Another Raid Season has come and gone, and I have been really remiss on a promise I made quite some time ago. So here is the post I was supposed to have made on behalf of a handful of friends and fellow raiders which compiles some of our best ideas and observations from our adventures on US2. I am sure some ideas are going to be repeats of others posted before, apologies in advance for that.
For several seasons now Lost Heroes and Neverwinter guilds have been raiding together, along with some of the best ookey, kooky, and altogether wonderful denizens of US2.
Sometimes private, sometimes public, sometimes speedy 3-Mans, sometimes wild 15 Man free-for-alls; Always Fun. Here are some of the things we noticed/thought while raiding:
Loot:
Please consider no loot spewing from mobs in raids. Its quite messy and wastes time . Devs have made some improvements already (Hello Magwood!) but removing the piles of sub-superior loot blowing all over the screen could speed up and streamline things. I know lots of players- myself included- raid to farm drops, so perhaps adding more loot to the reward upon completion in place of the random mob drops. Another idea would be to award more Ducats in place of drops so we can purchase more armaments in place of the random drops. Keeping the buffs which drop would be great. (Like Kalisar's Charm Tome of Efficiency ect ect)
Please consider adding some sort of reward for reaching milestone Heroic levels. Currently there is no reason to strive for higher and higher Heroics beyond the standard rewards and your name on the chart.
Mobile:
A better design of the up/down arrows when setting the level would be appreciated. It defaults to the highest and is clumsy to adjust.
A redesign of the Revive/Rez screen would be LOVED. Lots of players waste rezzies because the button literally pops up beneath their thumb. Some players even remove Rezzies from their bags before a run to prevent waste.
Mobile cannot currently cancel a dram, or override one unless its higher. How this hurts is that say you are running zone with a lv 95 Treasure Dram, but then want to raid, you cannot use a lv 94 Liberty Dram. Being able to cancel or override regardless of level would fix this.
Bugs:
There is a weird thing which happens often while waiting for a raid to start. Players often jump at the door (champing at the bit as it were
) while waiting for the leader to throw the switch. Sometimes this jumping triggers the start of the raid!
Another odd occurrence we have seen frequently is that when a leader posts a raid, if a player joins really quickly, sometimes they gain leadership of the raid.
If players dc while joining a raid but before it actually starts, they sometimes get locked out ( they see it as full upon coming back and trying to rejoin, despite the fact that the rest of the party sees an open spot)
Problems with Zodiacs (the floor patterns which warn you to 'Move it or Lose it'). Sometimes they dont show, or are too late especially in 15 Man raids, or during peak hours or when there are lot of visual effects going off. Making the Zodiacs last longer, or show brighter could help. Also sharpening and really defining the EDGE of these would be huge. It may look like you are safely off the Zodiac but you get fried anyway. Similarly feats like Venom of the Serpent can cloud or block floor patterns. These visual Zodiacs are hugely important and improving them would be greatly appreciated.
Additions:
PLEASE add a Sell Tab to the raid usher! It would save lots of trips to Ardent to offload!
Consider adding AutoFollow in raids only. People get lost/confused and it can blow a raid. I know this feature can be problematic, please give it some thought tho.
Consider adding a Raid Roster. This could save some drama and social headaches. Sorting players as Friends/Guildies/Public can cause some hurt feelings and misunderstandings especially for really intense players.
It would be Great to be able to identify the leader! A star over their head, a sparkly trail, a different color chat, or a different color name -Something! This would be a huge help in knowing who to follow, who to listen to and just generally make things less chaotic!
Implement "Main Assist". This feature allows you to designate a 'main'; generally your Tank and have your toon auto target the mob the 'main' is attacking. How many times have you been in a group and your ranged players are firing arrows and bombs across the room, thru the wall, ANYwhere but at the mob you Want to hit!
It can be very hard to select a mob in a crowd of mobs and/or players. 'Main Assist' would help greatly when there are lots of bodies in the scrum.
