Level 77 Thancred Duty - Abitrary and frustrating

[markusmeridius]

These duties serve a purpose, I understand that. There's a lot I can complain about this game in regards to it's MSQ. Character locking for even quest pick up, turn in etc is horribly frustrating for example.

But this duty in particular. What was the point? You get given an eviscerated toolkit to do very damage, the pace is awful. The final part, I was wondering why I even took part as you just stun locked the character at every opportunity mid fight.

This would have been much better served by an extended cutscene where you could still impress the strength of the big bad and not arbitrarily remove all agency from the player. This wasn't fun, and for a unreasonably long duty, a massive waste of time that just left me frustrated.

[Misao-Hana]

These duties serve a purpose, I understand that. There's a lot I can complain about this game in regards to it's MSQ. Character locking for even quest pick up, turn in etc is horribly frustrating for example.

But this duty in particular. What was the point? You get given an eviscerated toolkit to do very damage, the pace is awful. The final part, I was wondering why I even took part as you just stun locked the character at every opportunity mid fight.

This would have been much better served by an extended cutscene where you could still impress the strength of the big bad and not arbitrarily remove all agency from the player. This wasn't fun, and for a unreasonably long duty, a massive waste of time that just left me frustrated.

Yeah, did that dutie today to. It was boring. Nothing happend.
I really dont get why they put stuff like this in the game. Wasted time of my life pushing a buttom for 20min. and being bored to no end.

[KProxy]

I had the boss halfway and I ended up just sitting there, mad that I had to actually do this and I died. So now after what was probably 5m of my time but felt like 20m, I have to do this again. This is the worst part of the duties I have to do. A new expansion and SE has proved they can't come up with a new idea to keep things fresh and original.

Excuse me while I go bash that guys face for 20m.

[Blanchimont]

The problem with a lot of solo duties is that it is just way too long. There's no need to repeat each phase of the fight twice for something like this. The result is that it feels like a 10 minute long non-stop button mash.

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

I really wish they had an option to select how many skills are available, maybe a beginner/intermediate/expert thing, because mashing the same button non stop throughout the entire fight cheapens the experience and makes an otherwise great sequence into an utter slog, I was pretty excited to play as Thancred until it dawned on me that it would be the same dull experience the others were (at least the others were shorter)

I don't mind the idea of the role play segments, I think they can add a lot, but they seriously need to work out a way to make it easy for casual players while not making it brainmeltingly boring.

[Besame]

When I saw I had to play a tank just to showcase their new "Gunbringer type" at 77. I stayed away from the game 5 days. I came back, finished only to find another round in yet another Ran'jit encounter after Mal's Well. Hesitant to come back at all. This will be my last SE xpac. If I wanted to play a tank, I'd make one. Put this crud in something other than the msq.

[Elamys]

When I saw I had to play a tank just to showcase their new "Gunbringer type" at 77. I stayed away from the game 5 days. I came back, finished only to find another round in yet another Ran'jit encounter after Mal's Well. Hesitant to come back at all. This will be my last SE xpac. If I wanted to play a tank, I'd make one. Put this crud in something other than the msq.

I mean you're not actually tanking...

That being said, this duty is way too long and boring. And due to lag, I had to do it three times.

[Duskane]

i liked it

[xxvaynxx]

i liked it

Same..
/10char

[Warpsberger]

Complete and utter BS! I'm a casual player, and I have exactly one class that I play. That's my choice. This is a game, it's supposed to be fun. Well, this is the opposite of fun for me.
If SE is going to continue this practice of forcing me to play some class I don't want to play, with a crippled set of capabilities at that, and do so for 20 minutes just to satisfy some sadistic streak that the game designers have... well, they can go foist that crap on someone else, because I'll no longer stand for it. I've done it too many times already, but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I'm sure there are folks that love it, but I HATE it with a passion. Do it again, SE, and I'm gone.