Dear Anet: Make Razah's PvE aquisition REASONABLE.........

I just wonder what I would do if I didn't have henchmen to "drag" me through missions, like most "average skilled players."

Wow that two man (1.5 really) build is so great. *sarcasm*

How about the people who don't have a primary elementalist in DoA?

To get Master of Whispers took me all of 10 minutes. It took me about 10 minutes to get each of my heroes.
Now, 10 x 14 = 140 minutes (2 hours, 20 minutes). So it takes longer to get a single ritualist hero, then it does to get all the others.

My arrogance? Glad I can be of amusement. Let's set a couple of flaws you have straight shall we? Splendid.

Flaw One: You appearntly missed the second to last mission in the game "Factions." when the good guys lost a good guy. Perhaps you may remember him as Master Togo? If not, here is a link to him using Guildwiki - Master Togo

Flaw Two: My reference to Pokemon was not only as a "good guy wins", it was to help explain the maturity level that I explained in a rather long post. Please view it to understand and to "Read it carefully" as you so kindly placed to me.

Flaw Three: Again, you've seemed not to read through the entire thread and miss my post where I've explained that people, the minority as I see it, are coming here to this topic to follow the rules of Guru Forums. If there where not rules, we would have dozens of "Change Razah" topics. You right tho, if I went through this thread, my self and others appear to be the minority in a topic dedicated to a minority wanting Razah obtained easier. But viewing the over all picture, I'm not. Once more, as I've already stated in a reply, I do not have hardcore information on a piece of paper to show you the minority/majority. All I have is my personal observation's of the GuildWarsGuru Forums for the past year and a month.

Now, what I don't quiet understand is how so many of you are upset and angered with me and my opinions. I'm not angered with you for wanting Razah changed. Annoyed, perhaps. Angered and upset? Not by the slightest. Perhaps it's because I'm the only one willing to talk about all of this in the manner it's being discussed and you weren't expecting it, who knows? I surely don't.

It takes a lot to outsmart me in a debate as it was placed earlier in this thread, again directly to me in a more angered-like posting. I'm not here to stir the kettle full of dung. You guys are doing that job when you get so angered at me. You don't know me, I don't know you. If you get angered over a computer screen, I am honestly sorry for you. Your time is best spent reading a book and cooling down, hanging out with a friend or walking your dog then attempting to bring someone else down because you had a bad day, came home and couldn't obtain Razah as easily as you'd of liked.

After this reply, I attend for it to be my last for this thread. I know, I hear the "yay rahs!" already, touching. But, this isn't worth my time and the effort, so you can understand both sides of the party as I have and often do.

I hope the people who get so easily angered over a computer game, and a online forum will begin to do the same. It's meant to be fun, so try to enjoy it.

I think you did. I was pointing out where the discussion on gem drops came from - which could have led to people thinking you actually NEED them rather than 'simply' doing the quest. That said, the gem drop rate is still relevant - if, for example, you could expect to get a gem of each type from drops while completing the quest to get them as rewards, you'd only need to complete it half as many times to get Razah for all your characters. Which is a big difference, especially if it means you only need to do it with characters that are reasonably easy to get groups for... or, dare I say it, may even be able to solo it. While Lucifer hasn't explicitly stated (s)he can do anything other than basic super-Margonite groups, it is implied - and if it does turn out that farming (ugh) for stones rather than doing the quest is a more efficient means of gathering them, that has a bearing on Razah's availability. For instance, if every bad guy you killed in the Domain of Anguish dropped a stone of the appropriate type, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. (Clearly this isn't the case, and it's an extreme example anyway, but it illustrates the point.)

EDIT: Neriandal, if you read this: A word of advice. I've done a spot of debating in my time, and one of the first rules there is to attack the argument, not the person. As soon as you get personal, you lose credibility. Sometimes it can be a far call in a debate to cite previous examples of where your opponents judgement in a similar matter is flawed (for instance, if a particular political party has ruined a country's economy in the past and is still composed of the same members, it's probably fair to cite that as a reason why their economic judgement may be lacking), but without such evidence, attacking your opponent directly is simply giving them the moral high ground.

So, in the context of this particular thread:
It is a fair argument to state that all it takes is a few hours dedication is all that is needed to attain the reward. It's even true, for a certain value of 'few'. There are also plenty of counterarguments - my primary one being that needing to complete DoA for the sole Ritualist hero breaks the mold that elite areas are only for vanity and that you don't miss out on anything you can't get anywhere else by not doing them (there's the caseline again!) - but it is certainly a fair argument.

It is a fair argument to state that someone who proudly proclaims themselves to be an elite player or a member of an elite guild is probably biased - for them, the hurdle simply isn't as high as for everyone else, so it isn't so much of an issue. Especially the elite guild part - someone who can bring guildies of known competance together to form their own groups of reliable players has a significant advantage over someone who can't. Likewise, anyone who claims that a Ritualist hero isn't worth having anyway has shown themselves to be biased - they don't care about Ritualist heroes, so why should they care how hard or easy it is to acquire one?

It is not a productive argument to point at everyone who disagrees with you and claim that they're all spoilt preteens whinging that they can't have everything handed to them on a silver platter. Doing so just makes you look bad yourself - and, as you may have noticed, tends to get people a little annoyed at you.

