tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post1892660413872441566..comments2023-06-19T10:45:56.724-04:00Comments on Player Versus Developer: Difficulty As A MotivationGreen Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-8604673295514187582011-04-12T16:43:58.728-04:002011-04-12T16:43:58.728-04:00I was going through some old links of mine and dec...I was going through some old links of mine and decided to read your post again. The quoted text below seems to have been mostly spot-on, though the shortage appears to be in tanks and not healers:<br /><br />"That improvement is reduced to an academic point, though, if the majority of players (who choose DPS) have dramatically less access to actually playing the game because the guy with a healing off-spec no longer thinks he can handle healing the instance and decides to queue with all the other DPS instead. It's going to be very interesting to see whether Blizzard sticks to their guns if the increased difficulty leaves the highly popular random instance grind unplayable."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-27951802016039925812010-12-02T17:04:51.203-05:002010-12-02T17:04:51.203-05:00We’ve a bit of difficulty to subscribe the rss, in...We’ve a bit of difficulty to subscribe the rss, in any event I’ve book marked this great site, is quite useful plus filled with informations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-41117955343783368762010-11-24T21:35:52.289-05:002010-11-24T21:35:52.289-05:00Nope Ghostcrawler the former Marine Biologist is w...Nope Ghostcrawler the former Marine Biologist is wrong.<br /><br />Like dead wrong... so wrong that by 4.0.5 he will be forced to "calibrate" or "tweak" healing.<br /><br />What GC does not "get" is the relative lack of sophistication on the part of the most players (read as those 3 non tank non healer types in EVERY 5man).<br /><br />GC will have a pretty expansion that will teach any leveling dps NOTHING of how to integrate pew pew with 5 man heroics. So the JUMP in game skill between 85 leveling and end game heroics will be HUGE. Wut I need to watch aggro? Wut I need to stay out of fire? Wut I need to actually be aware of boss fight mechanics?<br /><br />Bottom Line 3/5 of the user population will be sad campers about 2 months after expansion drops.<br /><br />3/5 of your player base is a majority and while the EJs out there will love lording their skill over noob dps. This can only last so long before Blizzard starts to notice it in Sub numbers OR in satisfaction.Angry Gamernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-26346249517908250362010-11-23T20:16:40.299-05:002010-11-23T20:16:40.299-05:00@Anon: Anzu is hands down the toughest fight I'...@Anon: Anzu is hands down the toughest fight I'm beaten in TBC, and it took a lot of deaths just to learn what to look for. I still don't think I can beat it 100% of the time because you have no room for any mistakes. Some tips:<br /><br />- Be sure to kill the last boss first, to open the gate for a shorter corpse run.<br /><br />- As Frost, you're looking to get to the first banish/bird phase without using your cooldowns or taking massive damage. Ice barrier, frostbolts, deep freeze, and water elemental freeze (for FOF crits) were enough to get me through here. <br /><br />- Your first priority for the rest of the fight is not to kill yourself by casting with the manaburn curse on. This does huge damage that's hard to recover from, and needs to be decursed immediately.<br /><br />- Your second priority is to use whatever means necessary not to tank the boss while stunned or cycloned. You can (and will have to) tank the birds while stunned with ice barrier up, but the boss will just shred you if he gets 6 seconds of free DPS. Mirror images can tank the boss fine, the cyclone can be counterspelled, and you'll need to save your ice block for when he casts the un-interruptable stun while you don't have mirror images up. You can't reactively remove either CC with ice block, but the boss won't be able to hit you while in the ice block, even if you're stunned.<br /><br />- You're probably going to need glyphed evocation to heal up at some point. Preferrably during a banish/bird phase (either while the birds are coming down, or with icy veins when they're almost all dead). Time it so that the boss does not interrupt your evocation, as this will probably mean a wipe.Green Armadillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-49296628170218583722010-11-23T03:24:51.590-05:002010-11-23T03:24:51.590-05:00I intend to heal less/none in Cata. I love making...I intend to heal less/none in Cata. I love making complicated healing decisions. However, I do not like to do it while juggling movement mechanics. <br /><br />Doing triage while staring at the bars on healbot and managing my