TMO wipes on Trak, FE logs in and kills

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Originally Posted by 47shadesofgay [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A lot of things are going to change once Velious is out for a couple of reasons.

1. Mobs will have more than 32k hp. Because of this encounters cannot be spam-healed through. You're going to need 5-6 cleric CH rotations minimum for pretty much everything in NToV and Kael. This requires time to set up. When you batphone that Aaryonaar spawn, you're going to have to take a few minutes to get clerics online and a rotation established and make sure everyone is ready before engaging. These fights don't last 30 seconds, some of them are going to last 20+ minutes. Not fucking up, rushing engages quick and still beating people competing with you is going to be a challenge at 5am when your entire raidforce just woke up.

2. Strategies become more important. Some mobs are wicked simple, Vindi, Statue/Idol/Rallos etc. sure you put in a corner, have a tank on them, and ch rot that tank for 10 minutes while guild DPS's them down. Other mobs aren't as simple. Things in NToV do things like AE silence your raid, mana drain your raid, gravflux your raid into lava and have all sorts of nasty AE's and melee damage. You're going to have to be able to correctly position and manage that early morning batphone force into not fucking this up. Many of these mechanics do not currently exist on P99. Most encounters outside of VP consist of wearing MR/PR gear, and zerging something dead in 40 seconds while not being feared. Inside VP isn't much more difficult, you just have to deal with other guilds trains. Keep in mind point #1 when considering this.

3. Gearing up will be easier, and any guild can do it. The core gearsets consist of Dwarf gear, Giant gear, and Dragon gear. Any guild can obtain these, with faction and a couple of groups. This gear is vastly superior to pretty much everything in Kunark except PD drops. The 2 top end zones (ST/NToV) offer upgrades to this gear, but in ST case it's primairly weapons/non armor-set slots, and once you are geared up anyone capable can do NToV with enough numbers.

Before Velious guilds that aren't raiding VP or getting Trak BPs probably don't really have excellent gear that could help them with raid encounters. In Velious this gear becomes easily available to any guild on the server with only a few groups effort. It cannot be withheld from them.

That was a lot of words, the TL;DR version is this:
Anything before Velious is really just a zerg because mobs don't do anything special other than weak damage AE's or Fear outside of Trak/Vp. These mobs also have 32khp, so very little skill is required to actually kill them.

When Velious rolls around it begins rewarding people with "skill" who can do more, with less, and better than the other guys.

Thanks for the skinny on a expansion everyone has played and knows about.

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