Make dalriada easier

I beg, I am tired of running with 10-13 randoms and us failing the timer. People don't do any damage, they don't bring any actions and they die to every boss mechanic. Multiple times I have failed the timer on dalriada despite us having echo. People just aren't putting in the effort to clear it.

While we're at it please make spawning CE's faster. Instance for 1 hour with only 1 CE, despite clearing mobs for them. something is wrong.

I agree with increasing the spawn rate for CEs, but adjusting the difficulty of the Dalriada too much would make it unenjoyably easy for a competent group. Perhaps it needs a bit more scaling for small groups, but I recently did it with a group of about 16 and it seemed fine.

Well ofcourse its going to be easy when people do it correctly. But the problem is it when people fail the first boss because of splits they can never seem to make the time up and we fail the timer either on the lightning room or during the final boss. It happens way too often.

It already scales everything to the number of people in the instance. Blame the players, not the game.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

It already scales everything to the number of people in the instance. Blame the players, not the game.

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I am blaming players, but content like bozja should be designed for the lowest common denominator

Most players I have seen in Dal have Lost Actions. However, they tend not to use Essences. I am guessing mostly due to essences lasting only the whole time they are in the instance before leaving.

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Originally Posted by RokkuEkkusu

Most players I have seen in Dal have Lost Actions. However, they tend not to use Essences. I am guessing mostly due to essences lasting only the whole time they are in the instance before leaving.

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It can also be pure bad luck with essences. A few times I've intended to go in with essences, didn't have the right ones, appraised a whole stack and got nothing but duds for roles I don't play.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It can also be pure bad luck with essences. A few times I've intended to go in with essences, didn't have the right ones, appraised a whole stack and got nothing but duds for roles I don't play.

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With all due respect, this sounds like an issue of simply not preparing essentials.

Cheapest for enhancing damage:
- Tank: Martialist - obtained by farming wildlife in Southern Front Zone 1 (recommendation are the Rank III mata mata if you have lifesteal, otherwise Rank II tend to do)
- Healer: Aetherweaver - see Martialist, Ordained see below
- DPS: Skirmisher + Ordained - farm wildlife in Southern Front Zone 2

Cheapest for survival:
- Tank: Guardian - see Skirmisher
- Healer & Caster: Veteran - see Martialist
- Physical DPS: Platebearer - see Martialist

Healer build stuff:
- Essence of Savior: see Martialist
- Cure II & Cure IV: Undeads in Southern Front Zone 3

Banners of damage / support / take your pick: do Skirmishes / 'Critical Engagements' in Zone 3 of Southern Front

As listed above, there is a bucketload of essences you can farm and go for that are easy to obtain - no need to get the top tier stuff at all times.

Granted the info is mostly on stuff you might need to google, but it takes just a bit of time to farm the stuff. Some of it is extremely silly to farm even, like anything related to Elementals can just be done by unequipping armour and using Reflect.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

As listed above, there is a bucketload of essences you can farm and go for that are easy to obtain - no need to get the top tier stuff at all times.

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Those are the ones I'm talking about. I went to get a whole stack appraised and got pitiful amounts of the one I needed.

I don't doubt that some people just don't bother, but there is definitely also a luck factor, especially when Delubrum is your only designated route of getting certain relic steps and needs an essence every time.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Those are the ones I'm talking about. I went to get a whole stack appraised and got pitiful amounts of the one I needed.

I don't doubt that some people just don't bother, but there is definitely also a luck factor, especially when Delubrum is your only designated route of getting certain relic steps and needs an essence every time.

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Fair point. Then again, when I start farming those I tend to get enough that I won't run out of them for like 10 sessions.

you can show players what to do in game
butt you can't fix stupid.

