"Fix" Speed Runs? How about fixing the real issue?

[Shougun]

Perhaps killing a squad earns you a permanent refresh piece of the LB bar?

I know for the Demon Wall you need a LB bar ready if not in a geared group (for the gnats), perhaps killing the trash beforehand would permanently place a % in the bar after each death. So you do the run say earn 50% LB refresh- you use LB on the wall, you wipe, you revive with 50% LB bar (refresh only happening on wipes of course, to prevent wipe LBing trash mobs should only refresh on boss wipes).

Wouldn't really fix it in all occasions (no need for LB in castrum), but at least in that scenario (Demon wall with pug/ok geared people) I might possibly suggest killing the trash/exploring all areas.

I suppose I partly suggest this just because I think building the LB bar if you wipe is quite silly, can't kill the mob so you just sit there and clutch cure and stun stuff (which doesn't feel good, just like "look how bad we can play and get rewarded for it~!").

Also something that was sort of in 1.0 they could bring back is killing more / certain monsters increases the chests / reward at the end. So the best farming strategy would be one where you kill everything as fast as possible (rather than skip everything fast as possible). More chests and or more stones (say the boss drops 25 and completing a pack of trash mobs drops 5 but you only get the trash mob stones by completing the dungeon).



So.. less LB farming, better end dungeon rewards. Together I could see the more serious loot/farm dungeon runs including more of the dungeon then.


I hope they dont make every fight required though, I like sneaking around monsters and I don't like fighting stuff without a good reason- while "getting to the boss" is a reason I don't feel it is a good one (for every fight at least). Though, assuring better rewards/smoother fights would be.



Also.. Hi forums, been gone a while- the game is fun, more fun than the forums... ^^