(Frankly any improvements to targeting would be welcome)
Being able to shuffle the names in a 15 Man raid would be awesome. (Am I right healers??) Being able to lump together your tanks/major targets/vulnerable party members would be so much better than trying to scroll thru 15 names trying to find who is dying. Devs have already taken some steps toward this in making names selectable from the Charts- Thank You!!
Add a 'Load Out'. This is a complete separate set of gear for Raiding only. No more fumbling thru vaults and bags trying to find your Raid Weapon, or your Raid Armor. Avoid the heartbreak of selling something by mistake, wearing the wrong gear, forgetting to swap out.
Perhaps add Talent points into this too! A whole Raid Build! Where the recent 'Mana Build' seems to be pushing us toward pigeon-holes (grrr), we need to be able to Solo AND Party!! I personally would sing your praises to the MMO Gods if I could Load Out gear & talents depending on the situation!!
Heres to you US2! Thank you for all the laughs, adventures and fun we've had & to many many more Raid Seasons to come
~Stella
For several seasons now Lost Heroes and Neverwinter guilds have been raiding together, along with some of the best ookey, kooky, and altogether wonderful denizens of US2.
Sometimes private, sometimes public, sometimes speedy 3-Mans, sometimes wild 15 Man free-for-alls; Always Fun. Here are some of the things we noticed/thought while raiding:
Loot:
Please consider no loot spewing from mobs in raids. Its quite messy and wastes time . Devs have made some improvements already (Hello Magwood!) but removing the piles of sub-superior loot blowing all over the screen could speed up and streamline things. I know lots of players- myself included- raid to farm drops, so perhaps adding more loot to the reward upon completion in place of the random mob drops. Another idea would be to award more Ducats in place of drops so we can purchase more armaments in place of the random drops. Keeping the buffs which drop would be great. (Like Kalisar's Charm Tome of Efficiency ect ect)
Please consider adding some sort of reward for reaching milestone Heroic levels. Currently there is no reason to strive for higher and higher Heroics beyond the standard rewards and your name on the chart.
Mobile:
A better design of the up/down arrows when setting the level would be appreciated. It defaults to the highest and is clumsy to adjust.
A redesign of the Revive/Rez screen would be LOVED. Lots of players waste rezzies because the button literally pops up beneath their thumb. Some players even remove Rezzies from their bags before a run to prevent waste.
Mobile cannot currently cancel a dram, or override one unless its higher. How this hurts is that say you are running zone with a lv 95 Treasure Dram, but then want to raid, you cannot use a lv 94 Liberty Dram. Being able to cancel or override regardless of level would fix this.
Bugs:
There is a weird thing which happens often while waiting for a raid to start. Players often jump at the door (champing at the bit as it were
) while waiting for the leader to throw the switch. Sometimes this jumping triggers the start of the raid!Another odd occurrence we have seen frequently is that when a leader posts a raid, if a player joins really quickly, sometimes they gain leadership of the raid.
If players dc while joining a raid but before it actually starts, they sometimes get locked out ( they see it as full upon coming back and trying to rejoin, despite the fact that the rest of the party sees an open spot)
Problems with Zodiacs (the floor patterns which warn you to 'Move it or Lose it'). Sometimes they dont show, or are too late especially in 15 Man raids, or during peak hours or when there are lot of visual effects going off. Making the Zodiacs last longer, or show brighter could help. Also sharpening and really defining the EDGE of these would be huge. It may look like you are safely off the Zodiac but you get fried anyway. Similarly feats like Venom of the Serpent can cloud or block floor patterns. These visual Zodiacs are hugely important and improving them would be greatly appreciated.
Additions:
PLEASE add a Sell Tab to the raid usher! It would save lots of trips to Ardent to offload!
Consider adding AutoFollow in raids only. People get lost/confused and it can blow a raid. I know this feature can be problematic, please give it some thought tho.
Consider adding a Raid Roster. This could save some drama and social headaches. Sorting players as Friends/Guildies/Public can cause some hurt feelings and misunderstandings especially for really intense players.
It would be Great to be able to identify the leader! A star over their head, a sparkly trail, a different color chat, or a different color name -Something! This would be a huge help in knowing who to follow, who to listen to and just generally make things less chaotic!
