Another one for the pile of loldifficult quests to go along with In the Flesh.

Or am I wrong to think that Dungeon Alert Orange On CR 25-28 mobs in a level 17 quest is a wee over the top?

Bard or arcane with ridiculous spell pen. It can be controlled, and controlled more easily than In the Flesh in fact.

cdr wrote on Mar 12^th, 2012 at 8:57pm:

I'll be able to find out next life with Bard Dil lol.  This life, crowd control = Paralyzing weapons!

Glenalth wrote on Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:29pm:

This does not surprise me.  We walked through CC and Rainbow last night and got plowed in Servents.  Best I can tell is it has no scaling on elite.  3 man or 6 man it appears you end up with the exact same dungeon.  Haven't checked solo yet.

Elite doesn't scale.  Only normal and hard are supposed to.  According to the devs anyways.  If you want confirmation go to ddo.com and look it up yourself.

Now, if they coded it correctly is another story.  I have not noticed any difference on elite solo vs full grp though for difficulty.

Epoch wrote on Mar 13^th, 2012 at 9:37am:

I can't tell if the scaling is working correctly or if they borked the difficulty.  Assault on Stormreach and those quests seem fine, as does Lord of Eyes, but ITF and Web just seem 'off' compared to other stuff.

For example, a CR 25 Fire Reaver feels WAY different than a CR 25 Orthon in both HP and damage dealt aside from DBF's.  The Reavers in ITF are tougher/more damage than the Reavers in Delirium, same level, diff time periods.  I'm kinda ready to mark it up to power creep.

Looks like someone just did it epic solo on Orien

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=365646

171 monsters killed.

Aeolwind wrote on Mar 13^th, 2012 at 4:03pm:

I ran an epic of that quest in a pug on Orien a few days ago. The tactics used involved rounding up groups of mobs and killing them with AoE from safe spots such as near ladders - boring. The way they did the end fight was cheesy and lame, but the others in the group didn't see it as remotely possible any other way due to the number of mobs respawning, drow SR, and the bug with Mass Suggestion.

To start the respawns, someone would pull the lever, go through, set up a d-door, and trigger the end fight, before escaping via d-door. You can shoot some spells and auras through the drow control barrier, from the safe side. Once the respawns were all dead, they went in and killed the boss and the archers.

With three shrines in there, and if he saved two, he could possibly have done it that way, and with a few SP clickies like a Bauble, I doubt he used many pots at all. I think I hit a pug with him in it doing Dreaming Dark farming last week, and he's in a different league from normal players like me.

I also ran that quest on elite on a FvS at 18 (group was 18-20), and it was challenging - the end fight was a bit of a blur, but we probably only shrined once along the way.

Glenalth wrote on Mar 13^th, 2012 at 11:03am:



I am unaware of recent postings.  I stopped going over there months ago.  So they adapted the end fight of bauble farm quest to newer stuff? Interesting.

I was gone for a while and just hit lvl 17 the other day. I was pretty happy about running the new quests (new to me anyway).

So i joined a pug, we walked right through Lords of dusts elite. The group wasnt anything special but part 1 was easy so i thought no biggie.

Enter Servants, kill some fire reavers and rakashas....fine.
1st set of drow basically causes a wipe but luckily this bard gets a few stones and gets up the ladder. So we get ourselves back in order, toss the healer a pot and continue.

At this point im thinking, "Well its just the SR, just need to go slower and change the approch, new quest to all of us theres going to be some bumps."

Long story short we waisted alot of our resorses going twards an optional chest. We didnt use spoilers so where just learning as we went. Sometime later we did wipe, and while we could have tried to regroup we ended up licking or wounds and calling it a night.

The next day i got a few guildies that had actually done the quest before together and we returned with a plan.

The quest was still very tough IMO. We had quite a few deaths, I dont mind the challenge and this quest brings it. It was actually nice to run into some content while leveling that we didnt just over power tactic our way through. Pulling and patience are key. It reminded me that TRing makes you a worse player, lol. Cant just wail/hold/wail/hold/haste/endchest all the time

That said compared to Lord of Dusts its overpowered i think.