A Disabled Raider's Review of Patch 7.0 Duty Design

[Shurrikhan]

Dunno. Finally giving the whole post an honest try. it'll take a while.

It's some 30+ pages, iirc, so that's understandable.

It seems to come down to he doesn't like physically demanding mechanics and I do. I mean there's not much either side can do about this difference in opinion so we just need to move past it.

Likely. I do think there's some alarm to be raised, though, if the game were so broadly swinging towards one particular form of difficulty, since doing so would often occlude other forms of difficulty or one's leverage with content containing those other forms.

We could also point at certain forms being more problematic than others for mostly objective reasons. Those dependent on reactivity disproportionately affect those with physical mechanical issues and with higher ping. Those dependent on memorization, well, tend not to offer as much later -- becoming both narrowly accessible and without longevity, more akin to a puzzle to be solved than repeatable content. But even those, both, are fine and even advantageous to the game in reasonable quantities.

I'll try to answer this though. it's because he compared Alarum to Grand octet.

Ahh, I see. Because you had mentioned a "dungeon" mechanic, I thought you were referring to that of a literal dungeon -- i.e., his bit on Greatest Labyrinth -- in what I replied to.

[ExiaKuromonji]

Ahh, I see. Because you had mentioned a "dungeon" mechanic, I thought you were referring to that of a literal dungeon -- i.e., his bit on Greatest Labyrinth -- in what I replied to.

Maybe I shouldn't make responses when I'm not in the best mood (should be obvious lol). I was actually talking about 2 different things he said and at some point it got mixed up.

The bit on Greatest Labyrinth was so long that I could only see it as a wild rant. I haven't got that far yet in my "actual" read. The bit about Alarum and Grand Octet was the comparison that confused me the most. But where I'm at in reading makes me think he did this in PF, which I think does Mario Kart (my static gave up on this, we hated this strategy). And he wouldn't be the only one I've seen judging a game mechanic based on PF experience (look at you Light Rampant)