raids on normal are now crazy hard?

[Weslok]

Dude you telling us tht you complete raids doesn't damn help at all... I Don''t give a $&$% how many raids you complete with your dozens of reaper points... We all know that raids are EASIER ON REAPER THAN ON ELITE IF YOU HAVE MANY REAPER POINTS... Just shut up and listen you are just giving excuses not help... Where are the devs they can help... We are not making this up, we are losing people and I am one of them... I'm bloody done!!!

 

[Weslok]

So today Disciples Of The Apocalypse raided again... We did epic Chronoscope (shhh some people still need slivers)... We did Vision Of Destructon on legendary hard it went well... We did Dryad on hard it didn't go so well... We did Hunt or be Hunted on normal and wiped 3 times...
I want to talk a bit about the last update... We used to do Baba's on R3 without any problems at all... Yesterday we wiped 4 times... We used to do dryad on hard with 0 problems today Hawthorn's corruption got to 100%... I am the main tank for DOTA so I can speak from experience here... I used to tank before the update and Hawthorn would get to max 10% on a bad day... The unicorns would give me 3 or 4 negative levels max per round of tanking... Now since the update, the least I've been able to keep Hawthorn to is about 80% corruption... Now I get like 13-16 negative levels per round... My great cleric Eglantina now has to remove my negative levels every round because I can no longer read a greater restoration scroll between rounds... I can't properly maintain the agro of the unicorns anyone... My intimidation is 108 and they regularly ignore it now, like the animation doesn't appear anymore... I have a knights challenge which throws my shield at the target and compels it to target me for 8 seconds... I can do this every 20 seconds... It is supposed to take effect immediately now there is about a 5-second lag before they respond... This means they attack Hawthorn for 5 seconds longer than they are supposed to so that explains her corruption... I don't know why they ignore my intimidation... Today we wiped several times on hunt normal... We were unable to finish this easy raid with 12 players most of whom were guildies and several who raid with us every day... I personally enjoy a challenge but I've had it with this garbage... They didn't fix the lag, it's worse in hunt, the mobs are easily twice as dangerous as before... I am not enjoying watching my party wipe because I can't do my damn job right anymore... I feel responsible because a good tank is able to protect his party with his body... I can no longer do that... I am leaving the game that I love because they have taken the joy out of it... R1 rooms now regularily have 3-4 reapers when on reaper 1 before update 59 you'd rarely get 1 reaper and 2 was almost unheard of... I don't claim to know why this is so different but they have killed the joy in my game for people who don't have all their reaper points...
SG have taken the stance that they hear us but they have yet to even give a hint that they might try to fix it... I'm sorry I spent $100 today to buy their new mount package but it's done... Maybe SS will fix it maybe they won't but I bought Elden Ring 6 months ago and I guess it's time to fire it up and take a look-see... I've enjoyed my time in DDO but I'm not having fun anymore... Good luck all...

 

[JaynChar2019]

Yeah, we had two different people on new/underlevel tanks that struggled a bit (wiped once since they didn't say anything lol), and I think the unicorns are more active than previously. First-life tanks at 32 seem fine for LH though.

We do too? Probably 10-15 brand new people in the last month? Also plenty of people who've been before but are still new to DDO, or are coming back. I'm the raid leader for Hand of Death, which is the most active guild on Cannith and open-invite so we get lots of new people. First-lifers in every raid lol; I have two first-life raid toons (my tank and a bard buffer) personally, and a 3rd-life alt which is currently on a DC Wizard which I've brought a bunch as well. We have at least one guide for every group in scheduled raids, and run in Discord usually. thought this was dnd but guess not!!!!!!

