New savage raid gear has weapon and armour effects. Thoughts?

[Kaliesto]

No one is locked out from practice parties, which those people who are affected by Duty Complete should be joining anyways.

Sorry I mean like Savage starts to die down after those two weeks, and practice parties become less afterwards.

You would have to go out of your way to form statics which some people are not too big on.

[Zomkei]

Sorry I mean like Savage starts to die down after those two weeks, and practice parties become less afterwards.

You would have to go out of your way to form statics which some people are not too big on.

i still see practice parties for tier 1 in crystal, so this isn’t true. and even if it was, you can always make your own. there is always people wanting to practice but refuse to make a party. take the initiative

[Reinha]

Sorry I mean like Savage starts to die down after those two weeks, and practice parties become less afterwards.

You would have to go out of your way to form statics which some people are not too big on.

Might depend on your data center. Here on Light at 3 pm ST on a Sunday there are plenty of practice parties for content that's now a patch old. Less so for P1S and P2S but that's because you can clear them with your first or second group so people don't have to do them repeatedly. And no one is prevented from making a practice group if there isn't one. They usually fill within minutes at prime time.

[JamieRose]

Might depend on your data center. Here on Light at 3 pm ST on a Sunday there are plenty of practice parties for content that's now a patch old. Less so for P1S and P2S but that's because you can clear them with your first or second group so people don't have to do them repeatedly. And no one is prevented from making a practice group if there isn't one. They usually fill within minutes at prime time.

That's cute that you think that practice parties ever make actual progress when they break up after three wipes.

[Omedon]

I wonder if you can dye over the effects on both the weapon and the armor, or will it just remain in that color.

My experience has been that you can't dye particle effects... which is part of why I've never really been interested in relics because they need to fit my character's color scheme out of the box, effects and all.

[Axxion]

What are you when someone points out that you've made a mistake?

is it wrong to say, when i read this i thought of gordon ramsay for some reason

[LittleImp]

That's cute that you think that practice parties ever make actual progress when they break up after three wipes.

This actually doesn't happen that often. If anything, a lot of practice parties stay together for too long without recognizing that progress is impossible. The 3 strike rule is more common in clear parties, but even still pretty uncommon.
A much much more common situation is this:

Someone puts up a prog party for a mechanic late into a fight, like FoA in P3S.
Another player who has never successfully passed adds phase and still has trouble in phase 1 joins without saying anything, feeling they 'deserve' to be further in the fight.
The party proceeds to wipe for a full lockout, mostly because of that single persons whom everyone is too nice to do anything about.
Party disbands after leaving the instance.

Anyway, the most effective way to avoid problems would be to simply host your own party; That way, you know it wont disband randomly and you know that you won't be kicked, and can freely kick anyone who is toxic to you.

[Reinha]

That's cute that you think that practice parties ever make actual progress when they break up after three wipes.

I got p1s and p2s done in one day by joining practice parties. That's more progress than you'll get by whining about unsuccessful parties on the forums.

[gotaname1]

This actually doesn't happen that often. If anything, a lot of practice parties stay together for too long without recognizing that progress is impossible. The 3 strike rule is more common in clear parties, but even still pretty uncommon.
A much much more common situation is this:

Someone puts up a prog party for a mechanic late into a fight, like FoA in P3S.
Another player who has never successfully passed adds phase and still has trouble in phase 1 joins without saying anything, feeling they 'deserve' to be further in the fight.
The party proceeds to wipe for a full lockout, mostly because of that single persons whom everyone is too nice to do anything about.
Party disbands after leaving the instance.

Anyway, the most effective way to avoid problems would be to simply host your own party; That way, you know it wont disband randomly and you know that you won't be kicked, and can freely kick anyone who is toxic to you.

my expeirence with my alt on light is that practice parties are like loose sand... makes me sad because on crystal people tend to stick around for a little longer than that. I also do not think using p3s as an example is fair since its like Light Rampant memes on steroids. But yes, people lie about their progs/skills as often as they breath air.

[Shougun]

Honestly jealous, as a solid DF player harder raid tiers feels like a good way to support the mender network... so I stray from this content until you can unsync it. Would be neat if they added a slight variation VFX you could unlock by spending casual stuff like from the 24 raid tokens or like concept. If red was savage you might be able to unlock blue or something. Of course you can wait till it's epic echo able, but that'll be like a year lol.

I hope such designs influence the relics and such, here the vfx appears to flow with the weapon better than many relics which to me often look a little bit disjointed (NOT ALL, but I'm used to looking at relic effects and wondering what I'm looking at). Relic armor would be neat.. I'm a sucker for VFX even though it's a bit gaudy lol, but I like the vfx to flow better like this raid stuff. That tomestone GNB sword for example with some water effects, brotherhood FFX like (dripping / internal water movement and bubbles, perhaps trailing effect so when you swing it the weapon creates slicing mists), would be absolutely amazing. Our PvP rank 25 armor with vfx might be another one that would be quite O__O wow!

Anyway, looks neat to me- gratz to those who get it.