The elite world quest marker is almost never displayed on my map. When it finally displays, it disappears by the time I get to the Conflux.
I joined a group for the event and enter the Primalist Future, but the event objectives disappeared after a couple of minutes and we were left with a Primalist Future zone with no event.
Then I joined another group with the event in progress, but people started leaving because the adds and boss had too much health and the mechanics were too annoying.
I have not even finished one event. There is no way I am going to get any gear from this, let alone save up enough currency for the mount, pet, or toy.
The event should be its own queue-able instance rather than being a bug-ridden phase of a pre-existing zone. And it should be doable in groups of 5 or even solo. World content needs to be more accessible—at the very least completable.
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The event is horrid to actually do, as well. The one time I did it, the boss was the ice elemental that, at 66% and 33%, summons 3 adds to shield it and causes moderate damage white swirlies under everyone there constantly. It was hell. The swilrlies are constant enough that I had barely any time to cast any spells, they were everywhere so I’m sure melee had a hell of a time with it too, it doesn’t stop till all 3 adds are dead, and the adds all had ludicrous amounts of HP, we’re talking raid boss levels of hp each.
Seriously, it took like 20 minutes to kill. It wasn’t hard… it was just agonisingly slow. And all the while you need to stock up on those portable heaters for 50g a pop so you don’t die to the stacking DoT… fun…
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I guess devs are trying to tune it so that people don’t complain that the boss died before they could get there to get credit.
Or the grouping up required for the regular Primal Storms wasn’t enough, so devs want players to have to create mega-raids just to complete this.
Either way, I can’t get myself into a single one this events long enough to complete it.
If participation metrics for these events is low, it’s because the bar is too high for getting into these events and then keeping a group together long enough to complete them.
You know the fun part? There’s a fire not far from the boss that protects from the debuff, with the npc that sells the heaters. It’s too far from the boss to help, far away enough to be safe, and close enough to be able to watch the fight.
No one did it when I did the event but you can safely bet that soon enough you’ll just have a couple dozen people sitting there, watching and waiting, while a few people go through the tedious fight.
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Forgot to check when I was there, but can you buy multiple heaters to stock up, or are they unique or do they have an expiration timer?
If boss health scales up depending on the number of players who tag, lazy DPS could be making the fight even longer if they tag then AFK.
Game is like playing beta. All those influencers “i think its ready”.
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I did it today and closing the portals was a bit confusing, no mobs would be around it so had to wait for more to spawn, but wasn’t too bad. The boss as melee was awful, just white swirls everywhere and couldn’t tell what was going on. It took a really long time to bring it down and I didn’t get enough currency to get anything. Maybe next week it’ll be adjusted or something.
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You can stock up on them, yes. Still, at 50g a pop, and for how little duration they have vs how long the fight is, it’s basically an additional mandatory repair bill.
And I don’t know if these bosses health scales or not, but yeah, that’s the concern I have. The fight is long and tedious enough to promote afkers, and the afkers could easily make the fight even longer and more tedious. A vicious cycle.
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Also this. You don’t get enough from one clear to get anything. At least 2 clears for a maybe transmog loot box, and over half a dozen clears, PLUS primal storm currency, for the mount.
And to top it all off? IT ISN’T EVEN CURRENTLY. IT’S YET ANOTHER SOULBOUND ITEM TO CLUTTER MY BAGS!
Ugh…
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It’s literally not even doable on any of my toons; every time the boss is up, the whole even resets and says I have to close all 4 portals again.
How the f*&$S does this crap make it past testing?
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It was probably tested internally or by overgeared raiders.
The event is slightly better now that boss and ice add health has been nerfed, but it is far less enjoyable than any world content we have seen over the past decade.
heck the vendor that sells them doesnt even show up on any of my alts except for my main…not thinking i am gonna waste time on this event
You might have to pick up the breadcrumb quest from the top of the tower in Valdrakken, then meet the chick inside the Primalist portal, then talk to the NPC vendor to activate him.
Not sure if that is the problem, but I did the breadcrumb quest on alts and they can use the event vendor.
Haven’t been able to complete this all week for my four 70s. Either the portals are up and there’s like one allie running around, or it’s a ghost town… er, zone.
The portals would immediately get taken back over by the enemies the moment we left after closing it. I guess that doesn’t matter in the overall scheme of things, but its kinda confusing. Literally the second our friendly NPCs show up and put down a fire and the random five alliance fly away, we lose it.
The boss isn’t so much tough as annoying. It also keeps bugging out and I end up with no rewards. Which is SUPER FUN when trying to heal through 20 stacks of whatever-the-hell on a herd of ungrouped cats…
The first day I tried the event, I got enough for a piece of jewelry, which was delightful and I wanted to participate again. Guess they nerfed the drops after that since I am getting maybe- MAYBE- five to eight currency for my time.
So this whole event is not worth the aggravation.
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