Should Stuns be Part of Banish Events

[MisChief]

I think that if stun rates in banish are going to be messed with that they should be nerfed rather than eliminated completely.


On a side note: I think it is funny that some people expect the devs to know every possible outcome from a feature that they are going to implement before it goes up. The devs don't have the time to figure out every little detail, they have lives outside of game development ya know.

Dev's have lives?? whoa ^^; Ironic, so do players! (But dev's get paid)

But, joking aside, if they were to nerf the stun, what about HR, and quests, PvP even. I mean that has a farther reaching effect than just banish. I hope they leave well enough alone, and we can get some more quest, HR, etc going that we've been waiting for.

[Revan]

Dev's have lives?? whoa ^^; Ironic, so do players! (But dev's get paid)

But, joking aside, if they were to nerf the stun, what about HR, and quests, PvP even. I mean that has a farther reaching effect than just banish. I hope they leave well enough alone, and we can get some more quest, HR, etc going that we've been waiting for.

I was talking about nerfing them in just banish, not HR, not PvP, not quests, not Royal Arena. I was just throwing out a less extreme version of Dawnseeker's idea to eliminate stuns in banish. And yes I did say banish in my earlier post.

[ExecDude]

What we need in banish is a results button where you can either choose autofight which works as it does now, or you can do manual play by clicking results and confirming. This will reduce the needs to constantly refresh to bypass the endless rounds and it will give players a CHOICE to play the events either way.

[hjam_8879649]

I think that if stun rates in banish are going to be messed with that they should be nerfed rather than eliminated completely.

They were already messed with/nerfed once and that pissed players off, you don't seriously think its "OK" to do it again?

[Deucalion]

We definitely did not anticipate players chaining stuns and surviving longer than 1 minute in Banish. It was originally intended to be an attrition battle, with players managing how fast and what order their characters died, while delaying Thousand Strikes from Baal/Cerberus. We started seeing long stun chains and realized that is how players wanted the battle to be. It does add both an element of luck and skill to use stun-reliant strategies. So we left it alone.

I think that things are getting absurd at this point and probably stuns should be removed, or else Baal should automatically break out of all stuns on the 6-8th round. But I don't make these decisions.

On a completely serious note, this will do a few things.

1. Destroy income for countless people, refer to #4
2. Eliminate the excitement surrounding WB events
3. Create an unbridgeable gap between coiners and non coiners in WB events. There will no longer be any chance to be in the top 3 (top 10 on old servers) if you don't coin.
4. Push already grumpy patrons over the cliff
5. Cause an unnatural explosion of drama on these forums, for little reason
6. Raise the player count of another game soon to be released by a factor of 5

Banish is the only event left that hasn't been completely noobified. It's also the only event that still creates large amounts of excitement on the player level. We all look forward to these events because they give us the resources to be able to play further. There is no other event that can create the level of income that banish can.
Banish events have a direct connection to the hearts of all players, especially coiners, but even F2P players enjoy it.

[Herby]

On a completely serious note, this will do a few things.

1. Destroy income for countless people, refer to #4
2. Eliminate the excitement surrounding WB events
3. Create an unbridgeable gap between coiners and non coiners in WB events. There will no longer be any chance to be in the top 3 (top 10 on old servers) if you don't coin.
4. Push already grumpy patrons over the cliff
5. Cause an unnatural explosion of drama on these forums, for little reason
6. Raise the player count of another game soon to be released by a factor of 5

Banish is the only event left that hasn't been completely noobified. It's also the only event that still creates large amounts of excitement on the player level. We all look forward to these events because they give us the resources to be able to play further. There is no other event that can create the level of income that banish can.
Banish events have a direct connection to the hearts of all players, especially coiners, but even F2P players enjoy it.

Very well said.


4/4/14?

[g346007_1906957]

Personally I think banish events do need a change...while they might have a connection to the hearts of some players, I find them a little boring. Pick a formation and then just keep running at it... I think something with multiple bosses would be more interesting. Maybe set up your form for some AoE damage to start with, and then adjust your formation as bosses get eliminated. To ensure defense still isn't much of a factor, maybe two or three stunners (at 1/3 the hp of the main boss) and one insta-ko boss.

Might be just me. (and of course removing stuns doesn't make it more interesting)

[Riot]

I don't know what all this nonsense is about, but they need to NERF stun like 80% on these bosses. With my line up using 12 preciseness on shayd... and pompey, blood, kahn (criting), and calvin to kill morale, i get around 800 - 1k rep per round. baal and cerb stay stunned for ever. Good for me, but sucks for the rest of the server. I wind up doing major portion of the dmg. so yea, it is unbalanced... kill the stun down big time and that will balance it out for all players so everyone will get more distributed coins, credits, and rep.

[Wildflower]

Very well said.


4/4/14?

My guess is elder scrolls.

Sidenote: Herby has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

[Deucalion]

I don't know what all this nonsense is about, but they need to NERF stun like 80% on these bosses. With my line up using 12 preciseness on shayd... and pompey, blood, kahn (criting), and calvin to kill morale, i get around 800 - 1k rep per round. baal and cerb stay stunned for ever. Good for me, but sucks for the rest of the server. I wind up doing major portion of the dmg. so yea, it is unbalanced... kill the stun down big time and that will balance it out for all players so everyone will get more distributed coins, credits, and rep.

Though I commend and respect your willingness to sacrifice your main source of income, I must disagree. Not many people share your opinion and rely on these events for 50%-90% of their income, that would surely be missed. Can I ask what server your on? If your server 10+, then you are in a totally different world. On server 1, you must fight (and refresh) for your share of damage, or lose it. Most players in my guild, and others take banish very seriously. Especially the players that occupy the top three most often. Speaking for myself here, possibly others, I put a very large amount of time into getting the most out of the heroes involved with WB. Tweaking, Sainting and starring those heroes first. Time put into getting more out of WB events directly impacts how much time you can spend playing the game in general.

My guess is elder scrolls.

Sidenote: Herby has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

I believe it is ESO, many folks here are playing beta.