Eternity Vault: SOA

[Hollywood]

(02-02-2012 01:00 AM)Cosmic Osmo Wrote:  

(02-01-2012 08:33 AM)Hollywood Wrote:  because the free sphere wanders off to a new target and it doesn't tell you. So everybody(whom previously was standing in the right place and doing the right thing) now has to scramble, spread out and lose touch with all their markers so we can figure out who has that new threat from the sphere.

You can target the sphere and assist it to see who's being targeted.

Yes you can, though that's not the main issue -maybe I've worded it wrong.

Let's take stock of things that are wrong with SOA:


-The throw and the mindtraps have no smart logic to which characters it picks. So you can easily and often find a healer in the air and a healer in the trap.
-People targeted by the sphere can be thrown or mind trapped before they reach their sphere. Magnifying the first issue mentioned above, one of those healers might have been en route to blowing up a sphere, only to be then sucked away. So that sphere is wandering to the middle, where it HAS NOT retargeted someone and is just going by zapping people it gets near. Since no one can claim it everyone has to run away. Then the healer in the air conveniently lands right on it and gets DoT to death.
-The location of mindtraps cannot be manipulated or strategized.

These two first aspects really kill the encounter.
The third is more of a convenience issue but can cause massive complications.


Someone made a very poignant comment on the SWTOR forums.
They said, if you don't have enough hitpoints to eat a sphere on nightmare, then you're never going to finish the boss. How do you get those hitpoints? New gear. And what piece of gear are you missing? Chestpiece. And where does that drop? Soa hardmode. And why haven't you gotten it yet? Because Soa HM is far too 'RNG' and inconsistent(on top of having a skewed loot AI that leans towards A) Cloth classed and B) Cloth classes that ALREADY have the item).

So what he really described was the archaeic MMO loot system that is the bane of all modern MMOS.

Until they sort it out, they should put the loot table of Soa and spread it around the other bosses.


Other than that, we like the fight much more than it was pre 1.1