New player here, have been playing the game 3 months and would like to give some feedback.
Please consider that as new player I have OK skills in the game but there is definitely room for improvement.
Raid Alert? Yes, the mechanics are from raids, back in the days in WoW we had bosses that could give you a debuff that once you got it you had to run away from the raid or WIPE the group out, and that is pretty much what the bomb does.
Regarding the bomb, playing from a laptop, min graphics, in the start I could hardly see I got it. There is too much going and maybe a sound that you got the bomb would help. I solved this by playing while being half way zoomed in so I can focus on my character better and enlarge the warning.
Still, I couldn’t always make it into the bubble in time, maybe I was ressing someone or performing an AOE that I had to quickly break, or trying to stay alive from something and by the time I run to the bubble I would reach the bubble but just not make it in! Very frustrating. I improved this by trying to be near the bubble. But that is not always possible.
Graphics wise, sometime I couldn’t see the bubble at all, I would see only a white circle and guess that’s where I have to go.
Regarding the Fear, well it was variable, sometimes it worked when you run away. But it is harsh that you fly off the platform and if you don’t break it in time with special you are more likely to fully die when you land (not even down to give you a chance for ress). Again this penalty is harsh and requires some practise and to hopefully find somewhere convenient that you can keybind the Special so you can use it quickly. I found I could break the fear by performing shield and that improved things.
So we went in a PUG, wiped the first times on second boss. Went in with a different PUG later, the elitists left the group and we had a few people living and coming. In the end 5 of us stick together for over 2 hours on Tier 2 and did it again and again, we never managed to defeat the last boss, we got down to 1/3 of the HP.
Would I do it again? To spend god knows how long with some PUG today again, NO! That is the problem. Is fine to go through a learning curve with your own guildies over a boss mechanics and at least work towards some great rewards. But I wouldn’t do that every day with PUGs! Waiting for someone else to do all the mistakes I did or we did, and finally maybe defeat it for some really not great rewards? No really.
- Please add rewards when killing each boss, it is such a waste of time to not get anything in the end. We also have goals in the game and need mats and gold to achieve them!
- The orbs during the pillars stage at last boss are too wonky to control, and also if somehow they get out of the platform it is impossible to get them back in = WIPE. There is no need to get bomb while trying to do the pillars, it is too much and it leads to wipe. Also there is no need to progress to next stage and have aoe shooting left right and centre from the boss if too slow to do the pillars = wipe (there would always be one person that failed to do or too slow to do the pillar!). If the orbs weren’t so wonky to control it could be ok. But they are a pain at times. Also no need for one person to control two orbs! Or two people to interact with one orb, it creates a mess. Why won’t you make it that once you lock into an orb you get 2 abilities, key 1 to push it away from you, key 2 to push towards you, so if it gets stack somewhere and it doesn’t follow you to fix it this way!?
-There is no need to get the bomb while downed! Seriously? = WIPE, except if I make it in spirit form into the bubble (ability 2 for ele).
-There is no need to be able to control the orbs during the pillars phase when downed… It is even more wonky and hard to aim.
Overall it is a brilliant fractal but not always for PUGs. I would like to see such more approachable content like this that could be parallel to raids and have nice achievements or rewards waiting for you, but this is too much work for crap rewards.
It is very likely I won’t be PUGing this today and may even leave the group if they decide to do it. Can’t be wasting time like this. The learning curve with PUGs is not the same as if you did it with your own group/guild, as in raids practise! So yes this is a raid style fractal in my opinion.
~ New player signs off
(edited by Yreal.6937)