ZOS_MichelleA wrote: »as we do not allow “naming-and-shaming” other community members. “Naming-and-shaming”
ZOS_MichelleA wrote: »as we do not allow “naming-and-shaming” other community members. “Naming-and-shaming”
Am I the only one that thinks this is just a tad ridiculous? You can't have a real discussion without referring to the multiple parties involved by name. There is a difference between making a reference by name, and shaming another player. And In some cases i'd go so far as to say that a certain amount of shaming of certain players is necessary, given the circumstances. Some people's egos are bigger than cyrodiil, and they need to wake up and take a look out into the real world. Being "world first" on some game where you're only competing against MAYBE 1000 other people for that title doesn't mean anything at all. Next time, compete against ALL the other 7 billion people on earth and get a gold medal in the olympics if you want respect.
When I was a kid, immediately after the New Year hit, at 12:01, we would all try to be "world first" in some random accomplishment that, when I grew up, I realized none of the adults cared about. "OMG first handstand of the new year! first handstand in the world of 1991! I'm so cool and awesome!"
This is no different. A bunch of KIDS bickering about "world first," not realizing that NO ONE else in the world, save the 100 people in your guild, cares about. Okay, you completed it first. Big Deal. If the dev's cared or placed any weight on "world first," i'm sure they'd provide a mechanism by which we could discriminate between the two completion times.
Claiming a world first DOES NOT mean that you are the best. That argument is a non sequitur.
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Whatever you need to validate yourself and make yourself feel better pumpkin.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Are you serious? Do some math and tell me they don't make a massive difference in a balanced endgame encounter. ~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
We had the boss under 10% multiple times, way before you cleared it. Hence, a huge buff would have meant a kill.
If it's no big deal, then go clear the encounter without the buffs! I haven't seen you do that yet. So, go put your money where your mouth is. And while you're at it, make a video using the "proper alacrity" tactic you feel is appropriate. Do that, and I will never question your abilities again.
Yes, it's that much harder.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Are you serious? Do some math and tell me they don't make a massive difference in a balanced endgame encounter. ~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
We had the boss under 10% multiple times, way before you cleared it. Hence, a huge buff would have meant a kill.
If it's no big deal, then go clear the encounter without the buffs! I haven't seen you do that yet. So, go put your money where your mouth is. And while you're at it, make a video using the "proper alacrity" tactic you feel is appropriate. Do that, and I will never question your abilities again.
Yes, it's that much harder.
It's not like the boss has some secret spell at 10%. If you got him to 10% you should have killed him plain and simple. The health is not a big deal especially if you're using hodor's strat since you won't be taking fire damage. I don't even understand what you can die to using that strat since the fire is the only challenging aspect of that fight. If you took the fire like us then I commend you, though. I'll give you the fact it's a big dps loss, but I don't think the fight hinges on whether or not you have super high dps.
Grats on your kill. Glad it was you rather than Potato.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Are you serious? Do some math and tell me they don't make a massive difference in a balanced endgame encounter. ~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
We had the boss under 10% multiple times, way before you cleared it. Hence, a huge buff would have meant a kill.
If it's no big deal, then go clear the encounter without the buffs! I haven't seen you do that yet. So, go put your money where your mouth is. And while you're at it, make a video using the "proper alacrity" tactic you feel is appropriate. Do that, and I will never question your abilities again.
Yes, it's that much harder.
It's not like the boss has some secret spell at 10%. If you got him to 10% you should have killed him plain and simple. The health is not a big deal especially if you're using hodor's strat since you won't be taking fire damage. I don't even understand what you can die to using that strat since the fire is the only challenging aspect of that fight. If you took the fire like us then I commend you, though. I'll give you the fact it's a big dps loss, but I don't think the fight hinges on whether or not you have super high dps.
Grats on your kill. Glad it was you rather than Potato.
I don't know what you are thinking we did, but in sorc phase my ass was on fire. And I assure you that extra buffs make a big difference when you are burning the last 25% on fire, with flame atronarchs and summoners everywhere.
FYI I asked the dev who developed DSA tonight (ZOS Jason) and he confirmed that the Hodor strat is NOT an exploit. And yes, he watched the videos.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Are you serious? Do some math and tell me they don't make a massive difference in a balanced endgame encounter. ~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
We had the boss under 10% multiple times, way before you cleared it. Hence, a huge buff would have meant a kill.
If it's no big deal, then go clear the encounter without the buffs! I haven't seen you do that yet. So, go put your money where your mouth is. And while you're at it, make a video using the "proper alacrity" tactic you feel is appropriate. Do that, and I will never question your abilities again.
Yes, it's that much harder.
It's not like the boss has some secret spell at 10%. If you got him to 10% you should have killed him plain and simple. The health is not a big deal especially if you're using hodor's strat since you won't be taking fire damage. I don't even understand what you can die to using that strat since the fire is the only challenging aspect of that fight. If you took the fire like us then I commend you, though. I'll give you the fact it's a big dps loss, but I don't think the fight hinges on whether or not you have super high dps.
Grats on your kill. Glad it was you rather than Potato.
I don't know what you are thinking we did, but in sorc phase my ass was on fire. And I assure you that extra buffs make a big difference when you are burning the last 25% on fire, with flame atronarchs and summoners everywhere.
FYI I asked the dev who developed DSA tonight (ZOS Jason) and he confirmed that the Hodor strat is NOT an exploit. And yes, he watched the videos.
That's cool. Not that I agree with it, but it's whatever I guess. It's not like they deleted my AA time.
