The Copied Factory too easy?

[Maeka]

I finally did this raid myself today.

It doesn't help it's my first 24man, I never had time to do the previous ones, but...

I noticed that a lot of the mechanics were either difficult to see the markers/tells, or they gave you <1 second reaction time/margin of error and everything does 80% of your health in damage and puts vuln on you so that you're guaranteed to die next time you get hit unless you got some shielding on you.

I was getting hit by a lot of stuff I was like "Um, OK how I was supposed to dodge that again?" I'd be fine one second, and then dead the next when there were no tells, no glow, no ground markers, nothing. Just BOOM. dead. I can only assume it has to do with which way the boss is facing, but with 15+ people standing ontop of it, that was nearly impossible to tell which way it's facing amidst all the chaos.

I would have to say I don't really get the big "hoo-hah" over 24 man content. It's just a lot of chaos and I didn't find it particularly fun. I think the same thing could have easily be done with 8man content, with the one exception being that big boss in the center with the 3 platforms with one team on each platform.

Otherwise, just throwing more bodies and vastly inflating health pools to match didn't really make it any more fun than 8 man fights to be honest.

[WildsWalker]

I finally did this raid myself today.

It doesn't help it's my first 24man, I never had time to do the previous ones, but...

I noticed that a lot of the mechanics were either difficult to see the markers/tells, or they gave you <1 second reaction time/margin of error and everything does 80% of your health in damage and puts vuln on you so that you're guaranteed to die next time you get hit unless you got some shielding on you.

I was getting hit by a lot of stuff I was like "Um, OK how I was supposed to dodge that again?" I'd be fine one second, and then dead the next when there were no tells, no glow, no ground markers, nothing. Just BOOM. dead. I can only assume it has to do with which way the boss is facing, but with 15+ people standing ontop of it, that was nearly impossible to tell which way it's facing amidst all the chaos.

This macro will turn down the spell and skill effects of other players and make it easier to see tells:

/bfx party off
/bfx other off
/soundeffectsparty 50
/soundeffectsother 20

You can turn it back up after, if you like:

/bfx party all
/bfx other all
/soundeffectsparty 100
/soundeffectsother 100

[KarstenS]

I noticed that a lot of the mechanics were either difficult to see the markers/tells, or they gave you <1 second reaction time/margin of error and everything does 80% of your health in damage and puts vuln on you so that you're guaranteed to die next time you get hit unless you got some shielding on you.

Mechanics like this means: you have to read the name of the enemy cast and move before the marker appear. Focus target is your friend.

In some cases, like the 4 different arm attacks by Engels, you have to look at him to see which one he does.