Eternity Vault first impressions/guide

[BranHorse]

So tonight me and Minerva had found a group for Eternity vault and lets just say our experience was well...interesting.

As far as boss fights go, the instance is great. Lots of things I have never seen before in an mmo, great visuals, and fairly easy for being non hard mode/nightmare, but still challenging to beat the enraged timers since the group was a little under geared.

From a healers perspective it was difficult at times but honestly i probably could have solo healed it (we had two mercs healing). Two tanks are needed but probably could manage with an off tank dps.

 

Bugs- Soooooo many. Its like bioware had amazing ideas but couldn't execute shit. I will discuss them more when I go into detail about the fights.

 

Boss fights-

1- First boss-Annihilation Droid- This boss is extremely easy, but kinda annoying to heal. Took us two tries after we learned how to use the pillars to hide from his missiles. Basically it is a tank and spank but he randomly targets a op member with a big read target and they must move away from the ops group or they deal aoe damage and knock other people back. Then at some point he randomly targets the ground and if you stand in it you get hit by a missile which does a large amount of damage but nothing you cant heal through (unless they take 2 or 3). Last he will go to the ground and start launch missiles at anyone who is in his line of sight. (these will kill you, more then three on a weak dps will kill the player. Tanks do not have time to move so the must use cds or get healed. And that is really it, there was only one bug with this boss and it was on the turrets which are before the boss even spawns and cause the tank to fall through and get stuck in the turret briefly making them un healible, but the turrets can be cc'd which helps. I never got to see the enrage on this boss so i guess you can take your time.

 

2- After the first boss there are tons of mobs you must fight and they are all easy just take forever to kill.

Gharj- This is a fun one with a MAJOR bug. Basically the tank must face him away from the group because he does an AOE cone which absolutely tears people apart. At 75% he will shake the ground underneath you and a path will form in the lava and you need to follow the path to the next island or you will wipe. Once at the island he will either stomp doing AOE damage to the group (nothing to bad), throw the group into the lava(run out or fight in the middle to not get thrown into lava), or he will spawn adds which will then cause the island to disappear and a new path to appear and you must follow the path to the new island while dragging the ads across the lava to do extra damage to them. Do this until he is dead. He does enrage after the third time he spawns adds and will 2 shot the tank so dps hard.

The major bug is that if you wipe and you rez before he resets you will be unable to re enter the instance. The only way to get back in is to reset it which spawns the 30 min worth of adds again and you must kill them all in order to get back to the boss and try again. This happened to us 3 times and made many people rage quit.

 

3- Not a boss but a fun fight. There are two pillars, a north and a south. Your group must splint into two groups of 4. 1 tank and 1 heal per group and 2 dps. There is a pillar that the healer must complete on both pillars, and once both sides pillar puzzle is completed the fight is over. Over the course of the fight adds will spawn. There are 2 types of adds, Rakata and Arclyte or whatever. Rakata are easy to kill. But the arclyte have more health and hit a lot harder. All these adds must be kept off the healer.

No bugs here we got it on the first try.

 

4- I HATE THIS BOSS, worse bugs ever. Idk if this one had a name but it was a great idea, but executed terribly. So there are 8 elites frozen in stasis. One group member must be on one of the stasis bosses. There are 3 types. Healersx2 (28000hp) tanksx2 (48000hp) and heavy dpsx4 (78000hp). You want your healers on their healers, your tanks on their tanks and dps and theirs. You must solo your assigned boss. If a fellow group member heals you, or does damage or any ability to your boss it will cause you to do zero damage and zero healing causing it to kill you. If anyone dies during this boss it is a wipe. No way around it. This fight also has a fast enrage timer. If you do not kill in time (and if you live through the enrage which is do able) the whole fight will reset causing you to start over.

 

Now for the bugs. There is one were you will be fighting your boss and all of a sudden he will deflect every hit and ability even if you do not have the debuff (so you can heal yourself but you cannot do damage) there is another bug where your boss doesn't sync to you so he just goes around hitting other people causing a wipe.

Finally when we got to the loot chest, three pieces of gear had dropped. One to me one to minerva and another to a dps. When we went to loot it glitched and said access denied. We tried everything to get out loot but nothing worked. We could loot our crystals and the BOEs and that is it. So out items are still sitting in the chest. I need those boots and I hope I can get them tomorrow.

 

-5th, Soa the final boss- This fight is weird. The first phase is tank and spank. Then at 75 % becomes immune and the inner layer of the floor drops. You must then jump down to the power generators and kill them. There are a lot and AOE heals are needed for this part. After phase 2 he goes bank to phase one and this repeats until you get to the bottom level. We wiped 2 times on this boss then called it a night ( we were sleepy) ill try to finish it tomorrow and I can give more info.

No bugs yet.

 

And that's it really. Overall it was really fun but also really frustrating with all the bugs. The bug on the second boss was such a buzz kill and the loot not working was making people very mad but I hope they will fix these things soon. I also don't think that they should be giving us a new OP if they don't even have all the bugs fixed in the ones they got. Overall the endgame looks very promising and if they can fix the content they got and keep the new stuff coming, this game will go very far.