Thread: 3.2 Patch Notes

Originally Posted by Andrea

However steps of faith can be explained in a few sentences. 1 tank and healer on cannons, cannons focus adds and use snares when up at later cannons. Dps focus on the main boss and ignore adds, one takes care of dragon killer. Tank brings adds to the front for the cannons to kill.

Honestly, I think the issue was that most fights, at least those intended for the MSQ/DF don't require more than 1 or 2 sentences to explain. Steps of Faith has several unique elements that need to be addressed, and people need to be assigned roles when you get in. Very little else in the MSQ/DF needs that. Heck, there are raid-level fights that don't require much more coordination than Steps does (you can explain AS1 in about 5 sentences if someone's done A1, for instance).

By the time we got Steps of Faith (and to a lesser extent, Chrysalis), the era of explaining things had long since passed for much of the playerbase. Most DF content between 2.1 and 2.5 didn't really need much explanation at all. But Steps of Faith's mechanics were significant enough that if you didn't sit down and develop a gameplan at the start, you were going to fail—contrast that with something like post-Nexus Garuda HM, where there is no explaining and the tank pulls immediately whether there's a new person or not.

Steps does explain everything to you as you go, but most of the explanations come too late. If you wait to run to the Dragonkiller until the NPC tells you to, for instance, you most likely won't make it up the tower in time to fire it, and with the original, un-nerfed Steps, that essentially means a wipe. When the wipe condition for the fight requires you to go through the whole fight before you can actually wipe, that can get to be quite un-fun.