Dungeons we need to talk dungeons

[DPZ2]

There were a few AoE's in the past that weren't telegraphed with a ground marker originally. One example was the front arc and 360 degree swing attacks by cyclops type enemies. However alot of players apparently couldn't see the slowly filling cast bar when it said something like 1000 tonze swing and think to move away from it.

It wasn't so much the cast bar on the cyclops as it was the confusion about "where is the telegraph?". The game mechanics have taught players at all levels of instance that telegraphs signal areas of effect, while cast bars generally announce TKOs for which there is no area of effect. The change in Aurum Vale corrected what I considered to be an anomaly in this 'signaling'.

I'm sure most players will adjust to the new stat squish, however it is created. I remember the changes when HW came out -- those Deepeyes hit a lot harder than similar mobs in ARR (as did all the other mobs, of course) until the gear could begin to accommodate.

At a guess, the days of mass dungeon pulls may be quickly forgotten when 6-9 mobs will kill you because you can't kill them fast enough.

[Shurrikhan]

It wasn't so much the cast bar on the cyclops as it was the confusion about "where is the telegraph?".

Idk, when I see a giant cyclops squeeze down on his club, tighten his muscles, and begin to glow slightly, I tend to assume that the guy might not just be doing isometrics...

The change in Aurum Vale corrected what I considered to be an anomaly in this 'signaling'.

It wasn't an anomaly, though -- merely a type. Quite a few bosses at the time, especially across FATEs, followed similar practices. Heck, probably the only "anomoly" still, to this day, is the ease of dodging the follow-up frontal cleave from Cyclops, which still has no indicator.

(That or perhaps the likes of Frost Breath in SV, which is likewise situationally actively dodgeable by changing angle between when the boss's position is snapshotted in preparation for the queued instant cast, since any others actively dodgeable, like Vine Probe, tended to require Sprint or AV 1st boss's frontal cleave or a mobility skill, but had many more examples in similar type.)