Posts at the mother forums about changing the current heroic Abbot raid flagging and making sure epic Vol raid has a straightforward (easy?) flagging

Thoughts?

I can understand the frustration at random Sigil drops, but it's currently not that difficult to farm the pieces while doing the normal leveling or going back at a higher level. Yes, will require some repetition (work?) but it is flagging for a raid. Should raid flagging be easy on a silver platter?

Besides the Sigil farm, also posts about the 4 times boss beating. Yes it can get redundant doing front half of litany 4 times, so maybe a door or way to continue on to the next bosses after shattering the crystals in the tower?
Complaints about lack of group, but these can be ran at casual.

About people stating they've been playing for 5+ years and never setting foot into the raid. I don't have the best player skills or have a lot of time to put into DDO. However, I specifically set playing sessions to accomplish goals. It may take some time, but should be doable.

Should every aspect of the game be easily open to all, or should some features require an extra bit of time or skill?

FakeStrake wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 4:27pm:


I don't think that every aspect of the game should be beatable by all, but I do think that every aspect of the game should be *available* to all (as long as they pay for it).

Shroud flagging - good
Abbot flagging - sad panda

I feel that they should get rid of flagging for raids entirely. If the quests are good enough on their own to be run for xp/lsagas/fun then they will get played. If tying them to a raid is incentive than what occurs when people get the items, or the items become obsolete? Look at LoB/MA.

too late to chat about it, it's on Lammania...

And already dealt with :
- Heroic Stay as is, with it's pain in the ass flagging.
- Epic is just straightforward flagging : run the 4 flagging quests once and you're flagged.

raybob wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 4:49pm:


So... it shouldn't be "flagging." It should just be, "sign up for the raid and win."

Sheesh. Whiners nowadays. If this pay to win thing catches on, there might not be any more staying power in games.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 5:45pm:



Well as I've told several time already, the current crop of devs are not keen ( and/ore interested ) in looking at the code from previous teams.
So they just let it rot as is and move around. Maybe they fear that making changes to the flagging mechanism of H-Abbot will just break
Deathwyrm Portals.

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 5:54pm:

Very few people do run MA/LoB and it is rarely up or filled on lfms on orien at least. As for CitW, Wouldnt it be better if you could simply walk into the raid without flagging?

Illetirated wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 6:11pm:

Oh. I wouldn't know. I'll be one of those stepping in for the first time on epic....

Flav wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 6:16pm:

Lol. Again, I wouldn't know. I'm almost always running solo, and always trying to make do with gimp builds....

Not to mention that I can't play worth a damn.

(UserChat4): [devchat] +Steel: 'Sakphul: Likely just run the quests.

Asked him about flagging

Revaulting wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 6:13pm:



Flav wrote on Aug 21^st, 2014 at 6:16pm:


Noobs.   

5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2014 at 2:50am:

Noobs? Which quest is that? Which house is it in?

They should increase the drop rate for named items on heroic to encourage it being ran at heroic otherwise I can't see running it much myself on heroic either. I TR to fast to run it usually by the time I get the pieces. I have 4 complete sets in the bank but I am to lazy to burn them in on most life's unless I am farming it at or before 28.