Frontlines sucks Ultra megathread

[Zaiekk]

They seriously need to do something about Dark Knight. I'm so sick and tired of seeing Dark Knights. I just got out of a match where one team bombed our ENTIRE ALLIANCE with 12 Dark Knights spamming Salted Earth. TWELVE DARK KNIGHTS. I counted. Delete Salted Earth please, for the love of god.

[OliviaLugria]

Lol, finally a team with enough darks XD.


They probably aren't touching anything till 7.1 or later though... and even then, they don't seem to care about job balance in frontlines very much. Really is a shame.

On the other hand, they've completely redesigned pvp every expansion, so maybe they'll make kits that work well in all the modes this time.

[MsMisato]

Lol, finally a team with enough darks XD.


They probably aren't touching anything till 7.1 or later though... and even then, they don't seem to care about job balance in frontlines very much. Really is a shame.

On the other hand, they've completely redesigned pvp every expansion, so maybe they'll make kits that work well in all the modes this time.

I don't think they will adjust DRK because a few jobs play off it nicely and it would require them to redo those jobs. If anything, they need to shrink the radius of salted earth's pull

[Mawlzy]

They seriously need to do something about Dark Knight. I'm so sick and tired of seeing Dark Knights. I just got out of a match where one team bombed our ENTIRE ALLIANCE with 12 Dark Knights spamming Salted Earth. TWELVE DARK KNIGHTS. I counted. Delete Salted Earth please, for the love of god.

If you were on Aether, it was probably either a Q-synching event or multiple Discord premades. Not many players queue DRK solo, so it requires out-of-game planning to dump 12 on a team. I'd like to think this garbage is a reflection of us being at the end of a content cycle. Unfortunately, I suspect it just reflects the desire of part of the PvP community to piss off other players.

[EvianYmir89]

A friend of mine called out the premade on crystal for throwing since they were refusing to actually participate in shatter and continually attacked the other teams. I get that it’s PvP, but shatter is the one game mode you really need to attack the objectives and this group never does. Battle high means diddly squat if your team gets too far behind in the game mode

[Taliriah]

A friend of mine called out the premade on crystal for throwing since they were refusing to actually participate in shatter and continually attacked the other teams. I get that it’s PvP, but shatter is the one game mode you really need to attack the objectives and this group never does. Battle high means diddly squat if your team gets too far behind in the game mode

Some people prefer pvp to be about fighting other players rather than hitting a giant crystal. Also a lot of players understandably don't even care about whether their team is winning or losing.

[EvianYmir89]

Some people prefer pvp to be about fighting other players rather than hitting a giant crystal. Also a lot of players understandably don't even care about whether their team is winning or losing.

That fine for stuff like seal rock and ovoo, but for shatter the objective is important. The ice is your biggest source of points. Plus, from what I saw a full other team was attacking their ice while they were fighting.

[OliviaLugria]

It's still usually the team that wins the most fights and builds up BH that'll win in Shatter. Passing on an opportunity to pinch an enemy to hit your safe ice is a huge waste.

I do know of some groups that refuse to hit ice at all and will go in by themselves. Not much you can do about that sadly. It can be hard to tell when a they're taking an opportunity or when they're wasting time.

[NorthernLadMSP]

They seriously need to do something about Dark Knight. I'm so sick and tired of seeing Dark Knights. I just got out of a match where one team bombed our ENTIRE ALLIANCE with 12 Dark Knights spamming Salted Earth. TWELVE DARK KNIGHTS. I counted. Delete Salted Earth please, for the love of god.

Yep, it's a joke that they let this go on for as long as they have. The people that play DRK this way are cancer.

[Mawlzy]

Pretty sure FL will be part of the Mogtome event starting in a week. I'd like to encourage premades and other Discord-based abusers (such as the Q-synchers) to back off during this period. Maybe take the opportunity to learn to play solo. If you unleash your usual tricks, this will achieve two things:

1. Make FL miserable for 5 weeks as the transient casuals flock to the ranks of those who don't care and play accordingly.

2. Lead new players (some of whom may get hooked by this potentially-fun mode) to conclude that FL is dominated by a bunch of seal-clubbing psychopaths, so we only see the newbies again come the next Mogtome event.

Just a suggestion.