lolwat? SWTOR didn't fix abilities not firing but putting you on GCD until a month ago. A bug people have raged about since beta and devs were just "DUURRRRR maybe it's just you!" Sure, it wasn't "45%" of the time, but it was pretty fucking frequent. I'd guess 1 in 5.
You know I love first person but I couldn't use it and heal. There was too much spacial judging. I had to have a 360 degree view of the group.
Dude you've got some major psychological issues. Did those 16 hour gaming sessions in EQ1 cause you permanent mental damage?
FYI SWTOR's combat log only shows your own personal damage/healing. However, a third party parser was created that allows everyone who has that parser to send their combat log to a central host and display the raid's damage meters to everyone who was running the parser. I assume a similar parser will eventually be written for ESO that hardcore raiding guilds can use.
OK you are right. No group in EQ1 ever wiped due to a pull gone wrong, there were no trains to zones, the game was super simple and required no skill.
Are you getting confused with raiding? Because I could see where you would consider that a crawl. For instance, hopping from Boss to Boss in NTOV while killing trash. Unfortunately, there is no raiding in ESO - so I assumed you really weren't comparing it to an entirely different play option.
I think it's time you learn how the game was instead of reading it from an after study written by a peer of yours that never played it either. The named spawn/placeholder system was well in place after I left even with 4 expansions at that time. Itdidn't matterabout server population or an empty dungeon because if you were of that level range for that dungeon you went to a specific spot andstillsat on your ass. (Whichever named drop the loot you wanted) With the added benefit of more named being pulled within the largest range ofthat camp.There wasn't a fucking group that would go in here and just start all moving around a zone. It was too dangerous. Why? Because the engine was based off a fucking tank simulator without a z-axis. Pets were usually even stowed as a result. Remember the Bar in unrest? (Course you don't. You never played the fucking game) One small turn and you brought the entire house to the zone line. It was like that in the Altar, Ghost room, Bar, Kitchen, Christ, even outside if you got too close you would aggro 2nd floor mobs and pull them down on the yard. It was like this in any Z-Axis design. Everyone knew this. So the players found a way to circumvent it. Hence why there wasn't any dungeon crawling in the game. (Camping, at the time also being the player made distinction for overpopulated dungeons)
The group only had to be on their toes if the puller sucked. And since you were a bard...
I was very specific in what I stated in that guilds specifically geared for AvA, not just Tuco's. There are a large number of guilds that will be playing for the AvA so there's no need to twist my words to further supplement your overly vitriolic position. I agree the game has quite a few problems but I'm not going to sit here and try to speculate where I think it mght be post launch because I have no clue. The lack of MMO options currently on the market coupled with the wildly varying opinions on the game plus the growing interest of other AvA based guilds during testing are precisely the reasons we're playing it. Do we expect more than 3 months worth of fun? Absolutely not and hopefully by that time there will be other games out to play or test.
I could not agree more with this and want to add that it's not just damage but most combat related events too.
LOL so lets recap the past couple of days. As one of the few people here in the closed beta, I was able to figure out Utnayan was lying about him being in the closed beta because he made some assertions that anyone with closed beta access would know was incorrect. Instead of admitting he was lying, Utnayan doubled down and accused me of being an employee of Zenimax. When other closed beta testers confirmed I was correct, he ignored them and continued to insist I was a developer for Zenimax. When Grave (who apparently used to work for 38Studios) posted a comment, Utnayan somehow became convinced that Grave and myself were the same person and is now even more firmly convinced I work for Zenimax.
It really does no good singling him out in an attempt to humble him. As a matter of fact it just makes things worse and the best thing you can do is state your facts or your opinions and ignore his ramblings.
To each his own. I liked LDoN because it was instanced and eliminated the group camping in one spot. As a bard puller, I was highly sought out for the hard mode LDoNs thanks to Fading Memories pulling. Its been over 10 years but I recall Gates of Discord and Omens of War also having group instances.
I'd take first person slower combat any day of the week over action oriented third person. Shame.
@EQ dungeon crawling, that happened in two ways
1) You massively outleveled an abandoned old zone dungeon and soloed it for start to finish/last boss due to being bored.
2) You and some friends decided to do an abandoned old zone dungeon for fun, because you were bored or all other "dungeon" camp spots were taken. Note: Never once joined a pug doing this and never saw anyone look for a group "doing" a dungeon either. It was something you did with friends as it was very ineffective in progression compared to camping spots with known loot spawns.
The rest was "get to point X in zone Y". You enter zone, call camp check, and if not taken, you call it, then run to that spot while trying not to train any people camping in the way to that spot. This was the way people played from when I started (99) to when I left (04). Closest thing EQ had to actual dungeon crawls was when raiding as you usually traversed a larger part of the zone to trigger various events. Being part of a 72+ person raid made raids into zerg mode though instead of any sense of crawling a dungeon. I certainly never regarded raiding as crawling a dungeon.
Also, personally I think instances suck (even though I can appreciate the bigger scripted events they can contain). I did not like LDoN one bit.