Thread: Void Ark 24 member raid for 3.1

Originally Posted by Ryaz

You know, if there's one thing I really like about this game is that it feels heavily influenced by FFVI. War of the Magi. The Warring Triad. Magitek. Love it and looking forward to this raid.

I'd say it is heavily influenced by all the old FF games(FF1 - FF9).

Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

Actually it's more because alexander is designed with little trash mechanics and just has a focus on bosses, If a raid doesn't have interesting trash why would an easy mode 24 man? Ever since Pharos Sirius SE have been skimping on interesting ideas and a reasonable difficulty curve because a large portion of the community is too lazy to deal with anything that doesn't involve mass pull and aoe.

I don't exactly think Coil had a lot of emphasis on trash either.

Originally Posted by Ladon

In all perfect honesty, I wouldn't except anything more than a re-skinned Crystal Tower. It will be the exact same format with trash room > boss > trash room.

You'll set yourself up for disappointment if you are expecting anything else.

Uhhh

That's every raid setup... in every game... ever.

I'm confused, is this a bad thing?

Well the reason for the simplified Crystal tower was when they first made the thing in the very beginning before release it was "too difficult" and a lot of the fights were similar to the Atomos part in LotA where one group would wipe everyone else if they didn't do their job. Following on from that they nerfed it all down before release (which delayed it until late and everyone was already past the i80 gear it provided) Subsequently they made ST much easier and added a small amount of difficulty back in WoD. Considering now that everyone is level 60 and likely to have completed most of the MSQ they can ramp the difficulty back to something closer to what they first imagined (considering people should now be more capable due to the harder dungeons/normal mode alexander)

At least that would be what I look forward to, then I remember back in LotA when wiping on Behemoth was pretty much guaranteed in 9/10 runs due to people being unable to do the simplest of things perhaps keeping it mind numbingly easy is better....

Originally Posted by Daralii

I don't exactly think Coil had a lot of emphasis on trash either.

T11 did it right. Split up the group, meet back together at the end. I always had fun in there, felt like a race, depending on when you cleared your "side", you or the other group got the Dreadnought at the end.

Oh well hopefully it'll last a while as there's pretty much nothing to do for progression besides raiding and i guess crafting if ur doing 2 stars.
But im sure it'll last 2 weeks before ppl hate it like neverreap and fractal.

Coffins on the bottom o.O

Vampires? =O

Some sort of vampyric class?

Maybe

Samurai
Void mage
Vampire
=D

Who knows!

Originally Posted by Ladon

Not really. There are plenty of things that they could do to change the formula some. One simple example is to split up and randomize the 3 groups when they first arrive. Group A has to hold a control room as adds continuously spawn which risk being overrun if left at it too long. Group B has to fight for panels then hold them which will open up door for assault team C to push through some trash and eventually a mid-boss.

There are plenty of ways that they can mix up the formula but I'm not expecting them to do so after seeing Alexander. I full expect it to play out identically to how all three Crystal Towers did.

So....

Here's some trash, keep them out. That's new and innovative.

This is like asking devs to get creative when making the spell "Fireball".

Originally Posted by NinjaTaru72

Void mage

That's pretty much Black Mage (since they could summon beasts from the void, like Diabolos, Barbatos and Barghest).