I really want to know what a turn is

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Originally Posted by Madjames

This is not a joke. I have been playing mmorpgs for 18 years. This is the first mmo I have played where something is called a turn in a raid. Please answer lol I feel so stupid.

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They simply called them Turns for Binding Coil because in a coil, each spinny thing is called a turn. More decent description:

"Turns" refers to the winding number of an electrical conductor comprising an inductor.

http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/cre...ges/img004.jpg

Turns.


Now, most people still call them Turns for Alexander purely out of habit since Coil was our only raid for the longest time, and possibly also didn't know why they'd call it a turn so they just went with it.

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Originally Posted by Madjames

Ill explain on how this works in wow.

Ice crown had a number of bosses. Once you killed one you moved onto the next until eventually you got to the lich king and killed him. There were no floors or turns so I am trying to wrap my head about how this is working. If you mean that there are separate instances sections for each boss then that makes more sense.

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Each Turn would be synonymous with a Wing in a Warcraft raid. They include one boss and sometimes some trash mobs. In fact, how SE has everything split up would be much more comparable to how Blizzard divvies up a raid when they put it in Raid Finder instead of trying to visualize it as one entire raid.

I don't know why they settled on the term "Turn". It could be referencing the spiral shape of an actual coil (you make one full "turn" as you go up or down each "floor"), though I don't think we've ever been made privy to the actual shape of the entire facility in any of the Binding Coils. It could just be SE's habit of giving things weird names.

Just like in Alexander you're only progressing up the construct's arm and then into its torso which would mean the areas should probably be called chambers or corridors instead of floors. And yet the official term from SE is "floor".

Edit: Ah yes, just like this.

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Originally Posted by Crimen

They simply called them Turns for Binding Coil because in a coil, each spinny thing is called a turn. More decent description:

"Turns" refers to the winding number of an electrical conductor comprising an inductor.

http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/cre...ges/img004.jpg

Turns.

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Originally Posted by ElHeggunte

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I don't know why they settled on the term "Turn". It could be referencing the spiral shape of an actual coil (you make one full "turn" as you go up or down each "floor"), though I don't think we've ever been made privy to the actual shape of the entire facility in any of the Binding Coils. It could just be SE's habit of giving things weird names.

Edit: Ah yes, just like this.

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I'm trying to figure out where exactly did they mention it, but the reason why they got Bahamut trapped in the first place was to use him for a power source or something and the place sorta worked as a transformer as an unlimited supply of power for the Allagans (or something crazy like that). It would explain why some mobs in there have a move known as High Voltage.

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Originally Posted by Madjames

Ill explain on how this works in wow.

Ice crown had a number of bosses. Once you killed one you moved onto the next until eventually you got to the lich king and killed him. There were no floors or turns so I am trying to wrap my head about how this is working. If you mean that there are separate instances sections for each boss then that makes more sense.

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I know I've played MMOs since EQ released. What I meant was Saber and Dawn both explained it and I think you were simply over thinking their answers.

Honestly I think they did it this way because of the consoles. Several small zones as opposed to one big zone. But like I said in any other MMO terms it is simply

Turn 1 = event 1
Turn 2 = event 2
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Each event being in it's own instance.