Thread: Any ARR 2.0-2.55 players? Tell us your experience during those times.

It was a good time when you start a game at release and everything was new for everyone. Everything felt dangerous and exciting to explore. Every new dungeon felt like a challenge when everyone was in it for the first time and nobody had a clue about anything that will happen. I remember my first time in Stone Vigil. Everyone was new. We died several times on the bosses. We also wiped 3 times or so on the final boss but we succeeded on the last attempt before the 90 minutes ran out. There were litterally just like 10 seconds left before we would have been kicked. The whole 90 minutes were exciting. Every new dungeon since HW or at least SB can't give that feeling anymore.

Compared to now it was great that the bosses had more mechanics or at least the bosses didn't melt as nowadays so that you had to do all mechanics.

Originally Posted by ReynTime

I forgot to mention TP but yeah, I liked TP management. Though personally I liked how TP was handled BEFORE A Realm Reborn more. Building it up from 0 to use TP specific actions to me was a better execution.

I quite miss the TP management as well from ARR. When you had a bit to think and time the use of AoE and single target attacks. Now you hit just one single button the whole dungeon except for the bosses. But I disliked that magic users had an advantage that they could use sprint because they didn't use TP for their actions.

Originally Posted by ACE135

I quite miss the TP management as well from ARR. When you had a bit to think and time the use of AoE and single target attacks. Now you hit just one single button the whole dungeon except for the bosses. But I disliked that magic users had an advantage that they could use sprint because they didn't use TP for their actions.

I both miss and don't miss TP lol. It was a nice element to resource management, but at the same time jobs like MNK just got absolutely wrecked by TP because of their faster GCD. Also ya...sprint....that was stupid how it worked back then.

Originally Posted by Ransu

I both miss and don't miss TP lol. It was a nice element to resource management, but at the same time jobs like MNK just got absolutely wrecked by TP because of their faster GCD. Also ya...sprint....that was stupid how it worked back then.

Monk wasn't that bad for the most part to be fair. It was only really bad on a few fights, but most fights had enough downtime that it wasn't that much of an issue especially when you had TP song from Bard. If you didn't have access to TP song then you just cried. Monk has been my main DPS since I started, and even though I hate the current Monk I can never change it.

Unless of course you were using aoes, in which case rip all DPS. At least Wide Volley looked cool.

Originally Posted by Asako

Monk wasn't that bad for the most part to be fair. It was only really bad on a few fights, but most fights had enough downtime that it wasn't that much of an issue especially when you had TP song from Bard. If you didn't have access to TP song then you just cried. Monk has been my main DPS since I started, and even though I hate the current Monk I can never change it.

Unless of course you were using aoes, in which case rip all DPS. At least Wide Volley looked cool.

Oh yea, wasn't it that Paladins actually were running TP negative back then and required to be the fed with Goad all the time?

Originally Posted by Arrius

Oh yea, wasn't it that Paladins actually were running TP negative back then and required to be the fed with Goad all the time?

I don't wanna talk about that. I played a lot of Paladin back then. At least we had the good shield swipe back then. The real OG damage. Bulwark plus Shield Swipe. 15s of pure proc city when tanking groups of adds. Then they nerfed Shield Swipe and gave it a cooldown. Boooooo!