If you must insist on repetition, DON'T DO THIS (Terrible design choice in Alex raid)

I'm talking about Alexander floor 4. Burden of the Father.
I'm talking about Quarantine.

I'm talking about the world's stupidest mechanic where I am constantly, CONSTANTLY tossed into a fast moving tunnel to deal with an add.
Now, dealing with the add isn't the problem. Suddenly being pulled from the fight and sent tumbling through this tunnel is the problem.


It gives me motion sickness. I makes me dizzy and unbalances me. I am highly sensitive to fast motion, and it happens during this fight again and again and again.
You make a design where I'm expected to repeat this fight till I win, then repeat this fight till I win a roll, then repeat this fight again next week and the week after if I want gear progress, and you want me to go through this vomit comet constantly throughout the fight?

ONCE would be fine. ONCE I could deal with. But this? This is making me sick for the unforgivable crime of being melee dps. Or something.
I can only guess I'm suffering terrible bad luck to be the dps selected for this incredibly stupid bass ackwards mechanic almost every time. I do pity the off tanks who are guaranteed to have to go through this idiocy every single time.

Yeah I don't care if the devs don't read this. Somebody has to tell them, somehow to remove this mechanic. IT IS LITERALLY MAKING ME SICK.

It's not just you. I've had a problem with this at some point in the tower with the Scylla fight with a certain combination of colors and it hurts my eyes. The constant being pulled around can definitely give you motion sickness because of how fast things are moving around.

The mechanic is the tank with the lowest enmity OT+ one random DPS go through the tube. If you queue preformed with 1 tank the 2 random DPS go through the tube. If it was you almost every time, The RNG hates you. I only assume it's random DPS and not the 2 highest threat DPS or highest damage DPS as a BRD was victim with me the OT quite a few times.

Healer/dps combo can be picked as well only happened once so i am sure something threw a wrench in the selection method but it did happen. Was a 2 tank party and no one was floor tanking at the time.

Learn to adapt, focus away from screen when you get pulled in, count how long it takes to go through tunnel and open eyes when you know you'll be out.

Notice yourself with the quarantine stat, count the time it takes to go through, next time close your eyes go 1-2-3-4 and then open them when you know you'll be out, that should help with the motion sickness.

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Originally Posted by Airget

Learn to adapt, focus away from screen when you get pulled in, count how long it takes to go through tunnel and open eyes when you know you'll be out.

Notice yourself with the quarantine stat, count the time it takes to go through, next time close your eyes go 1-2-3-4 and then open them when you know you'll be out, that should help with the motion sickness.

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Why exactly should I learn to adapt around an incredibly stupid, overly done mechanic?
Especially when most groups demand I state when I am sucked in for the purposes of add management, so I can't look away and focusing on the chat window doesn't help.

This is just all part of another problem with the overall design of boss mechanics; some are repeated to the point of tedium. Much like the robots launching in Fist of the Father.
Spam is never a good thing, no matter who does it. Though at least THAT mechanic doesn't make me physically ill.

I wish some super tech would just teleport you in or something. The vacuum tube is more thematically appropriate but I can see how it would give the woozies to someone sensitive to motion.

Also I am selfish and it likes to suck me up riiiight as I am using Blizz 4 and I end up losing Enochian.

Haven't done the fight OP, but i did notice it. the mechanic looks really disorienting. i don't suffer from motion sickness myself (while gaming at least), but it is a really out of place mechanic on a game that prides itself off accessibility.

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

I wish some super tech would just teleport you in or something. The vacuum tube is more thematically appropriate but I can see how it would give the woozies to someone sensitive to motion.

Also I am selfish and it likes to suck me up riiiight as I am using Blizz 4 and I end up losing Enochian.

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i would rather have it fade to black ala Cerberus as it pick you up. that way they can give it the feel of being sucked up by a vacuum tube.

Haven't had a problem yet and I OT it every time (I have a blast doing it). Though I don't get "motion sickness", I haven't thought how it could effect others. :(

[QUOTE=saber_alter;3126091]Haven't done the fight OP, but i did notice it. the mechanic looks really disorienting. i don't suffer from motion sickness myself (while gaming at least), but it is a really out of place mechanic on a game that prides itself off accessibility.

I think the accessibility you are referring to is the fact that the game is on multiple platforms. Honestly, I found the mechanic disorientating but really fun. OP I hate that you are getting sick but I doubt they will be changing it so might want to find a way to fight thru it. The other poster was right try not to focus to hard on the screen when it happens and you should be fine.