Feedback Desert of Essences

Greetings Heroes,

Please post in this thread your comments regarding the Desert of Essences event.

Positive or negative, constructive criticism and ideas for improvements are, as always, welcomed. Please keep discussions on topic.​

Best regards,
Your Drakensang Online Team

 

Overall the ess. rewards are okay.Not nice to see that the same bar was repeated from previous event.The drops of cores as compared to the need to summon bosses is low.
I have a doubt,the sleeping potion shows the min. no. of cores and shards required to summon the boss,so is it possible to summon the boss in the first run only,assuming no one in the grp. has gone there before?

 

300 fine essence is required for the night time map. It is best to farm shards with 5 people. My count might be off slightly and I will edit it after I do 5 runs to get as accurate of a number as I can.

Fine essence is 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 10x 15x 20x
Each map has 5 1×=5 2×=10 3×=15 5 4×=20 brining the total to 50

With a group of 5 you can pop all the bosses just make sure 1 person has 50 cores. This will net another 50 for a grand total of 100. Every 3 runs you can do nightime. Oh you do not have to kill any boss unless you want his gear...

I am sure it will start soon. It is 10:17pm atm so just stay tuned...

 

another thing to watch out, the developer replaced Yellow with Red.... but without the ability to blow up xD.. so dunno whether this is bug / exploit or intended to be so, so that we can be "somewhat" compensated due to the increased core requirements.

 

where is yellow items ?

 

Those items can only be gotten from the yellow boss in the night time version of the map.

 

This is intended.

 

5 frags or no frags to enter this event would of been better. unless u don't do full moon or new moon. but still.

good event for low toons, but not for end gamerz/Vets.
lots of lag n rubber banding I see with other players,but little lag for me.
did like the jullov night time,all yellow map.

next time this event comes out please increase the drops of realm frags 10 fold or decrease the frags altogether to enter.
River dance emote-are we ever going to have a perm one? would of been nice to drop in night map.

 

The purple heart quest is bugged. If one person is glitched, others in the group do not get the drop either.

Players who don't get a drop can drop the quest, then retake it. Then the purple heart drops. You can try this work-around, if you get no purple heart drops whatsoever. It's worked for 6 of us in our guild.

NM Then it didn't work.

 

I got 3 hearts on first 3 runs and since then I have tried another 3 times and no drop. Is it meant to drop every time? if so can BP fix it and give those of us who have wasted a lot of cores them back? if its not meant to drop everytime then ignore this

 

The drop of the purple hearts never was 100%. It is not a bug.

 

If there is an (re) quest for it then that will remove the items dropping for the people on the original quest line. Have not gotten that far so don't know if this is valid or not.

 

Unfortunate then, it's just another frustration, another way for DSO to prolong the grind.

One of our guildies struck out 4 times in a row. Now there's a morale builder! And with so many wonderful online fantasy games to choose from.

 

Fast event. drops are not that good. Gloves, boots and shoulders all have bad stats. Didn't get the torso yet.

 

Random stats means some will be bad.

Feedback:

1) cost of reentry/getting realm frags takes too long. I would either lower the cost to reenter or increase the realm frag drops. I ran abyss and atlantis above water and didn't get enough frags to enter.

2) yellow special essence set seems kind of weak compared to the effort. It seems to me that the red set, while having weaker set bonuses, is still better because it only uses 4 slots , allowing the use of multiple useful helmets (such as dark helmet for crit multiplier, witch for crit hit value, sargon for attack speed, wolf set for hp and travel speed, and mortis helmet if a lucky dk). Meanwhile the yellow set takes quite a bit of effort, takes 5 spots and requires more luck to get 5 good pieces, and has a pretty useless helmet. I think it would have been better if the helmet came with the same item bonuses (hp, armor, damage) as the other pieces.

3) idea of a second event map at night is ok. Fighting Yellow sprouts is kind of tedious, though.

Edit: My comments are for playing a DK. It seems the special essence set is more useful for the other three classes as the item bonuses are identical ranges as the only difference is the base armor. For a SM, SW, or Ranger, the full special essence set might be useful for high HP, armor and damage, especially if you have good crit and/or damage on the other items.

 

Tnx ^^

 

Make clean space around berserker.
Pick up all drops before kill him. If he is in corner, move back and make space for drop. Also, attract him from corners.

 

Thanks for the tip; it seems to work. If a player is standing where the heart usually drops for me, I don't get a drop. If the DK jumps out at the last moment, the rest of the team finishes off the purple boss, & I collect the heart piece.

So it's a design problem. The beserker spawns in the corner, and if there's no room for the drops, they don't happen. Pity the group with several aggressive DKs.
Maybe DSO should move the spawn location.

On a related issue: The 4 pieces of the purple heart have to be workbenched, then the heart goes back in the normal map to finish the quest, and enable the next quest in the chain. It grates on a lot of players, that there is no workbench in the normal map, and 10 realm frags get chewed up for the minute it takes to process quests. By that time, the progress bar is finished, and the use of the normal map is minimal.

Also, the Yellow boss quest gives 100 draken for 10 kills. Ripoff. Considering all the realm frags needed to farm the fine essence dust to get the entrance passes to the difficult map, 500 draken would have been more appropriate. I'll save my realm frags for Karabossa, 7 frags for 10+ draken.

 

I really hate that after dying, you spawn so close to the arrow that it is way too easy to accidentally click it. If we must spawn that close, at least we should get an "Are you sure you want to change maps?" prompt. Particularly on any map that costs resources to enter.

 

I finished the event today, in the sense of "finally finished the quests." Ugh. If not for highly motivated friends who are trying to farm the event set, I wouldn't have bothered with this event. -_-

I do appreciate the creation of a "hard map." It's just that by making that, the normal map was also made a lot less rewarding. (Where's my 5 draken drop from the yellow boss?! Lol.)