I even have alias guides for PN, and am working on a project with a friend of mine to swap aliases so anyone can use them to run teaching raids easily.

but how many recart, reaper, hardcore do you have? and guildies like you? its not the same you are over powered and folks like me are not at the same level. the new update is excluding us u dont even understand because where your at. I just want new folks like me to be able to play too otherwise whats the point????? geuss i'll spend my $$ elesewhwere if that hows its gonna be

 

[JaynChar2019]

So today Disciples Of The Apocalypse raided again... We did epic Chronoscope (shhh some people still need slivers)... We did Vision Of Destructon on legendary hard it went well... We did Dryad on hard it didn't go so well... We did Hunt or be Hunted on normal and wiped 3 times...
I want to talk a bit about the last update... We used to do Baba's on R3 without any problems at all... Yesterday we wiped 4 times... We used to do dryad on hard with 0 problems today Hawthorn's corruption got to 100%... I am the main tank for DOTA so I can speak from experience here... I used to tank before the update and Hawthorn would get to max 10% on a bad day... The unicorns would give me 3 or 4 negative levels max per round of tanking... Now since the update, the least I've been able to keep Hawthorn to is about 80% corruption... Now I get like 13-16 negative levels per round... My great cleric Eglantina now has to remove my negative levels every round because I can no longer read a greater restoration scroll between rounds... I can't properly maintain the agro of the unicorns anyone... My intimidation is 108 and they regularly ignore it now, like the animation doesn't appear anymore... I have a knights challenge which throws my shield at the target and compels it to target me for 8 seconds... I can do this every 20 seconds... It is supposed to take effect immediately now there is about a 5-second lag before they respond... This means they attack Hawthorn for 5 seconds longer than they are supposed to so that explains her corruption... I don't know why they ignore my intimidation... Today we wiped several times on hunt normal... We were unable to finish this easy raid with 12 players most of whom were guildies and several who raid with us every day... I personally enjoy a challenge but I've had it with this garbage... They didn't fix the lag, it's worse in hunt, the mobs are easily twice as dangerous as before... I am not enjoying watching my party wipe because I can't do my damn job right anymore... I feel responsible because a good tank is able to protect his party with his body... I can no longer do that... I am leaving the game that I love because they have taken the joy out of it... R1 rooms now regularily have 3-4 reapers when on reaper 1 before update 59 you'd rarely get 1 reaper and 2 was almost unheard of... I don't claim to know why this is so different but they have killed the joy in my game for people who don't have all their reaper points...
SG have taken the stance that they hear us but they have yet to even give a hint that they might try to fix it... I'm sorry I spent $100 today to buy their new mount package but it's done... Maybe SS will fix it maybe they won't but I bought Elden Ring 6 months ago and I guess it's time to fire it up and take a look-see... I've enjoyed my time in DDO but I'm not having fun anymore... Good luck all...

you're not responsible you are all good an loved!

 

[Arcanaverse]

-_-. Yep, things are jacked. Ok. If it wasn't clear... trying to determine precisely what is jacked.

You gave a time, which is great. Problem is, there wasn't an update on May 8th. There was an patch on the 9th which didn't have any monster or player changes that would have this kind of reach. May 3rd had the changes to dungeon alert.

Which DA changes could impact your raids that much. But that would only apply if you were getting a dungeon alert which you still haven't confirmed nor denied.

Also, which is it? A tight nit raid group that runs raids together every day with a few regulars and is not a pug group or was tonight a raid group of first timers that you were kindly showing the way?

No one is attacking you or say they're better than you. They're mistakenly trying to help like I was by offering their own experience. Egg on my face I guess.

 

[PraetorPlato]

Same page as Arcanaverse—just trying to figure out what's up. HoBH can be super swingy with the souls, so I could see small changes making a big difference. It sounds like unicorn aggro has changed. What's up with Baba?

Also, the tank alt I'm talking about has ~12 reaper, 0 pls, no raid gear, no tomes. Transferred (dead) HC char from this season. I agree that it's much easier to notice differences on low-life characters, but I'm curious what the specific issues you're noticing are—I'm pretty sure by r3 baba squishes are pretty much dead if they're taking significant aggro, especially without tons of RP, so it sounds like maybe a change in tanking mechanics?

