Axe Goth Real?
Today I saw some friends asking what even happens if the dragon reaches the very end of Steps of Faith and I almost aged into dust on the spot.
Axe Goth Real?
Friends who came into the game later let me tell you that fight was an absolutely miserable slog of bad game design when it was new.
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It was tuned as best anyone could tell around the idea everyone was rocking a full set of Ironworks gear.
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Which let me tell you you shouldn't tune mandatory story content around the idea everyone is fully kitted out in the current weekly gear.
Axe Goth Real?
And also even allowing for that the DPS checks were immensely tight.
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And the mechanics had to be done perfectly.
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Which all of that would be... not fine but at least just moderate bullshit, if it weren't for the fact that the fight does not end if everyone dies. The fight ends when the dragon destroys the final barrier.
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Meaning you could fail the DPS/mechanics check with the first set of cannons and then have to wait another 10 minutes or so before you got to try again.
左樂
god this is making ME feel old
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I know, right?
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But they have gotten so much better at designing hard fights these days.
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Or rather, hard mandatory fights.
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Comparing things like the normal versions of Dying Gasp or Seat of Sacrifice to The Chrysalis or The Steps of Faith is night and day.
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Hell even those compared to Royal Menagerie.
Axe Goth Real?
I remember getting in queues and when people decided Trial Roulette half the party would strip half-naked to avoid RM.
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
lmao i've been through a full wipe of SoF anyway, even coming to the game late ... it's sure a fight that was designed
Axe Goth Real?
Yeah there's a lot of stuff from ARR and HW that is still very, uh.
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The devs were more interested in if they could rather than if they should sort of design.
Axe Goth Real?
But for my money 2.5x was probably the worst of it because roulettes were basically nonstop Keeper of the Lake, World of Darkness, Chrysalis, and Steps of Faith, all of which at level and varying low ilvls were special kinds of hell.
Axe Goth Real?
I think because all of those were a step up in mechanical complexity all at once, and all of those were plot mandatory.
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Well, WoD wasn't but people wanted the gear from it.
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
2.5 was we have ideas. they might be good ideas, they might be bad ideas, but we won't know till the players actually play them. let's find out what happens
paradisaea
I just disentigrated.
lotus 龙 wife
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creature
I cleared it when it had to be absolutely perfect... I should get a special ancient title for it
P. ianthina
ah yes... clearing before there were patches to address it... the Bad Old Days...
creature
back in PARADISE
paradisaea
we had one run, when the patch released, where we literally timed out twice
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