Comments from a Pendragon player on 1.53F

[cHodAX]

Courtesy of Soulflame

The new dungeon is interesting, but an aggro nightmare. The mobs are currently bugged, in that they are supposedly undead, but Air does not get any bonuses to damage them. One piece of armor dropped, with a very confusing QUA of 83%. Oh good, another piece of /salvage fodder. The entrance is right on the path from Sursbrooke to Hadrian's, just follow the stones. I'm a little concerned about this, the possibility of enemies bypassing the milewall is not good news, even if they have to zone out on a highly travelled path.

For any stealthers that read here, there are detectors, you can't expect to quietly waltz through the dungeon. The infiltrator I was with was revealed at least once. One LAST note about the dungeon, you MUST have a cleric or friar with at least 7 rejuvination. The infiltrator went in alone the first time, and came back out with a disease spell on him. With a 40 minute timer. Can you say 50% effective healing and snared for 40 minutes? Ouch!

One more concern about the dungeon is the possibility of relics being carried through it. Easily prevented, but I haven't seen this addressed in any of the patch notes.

And yet another concern about the design of the dungeon: It appears to have been designed as a potential leveling ground for groups of 35+, but I can see that grouping here will be a complete nightmare. Lose a key element *cough*cleric*cough* and everyone logs off? Also, enemy assassins won't have to go through all of DF to reach lowbies leveling, they now just have to sneak through the frontier to a dungeon entrance, and pop inside. Very much a "bring your own group" dungeon, like the epic zone and Barfog.

A new dungeon in Pennines hey? Sounds fun but that 40min snare is pure evul

 

[VidX]

There are 4 new dungeons in the 1.53 patch:

One in Breifine, Hibernia.
One in Jamtland, Midgard.
One in Pennines, Albion
And one which is only accessible from a portal near the bottom of each of the above dungeons.

The 4th dungeon links the 3 dungeons together, and I presume it will be a high level one.

Yes, it does seem that you can indeed carry relics through these dungeons, therefore bypassing the usual milegate blockade, but you might have to deal with lvl 60+ mob pulls to do it, and who is to say that the exit in your home realm won't be camped by 50 players wanting their relic back. The fact that you are in-zone for seconds before you actually see the game wil have a BIG impact on your chances of zoning safely with a relic. And it is generally faster to port to, say, Emain and get to Breifine than it would be to, say, get 100 Mids from Yggdra/Uppland BK's to the HGM in Odins, and the fact that the Hibs might take half an hour getting through the dungeons...

So basically you can safely say that dungeons are a no-go for relic raids

 

[cHodAX]

I think we will see it happen once or twice but generally it is risky walking through very high aggro dungeons with the relic. If you get wiped out by mobs getting back to the dropped relic before it expires would be very difficult, whereas running to your PK past the Milegate takes a matter of minutes.

 

[lakih]

ive heard that they are using the zoneimunity from pvp servers in this dungeon... so you can zone in and out of it without getting killed in the process.

I really hope they fix that snaredisease before it goes live

 

[VidX]

Originally posted by lakih
ive heard that they are using the zoneimunity from pvp servers in this dungeon... so you can zone in and out of it without getting killed in the process.

I really hope they fix that snaredisease before it goes live

AFAIK all the diseases in the new dungeons are meant to have long durations. One screenshot I saw does actually say:

Leprosay | Str/Con/Speed Debuff | Duration 40 mins

EEK!