Exploratory Islands should be the leading Endgame content NOT Alex Savage

[Renault]

It's funny how this is a surprise to so many people even though the developers have said that Savage Alexander was being balanced with healers DDing in mind. This is stated as one of the big surprises they took from Final Coil, how healers weren't only healing. Little wonder Savage Alexander would take that into consideration.

They literally said the opposite.

[Mutemutt]

I'm gonna say no. I pretty sure that it's gonna be faceroll content and I don't think that sort of content should be the most rewarding. (and I mean rewarding strictly in the sense of the game giving achievements, gear and such rather than, say, the warm fuzzies you get from helping a friend clear challenging content for the firs time) The idea just strikes me as very backwards.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

They literally said the opposite.

What they said and the reality of what happened are polar opposites.

[RiceisNice]

What they said and the reality of what happened are polar opposites.

The bottom line said that they designed content without healer DPS in mind. This means they tune fights to require a certain ilvl before your dps could meet the checks without factoring in healer DPS.

The result though, is that you still end up needing healer dps to meet said checks even when you're in i200-210 pieces because it's that tight.

[Wolf_Gang]

So people who raid should get no rewards what-so-ever then from the hardest raids in the game?

Why can't Exploratory islands be the hardest content in the game?

The 3.1 version, like others have said, will probably be easy - that's because its current role in progression is "catch up" content.

I would rather Exploratory islands be the leading hard content we get every 6 months than 4 over tuned bosses. For that, a lot of changes would need to happen.

[DarkmoonVael]

Why can't Exploratory islands be the hardest content in the game?

The 3.1 version, like others have said, will probably be easy - that's because its current role in progression is "catch up" content.

I would rather Exploratory islands be the leading hard content we get every 6 months than 4 over tuned bosses. For that, a lot of changes would need to happen.

Again, why cant 2 things be the high end game content?

The 3.1 "catch up" content is Void Ark. As far as i am aware, Island exploration is meant to be harder than Void Ark.

Also, why have you avoided engaging with anything i said in my post?

[Apoptic]

Its new content in 3.1 where you take FC airships to randomly generated islands and battle notorious monsters (NMs/HNM). They could drop aetherial gear with random secondary stats up to i210.

did they say the islands were randomly generated somewhere? I don't remember seeing that, but would be curious to hear if that was so. I was under the impression they were not.

[Molic]

The bottom line said that they designed content without healer DPS in mind. This means they tune fights to require a certain ilvl before your dps could meet the checks without factoring in healer DPS.

The result though, is that you still end up needing healer dps to meet said checks even when you're in i200-210 pieces because it's that tight.

They said Alexander Normal was designed without healer dps required, while alexander savage was designed with healer dps required.

[Elazu]

Only if the voyages are harder than Alex savage.

Assuming this is a troll thread though.

[RiceisNice]

They said Alexander Normal was designed without healer dps required, while alexander savage was designed with healer dps required.

Would need to find the article, because I don't recall them ever mentioning how they'd tune alexander savage (only the fact that previous encounters without healer dps in mind). Not to mention that current healer gear has no accuracy on it, as if to discourage healer DPS.