Yggdrasiln.5240

Still incredibly bugged, bumped for pain and posterity.

No, I don't think you've missed anything from my reading anyways. I do agree, it's really not feasible for anet to allocate enough to raids to overhaul them to include new difficulties (as again, they have said themselves). I personally disagree that adding an easier version of something makes the harder version not as hard, especially if we consider them to be comparative to T1 vs CM fractals. By that comparison, they're almost entirely different experiences yeah? I don't see how creating an easier version of something takes away someone else's experience/fun personally. It just gives more options so more people can do their fun. Nobody likes splitting communities, but I think there's already a divide between the folks who do raids as they are currently and those who would do an easier version. I personally don't see how implementing an easier mode would divide the current community? That said I'm not part of the current community and admittedly I could be completely blind to how that would. I didn't say, "train" for clarification. The gap would still be gigantic, I agree, but accessibility can be a motivator to overcome that gap. I also agree that an easy mode shouldn't give the same rewards as a higher difficulty. Also, no, I'm not arguing that anet should magically find and allocate resources to make this happen. I just don't think it would be such a horrific thing if it were possible. As stated before though, I don't think there is an easy solution.

That probably would be the majority of runs, I don't disagree with you on that. However an easy mode still opens up the opportunity by making raiding more accessible in general. It may still be far from ideal, but it's at least something, and from there the hope is that more people are learning and able to do higher difficulty. I don't think giving raiding a bit of wiggle room is a bad idea? I don't think there's any easy solution, but it's worth looking for one.

What support do you want to play?My static got a heal firebrand/tank on most bosses, were he dont tank he still heal, aegis block and boons etcScourge healer can be nice on bosses witch aint a dps check like sloth and matthias for example.Heavy healers like revenant and engis elites arent really needed when you get better at the fights becouse people are supposed to get hit very rarely and if they get hit the low healing from druid and chrono should be enough to heal them back up. I main a heal firebrand/tank, but I've still found folks to be really, really dismissive or just rude. Last time I was trying to get into raiding I only had to mention what I was playing for guilds to ghost me. :expressionless:

As someone who plays support, and doesn't want to have to play support meta to do content I'd really appreciate an easy mode? It's one thing If I learn on my own and come to my own conclusion that I want to do x build or whatever, but my main problem with raiding as is, is that I really don't have any freedom in what I can play as support. As is, even if I am confident in what I'm bringing to a group, I would never be accepted into a raiding team with what I play. At least with a lower difficulty mode, that would hopefully ease up a bit? (Or a the very least they'd be easier to organize as someone who's never raided.)

Yggdrasiln, Sylvari Guardian (Spec, Firebrand.)He's my main and oldest character, and definitely the one I've developed most. His build is tealing, with some pretty extreme surviveability. Just don't ask him to finish a fight any time soon. (I honestly have so much meta/development for him so please feel free to poke me about him! There's so much.) Favourite Tenant: "All things have a right to grow." (Even if he repeats it under his breath in frustration more so than jubilation in recent years.)Cycle: DawnOrder: Priory Basic Bio: Yggdrasiln is a dignified dork, and always seeks to put others first. As a sapling he was curious about what lied outside The Grove, but was disheartened by the cruelty he saw in the outside world. He's internalized that people can be capable of great acts of both kindness and cruelty from a young age, but strives to counter balance that with his own philosophy of fairness and equality. Personally cautious, but with a problem-solver nature and an optimistic outlook, he started his journey many years ago. In the past he was a bit more action first, but he was thankfully influenced to be a bit more bookish early on. At first Yggdrasiln didn't take to bookish pursuits with much gusto, but post the disastrous venture into Maguuma he's settled more into a more scholarly figure. (He spent the months following pouring over books, writing, re-writing and scraping letters and essays he mostly never shared.) He tends to put his issues on the back burner while trying to take care of everyone else, but in recent years that's been far from reasonable. There's often no clear, "right thing" and he struggles with the weight of his choices and those they impact. In many ways he longs for the simplicity of the days when his biggest concerned was Zhaitan. Still, even if he's worn out, and more bitter than he was at the start, Yggdrasiln does his best to be what people need him to be. This is what I consider Ygg's classic, and was his look for about two years. But I did an update recently!

To be honest I'll buy anything and everything Sylvari related, and doubly so for Traherane. Really would love a Trahearne mini. :)

Seriously only if the men get them too. Swimming trunks are not a valid equivalent lol.