Make dalriada easier

[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.

[Iscah]

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.

[Zolvolt]

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.

[Canadane]

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

[Zolvolt]

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

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

[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.

[Iscah]

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.

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.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

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.

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.

[Iscah]

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.

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.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

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.

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.