Introducing “support” actions for things outside of DRS was such a bad idea, people bring bubble in DRN and think they are helping while I’m doing 50% of a 8 man groups damage on a WHM

It’s just hard to balance Bozja because if you design it expecting everyone to have damage essences you get situations like second boss of dal who takes an eternity, but if you design it assuming everyone bought bubble and no essence then the bosses will actually melt (especially content that was designed pre Valors as 10/10/10 is 30% damage 50% health and 100% healing potency bonus)

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Introducing “support” actions for things outside of DRS was such a bad idea, people bring bubble in DRN and think they are helping while I’m doing 50% of a 8 man groups damage on a WHM

It’s just hard to balance Bozja because if you design it expecting everyone to have damage essences you get situations like second boss of dal who takes an eternity, but if you design it assuming everyone bought bubble and no essence then the bosses will actually melt (especially content that was designed pre Valors as 10/10/10 is 30% damage 50% health and 100% healing potency bonus)

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Lost Bubble may not contribute to damage in DR and Bozja/Zadnor, but the extra HP cushion it provides may help people against room wides from bosses. Those attacks hurts quite a bit of some if they didn't use appropriate essences and/or defensive lost actions.

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Originally Posted by RokkuEkkusu

Lost Bubble may not contribute to damage in DR and Bozja/Zadnor, but the extra HP cushion it provides may help people against room wides from bosses. Those attacks hurts quite a bit of some if they didn't use appropriate essences and/or defensive lost actions.

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Lost Bubble is ok if you apply it beforehand and maybe swap it back in if you need to reapply it. But it's a long buff and with how abundant it's fragment is there's no reason to sit on Lost Bubble for all eternity and you're better off swapping it to something else after application.
Spellforge/Steelsting/Banish, Bravery and Rampage/Burst aren't hard to farm. You're still missing Fonts, Chainspell, Assassinate (w/ Beast), Rend Armor, Dervish then but at least it's contributing more than sitting on Bubble/Cure all the time.

You could also always go Healer with Profane/Aetherweaver and Seraph Strike or tank with Irregular.

I don't need it to be easier, I just need to be able to buy rare field notes with Bozja coins or something.

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Originally Posted by Zolvolt

While we're at it please make spawning CE's faster. Instance for 1 hour with only 1 CE, despite clearing mobs for them. something is wrong.

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CEs spawn back to back when the requirements are fulfilled.

Often you need to do a Fate to spawn a CE. If nobody is doing that Fate then no other CE can spawn. Some Fates also need to be activated by talking to an NPC. When nobody is talking to that NPC then also no other CE can spawn as long as the NPC is on the map.
And if someone is talking to that NPC in the last moment before they despawn and then nobody is doing that Fate - well it is a lot of wasted time.

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Originally Posted by ty_taurus

I don't need it to be easier, I just need to be able to buy rare field notes with Bozja coins or something.

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oh that i agree
p.s i got dabog field note from MDK with pld and one drk helping me the bike farm is over

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Originally Posted by Zolvolt

I beg, I am tired of running with 10-13 randoms and us failing the timer. People don't do any damage, they don't bring any actions and they die to every boss mechanic. Multiple times I have failed the timer on dalriada despite us having echo. People just aren't putting in the effort to clear it.

While we're at it please make spawning CE's faster. Instance for 1 hour with only 1 CE, despite clearing mobs for them. something is wrong.

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Dalriada is already easy enough, if you can't clear this, then people are just really bad. I have cleared it late at night with only 6 players and it made little difference to 20 people.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Introducing “support” actions for things outside of DRS was such a bad idea, people bring bubble in DRN and think they are helping while I’m doing 50% of a 8 man groups damage on a WHM

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You don't need any damage reduction in Delubrum, you survive every aoe without any mitigation or shields, you can only die to doom if you get hit twice by a mechanic. if you got no healer in the party someone should use a healing action to be fair, oherwise go full dps. But the average joe is too stupid to understand this and that drags out the dungeon timer.

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Originally Posted by Arohk

You don't need any damage reduction in Delubrum, you survive every aoe without any mitigation or shields, you can only die to doom if you get hit twice by a mechanic. if you got no healer in the party someone should use a healing action to be fair, oherwise go full dps. But the average joe is too stupid to understand this and that drags out the dungeon timer.

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Originally Posted by Arohk

Dalriada is already easy enough, if you can't clear this, then people are just really bad. I have cleared it late at night with only 6 players and it made little difference to 20 people.

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