Raid Progression Check points

[Dzian]

If people are joining clear groups that have no business being in there (i.e., the party is listed as a clear party for those who have been to or seen enrage multiple times, and someone joined with zero experience in the fight), then it falls to the party leader to enforce the rules of their PF. V5S is not long enough, nor difficult enough, to warrant checkpoints within the fight. If people aren’t pulling their weight and/or causing multiple wipes to the same thing over and over again, the party leader needs to either remove them, or you should bounce and find a different PF with a leader that will enforce their PF rules.

Checkpoints within a fight might not work mid battle per se. but checkpoints as a whole could be great and its something that's been suggested multiple times.

All it really needs is like 3 simple checks and lock out various queue options if the answer to any is no.
A: Have you entered the fight before?
B: Have you made it to the phase 3?
C: Have you got the boss down to lower than 10%?

If the answer is to A is no then the only option you or the party leader have is a practice party for the first phase within raid finder.
If the answer to A is yes but B is no then you can queue phase 1 learning parties.
If the answer to B is yes but C is no then you can queue a phase 1 or 3 learning party.
And can only queue a "clear party" if you or all members have seen lower than 10% boss HP.

This could be a really helpful tool as it would prevent people from joining the wrong parties. in a similar fashion to the duty completion check box they added to party finder groups not so long ago. If you created a clear party with that check box ticked then anyone who had not seen 10% HP on the boss could not join your party.

would also help raid finder groups as well. nothing worse than queieng a fight in raid finder only to find a bunch of people who have never entered before have selected the duty completion option instead of practice...

if it falls to the party leader to kick people out for performing badly or joining the wrong party the problem there is that it's generally to late and everyone elses time has already been wastred.... a check point style thing would prevent this before it happens in the same way the duty completion requirement does.

it wouldn't be perfect obviously the same way the duty completion one isn't 8 people who have completed a duty can form a farm party and it can still fail miserably. but it does at least increase the likelihood of a group being successful

[HyoMinPark]

Checkpoints within a fight might not work mid battle per se. but checkpoints as a whole could be great and its something that's been suggested multiple times.

All it really needs is like 3 simple checks:- and lock out various options if the answer to any is no.
A: have you entered the fight before?
B: have you made it to the phase 3?
C: have you got the boss down to lower than 10%?

I was under the impression OP was referring to checkpoints within a fight, like what people were suggesting for A6S’ Robot Party and Ultimate; not checkpoints in regards to personal progression per player, so apologies to the OP if that was what they meant.

While these would be wonderful, I’m not sure how the devs would code them into the fight. As it stands now, I think the only flag they have is: fight cleared? Yes/No. They would have to implement multiple flags for this to work.

Would they do it by phases (e.g., Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, etc.) or by a boss’ HP percentage (e.g., 75%, 50%, 25%, etc.)? I feel like both could be tricky to implement, though I certainly wouldn’t be against the implementation for PF requirements.

Using the example of V5S, I suppose if they were to divide it by phases, they could do something like:
—Phase 1: Beginning to add phase (generally this is 100% ~ 60% with a decent group)
—Phase 2: Adds / Doom Chimney / Throttle & Putrid Passenger Phase
—Phase 3: Post-Putrid Passenger Phase (since the mechanics just repeat from this point forward until enrage, albeit in a faster fashion).


That being said, I still stand by my original point: if a person joins a PF and doesn’t have any business being in there, a party leader should enforce their own rules. They are more than within their power to do so, and shouldn’t feel “bad” if they have to kick a person that is holding back a group (or a person that joined a clear/farm and had never stepped foot into the fight).

[Dzian]

That being said, I still stand by my original point: if a person joins a PF and doesn’t have any business being in there, a party leader should enforce their own rules. They are more than within their power to do so, and shouldn’t feel “bad” if they have to kick a person that is holding back a group (or a person that joined a clear/farm and had never stepped foot into the fight).

I don't disagree the party leader should do that when necessary

the problem with that though is that if it gets to that stage where the party leader has to kick someone who clearly shouldn't be there for making so many mistakes. then chances are they've already wasted a good deal of everyone elses time..

a checkpoint style thing would go a long way to prevent that and thus result in less wasted time for everyone by preventing that time waster from joining in the first place.

[Lycia]

your post

Ty for this post. I'm sorry Hyo for not being specific about what I would like to see. I think having an option like this would be super easy to code in. I don't want folks to be able to just step into the final phase...but form a group of people who have all been to the final phase and do the entire encounter.

I wish it were as simple as just enforcing the rules though...but for my server it doesn't solve the problem.

You open a PF for a fight. You wait for it to fill. Lets say it takes 10 minutes to fill up. You get everyone set on a ready check, and you enter the encounter. Lets say another 3-5 minutes for that to happen. You get in, and you place markers and call out assignments. Another 5 minutes can pass before the very first pull. You do the pull and someone is bad, it takes 3-5 minutes on the pull til wipe is called. No one wants to be a dick so you tell them they have one more chance to get it right. You do it again and the same thing happens so you leave and kick them. By now 30 minutes have passed. You go back into PF looking for another person. Fill them in go in and then find out someone has never seen phase 2 or 3 and keep getting you killed. You leave that time and now a whole hour + has passed. People are annoyed, so they may leave...but you have a good group, so you open up PF one more time and get another player to replace the one that was wiping you at the end...and lo and behold that player has never seen phase 1. Your group gets pissed and leaves...and you lost an hour+ because of people.