Please add this to Steps of Faith!!

Not sure if this has been mentioned but...

Steps of Faith needs a "restart" option. If something goes wrong and you know you can't beat it, it would be nice to have a "vote dismiss" type option where the party can vote to restart from the beginning. Otherwise, you have to lay there KO for the remainder of the fight. Say you miss the harpoon.

Another good example of when this would be useful. This happened to us last night. A party member D/C and didn't come back. We had to wait the entire trial to replace him because he D/C'd like right after we started. The dragon moves sloooooow.

Thoughts?

A restart button seems awfully gamey and you're also relying on the rest of your team having enough of a clue to know the fight is unwinnable and going along with your vote (my last team did not and they blamed me for losing because I went afk while the dragon marched past the last barrier onto the final gate while he had 70-80% hp left)

I'd rather see some sort of progress check where you auto-lose if the boss isn't past a certain hp% when he breaks each barrier, say 90% for the first, 75% for the second, 50% for the third (just throwing the numbers out there but you get the idea)

I haven't had the opportunity to try it, but the fight might reset on its own if everyone just stays dead?

I hope.

If not that's personally how I'd do it.

I love the Creativity for the New Duty "Steps of Faith" however only 7 Poetics reward is WAY too LOW for it.

Options for the first Month after the patch 2.55 came out:
- Adding +8 Poetics for First Timers Bonus (which would reward 15)
- Overall Raising it to 10-15 Poetics Range would probably be much more appropriate.

Yeah that would be nice.

But hey, look at it this way also. It "might" be abused.

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Originally Posted by Garlyle

I haven't had the opportunity to try it, but the fight might reset on its own if everyone just stays dead?

I hope.

If not that's personally how I'd do it.

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Nope. If everyone stays KO, it still waits till the end.

I've attempted this twice now. First time was close. Second was a complete waste because like 6/8 didn't know what they were doing. This trial is now my least favorite run.

I had a few bad experiences in DF, especially my first couple of times. But this fight has become one of my favorite trials. Now that I know the fight well, I can take the lead, dish out orders and responsibilities and 9/10 it's been a 1 shot or 2 shot even with plenty of first timers. It actually feels like an accomplish and is pretty satisfying.

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Originally Posted by Garotte14

I had a few bad experiences in DF, especially my first couple of times. But this fight has become one of my favorite trials. Now that I know the fight well, I can take the lead, dish out orders and responsibilities and 9/10 it's been a 1 shot or 2 shot even with plenty of first timers. It actually feels like an accomplish and is pretty satisfying.

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Seeing as you are on my server, I might have to enlist your services to get this thing done. I can't get a decent DF group. My wife and I are both in need of finishing this. Any chance you would be willing to help us out? I would ask my FC but it consists of 3 people atm... We had hopes and dreams to build our own mini FC but a few people kind of quit. :(

Once I have a successful run, I should be able to share my knowledge with others. Hell maybe I am doing something wrong. I usually man a cannon. I hate the part where the drake dragons attack the canon. The rounds that are supposed to slow them down doesn't seem to do much. In addition, the tanks never seem to be able to hold the adds in the correct spot. :(

Ok so F this trial... Got him down to less than 1% last night and lost. Arggggggggg

The design for steps is perfect. I wouldn't change a thing to it. It's supposed to give you a sense of impending doom, and there are many recoverable moments if you mess up on one Dragon Killer Missile.

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Originally Posted by RygaenYuui

The design for steps is perfect. I wouldn't change a thing to it. It's supposed to give you a sense of impending doom, and there are many recoverable moments if you mess up on one Dragon Killer Missile.

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My parties must be crap because even with all the dragon killer we lost. I honestly think the canons were not put to full use to dps the boss. Never seems like the adds are in the right spot. It's getting frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

My parties must be crap because even with all the dragon killer we lost. I honestly think the canons were not put to full use to dps the boss. Never seems like the adds are in the right spot. It's getting frustrating.

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That's a tanking failure then. If your tanks can't gather and control multiple enemies, they need to go back and learn how to tank. A good tank (and really you only need 1 of them to be competent) makes this fight extremely trivial.