Comments on: Public Quest Critical Mass

By: Rog

Rog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:35:57 +0000

There are a bunch of things Mythic should do to make PQs entertaining, but first on my list is reducing the grind on them. Killing 150 mobs to start just isn’t fun, even if you’re in a massive Warband and certainly it’s too tedious if you have just a few peeps (the situation most of the time).

If they make it more fun, more people will come.

Oddly, everyone’s favourite theory is falling down for PQs, the old adage that if the loot is good, players will follow. Wrong game methinks. For WAR, if it’s tedious, it gets abandoned.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:07:23 +0000

Thanks, Silix. I will definitely check those out.

By: Silix

Silix — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:26:35 +0000

I play a tank (Chosen)/healer (DoK) combo with my wife and we’ve duo’ed almost every PQ through the dark elf chapters 1-15. All of chaos chapters 13-14, and was doing Greenskins 13-14 last night.

In most cases we can duo stages 1 and 2, and I just want to confirm that you are right - most times many DPS types show up to join us. The biggest problem with a tank/healer duo is that we sometimes can’t kill a particular hero fast enough before the timer runs out. So we love DPS guys.

In most cases tho the DPS guys come half way and won’t get enough influence to get on the roll table at the end, but we’re nice whenever people asks if we’d stick around for a second run we always say yes :-)

PS.
Chaos PQ for Horn of Tempest is epic.
Dark Elf PQ for Recompense is also epic (feels like a football field)
Dark Elf PQ for White Tower of Hoeth is major fail - buggy and the LORD boss at the end - stage 4 - likes to eat tanks for lunch.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:35:20 +0000

@Thalian: click the circle on the top left and the open party list stays open. While open, you can click on the “interested in starting an open group” toggle and you will show up on that list. Rav is right - do that after you pick a PQ and more often than not by the time you ate done the first phase you have company. Another tip is keep an open eye our for people in the area who are killing mobs but aren’t in group - chances are they don’t understand the OP system either and will gladly join up.

By: Thallian

Thallian — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:00:37 +0000

As far as Open Groups go and how to find them, I’m clueless. Really there’s a lot of little features like this that could be easier to figure out. Every so often it shows up in my upper left that there are open groups in the area but then it disappears really fast. (As if to taunt me)