stuart wrote:
Just wanting to express a concern about some of the tasks in the new legion missions such as Encounter at Nabai.
I can understand wanting to make the NPC task challenging but the amount of time it takes to do some of those tasks is absurd. Probably took me at least a total of 7-8 hours of NPCing to complete task #1 of Encounter at Nabai. Lost track of how much energy I went through. Leveled up 3-4 times before completing it.
That task is so time consuming and all the other tasks depend on people taking out 200 of those drones before they can start the other tasks.
I know in our legion's 1st attempt at this mission it will fail as most people are not willing to take that amount of time and energy to complete task 1 and by the time we got enough people taking out 200 of those drones, there was only limited time left to work on the other tasks. Odds are the legion mission will be a failure.
Please reconsider these absurdly long tasks as I know it is unlikely I'll be willing to participate in them in the future. not willing to sit for 1-2 hours at a time NPCing and then still need to do that a # of times before completing the task.
Consider it a lesson learned, that if you aren't willing to NPC for a set number of hours, then an NPC task on any of the new LM's won't be for you. I'm especially concerned that you won't even NPC for 1-2 hours at a time....
What rank are you? You say you gained 3-4 ranks, but that could mean as few as 1k NPC's killed for some ranks, or as many as 3-4k for others. I believe you're rank 900 or so, as such that's likely a fair few NPC kills managed.
We recently had Darmos Games in EoTS, and it took me 3-4k NPC kills to complete the task across 4-5 hours of NPC'ing.
It's also worthwhile mentioning, once again, that not all Legion Missions should be attempted by Legions. There are Legion Missions that some legions will just not be strong enough nor ready enough, or dare i say, coordinated enough to complete, in a competent or timely manner, if you get one of those LM's, then you should either wait it out, skip it or struggle through it.
You're in DoO correct? From what i can see of that legion, and what i know of that legion in terms of activity level/willingness to coordinate, i'd wager a fair few gave up inside 10 mins of not finding one of the NPC's needed. As such i can shed some sympathy for the fact that even if you had completed your 20 silthion npc's, its unlikely anyone else in your legion would have done so.
Just from looking there are so many ~rank 600 players there, and i'd guess the majority are mission focused and unlikely to have ever done any concerted NPC'ing on the level of which these new LM's require.
I won't say right now that this LM doesn't need changing at all, because we in EoTS have yet to see this LM.
That said, a fair few complained their balls off(they now lack said balls) that Darmos Games NPC's or Bralkir NPC task was a pita waste of energy, and it took far too long.
We have since had both of those LM's in EoTS, and i can say with all honesty, that those people were whimpering about an NPC task that took everyone here just a few hours of concerted effort in NPC'ing to finish.
These were high ranks complaining about having to NPC for prolonged periods of time, which lets face it, post rank 1k, there ain't nothing but NPC'ing to do, so if ya don't like it, you won't be best pleased.