Alex Savage really harder?

[OmegaFlare]

A1 seems really easy once everybody has better gears. It has very little mechanics and has heavy dps checks. Starting next week, it should be really easy for most groups to kill and farm. I'd prefer fights like T7 or T9 where the difficulty lies in doing mechanics. Hopefully, A3 and A4 will not disappoint.

[Waliel]

So a dps check means it's harder? To me that's only makes it artificially difficult.

When you consider that the average player fails their rotation against a dummy, yes.

[Mission]

When you consider that the average player fails their rotation against a dummy, yes.

That kind of difficulty..is like most games saying ..oh lets put a hard mode in..i know..we can make it harder by making the creatures have more hp and hit harder..that's hard. Instead of better AI and real challenging encounters

[Craiger]

That kind of difficulty..is like most games saying ..oh lets put a hard mode in..i know..we can make it harder by making the creatures have more hp and hit harder..that's hard. Instead of better AI and real challenging encounters

Kinda, and also, it shouldn't be a choice between having a DPS check or having more mechanics... because the difficulty with DPS, should be to get it while doing other mechanics, not simply being able to use the right rotation.

EDIT: also, this isn't just to please hardcore raiders, because I'm not in a hardcore group, but we still like it to be a challenge even after we've gotten some better gear.

[Kaedan]

That kind of difficulty..is like most games saying ..oh lets put a hard mode in..i know..we can make it harder by making the creatures have more hp and hit harder..that's hard. Instead of better AI and real challenging encounters

Who cares? He's a mini-boss. The challenging mechanics come during the actual bosses.

[Elisewin]

For ppl who have already killed Faust: the real boss is just the same boring fight who requires more DPS/HP or there are some new interesting mechanics to handle?
I'll be a lot disappointed if is just a matter of DPS and VIT =\

[SirTaint]

For ppl who have already killed Faust: the real boss is just the same boring fight who requires more DPS/HP or there are some new interesting mechanics to handle?
I'll be a lot disappointed if is just a matter of DPS and VIT =\

More stuff, nothing crazy.


A1 New Mechanics in total: Hypercompressed Plasma, Magic tank buster does 25k unmitigated

Resin Bombs now linger where they're fired for a decent amount of time.

Gunnery Pods when fired by both Oppressors do about half health on everyone most times.

4 Nuke Lasers mean 4 adds that have to be killed in 4 specific places.

Resin is fired during adds if there is not big burst on them.

Resin is fired during jumps, one at a time possibly at random targets.

Jumps land in opposite corners, then together, then opposite = enrage afterwards

Write-up credit to Ismenian on BG

[Hagen]

The problem with randomization is that it is not diffcult either, it is just bad RNG that screws you. You can either get lucky and get 4 clears in a row or get unlucky and die because Boss spammed tank buster. With no regards on players skill or whatever. I think the level of random that Shiva and Odin had was nice, they should do more of that.

[Sylve]

And whats wrong with;
-We hit Enrage, we need to do better.
-We hit Enrage, Lets come back with better gear.
-We hit enrage, are the Healers comfortable doing some DPS?
-We hit Enrage, Lets try a different strategy.

Why exactly do we need to little magic number to tell us where we went wrong?
Learning a fight means more than just knowing what the markers do.
Figuring out the best way to maintain maximum damage on target while also dealing with mechanics is 'learning the fight'.
Trial and error combined with repeated attempts and group communication is all we need to clear content.

[stoxastic]

And whats wrong with;
-We hit Enrage, we need to do better.
-We hit Enrage, Lets come back with better gear.
-We hit enrage, are the Healers comfortable doing some DPS?
-We hit Enrage, Lets try a different strategy.

Why exactly do we need to little magic number to tell us where we went wrong?
Learning a fight means more than just knowing what the markers do.
Figuring out the best way to maintain maximum damage on target while also dealing with mechanics is 'learning the fight'.
Trial and error combined with repeated attempts and group communication is all we need to clear content.

If you don't have that magic number you are unable to pinpoint the exact reason why you are hitting enrage. It's one thing for everyone to need better gear. It's another when a select 1-2 members of your group are holding the rest back. If you can't pinpoint that you're going to spend way too much time in progression.