While on my ilvl 175 Fury Warrior during the Kyrian campaign, I found my way into this area knowingly it would be difficult since it’s more of a “advanced” area within The Maw but I needed to advance through my campaign to upgrade the campaign gear. At this point, all of my Kyrain campaign gear (except chest) was set to ilvl 184 through Anima upgrade, few other gear pieces are 130’s, 171 and 158.
As I began the quest “A Step to Far” to rescue 5 Captive Forsworn and “Kyrian No More” to kill 15 Mawsworn Forces with Kleia, I was immediately met with Level 60 Elites to the left and right as I stepped through the Perdition Hold gate. Having some “assistance” from Kleia and a ethereal sword the non-elites we’re manageable. However, when two Level 60 Elites joined forces including a Hulking Mawsworn, it was all over. No matter the HP pots including steward phials or Bloodthirst, Ignore Pain and having Eye of the jailer Tier 1 entering there, it was a nightmare. Soon after defeating the required 15 Mawsworns including Elites, I advanced to Eye of the Jailer Tier 2. Spending almost one hour slowly making my way through, creeping around the elites, in total, I died seven times, lost all my Stygia and the more frustrating part, everything RESET when I went back into Perdition Hold. So, when I resurected near Perdition Hold gate, I looked inside and every mob was reset to the point where I had to “again” re-clear the area I was just tip toing through to rescue five Forsworn. This again did not help the issue. The mobs were dense to the point where at anywhere near the Captive Forsworn there are 2-3 Level 60 Elites waiting or wandering by ONE Forsworn. Two of the five captive Forsworn I had to rescue only had non-elite mobs which we’re manageable but took everything in my rotation to kill.
The end result, I lost ~300 Stygia, died a total of seven times, five initially and once after I needed to re-clear the area I needed to pass through to get to the final area to confront Lysonia and died there after the confrontation due to a Level 60 Elite. Before going through the final area to confront Lysonia, one of the Level 60 Elites “phased” and disappeared as I walked towards it. I believe this is part of a “safe passage” to Lysonia. However, after defeating Pride of Lysonia, you then are required to exit the area to meet up with Kleia and Uther to the left outside the open gate. The single Level 60 Elite by the entrance reappeared (phased) and that was a immediate death since it took a few seconds for me to die since I no longer had assistance from Kleia or the ethereal sword, both Kleia and the sword disappear after you beat Pride of Lysonia in part where you need to meet up with Kleia and Uther.
It would be ideal for this instance to be scenario based.
Suggestion:
While “A Step too Far” and “Kyrian No More” are active during the scenario:
- Eye of the Jailer Tiers have no effect (you will gain a Tier just fighting mobs since this is not scenario based quest currently)
- You do not lose Stygia when you die.
- Elite Mob density reduced.
- Elite mob density around captive Forsworn reduced by 1 Elite pack.
- Mob HP reduced by 10%.
- Level 60 Elite at the gate to confront Lysonia is not present before or after defeating Pride of Lysonia and need to meet up with Kleia and Uther thereafter.
This is meant to be a “campaign” walkthrough, instead it felt like I was going through Torghast Layer 8 at ilvl 175. The worst parts out of all of this was the loss of Stygia and the mobs reset when you died thus making it more time consuming re-tracing your steps for a clearer path which was not always the case. I’m not sure if people have experienced this for themselves, but, this was indeed frustrating when you are just trying to complete a “walkthrough” campaign.