Quote Originally Posted by Fluffya View Post
Every fight involve a gears check since those gears are our stats. Its always the enemy dmg/hp/skills vs our dmg/hp/skills. One shot mecanism is a one shot mecanism only because we dont have the stats to survive it.

Im not saying that a scaling system would be perfect, but everyone would find is match in it.
You would have to adjust and balance each and every one of those scale levels. On a raid level that is a ton of work.

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If SE set up 3.0 to work you into raids like the start of 2.0 did, that is ideal how to work you into it. Except have Savage hooked onto it. Like I said, raiding is the only content hardcore have in this game, or at least did. Catering to the casual crowd should only be considered if you have the resources after the conditions have been met for midcore and hardcore players. Its the other way around in SE's mind.

Basically: Level up content > Bismark EX > Ravana EX > Alex Normal (FCoB difficulty) 1-4 > Alex Savage 1-4

Having the two primals is your gateway into what is to come in raids to get you ready and a warm up for your team. When the next even numbered patch comes out, you put Echo Buff on and make the mechanics easier and less punishing for players. Savage however is never dumbed down and actually stays on a sync'ed ilvl so it will always retain it's difficulty and novelty for beating even when we are a few patches in. This is how you balance content that was intended for midcore/hardcore audience while also eventually catering to casual level play.

If people hadn't noticed, for the most part it is a copy/paste of WoW's raid structure. It works is why I throw it around. Blizzard knows not many will go into Heroic, but they also realize there has to be that ultimate carrot in the stick because they care about the casual, midcore, and hardcore. They know casual players won't make it to Heroic, at the same time they know there is an absolute ton of content casuals can do till the Normal mode of the raid gets dumbed down and gear outweighs it. They know there has to be content for everyone. Sure they put an easy mode for raids in, but this did not affect Normal/Heroic at all because they were not removed in the process and how easy was approached was very different since many players at once were in there.

Again, it goes back to me saying that SE does not have their priorities straight. Casual players should not be taken into consideration first.