Some ideas from a newbie

[wyrmnax]

Well, im new to Tales of Maj'Eyal, but i played for quite a bit when it was middle earth...

Just recently i remembered the game and went to have some fun with it.

As such, i have some ideas:

1) Bill the Troll. Is mean.

No, seriously. Different from vaults on the first dungeon ( you are aware of most of them, and can avoid ), you cant avoid that guy. And he is tough. And as a new character you have really few resources to deal with him. I would suggest not permitting him to have healing infusions - he is tough enough for any character that gets down to him at level 3~4, and keeping himself on god-mode just makes it frustrating to a new player. He should probably be taken down a notch too, but not too much - you want to give any players the feeling that bosses are serious.

2) Healing infusions on bosses. Nothing is as bothersome as fighting the same enemy for 20 minutes. He doesnt represent any danger to you because of your gear/abilities, but unless you get a string of lucky criticals you cannot kill him because he has 3-4 absurdly powerful regeneration infusions. I had to give up on minotaur twice because of this - My archmage was hitting, freezing, tidal waving him for half a hour, would get him down to 40%ish and he would pop a infusion and regen back to 100% in 3 rounds.

3) Dying. I really like the fact that you have "lifes". But the problem is that they toss you back to the entrance of the level, with all your cooldowns used. By example this time: I was playing a Arcane Blade. Was in the quest "Storming the City". Had cleared the city, was send to the mountain. Once i go into the lv 2 of the mountain, i am in a corridor facing the boss at one side, and a "coin room" with a couple thunder Ds and a few giants. The first movement i did put up a rune of shielding and phase walk, got me besides the dragons. The boss Hurricaned ( and stunned) me, one dragon summoned little dragons, the other breathed, and i was dead, down 600 HPs before i could do anything else. After this having more lifes didnt do a thing - ressurrecting just put me back on the exact same spot ( well, 2 squares further to be honest ), but exactly the same happened - i took one action, got stunned and ganged up by 6-7 different mobs before i could take any other action. And i was in a much worse situation than on the first time too - All my toggled traits were off and on cooldown, so after the first death i was in a even worse situation - i had less resistances, didnt have my shield rune and was causing less damage. Anyway, i proceeded to bury that character - all lives, and the blood of life, on that corridor.

If i could just have a way to recharge my skills after i died things could have gone very differently. If i had blinked to some other room i could have approached the corridor with a better strategy. The whole purpose of allowing ressurrects is to afford you a mistake, not simply punish you 5 times for the same mistake or luck.

[darkgod]

Hello and welcome !

In next beta:
Bill can not be generated with healing or regen infusions.

Bosses infusions/runes have been nerfed (cooldown increased and efficiency decreased) and not permitted to have more than one heal (and no teleports)

Dying now brings you to the Eidolon plane where you can rest and prepare yourself before being sent back to where you died

[wyrmnax]

Jeez Darkgod.

Cant even rant for 5 minutes without you coming in and fixing everything? Cant even get a good forum whine going...

Anyway, keep up the awesome job.

[darkgod]

:>

[Sirrocco]

DG's something of a badass like that.