Baldesion Arsenal Feedback

[Vaer]

"blame the design" is gettin old, rly...

It is meant to be the main thing in Hydatos, thats why the map is so blant, we should go in and try all the time, not every X hours after you manage to get 60ppl in the same instance.

The desing was nice, it would be such fun to try, maybe wipe but still upgrade your gear, spawning fates to level back and try again... BUT not here, ppl want all and only success so we rather got another afk zone.

For the next "Eureka" they gotta limit it to about 60 ppl not "melts your PC/PS4" ppl...

I don't blame people for wanting the higher success rate. Guess what happens when you put a cool mount for clearing the entire thing and the rest of the stuff can be bought off the MB. People want to clear the entire thing. Rest of the drops in there can be bought on the MB and you can slowly farm fragments even if you can't clear the entire thing by just screwing around so you can already slowly upgrade your stuff. I'm sure there are people wanting the mount before the content just dies and it gets harder to field the amount of people just to attempt.

It would be a bit different if you could just buy the ozma mount for an insane amount of fragments right now, but you can't so the next best option is to join a more organized group of players that can control what jobs are being brought in, logos loadout, etc to make a good attempt at it. Makes sense to me.

For real though, there are certain parts of BA where I wouldn't want to be with a purely do whatever you want group, since it would end up as a circus. (like the AV portal rooms) That's just me though.

[Physic]

I don't blame people for wanting the higher success rate. Guess what happens when you put a cool mount for clearing the entire thing and the rest of the stuff can be bought off the MB. People want to clear the entire thing. Rest of the drops in there can be bought on the MB and you can slowly farm fragments even if you can't clear the entire thing by just screwing around so you can already slowly upgrade your stuff. I'm sure there are people wanting the mount before the content just dies and it gets harder to field the amount of people just to attempt.

It would be a bit different if you could just buy the ozma mount for an insane amount of fragments right now, but you can't so the next best option is to join a more organized group of players that can control what jobs are being brought in, logos loadout, etc to make a good attempt at it. Makes sense to me.

For real though, there are certain parts of BA where I wouldn't want to be with a purely do whatever you want group, since it would end up as a circus. (like the AV portal rooms) That's just me though.

mounts are everywhere, doesnt change anything, and full clears are not impossible. Its never going to be a do whatever you want group, experienced players will show regular playere, basically the same as discord, without signing up queuing, and server hopping for hours.

it happens in other games, it happens in jp. People want to succeed, if people tell them how, they will learn.

[Vaer]

mounts are everywhere, doesnt change anything, and full clears are not impossible. Its never going to be a do whatever you want group, experienced players will show regular playere, basically the same as discord, without signing up queuing, and server hopping for hours.

it happens in other games, it happens in jp. People want to succeed, if people tell them how, they will learn.

I was more responding to the other person saying people wanting a high success rate is a bad thing, and one of the reasons is because of the unique reward they put all the way at the end that people want which falls in the "design" being at fault. Let's be real here, if there was no unique reward for clearing the entire thing or if you could buy the ozma mount for fragments the salt wouldn't even be as high since the rest of the stuff can be bought off the MB and the fragments can be slowly farmed even if you don't make it very far.

I'm not saying a group of 50 pugs wouldn't ever beat it. Who wants to gamble on having enough people and the right amount of jobs to get to the end when you can delevel and waste more time. The player base just took things into their own hands. If people would rather sit for 2 hours doing nothing to get enough people to go in that says something.

[Physic]

I was more responding to the other person saying people wanting a high success rate is a bad thing, and one of the reasons is because of the unique reward they put all the way at the end that people want which falls in the "design" being at fault. Let's be real here, if there was no unique reward for clearing the entire thing or if you could buy the ozma mount for fragments the salt wouldn't even be as high since the rest of the stuff can be bought off the MB and the fragments can be slowly farmed even if you don't make it very far.

Who wants to gamble on having enough people and the right amount of jobs to get to the end when you can delevel and waste more time. The player base just took things into their own hands.

perhaps, i never really got the mount craze. most people i know who want to it want the fragments and the challenge if beating it, the mount is just a trophy to show they can do it.

[Liam_Harper]

The problem with the design is that it's a mish mash of conflicting goals.

Enix has always had a bit of an issue with trying to shove opposite goals all into the same instance. Things like the accursed hoard system alongside fast alt leveling in PotD/HoH. Gatherering and battling in the Diadem. In Eureka we have players farming Warped boxes, players farming FATES for their relic, players farming Claws for Zuzu, players farming Bunnies for the mount and then bang in the middle a raid that requires 40% of the instance to drop what they're doing. It just isn't going to happen, everyone's been split into different objectives.

Pair it with the fact that it's difficult content which isn't everyone's cup of tea while Eureka itself it quite simple in terms of combat, and you're very unlikely to get a full 56 man group from the 144 in there.

[Physic]

The problem with the design is that it's a mish mash of conflicting goals.

Enix has always had a bit of an issue with trying to shove opposite goals all into the same instance. Things like the accursed hoard system alongside fast alt leveling in PotD/HoH. Gatherering and battling in the Diadem. In Eureka we have players farming Warped boxes, players farming FATES for their relic, players farming Claws for Zuzu, players farming Bunnies for the mount and then bang in the middle a raid that requires 40% of the instance to drop what they're doing. It just isn't going to happen, everyone's been split into different objectives.

Pair it with the fact that it's difficult content which isn't everyone's cup of tea while Eureka itself it quite simple in terms of combat, and you're very unlikely to get a full 56 man group from the 144 in there.

actualy it can only hold 1/3rd the instance, i hear it scales down somewhat as well. Hydatos has little else going on on purpose, its mostly a leveling and releveling zone for people to attempt BA. Hydatos has the least going on of any eureka zone, its just designed to be the lobby for BA really.

and its not really incredibly harder than the hardest content in Eureka, its just that you cant get raised. It doesnt have a tight dps check, you can gear up to make it much easier, just have to learn mechanics, thats it.

[Waffles298]

i have a crazy and wild idea regarding BA. why not let the people who want to run it in premades run it with a que (you could restrict it to requiring a full alliance premade, or what ever.), and let the people that want to pug it use the portals in hydatos? for me personally, despite how much i enjoyed BA and the logos system, i've given up on BA because i'm tired of having to deal with BA portal / instance queueing Savage.

[Kuroka]

BC at this point its too late, most bend to the "you can only clear with Discord" so youll never get enough parties - I tried everytime i was there, 1/4 or more isnt even 60, 1/4 does bunny for mount or Lockboxes or needs stuff for their gear. We already broke it and it could only be fixed by nerving it to the ground and let us ress in there or my not allowing any premades to que...
(Besides the actual fix to make it an 56ppl raid for DF or creating a new zone without the support fate or anything that needs more work)

[Vasala]

One thing that really needs to happen due to BA is an increase in the availability of some of the logograms with the big offenders being Protective and Curative. Either having them drop from more sources or increasing what you get from the bunny chests since the supply is not keeping up with the demands on most servers which is leading to these logos being extremely expensive on most market boards.

[Deceptus]

I do wonder if the 56 person design was to prevent instance server crashing with so many people trying the new content.

I honestly think it needs to be balanced around a 24 man raid team.

There's a reason other games don't have that many people as a requirement for content. Organizing them SUCKS. It's not fun. It's just time consuming.

Also, there absolutely needs to be another way to get fragments. I think more people would attempt BA if they could get that elemental gear before hand. It would help people who make mistakes live through them. One shot mechanics aren't fun either.

Make the fragments have a low drop chance from the regular lockboxes and a higher drop rate from moisture boxes