Raid Sim: What the Devs say

@Daishi

If there were no rewards or bragging rights would u play it? I know dont enjoy P1 at all, or P4. P2 and 3 are at least somewhat fun but in most guilds over in moments. Theorycrafting is fun, but who has time to theorycraft and try stuff when each phase ends in 10 min or less and you must post high damage for top 10 or get terrible rewards?

This is it almost exactly. There is still some NS fun to be had at the beginning of p4 if you don't use NS during p3, but p1 isn't fun. It's just 4-5M that you need to grab if you want to edge out the people that will tie you in p2/p3 damage so you can climb into the top 10.

P2 and P3 are definitely interesting to me. I'm still trying to perfect the NS/Anakin death storm squad - I have the toons, but there have only been a couple times when I got everything set up and going before the phase ended.

So really, I do p1/JTR as a bit of a chore. Then, if I have time, I wait for others to knock p1 down to around 10%. At that point I use my JKR jedi to finish p1 and start p2. Depending how much I get from the end of p1, this is 14-20M damage. So I'm at 18-24M, with p3 at least ready to go by the time I finish my p2 run. But the truth is that sometimes, especially if I'm at the extreme edge of my ability to complete p1 (about 12% is my limit), p3 will be done or half-way done by the time I end my Jedi run.

So do I have time to do the multi-team set up, using sacrifice toons to eat Traya's isolate? Nope. Not usually. On the few occasions when it works out, I can top 40M, but most of the time I'm still at 18-24M with only p4 kitchen sink-style play remaining.

And that's when things go well. It's easily possible that the only play I get is that first p1/JTR run for 4M.

It's not that I don't want to play HSTR. It's not that there's nothing fun left to do in it. It's that the interesting bits last such a short amount of time you lose your chance to even try if you just blink at the wrong time.

Staring at the screen waiting around for the exact right second to start your Jedi run and frantically trying to set up your DeathStorm run before p3 evaporates aren't fun. And that's the cardinal sin of any game: the failure to bring the fun.

I wish there was a way to guarantee everyone a crack at p2 and p3 each time the raid was run. If there was - or even if there was just a suitably large window (say an hour) instead of a bare 5 minute opportunity to get in and play - then I'd want to keep playing.

As it is, the raid is more stress than fun. You have to finish top3 to get decent levels of g12, but finishing top3 is more luck than anything - everyone at my level has JkR, Anakin, and NS. Since it's mostly luck anyway and since I'm not having fun, I'd be happy to have HSTR become simmable.