Beware of the lingering guild members...
With this post I want to address a really annoying, but commonly used 'exploit' in the raid system - not so that it is taken advantage of, but so that it is fixed for the good of all players.
So, as I understand it, the idea behind adding Raids to the game is so that a Guild of players can work together as a team to achieve a common goal and win awards based on the individuals 'damage' participation. We all know that.
We also all know that the raid is split into 4 stages; 1 piggy stage and 3 rancor stages, each with increasing difficulty to get maximum damage points...... or so I believe was the original idea. I suppose what I am trying to get at (without sounding like wuss) is the vast difference in potential damage points between the piggies and the first rancor stage. It is much, much easier to score points against the rancor than it is with the pigs, sometimes 3x more.
Some of you might say I haven't got the right squad for the pigs, which might be partially true, even though I have 12 7-star characters. The point remains however, that I as a player can currently choose to sit back and wait for my other team members to take out the pigs before I swoop in and do 3x more damage against the rancor, thus putting me in a higher position up the leader board than I should be and getting better rewards than those who actually deserve it. I don't personally do this, but I have noticed many on my guild who do and it is very frustrating.
I would like EA to do something about this clear exploit as it is currently making the raid system unbalanced. In an ideal world, the potential for damage points should decrease with each subsequent stage as the difficulty increases. As it is currently, the hardest stage is at the start!
This brings me back around to the title of this discussion- Beware of the lingering guild members! If they haven't participated in the piggy stage, they are most likely waiting for you to complete it for them because they secretly suck at this game.
So, as I understand it, the idea behind adding Raids to the game is so that a Guild of players can work together as a team to achieve a common goal and win awards based on the individuals 'damage' participation. We all know that.
We also all know that the raid is split into 4 stages; 1 piggy stage and 3 rancor stages, each with increasing difficulty to get maximum damage points...... or so I believe was the original idea. I suppose what I am trying to get at (without sounding like wuss) is the vast difference in potential damage points between the piggies and the first rancor stage. It is much, much easier to score points against the rancor than it is with the pigs, sometimes 3x more.
Some of you might say I haven't got the right squad for the pigs, which might be partially true, even though I have 12 7-star characters. The point remains however, that I as a player can currently choose to sit back and wait for my other team members to take out the pigs before I swoop in and do 3x more damage against the rancor, thus putting me in a higher position up the leader board than I should be and getting better rewards than those who actually deserve it. I don't personally do this, but I have noticed many on my guild who do and it is very frustrating.
I would like EA to do something about this clear exploit as it is currently making the raid system unbalanced. In an ideal world, the potential for damage points should decrease with each subsequent stage as the difficulty increases. As it is currently, the hardest stage is at the start!
This brings me back around to the title of this discussion- Beware of the lingering guild members! If they haven't participated in the piggy stage, they are most likely waiting for you to complete it for them because they secretly suck at this game.
