while grinding out the current series i have had the unfortunately experience of encountering the same copy/paste premade over and over in pvp
composed of several people who are clearly sitting in a discord call together, the premades always have a dark knight, warrior, a healer, and usually a dps or two
this is absolutely miserable to play against
why?
it goes like this:
the dark knight uses plunge to jump into a group, salted earth to draw everyone in, then follow up by rampage to deal aoe damage and increase everyones damage taken
the warrior, immediately after salted earth goes off, uses primal rend, dealing extra aoe damage and stunning everyone, doing its massive damage follow-up (primal ruination) and then probably also uses rampage
if people are still alive, which they often arent, the dps, warrior, and dark knight then all spam random stuff, usually aoes, to kill everyone thats left
the healer (almost always a white mage or astrologian), meanwhile, makes killing anyone extremely hard without a highly coordinated effort
as a result, these people instantly kill a group of people with little to zero chance for them to fight back, allowing the premade to farm battle high v almost as soon as the game has begun, such as in the game i was just in where not even a minute went by before "Battle High V has overtaken a member of the Order of the Twin Adder!" got spammed in chat
roughly 70% of games ive done while going from series level 5 to 21 has had a premade team doing this
its the same thing
every
single
time
its just not fun to play against, its almost impossible to play against even, its just a free win button since the points you get from kills, especially once these people get battle high v, highly outweigh the points for objectives
it turns any map into team death match, it completely makes the map objectives irrelevant, and it makes it almost pointless to even try and play unless someone on your team, or another team, has that same premade setup to help kill the other one
ive already seen a handful of people citing this as a reason they wont play frontline, which, seeing as the gamemode requires 72 people to queue for it to even pop, isnt exactly surprising to hear as the queues get longer and longer
i have only three solutions in mind
either remove the ability to queue into frontline with a party (which sucks but it is a solution) or limit such queues to only parties of 2 to try and lower the severity of this premade pubstomp
nerf dark knight (probably by removing the draw-in effect of salted earth or HEAVILY nerfing the draw-ins range) and/or warrior (lower the stuns duration to 1 second or remove it all together)
remove rampage, add in a different role skill (warrior aoe damage with rampage added was already seen by some people as too much, but now with this premade format its just causing issues like this ontop of all that)
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composed of several people who are clearly sitting in a discord call together, the premades always have a dark knight, warrior, a healer, and usually a dps or two
this is absolutely miserable to play against
why?
it goes like this:
the dark knight uses plunge to jump into a group, salted earth to draw everyone in, then follow up by rampage to deal aoe damage and increase everyones damage taken
the warrior, immediately after salted earth goes off, uses primal rend, dealing extra aoe damage and stunning everyone, doing its massive damage follow-up (primal ruination) and then probably also uses rampage
if people are still alive, which they often arent, the dps, warrior, and dark knight then all spam random stuff, usually aoes, to kill everyone thats left
the healer (almost always a white mage or astrologian), meanwhile, makes killing anyone extremely hard without a highly coordinated effort
as a result, these people instantly kill a group of people with little to zero chance for them to fight back, allowing the premade to farm battle high v almost as soon as the game has begun, such as in the game i was just in where not even a minute went by before "Battle High V has overtaken a member of the Order of the Twin Adder!" got spammed in chat
roughly 70% of games ive done while going from series level 5 to 21 has had a premade team doing this
its the same thing
every
single
time
its just not fun to play against, its almost impossible to play against even, its just a free win button since the points you get from kills, especially once these people get battle high v, highly outweigh the points for objectives
it turns any map into team death match, it completely makes the map objectives irrelevant, and it makes it almost pointless to even try and play unless someone on your team, or another team, has that same premade setup to help kill the other one
ive already seen a handful of people citing this as a reason they wont play frontline, which, seeing as the gamemode requires 72 people to queue for it to even pop, isnt exactly surprising to hear as the queues get longer and longer
i have only three solutions in mind
either remove the ability to queue into frontline with a party (which sucks but it is a solution) or limit such queues to only parties of 2 to try and lower the severity of this premade pubstomp
nerf dark knight (probably by removing the draw-in effect of salted earth or HEAVILY nerfing the draw-ins range) and/or warrior (lower the stuns duration to 1 second or remove it all together)
remove rampage, add in a different role skill (warrior aoe damage with rampage added was already seen by some people as too much, but now with this premade format its just causing issues like this ontop of all that)
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