mana is interesting. But if I have to be twitching out of fire all the time, it is not. This was exacerbated since my first healer was a pally and with a limited amount of instant heals and hots while I moved. <br /><br />So with the right fights, the cataclysm healing model would be fine. The more emphasis there is on raid awareness and movement, the smaller percentage of my attention i can devote to healing. If I am going to have to jump around like a DPS, might as well be a DPS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-4498758133690877502010-11-22T11:11:45.429-05:002010-11-22T11:11:45.429-05:00I quit healing fairly early in Wrath because heali...I quit healing fairly early in Wrath because healing was too easy and all the interesting decisions of BC were gone. <br /><br />I look forward to the return of interesting..though the queues may suck as DPS.Guthammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07050792776342037099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-64993424919542265822010-11-22T08:08:27.408-05:002010-11-22T08:08:27.408-05:00I've been doing the same thing - finishing up ...I've been doing the same thing - finishing up a few BC rep grinds, soloing heroic modes on my mage. I've got to say, though, that Anzu kicks my butt in frost or in arcane. How did you handle him?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-18585618325943937382010-11-22T01:44:20.191-05:002010-11-22T01:44:20.191-05:00I, like Nytehunter, rolled a tank and a healer whe...I, like Nytehunter, rolled a tank and a healer when DPSing got boring. And then when tanking and healing got boring, I stopped playing.<br /><br />I get healers in the LFG all the time who go "pull more at once!" and as a tank in the DF I'm constantly picking up the pace, often running to the next group, while the dps are still aoeing the group I was on. If they pull, so what, the healer can pick it up. I'm outgeared and i've grown used to the skills of my class, so tanking is easy, with or without a healer, I know how much damage I can withstand. tanking is BORING, so I pull five packs plus a boss for something NEW and FUN.<br /><br />For all the healers (who are really DPSers with heal off spec) you won't have because healing will be more complicated than "spam this," you'll have me, a real healer, who'll be topping off life bars at the end of six minute boss fights while I still have 50%+ mana. The people who enjoy healing, who want to be the best healers they can be, will heal again.<br /><br />I'll be resubscribed, and I'll be having FUN again. And supposedly I'll want to stay subscribed longer since the challenge will be sustained, rather than "figure out which spell to spam, then faceroll it." Which is only a challenge for 30 seconds.Katsuyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386808430994644600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-84498326851848464832010-11-21T22:22:30.524-05:002010-11-21T22:22:30.524-05:00Then there is healer burn out, especially with the...Then there is healer burn out, especially with the LFG. I played holy pally for a good 6-8 months after the LFG was introduced, and would have to say I was an effective healer. In enjoyed learning a new play style and mastering the art of keeping a group alive. <br /><br />But after collecting all my T9 gear I stopped... spamming one spell (Flash of Light) over, and over for (then) badges become boring and repetitive. Silent PGs chewing through "Heroic" dungeons in under 10 minutes. <br /><br />In the end, there was no challenge. The changes to healing have me intrigued, so I'll most likely go back to healing after Cata drops. <br /><br />I also rolled a warrior and tanked all the way through old world content, just to see what it was like. Loved tanking, a real challenge at times. <br /><br />GC is right: once you lose the challenge, it becomes boring.Nytehunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-47881331650129610052010-11-21T22:06:42.190-05:002010-11-21T22:06:42.190-05:00Yup, this is going to be interesting. Another side...Yup, this is going to be interesting. Another side is that a lot of people are far more reluctant to risk failure in groups or with people they don't know (who will judge them immediately on a one-off fail) than solo or with friends.<br /><br />So it could be that healing will become more fun for more people and still fewer healers will want to queue for random instances.<br /><br />The other side is that the people who like healing welcome the notion of weeding out the poor healers -- they don't necessarily see that healers in general are in demand. For them, they can never be in enough demand. (Well, maybe if the entire server was whispering them with invites as soon as they log in.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com