flynnjsw wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 6:04pm:


Not tinfoil.

I think that raid did need a little boost for epic - Breaken and I discovered a while back that Velah did more damage to us on Elite than Epic.  I think that Epic should be a challenge, the problem is that Turbine thinks adding 39472398472093 hit points to a boss equals challenging which is absolutely not the case.

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That I certainly agree with, as I do with the "if difficulty goes up, loot chances should as well" thinking. I guess I am mostly amused by all the whining and the tinfoil hat brigade.

those fucks are just lazy programmers. if they made that blob of over-proportioned HP's actually MOVE instead of just standing there taking it up the ass like Heffty right now, THAT might make me want to run +5 year old content AGAIN.

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Was Stainer doing the math?

I didn't think he could count that high.

JC wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 9:23pm:


Like this?

JC wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 9:42pm:


Nah...I can do better than that for old Stainer.

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He used the wrinkles in his balls to keep track.

I had an epic wipe once....

Damn curry

Chris79 wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 11:19pm:


Fuck yeah

Auran wrote on Sep 19^th, 2011 at 6:44am:


Partly true.  In groups where everyone has a solid build and reasonable quest knowledge, resource usage will be low.

In groups where gimps are welcome (Either newish players or even experienced players sneaking in on their undergeared 5th alt) and the overall DPS is low making the beatdown longer, then some pots might have to be chugged.

We'll all get used to this, just that group selection will be a bit more picky at endgame raids now. 

It wil effect most people with not many having every single alt geared to the gills and able to contribute in a meaningful way in endgame raiding.

We'll probably see a lot more Micromanagment from Raid leaders also (At least those that complete with the minimum amount of hassle).

Auran wrote on Sep 19^th, 2011 at 7:28am:


True. It's interesting myDDOing meh performers after the event - I've encountered folk who think, for example, that a greensteel blank is sufficient DPS to bring to the table, which is a bit.... yeah mate.

I think where we see PUGs up they either won't be true PUGs but more a grouping mechanism for guildies / channelmates / friends, or we will see a lot more myDDOing. I do hope it's not must have epic gear to run epics nonsense, but actually having your greensteel isn't a bad starting point.

Trouble is on a divine caster it'll be hard to know how carefully the raid leader is poking people, so if I PUG with her, I'm going to only PUG with people I know, and avoid pure PUGs like the plague.