First of a lobby and its own LFG section – yes very original of me but we do need that.
However the problem starts here – the Vale Guardian is timed before he gets enraged.
So there seem to be only 2 solutions, either use as much DPS as possible to kill it as fast as you can, or use as much resistance and healing so you will be able to survive even while enraged but kill it slow. Obviously no one likes doing things slowly so most will select the first option, plus I don’t even know if option 2 is possible.
But if we take max DPS then we will be going back to where we were before HoT. We will find the class that does the most normal damage and conditional damage and go like 5 of those 3 of the other and 2 healer types. Lets be honest HoT did make players care less about what others play. It’s hard to find now a team which will say things like “no necros or rangers” or “war guard only”.
Mixed teams are more common now but Raids can now cause a new domino effect that will degrade some classes. It might not be the same as before but what difference does it make who will be the underdog when there should be none? We will just be back to where we started.
So I propose to give some passive effects to each class while in Raids that will effect all 10 players. What I mean by that each class will give a different effect for the whole party. Like Warriors could give increased damage, Necromancers could give life stealing (but I mean stronger than vampiric aura so like 100 points per hit at least), Guardians could give damage reduction and so on.
These effects could not be duplicated so there would not be any more damage increase for taking 2 warriors or more and same for any other class. So the best idea would be to bring a full team containing each of every 9 professions as then there will be the most synergy. These effects could also be unlocked through the new raid mastery that we just got.
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