 

[JaynChar2019]

-_-. Yep, things are jacked. Ok. If it wasn't clear... trying to determine precisely what is jacked.

You gave a time, which is great. Problem is, there wasn't an update on May 8th. There was an patch on the 9th which didn't have any monster or player changes that would have this kind of reach. May 3rd had the changes to dungeon alert.

Which DA changes could impact your raids that much. But that would only apply if you were getting a dungeon alert which you still haven't confirmed nor denied.

Also, which is it? A tight nit raid group that runs raids together every day with a few regulars and is not a pug group or was tonight a raid group of first timers that you were kindly showing the way?

No one is attacking you or say they're better than you. They're mistakenly trying to help like I was by offering their own experience. Egg on my face I guess.

I litetarrly saw an update on this NEW forum on may 8th so.............................. will post soom be right back

 

[JaynChar2019]

Same page as Arcanaverse—just trying to figure out what's up. HoBH can be super swingy with the souls, so I could see small changes making a big difference. It sounds like unicorn aggro has changed. What's up with Baba?

Also, the tank alt I'm talking about has ~12 reaper, 0 pls, no raid gear, no tomes. Transferred (dead) HC char from this season. I agree that it's much easier to notice differences on low-life characters, but I'm curious what the specific issues you're noticing are—I'm pretty sure by r3 baba squishes are pretty much dead if they're taking significant aggro, especially without tons of RP, so it sounds like maybe a change in tanking mechanics?

dont get me wrong I am a freaking permittting scientist I over see over 22 states. look me up on linked in CharlottteStallone. I am not someone to cause trouble. I absolutely love this game but things are way OFF and friends are jumping ship!!!!!! what do I do at this point when i have no control over what they alll do????????? when did this game start shutting folks out?

 

[Ivyjean]

I'm not saying it is. I'm trying to understand the situation to try and help. Without more details about what happened or what is happening we can't a narrow anything down.

IE. If a reason for wiping was that the Tank can't hold aggro on dryad unicorns. That could be bug with intim, threat, the gear, bonus application, the monster, etc.. Hell it could even be because of the lag improvements monsters are acting better. So I'm trying to help troubleshoot.

My first assumption was that you two and Weslok spend a lot of time together and were in the same raid train, but are citing different stories and the details of what happened tonight keep changing.

I empathize and understand your upset, but while the memory is fresh. Help me help you.

Just so you know we are all in one guild so while the reports of problems may seem different they are just being stated from that persons view. Jay is the raid leader but all of our raids are done by mostly guildies that play every day together. When you have that many people all saying there are issues with the raids you can believe there are issues. Several of our toons are not first lifers some of us have several reaper points we are not players that just started playing not long ago, some of us have been playing sone the beginning of the game so we know when things have changed. As a cleric I may see things differently because I’m basically watching life lines so I can’t give you a ton of details of the what are the exact changes, but I can tell you this I’ve played cleric toons since 2006, when I lose a whole raid party several times in a raid it’s not normal. Do I have deaths yes but not whole party wipes 4 times. During the babbas raid we had 2 experienced clerics still wiped 4 times. This never happened on raids we know and are used to running on a daily basis. There is absolutely no way these mobs and end bosses have not been jacked up. I don’t know exactly why I just know prior to may update to fix lag this this was not an issue. Now it is we haven’t changed our game play style haven’t changed. The only thing that’s changed is the update.
I don’t know what else to tell you other then if this continues your gonna lose people, we all injoy a challenge but this is more then a realistic challenge. Even when we did hunt on normal it was insane never ever were there exploding soles that wiped the whole party on NORMAL. Kill a few sure but one second the whole party is alive and pretty much full health with a healing aura on and my angelic healing on and me casting mass heals repeatedly the whole party died seriously this is not right on normal. The longer this goes on the more people will leave the game, which I’m thinking is not what your looking to have happen. Seriously there’s no reason to keep spending money on a game you no longer have fun playing and your friends are leaving because of it. I really hope this problem can be fixed. I’d hate to think the game is permanently broken for people that are not multilifers and king of the reapers.

