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Proposal Overview
Selectable Fractals:
Goal of Proposal
Allow fractal run to be selected by the group. Tie Reward to difficulty.
Proposal Functionality
Instead of the random tiered 4 chain event, allow each fractal to be selectable, want to do a short run, do all easy ones, want to do a kittene, do all hard. Run is selectable by the group. Reward level based on difficulty, ie more for dredge, a lot less for swamp.
Associated Risks
Without change in rewards, all easy fractals will be selected for speed. Make sure that each fractal reward is unique, rewards can be adjusted after time if certain fractal levels don’t see enough love.
The point is not whether it is “easy”. The point is that learning REQUIRES failure. and experimentation. It requires more for some than for others.
Example: Hey there’s a black surface on the ground. Is this something I want to stand in? Do I need to lead the boss into it? Does it give me a buff? I don’t know if its the first time I come to an event (or even the 5th time if I’ve never seen this particular boss before). I do know it isn’t a RED circle. So it might be a good thing. I stand in it. It hits for a massive amount of damage. Downed. Lesson learned. Oh, I just ruined this for everyone on this chain.
Did I do something wrong here?
I am a warrior. Things tend to die very quickly when I use my greatsword. Every other champion I’ve encountered in this event has been chopped up pretty easily. I go into boss 3. He swings around. Oh..downed. Ruined chain. for everyone. Next time I’ll dodge, block, or use a ranged weapon.
What was done wrong here?
Having learned boss 3 I now enter boss 5. In this instance I used my ranged weapon, but now I don’t have enough DPS to finish in time. Fail.
These are reasonable examples. Not everyone will go to Dulfy or youtube and research how to do things. My feedback is only that there be an area to practice, in a time-limited event where your chance of success is determined by the bottom 10% of the population.
The worm on the other hand is really hard, but is permanent content. In this case, I think its fine. There is plenty of time to learn.
The main issue with the Marionette is a spawn timer with 2 hours, combined with requirements that people execute the event. If Lliadri the Concealing Dark was on a 2 hour spawn window, the amount of people who actually would have been able to complete it would have been next to none. The bosses in the rings can one shot you. You can’t learn about what can one shot you without being one shot. Not only that, but you also need teamwork in many of them. A holo-deck mode, or practice, where people could Learn on something faster than a 2 hour window would help tremendously with this.
It would be good if there was a different key for rezzing than for picking up. There are times especially in dungeons or fractals, where you most definitely want to pick up or activate something (fans, batteries, environmental 1 shot weapons) rather than rez a fallen comrade. If the player dies in the wrong spot this can cause a needless party wipe.
By using the 2 lion’s arch jumping puzzles, one can stand at the point where it triggers the achievement increase and log in and out until complete.
If you just took out the siege weapons from the jumping puzzle it would work as intended. Personally I have no problem trying to run through or fight in there. But if people are camped on the edge of the arena with arrow carts/ballista. You can’t reasonably do anything at that point at that point its just laugh and move on, don’t feed the trolls.