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5 years ago

Raid Sim: What the Devs say

Most recent Dev quote regarding raid sim in recent Q&A

2) The AAT sim has been discussed pretty recently. I would say that one has a good chance of seeing a roll out sooner rather than later (no promises on timelines). We have no immediate intent to sim the Sith Triumvirate. A large chunk of players are still working through it

On the surface that seems reasonable. Don't create a sim when the players are still playing the content. However lets also look at the dev requirements to be able to sim a raid!

Post from CG_Crumb announcing raid sim on March 14



So a guild must have 35 7* raid reward characters and 50 heroic completions. One might even say... the raid is old and boring by then. New guilds still working their way thru a raid wouldn't have the option to sim anyways.

So tell me again why we can't have ALL raids have sim as a standard option upon release with requirements like this?

We get tired of playing tired content! Especially with the HSTR and its toxic reward structure requiring you to fight your own guild for decent rewards.
  • I've been on the sim HAAT bandwagon for ages, but I really think I see @leef 's point. The reward structure for Pit was out of whack because players that bothered to take the two minutes to join the raid and hit auto were getting vastly different rewards based on the randomness associated with where they were placed when they joined.

    HAAT solos, while "easy" still take a long time, are immensely boring, unsatisfying from a gear rewards perspective, and the most I've seen in a hardcore guild is a little upwards of 10. More laid back guilds and it's easily half of that (depending on guild GP, etc.).

    Maybe the qualification for a HAAT sim would be more than X number of raids with Y number of solos, where Y was something like 10. I've seen HAAT's with less than 10 people post a score, nevermind auto it. Maybe the people putting in the effort should get the rewards.

    UNLESS - they change the sim prize box to have something that's actually useful in there. Gawd those are some garbage rewards.