The Great Tyrian Adventure - Week 1 Feedback

I planned on leveling my alts that are in the level range for the area we will be running during the events.

The only problems I seen were that low level people in my case my level 9 did not get much in the way of XP because everyone killed everything before I could even attack it. The only thing I got XP for really was the POI, waypoint, vista or the tough event mobs.

Several things lead to this including the time it takes for a mesmer staff or scepter bolt to travel to the target or melee folks not able to hit anything because AOE would wipe the mobs before it got close.

The only real reasonable fix I see for me is maybe using a pistol to tag the mobs fast enough.

I do ALOT of group events, just about everyone we (GSCH) have and I know that a large zerg makes it hard to get points at times. I am more worried about new folks that may get discouraged from doing the events.

Other than that I had a blast as always.

Oh one more thing there seemed to be a large number of people that were not sure what the point of the event was such as was it a complete the map, just run the events, harvest ect.

I am sure things will smooth out after a couple of events and people see what we are doing.

It was fun and considering it was the first night it went rather smoothly. I can see where Rathamon is coming from as I did see most creatures drop usually just as they rendered for me. I really don't see any real way around this.

And with his statement about what the event was about, I did see statements along those lines in the group I was in. Normally the group leader handled them very well, but maybe a post going into some details/background etc. would help those that are confused.

First, many thanks to those that helped to organize these events! I had a great time last night and I'm looking forward to Kessex Hills.

Maybe next week, designate one commander as "level appropriate" for people running lower level toons rather than scaled 80s. I don't know that there would be much impact on XP earned for those players, but it's a thought.

Again, thanks for the event and the events to come!

It was a lot of fun, a bit crazy. It was tough for me, mainly because I wasn't in Raidcall (Mac user), so wasn't catching if there was verbal instructions given.

As some others have said, getting the hearts or kills on things for leveling lower toons was difficult because things died very quickly due to the massive amount of people. Not that I'm saying we need to rule out people with 80's. But I like the idea of higher level groups or lower level groups. The other option that I see as a possibility is that when at heart areas, those that already have the heart completed to stand to the side while those that haven't finished it work on the killing of items. Even with the ranger that I was playing with, if I did get a hit on a guy, I usually didn't get credit towards the heart because I hadn't done enough damage to it.
When we ran into events, if I wasn't at the front of the pack, one time boss kills were already dead by the time that I arrived, and I received no credit for the event because I couldn't get hits in (usually things were dead by the time they rendered).

As I said, I did have a lot of fun, and was crazy fun, will help once I find that beta of Raidcall that I heard is out there somewhere.

Hopefully I can get a few more levels on my alt so that I can join the Kessex run next week.

Thanks for setting this up!!! I know there's always a lot of details in things this large set-up to work out.

"I planned on leveling my alts that are in the level range for the area we will be running during the events.

The only problems I seen were that low level people in my case my level 9 did not get much in the way of XP because everyone killed everything before I could even attack it. The only thing I got XP for really was the POI, waypoint, vista or the tough event mobs."

I have to agree with Rathamon.6945 Comment above. I had the same plan on leveling my one toon during this event each week. I started at level 2 and at the end of the night was only level 4. Ended up having to go back in the map, I just had over half the map completed by 8 pm.

i would have to agree with alot of the coments that the exp overall was very dificult to get, i was running with a lvl28 necro with condition dmg and since u only get exp from kills after a certain amount of dmg i was barely getting dmg in and i wasn't a low lvl... now i guess there would be difirent ways to fix this like mention above either have squads split by lvl range or even possibly running smaller squads.. in these lower lvls the game doesn't scale up enough for what we showed up with, smaller squads would probably help the rendering aswell, i know from what was being saidon raidrall during the event alot of the players wouldn't even get a chance to see what was there to kill...

I like the idea of smaller squads if possible. I have always had difficulties with super large groups in game. If not it won't stop me from attending :) I think my issues are more realted to my PC specs than my level and that is not fixable on your end.

A bit late to the thread but I wanted to say I really enjoyed week 1 and I thought it went very smoothly, actually.

I didn't have any expectations of what to achieve; the group moved quickly, no time for standing around. I was able to get the PoIs, vistas, SPs and WPs that were being pointed out (which is more important to me since those can be tricky especially if surrounded by mobs), but not a lot of levels, which was fine as I didn't think there would be time enough to help everyone get quest completion anyway.

The only thing that threw me for a loop was that after the intermission, I wasn't aware that I was needing to turn map chat back on to see the announcements for who won the prizes. I was in RC though, so did eventually catch on.

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It was a great event, but I do think that the lack of scaling in the starting zone made things a bit rough on anyone trying to do something more than map completion. However, there was a lot to be said for seeing that many people in one place working together. I think it was a good litmus test to show that this could be a successful event structure and that things will only get better as it moves along. Thanks for hosting.