Fix Praetoria

Only few years ago every maps in game required a certain level to get there. So getting level 20 and unlocking primal is not big deal. Actually its very very easy job.

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I think the biggest thing that makes the starting content annoying is doing the same missions, no matter how well-made they are, over and over and over and over...

After running around all over the place doing hunts and random generic door missions ten times in Paragon, it gets old.

After needing to run the far end of Mercy to beat up Snakes and Contaminated ten times in the Rogue Isles, it gets old.

After trudging through the Underground through a hundred ghouls to find a few PPD who immediately go rampaging into extra groups as soon as you rescue them... ten times of that in Praetoria, and it gets old.

I think Praetoria has some awesome writing that sets the bar higher than it's ever been in this game, and for the most part I love Praetoria, but I'm really getting sick of Praetor White's arc. More variety in the starting arcs would be nice in Praetoria as well as the Rogue Isles, and as for Paragon's starting arcs, they have the 'variety', they just need to make them good.

Technically, the whole GR storyline and the following I19 TFs are about us trying to fix Praetoria

I will say one thing...

When I hear complaints about Praetorian content, a majority of the time, the person was either leveling a Dom or a Controller (like the OP). Biggest complaint I tend to hear? Destroyers.

For being a 1-20 group, they have way too much control resistance/protection. No other group is even close in the low levels. Only Vahz have any protection, and that's just increased Immob protection. Stack two, and they will stop. The Destroyers are almost on par with Romans... a 35+ group.

If anything needs fixing in Praetoria, it's the Destroyers.

I've taken an MM all the way through the content, a Scrapper through half, and a Corrupter through a quarter. I haven't really had any issues thus far. I am scared for the Elec Dom I'm planning though.

Doesn't EQ2 have the feature?

I think Praetoria needs a fix in regards to enemy difficulty. I'm sorry but the ghouls, the PPD, the resistance, the Destroyers, the Seers, they're all WAY more difficult than the enemies you face at low level in Paragon or the isles with the exception of one or two outlier groups.

The Vahz are generally seen as being the hardest low level group in Paragon. But basically every enemy group in Praetoria seems Vahz hard to me. Not to mention most 1-10 enemies get around 1, maybe 2 attacks in Paragon and around that in the isles. Where as PPD and such have numerous attacks. Clockwork are especially painful (the clockwork bosses to me are far worse than any level 50 groups boss when you compare level ranges. Those things knock my squishies out in about two hits.)

I also feel Praetoria needs some equivilant method of obtaining temp mayhem/safeguard powers as well as a low level taskforce (perhaps a seperate one for both Resistance and Loyalist?)

I opened this topic expecting a serious post about fixing what *really* needs to be fixed in Praetoria. I was disappointed. What needs to be fixed is the annoying graphical glitches. But, that's a different topic, right? >.>

That said:

I'm torn in my feelings for Praetoria. Most of which has already been said. I've only rolled a handful of Praetorians, and I'm already tired of fetching flowers for the 20th time, and spending 5 minutes in a 10 minute mission walking up each individual stair so the hostage (or three) can make it up the stairs without getting lost.

On the other hand, once you get past Praetor White's arc (such as it is), I really do like the content. I would rather run 1-20 doing Praetorian content than I would the low level (IE: The origin contacts blueside. Something or other Davies I think it is for Tech?) Primal content. However, here's where my main mixed feelings come in, and I'm honestly not sure what could be done about it. The missions "feel" harder to solo. Which is fine with me, I like it when things are challenging, although sometimes it is a bit much. (Which is why I run TF's at +4. It's challenging, and thus more fun for me) But at the same time... It's somehow... Not fun. I really don't know how to explain it, to be honest. I like the content *story* wise, it's just... Not as fun to solo in Praetoria as it is blueside (I'll just leave redside out of this...), which defeats the purpose of going Praetorian for me, because as someone else mentioned, when you're on a team of 8, you can't "stop and smell the roses" (which you just picked for Cleopatra for the 300th time, of course) and read the mission text and everything else that makes Praetoria... Better.

I find that the only way I can really have fun in Praetoria is to run on a team of 3, 4 at the most, with SG friends who don't mind waiting while I read all the text. Otherwise, you'll stop to read text, and have people complaining 5 seconds later that you're taking too long to set the next mission, blah blah blah.

So, as soon as they fix the graphical glitches... They can work on fixing an issue I have that I don't know how to explain, and thus cannot explain how to fix. Right?

Praetoria is fine. Biggest change I would like to see is allowing all characters to travel freely between Paragon and Rogue Isles, regardless of alignment. Sure villains probably won't get a lot of missions in Paragon, but there could be new pvp options available that way. Heroes and Villains battling in the streets would be interesting. Add a pvp flagging system, so players can't be attacked in their home city unless their flag is on.