DRK - AST/AST/AST - The frontline meta

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

They could just make it have a delay between Salted Earth and Salt and Darkness so you can't immediately get binded maybe? That might have issues with keeping people in as well but less bad. Mostly just spitballing this idea

My two cents - I don't think this would be a good change. While it might achieve some of the excessive crowd control in Frontlines, it would feel unbelievably clunky and I'd worry if Salt & Darkness would ever get a hit in without placing it directly on an objective. Not a fun change, I'd sooner have the Bind be replaced with something else than an increased delay before Salt & Darkness can be used.

[Kisshu]

It seems every single FL match I see a hyper aggressive blue team with what seems like a DRK/AST/DRG premade setup. Took a break from FL to play other games, got back and first match was again with same blue team.

I do wonder if there's something in the match making code that puts premades in blue. It was like that way back when they de-coupled your Grand Company from you in-match team, but I thought that was solved years ago.

[RyoXander]

They could just make it so that Macrocosmos adds a buff to the player who's hit by it that prevents them from taking damage from Macroscosmos again for 10seconds or so. I'd argue that they could reduce the radius but then that'd force the AST into very unfavorable positioning which isn't really fair seeing as how on it's own, the ability is fine. Salted Earth is also fine.

[Kuroka]

Just remove tanks and healer from PVP, then you may actually get a balance...

[Mecia]

God knows how many more months of this borefest. Selective BH on abilities, lower player counts, damage caps, shift damage around please just ANYTHING.

Can they peek their heads into western FL so they take notice of this nonsense.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It's a joke

Sounds just like another day in FL.

Then again, how it usually happened when I see it happening is: 9 out of 10 times because enough people feeding into their BH meters for not knowing how to deal with DRK's draw ins, their invuln, not knowing when/how(???) to press Guard, heck---even how to Recuperate (lmao). Not to mention when people call for a retaliation, they're basically trying to fight a group who's very likely has a caller (read: not premade) who make use of macros to call out when to initiate their burst, retreat, hide, flanking, and/or already racking up multiple BHs (you cannot fight them head on lol).

A lesser occasion after being trampled, there are people who also volunteer to call out whenever marked DRK puller are exhibiting signs of plunging in. Surprise: people actually CAN react in time and even better, sometimes counter their setup!

[Zeastria]

- Remove BH Buff
it would have solved much, a lot of abilites are only strong due to high BH!

[Aravell]

God knows how many more months of this borefest. Selective BH on abilities, lower player counts, damage caps, shift damage around please just ANYTHING.

Can they peek their heads into western FL so they take notice of this nonsense.

The same DRK combo is being used in JP FL. It's a lot less effective here though, the people here will mark DRKs and put out a callout macro when the DRK is about to dive, the DRK combo only then gets like 3-5 kills as the majority of the alliance backs off and readies to counterattack. You'd be surprised by how good a simple "Look out!" macro is in making the DRK combo a lot less effective.

[Mecia]

The same DRK combo is being used in JP FL. It's a lot less effective here though, the people here will mark DRKs and put out a callout macro when the DRK is about to dive, the DRK combo only then gets like 3-5 kills as the majority of the alliance backs off and readies to counterattack. You'd be surprised by how good a simple "Look out!" macro is in making the DRK combo a lot less effective.

People in general seem to put in the effort if they que there. It doesnt have to be much but you get called a try hard for even saying to look at the score or map here.

[Garten]

I swear to god guys... it seems to be back to the PLD cheese... i keep killing asts and drks, but it does not matter, they will soon be back and erase my all party of idiots.