Bring Back Original Steps of Faith as Hard/Extreme Mode!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I did it before it was nerfed on my alt-main and honestly it was fun as crap. :'3

I would love steps of faith inspired weapons or armor.

[AsahinaMyLove]

No thanks! People like me still hate that fight!
I also still take my leave with a 30mins lockout and smile. o_o

[seekified]

No thanks! People like me still hate that fight!
I also still take my leave with a 30mins lockout and smile. o_o

Really? You don't even need dragonkillers anymore, Vishap's HP is so low these days it's not even funny.

I think this could be a cool idea, or maybe even making the fight more intricate than the original. I used to tank this when it was first released, and there really wasn't a lot to do other than keep everything in a pack behind you as you walk.

[ExiledOne]

Wonder if they could reintroduce some original pre-nerf content and have it be a FC challenge, perhaps it could reward a voucher for a week's worth of buff or something.
That way it would be run with friends that could coordinate and have a reward for whole FC.

[Miscreant]

But the original wasn't even hard, I mean I can understand someone saying bring back the original SCoB, but this..don't be silly.

[Laerune]

Its fine as it is, having a hard or extreme mode would only be used once by the players then left alone. Steps is one of the trials that requires teamwork and is one of those trials where you can not carry few bad players. If you have 1 or 2 bad players, your group is screwed. Look at the current easy mode Steps, people still fail this trial, this should have sended you a message that these type of trials are not working for alot of players. I liked Steps and I enjoyed doing it with friends and FC/LS members, but with strangers it ended 80% of the time in a endless wipe.

Look at Ultimate Ballad, how many people are doing this right now? I did it once for the quest, then I left it alone. Today I queued with a mate who needed it for his quest, we waited more then a hour in a queue. This will happen to the hard/extreme mode of Steps, people will do it once to complete the quest, then they will leave it alone.

[Kallera]

Steps of faith extreme:

Vishap hops his way to the collar of daniffen(complete with raidwide damage)
Dravanian mobs are now more varied and numerous
Vishap has a tail swipe that can knock the party off the bridge if the whole party dies and ends up too far behind him(which will reset the instance, yay!).
3rd wave: Ysayle miniboss cameo! For extra feels!
Soken tries his hand at Christian Rock.

(Please do not try your hand at Christian Rock, Soken....it is irredeemibly horrible music.)

[Rufalus]

The mechanics are the same, they just changed HP and damage values.

So use the minimum item level sync option in the DF to restore difficulty.

[Viuiji]

I haven't done SoF since I cleared it (pre nerf). I got it in my roulette today and almost cried (remembering all the horror stories on the forums)..

Then a weird thing happened, no wipe....

We hit with the first dragonkiller (no harpoons required), I quickly explained the harpoons but was ignored and the second and third dragonkillers missed. Still cleared using a 2 bar LB and single bar LB.

I knew it had been nerfed, but I didn't realise it had been nerfed so much...

[Eekiki]

I knew it had been nerfed, but I didn't realise it had been nerfed so much...

And this is the problem. It seems most people don't realise that ALL mechanics can be ignored in this fight. It's that easy now. The only thing that needs to happen is the tank needs to kite adds (the adds don't even have to be killed).