As for the buffs... at what point is anyone going under 300 health and not dying though? That's all I'm saying. Even if you're taking all of the fire damage that doesn't really happen because your healer is good enough to keep everyone topped off at that point, or at least very close to it. Either way, grats. I mean it's not like I've said your kill doesn't mean anything. It's a good achievement.
I've tried to stay out of this, but this portion of your post is just pathetic. Woulda, shoulda, coulda basically. I somehow doubt PvP buffs made you take over a week later
Then stop responding, kill the boss legit, and stop denigrating us for getting World First.
We would have beaten this encounter at least 2 days before you if we had PVP buffs. Is that an exploit?
Are you serious? Do some math and tell me they don't make a massive difference in a balanced endgame encounter. ~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
We had the boss under 10% multiple times, way before you cleared it. Hence, a huge buff would have meant a kill.
If it's no big deal, then go clear the encounter without the buffs! I haven't seen you do that yet. So, go put your money where your mouth is. And while you're at it, make a video using the "proper alacrity" tactic you feel is appropriate. Do that, and I will never question your abilities again.
Yes, it's that much harder.
It's not like the boss has some secret spell at 10%. If you got him to 10% you should have killed him plain and simple. The health is not a big deal especially if you're using hodor's strat since you won't be taking fire damage. I don't even understand what you can die to using that strat since the fire is the only challenging aspect of that fight. If you took the fire like us then I commend you, though. I'll give you the fact it's a big dps loss, but I don't think the fight hinges on whether or not you have super high dps.
Grats on your kill. Glad it was you rather than Potato.
I don't know what you are thinking we did, but in sorc phase my ass was on fire. And I assure you that extra buffs make a big difference when you are burning the last 25% on fire, with flame atronarchs and summoners everywhere.
FYI I asked the dev who developed DSA tonight (ZOS Jason) and he confirmed that the Hodor strat is NOT an exploit. And yes, he watched the videos.
That's cool. Not that I agree with it, but it's whatever I guess. It's not like they deleted my AA time.
As for the buffs... at what point is anyone going under 300 health and not dying though? That's all I'm saying. Even if you're taking all of the fire damage that doesn't really happen because your healer is good enough to keep everyone topped off at that point, or at least very close to it. Either way, grats. I mean it's not like I've said your kill doesn't mean anything. It's a good achievement.
OK so... first of all consider when he reduces your health... having bonus health (which may or may not be calculated before health is halved for the effect) substantially increases your survivability. If not used for health, it frees up many health/magicka points to be allocated elsewhere. On top of that, it's not just the health in question... spell power, weapon power, critical chance, spell resist, and even armor, all play marginal roles in your chances of success. It's a simple mathematical fact... higher numbers decrease the difficulty...
~300 health, 5% sp dmg, 5% wp dmg, 8% crit- for a min-maxxer, thats like a 15% overall buff to your potential output/survivability.
well its nice to see your still working around mechanics, granted we did this as well on the PTS but only because of time constraints.
We are going to down this the way it is currently intended by NOT out of ranging the atronochs.
I do agree with @Tripwyr to an extent about posting these videos that include mechanics that are not supposed to be working the way they are currently IE: out of ranging the Atronochs, which will hopefully be fixed in a later update.
Completely agree, this is clearly unintended. This is an eye-opening exploit, and I can't see any guild respecting Hodor's kill at this point in time.
FYI I asked the dev who developed DSA tonight (ZOS Jason) and he confirmed that the Hodor strat is NOT an exploit. And yes, he watched the videos.
well its nice to see your still working around mechanics, granted we did this as well on the PTS but only because of time constraints.
We are going to down this the way it is currently intended by NOT out of ranging the atronochs.
I do agree with @Tripwyr to an extent about posting these videos that include mechanics that are not supposed to be working the way they are currently IE: out of ranging the Atronochs, which will hopefully be fixed in a later update.
Completely agree, this is clearly unintended. This is an eye-opening exploit, and I can't see any guild respecting Hodor's kill at this point in time.
Clearly and eye-opening ...FYI I asked the dev who developed DSA tonight (ZOS Jason) and he confirmed that the Hodor strat is NOT an exploit. And yes, he watched the videos.
They said the same thing about Orbs.
As far as the dev... I've heard a dev say that Negate has the highest ultimate cost in the game when everyone knows it's Nova. Just color me skeptical.
As far as the dev... I've heard a dev say that Negate has the highest ultimate cost in the game when everyone knows it's Nova. Just color me skeptical.
Yes well, if the dev's aren't experts in their own game, then it's all a bit pointless to argue about and moot in the first place. That is what he said. I can only hope he is a reasonable authority on his own content.
I take it you are referring to my guild then with 8m 44s 102ms? Kinda sad to accuse us of an exploited time where you openly admit you're the one that's doing such things.Ifthir_ESO wrote: »Completely agree, this is clearly unintended. This is an eye-opening exploit, and I can't see any guild respecting Hodor's kill at this point in time.
So should we not respect any achievements during orbs, any achievements during PvP exploiting, etc?
Not saying I agree/disagree yet, just curious.
That's like me saying I don't respect Alacrity staying up all night before the orb nerf to beat the EP time. Of course I respected it. Cheesy, but still took some skill.
We generally consider our fastest time to be 9m 02s. The 7m orb time was put in strictly to prevent [snip] from claiming that their exploited time was the fastest, nothing more.
As always, everything is open to interpretation. Our guild's stance is to consider ranging the fire atronachs an exploit. You may choose not to adopt that perspective, that is your choice.
[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Naming & Shaming]
I take it you are referring to my guild then with 8m 44s 102ms? Kinda sad to accuse us of an exploited time where you openly admit you're the one that's doing such things.