Albion

Even me???, I am pretty nasty.

So to bring back the topic from other thread, and trying to keep it nice, hard mode is not a monster that will force you to slot this way or play that other way, it is just an optional challenge setting, that you yourself decide to participate in, and so should abide by some mechanics like in any game that has you facing oponents who would love to see you hug the floor while you rather return that to them; it has been tested already at large that can be done with any at build and any type of team origin (even a pug), it is going to be a hardship if you are unprepared and just fool around or don't listen to leads and do your work?, well yes but that's on you, if you are having fun though and all on the team go with that vibe, cheers, there is not a single thing being enforced or railroading you this way or the other, there is even optional ways to avoid the worse engagements (more options inside an optional feature!, madness). In my personal experience, I have gotten used to a certain way to go in runs, and had to rewire my brain the first three times in, which was great, it is never good to entrench oneself on "what works best".

You mean like with Battle Maiden? , It's a mechanic, be melee, range or whatnot, if you don't want to die you should move then re-engage, no one is an impervious invulnerable meta super hero that shrugs off any attack.

Mmm, it is a bit shady you demand data that no one will be collecting and stablish that your arguments are facts simply because that is not available, I could say I can breath on the moon since there is no data of me going there and not being able to breath, and then of course you one-sidedly declare the discussion over and leave. While every person personal experience is unique, when there is a generalized feeling among the player base that support alts are cut out of certain runs, and you have regularly on in game chats things like "the answer for everything in this game is damage" going on, not to mention how many support at's struggle to cast two powers together before most of the team already is three rooms away, and that actually sparks a response from the Devs, who clearly are aware of such things, to try and balance things, I would say that is all the empirical data you need, of course you are free to not accept it as is obvious your opinion is already settled.

We have done Relentless over and over with various setups and nothing is really mandatory, now, if you want a "fast", minimum deaths, highly focused run, yes those things can be advisable, Relentless is not such a monster though, can be done even by a pug team that fools around and has fun, the only thing that will change is the time it will take to finish, and how many rezes there will be. The key is team play, if everyone listens and follows, and every at focuses on their field of expertise, it flows smoothly (until you get nuked but thats the fun of it!).

Come on, you are lucky that amount of mass even floats, innertubes have a limit to what they can achieve.

Curious, how many of you got all the references? (Don's spoil them if you did) and if not, which you didn't get yet?

Agreed 100%, I was just referring at the fact the person posting is the reason people get's frustrated and (the ones with patience) want to leave that run as soon as possible, and the others just get out of there, thus making her or his complaint kind of moot. If it was from some other person it could be discussed at large.

Man, why you got to give me flashbacks when I enter the forums, my favorite part "Be careful with the pulls" *EVERYTHING COMES AT US* it has been a long time since I had this mix of laughing my arse off and anxiety.

I agree wholeheartedly, don't want Naomi to murder me though :P

Not official in any way, but I have been seeing people going in and out the ASF all day long (and last night) which was nice because usually most people dont participate that much on Brainstorm.

This new approach was literally encouraged because of players "interviewing" and being nitpicky about what at's they let join their runs and why, if you want to min max your team and leave out others that are playing to have fun, it is of course your choice and you will find plenty focused players, but if that becomes the norm we then end up with teams with 7 blasters and support players sit on the bench, the hard modes, which again, are entirely optional, can be done with most any team configuration as long as there is variety of at's, you need the support, you need the control, you need the aggro management, you need the dps, it conveys pretty well that no man is an island, and that you can actually have fun while going at apparently insurmountable ods and dying 20 times on a good day, plus reteach us how to be team players.

We need to have some method, just proliferating everything everywhere whatever the clipping costs for the sake of variety in the long run won't do, I was all for it until I found how hard our graphical devs work to make things neat and clean.

Can I still shake my finger energically at you for no reason at all?

Merci beaucoup pour l'énorme travail de traduction!, maintenant allez vous reposer et préparez-vous pour le mode difficile d'ASF.

-Insert here rant about perfectly balanced feature that is actually an improvement for the overall game but i feel personally attacked by-

I take it you have never joined a team lead by the OP my friend, she, or he, is a train wreck that either gives ZERO pointers and expect everyone to be a mind reader (because there WILL BE rant at you be sure), or spends the whole run telling you how you should run your AT while being on a wholly different AT and not doing its pertaining work.

No and yes, but alternatively, yes and no (kind of).

The talk is straying away from the topic (as silly as it was) and getting into the ground of personals attacks so lets get back on route everyone.

Don't we all, things on track and motion however, this article is a BIG thing for Homecoming.

They must be working on it as we speak, we will surely get them in a couple days.

Congratulations to the Devs and the Homecoming team! https://massivelyop.com/2021/11/03/how-to-support-extra-life-2021-from-guild-wars-2-and-everquest-to-lotro-and-city-of-heroes/ Make sure to support the Extra Life event this weekend heroes (and villains)!

Damn right, hot and steamy!

Actually, if you look closely to the meme on top, you will find answers to both of your theories.