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Rampage Revamp Now Live!
dwightmc
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Hey Champions!
We're excited to announce that the Rampage Revamp is now Live. Login now, experience the new Private Queues, Fire and Ice Rampage and earn some great rewards!
Read more about the Rampage Revamp here: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3032913
We're excited to announce that the Rampage Revamp is now Live. Login now, experience the new Private Queues, Fire and Ice Rampage and earn some great rewards!
Read more about the Rampage Revamp here: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3032913
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The invite window is the SAME as the queue popping. Its hard to tell if I'm being invited to a queue or in the actual queue. This needs to be fixed as soon as they can.
In fact the invite view is going to be one of the most annoying things about this. We didn't expect players to spam players invites. There needs to be a system to allow players to manually make them visible for availability for private queue. (EDIT: it turns out that the disabling duels and other options make players get the wrong queue windows and all manner of weird bugs. This was not visible on the PTS and I was using the same character.)
Private queues riddled with buuuugs. Reenabling duels in the Social window removes all troubles. Make sure all those options are unchecked.
P.s All this is going to do is segregate the good players in Private Que's, all the good players will farm and get stronger and leave everyone else to struggle and die... Saddening.
I take this quote from a review that I agree with.
"customisation is so linear; everyone is after the optimal dps:survivability ratio with 0 reliance on other players = autonomous gameplay... Players don't need each other anymore... which in my opinion is a bad thing."
Ten?
Of what?
Chickens?
Cows?
Weeks?
And why did i got in with a team of 5?...
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This should be fixed now.
Reporting the other pieces of feedback.
I am not sure if someone of cryptic is thinking this is wow with elitist hardcore players but i think they are a bit lost. They will get 4 new players and lost 40 if they keep doing things like this. One year for release this alert cant say that was a nice work after all.
It would be nice to have option in UI settings to turn it off. Things like this one are very annoying feature in mmos. Good if you really need it, but if not it's nothing more than annoying spam.
also the "object that wipes the team if triggered" need to get lost: whats to stop one player from trolling people trying to get it done and triggering the fire cage? nothing (cept a shot from one of the bosses but if they are focusing tank thats probably not gonna happen)
speaking of thier nukes, they get it right from the start? gravitar only got her's on her final bar of HP
i do want difficualt content yes, but not content requires the use of the private que. atm rolling with PuG is a "you will fail huehuehue". to many people with tunnel vision so people ignore the ice blocks and fire cages, also sometimes healers dont heal due to tunnel vision. over all here thiscomplaint s mostly bout playing with educated people who know they have a job to do to the team vs self-first players
now the good things i like bout this
-Teamwork is what matters: people actually need to bring the bosses down within a short time of each other and beable to focus on one of the nuke objects if they appear. unfortently teamwork kinda goes against almost every other instance played in the game with other players, only instance of actual co-op i can recall are the holy trinity moments and the puzles in the 5 man instances
-the opening scene: this made me smile
-2 bosses: another small thing but its effective, can we get an "legion of doom" style rampage?
In other words, don't even think of trying as a pug.
This will be premades only.
Also, the drop rate of the token for the new gear seems to be absurdly extremely low. I know someone who won -21- times in a premade (who then kept running time and time again). He got ONE token. ONE.
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Overall, from a night of pugging, I have had more losses than wins (partly because I was playing an AoED pet build as well).
Still, by explaining the mechanics and giving directions to pugs who bother to listen does make a lot of difference.
Yes! Alienate the PFF tanks even more!
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I took my fairly sturdy healer Alara The Light Guardian into this alert. I died three times, due to lag and failure to block (was my first time running it since 80k map wipe cages).
It does rely on a heavy amount of support tactics (which surprise surprise doesn't cover CC, but let's not go into that lol).
I'm not sure what I got lag from (maybe from falling ice)
But I was stunned to see some tanks BLOCKING and going from full HP to nought in a split second.
Whilst I haven't yet tested it with other toons I have (elemental ones amongst the mix). I do definitely agree this is not a PUG thing.
I got extremely lucky (I'd say) with the PUG I took Alara into.
On the plus side, Frosty sounded funny weird and Kenina was likable when she wasn't hurling flaming balls of super heated death at players.
