Is the entire ground of the Sulfur Desert *supposed* to be poison?

I am trying this event for the first time on my DK. As soon as I entered the desert, I began taking poison hits. Pretty big ones considering I was fighting monsters as well. Mostly, they were in the 150+ per tick range. I ran to a nearby raised tower, and fought some more. A lot of the monsters were poison too, so I took a lot more out of combat damage. I managed to survive, but my potions were all depleted.

I worked my way back to the entrance and came here. I mainly had to use movement skills like the wings or the leaping attack to skip over parts of the ground to reach the entrance. There is no way I can live taking constant damage on a map this huge; is there supposed to be some kind of protection I can get so it's safe to move around, or is this dungeon only crafted for people with huge amounts of resistance or hit points? Did I miss something?

As it stands, I just wasted 70 pearls coming into this map, as I have no potions left, have only gone slightly into the map and nearly died several times in rapid succession, and don't see how I'm supposed to complete any of the quests if just walking is killing me with no way to protect myself from the effects.

If there is something I can do, please let me know.

 

The poison there is a part of the event. I did the event with my lvl 47 DK when he was just lvling and he was weak. A tip from me would be to not fight on the poisonous ground and instead fight only the enemies where the ground is clear.

 

Yes.

Are you 2H? If so, switch to 1H for this. A shield helps in blocking the poison.

 

And use your mount. Run from one safe area to another and avoid the monsters. Force them to come to you where you are on safe ground and not standing in a pool of poison. Use the map to find towers in the middle or edges where there is no poison.

 

Bottom line, yes. But if you eventually get enough poison resist (I think the magic number is around 40%-50%), you actually don't lose HP in there from just standing around... you just don't regen HP since all the natural regen goes into maintaining your HP.

But until you reach that point, listen to what the others were telling you and fight on your terms. Using the mount to get from point A to point B means that you shouldn't lose more than 10%-20% of your HP from traveling and by fighting them on the towers, you funnel them so that they are even easier to fight.

Regarding 1H, that is only a good idea if you are in a team because, though you will block some of the poison, you will not be able to regen as much HP via MWS and you will spend more time in the poison because it will take much longer to kill them.

 

That reminds me of my first time playing that map (mage) ~ I hated it lol. I still don't like that map much.
Anyways, don't need ur healthpotions there, u respawn on the map, at the entry.. u have to run the way back to the spot u died tho, but u would have cleared the first part of the map already (use ur mount). Here and there are dropping healing spheres (on the towers and then from monsters too). Like Baragain said, build up ur healthpoints & resistance (gems, better items, upgrading). When that event comes up again u will be stronger

 

If I remember right, the damage on this map isn't poison damage, it's physical damage. So, resistance does not help in this case.

 

It doesn't do poison damage at all . if my memory serves right : it inflicts 5% of your health as *physical* damage AND reduces your armour by 20% . so don't fight in the affected area unless you can one hit the enemy and be careful when breaking the spider eggs they do a poison damage of their own.

 

Hum, physical... oops, then... enough armor and you can pull it off.

 

Hey there @DracosBW ,

We have one thread where you can post your questions related to that event HERE .

It is intended, once it is happening since the very beginning of this event, so we do believe that it is not an error

Thank you for your answers, lovely people!

Cheers,