Foundry: GG Anet

omcginty44

omcginty44

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Xen of Onslaught

N/

well......i spent about 9 hours in a single run in the Foundry with less than 10 min. of afking. And, of course, the 3rd NPC out of 3 that you're supposed to save gets killed. Words cant describe the shock and frustration i felt at having to spend this much time on a quest. Here i'm posting some pics to show some of the highlights of the adventure.

Quest Description


9 Hour Mark......


Quest Failed


Some fun after failing the quest



GG Anet

Nilator

Nilator

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mo/

Touch of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh! WHAT?!

TechnoSword

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

International SuperStars

W/Mo

that must suck major. also your middle picture cant be seen because the link had a curse word in it so it was altered to goredengine.com or whatever lol might want to save it under a new name

L|S >+>+G+<+<

L|S >+>+G+<+<

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nilator
Touch of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh! WHAT?!

wooooooooooooooooooooa


And i mean


woooooooooooooooooooa wth

omg


ruh roh


wow

ugh




ay yie yie yie yie


gou

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

globally warmed england

the discarnate

heh yet another nod toward python

Lucifer PVP

Lucifer PVP

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Refuge From Exile [RFE] Refuge-From-Exile.com

W/Mo

9 HOURS you were one hour from a err 059

err idk what you where doing but it took us 3 1/2 to 4 hours to beat it.

But that really really sucks i feel your pain... Looks like he got hit with cripple.

Maria The Princess

Maria The Princess

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Aequitas Deis

i feel your pain. today i spent ~4 hours doin a quest and we got a surprize party whipe T_T

this is redicoulous, i understand its elite and all, but its insane

Etrik

Etrik

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Romania

None atm

Mo/

Everyone on 60% DP.. maybe that's why it took 9 hours?

And they wouldn't have gotten err059. That only occurs if you don't move or move very little for 10 hours.

Maximumraver

Maximumraver

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

The Netherlands

Twisted Revenge [TR]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nilator
Touch of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh! ROFLMAO!!!!

omcginty44

omcginty44

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Xen of Onslaught

N/

i'm not even angry anymore, this whole thing is rediculously funny

Karlos

Karlos

Master of Mallyx

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Kaizen Order [Kaiz]

E/Me

Well, the quest walkthrough on the wiki says that some prisoner's spawns will be a group of Dementia Titans that can cripple him, hence monks should bring condition removal.

Don't mean to rub it in or so, but this walkthrough was available a day ago.

I was in a group 4 days ago and it took us 8 hours and we failed, but partially because we had the wrong build. The one cause I see is having a less than optimal build, and then duking it out. DoA does that to you. You'd be short a nuker or have one more ranger than you need and you'd keep gringing, simply because, after 4 hours of play, you're not just gonna resign, you need to wipe or something. That's what happened in that 8 hour run, the bonder Err 7ed after 4 hours, and we just could not restart. We had to drag it out 4 more hours till the inevitable happened.

In your case, and with all due respect. there is hardly a need for a Bipper in that type of run (anyone who wants energy can simply E-bond the tank).

Navaros

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/Me

That touch skill is truly hilarious.

Along with being horribly unbalanced. Makes me glad I won't waste time bothering with DoA.

They should give that exact same touch skill to all R8 Lightbringers.

badfish34668

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

LF guild

R/Mo

i was the ranger on this run. it was one of the worst gw days of my life, to come that far, for nothing.

was a great group of players though.

Pinghan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Mo/Me

Foundry = rare drop gems & lots white crap

You need spend least 4+ hrs on it , and wish u wont get a err7

Free Runner

Free Runner

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

GW2G

Knights Of The Sacred Light [KSL]

At first i thought "poor guy that was harsh!" but when i got down to that touch....it just took all the seriousness out of it and has given me temptation to attempt to get to that monster just to see the skill in use .GG Anet on creating such a funny skill

Kestrel

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

CH

[RdK]

R/Mo

candy canes anyone?

lishi

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

too bad on not "elite" enough to play the DoA

Soma Cruz

Soma Cruz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Malice Sepulchral

9 hours for only 10k exp in return = waste of time... yes there might be a change of getting gems items and so on... i can spend 9 hours in UW and i 100% get more gold (ectos) compare then your 9 hours... plus you need at least 25 of each stone for those weapon you dont even know what it looks... joke of the year.

kade

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Currently residing in ToA dis 1

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Soma Cruz
9 hours for only 10k exp in return = waste of time... yes there might be a change of getting gems items and so on... i can spend 9 hours in UW and i 100% get more gold (ectos) compare then your 9 hours... plus you need at least 25 of each stone for those weapon you dont even know what it looks... joke of the year. some people play to complete the quests.

Lykan

Lykan

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

StP

R/

Lol "Tough of Aaaarrrgghhh!!
ROFL! How amazingly annoying.

