TRION, Please address the War Master balance, or lack of it ATM

[LiketheShoreandtheSea]

I've been back playing the game for probably over a month now (PC NA), and I've participated in as many Major Arkfall Impacts that I could find. In all of those War Master attempts with the populace at large, I've seen our group attempt break his armour TWICE, and not even come CLOSE to denting his health bar after that.

Those 2 times must have been with a larger or more experienced group than normal, because usually the War Master has half of his armour still intact in whatever location the group focuses on when the timer elapses and he leaves.

Honestly guys, this just isn't fun. Why include a pursuit (kill the War Master) that I can never have a HOPE of completing through normal Defiance gameplay. In fact, why include the War Master at all if we're lucky to crack his armour, let alone TOUCH his health bar? It's just not a fun fight. Period.

Please, consider increasing the timer (do we get 5 min now? It feels waaaaay too short for the most epic Boss fight in the game) we have to fight him (10 min would be nice) and reducing his health so that an average group can actually have a hope of getting even close to finishing his ***. Thanks.

[Redbu11]

Most ppl are just shooting his back or even his torso lol. Too many dumbs.

[Alastar]

Nice to fresh faces that actually want to WIN. Sadly the WM issue has been addressed with the 3 minute timer. You must have missed that. Because of several factors leading to the usual failure you're experiencing now many came together to wait for more people. Trion saw that there was a problem with the WM. Trions solution to the WM was to put timers in place because that fixes it apparently XD Eh. Good luck. Best bet is to get in with a clan that knows what they're doing and has the people and guns to back the knowledge. I don't imagine we'll be seeing a real fix for the wm anytime soon.

[LiketheShoreandtheSea]

The 3 min Lock Timer is a joke. The lock's being broken in the last 30 seconds of the lock timer elapsing. We're getting all the people we're gonna get by then.

The group sizes aren't enormous but it's often 15-20ish. Honestly though, TRION should balance the War Master to be doable for the average # of participants for that platform & region. If they did make such a change it would be a positive change for once (unlike so many recent negative ones).

The new landmass is nice and all, but really not what I feel the game actually needs... like stable service and a decent reward system to retain the new F2P playerbase. Unfortunately what boost there was from F2P is a fast fading star under the regime's current game plan. Besides, what fun is the new landmass when it's chock full of twice the enemies, and virtually NO ONE to fight alongside with. :/

I hope I can find that calibre of clan ... if it actually exists lol. The odds of having enough experienced players together all online at the same time to actually pull this **** off must be miiiighty low these days. In fact, is there anyone on PC that can honestly say they've seen the War Master die in the past MONTH? Anyone? I sure hope so... but I bet not lol. :P

EDIT: Ohh, and another thing (paying attention TRION?)... if those Evangels have as much health as they do, a huge improvement to my usual Silicon Valley SOLO play would be to spawn in a damn ammo chest nearby them. It takes longer to run the 20-30 second (at least) trip to find the closest ammo crate and run that course back and forth the 3 or 4 times you need, than to actually SHOOT the health off the damn Evangel. WTF. *sigh* Currently Silicon Valley is not much fun to be in, unless u include V-bagging the TRION office headquarters sign, that is! >

[crazyged]

I don't think the 3-minute timer really matters anymore - there just doesn't seem to be enough people on the servers these days to do much of anything... Heck, I hardly see any clan members anymore!

[LiketheShoreandtheSea]

Yep. A 5-min lock timer might be a smidge better, but they'd have to increase the lock strength to keep impatient nubs from shooting it off anyway. Plus, it'd do little to nothing to address the actual problem of killing the War Master, more than likely, other than perhaps to add a little more grind..-y goodness, lol!

Your observation of the player population matches mine. And I'd bet your side (PC-EU) prolly has a bigger pop than mine (PC-NA). Sad times.

[Dinova]

We fought him twice, we had a fullscale clan showing up with a bunch of /zone people, we had plenty of firepower and communicated what to shoot.

However, server borked and only let about 15 people in. Rest either DC or got in some other limbo place.

Evangels are just plain stupid, even with 2-3 people (threat 3-4 max) it takes so many clips to get the health down, its like mindnumbing shooting and running back and forth between the ammo box.

[N3gativeCr33p]

Evangels are just plain stupid, even with 2-3 people (threat 3-4 max) it takes so many clips to get the health down, its like mindnumbing shooting and running back and forth between the ammo box.

Indeed... so glad I finished those 25 Sillycon Valley events last night for the pursuit. "Mind numbing"... perfectly phrased.

[drackiller]

Indeed... so glad I finished those 25 Sillycon Valley events last night for the pursuit. "Mind numbing"... perfectly phrased.

I`m not even playing that thing at all in SV.

[N3gativeCr33p]

I`m not even playing that thing at all in SV.

Unless you like shooting at a yellow dot on a large garbage can, then you're not missing a thing.