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My LS has been doing Einherjar regularly, for the most part, since its introduction. As many of you know, the waves of mobs can vary quit a bit, and sometimes you win with 5-10 minutes left, some times you open that chest with 20 seconds left, and sometimes you lose. We've had our fair share of close wins and close losses. We've had a couple of losses where the boss died seconds before the timer ran out and the chest never popped on time.
Last night's run, however, takes the cake. I failed to take a screenshot of the chatlog, but this is how it went down. We did a Tier3 run, killed the boss shortly after the 30 second warning, popped the chest 1-2 seconds before the timer ran out, THEN got kicked from the wing and received a 'loss.' Everyone even saw the chest icon appear and we saw the standard "You find blah blah" text in the log as well. Out of frustration we contacted a GM(i know, i know - what the hell were we thinking). After waiting nearly 2 hours for a response and talking with a senior GM as you see above we got............. a new smouldering lamp. YAY.........
Couldn't they think of a better way to implement a 30 minute battlefield where every single minute counts?.. We generally have about 28~34 people show up, and it usually takes us 2-4 minutes to break the lamp and get everyone inside. This coupled with the time it takes for the chest to pop after the boss is defeated, you're looking at a 25~27 minute Einherjar rather than 30 minutes.
If anyone from SE is reading this, here are a few of suggestions to make Einherjar a bit more friendly:
- Start the 30 minute timer on the first pull (or provide a 2-3 min time extension chest at start to compensate for entry time)
- Do away with the chest popping after the boss, make the boss drop the items. (or immediately give the 5 min extension on boss death)
- Do not lock out entry into the wing after the initial pull. (This would allow us to start the fight and not worry about locking out the 1-2 stragglers or people dc'ing at that exact moment - it happens too often)