Training hall suggestion

[Urthdigger]

I'd like to see the guild halls as more than just a place you return to every 5 levels for quests. For battle classes, I think adding a training hall where you can hone your skills would be the perfect solution.

I imagine such training would be several stringent classes, where a certain technique would be taught. Rather than guildhests, where they advise you to follow mechanics but can easily be bruteforced, these would be designed so that deviating from the plan leads to failure. These would also be solo instances with NPCs, as this is more about your own skills than those of your friends.

So, that all said, what sort of classes would you like to see taught in such an area? I have a few for WHM.

Lesson One: Heavy

This lesson would involve using your Stone spell to strategically inflict Heavy on opponents. At the start, a ranged enemy will be kiting your NPC companion, attacking him and staying out of range. Inflicting Heavy allows your partner to close in and attack. Later in the fight, the enemy prepares to use a powerful short ranged move (Think the slime from Wanderer's Palace), inflicting Heavy allows your NPC to safely kite it and avoid the attack.

Lesson Two: Cure

A fairly simple excercise, this would teach that the best offense can be a good defense. A powerful enemy that takes little damage from the player's attacks, and an NPC that can damage it but has no self-healing. Keep him alive to win.

Lesson Three: Cleric's Stance

This lesson teaches you stance dancing, requiring you to defeat some enemies while keeping allies alive. The effects of the stance are exaggerated for this lesson, so your spells have no effect if used in the wrong stance.

Lesson Four: Fluid Aura

This lesson has you bound, with a tank making use of flash a short distance away, and monsters that immediately aggro you upon spawning. Simply use Fluid Aura to knock them back to the tank. Later on, you must make your way to a switch with an enemy attacking you, make use of Fluid Aura to give yourself time to use the switch.

And so on and so forth.

[Gilraen]

What, exactly, would be the point of this? You already have these in the class quests, the deer stampede in particular is an exercise in many of those abilities. These would just be levels of aggravation worse.

[DukeBurden]

I have a suggestion; don't implement it. Players don't need to be trained to play the game. JUST playing the game should teach them enough as it is. Let's not be "that" community and hold everyone's hand and give everyone a gold star for participating.

[Urthdigger]

What, exactly, would be the point of this? You already have these in the class quests, the deer stampede in particular is an exercise in many of those abilities. These would just be levels of aggravation worse.

They don't really, especially for tank classes, and can be brute forced with echo anyway.

I have a suggestion; don't implement it. Players don't need to be trained to play the game. JUST playing the game should teach them enough as it is. Let's not be "that" community and hold everyone's hand and give everyone a gold star for participating.

I'm not suggesting anyone's hand be held? Far from it, I'm suggesting a piece of content where they can't be dragged through by friends or echo bonus.

[ShaneDawn]

I have a suggestion; don't implement it. Players don't need to be trained to play the game. JUST playing the game should teach them enough as it is. Let's not be "that" community and hold everyone's hand and give everyone a gold star for participating.

See how well that worked out with some of the community couldn't even clear the old Steps of Faith or dps players who do 400 at i180. I think a major iasue in this game is it really doesn't teach an ignorant person much, as everything can be carried/facerolled through par the latest raids. Solo instances/harder instances in general that forced some kind of development would not be such a bad idea

[Daralii]

A training area is already in development, though no specifics or ETA.