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kanhji6's avatar
2 years ago

The Krayt raid feels like a really cool single phase of what could be a great raid

I think CG has really conditioned us with all its other raids to expect a sense of momentum and drama to its raids as we move from phase to phase. I understand why this new raid is just one round, with the whole submit-your-score-thing (which I think is a terrific improvement), but after the other raids it does feel a little lacking in oomph. (Rewards aside, of course.) I love the visuals, I love the idea... and I'm already looking forward to what's next and hopefully better.

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  • MastersRising's avatar
    MastersRising
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago
    This single phase as a full raid is boring. They made one new raid phase since the traya raid. Woo-hoo Boring raid. Horrible rewards.
    Now I have a stack of worthless mk1 raid currency, awesome.
  • "masters;c-2421483" wrote:
    This single phase as a full raid is boring. They made one new raid phase since the traya raid. Woo-hoo Boring raid. Horrible rewards.
    Now I have a stack of worthless mk1 raid currency, awesome.

    Probably still more exciting than their crappy LOTR game.
  • "kanhji6;d-263486" wrote:
    I think CG has really conditioned us with all its other raids to expect a sense of momentum and drama to its raids as we move from phase to phase. I understand why this new raid is just one round, with the whole submit-your-score-thing (which I think is a terrific improvement), but after the other raids it does feel a little lacking in oomph. (Rewards aside, of course.) I love the visuals, I love the idea... and I'm already looking forward to what's next and hopefully better.


    Love this raid, and love the idea of more raids like this. Setting aside the obvious reward issues, I love the idea of more of these w/ different teams being used and having them on a rotation like Featless GC's for your guild to co-op on.

    I'd love to see a Fleet raid done like this too, single phase fleet raid. That'd be fun!
  • "Zhongwen1976;c-2421485" wrote:
    "masters;c-2421483" wrote:
    This single phase as a full raid is boring. They made one new raid phase since the traya raid. Woo-hoo Boring raid. Horrible rewards.
    Now I have a stack of worthless mk1 raid currency, awesome.

    Probably still more exciting than their crappy LOTR game.


    Has that game been released yet?
  • "masters;c-2421483" wrote:
    This single phase as a full raid is boring. They made one new raid phase since the traya raid. Woo-hoo Boring raid. Horrible rewards.
    Now I have a stack of worthless mk1 raid currency, awesome.


    Worthless?
  • One battle does not make a raid.
    Well, in this case it does.
    Boring though.
  • matter of opinion i guess

    this is better than four sith raid phases
  • "Sumo_Sloth;c-2421532" wrote:
    "TVF;c-2421524" wrote:
    matter of opinion i guess

    this is better than four sith raid phases


    I agree that's it's a matter of opinion.

    However, I suspect your opinion is what it is because it's new not because it's better. I'd be interested to see if your opinion changes in six months when it becomes stale like the Sith Raid has become long ago.


    At that point I'll think it's the same as hstr, shrug. Just another thing i have to do for the rewards.

    More phases wouldn't change that.
  • "masters;c-2421483" wrote:
    This single phase as a full raid is boring. They made one new raid phase since the traya raid. Woo-hoo Boring raid. Horrible rewards.
    Now I have a stack of worthless mk1 raid currency, awesome.


    Its less artificial phases (i'll go into that a bit)

    Having more phases means more planning and time spent on raid, and they have to rethink the raid as a whole from phase 1

    And it makes releasing newer raids slow

    Also every raid so far has had artificial phases anyways

    Look at Phase 2/3/4 for Pit Raid

    Its like they added another phase to krayt raid but they removed the mines and called it a phase

    Look at Phase 2/4 for tank raid, its essentially the same but with adds (and that does make a difference since some units benefit from taking advantage of more units or weaker units) but adding a phase with Krayt dragon and two random adds isn't that great given the time of planning it would take CG to do that (because adding a new phase isn't so simple they have to rebalance everything to make sure its clearable and the health pools / damage / teams used etc)

    Sith Raid is pretty unique in all 4 phases though no complaints there but it takes a long time to ideate and publish that

    Its better to have multiple new raids every year than one new raid every few years and if the trade-off is one phase, i think thats fine, once a new raid comes out nobody cares about the previous raid anymore so all that time planning for 4 phases is a waste if you plan on churning out more raids regularly