Tahatamani Thoughts(Bronstahd wanted it!)

[Caniss]

Bronstahd said,
"Do me a favor and hit Tehatamani with the same level of scrutiny when
it goes live in the next patch."

Okay, I'll bite Sir.

Let me first say that I know this area has only been live for one day.
I know I dont know everything there is to know about the area or the
further quest lines. Hear me out anyway please.

I really liked this area before anything was implemented. I loved the
over all feel and design of the place, It looked like it had lots of
potential and I figured once it was all fixed up with itemization and
quests I would be spending a lot of time there. So Kudos to the design
team that took care of these chunks! Beautiful in my opinion.

So when loggin in yesterday I was eager to check out what you have
done. After a bit of running between NPCs getting the starter quests
and such... I REALLY fell in love with the place. I like the concept
a lot personally. I like the Rank Coordinator system. I truely love
items that upgrade as you progress, Queynos Badge styles~ I then went
and looked through the armor selection. and many of the choices are
looking great, some not so much.

For one I am not sure who in their right mind would buy the Rare items
when you have the Heroic options. Yes they are more effort but the
stats are MUCH better. many of the Rare items are actually fairly
lame for level50 Rares. The Rings and Earrings are the only pieces
worth considering since you can only get one Heroic Ring/Earring.
The stats on the Heroic Sets are almost all very acceptable, Except
possibly the healer version of the cloak and ring... I am a little
confused about why the other types get thier favorite stats and we get
defense? I am guessing its becuase a lot of healers been complaining
about their squishy factor lately?

Then there is the vendor with the "toys". Illusions are always a fun
toy, but what's with the see invis potions? Thats just odd to me hehe.
I mean it aint hurting anyone that they are there but no one will ever
buy them :) If they do, it was a horrible, one of kind, series of
missclicks I am sure :P

Moving on to more serious matters...

The Ranks so far move up by faction. Thats cool by me. What is very
not cool is the horribly frustrating bottleneck. The bottleneck isnt
the faction itself but the extreme lack of mobs available for the
repeatable quests youre given. The amount of mobs and drops needed is
fairly high, that too is fine with me. The fact that there is ONE
temple to get the needed mobs, and that the temple only holds roughly
30 mobs that will update your quest is extremely rough. There was at
one point 4 groups sitting around with their thumbs up thier butt
waiting for respawns. I feel bad for those of you who had to endure
more than that. Luckily I am only on Hilsbury server.

....After getting the appropriate faction for 2nd rank *phew* You are
sent on a stroll around the entire 3 chunk area to get patrolling
updates. Nice leisurely stroll is always good, gives ya better mental
image of the place so you can map it out in your head.
After getting Apprentice Rank you are given 4 new quests to again
raise faction so you can get the third rank later. This is where I
got truely frustrated. The "new" quests are the EXACT same thing as
the first 4 except 2 new temples and different mobs. Not at all
original and very discouraging.

So my static said "screw this" and we were going to get our faction up
by simply grinding the 4dot pyramids and trying out the other quest
line(kill 100 mobs from each pyramid). We were hoping to figure out
where the Lucent Medals were coming from also, thinking they must drop
either off named in the higher areas or just rare off 4dot and higher
mobs. We venture to the closest 4dot pyramid(Temple of Opudufi?) and
buff up looking to have some fun!

Wrong, these mobs have what seems to be 3x as much health as any other
4 dot of the same level. Also they hit for well over 2600 damage and
fairly fast too. They were casting AE Roots which is extremely
annoying and limits our dps casters from moving away from the mob they
just stole aggro from. SPLAT- 3 out of 4 attacks seem to almost one
shot anyone but the Tank. These mobs are harder than the lvl 52 6dots
in Rahz Inkur? Killing 3 or 4 entrance mobs was enough joy for us for
one night :)

I love things difficult, long and tedious.. but for the right reasons
please. Competing with several other grps for a handful of mobs is
not enjoyable one bit. It is gonna just lead to claims of trains, mob
stealing and crabby ranting shaman like myself :)

I do think 4 dot + mobs should be more difficult but not in this way.
I can deal with them hitting like a mack truck but the health pool
really needs to be lowered. Typically if a mob hits that hard he is
fairly squishy. Unless it is a named mob of some kind. Having every
trash mob be that beastly though is really gonna scare away a lot of
people... especially the pick up groups who unfortunetely dont have
things like Ventrilo or Teamspeak for those fast pace decisions.