Gloom took about 1 1/2
City took about 1 1/2
Stygian took about 2 hours
Foundry seems to take about 2 1/2-3 hours the screen shot i posted earlier was from that.


After thinking about it i guess since Razah is a Rit and a faction class he shouldn't be hard to acquire, but this is anet just telling you to own all three games was the reason for his creation.

To note i understand that many people can not get in a good pug group and the times i posted above are times for quest completion not forming groups etc..... but these quests are meant to be difficult and with that the rewards not easily attained.
Sorry for the flame

Lucifer, you forgot this SS

Where we beat the first quest of the Foundry of the Failed Creation with HEROES

I still haven't seen any "the difficulty of obtaining Razah is just fine", "make Razah harder to recruit", "it's too easy to get Razah" or "I love Keeper Millzesh" threads to back up the claim that the people who have indifferent or favorable attitudes toward the difficulty of obtaining Razah are the majority.

I would just like to say - I love DoA. Dont change a thing. Except maybe more chests, I would like that.

And the level 30 bosses only have 1360 health. Whats up with that? Rotscale has 16,740 health. C'mon!

I wouldn't call that a flame . Actually some useful information in there - it sets a baseline for just how much time it takes with a decent group.

Yes, the quests are meant to be difficult and not easy to obtain. I just don't think the only Ritualist hero in the game should be one of the difficult and not easy to obtain rewards. Everything else in there are good examples of elite rewards - things that look good and prestigious without providing any exclusive mechanical benefits. Razah sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb in comparison.

Out of interest, how many gem drops have you seen while doing that?

5-6 on Stygian. 3-4 Greens. 2 Chests.

Generally, we've had about 5 gemstones drop per quest run.

All the quests minus foundry dropped about 4-6.. I have done titan twice and havn't seen one gem drop and we cleared the four rooms and did the 2nd quest.

I presume that's 4-6 gems for the whole party? Meaning that, apart from the Titan gems, each person has about a 65% chance of getting a gem drop?

The lack of Titan gems dropping is interesting... is there a noticible reduction in the number of creatures dropping things (I believe Titans only drop from their final parts) or is it that for some reason the gems just aren't dropping there?

If we assume that the lack of Titan gemstones dropping is a bug, then after that bug gets fixed it sounds like we'd be looking at two runs per three characters to get Razah for all your characters, or three runs per two characters if you just take one character and do it over and over again. If we take your quoted times as standard, that would mean that to get Razah for all of a player's characters would take an expected 6.5 hours or so per character if each successful run is with a different character, or 15 hours per character after the first if you do it by just grabbing one character and doing it over and over again. Not counting time spent learning the area, trying builds, and/or trying to find groups.

yes there is a very noticable difference in drop rates, i would guess we killed about 150ish titans a run and the only thing to drop a gem was a margnite. but my group always seems to be nerfed so who knows.

No, it's over 100% chance per person.
There's a chest at the end of each quest, that GUARNTEES everyone get a gemstone.

So each person has 165% chnace of getting a gemstone.
1 from the chest, and 50-65% of another one from drops.

Is this from firsthand experience? All the accounts I've read say that the chests drop "a gemstone" rather than "one gemstone for every party member". Also, do the overlords always spawn, or do you need someone in your party who still needs to kill a given overlord for the Mallyx quest?

Yes, it is Gordon. We've ran multiple quests several times.
They work like a regular chest, and each member of your team has to go and open it.
The only diffrence is, it doens't require any keys to open it, and the content seems to be always the same.

We never had a member who didn't get a gemstone from the chest.

And the quests are repeatable, so there's no worry about overlords not being there.
Every time you enter the area, the entire series of quests refreshes new.
Meaning, you can't just finish the first part, zone out, come back and continue.
You must complete all tasks in one run.

That's what makes these quests hard... they are long, and constantly next to an instant wipe.

Now here's the thing, Princess. I'm not angry about Razah. I don't ever plan to get a ritualist. I have no use for one. Oh, and you might want to read about Shiro. Who was it that beat him once his ritual was complete? Another bad guy? No, what really annoys me is that your ONLY comeback and your ONLY conclusion for not wanting a variation of Razah, WHICH THIS IS ALL ABOUT, is that people are younger than you and play Pokemon. Now I can understand people not wanting DoA easier. I know I don't. But what this thread is all about is making a variation of Razah that IS easily obtainable for reasons stated throughout this thread. One person that browses the forums without having polls as evidence can't judge a true minority. You can come back when you can argue points with points rather than flaunting a baseless age factor. As far as I see it, you've lost the debate. You had no evidence for your false claims and you chose to leave when I brought up your only "solid" point. Like I, and many others have said, this isn't about making the game easier. This is about having an alternative. Every one else has comprehended that. Maybe once you have your time to cool down after your defeat, you will learn this too.

Yes the chest at the end of each quest has a 100% chance of the gem for the given area to drop for each party member, I was talking about drops not including the end chest. So the 65% is correct. During the Gloom quest an alliance member had 4 torment gems drop for him in one run not including the chest reward..

Side note if i would have to guess the fury is going to be like the UW dreamriders when it dies

No... just 100%.

And that is just like saying I still havn't seen any "life is great" "Make Life harder" "life is to easy" or "I love you" Threads... Just because 20 people have a complaint doesn't mean guildwars 600k plus players have an issue.