Thread: Borderland Ruins (Slaughter) 2.5 Mode

Fl slaughter in a nutshell.
Melee dps #1: hey dude whats ur blm kill streak at
Melee dps #2: i think 11? All i know this new streak buff is op lel
Melee dps #3: guys stfuuu i need to concentrate on chasing this bard.
Enemy bard: lel this noob chasing me
Enemy drgn: omg wtf stop ksing me you noobs, get ur own kills ffs. You know what fck this IM FEEDING. U guys can go fck urselves.
Enemy healer: plz report. Afk
Blm # 1: getting attacked* fuhhhh just let me cast ffs
Blm # 2: dead*
Whm: sleep x999
Nin: i\\\\'m my teams last hope so imma go all solo MLG and get stealthy kills and carry. * forgets that kill streak buffs puts u on radar when near* fml.
Tanks: guys stand behind me! I can ---- zzzzzzzz tank gets slept.
Casters and healers: sprint sprint sprint 360 jump over rocks sprint swiftcast surecast sprint sprint

Enemy premade team: gg get rekt, our team so good cuz we so co ordinated unlike u scrubs. Master race all lala group.

Originally Posted by Nalien

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True enough. If I had to guess, I'd say it will end up a blob of 72 fighting somewhere in the middle (if it's some kind of open area) and then splitting up for the moster spawns , which I'd guess would be at a few predertimined spots at some time interval, fighting whatever party they happen to meet at the moster spawn, and then meeting back up as one big blob. I'm going to guess there's going to be less 16 v 8 situations here. Just a shot in the dark, but I do hope the monsters do give enough reason to split up and move around.

Well, rest in peace casters and healers

Originally Posted by Mutemutt

Just a shot in the dark, but I do hope the monsters do give enough reason to split up and move around.

I hope they're semi-random. If it just ends up like Node... Well, no flags so nothing really stopping an entire Alliance from going mid and one party holding each of the ramps... I imagine they'll have static spawn points at Manors/Markets/Temple/Mid though, which effectively just makes the game play out the same as (Secure) just without the Flag points. If they're random and roam around the map, then I'm in love with this event, because that has a lot of potential depending on their strength... You could have people out hunting them with small skirmishes between hunt parties, you could have groups fighting only to have a monster crash the party. Would be a lot more dynamic than just going to mid ever X minutes.

The teleporter feature actually gives me a bit of hope for that, since its fairly redundant in a situation where you can camp monster spawns... Though it could equally just be there to decrease travel time and thus increase fight time...

To the people who think healers won't be the most essential foundation of groups in this mode(as they have been in both iterations we have gotten of pvp so far) - have you not been pvping at all in this game?
If you are 2v2 and you have 2 dps/tank and the other has 1 dps/tank and 1 healer the group with the healer will win guaranteed... this applies to any group size ofc
This is, of course, unless they are making some severe balance changes which probably won't happen.

Originally Posted by Pibz

To the people who think healers won't be the most essential foundation of groups in this mode(as they have been in both iterations we have gotten of pvp so far) - have you not been pvping at all in this game?
If you are 2v2 and you have 2 dps/tank and the other has 1 dps/tank and 1 healer the group with the healer will win guaranteed... this applies to any group size ofc
This is, of course, unless they are making some severe balance changes which probably won't happen.

This. Healers will be essential. Healers will be as important for "point denial" in this as they were for securing flags in the old one. If two groups hauled at eachother, on with 6DPS 2 healer, the other with 8 DPS, I can promise you in almost every situation, the 6/2 split would win, and probably with next to no deaths.

Of course situations will vary, but healers are going to be just as important... just not in a "Stalemate the flag" kind of way.

Originally Posted by Stormrider

Not that healers won't be important. What is the point of healing when they make everything about killing. Not all but a good portion think healers are there slave and are there to increase there kill count. I am sure you have seen enough matches where you get 1 healer out of 24.

Sure, all i was saying is the preferred group meta that is currently used on FL will remain the same, unless again of course they change class balance drastically. I'm sure there will be crap games because of shortage of healers in your gc and all that stuff.