Thank you for increased difficulty

[RiyahArp]

Fun police Riyah at it again. If you like something she doesn't you're objectively wrong.

Oh hush, bourne asked me specifically if it would be fun if i could stun things. I said no, it wouldnt. If i tank, (which i do rarely) i can stun bosses if need be, but it's never particularly fun because of the short window to do it.

[Dualgunner]

Oh hush, bourne asked me specifically if it would be fun if i could stun things. I said no, it wouldnt. If i tank, (which i do rarely) i can stun bosses if need be, but it's never particularly fun because of the short window to do it.

Fair, but you made a declarative (X is not fun) not a personal (I don't find X fun) answer. That was where the confusion came from, my apologies.

[KaivaC]

Oh hush, bourne asked me specifically if it would be fun if i could stun things. I said no, it wouldnt. If i tank, (which i do rarely) i can stun bosses if need be, but it's never particularly fun because of the short window to do it.

...I have a crazy idea. What if I transferred one of my characters over to your server, and we partied together for a little bit? I'd like to see things from your perspective. I'm not as good as most of the folks here on the forums, so you wouldn't have to worry about 'raider mentality'. Honestly, I want to understand your perspective on things - there's only so much words can tell.

[RiyahArp]

...I have a crazy idea. What if I transferred one of my characters over to your server, and we partied together for a little bit?

You'd be wasting 25 bucks and moving away from your friends for no reason. I also do my own thing in game and am not looking to be "understood" in it. I don't recommend that, stay on aether with the people you know.

Honestly, considering the MSQ has trials and dungeons sometimes, it's more like they are preparing you for those so you have some idea what you are doing in actual group content since they are eventually part of the MSQ. The amount of times I've seen people run away with a stack marker and die in a corner by themselves has decreased since they started adding those to the solo battles.

Stack marker was added before SB I think, in the first quest battle with Gosetsu or something. I remember people being surprised that the ai could do that. The learning thing IDK, if so, it doesn't bode well for the future that story mode wants you to constantly dodge and deal with a pretty long multiphase fight ending in a dps check, for story mode. With the content in this patch, I'm worried they want to incrrease overall difficulty.

[KaivaC]

You'd be wasting 25 bucks and moving away from your friends for no reason. I also do my own thing in game and am not looking to be "understood" in it. I don't recommend that, stay on aether with the people you know.

? Very few people know who I am currently in-game, actually. I also do my own thing, because I burned my Aether bridges, so I wouldn't have minded tossing this alt over there. I was honestly just offering my hand out as a way of in-game friendship, but so be it. Never let it be said that I didn't try.

[SilverObi]

I also do my own thing, because I burned my Aether bridges, so I wouldn't have minded tossing this alt over there.

But I still think you're alright ;_;

Some people don't want the helping hand or want to be understood though, Kaiva.

[KaivaC]

But I still think you're alright ;_;

Some people don't want the helping hand or want to be understood though, Kaiva.

'Tis true, and it was the second time I tried to befriend her in-game, so I def gave it a shot. Not too much of a big deal to me, since I have personal goals that may or may not run counter to theirs.

[Vaer]

Stack marker was added before SB I think, in the first quest battle with Gosetsu or something. I remember people being surprised that the ai could do that. The learning thing IDK, if so, it doesn't bode well for the future that story mode wants you to constantly dodge and deal with a pretty long multiphase fight ending in a dps check, for story mode. With the content in this patch, I'm worried they want to incrrease overall difficulty.

Hmm I don't know. When it comes to dps checks depending on your skill in the game you might need better gear/echo. That's why the gear exists, to bridge the gap. If you go in at say i340-i350, that's probably close to min ilvl where you would need to know how to play somewhat properly. i340-350 is 6 months - a year old gear at this point with the ceiling being at 400~. (Try doing The Burn with a group of i340 vs a group that is 360-370.)

Now you could say, let's tune it for min ilvl, everyone who has been playing will just roll over it easily, OR they could just remove the check by having an npc blow them up (like what happens in some of the other instances, but this time it's a 1v1) but the difficulty drops drastically.