Gridania R40 Defense Leves

Anyone else feel like these could be incredibly fun and offer the most challenge from the game (LOL I know....) if the waves were actually...more then 1 monster? Even in the chat log it says something about how a horde of monsters appear...isn't horde plural?

Why does 1 Puk or 1 Gnat appear? The waves seem incredibly lacking, even when 3 appear it's a bit saddening. I thought by chance by setting it to 5 stars there'd be more (so I could solo 2-3 star np, but 5 star pose a challenge)....but yea, nothing.

Not to forget, why do we have to wait for the timer to tick down after the last wave, why can't it just complete right then and there? These have to be the most abysmal type of leves there are, but they could easily be the most fun. I hope caravan escorts aren't pathetic in how many monsters attack the thing in 1.19....

I'm probably expecting too much from SE though ;\

"What do you guys think about these levequests?"

5 star it with a full party.

I am going to assume you are 1-3 starring it solo.

Yea, 5 star is lv 49 or 52 mobs, I forget :( Still 3 mobs lol It's depressing....

I can't speak for the The Black Shroud defense leves, but they did make them more challenging in La Noscea after 1.18. More waves of mobs come at you as well as the number of mobs at a time. The challenge took me back a bit while solo'ing one the other day. ;) One had 6 Yarzon popping on me at a time.

The defense leves in general need to be balanced out. Depending on which leve you take on, sometimes you'll face 1 enemy every 45 seconds for the entire duration, sometimes it'll be 1 enemy and then 2 enemies and then back to 1 and then 3 enemies. Then there are certain ones that will spawn a set of 2 followed by a set of 3 only five seconds later. I've been in defense leves where I'm faced with 5 Fachans at once... how is anyone supposed to solo that without being one of the stronger soloing classes with several cross class abilities?

Not to mention it's practically impossible to get the speed of completion bonus on certain defense leves. Some of them spawn so damn far away from the camp that it takes 45 seconds to a minute WITH Quickstride just to reach the designated area. Then you're looking at 5 minutes for the defense and then if there is an extra set that spawns after that, you'd be very hard pressed to complete it in time.