Do ppl still DoA?

Apologies to the mods if a similar thread exists, i tried to use search and got nowhere.

Anyhoo, I was curious as to if ppl still do DoA. The reason behind my curiosity is this:

My buddy and I did SF and got the Eternal Conquerer of SF statue in HoM. It looks really neat displayed next to my other accomplishments. So we decide to do FoW. We then get pwnd by typing /resign after finishing all the quests and the EC of FoW statue isn't available for display in the HoM. This made us very sad.

We then boldly decide to take on the infamous DoA. Both of us have very little experience here (apart from mindlessly burning the crap out of everything with Searing Flames). Our stay in DoA was short lived in the past, and we both played Elementalists, which neither of us like very much.

Back on topic... I play Monk mostly, and my friend Necro. We then continue to discuss strategies, work on builds, and head to DoA to find a good old PUG. No one was there. The place was completely empty (EU english d1). Playing on the US server is really annoying on account of bad LAG, so we don't consider that an option. We both connect from the Southern Hemisphere. I have to add that we tried this at 5am. But still.. I've never seen DoA empty. Is everyone out there dungeon sweeping?

DOA felt like a farming run to me, but then a farming run that owns you when you make the slightest mistake. Elitist people that call me a noob instead of giving me the right build (I am UAX after all :P) do the rest. DOA is very unfun imo. If I want to farm I'll play tombs, musch more relaxed.

People doing dungeon sweeps.

PuGs (and many veterans) do not know how to kill mallyx head on (which could be avoided in the past), so they don't replay the area anymore.

Farming for gems making the individual area rewards not worth the time to replay it if you cannot kill mallyx after doing it.

Those are probably the reasons why.

Give it a few months and the drive for the Ape statue will bring pugs again once they figure out how mallyx is killed by others.

It (just like all other areas that arnt in eotn) have seen a decline in players, but just like deep/urgoz/tombs/SF people will be back.

if they would add henchies to DOA i would go and H/H it. Otherwise i stay away at this point.

not worth standing around forever while a cookie-cutter pug is built, plus having to use vent/ts for said pug (which I find makes no difference in rate of failure or success).

i would actually like to do more DOA, just really tired of trying to group for it.

Im guessing you dont have much success in DOA.... I promise that if they did make hench available there you would need some lubrication when you had to map back in after a wipe from the first group.

It's actually much much doable (lol, DoAble? Get it? winnar is mi!) with the lowered difficulty. Even me and my assassin friend, who doesn't have a pretty big understanding of skills, were able to get through the City without any whipes save near the beginning.

I havnt played norm mode DoA in about... ever? I guess perhaps it is possible.

let me repeat myself.

i dont stay away from DOA because of the difficulty.

i stay away because it takes too long to group, and to get a competent group.

i have about as much success as any very experienced fire ele has in DOA.

Yep. Deep, Urgoz, DoA, Practically all the fun places I'd visit to go play the game in, are now dead, and 6 feet under. The Deep was my most favorite personally, I just always had alot of fun in there.

But honestly I'm wondering how GWEN is keeping people occupied for this long, I'm already bored of the dungeons since long ago lol.

I just beat NF yesterday and headed to DoA just to check it out. I was disappointed at the lack of people there. Luckily I was able to get into a group and we did the City in HM, which wasn't really that hard btw. Its because of GWEN and HM in general.

SeraCombi: What are you talking about? When I got into the pug yesterday Vent never even came up. We communicated well w/o it and we did it in HM. Heck...there were 2 other DoA noobs and we did just fine. Vent is really just a social thing. Competent people don't need it to succeed. *lol* I knew it was time to move on when ppl in Tomb started requiring Vent for HM, which I find much harder than DoA HM so far.

...i haven't been hanging around DOA lately (for said reasons)...but when i was spending time there, Vent/TS teams where common, and almost required for an experienced team.

Well my attention to EoTN has expired, I still need to do Foundry and kill Mallyx. I play as Ele so whisper me in game if anyone wants to do foundry, I have got to the 2nd part of the area but then someone leaves and we couldn't finish the area (happened twice now )

Finding good people is tough and my former guild never did doa

The last time that I did DoA was in March or April. Having done it for 3 months straight, I got kinda bored of it. At the time I stopped doing DoA, many of the regulars (veterans) of DoA also stopped doing it. Now, I have no desire to spend 4 hours in the foundry for gems that aren't worth anything.

As far as vent/ts, we used it because it was easier to talk than it was to type. Is it overrated for doing missions.. well, some say yes and some say no. I'd say yes if you were in a group with immature teenagers who only use vent/ts to call u a noob or to tell fart jokes while belching every 30 seconds.

vent's great if the others arent asshats

By chance I toured the city this morning with a guild mate and heroes. Still good fun and a nice change of pace after the EOTN dungeons and fun to apply the EOTN skills.

HM or Normal? Just wondering, not being skeptical. I didn't like the original mode of DoA (which could now be considered Hard Mode) because I hate tanking without an aggro system. Normal Mode DoA while hard is still enjoyable, and can be done in the company of heroes and henchies. Yays.

Yes, yes we do.
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i loved the deep and still do we need to resurect the deep to its old prestige!

I went to DoA last weekend to take screenshots for fun and noticed only a few other people there. The chat window had cricket sounds. The zone had tumbleweeds blowing by.
Thank goodness because I hate people being in me screenshots.