Unlucky though

Sir Mad

Sir Mad

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Moe's Pub

Pigs Can Fly [Pigs]

R/

lol I defnitely wanna face this beast of Argh (and I really should bring guys from another guild in my alliance called... Argh ).

I find silly you're asked to take a break after 2 hours when the missions/quests are designed to take longer than that to beat...

Priceykins

Priceykins

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Scotland

Heroes Etc [HeEt]

The black beast or AAargggh, im almost 100% sure thats a monty pythons holy grail reference, to the multi eyed creature in the caves of aarrghhh :P

And if not, i agree to fighting the black knight

What happened to you looks amazingly annoying and I wouldnt be happy if i were you :P

Rah Balder

Rah Balder

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

R/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by kade
some people play to complete the quests... ...that leads to the Elite Mission.

Sir Mad

Sir Mad

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Moe's Pub

Pigs Can Fly [Pigs]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Priceykins
The black beast or AAargggh, im almost 100% sure thats a monty pythons holy grail reference, to the multi eyed creature in the caves of aarrghhh :P

And if not, i agree to fighting the black knight

What happened to you looks amazingly annoying and I wouldnt be happy if i were you :P lol I can't believe I missed this reference. Let me guess.. there is a pet white rabbit to tame at the end of the elite mission?

MasterThrawn

MasterThrawn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Gryffindor

How in the world does someone have 9hours at a time to play anyway? After going through all of that - I would think you'd be upset, but man. It's a shame that so much work can be ruined in such a short amount of time. Geeze - at least they could let you rez them or something.

SpitfireIXA

SpitfireIXA

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Paladins of Pellenor

I was the prot monk in this party, in charge of leading the snakes out. We did two okay. But one survivor is sitting in a little notch in the wall, so there's really only one way out.

We laid traps, protted everything to the moon, and talked to the guy before running away. At least 13 Dementias pop up (see the red dots picture) directly in front of him. When trying to run out, he was body blocked (the Crippled hardly mattered). GG.



Can he be rescued? Sure. I bet at least one out of three times you would be successful. The other two times you die because you were unlucky in the Dementia's spawn and response. I'm not much for a dice roll after 4-9 hours of work. This also assumes that ANet's first line of defense, the err7, doesn't get you 4 hours in.

BTW, plenty of Condition removal is irrelevant. 13 Dementias using two different conditions can keep Crippled on their target no matter how many condition removals you take.

Also, Prot Spirit is your main line of defense. Candy Canes help only marginally. Without Prot Spirit, a candy cane turns a one-hit Ele wonder into a one-spike Ele wonder.

Kalki

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Summoners of Forgotten Gods

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by omcginty44
i'm not even angry anymore, this whole thing is rediculously funny ROFL

I'm glad you can laugh about it. The pioneers always suffer the most, but get the most glory.

elsalamandra

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

I consider myself an average player, not like those who say they are ubber players. THESE you see a lot arround.

I have been playing Guild Wars since the game started with prophesies through factions and now nightfall.

Saw the conception of FoW and Underworld which when they came out seemed hard to do, then saw The Deep and Urgox (spelling may be wrong).

Now we have this new area which has been classed as elite by anet.

Lets compare areas here.

Fow, now can be duo'ed or even 5 man teams, underworld can be soloed etc etc. Elite? no longer i think.

Urgox and deep, loved the 12 man team concept despite the mission, yes a mission not a quest, being long and boring.

Nightfall elite area, totally an anticlimax.

First, get a team.

Second, discuss tactics, builds, skills etc etc.

Third, in you go.

Fourth, shock to the system, meet the sas of the monsters in the form of speeding red dots with ubber attributes and plenty of hexes that will pawn u in seconds. I fthey don;t, you slowly progrees into the QUEST, and i say quest because its classed as a quest, and you carry on making a slow progress and chances are that you will be pawned.

I am tottaly dissapointed with this new are which after the amount of publicity which was given to it to find this ubber hard quests which require countless hours just to achieve the completion of 1 quest.

Some of us play this game for unwinding or simply to kill a few hours not for this new form of play which has sadly been introduced.

This is not a complaint, its merely facts.

For those who have completed the quests I congratulate you all but there are others who are still trying to do even just 1 quest, me one of them.

Noobs is what you may call me or people like me. So be it, but it still does not dispute the fact that the new area is a total flop.

It is noticeable that each day there are less and less people in the the new area. true enough, some may have moved onto the next area.

Shame man.

SeraCombi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Hiding in a cave in old Ascalon

^ totally agree with you. I have an SF ele "parked" in DOA and make occasional forays in with PUGs. It takes so long to progress, however, that I rarely play there!
..You want to know where i usally go for PvE? Sorrow's Furnace! (imo one of the best designed and most fun explorable areas in the game)