I am afraid most of my static is already discouraged by how things are
now and we are gonna wait till a change is made or you throw in
Gargalog armor quests(soon pls!) Back to Rahz Inkur for us most likely :)

I still love Tahatamani, I really do! I just think it might need a lil
more tuning:)

[Dashel]

It's a cool zone, big and sprawling content which is neat. All mobs repoping at the same time is lame though. Not enough mobs to kill for the quests in a game with no instancing, and we're not even talking about mainstream traffic here, it's a small group of people high enough to do it on our server.

The 4 dots are far too HP heavy, hit too hard and the AE root on top of it is just tedious on trash "kill 100" mobs.

Hopefully there's more of a payoff and the quests get more interesting as they progress.

[Senen]

Yet another faction grind yay... haven't seen that before realy this is old already. Spent the better part of the day working on this start on 2 dots, finish quest work 1k faction on 3 dots move to 4 dots work another 2k faction at 1 faction per kill this is great fun not..

[nonpoint]

It's the same as a lot of zones were and/or still are. Contents there, but polish isnt on. Global respawn, mobs receiving a buff in crypts that puts them @ 250% of normal stats, which can be disabled by a diplomat using a device, but the device isnt in the game yet. Loot from named in the crypts not up to par with difficulty. I'd go check it all out and do what quests you can, it is fun, but then find another place to hang out until next patch when the little things have been adjusted.

[Saben001]

Its not shabby so far we got to around 3.2k faction warrior status. it could use a little flavor but i hope we arent doing all this for just some necklaces. maybe a couple pieces of decent jewelry. is this goign to be similiar to wardship or we just wasting our time getting tons of faction?

Is there more to it then upgrading the necklace?

more plans for it?

Hasnt been bad it has made the grind not so much xp focused. thus far.

[Jiamhr]

Originally Posted by Saben001

Its not shabby so far we got to around 3.2k faction warrior status. it could use a little flavor but i hope we arent doing all this for just some necklaces. maybe a couple pieces of decent jewelry. is this goign to be similiar to wardship or we just wasting our time getting tons of faction?

Is there more to it then upgrading the necklace?

more plans for it?

Hasnt been bad it has made the grind not so much xp focused. thus far.

"not to shabby"


hmm....did you try killing the 4dots?


I'm sure you have...

Tehat wil be GREAt once they fix the 4dots

[Saben001]

Nope havent tried 4 dots yet. been doing it withmy wife and one of our friends. war/clr/dru combo. Havent tried the 4 dots at all.

[Garn]

Originally Posted by Saben001

Nope havent tried 4 dots yet. been doing it withmy wife and one of our friends. war/clr/dru combo. Havent tried the 4 dots at all.

Well until they either change the 4 dots I wouldn't try it with the trio you have anyway. It's rediculously hard and a complete waste of time at this point.

I hear 6k faction is for the next step after the 3k warrior rank. Currently at 5300 so should find out for sure soon.

BTW anyone found out any info on how to obtain these medals?

[Ferrien]

and weeks after release still no update on those of us who cant even start the tehat questlines!

[Saben001]

Its been nerfed to crap. not even worththe time anymore. inless there is something really awesome once you get a gazillion faction. the money and xp for the quests got cut into 1/10 of what it use to be....

This is pretty much wasted space now. Although nice neat Stargate look.