Guild Wars 2

We have challenge motes… can we get easy motes?

Before everyone jumps down my throat – no you would not be able to get LI and stuff like that from them.

But I’m thinking this would be extremely helpful for training raids.

The fights could be identical to the regular versions but with the damage scaled down. Things that would wipe you (e.g. Sabatha flame wall) would just do significant damage.

This would give folks the chance to see all of the different phases of a boss quicker and to be able to focus more on the mechanics… such as getting to the green circles on VG/Cairn, throwing bombs on Sabetha, eating mushrooms on Sloth, and things like that without having to waste time restarting as much. They would be spending more time learning the boss than resetting.

It might also make PUG training groups more of a possible thing. Seems like most training raids these days are set up/organized by an established guild. That’s great when it happens… but if you need to learn Sab and a Sab training group is not up it is going to take you a longer time to learn the fight. I would never go into a training group without at least some experienced or semi-experienced folks there with the way things are now but with an easy mote I would be more inclined.

Do people think this is a good idea? Have folks already asked for this?

There are multiple threads on this and related topics in the raids forum. A lot of interesting feedback there.