Event: Clash In Helheim
Character: Lynette Anwar
Responsiveness : 10/10 Very quick, engaged with the party in fun ways OOCly as well during any downtime, a pleasure to write with! I also never felt like I was rushed, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Storytelling : 9/10 This was the best part by far, it was awesome to get the sensation that we were going to a distinct portion of Helheim in dire straits, put together as a unit meant to hold an area, getting to fight alongside Aethelwine was a really cool feeling too. I'm unsure if there were two different DMs, but both the PC and the EC characters felt insanely different writing wise, and the big bad EC Nethradin at the end felt like a eldritch entity, I loved it.
Balance: 8.5/10 I actually think the fights were very fun and they were definitely challenging. The only complaint I had was something I don't think was intentional entirely and is more of a problem with certain skills and the fact that our RPB area was reduced by two tiles on the top and bottom, AOEs with invisible borders and potentially extended range(EC variants) were casted in positions that I felt like damage was just assured, and I was a zoner character who felt this way. The reason this felt like a problem to me is because the RPB box itself was cut off by two tiles on the top and bottom which made it feel like if the gravity orb was dropped in a centered area that it was essentially unavoidable damage for a party without any form of burst healing. But the battle was what it said on the tin and even if I had a complaint, I think this was probably the hardest I've felt like a fight was while still being fair. No instagibs happened. I just feel bad for our melee friends.
Fairness: 9.5 Given what was said above, I think we were potentially let off a little lightly in the injury department, which in turn I think is a little more fair but I was preparing mentally to try to take a death roll for another character, I also absolutely adored that the EC themselves had proper CDs to prevent any issues of lag spikes leading to multicasting.
Overall?: 9/10 Absolutely had a blast with the event, only became minorly frustrated at one point but in the grand scheme of things the thing I was annoyed over was significantly less than what I had felt at other events for ECs. I would definitely attend more events ran by Madsen regardless of outcome, they really sell the atmosphere of a location while presenting horrifying enemies in fun ways!
Any other comments? : The only other thing that I find somewhat flustering is four rewards being presented for five characters. Only for the fact that it feels like it creates an odd man out scenario where one person made a risk but will be getting nothing. That makes me anxious as a player because it makes me feel like I may need to argue with my fellow writers with one person being left out and feeling bad, I don't know how we should go about selecting them unless it's through RNG rolling and even that would likely make someone feel salty, but I assume it's because of something that was presented during the IC that was turned down.
Edit : I found out afterwards that there were rewards for each player and I had missed out on one player taking up their reward, I rescind that part of my review.
Final Score : 9.5/10!
Character: Lynette Anwar
Responsiveness : 10/10 Very quick, engaged with the party in fun ways OOCly as well during any downtime, a pleasure to write with! I also never felt like I was rushed, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Storytelling : 9/10 This was the best part by far, it was awesome to get the sensation that we were going to a distinct portion of Helheim in dire straits, put together as a unit meant to hold an area, getting to fight alongside Aethelwine was a really cool feeling too. I'm unsure if there were two different DMs, but both the PC and the EC characters felt insanely different writing wise, and the big bad EC Nethradin at the end felt like a eldritch entity, I loved it.
Balance: 8.5/10 I actually think the fights were very fun and they were definitely challenging. The only complaint I had was something I don't think was intentional entirely and is more of a problem with certain skills and the fact that our RPB area was reduced by two tiles on the top and bottom, AOEs with invisible borders and potentially extended range(EC variants) were casted in positions that I felt like damage was just assured, and I was a zoner character who felt this way. The reason this felt like a problem to me is because the RPB box itself was cut off by two tiles on the top and bottom which made it feel like if the gravity orb was dropped in a centered area that it was essentially unavoidable damage for a party without any form of burst healing. But the battle was what it said on the tin and even if I had a complaint, I think this was probably the hardest I've felt like a fight was while still being fair. No instagibs happened. I just feel bad for our melee friends.
Fairness: 9.5 Given what was said above, I think we were potentially let off a little lightly in the injury department, which in turn I think is a little more fair but I was preparing mentally to try to take a death roll for another character, I also absolutely adored that the EC themselves had proper CDs to prevent any issues of lag spikes leading to multicasting.
Overall?: 9/10 Absolutely had a blast with the event, only became minorly frustrated at one point but in the grand scheme of things the thing I was annoyed over was significantly less than what I had felt at other events for ECs. I would definitely attend more events ran by Madsen regardless of outcome, they really sell the atmosphere of a location while presenting horrifying enemies in fun ways!
Any other comments? : The only other thing that I find somewhat flustering is four rewards being presented for five characters. Only for the fact that it feels like it creates an odd man out scenario where one person made a risk but will be getting nothing. That makes me anxious as a player because it makes me feel like I may need to argue with my fellow writers with one person being left out and feeling bad, I don't know how we should go about selecting them unless it's through RNG rolling and even that would likely make someone feel salty, but I assume it's because of something that was presented during the IC that was turned down.
Edit : I found out afterwards that there were rewards for each player and I had missed out on one player taking up their reward, I rescind that part of my review.
Final Score : 9.5/10!