instant kill mechanics during Mystery Maps.

[Fenseven]

This was my daily map, thought i was going to have 2 alex's today but i guess not.

Even if the bombs only hit for 500-600 i could have recovered with pots and 2nd wind. the golem only auto hit for 200 and his frontal cones were easy to avoid. but the fact that the bombs move faster then run speed and just one has the power to deal over 5000 dmg to a i100 brd is a bit on the retard side.

[Nekodar]

wow, that sounds incredibly stupid on SE's end >.>
at least give a telegraph to give people a chance to dodge ._.

Edit:
Just to clarify for feedback to SE since they actually read the forums (or so I'm told)
Party content is just fine, I just find it pretty crappy for it to be hard AND to lose your map if you fail. Spending 2-3 days for 800 myth just to try AGAIN is pretty crappy >.>

If you're not confident that you can solo it, go with party.
And buying with 800 myth is just one option. Daily quest that sends you into DR: Expert is another option.

[Nekodar]

This was my daily map, thought i was going to have 2 alex's today but i guess not.

Even if the bombs only hit for 500-600 i could have recovered with pots and 2nd wind. the golem only auto hit for 200 and his frontal cones were easy to avoid. but the fact that the bombs move faster then run speed and just one has the power to deal over 5000 dmg to a i100 brd is a bit on the retard side.

Out of curiosity, were you using Blood for Blood at the time? And did you see in the log if it was a critical hit on you?

[Fenseven]

Out of curiosity, were you using Blood for Blood at the time? And did you see in the log if it was a critical hit on you?

Blood for Blood wasn't up at the time and no it wasn't a crit. I wish i would have taken a screen shot. It was the map in the north east part of central thanalan. Where the giant toads are.

[JayCommon]

This was my daily map, thought i was going to have 2 alex's today but i guess not.

Even if the bombs only hit for 500-600 i could have recovered with pots and 2nd wind. the golem only auto hit for 200 and his frontal cones were easy to avoid. but the fact that the bombs move faster then run speed and just one has the power to deal over 5000 dmg to a i100 brd is a bit on the retard side.

Agreed. It seems like this particular version of the map quest has claimed a lot of peoples lives/maps. I had to farm my initial myth investment for the inks all night after work yday so I didn't get to try a map, but this info will have me on the lookout for the specific set-up.

Now I wonder, because it seems like most of the people who died to this map format were blindsided by the bombs. I have a question and a speculation.

Q) Did the bombs appear on your enemy log as soon as they spawned? Even if they did I would have died by your explanation as well. When I do boarskin maps I normally just zerg the main boss and then mop up the adds after its dead. If you do this too, I can easily see why you died.

Speculation (maybe you can confirm?): Did you attack any of these bombs at all? Seems like an instant kill is a bit unfair, because even if you have a light party it sounds like everyone would have wiped. Maybe those bombs with the insta-kill mechanics can be 1 shotted to counter the danger?

[Airget]

Hm a mechanic that comes to mind is they are "touch based" explosive aka throw a tomahawk/spear/shield and you should be ok. Though in Monks case they still are boned lacking any range attack lol.

I would say for anyone trying that map when the bombs spawn run and attempt to pick them off with a ranged attack and see if they explode like the poison plants in tam-tara

[Fenseven]

No the bombs didn't show up on the quest log, it just said kill the enemies. They didn't show up on my aggro list either. Didn't know they existed until they were upon me.

[Hanemakikaze]

I guess I'm the only who finds it silly that anyone would have thought enemies from something like novus quest was supposed to a cakewalk all the way through. Everyone I know had asked for help for maps just in case, and sure enough about 4/6 peoples maps were quite ridiculous if you would have attempted solo. Anyway, sorry for your loss, many tears were had today.

[Fenseven]

I guess I'm the only who finds it silly that anyone would have thought enemies from something like novus quest was supposed to a cakewalk all the way through. Everyone I know had asked for help for maps just in case, and sure enough about 4/6 peoples maps were quite ridiculous if you would have attempted solo. Anyway, sorry for your loss, many tears were had today.

Did the 1st map pretty easily, killed 4 mobs that had a decent amount of hp and only did frontal cones. it set the president for me that the maps weren't that hard, especially when i'm 10ilvls above them.

[Shirana]

If you're not confident that you can solo it, go with party.
And buying with 800 myth is just one option. Daily quest that sends you into DR: Expert is another option.

There's other ways to get the map? o:
I was told you had to spend 800 myth for each map.