What is ONE thing you dont want to see in Ashes?

I dont want to see a raid boss, instance boss or world boss just sitting there doing nothing. Have it pathing or doing something immersive.
Nothing kills ot for me more than to get to the boss and it's just sitting there like a mannequin. I feel like I have to get my quarter out and put it in its slot to start the fun.

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Mygrunt

I HATE rares that pop in the same spot on timers or after a few min. I want rares to be rare, on no timer and you never know where it will pop up in a zone

Valento92

Mygrunt wrote: »

I HATE rares that pop in the same spot on timers or after a few min. I want rares to be rare, on no timer and you never know where it will pop up in a zone

I miss this tbh it's cool spotting rare stuff when rare really means something.

Jonta

Not being able to see everything just because you arn't in a big guild,

Balrog21

@Dolyem , New World was pretty cool about that in some instances, if the mib could see you it was coming after you. It kept you on your toes.

Tyrantor

Hell levels from EQ days

Balrog21

@PlagueMonk I so heartily agree on this. I've watched all the Intrepid vids and most cities have the majority of the people roaming around doing stuff, I do agree it would be more work but i wish every npc could be doing something even if it's on a certain programmed loop. I.e. shop keeper digs through his wares, then walks around his shop stopping and looking at a random piece then paths back to the front, but he just doesn't sit there, have him/her stretch, look off to the edge of town, dust off his/her clothes and the rinse and repeat.
Doesn't sound like much but soooooo helps with immersion imo.

Tres

I don't want to see rmt for the following:

- Inventory expansions (weight reductions count)
- XP Boosts
- extra characters for your account
- faster travel speeds
- skill resets
- level catchups on expansions
- ability to skip server login queues to those who pay more.
- improved RNG chances on anything.
- unlocking world secrets
- gear repair.

Caeryl

I don’t want to see a “one size fits all” AI system. Aggro ranges, flee v fight thresholds, backing up other mobs, and leashing systems should all be variable between different mobs types.

“I’m dead inside” raid bosses who hear you coming through slaughtering their underlings and yet don’t even pause to assist. At least have the BBEG doing some ritual or something that explains why they don’t bother defending their stronghold.

Ditto on the no Pay for “Convenience” bullcrap. Customers should never be intentionally annoyed just so a company can offer paid “solutions” instead of fixing the problems (looking at you ESO).

I don’t want to see tank builds out dueling the majority of dps builds in 1v1s (looking at you again ESO).

I don’t want raw healing to be more meaningful than buffs. At the same time, content should demand healers to handle the ambient damage, and not just be 3000AD One-Shot montage material or Completely Negligible. (another long disappointed look at ESO)

I don’t want to see zergs being able to all auto-target hyper burst one guy with tab abilities. Same-spell damage fall off should be steep to prevent class-stacked zerg abuse.

bigepeen

People whining about open world PvP.

Jamation

I don't want to see repetitive or barren landscapes for the sake of making the world bigger. I'd rather the world be smaller and more intricate then have a lot of the same thing with slightly different colors, or vast empty regions. Some places, like a desert, can still be "empty" and done well with detail.

Balrog21

I so agree on this @Jamation . Rift was guilty of this in all areas, while some where nice others were just open with nothing...but void.
What I'm hoping in beta2 is for some streamer to start at the top and stream them traveling to the bottom of the map to give us a good look at the world.

Varkun

Been mentioned above but loot boxes................what ever bean counter thought this was a great idea should have a place in the deepest darkest pit reserved for them.

Merek

Anything relating to the horrible themepark trend that has been plaguing MMO's for years now.

Kreed

I dont want to see World of Warcraft fanbois whinning it isnt like World of Warcraft and demanding the game changes to be like warcraft.

Other than that I dont want to see the same old same old boss fights, stand here do this over there, predictable moves take a hit give a hit...Guidable walkthroughs that are identical every time you run the dungeon.

Marcet

PvE being TOO EASY.

I want very difficult bosses and giant dungeons, epic adventures.

Hystorix

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Hystorix

Tyrantor wrote: »

Hell levels from EQ days

I liked hell levels ... I liked fares that were rare like camping the AC for jboots ... was so satisfying

maouw

Bosses that are just stationary meat sponges.

If it's a dragon, it should leap/fly/ram things.
If it's an evil mage, it should teleport around.

Oenanthe

Open world areas that are so packed with random mobs with fast respawn times that you can't just stand and enjoy the scenery for a minute or two.

Not enough character slots. There should be at least one for each race, preferably two for each race to have a male and female option, plus a few extra to try out different race/primary class combos.

Voidwalkers

I hope I will not see in Ashes an obsession with "balance" and "intended ways to play", like what Blizzard's been doing.

I can still remember in the early days of Diablo 3, ppl will work out a certain build, dump time & gold (and sometimes $ on RM AH) to acquire gears for that build, only to have the build nerfed into oblivion. When the players complained, a staff will respond along the lines like "that's not how that skill's intended to be used".

I also recall the mobs' attack animation weren't necessarily in sync with the actual attack - in hell / inferno / forgot the name of the highest difficulty mode, if you weren't a tanky melee, and you made mistakes during the kite, got in range of the boss for even a split of a second and it begins its attack, you're dead. No amount of running away or teleporting will let you dodge the incoming attack.
And when players complained, the staff gave responses like "it's working as intended" or "you're supposed to kite it" etc., don't remember for sure.

I also hated the "Evade" mechanism in WoW - if a mob doesn't have ranged attacks, and I can get onto a nearby cliff where it can't reach, it deserves to be shot dead from that cliff. And if that cliff became a super ludicrous farming spot to the point of being "broken", patch it by removing the mobs (you can justify it as "the mobs have learnt that it's dangerous to wander near that cliff"), or give the mobs a strong ranged attack (the mobs have evolved in response to the selection pressure). But that "evade" should've never been the answer.

I mean even if the mob is of boss level, and if somehow there's a very hard-to-reach safe spot where a specialized ranged character can grind the boss to death solo in an hour or two (ok, I took this example from Sinon in SAO), please leave things that way. Finding this kind of tricky non-orthodox answers to the challenges presented by the devs is often where the fun is in an open world mmo. And the rare player who found it deserves to be rewarded. (But of coz, if a "trick" is too easy to execute, e.g. everyone can just jump on a certain rock where a boss can't reach due to a stupid pathing glitch, then just fix it asap)

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