round we go. This is not "time well spent". Maybe 1/10 quests had any action involved. It should be vice-versa if you want to keep me entertained with your quests.
I hope at the very least that the dungeon xp off mobs/bosses is worth alot more than the sad XP you get from outdoor mobs.
You must of passed a lot of the encounter quests in the starter area. Too bad. WHile that said yes there were a lot of travel quests in the first starter I am wondering if you went into the second zone at all and took the quests there? A lot fo encouter quests there. ANd if it is a quest that had you looking for items in the area, you will have plenty of encounters.