Fixing Vale Guardian

[Gudradain.3892]

Vale Guardian used to be one of my favorite encounter. I absolutely loved that fight because of the mechanics. In particular, I like the Green Circle mechanism and the colored floor that forced you to rotate.

Then, I took a long break from raiding and... most groups now skips the Green Circle and they don't rotate until the last phase by switching between 2 platforms. It's a good strategy, it's effective but it's boring. I no longer enjoy Vale Guardian as much as I used to. I can't blame it on the players because it's normal that they will use the most effective strategy to accomplish a task, the problem is the encounter.

The most problematic thing is that Green Circle can be skipped. Here is my suggestion:

When you miss Green Circle for the third time it's an instant wipe.

It could be tracked with a stackable debuff that you get each time you miss one.

[Fangoth.4503]

That's good it will force people to focus on phasing after 1 green 😊

[Astralporing.1957]

You might have not noticed, but people started to skip greens very, very early. It's just been done with chrono's distortion share originally. In truth, next to nobody actually liked doing greens from the beginning. Just as most people didn't like to do updrafts on Gorse if they could avoid it.

 

Sure, you could try to force that mechanic, but nowadays all it would accomplish would be to lower the already heavily diminished number of active raiders.

Edited May 21, 2021 by Astralporing.1957