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New Achievement Concept: Damage Per Second
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resdayn00✭✭✭I don’t think this is a good idea at all, because of the elitism that is going on even now. As someone who’s getting into veteran trials and veteran dlc dungeons, I can safely say that finding a group is a lot harder than actually clearing that particular content. Want to do vHoF? No problem, just link your achievement and your 35k+ dps parse. Yes, this is happening all the time. One of my guilds organised a training vAA run for everyone who thinks they are prepared for it. About 7-8 people including me never set foot into vAA before because we didn’t have the achievement. Surprise, we cleared the trial because the group leader explained all mechanics and we were actually listening, AND we knew how to play our classes. So now we can enter vAA because we have the achievement. But we still can’t enter vMoL because who the hell would accept someone who doesn’t have the achievement.
The veteran PvE content playerbase is a lot more exclusive than most people think it is. As I said, becoming accepted as part of this playerbase is so much more difficult than clearing the content they are aiming to do.PC EU - Ebonheart Pact
Resdayn Indoril, Dunmer Magicka Nightblade - Main
Pactum Dunmeri | Ard Feainn | Aetherius Art | Kley Guild
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✭✭✭✭✭The veteran PvE content playerbase is a lot more exclusive than most people think it is. As I said, becoming accepted as part of this playerbase is so much more difficult than clearing the content they are aiming to do.
Really, the trick to getting in is to meet people in that community where they interface with other ones. The most direct route is via trade guilds. They intersect with both the PvP and Trial communities. As with so many other things in life, networking is a key to opening doors.
There are other ways and each guild has a unique culture, but finding an entrypoint is the key.0 -
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✭starkerealm wrote: »Since then the only achs I consider have a no death component.
Even that's not 100% reliable. Night before last I ran vBC2. I got distracted about halfway through, and auto ran into a mob, looked back at my screen, dead. Well, derp. The other DPS had a couple unfortunate encounters with Rillis, and there was something weird going on with my resources the whole run (just couldn't maintain stamina, which was murdering my DPS). Come out the other side, finish it, the no death achievement dings.
Huh?
Come to think of it, we may have had some deaths during vDC2, and got the no deaths achievement there as well. (Though, it's distinctly possible that no one actually died.
True, some no death achievements are bugged, most notable of which was the vFH no death a few days after launch.
My "elite rank" in the guild has the following requirements:
Either:
a) have a Flawless Conqueror
b) have 5 Challengers (out of 7 max: IC, RoM, CoS, BF, FH, FL, SP)
Even if one (segment) of those gets cheesed, I still believe you are a quality player if you have 5 or more Challengers.I don’t think this is a good idea at all, because of the elitism that is going on even now. As someone who’s getting into veteran trials and veteran dlc dungeons, I can safely say that finding a group is a lot harder than actually clearing that particular content. Want to do vHoF? No problem, just link your achievement and your 35k+ dps parse. Yes, this is happening all the time. One of my guilds organised a training vAA run for everyone who thinks they are prepared for it. About 7-8 people including me never set foot into vAA before because we didn’t have the achievement. Surprise, we cleared the trial because the group leader explained all mechanics and we were actually listening, AND we knew how to play our classes. So now we can enter vAA because we have the achievement. But we still can’t enter vMoL because who the hell would accept someone who doesn’t have the achievement.
The veteran PvE content playerbase is a lot more exclusive than most people think it is. As I said, becoming accepted as part of this playerbase is so much more difficult than clearing the content they are aiming to do.
You fail to understand the level of difficulty DLC trials have.
A good group can blaze through vAA with absolutely no difficulty, but casual groups wipe at the first boss of vHoF or vMoL.
Even if somehow you manage to beat the first boss in vMoL, I can guarantee you that you will wipe at the second boss for hours on end.
There are "training" runs organized by good trial guilds that you can join to practice in vMoL or vHoF. Make sure to participate in those.
Yet even then, sometimes they WILL require minimum DPS to join.
Don't point the fingers at others, start pointing the finger at yourself.
How many achievements, if any, do you have from those I have listed above?
Once players stop blaming, and start working on self-improvement, the game starts to be more enjoyable for everybody involved.0