 

[Weslok]

-_-. Yep, things are jacked. Ok. If it wasn't clear... trying to determine precisely what is jacked.

You gave a time, which is great. Problem is, there wasn't an update on May 8th. There was an patch on the 9th which didn't have any monster or player changes that would have this kind of reach. May 3rd had the changes to dungeon alert.

Which DA changes could impact your raids that much. But that would only apply if you were getting a dungeon alert which you still haven't confirmed nor denied.

Also, which is it? A tight nit raid group that runs raids together every day with a few regulars and is not a pug group or was tonight a raid group of first timers that you were kindly showing the way?

No one is attacking you or say they're better than you. They're mistakenly trying to help like I was by offering their own experience. Egg on my face I guess.

We don't have a damn dungeon alert!!!!
GOT IT? IS that clear enough for you? does the damn day of the update matter?... JUST GO AWAY, YOU SIR ARE NOT HELPING WITH YOUR DEFLECTION CRAP!!!

 

[JaynChar2019]

Just so you know we are all in one guild so while the reports of problems may seem different they are just being stated from that persons view. Jay is the raid leader but all of our raids are done by mostly guildies that play every day together. When you have that many people all saying there are issues with the raids you can believe there are issues. Several of our toons are not first lifers some of us have several reaper points we are not players that just started playing not long ago, some of us have been playing sone the beginning of the game so we know when things have changed. As a cleric I may see things differently because I’m basically watching life lines so I can’t give you a ton of details of the what are the exact changes, but I can tell you this I’ve played cleric toons since 2006, when I lose a whole raid party several times in a raid it’s not normal. Do I have deaths yes but not whole party wipes 4 times. During the babbas raid we had 2 experienced clerics still wiped 4 times. This never happened on raids we know and are used to running on a daily basis. There is absolutely no way these mobs and end bosses have not been jacked up. I don’t know exactly why I just know prior to may update to fix lag this this was not an issue. Now it is we haven’t changed our game play style haven’t changed. The only thing that’s changed is the update.
I don’t know what else to tell you other then if this continues your gonna lose people, we all injoy a challenge but this is more then a realistic challenge. Even when we did hunt on normal it was insane never ever were there exploding soles that wiped the whole party on NORMAL. Kill a few sure but one second the whole party is alive and pretty much full health with a healing aura on and my angelic healing on and me casting mass heals repeatedly the whole party died seriously this is not right on normal. The longer this goes on the more people will leave the game, which I’m thinking is not what your looking to have happen. Seriously there’s no reason to keep spending money on a game you no longer have fun playing and your friends are leaving because of it. I really hope this problem can be fixed. I’d hate to think the game is permanently broken for people that are not multilifers and king of the reapers.

you are right des these folks are just tryin to placate us as usaual.. if they dont want to hear it its just not real. this person is a waste of our time. I willl find someone else for sure. I am a fing scientist this dude is'nt worth our time. i know that sounds harsh but its reality ive already reached out to others . I know how to find who is truely in charge, i do it for my day job I can do it here and i am not worried saying it. sent you a pic already.

 

[Arcanaverse]

As you wish.

The day never mattered. Determining the content of an impacting change does. For the record, I believed you experienced an issue. Why I was trying to help. My recommendation is to take some time to cool off. If you want help resolving the issue then maybe we can try again.

Till then, good luck. I sincerely wish you the best. Take care.

