Was Strategy Board a successful addition?

Now that most people have had their time with it,
was this system an addition that people actually started to use?

I still see people post raidplan links, so my assumption is that it's lacking in some key features?

Like, oh I dunno; pages?

We have folders for that. As far as I've seen we still follow raidplans and videos and such but there's some fights where a cheat sheet does come in handy for quick reminders (M11S weapons 2 spread, M12S phase 1 act 3, train ex intermission spread, etc.) so I've gotten some use out of it.

People are also having fun with it in other ways.

It is a feature in a very bizarre position.

It was super well-received, people share strategy boards regularly, and in a lot of ways they improve the raiding experience.

...those boards also do not provide any strategy, what was given is less a tool to elaborate on raid strategies, and more of an elaborate in-game MS Paint, plenty of jokes and some very creative art pieces use strategy board, it is genuinely amazing what people can pull off, and the limitations only serve to push that creativity even further.

So it ends up being a successful feature that isn't being used for anything resembling its intended purpose.

Doing runs to get 100 totems from Doomtrain, I've seen it used like once to share strats... The rest of it has just been memes.

It's a potentially useful tool, but 99% of the time it's just memes.

I've seen it used both the same way a raidplan would be and for memes. I have saved a handful of individual pages out of full shared folders that I've pulled out for specific mechanics to remind myself when I don't need the rest of the plan. It's been useful for its intended purpose and to see people make memes and art pieces out of it.

And, I am genuinely impressed that people have kept their naughty boards to themselves. I KNOW people have made them, but I haven't seen any, so good job being a stand-up, civilized community.

It works in some areas. However, most of the time, people would simply go back to raid plans for the simple fact that you can look and discern mechanics in sequential order. The board, in that regard, remains limited.

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Originally Posted by TeresaFortell

However, most of the time, people would simply go back to raid plans for the simple fact that you can look and discern mechanics in sequential order. The board, in that regard, remains limited.

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Make a folder, put each board in order within the folder. When reviewing, you can look at each board in sequential order just like a raidplan. There's even an option to highlight your role if you want while reviewing each board. It'll fill up fast if someone shares a really big folder with a lot of boards in it, but if they keep things tidy you can save several fights in it as long as they don't have dozens of boards in them.

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Originally Posted by Astronis

And, I am genuinely impressed that people have kept their naughty boards to themselves. I KNOW people have made them, but I haven't seen any, so good job being a stand-up, civilized community.

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As I recall they were threatened with having their favourite toy taken away if they didn't stop. Personally I want an off switch - I've seen a grand total of one actual strat shared with it.

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Originally Posted by Alice_Rivers

As I recall they were threatened with having their favourite toy taken away if they didn't stop. Personally I want an off switch - I've seen a grand total of one actual strat shared with it.

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An off-switch would be nice. Respecting mute list would be nice too; I had muted someone for too many macros and they could still send too many strat boards. So there's room for improvement in the feature.

The vast majority of Strategy Boards I've seen from other players have been jokes. But the few times it has been used for its intended purpose have be really good. Strategy Boards are a really powerful tool, but they're only as strong as a player's visual communications skills, and imagination.

Some additional features I want
the ability to group objects with the ability to move grouped objects together on the board, and up, and down through the layers
stop letting me select objects I have locked
the ability to move an object's pivot point for more control over how they can be rotated -- especially when creating objects that represent cone aoe attacks to fine tune their origin point
the ability to change the color of text
a wider variety of debuff icons with options to indicate if they can be cleansed (different aoe shapes, near/far, doom, pyretic, etc)
icons for all the elements (lightning, fire, earth, ice, water, wind, light, and dark)
find a way to simplify the shareable codes