Also scoring was a good addition. I wonder how many points I'd have got if it was based on healing and support scores as well
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That includes low pop troubles and the luck of when you enter in random get 2 healers and at least 2 tanks. Just a ridiculous event. Cryptic you did again when also people asked you when gravitar appeared better raiding system.
But overall, it was refreshing to see people actually need or request a healer or tank types. We hardly ever see that in the game these days. While I know that peeves some people, I can't help but think it might be good for the game overall.
This rampage is very hard - but I'm hearing from other people who've been successful. I'm still tweaking my healer/support build to see if I can make her better suited for the rampage.
I've ran Fire and Ice successfully 5 times now on my healer and even though i got questionites in the first round, I failed to receive any form of rewards for the other 4 rounds (except for some measly resources).
Healers are already in short demand and with the lack of rewards for healers, it's just going to exacerbate the problem.
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Uh, Completed it three times with only moderate fuss (Ice hits a LOT harder than the Fire chick).
I do so much damage the bosses turn on me REAL fast.
However, aside from that, cleared it those three times (before I took a break, and then when server had emergency restart).
Got two tokens out of those three runs.
I say it's well designed, but you must go in with a team who knows what to do. Most general PuGs will just do the usual tank-spank and...get themselves spanked.
Was quite fun. Aside from some tweaks, I like it. Keeps EVERYONE on their toes.
Both of them have a spike with no tell, but you can see their charge up animation. Those only hit the player having their aggro, but they are aoe so it's better to not stand too close.
Ranged DPS (Esp. AoE ones), Healer, Pet build wasn't so impossible to do with random teams.
If we have AoE DPS toon at good position that can take Living Fire&Ice very quick as those spawns, and having viable Healer, this is not so hard. If we don't have any AoE in team, we have to watch out and move well.
When someone try to resurrect teammates, this moment can cause a huge risk.
One Healers death can be a team death.
This is very fair for all of us, WE ALL DIE.
About an hour ago I saw a support healer with 1 point get a token.
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Of course i was so exited about new content.
I jumped in queue... Popped into event...
WHAT THE HELL????
Why my healer was able to heal only 4 members of my team (including me)?
What have you done, Cryptic?
How the helll am i suppose to heal my raid members when i CAN'T SEE THEM??!!!
Damn, i can't even SPEAK with them!!
Shame on you! :mad:
Agreed... yet another reason why I miss the in game team voice chat. Voice programs are good and well for usage among friends, but for pugs? Not everyone is willing to share Vent info with random folks (COalition and Rampagers excluded of course :P)
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I've also found many people don't like the darth vadar wannabe or the person who tries to talk in vent with a mouthful of food. There are a lot of other reasons why voice IPs with pugs aren't that popular.
Just to clarify the points made by others. The drop rate is not affected by where you are in the score table at the end. In fact the table is meaningless as it ignores damage done to Frosticus. However, you must do some damage to Blaze in order to get a drop of any kind, so ensure you hit her at least once. This is to stop players leaching whilst afk.
To clarify the earlier comments. If you get aggro then the spike damage can one shot many players. The biggest reason for insta death in this rampage is the players' fault for not reading the guide or ignoring it. The living ice and flames must be destroyed in 15 secs otherwise it's a team wipe. The flame trap must not be crossed by anyone, whether inside or outside it's radius when it starts, as it is an instakill. If you are frozen solid, you must be released by others within 10 seconds or you die.
As long as you abide by these rules and so does the rest of the team, it's an easy rampage. You will need to tank both bosses and have at least one healer, preferably two. It is important both bosses are killed around the same time as the survivor gets more and more buffed the longer it takes to bring them down after the first one fell.
Comparing apples to oranges, DaZee.
