Enrage Timers to Delubrium Reginae ty

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Either they improve the forgotten fragments drop frequency (to soothe the x99 Elixir syndrome) or probably add a system where each player have their own ‘grade performance’ to qualify certain level of personal loot from each chest. So that people are encouraged to perform better, be it from using essence, respecting mechanic, or whatever. Maybe extra timeworn artifact? :rolleyes: it’s up to discussions.

This is my favorite suggestion personally. Doesn't have to be anything particularly high and you could still get regular rewards even for dying a lot on your first run, but I'd like to see a system that rewards good performance rather than it always being about punishing players for mistakes. Too often things like lost mettle, slower runs or ideas like enrage wipes just end up punishing those who put in effort too. Also it's not always that players don't care about performance, but there's nothing that really tells them if they're doing well or not and nothing visible to gain from pushing further. Tanks/healers in particular tend to have no idea of how much they can potentially contribute so assume they're doing ok and play in the same way. No one died, the raid was clear, job done.

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Originally Posted by TurtlesAWD

I think the 3-hit doom mechanic does enough to discourage people from the "just bring platebearer" strategy (and hopefully they opt for DPS boosts instead).

I wish, sadly I see platebearers and other defensive essences all the time on people who are clearly fully experienced in all the strats. Healers in particular either use no Essence or increased MP.

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Originally Posted by TurtlesAWD

I would say that fragments for at least basic essences and skills actually drop at a pretty frequent rate - if you're specifically after those items and doing what it takes to get them.

They aren't hard too farm for those of us who know what to do. There are other easy methods too, like Coffee Biscuit leves and buying them or Cluster farm for the Pure Essence. The issue is that similar to how players don't seem to understand that platebearer is worthless in DR, they also don't seem to understand how to efficiently farm fragments and simply don't bother.

I think bumping the fragment droprate significantly in Castrum and DR and allowing us to trade coins for fragments is the best solution. If running DR increases your supply rather than decreases it, there's far less excuse.

You can get similar effective results by making the fragments more common or lowering the boss HP by 10%.

If you make them Enrage fewer people will do it. A lot of people think it's already very hard content because to a casual player it seems very punishing.

Completed an undermanned DR with 18 people and 0 tanks, in quite the favour of a very good time of doing it, it show for those 6 who left, that missed out on an actual good group of DPS... don't it that it is too harsh, and would like increased drops so the remaining people 'share' the drops of those whom left due to a little resistance.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

It only takes that long if almost nobody is using damage-boosting essences and people are dying left and right.

They actually die noticeably faster then typical raid bosses if everyone is taking full advantage of everything the instance has to offer, but as the topic has been repeatedly mentioning they...don't.

People would be much more likely to use those systems if they weren't limited use. Gamers in general have been doing this for decades.

"I'll save that massive buff potion for when I REALLY need it. Welp, I beat the content, guess I didn't really need it"