Thread: Astragalos

I don't know if it is just Primal but Astragalos is pretty much non-existent and we are back to 72 man shatter. Occasionally get 72 man seize.

It is overall just NA data centers.
All Japanese data centers are showing opposite and Rival Wing discussion is 300% active there than we are.
Each of Japanese data centers have maybe about 30 Frontline matches each week.

Originally Posted by Divinemights

All Japanese data centers are showing opposite and Rival Wing discussion is 300% active there than we are.

Interesting. Looks like their players foremost seek fun in pvp when our players - effectiveness. In result "pro-pvpers" do not go there because no premades there, bots and exp farmers - because no roulette bonus. If SE will add Astralogos roulette it will at least alive again.

I usually queue for all maps of Frontlines + Astragalos, and believe it or not, I managed to enter a Borderland's Ruins (Secure) twice and not even once entered Astragalos. I'm on Aether Datacenter.

Depends what the bots are queueing into.

Originally Posted by Araxes

Its not just American Datacenters. Astralagos is COMPLETELY Dead on EU-Servers too. Once i waited 4 Hours on Saturday-prime-time. Every time i try to queue it shows 30 mins +

I guess the reason for that is the Design that favoured Healers way to much so half the Participants in there were Healers ---> Dps and Tank players hated it and left.

More-so the fact the design of the mode is just generally bad. It's like a really horrid MMO version of a MOBA-style game. Also GCvGCvGC in general is terrible design.

Originally Posted by BloodRubyXII

More-so the fact the design of the mode is just generally bad. It's like a really horrid MMO version of a MOBA-style game. Also GCvGCvGC in general is terrible design.

I am strongly disagree.
Design in general is not bad, it is the way we behaved screw up the mode.
In general English players prefers to play with certain advantage or cookie cutter.
This is why this mode is dead on EU and NA.
Especially 3 way combats significantly reduce the issue of premades vs pugs.
You will always have a 3rd faction screw up the premade's dominance over pug group

Originally Posted by silverlunarfox

Yet we can "behave" in other mobas just fine (astralagos is simply a variation of the standard moba fare). But this mode did have some issues that were never addressed in terms of balance and gameplay. While the user bases may vary the game mode was the same.

Because they refused to fix the overwhelming advantage healers had. Which is a design flaw.

I have point out the potential problem of healers have high potency damage spell for no apparent reason from the Feast-balancing.
It is a left-over from 3.0 system because healer need a damage spell for PvE.
A healer job should not be able to heal, absorb damage, crowd control and output damage at the same time.
To me this is balance flaw instead of design flaw, just imagine the backlash from Feast side.