The Hidden Forest

Ive read alot of posts about how the grind for ldons isnt fun and hard vs normal isnt as rewarding. Since the new items were added to bosses the path is almost set to entice players to do ldons more. If I do ldons I do them for points mostly so I go with whats easiest. What I enjoy in this game and I am sure many others do is killing bosses and facing difficult encounters.

So why not make an ldon, smiliar to the final charm quest but without worthless trash mobs. Just port you directly to a difficult boss encounter. Maybe there are adds, spells, % based happenings that would make it fun and challenging. No Im not asking for some wimpy boss I can port to and kill in 2 minutes for a ton of ldon points. It would be difficult and group oriented and capable of wiping said group if things go wrong. Points and rewards optional. Just think it would be a fun alternative to mindlessly killing trash to obtain a few points. You can say, isnt that what assasinate is? But no, its not that challenging, and the grind up to the boss is just as the others without one.. trash and more trash.

Taladome

If you have ever played on Stormhaven they have something similar with the MPG trials. That was a ton of fun to get through.

Edit: Stormhaven, not stormhammer. Oops, sorry Trev

Never did stormhammer but, that takes me back to plane of justice trials, although they were a pain in the ass if you actually needed the flags, they did have a fun factor lmao

Taladome

I like this idea... call it LDoN extreme (normal, hard, extreme). This is for Tier3-6 geared groups.

an LDoN with say 5 minis/named (Tier2 world boss difficulty) that can drop type1 or type8 augs. And a tough final boss (Tier3 world boss difficulty). 250 points per successful run. =)

Just wishful thinking LMAO.

Truthfully it reminds me of the DoN raid encounters. There the point values were basically nil due to the drops available from the bosses. Personally I am happy with the current system. Yes it takes a long time to grind out the points. Yes if you are just doin them alone to try to grind out as many pts as possible it's going to get monotonous. Look at the gear available though. Nothing that's meant for group content can touch it so it shouldn't be quick or easy.

I know/see plenty of people who already do ldons in their current "unfun" and "unrewarding" state so I guess we're alll just really bored /shrug.

What I really see is 4-5 people who don't like it, are attempting to come up with any angle to make them more advantageous for themselves, and don't mind spamming the boards constantly about it. Nobody puts a gun to your head and says grind these out until your eyes bleed....

Now this isn't to say that some type of future content shouldn't include these types of encounters. DoN and DoDH both had nice boss encounter missions. They also were either part of a tiered progression/faction realated questing and had lockout timers. If we want to add more to LDoN I'd suggest the LDoN raids. Would give the raiders other options for their raid planning especially in the event their intented target was down already.

Valsavis wrote:What I really see is 4-5 people who don't like it, are attempting to come up with any angle to make them more advantageous for themselves, and don't mind spamming the boards constantly about it. Nobody puts a gun to your head and says grind these out until your eyes bleed....

Can i put this in my sig?

It's not trademarked..... yet

DoD missions was what i always liked, challenging and timed with an item popping on your cursor if you won , birdbath zone reminds me of them everytime i go to aug an item..

Nobody puts a gun to your head and says grind these out until your eyes bleed....

Apart from all the spells (Chaotic Detonation, Manaflare III etc) that are only available in LDON and dont have a Tov etc counterpart....

I hate doing LDONs, but everytime I get another character to 70, I know its that time again

Would be more than happy if these spells also dropped off the lower named (pre-Vulak/Vyemm) in Tov randomly

Tyler wrote:

Valsavis wrote:What I really see is 4-5 people who don't like it, are attempting to come up with any angle to make them more advantageous for themselves, and don't mind spamming the boards constantly about it. Nobody puts a gun to your head and says grind these out until your eyes bleed....

Can i put this in my sig?

Encouraging stuff like that only starts drama and flames, idea good or bad doesnt deserve remarks like that.

250pts? lol way too much and i was thinking about something at least warders difficulty in ST. Even at the current 70points or less Id choose to do them just for the fun factor and lack of mindlessly killing trash.

Taladome aka one of only 4-5 people roflmfao