Implement "Main Assist". This feature allows you to designate a 'main'; generally your Tank and have your toon auto target the mob the 'main' is attacking. How many times have you been in a group and your ranged players are firing arrows and bombs across the room, thru the wall, ANYwhere but at the mob you Want to hit!
It can be very hard to select a mob in a crowd of mobs and/or players. 'Main Assist' would help greatly when there are lots of bodies in the scrum.
(Frankly any improvements to targeting would be welcome)
Being able to shuffle the names in a 15 Man raid would be awesome. (Am I right healers??) Being able to lump together your tanks/major targets/vulnerable party members would be so much better than trying to scroll thru 15 names trying to find who is dying. Devs have already taken some steps toward this in making names selectable from the Charts- Thank You!!
Add a 'Load Out'. This is a complete separate set of gear for Raiding only. No more fumbling thru vaults and bags trying to find your Raid Weapon, or your Raid Armor. Avoid the heartbreak of selling something by mistake, wearing the wrong gear, forgetting to swap out.
Perhaps add Talent points into this too! A whole Raid Build! Where the recent 'Mana Build' seems to be pushing us toward pigeon-holes (grrr), we need to be able to Solo AND Party!! I personally would sing your praises to the MMO Gods if I could Load Out gear & talents depending on the situation!!
Heres to you US2! Thank you for all the laughs, adventures and fun we've had & to many many more Raid Seasons to come
~Stella
Grz
Reader
I'd love to be able to skip Bronze and Silver tiers next season and/or lessen the runs required to unlock next levels. For example, only 2 bronze runs to unlock silver, 3 silver runs to unlock gold, 4 gold to unlock platinum, and 5 platinum to unlock heroic.
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It will go a long way if a history leaderboard feature was added, where you can view the top 100's (or top20's? whichever) of each category from past seasons. If they have the records from the very first season, even better so that the efforts of the legends of old don't get forgotten.
And no more warning notice about it too (e.g. My dram/pie/fish/etc expires in 2 minutes and I want to refresh them now but I get warning notices first... c'mon I already knew all that way way back). I think all warning notices should stop by lv45ish already.
This is really an issue for me but only in Nicodemos tower fights. I'm standing at what seems like a safe spot in the chains between two platforms both with active warning zodiacs but only to be one-shotted by the fire explosion anyway.
Antavious
Warrior
Characters
Antavious, suoivatna
Platform
- iOS
I saw add a sell feature to the raid vendor. Just wanted to say I don’t think this can be done in an un-exploitable way due to the fact you can open a raid anywhere in the world. you always have access to this vendor wherever you are so it would be like always having an Alfred.
Pieberry
Master Villager
Characters
Berit, Notta Bricklayer, Sumida Gawa, Ephie
Platform
- iOS
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Warning notices showing how much time left would be great - On mobile I don't know how much is left because I rarely get to actually stop and try to touch only 1 tiny icon at a time to see due to constant battle / crafting / quest / loot spam popping up a d hiding those icons. I'd have to stop, wait, then take time to press and hold until each pops up. Far faster to try eating / drinking and have it bounce if not time yet. If warning notices go away, the spam needs to be controllable so I can turn off those bottom of screen popups
Valkeri
Squirrel
What she said!!! It was a great season thoAnother Raid Season has come and gone, and I have been really remiss on a promise I made quite some time ago. So here is the post I was supposed to have made on behalf of a handful of friends and fellow raiders which compiles some of our best ideas and observations from our adventures on US2. I am sure some ideas are going to be repeats of others posted before, apologies in advance for that.
For several seasons now Lost Heroes and Neverwinter guilds have been raiding together, along with some of the best ookey, kooky, and altogether wonderful denizens of US2.
