Tone down Jubal's difficulty

Started by Blue41, March 29, 2014, 08:26:01 PM

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Blue41

I hate 'make stuff easier' threads but I'm going to put this out there- this thread only applies to the enemies, not the layout. I'll try to avoid spoilers, but I went with a group of seven to do this quest and things got rather hairy. Near the beginning of the fight, I managed to dispel a number of buffs on the boss that would make him a match for a group in normal conditions- speed, concealment, etc. Add this to the room full of enemies which are capable of spoilers, it's a surprise we didn't wipe out. As it was, we ended up blowing through most of our supplies- which I don't mind, necessarily. Risk doesn't always need to sync up with reward. But after a certain point, I fear that might people might just stop bothering.

It could very well be that having a nasty powergamer would trivialize the quest- but that's not really a better alternative. Could be that we had a bad group for it, too.

Blackthorn

We had a level 8 Barbarian, a Level 7 Wizard and a small army of low level characters.  On the whole, the entire dungeon was quite easy.  Just don't put quest spoilers in the suggestion post, don't mention the rooms or what enemies are there. Even that one difficult one that I will not mention.  I think the challenge would have been lessened if we had a higher level group, though I've been there before and its never been easy so far.  That said, It cost me a lot of editing to remove the spoilers. My only complaint is that after all of that, people may still not get the idea.  I feel like the spoilers alone could have been worth that much, haha.  Anyway I still really love the place, even if it is scary as hell!

TroublesomeTree

Jubal's has always seemed pretty easy to me, it's just really

really

really annoying. Between the spoiler sections and the constant spoilers, it's really just an exercise in patience. It can also give some pretty rad editorial frustration.

All that said, I do know several players who will just flat out refuse to go there for one reason or another. I really like the flavor of the dungeon, but my god. Those SPOILERS!!!!

Pandip

It would be nice to see MORE SPOILERS!?!? or less frequent use of it. I think this is a conceptually neat dungeon that results in a lot of headaches because of some of the mechanics.

Dumont

Jubals tomb is well balanced, a strong party have an annoying time because of silly spoilers and its generally easy enough because make a guess.

The treasure is also ... and the challenge/reward is well balanced.

Talir

Locked. This is why we don't want suggestion posts related to quests.

Howlando

This quest used to be spammed to death because of spoilers and so I edited spoiler to be slightly spoiler in hopes that it will be slightly more spoiler.