 

[JaynChar2019]

Just so you know we are all in one guild so while the reports of problems may seem different they are just being stated from that persons view. Jay is the raid leader but all of our raids are done by mostly guildies that play every day together. When you have that many people all saying there are issues with the raids you can believe there are issues. Several of our toons are not first lifers some of us have several reaper points we are not players that just started playing not long ago, some of us have been playing sone the beginning of the game so we know when things have changed. As a cleric I may see things differently because I’m basically watching life lines so I can’t give you a ton of details of the what are the exact changes, but I can tell you this I’ve played cleric toons since 2006, when I lose a whole raid party several times in a raid it’s not normal. Do I have deaths yes but not whole party wipes 4 times. During the babbas raid we had 2 experienced clerics still wiped 4 times. This never happened on raids we know and are used to running on a daily basis. There is absolutely no way these mobs and end bosses have not been jacked up. I don’t know exactly why I just know prior to may update to fix lag this this was not an issue. Now it is we haven’t changed our game play style haven’t changed. The only thing that’s changed is the update.
I don’t know what else to tell you other then if this continues your gonna lose people, we all injoy a challenge but this is more then a realistic challenge. Even when we did hunt on normal it was insane never ever were there exploding soles that wiped the whole party on NORMAL. Kill a few sure but one second the whole party is alive and pretty much full health with a healing aura on and my angelic healing on and me casting mass heals repeatedly the whole party died seriously this is not right on normal. The longer this goes on the more people will leave the game, which I’m thinking is not what your looking to have happen. Seriously there’s no reason to keep spending money on a game you no longer have fun playing and your friends are leaving because of it. I really hope this problem can be fixed. I’d hate to think the game is permanently broken for people that are not multilifers and king of the reapers.

you are not listening and acting like you are so......

 

[JaynChar2019]

As you wish.

The day never mattered. Determining the content of an impacting change does. For the record, I believed you experienced an issue. Why I was trying to help. My recommendation is to take some time to cool off. If you want help resolving the issue then maybe we can try again.

Till then, good luck. I sincerely wish you the best. Take care.

you are not listening and acting like you are so you are just another part of the problem...................

 

[JaynChar2019]

As you wish.

The day never mattered. Determining the content of an impacting change does. For the record, I believed you experienced an issue. Why I was trying to help. My recommendation is to take some time to cool off. If you want help resolving the issue then maybe we can try again.

Till then, good luck. I sincerely wish you the best. Take care.

wasn't an issue it's a problem like i have said 3 times before. But you just want to push us down. may update screwed us all up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not the only one to see it there is a whole thread about it lol.

 

[Weslok]

you are not listening and acting like you are so you are just another part of the problem...................

damn right, he is... Do they really think we ar egoing to come here make scene for no reason? We are angry that the game we love is broken and we want help to fix it... It's supposed to be for everyone not just elites!!! And to be fair my tank is a bloody great build with the best gear in the game and I know how to play him... We should not be wiping... They broke the game! they said as much when they told us all the crap that would be affected... MY knight's challenge is character-breaking, my tank is useless if the mobs get to ignore game mechanics to save lag in some other place... It's not fun watching your entire team die in a situation that a month ago would not have happened at all... I do take it to heart! I was proud of this character and this build!!! it was fantastic even on a halfling who couldn't heal while raging... This toon can heal and cast while raging which should make him much much more effective... Instead, I get to see my party wipe again and again and again!!!!

 

[DeathTitan]

As you wish.

The day never mattered. Determining the content of an impacting change does. For the record, I believed you experienced an issue. Why I was trying to help. My recommendation is to take some time to cool off. If you want help resolving the issue then maybe we can try again.

Till then, good luck. I sincerely wish you the best. Take care.

Just a curiosity, are you a developer or a DDO staff member? What can you do to help exacly?
i read in the previous posts that souls in Hunt raid are more deadly and unicorns are way more aggressive: so reduce the number of souls and their damage in Hunt raid and rollback the unicorns aggressivity in Dryad raid at hard difficulty to help random pugs with noob players to bring home those raids weekly easily.
And do that by next week wednesday.
In the meantime I'm creating and alt account to farm more easily some quests because DDO population Is dropping drammatically (and I'm on Orien).
By the way, do you agree with me that the dungeon alert change is causing only issues and no solutions to the game? Due to It my 3rd Life toon died more when zerging with alert, but what I'm doing is still zerging R1 with Red alert and pay more attention while playing (I Will still zerg with Red alert because I have to be fast for High XP per minute).

