SUGGESTION: Proving Grounds

[DuskLikeDawn]

As someone who played wow for years, I had gold pg for a healer by pressing random buttons on 2 randoms (druid and pally) I boosted (free legion boost and free wod boost) but never gold gold on my main, a Frost mage, I raided with that mage and was a top 3 dps in my guild, always over 90th percentile. I couldn't heal on the others if my life depended on it.

So wow style proving grounds are not the way to go, in my opinion. Updated hall of the novice? Maybe.

[Jazmyn]

I saw people failing basic mechanics: Stacking what should be spread, not moving to safe zones or zones of least damage taken

Don't make this into a wow clone I gave up on it 2 years ago, and as for your quote take the time to explain. If thats to much of a bother just run with premades.

Did it a week ago and had the most awesome people in there, we got it down the third try and everyone had fun. Goddess Kamy (Faerie) made the run succeed by explaining it.

[mooferz]

Can we like.. just stop trying to make this game into a mini World of Warcraft? I quit that game because its trash, don't bring that trash here.

Just because you dislike a game doesn't mean it doesn't have some good ideas. MMO's have been borrowing ideas from each other for years.

[DamianFatale]

1. It's the same as WoW, because you're making a WoW inspired suggestion. Your whole post is about what WoW does. 2. We have that. It's called Hall of Novice, and it works great. 3. In Final Fantasy XIII, the tutorial felt long and forced to a lot of people. I'm pretty sure SE will never let that happen again. Tutorials will always be optional from now on, and for a good reason. 4. I've seen this thread too many times. It rarely goes over well.

[VenKitsune]

In regards to OP's point on jump potions, i would personally like to see them add a Obligatory Tutorial if you purchase a jump potion. a friend of mine was telling me about how in other MMOs with jump potions some of them litterally FORCE you to play a tutorial on how to play your class.

[Ametrine]

I feel like people don't know Guildhests exist anymore.

[Avatre]

I feel like people don't know Guildhests exist anymore.

They should probably expand on the Guildhests for some of the mechanics seen much later in the game.

[Sylvina]

None of your bright ideas will "fix" people being bad or refusing to learn the games mechanics. Making some sort of "proving ground" mandatory before attempting content would only add frustration and annoyance to the game, not something a game needs.

[NocturniaUzuki]

I'd rather not see it be a literal requirement to join. Perhaps if it was an option for hosts, just like [Duty Complete] is now.

As a healer main, I play for a challenge. If everyone is doing everything perfectly, it's too easy and therefore too boring. Heck, I already have to turn to undersizing random content, synced, in order to challenge myself as a healer. I frequently join Royal Menagerie just to help people clear because it's actually relatively fun and somewhat difficult to heal that fight when half or more of the party is dying every 2 minutes.

[LordLucavi]

First off, WoW sucks, do not request that garbage here.

Secondly, I would like to see Sky Stone Sea incorporate fight mechanics instead of just be a dps check. Yeah, it was added initially because SE admitted they made the dps check in a couple savage fights too high (thanks, SE, now we have a plague of tanks and healers who think they are dps and refuse to accept anything else), but they could at least have the dummies do the mechanics. Better yet, have a Hall of Challenges where you get the npc healer/tank/dps from Novice to do a practice fight.