Kinda a rant if anything. I was really excited when I saw they patched the roulette where we could get different dungeons. I finally tried low-level last night for the first time after patch. Cutters... Cry... Holy freaking crap. Maybe it's bad luck I got it. It actually was my very first time going to this dungeon. I don't believe there is anything in the storyline, or anything that points you to it, and makes you run it. At least not back when I started the game. Anyhow I let everyone know I was new(which made the whm chuckle cause I guess he saw I was ilvl85 or something idk). Also another member was new, and wasn't level capped. Took us 45 minutes to get to the boss. Is that pretty average for this dungeon? If it is good god it should be a high level roulette, or at least give the same daily bonus as high level does. The earlier boss's were forgettable.
Chimera however.. The healer gave me the run down on how it worked, run in on violet/dragon voice, run out on blue/rams voice. I'll admit I got hit a few times that first attempt. But after that it was pretty cake for me. However it wasn't for the remainder of the group. Even the healer that told everyone else how its suppose to be done. Suffice to say it took like 8 attempts, and we had 5 mins left on the clock.
There was one attempt where I was attempting to kite it and survive. It seems like the tank can easily solo this by kiting alone.(made me wish i had innerbeast back to its former glory). It's just you can't make any mistakes, and it takes a really long time. I nearly beat it that way, but slipped up and died. It was just a very stressful experience overall. Doing a low-level dungeon and spending 85 minutes doing it. That's kind of excessive. I keep telling myself the next time it pops up I'm going to try vote abandon on it, so everyone can go do something else that is a lot faster.
Should they adjust roulette bonus's to scale with difficulty/time the dungeon takes? Or should they just bring out the nerf hammer on the difficulty a little bit. I'd be happy to keep chimera as is, and just wipe out, oh.. about half the monsters in the dungeon, or reduce their HP.. I'd happily go back to being restricted to halali, copperbell mines easy every day, instead of having to do cutter's cry ever again.