Crystalline Conflict 1st impression

I wonder how many think about the new mode (post your opinion below:cool:)

For me:
Positive:
- I love the fast paste of the mode.
- new spells feel good
- quick match
- like the music but that has less to do with the actual pvp

Negative:
- Still don't like the cc in games, even if you can dispell it
- People spamming : "Push the payload", would be better if there was a timer on chat
- allowing people to enter without setting up their pvp bars
Not all people go to the wolf's den and check the PvP profile, can there be a simple
quest where new players learn about the new spells and can place them in thier bars


With all said, I would recommend people to try it out

Apparently the gear is all just reskins of shadowbringers stuff?

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Originally Posted by Xavier_Firbold

Apparently the gear is all just reskins of shadowbringers stuff?

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Can confirm. All the "Virtu" gear is basically just reskinned level 80 job gear.
Granted, the weapons don't look like reskins from the same sets, but the armour certainly is.

I can definitely agree on the CC. Its pretty frustrating to just get CC'd to death xD


but overall, this is a good mode and I hate PvP in MMOs normally

Really enjoying it so far even if I am a bit shit haha but still fast paced fun :) and glad I can now dye my dancer AF dress as did not do it so all good ^^

Can't stop playing. I hope for frequent enough balance and map updates (even though I know how unlikely that is with this game).

Pvp without cc would be just be people never dying or kiting for days. CC is fine.

Maybe in 4 more years you will see a new map for this mode if this doesn't die like The Feast in just a month from here.
And with a FOMO based reward structure for me the CC is just as unrewarding (as in i cannot be rewarded) as The Feast.

At least no premades can be made, that should handle the win trading for a while, till people starts just queue as healers and one just throws the match in favor of the other, lmao. Anyway, if you don't live in the proper timezone, participate of the active discords and basically are on your own and have just so much time to play the CC is not for you.

Is a grindy player vs FOMO gamemode. Sad for a game with millions of players to not have a good competitive PvP just because the reward structure is botched and unrewarding. Unless you have endless free time, in that case, you good to go.

The "Series" level grants a Coffer at lvl 25. I think it's something new :D

Really good EXP rates. Most matchs last 1-5mins.

I must say though. I would like to see some type of penalty protection when a player leaves/disconnects during the match. I lost a Star :mad: and our 5th player didn't load in due to a DC at the loading screen. It's not my fault so why is my team being punished for being short 1 player the entire match. :(

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Originally Posted by Naani

The "Series" level grants a Coffer at lvl 25. I think it's something new :D

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I really do love this set. Can't wait to get it. Looks like it won't be that big of a pain either. The wolf collar weapons will also pair very well with this.

I'm liking it so far, although I'm still getting used to the new PvP skills for jobs and the overall layout.

One thing I'm confused about is the difference between ranked vs casual mode? Outside of getting stars, it seems like you get the same amount of exp. Do you get additional awards in ranked mode?

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Originally Posted by myahele

I'm liking it so far, although I'm still getting used to the new PvP skills for jobs and the overall layout.

One thing I'm confused about is the difference between ranked vs casual mode? Outside of getting stars, it seems like you get the same amount of exp. Do you get additional awards in ranked mode?

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Ranked mode has a reward based on how far you get into it.
Series is basically like unranked rewards that's given to everyone as long as you play.

Honestly I'm not impressed. Too few skills, the maps are too small the matches are too short and are way too unbalanced. People are going to get bored of this pretty fast. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad folks are enjoying it, its too disassociated from the rest of the game and that's not a good thing in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Xavier_Firbold

Apparently the gear is all just reskins of shadowbringers stuff?

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the real reward is on lvl 25 milestone

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Originally Posted by WalkingDragon

- People spamming : "Push the payload", would be better if there was a timer on chat

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People keep spamming this because their teammates refuse to get near the circle. The teammates are off in Narnia chasing kills when they need to be focusing on the objective.

Since we have no way of typing "Hey guys we need SOMEONE in the circle" it turns into "Push the payload"

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Originally Posted by WalkingDragon

- Still don't like the cc in games, even if you can dispell it

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Purify would be much better if it dispeled and provided 5s of CC immunity.

Imo ranked is unplayable aslong you cant queue with a group and there is a fixed class amount. I worked myself from bronze 1 3 stars back to bronze 3 0 stars just by bad luck with teammates (like 2 heals 1 tank 2 dps vs. 1 tank 4 dps)

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Originally Posted by PokitaruDaxx

Imo ranked is unplayable aslong you cant queue with a group and there is a fixed class amount. I worked myself from bronze 1 3 stars back to bronze 3 0 stars just by bad luck with teammates (like 2 heals 1 tank 2 dps vs. 1 tank 4 dps)

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1 win away from gold rank and went on a bad losing streak this morning all the way back to Silver 3 (1 star)