First experience of Tempest Heart expedition

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I will go straight to the point:

It was one of the worst experiences I have ever had in this game. No bugs, problems come anywhere close to how I felt doing this expedition.

Background:
I joined random group of people. I learned, that it was everyone’s first experience so we didn’t know anything. Loved it! First time experience group! Yes, we didn’t have BIS gear, or best weapons with rends etc. Everyone ran what they liked to play, nobody flamed anybody. It was great!

I am PVE player with about 120 real day gameplay in the game. I am crafter.

  • Expedition itself is absolutely stunning visually, I was sooo impressed with everything.
  • I loved how Isabella followed us through the dungeon
  • I am not sure how much I liked the laser heads, but it was different.
  • Last boss is definitely big challenge, but it was fun trying to figure it out together!

but…

  • This was walking simulator. 70% of the time we were just walking to the next parts. I was so tired and bored.
  • No rewarding content. With amount of walking around we encountered maybe in total 3 chests we could open and get some rewards.
  • Hide and seek steps of expedition where you had to run back or figure out how to continue. This seems like unnecessary step in progression that does not really add any value. We spent 10 minutes figuring out in each of those steps what to do next. Step description did not provide real value in what to do.
  • the Last boss is brutal to new people that have no prior experience. We were determined to kill it even after 20 times dying. But the amount of boredom and being tired from spending 2 hours walking around in dungeon just made us give up and leave.

We didn’t finish expedition. We gave up on last boss. Nobody had any determination anymore to look for someone else to join. We didn’t want to continue anymore and learn the boss. It was just way to long to sit on my computer already.

We all agreed that next time we go there, we find people that know what to do and how. Just so we can power through the expedition. I don’t think this is how players should do expeditions. Find someone who can carry you through. I personally don’t even want to see that expedition for next month at least. Thats how bad experience it was for me.

If only expedition was shorter, I am sure we would be much more determined to die 100 times and figure out the last boss, we were so tired, we didn’t continue anymore.

I didn’t really count how long we were there, but I am sure it was at least 2,5h. 90% of this time was running around and figuring out something. At the end, we just didn’t have enough patience to continue figuring out the boss.

Next first time experience: Barnecales. Hoping this will be much better.

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like you said it was first time for everyone in the group, it is normal when you do something for the first time to take a moderate amount of said time, to do it/figure it out… ecc ecc.

when tempest was up for the first time. lot of group were dying like you descibed, now regular tempest is very fast, not like GEN or LAZ but 30-40 minutes run.

it is normal that things at the beginning are slow to get figured out ;D

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Its one of best dungeons every made in mmos. Only issue with it is we see same mobs we already saw before.

But dungeons is amazing looking, great sound and chellenging fights.

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Tempest it great the way it is!

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At least in my opinion there is a significant difference between „finding people that know the mechanics“ and „being carried through“.
If you chose to go in all inexperienced about the dungeon, then you should expect a real challenge and bring time to figure it out. It’s not like you need a full 625 GS group to know mechanics, there plenty of videos and guides on how the dungeons work. I’m not saying you should have informed yourself, I respect your choice to figure it out on your own, but blaming the game for that choice is not quite fair in my opinion.

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I agree Tempest is amazing expedition but so long and it is really hard to find people who want do it xd. On Fresh server I will do it only for few gear parts. Lucky me I dont have to do full run xd

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Tempest is a wonderful dungeon as is. Probably my favorite.

As an aside, you weren’t on the last boss I would guess. You were probably on Neishutan which is the 2nd to last boss. He caused many groups to quit when the dungeon first rolled out but it gets a lot easier when you learn the mechanics.

Something to keep in mind is, NW dungeons are intended to be farmed and grinded so you end up doing them a 100x. After enough times it turns into a quick 25 minute run when it’s non-mutated.

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No offense, if you didn’t prep yourself watching videos on the dungeon, it probably won’t go super smooth the first run haha. Its just part of the learning experience. If you had one person in your group who was experienced in the dungeon, it would have gone MUCH smoother and quicker

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