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The use of the strategy board, as I recall from my experience in various duties, has been practically non-existent as of late. The current usage has been relegated to just people posting different kinds of memes. While that is funny to see, the strategy board itself seems to have become obsolete.
What do you think should be added to strategy boards to make them more useful in raids?
The main practical use I found for them is for you to make your own and have cheat sheets open on your screen during fights, something like this, where I can shrink down to like 60% and leave it on a corner.
https://i.postimg.cc/g2fmRrKX/image.png
The ability to make and share your cheat sheets and for them to be something you can leave on-screen without any third party program is actually pretty great, but it isn't sharing strategies per-se.
Yes, absolutely. My raiding friends raid use the boards very often. (I lurk their raid streams)
I haven't made any strategy boards myself, but I did have some non meme ones shared in ex trial learning parties I've been in recently.
We've only had like 6 fights since they were added and I don't think very many are made for older fights, will certainly see them way more with Evercold and Kefka.
Hoping for an update that let's us put specific strategy boards on our hotbar.
i use them to tell bad players to stop using cure1
Yes. It's a very nice tool to do field notes during blind prog, or share with PF if someone has difficulties with certain mechanics. I made quite a lot of SB sheets during the latest raid tier when we were progging in PF. You can share memes too (wink wink).
Haven't saw any other than memes ever since it was implemented
Something they could add that I think could be useful is using the Strategy Board as a method to choose positions for a fight. Like if someone shares a strategy board(or shows multiple boards at once) and everyone can pick a position like M1, H2 or MT. When you choose a position, it would highlight your position on every board to make it more clear where you'll be.
Nope, no one
I unironically would use them a LOT in pvp, but they chose to remove that functionality barely a couple of weeks after their introduction for literally no reason at all...
I have no need for them. I use an actual piece of paper and pen if I want to make my own notes. I use a second monitor to display raidplans/strats. The market for in game strategy boards was always going to be very niche. What would actually be useful to many more people is if they had allowed the in game recorder to record all current raids/extremes. Many, many more people do not have the means to record content and replay it to see what is happening half the time and seeing what is actually happening is way more valuable than plan approximations.
They were added late in the expansion, are awkward to open during pulls and you cannot practice outside of them, individually cover one mechanic thus requiring multiple of them, and everyone already uses a second monitor/phone screen/post-it note/callouts, and they're not used in casual content and nobody on Crystal raids. Aside from that, they're useful.
I didn't raid this expac, but I did use them for the last 2 ex trial fights as "sticky notes".
I used physical sticky notes for E8S plastered around my monitor.
That being said, I have a feeling there's more people using them on widescreen monitors to limit clutter
Yeah, but it's usually a mix..lol
https://i.ibb.co/YmRxMNf/T9.png. Generally, it's just useful stuff..lol
Of course, how else am I supposed to share memes ingame?
I wish I could turn them off. It feels like a waste of mutelist space but its the only way to stop people spamming them at you every 2 seconds while someone is watching a cutscene.