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The game was designed for a group of 5 people. (buffs, traits, etc)

Raids where designed for a group of 10 people. (mechanic wise)

Anet will never release raiding for 5/25 people but I'm just wondering how raiding would be if it could be played as a 5/25 group

Would it be just as popular as fractals?Or would it divide the playerbase too much around raiding/fractals?

Would the balance changes made in the past be different if raiding had more options size wise?

I'm not asking for a 5/25 raid experience, I merely wanna know how it could have turned out if anet did release raiding with a 5/10/25 option.

Now fire away how mad this thought is ^^

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I would have to agree that it probably couldn't work with raiding without ruining the raid difficulty. However... Dungeons need a rework, and are not so difficulty gated. A small rework to Dungeons to allow 5-25 player squads instead of parties, and add some off the wall and riotous scaling for the larger groups... that could be enough reason for Anet to give Dungeons a pretty straightforward rework. Anet could turn Dungeons up to 11 and make another rush event out of it.

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@"Rico.6873" said:The game was designed for a group of 5 people. (buffs, traits, etc)

Raids where designed for a group of 10 people. (mechanic wise)

Anet will never release raiding for 5/25 people but I'm just wondering how raiding would be if it could be played as a 5/25 group

Would it be just as popular as fractals?Or would it divide the playerbase too much around raiding/fractals?

Would the balance changes made in the past be different if raiding had more options size wise?

I'm not asking for a 5/25 raid experience, I merely wanna know how it could have turned out if anet did release raiding with a 5/10/25 option.

Now fire away how mad this thought is ^^

Just, please, no. You don't know what you're asking for.YcAQlkx.gif

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@Ayrilana.1396 said:From what I have heard, any changes to dungeons would require them to rebuild them so it wouldn’t be a small change.

They've reiterated that on numerous occasions. The original dungeons were written with the original authoring tools, and not everyone there can make those tools do their bidding efficiently (or at all).

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25 people with proper builds in one place at one time? xD

Compositions might be interesting, i just doubt that they'd /ever/ be completed if these raid bosses had the same difficulty as they do now. Lower the difficulty and that's not really raids - might as well be open world, in fact there is one event i know of that has a soft dps check in open world and that's the ziya escort in jahai. (soft - not really unviable to be done by unorganised peeps, but it'll be tight.)

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@Blood Red Arachnid.2493 said:We had something like this. Pre-nerf serpent's Ire was effectively an open world raid. Nobody did it, though, because it demanded full cooperation from its players and a series of skills used nowhere else.

This.

It also shared some similarities with raids. Fail the mechanic on any of the adds and every one fails, the entire meta. Given how it was nearly impossible to get the breakbars down even with organzied groups of PUGs (because of scaling and some people still not knowing what cc is), the event was rarely completed and eventually abandoned.

I managed to complete it twice pre nerf and that was during off hours where not as many players were present, which reduced the scaling and made each individuals performance matter more.

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@Krzysztof.5973 said:I swear all your ideas are... unique... also 25man adding raids when veteran community is quitting after ERP. You have to stop with these ideas. Raiders are moving on. SC is moving onto another game. Just get over it.

Can’t blame them when the game’s target audience is casual gamers and non-gamers who get milked in the gem store over cosmetics. It’s one of the reasons why it’s difficult to pull players from other games. A 25 player raid isn’t going to succeed because of this.

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mhh should stated the 5 man raid team in the title...I have heard of people who managed to 5 man raid bosses

Though I do remember Vale Guardian have his own squad content in the bloodstone mapHis death is needed for a legendary trinket

Wish we had more raid bosses in the pve maps so we could practice their mechanics

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@lare.5129 said:it is not easy to find 9 people to do something that not is on trend - 25 is unreal and potentially dead content.

Huh? Are we playing differnet games? Every evening there's about 10-20 squads in LFG looking for raids. Not including all the guilds you can join to do them regularly.

25-Man raids would probably not fit the game. I enjoy my contribution actually mattering in a raid.

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@yusayu.3629 said:Huh? Are we playing differnet games?I think yes, because as for my look I see that curretn raids is to hard, and if we scale it till 25 it will be unplayble at all.You can check statistic how many players kill fist boss on w1, and last on last wing.

That's because there's always casual players, especially in MMOs. Current raids are much too easy for the most part.

Raids are not supposed to be for everyone. If you're not ready to spend the time to learn to play your class and learn the bosses and mechanics, don't raid.

25-player raids wouldn't really be much harder, but it'd depend. If all 25 players had specific mechanics they had to do and which fail the raid if one of them fails (like Dhuum g), that'd obviously make them much harder.

As I said, I prefer having actual impact in my raid group, regardless of what I play. 25-man raids don't really provide that.

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@"yusayu.3629" said:Current raids are much too easy for the most part.and again we play different games .. As I see our guild static possible kill escort on w1, and most of them is unreal ..

Raids are not supposed to be for everyone.and now we play same game ! and if we scale that "not for every one" content - that we get ?

25-player raids wouldn't really be much harder, but it'd depend. If all 25 players had specific mechanics they had to do and which fail the raid if one of them fails (like Dhuum g), that'd obviously make them much harder.How I know from my 100 mates the Dhuum is killed by 3 players .. So should we care and push content for some %x of existing 3% ?

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@lokh.2695 said:It's hard enough to find 9 other playerrs to raid with these days, having to find 24 other players wouldn't help at all.This. Having to find 9 other like-minded people to raid with is actually probably the main barrier of entry for that content. Upping that requirement to 25-player squad size is very unlikely to be met with much enthusiasm, even within the current raid community (and even more unlikely to persuade anyone to start raiding).

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It would be fine if something similiar to the "Flexible Raid" System from WoW was added to have raids with more people. (Flexible Raid = Scaling depending on amount of players participating in the raid, so that you aren't forced to bring 10/25 people, instead you can also bring any amount of players inbetween)

Like the others have already mentioned, a forced 25man raid would be hard to fill.

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@lare.5129 said:

@"yusayu.3629" said:Current raids are much too easy for the most part.and again we play different games .. As I see our guild static possible kill escort on w1, and most of them is unreal ..But that's purely a L2P issue.Raids are not supposed to be for everyone.and now we play same game ! and if we scale that "not for every one" content - that we get ?There is challenge mode right now, it's just that the rewards for that are worthless.25-player raids wouldn't really be much harder, but it'd depend. If all 25 players had specific mechanics they had to do and which fail the raid if one of them fails (like Dhuum g), that'd obviously make them much harder.How I know from my 100 mates the Dhuum is killed by 3 players .. So should we care and push content for some %x of existing 3% ?About 7% of players (15,310 of 218,838) have killed Dhuum according to gw2efficiency. I'd say that's a pretty good number. It's supposed to be hard, you're supposed to have to learn to play your class. If you don't want to - there's a shitton of other content in the game for you.

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@yusayu.3629 said:About 7% of players (15,310 of 218,838) have killed Dhuumthis is number of all, as I say in normal, not hardcore, guild the % is 3.

There is challenge mode right now, it's just that the rewards for that are worthless.challenge mode is planimum pvp, tournaments, ans wvw .. don't see any challenge in 25, I see dead content, that will be completed by 3% and forgotten.

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