Arelith

There was a spontaneous sail to the Bastille. I brough some friends, one who is slightly lower than epic and one who is in the latter half of epics.

I had heard in-game that it was bad, but I felt it would be worth trying out. Some of the smaller buildings have a decent bit of treasure in them. But my god, every single spawn is half mages who spam horrid wilting. I am playing a high AC Abjuration wizard which I understand is definitely more PVP than PVE focused, but my goodness, the Mages spawn with spell mantles, and the whole pack spawns with Mind Blank, so no softening CC on the less dangerous mobs to hyper focus the warded-up mages. I was throwing my signature dispels at the mages because logically I would want to minimize the amount of Horrid Wilting throne, but my first several signature dispels did nothing. There was one I nabbed Shadow Shield and a different buff from, but never the mantles so I could actually land any damn spells.

I haaaaaaate consumable-focused gameplay clearing so I am biased, but goodness does it feel like this game was meant for things like Abjurer Wizard to get spammable 1 breaches or something, because it's just a silly design.

EDIT:
Backtracking when it comes to these is the worst. The Formian dungeon in the Underdark is particularly egregious: You're backtracking and triggering double or even triple spawns. I remember doing it the intended/completionist way, and the BUFFS THAT LET YOU BREACH THE QUEEN'S MAGICAL IMMUNITY WOULD WEAR OFF BEFORE WE GET TO THE QUEEN.

Personally, I love difficult dungeons and a hard setting.
Bastille and likewise places are awesome. Wish we had more of those.

I don't read many of nowadays forum entries but it is quite lame how some folks keep complaining over content in a video game. You don't have to visit the places and if it is too much for the character at the time, retreat and come back with others. I have a feeling some players see it as a personal defeat of their own ego. Don't do this, it is just a game. Have fun!

Irongron, you are doing an awesome job!

While this thread has been resurrected -

The quarter-circle rubble tiles in the Outlands area need to be redesigned somehow. Their walkmesh and collision are obtuse and buggy and that tile is EVERYWHERE. I have friends who will never take any outlands writs because they don't want to deal with the buggy pathing in that zone.