One or more players overwhelm you and defeat is inescapable. Would you:
a) Rather delay death by entering the downed state?
b) Die and sooner re-spawn?
The only time defeat is inescapable is when i kitten up something ^^. Defeat is never inescapable with proper cooldown management and planning…. unless 3 thieves backstab you at exactly the same time and you had no idea they were there :’(.
Im going with A simple because i love downed states in games, from an emotional and aestethic way (some games really mess the downed system up :o).
Also, if defeat is inescapable, like when im surrounded by like 20 enemies across a 5000 range (so theres no way im blinking and stealthing out of there) then it probably wouldnt last long for them to swallow me anyway.
i stand still → 1 second later im downed → 1 second of invulnerablity → 2 seconds later dead ;D
The only time i get swallowed is when i somehow spam skills and have nothing left though, and i dont have that much passive defense so the dying part goes quite quickly :P. Spamming skills and not having anything left is a mistake on my part, and dying is kind of like an experience where you look back at mistakes, and improving somehow is always fun to me. I never want to respawn as quickly as possible because i have to reflect for atleast 5 seconds, so respawning faster isnt really a reason to skip downed.
Im going with A, because theres nothing more embarassing and screaming “you kittened up somewhere, dont do it again”, than seeing your character be swallowed by a zerg of hungry kittens.
Two contingencies square-off and you are soon plummeted into downed state. Would you:
a) Prefer an ally immediately rehabilitate you?
b) Linger there for awhile until someone is able to rejuvenate you?
c) Just die?
English isnt my main langauge and i have no idea what the difference between rehabilitate and rejuvenate is
. But ill keep it simple, when im with people whom i know are good players, i know theyll notice me going down and theres a chance that theyre going to be able to revive me, and that chance is huge in an organised team where people immediatally throw aoe control effects on you to push foes away.
In a wvw zerg theres always a chance to be revived if people are near you, ofcourse, you cant control them and they may just run by you.
Ill just go with A or B, whatever they mean.
TL;DR: the downed system adds a LOT of depth, there are alot of ways you can deal with downed allies or enemies. The only complexity, which i very much appreciate, is having to manage and save your cooldowns to PREPARE for downed enemies or allies. It just changes the way you use and manage your skills.
P.S. i forgot to mention when an ally goes down, theres different things to do aswell, ill mention 1 strategy i commonly use in an organised team: As im wearing mostly berserkers (berserker amulet in Spvp), im very bad at reviving, i often rely compeltely on active defense, and i cant use any of them while reviving. Sometimes i let the team’s bunker revive, but when i see an enemy approaching i can immobilize them
. just to prevent damage from my team ^^.
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. Sometimes i get them both to low health and just try to down them at the same time, or keep them low untill cooldowns recharge.
. Or maybe make the 30 points alreayd allocated per character, but give the player some choices which trait to actually choose :o. like your character “messmeress” whom has 30 inspiration, The player would be able to choose between “remove conditions when shattering”,“phantasms have 1 more health”,“feedback for 1 turn when reviving”
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. They were both using offensive amulets so it was over wuite quickly.