Ranged DPS dominating Slaughter Mode

[Evangela]

all they have to do is stay together in their safe zone and shoot. if melee enemies try to attack them they'll get killed in 2 seconds.

you'll see a lot of ranged DPS have the killing buff on their names and then Cometeor storm is coming.

this mode is horrible, I'm going back to Secure mode for now.

[Sirius-Khan]

Yes after getting stomped a few matches and seeing the tally at the end...I need to lvl BLM

[Yumi_umi]

I notice that lol. Cuz my team was doing it, they just turtles the mid arena and i saw like 4 blms on my team that would just hide in the cluster of ppl unloading their cds on any melee coming in range. Wasn't surprised they got shut down just didn't expect it to be blm and not bard lol. I feel bad for the tanks now.

[Logo]

The 24 Man its not so bad.
But 72 is just a mid lag cometor nightmare.

[Sirius-Khan]

It's like a big game of "Dont you cross this line" 3 Alliances huddled on a tile per Alliance lol and once you leave your tile as a melee, GOODNIGHT.

[Cidolfas86]

You forgot to add the part where ninjas try to camp the warp points with Hide up, spamming Overwhelm on anything that walks by. The mode is alright, but I think there needs to be changes to keep people from piling on up top. Its most certainly not fun as a non-ranged melee, and I didn't get much further as a WAR. I can foresee the rose tinted glasses wearing off quite quickly with this one. It's a shame too cause I was really looking forward to an awesome, new PvP game mode. I'll probably play it for a few more days, but I definitely prefer secure over this at the moment.

[KaedrianLiang]

Starcraft reference:

Zealots vs Marines
http://youtu.be/g53WnsjC9nw?t=25s

[Red_Wolf]

This is what happens when melee over-extend. They die. That's how it is supposed to work.

As a healer, I'm not going to put myself within range of their DPS unless there is a significant advantage. So just pace yourself melee. This isn't 8v8 anymore.

You can avoid this by working with a healer for pocket heals, following your tanks, or flanking a side as a group to take out their backline.

So far, this is awesome PvP.

[Atreus]

I notice that lol. Cuz my team was doing it, they just turtles the mid arena and i saw like 4 blms on my team that would just hide in the cluster of ppl unloading their cds on any melee coming in range. Wasn't surprised they got shut down just didn't expect it to be blm and not bard lol. I feel bad for the tanks now.

Why feel bad? I'm having a ball with it. I get to do all that overextending and make it out alive. My damage so far as been right up there with the ranged also.

[Domira]

This is what happens when melee over-extend. They die. That's how it is supposed to work.

As a healer, I'm not going to put myself within range of their DPS unless there is a significant advantage. So just pace yourself melee. This isn't 8v8 anymore.

You can avoid this by working with a healer for pocket heals, following your tanks, or flanking a side as a group to take out their backline.

So far, this is awesome PvP.

Then range dps is at a advantage. Just because melee dps has to put themselves in danger to be able to dps...while range can just sit back near the healers.

Overall, slaughter mode is a hot mess.