 

[vryxnr]

Cordo in a recent live stream said that they are aware of the thread that was linked above and are following that thread for information, because the things going on are so complex that they can't just look at "it" and see what is causing what we are experiencing. They need more focused information so they can have something specific to investigate. He also posted that in the afforementioned thread itself. We know our individual characters far better than they can, so they are hoping that we can help narrow down and focus on the specifics, and they will then be able to investigate further and fix it. Simply screaming into the void "it's broken! REEEE!" doesn't help resolve the issue. Arcanaverse may not be a dev (afaik), but he's one of the few players (along with J1NG and a few others) taking this seriously and actually trying to do good, detailed investigations into what could be causing these issues and putting it into clear terms that can be read by the devs so that they can eventually fix it.

But yeah, sure, lets just attack each other instead because it feels good to vent, or something, I guess.

 

[DeathTitan]

Cordo in a recent live stream said that they are aware of the thread that was linked above and are following that thread for information, because the things going on are so complex that they can't just look at "it" and see what is causing what we are experiencing. They need more focused information so they can have something specific to investigate. He also posted that in the afforementioned thread itself. We know our individual characters far better than they can, so they are hoping that we can help narrow down and focus on the specifics, and they will then be able to investigate further and fix it. Simply screaming into the void "it's broken! REEEE!" doesn't help resolve the issue. Arcanaverse may not be a dev (afaik), but he's one of the few players (along with J1NG and a few others) taking this seriously and actually trying to do good, detailed investigations into what could be causing these issues and putting it into clear terms that can be read by the devs so that they can eventually fix it.

But yeah, sure, lets just attack each other instead because it feels good to vent, or something, I guess.

I read about dungeon alert changes in a forum thread.
do you know if it's alive now? I read all DDO release notes but I don't remember any mentioning dungeon alert changes.

 

[SpartanKiller13]

not to be cras but a **** ton we leave no one left behind and accept ALL you are messing up a really good thing. the heart of dnd! we believe in ALL of our followers and they are losing heart. and so are we!

We do too lol, our guild is open invite and our raids are as well. If we're at 15ish we have vets dropping to give spots for new people. Not sure why you're trying to imply everyone else leaves new people behind, we don't and many others don't as well.

Dude you telling us tht you complete raids doesn't damn help at all... I Don''t give a $&$% how many raids you complete with your dozens of reaper points... We all know that raids are EASIER ON REAPER THAN ON ELITE IF YOU HAVE MANY REAPER POINTS... Just shut up and listen you are just giving excuses not help... Where are the devs they can help... We are not making this up, we are losing people and I am one of them... I'm bloody done!!!

My Wizard has around 10 reaper points, my tank has 6, and my bard has 15. My main has lots yes, but I've run maybe 1/4th of those raids on my main, I've been TRing.

I'm saying that since U59 we're able to complete Baba (and all the others on that list) multiple times on R1 with mostly low-PL alts (or LH shortman), whereas you are not completing LN with a R4-capable full group. Clearly something else is going on.

