No? These aren't bots being ran by players to farm their own gold, this is your usual gold farmers with thousands of accounts to generate gold for their business. I never said there weren't bots obviously there's a shit ton of them I literally said that in the post quoted above, but to say it's just random joes running their 28bots to farm their gold so they can do Argos on 8chars is some massive exaggeration. The amount of bots that players actually run to farm for their own stuff is a minor amount of the total bots, a likely negligible amount. It's also likely not zerkers in Vern/Luterra, people running bots to farm for their main are likely just running T3 bots farming infinite chaos since that's a lot more profitable, and since they only have one/two account botting, they can micromanage it to get to T3 easily without using speedhacks that'd flag you more easily and stuff.
I don't understand why you're playing then? Or rather, who you're playing for. Is it just to "win" the race against other players to a meaningless high ilvl?
I don't bot, and I can definitely sympathize with your frustration. I missed out on the early access week and only hit tier 3 recently. With limited playtime I'm somewhat gold and material strapped, and don't really have much time other than chaos/guardians most days. Just two guardian runs on one character can sometimes take up 20 minutes of my limited time (especially when on a support). I've actually had nights where it took almost the whole 15 minutes or we wiped because everyone died but me on a paladin or gunlancer. The worst is when I need to go spend two hours questing on a character to progress and don't even have time for anything else, or spending all of my playtime with a pug in an abyssal wiping because some people don't bother to look up mechanics. I'm at like 1350 on my main, and I'm guessing it is going to take a really long time to hit 1370 at this rate. I enjoy the combat and diversity between classes, but dislike running the same required questlines on multiple characters. I've gotten to the point where I'm just going to do what I enjoy and ignore the rest for a while, even if I actually progress much slower. It really is a fantastic game as far as quality and quantity of content, but it does cause a person to accept slower progression or swiping if playtime is limited. Out of the 3 people I started with 2 quit in tier 1 and the other only recently hit tier 2 (all were what would once be considered hardcore gamers). For the two that quit it was primarily because they felt like they were behind and felt overwhelmed. I get that feeling at times with 2 characters in early tier 3, but I honestly think the average player is more like my friend that is plugging along in tier 2. If only we were 20 again....
Fixed. That'll be the narrative, thanks to dipshit view farming videos by people like Asmond.
Is it possible that with the delay on it being so long, that people way overshoot the ilvl for legion raids (at least the first ones we get) and trivialize it a bit? We already have a lot of people over 1400, and I imagine people may start pushing 1450 if it takes 2 months.
Spoken like someone who has no absolutely zero concept or grasp of how progress/content works in this game. But, keep letting streamers tell you how to think!
It'll help reduce incidental/non-avoidable damage as well as allowing you to kill the boss "faster" (due to better DPS), but everything after Argos (including him, regardless of the pizza cheese) introduces one-shot mechanics (in some cases multiple). In fact, even starting in T1 Abyssals this is the case.
Right? It's so weird how it's almost like you have to do the bosses "mechanics" to overcome its challenge and defeat it. Never has an MMO introduced this type of gameplay...
