CASTRUM NERF?

[WiseWolfHolo]

Why are you even talking about this, story line instances will never ever get a nerf or rebalance, because they are that for the story, how you also use them for endgame is your own business, but ultimately they are for new players, geared or ungeared.

[Hachiko]

I don't see how you could do this. Castrum is the dungeon I farm for DL gear. If you make that harder then where am I supposed to go, WP?

Farm garuda like a real man or woman. You kill her in 8 minutes, get 15 Philo and 7 Mythology.

It's so ridiculous that people think DL gear should basically be handed out for doing the easiest level 50 dungeon in the game.

Why are you even talking about this, story line instances will never ever get a nerf or rebalance, because they are that for the story, how you also use them for endgame is your own business, but ultimately they are for new players, geared or ungeared.

Hopefully they'll halve the number of philosophy to drop from it. It's stupid that it's one of the fastest ways to get what is basically the 2nd best gearset in the game (technical 3rd but that's splitting hairs.)

[Churchill]

Honesty, SE isn't as brutal with exploits as they were in XI.

Back in the day they would have maint the next day and fix it, and in some cases they'd ban everybody they found using the exploit (Look: Salvage exploit).

The should have took AK down right away and got FATEs fixed back in beta.

Salvage exploit took 9 months to fix and a year to ban. I would know, I did it first.

Regardless, most people who hear rumors heard it from their terrible friends also playing the game. No point in worrying about it until it does or doesn't happen.

[krazykrusnik]

Farm garuda like a real man or woman. You kill her in 8 minutes, get 15 Philo and 7 Mythology.

It's so ridiculous that people think DL gear should basically be handed out for doing the easiest level 50 dungeon in the game.

Not that they want it handed to them. The problem is that this isn't the MMO age of the early millenium, not as many people are too fond of the idea of taking an absurd amount of time for one or two pieces of gear.

Not that I want it instantly either, but I would like to be able to get at least one piece within a reasonable amount of time.

[LiadansWhisper]

Farm garuda like a real man or woman. You kill her in 8 minutes, get 15 Philo and 7 Mythology.

It's so ridiculous that people think DL gear should basically be handed out for doing the easiest level 50 dungeon in the game.

lol...yes, Garuda pugs have a high success rate!

Hopefully they'll halve the number of philosophy to drop from it. It's stupid that it's one of the fastest ways to get what is basically the 2nd best gearset in the game (technical 3rd but that's splitting hairs.)

I'm hoping they won't, because you get nothing else from the dungeon, and these groups are literally carrying the new players having to pug their end of the story along.

[Rainsworth]

Try doing wanderers with AF geared DDs. I have heard people rage quit on the 2nd boss because the adds build up. I have been seeing new players in 2.0 with level 20 rings, AF gear, and level 50 trying to do Wanderer's Palace/Hydra.

You mean "try doing WP with a group of players who don't know what the hell to do with they keyboards". That place is easily doable with AF geared players.

[AunaYuuki]

I did this last night in my AF WAR with two DDs (1 in AF, the other spiritbinding for crying out loud) with a DF group. We wiped once..

Could be the difference of servers. I have had to take several newer players through to grab some gear I didn't say that WP was difficult, I said that players on my server are having issues and RQ because of "Add build up" on the boss stages. Which is an issue of Damage or not knowing their classes. I cleared it just fine on several runs. Re-read. I didn't even say that WP gear was better than AF.
I said you can clear Castrum with basic AF armor and then you grind different instances for tomestones to gain DL. Castrum is one of them you don't need to "buy" any real gear for because its handed to you in the storyline. Should it give you that many tomestones? *shrugs* Who am I to tell SE what to do? Should they make it speed-run proof? Probably. Just don't make it super hard on newer players trying to gear up for upcoming content.

[AunaYuuki]

You mean "try doing WP with a group of players who don't know what the hell to do with they keyboards. That place is easily doable with AF geared players.

Yeah probably. D; Didn't want to be too mean though.

[Rainsworth]

Yeah probably. D; Didn't want to be too mean though.

haha don't worry I'm not upset because of what you said at all :P

[LunarEmerald]

There's few trash you can skip in Castrum. What really speeds up Castrum is using the cannons. They wouldn't be there if they didn't want you using them.