Sometimes private, sometimes public, sometimes speedy 3-Mans, sometimes wild 15 Man free-for-alls; Always Fun. Here are some of the things we noticed/thought while raiding:
Loot:
Please consider no loot spewing from mobs in raids. Its quite messy and wastes time . Devs have made some improvements already (Hello Magwood!) but removing the piles of sub-superior loot blowing all over the screen could speed up and streamline things. I know lots of players- myself included- raid to farm drops, so perhaps adding more loot to the reward upon completion in place of the random mob drops. Another idea would be to award more Ducats in place of drops so we can purchase more armaments in place of the random drops. Keeping the buffs which drop would be great. (Like Kalisar's Charm Tome of Efficiency ect ect)
Please consider adding some sort of reward for reaching milestone Heroic levels. Currently there is no reason to strive for higher and higher Heroics beyond the standard rewards and your name on the chart.
Mobile:
A better design of the up/down arrows when setting the level would be appreciated. It defaults to the highest and is clumsy to adjust.
A redesign of the Revive/Rez screen would be LOVED. Lots of players waste rezzies because the button literally pops up beneath their thumb. Some players even remove Rezzies from their bags before a run to prevent waste.
Mobile cannot currently cancel a dram, or override one unless its higher. How this hurts is that say you are running zone with a lv 95 Treasure Dram, but then want to raid, you cannot use a lv 94 Liberty Dram. Being able to cancel or override regardless of level would fix this.
Bugs:
There is a weird thing which happens often while waiting for a raid to start. Players often jump at the door (champing at the bit as it were
Another odd occurrence we have seen frequently is that when a leader posts a raid, if a player joins really quickly, sometimes they gain leadership of the raid.
If players dc while joining a raid but before it actually starts, they sometimes get locked out ( they see it as full upon coming back and trying to rejoin, despite the fact that the rest of the party sees an open spot)
Problems with Zodiacs (the floor patterns which warn you to 'Move it or Lose it'). Sometimes they dont show, or are too late especially in 15 Man raids, or during peak hours or when there are lot of visual effects going off. Making the Zodiacs last longer, or show brighter could help. Also sharpening and really defining the EDGE of these would be huge. It may look like you are safely off the Zodiac but you get fried anyway. Similarly feats like Venom of the Serpent can cloud or block floor patterns. These visual Zodiacs are hugely important and improving them would be greatly appreciated.
Additions:
PLEASE add a Sell Tab to the raid usher! It would save lots of trips to Ardent to offload!
Consider adding AutoFollow in raids only. People get lost/confused and it can blow a raid. I know this feature can be problematic, please give it some thought tho.
Consider adding a Raid Roster. This could save some drama and social headaches. Sorting players as Friends/Guildies/Public can cause some hurt feelings and misunderstandings especially for really intense players.
It would be Great to be able to identify the leader! A star over their head, a sparkly trail, a different color chat, or a different color name -Something! This would be a huge help in knowing who to follow, who to listen to and just generally make things less chaotic!
Implement "Main Assist". This feature allows you to designate a 'main'; generally your Tank and have your toon auto target the mob the 'main' is attacking. How many times have you been in a group and your ranged players are firing arrows and bombs across the room, thru the wall, ANYwhere but at the mob you Want to hit!
It can be very hard to select a mob in a crowd of mobs and/or players. 'Main Assist' would help greatly when there are lots of bodies in the scrum.
(Frankly any improvements to targeting would be welcome)
Being able to shuffle the names in a 15 Man raid would be awesome. (Am I right healers??) Being able to lump together your tanks/major targets/vulnerable party members would be so much better than trying to scroll thru 15 names trying to find who is dying. Devs have already taken some steps toward this in making names selectable from the Charts- Thank You!!
Add a 'Load Out'. This is a complete separate set of gear for Raiding only. No more fumbling thru vaults and bags trying to find your Raid Weapon, or your Raid Armor. Avoid the heartbreak of selling something by mistake, wearing the wrong gear, forgetting to swap out.
Perhaps add Talent points into this too! A whole Raid Build! Where the recent 'Mana Build' seems to be pushing us toward pigeon-holes (grrr), we need to be able to Solo AND Party!! I personally would sing your praises to the MMO Gods if I could Load Out gear & talents depending on the situation!!
Heres to you US2! Thank you for all the laughs, adventures and fun we've had & to many many more Raid Seasons to come
~Stella
