New Extreme Trial and positionals

[DixieBellOCE]

So I just want to say the mechanics in this fight are a great challenge and I'm personally enjoying the process of learning it. However, its more of a mixed story for melee. While its a welcome change of pace, it shows that positional damage requirements do not work in a fight where the near constant act of dodging forces the melee DPS to move in a way contradictory to their positional requirements. From my initial assessment, the only moments when directional damage is being applied is when the requirement is being negated by true north. I'm not saying it never happens, but comparatively speaking to other extreme trials there is maybe 10% of the fight where positionals can be executed in a normal fashion.

Could always play a caster and have to fight for uptime in a constant state of movement like this Extreme fight.

I think its a fine balance, Melee are fighting for positionals and casters are fighting to actually be able to cast.

Hats off to all the BLM players out there.

[Deveryn]

Could always play a caster and have to fight for uptime in a constant state of movement like this Extreme fight.

I think its a fine balance, Melee are fighting for positionals and casters are fighting to actually be able to cast.

Hats off to all the BLM players out there.

Even the healers can't dps as much.

[Rilifane]

Even the healers can't dps as much.

That's mostly because farm parties are terrible at not eating dmg downs at every opportunity or nuking each other during bumps/ spreads though.
Slidecasts cover the majority of the movement, including during tangles. You'll need to pop Sprint before from time to time but things like donut > spread, tangles, wall cleave can be covered with them. Takes some balls from time to time and I can't say I slidecasted everything but for the times I didn't I notice that I could have.