Guild Wars 2

We haven’t had a chance to see raids yet but I wanted to make a post of what I feel would make raids great.

They have talked about this boss that you need to kill by evading his powerful blast by destroying a wall and then glide off it, yet they didn’t say anything about other mechanics we may see in there and that kind of gets me worried.

I hope we don’t just get go there, gather that, kill that…

I would love to see more of the TT mechanics going on, specially the Amber Wurm.

I hope to see many debuffs that you need to do special things to get rid off, like, people paring up, debuffs having to jump a bunch of times and doing a lot of dmg or debuffs that explode if they have to many jumps between players, things like this. Special ones besides the conditions we have now, debuffs that can wipe a raid in 2 seconds if someone messed up. I think the Abomination buff and debuff on the Amber Wurm showed a lot of promise ( but scaled up for an organised group, a bit more punishing) and I hope to see more of that in the future in raids and if possible in dungeons, fractals when it comes to bosses, that will be the perfect way to have diversity in terms of metas and tactics.

What are you guys looking to get out of raids?

What i look for? A massive kick in my rear for once, challenge and sweaty and shaky hands. A fight where everything can go horrible wrong any second…and where you dont run up to the lootbox once its over and click the exit instance button right away… nope.. you walk to it to claim what you deserve, dance on the corpse of the fallen boss, pose with it and celebrate and then wear the enemie´s skin as a trophy….ehhh well their items they drop, good enough for me. Basically i want that feel back that i had waaay back then where i overcame my personal limit and skill. The first solo on a champ… beating liadri the concealing dark, fighting lupicus solo and defeating it… so many awesome memories. And this time i can experience it with my guild and friends, already looking forward to it.

Having to get my head around new mechanics, figuring out a puzzle and theory crafting team construction to cover the deadly aspects.