ToH Monster: Feedback?

[Rika]

It's high recommendation to not even consider ToH unless your Trans with a few exceptions to high-end Hunters and special classes, like Soul Linkers. In my opinion, it's rather unfortunate that the Trials cater to veterans, considering its expected we participate in five in order to reach the final set of wings. However, to make it "manageable" for non-trans, it effectively becomes a LoLaPwn Fest for trans. (Did that even make sense?) Not to mention the fact that the event lasts around 7 hours and has a fee in order to participate, it really is a waste of time to go on a non-trans, non-geared character.

I blame Gravity for having such a huge difference in their classes

As for the actual monsters. "Disguising" them like in the last trial was a pretty neat idea. It added a sense of unknown, makes it harder to figure out what element was needed on the spot (I'm sure it made it harder to sneak information around as well because we know its there somewhere!). The part that killed it was the ungodly amount of slaves that showed up during one of the trials. I was on my Assassin Cross, in a horrible leveling build. But thats no excuse to my flee being reduced to 0 as all those mobs ran towards me all at once. I even killed more than half of them as I worked my way across the room, hoping to avoid grabbing all their attentions. >_> It was depressing...and definitely shows how horrible I am at playing a sin I suppose. What's sad is I was one-shotting the mobs with SB and couldn't properly target the right one. End of my rant on that is, mobs should be challenging, but they shouldn't just overwhelm in numbers.

What would be nice would be if there was time to create customized mobs. Ones that don't have drops, and can't be RMSed. With that in mind, not too powerful either o_O;

Item Trials, the biggest issue is the map size versus participants. No matter how hard you try, there is always someone else practically on the same square attacking mobs. KSing galore, be it intentionally or not. Is it possible to create duplicates of the map and split people into them? The mobs themselves are fairly easy, especially if you are in a one-shot type build.