Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
I'm probably in the minority here but I don't like how SE slapped a Damage Down on everything to make sure everyone plays the mechanic the exact way they want them to and they will like it.
Mechanics in Savage still hit hard enough to pose a serious threat if not coordinated with the healers beforehand or if selfmit/ shield isn't on point. I've never saw anyone just eating the stack willy-nilly on balls on e6s, it was always "Are we playing uptime balls?" because there was an aoe right afterwards and unless you were near BiS, you absolutely needed mit to even survive the hit.
It took away some options for coordinated settings. In uncoordinated settings, people usually still just died if they just ate it so no real difference.

Eating several stacks and getting away with it while only punishing the healer is something that's true for casual content and I don't always agree with it there but I wish they would've left Savage alone and left the playerbase some freedom to come up with creative strats that reward coordination instead of enforcing the single solution to a mechanic they want players to use.
Yeah, you‘re right that they shouldn‘t be used if you do a mechanic correct, but maybe not the 100% intended way.

I brought up hades ex, i did that one on content and there, eating the vuln up wasn‘t the worst to happen. A tank with a big shield straight up didn‘t get it so they could easy survive the tb after and that one pizza mechanic, too. Was more chill to not have people run around and eat even more vuln ups.

Vuln ups are healer punishment more than dps, but replacing all of them with damage down DOES suck, too, i can see why.

My wish was rather that some normal content could do with damage downs for the one that messes up.
Won‘t make SOME people play better, but most would avoid just straight up ignoring mechanics if they got punished and not the healer.

And i meant when i said that all party damage down for ONE person is messed up and shouldn‘t be a thing.

It depends on how and why, sometimes the „healer punishment“ is the better way and i‘m also gulity to eating vuln ups in some fights as whm.