How SE is alienating talented players

[Matsume]

You do 25-30 runs in the last day and half and wonder why you are fed up...

Random is random and bad luck is bad luck.. keep trying though.

I agree with Madruk gives us better drop rates and longer lock outs.

This. 100%.

I hate to say it but it's true, you got struck with the bad luck stick.

But it's no wonder you are burnt out on the dungeons after spamming them for 15-20 hours straight.

It's no different than Ifrit, some people will get their first weapon after 50-100 kills, some will get their first weapon on first kill. some will get 7/7 in under 100 wins, others will get 7/7 after 300 kills.

To be honest, if most players don't have full darklight set by the time 1.22 goes live (one month away) I will consider these two dungeons successful. Why? because end ame content shouldn't be done the first day, first week, or first month after their implementation.

This is SE's response to players who rush through content the day after implementation then QQ on the forums for two months til next patch comes out for lack of content.

That being said, I saw my first Darklight (breeches) drop last night and I've killed Mistress less than 10 times. Nonetheless, we took her down with 35:01 minutes left and for some reason only got 3/5 chests but darklight breeches was in one of them.

Lady luck can make cowards of even the most hardcore players.

[SirOleas]

It's more of a luck thing I suppose.
The LS I'm in has been pretty relaxed since this patch. A lot of people were busy IRL so we have only run maybe 25 CC runs, and out of those maybe 6 are speed runs.

That said: We have 5 Darklight drops. 2 Eyepatches, 2 Gauntlets, and some Feet.

I think I would prefer a longer lockout with at least a single DL drop per run. However...right now there's still not enough content to justify long lockouts really.

[KiraAmane]

Luck is obviously involved in all mmos. But, to have a 0% drop rate after accomplishing the most "challenging content" i.e. speed runs is very disheartening. At least other games reward you for every run...

And 25-30 speed runs is all there is left to do in the game. I guess we could do AV, but its nice to take that 15 min break away from the game lol.

[Zezlar]

You guys have some really bad luck. I've won CC perhaps 20 or so times, and i've seen about 7 dl pieces drop.

That or our groups have been lucky as hell.

[DyskoFox]

3 days of hardcore cutters no darklight drops... Really? We have done easily 15+ runs a day if not 20+ since our ls has multiple groups running at a time.

[Denmo]

3 days of hardcore cutters no darklight drops... Really? We have done easily 15+ runs a day if not 20+ since our ls has multiple groups running at a time.

My E-Peen doth be larger than your E-Peen~

[DyskoFox]

My E-Peen doth be larger than your E-Peen~

I love you.

Your text style leaves me speechless please please bed me! For I cannot help but wilt in your arms when you type in such text.

I bow to your greatness sir. Please do not e-peen t-bag me for I am not worthy.

+1

[Denmo]

I love you.

Your text style leaves me speechless please please bed me! For I cannot help but wilt in your arms when you type in such text.

+1

Overload in sarcasm-a-tron detected.

[darkstarpoet1]

i'm not much on the long lockouts. if this game was like xi(since the comparison is being made) and had a bunch of options on what end game events you could do i'd feel differently. the thing is there's only 3 pieces of end game that is viable atm(ac, cc, ifrit). you put a 24-72 hour lockout on that content and people will sign in and run those few things and then sign out. there's not enough different kinds of end game content to support a long lockout atm.

there's just nothing else worth doing right now with the snails pace of content that has trickled into the game over the last year and most of the new stuff makes the other stuff worthless to do.

[viion]

Right lets reward people who give a big FYou to the designer of the the dungeon and a big slap in the face to the balance team.

No, you should not be rewarded because you all slapped on buffs and ran through not fighting anything just to get to the very end and quickly zerg the boss. There is no skill, that is not a talant, thats just running and ignoring everything, wow what talent you have there.

Live with it. I am glad random people who like to play properly and appreciate the dungeon get the loot.

If you're just speed running through, then what is the point in having the mobs there at all or anything really? You may as well ask the devs to just make raids so that you Spawn at the Boss and you kill him for loots.

So glad this crap isnt in Guildwars 2 and you get rewarded for exploration and actual skill of getting through the dungeon.