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Also, having this information, as a joke I took in my Ice Tank "The Old Man" just to see how he would perform in this alert. He had a Slug PU with R4s, The VBA Apocalypse PO with R4s, and some crap greens in the 30s. I tanked Frosticus the entire alert and died once. Passive was Invul. I sure didn't build this toon just for this alert. He's a concept toon just like all of my others. He's not ideal. He needs a retcon(PTS was down this weekend
And Gradii, I think the, "it's easy as long as the team all does the right stuff to win" is closer to "If you do your homework and study you won't fail the math midterm" than your bank robber comparison. :cool:
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eh, Caliga didn't build for optimal mitigation for the fight, though- he's always been more an overall Might dps-tank (he mentioned changing up his build a while ago though; not sure what he uses now). Still, given his resources avail, he prob could get close to that point in F&I if he used Ebon Void w/ VD and a buncha devices (I imagine he uses Guard/Retaliation for the kickback to Haymaker dmg after blocking).
- Be safe and have fun, champs - for science!
Who can solve the mystery? :rolleyes:
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I think I got it! After much rumination:
Ms. Scarlett, with a candlestick, in the study room!
..
wait, that sounded like an invitation for nookie. Let me re-do:
coordinating heals/support/debuffs/buffs for Frostnutz tank, and good attention to blocking and things like ice prisons means that 'tank' doesn't really need to be a pure tank.
*takes Mrs. Scarlett to the study room anyway*
- Be safe and have fun, champs - for science!
I don't think I'm asking much, and I think I speak for most people. We need 2 things.
1) A raid screen so we can track everyone in raid, not just our team.
2) The rewards should be equal to a smash mission, that's 4gp
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It took them 6 days to be aware of a problem they should have found before launch? The question at hand is not if pw is aware, the question is will they fix the problem. Now we are talking about a game that has added one zone since launch, to add to its other five. With that in mind, can we expect a fix from the team before the end of the year?
They usually patch on Thursday, so this will be fixed tomorrow? Any bets? Now before anyone rushes to pw's defense, lets just see what happens in the morning....
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They have a fix already out on the PTS for testing. So... I'm betting yes.
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If you bet yes, then you lose. They may have fixed gravitar, however fire and ice is still bugged. There is no reward unless you do enough damage, I know, because I just healed for the rampage and got no reward. That is a tough mission to heal, you can't just stop healing midway and expect to make it. I keep shields on team, heal whoever is dying, and then I still have to rezz, and hope someone doesn't die during the 2 seconds that takes. I started healing, because I've done it in many games, and most people can't get the job done, so why are they gimping the healers??? What, its more valuable for someone to target boss, maintain for 5 seconds, push the same button again for five minutes. Really?
I was hopeful after the gravitar fix, that affected everybody, so they had to react. They completely screwed the dedicated healers over. I've got 2 drops for grav and lem, 8 for sky, I have 0 for fire and Ice, and since its not fixed, I won't get any drops this go around either, not unless I can find someone else to heal, and then they will get screwed instead. This needs to be fixed. It should have already been done.
6 days, you must be new, cause you don't no how to count. The Rampage revamp was released 6 days prior to Gravitar's rampage being open. It was the third in line. So while we may not have played it, the code was in place. That's 6 days. I work for a major shipping company, if you mail something overnight, we don't get to say
"its not a week late, according to our computers, we processed it last night and sent it, the other 6 days don't count. It must have been lost or something, cause our computers don't have an account for where it was."
That's not how business works. If you've ever been on a construction site, then you see how things work, you do the job, the inspector looks at it, finds something wrong, (and they will find something) if it takes 10 minutes, or all day, that is their job, and then you fix it. Not like this was even a complicated bug to find, if they had just played the raid a few times, it would have been revealed.
All they have to do is take out the damage count subroutine and employ the player division score like every other raid except for the red storm. For some reason these two are coded differently, and it has unforeseen consequences. Should be able to go to code, delete, and copy paste the code from other missions, problem solved. What is it, a days work, maybe less, why isn't it done? I don't want excuses, I want it taken care of.
I dont build for optimal mitigation, in any fights actually. And I am an overall might dps tank, suited to most situations. What's more important to me is just being able to generate enough threat/damage for my damage dealers to do the heavy hitting. More than half the time, I also count myself in that damage. In anycase, I also don't take a block power. I believe it's a waste of a power slot if you're using a defensive passive, but that's just my take on it. If I did take Ebon void w/ advantage, Then yes, I would be around maximum mitigation, but at the cost of losing a powerslot.
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