So today Disciples Of The Apocalypse raided again... We did epic Chronoscope (shhh some people still need slivers)... We did Vision Of Destructon on legendary hard it went well... We did Dryad on hard it didn't go so well... We did Hunt or be Hunted on normal and wiped 3 times...
I want to talk a bit about the last update... We used to do Baba's on R3 without any problems at all... Yesterday we wiped 4 times... We used to do dryad on hard with 0 problems today Hawthorn's corruption got to 100%... I am the main tank for DOTA so I can speak from experience here... I used to tank before the update and Hawthorn would get to max 10% on a bad day... The unicorns would give me 3 or 4 negative levels max per round of tanking... Now since the update, the least I've been able to keep Hawthorn to is about 80% corruption... Now I get like 13-16 negative levels per round... My great cleric Eglantina now has to remove my negative levels every round because I can no longer read a greater restoration scroll between rounds... I can't properly maintain the agro of the unicorns anyone... My intimidation is 108 and they regularly ignore it now, like the animation doesn't appear anymore... I have a knights challenge which throws my shield at the target and compels it to target me for 8 seconds... I can do this every 20 seconds... It is supposed to take effect immediately now there is about a 5-second lag before they respond... This means they attack Hawthorn for 5 seconds longer than they are supposed to so that explains her corruption... I don't know why they ignore my intimidation... Today we wiped several times on hunt normal... We were unable to finish this easy raid with 12 players most of whom were guildies and several who raid with us every day... I personally enjoy a challenge but I've had it with this garbage... They didn't fix the lag, it's worse in hunt, the mobs are easily twice as dangerous as before...

For sure Hawthorn is taking more aggro and the unicorns are harder to hold post-U59, but we've been getting to 50-60% max on LH with first-life tanks (including a lvl 29 Paladin tank, a Cleric tank, a Fighter tank, and a Bard tank). Previously used to cap around 20-30% usually. I got 5ish negs the time I tanked, just by intim + shield throw and circle kiting around the grass area. Our tank on Sunday got 6ish. My tank has 125 Intim, works every time. Our lvl 29 tank had 98 Intim, it wasn't 100% success but worked well enough with shield throw.

Hunt usually goes very smoothly for us on LN, and terribly on LH so we just stay at LN. Disco balls help trash management, but we've completed just fine without them. My 3rd-life Wizzy (with 10 reaper points and mediocre gearing) manages DC's for it just fine.

but how many recart, reaper, hardcore do you have? and guildies like you? its not the same you are over powered and folks like me are not at the same level. the new update is excluding us u dont even understand because where your at. I just want new folks like me to be able to play too otherwise whats the point?????

I don't know what "recart" is, my raid toons for the month are all 6-15 reaper points (and only my Wizzy has >1 PL at 3), HC I'm on my 2nd toon at level 8 or so (my first died at 13). We tend to have 1-3 "overpowered" toons in a raid group, just when one of our vets has their main at cap and feels like raiding. My main can absolutely shred low difficulty raids, but I'm not raiding on my main lol.

You keep talking about completing R4 Baba, our raid groups can't touch that. We're not a push raiding guild, we're an open-invite guild that does teaching raids.

Make a toon on Cannith, message me @Khysiria, and I'll bring you along to some raids and you can see how we do things and how often we have new people.

-_-. Yep, things are jacked. Ok. If it wasn't clear... trying to determine precisely what is jacked.

Also, which is it? A tight nit raid group that runs raids together every day with a few regulars and is not a pug group or was tonight a raid group of first timers that you were kindly showing the way?

No one is attacking you or say they're better than you. They're mistakenly trying to help like I was by offering their own experience. Egg on my face I guess.

Yeah, pretty much this. The guild I'm in is doing fairly comparably pre-and-post U59, with the exception of Dryad which is slightly harder but still goes fine. Your guild is having a massively different experience. Why? Are y'all missing some step? Is there something we can do to get you guys going again?

Same page as Arcanaverse—just trying to figure out what's up. HoBH can be super swingy with the souls, so I could see small changes making a big difference. It sounds like unicorn aggro has changed. What's up with Baba?

Also, the tank alt I'm talking about has ~12 reaper, 0 pls, no raid gear, no tomes. Transferred (dead) HC char from this season. I agree that it's much easier to notice differences on low-life characters, but I'm curious what the specific issues you're noticing are—I'm pretty sure by r3 baba squishes are pretty much dead if they're taking significant aggro, especially without tons of RP, so it sounds like maybe a change in tanking mechanics?

We've had no noticeable change in Baba, but a bit of Unicorn change in Dryad. Same boat, not sure what's going on.