Suggestion: add casual raid difficulty

[rabidfox]

Just going to preface this with: I have zero interest in this suggestion myself, it's not something I need as I don't have issues getting & doing raids. But from other posts, some people have trouble finding raid groups based off their time zone & current server populations and/or have trouble with even normal difficulty raids (if they try to solo/shortman them as result of not finding full groups). So on that note:

Add casual difficulty to raids (as that difficulty already exists for quests) and let hires be useable in casual difficulty mode (to make it easier for people to solo/shortman that need that extra help); just make the loot rate/runes acquired low enough that's a heavy trade-off vs normal raiding difficulties.

(*obviously a few raids would still be mechanically impossible to solo, but that's when short manning would come into play)

 

[rabidfox]

Or not ... knowing how good the hire ai is :LOL:

Haha, they might save you; they might just sit there and watch your character die.

 

[FaceDancer]

That's the fun part of using hirelings. They have saved my bacon quite a few times, and other times they just roast marshmallows on my smoking corpse. ?

 

[Khurse]

Think I'm with the majority here, but yeah, fantastic idea.

Letting newer/less confident players learn raid mechanics (and having a chance at loot) has no down side and might help a few new players decide to stick around.

 

[Ryiah]

Likely, the player who learns the raid in casual will be more comfortable joining an LFM.

This. I'm one of those people that if you give me a video to watch or a post to read on how to run the raid I'll walk away with no idea what was actually happening, but if I'm able to take part in it once I'll walk away knowing how the raid works. I have the same problem with board games. So many times I've been told "go watch this video" and it just doesn't work for me.

 

[Oliphant]

They have a suggestion section with voting, this got the most votes, they must have a recent to have this feature, this is approved, lets goooo!

 

[Jeronimo]

Yes, please. I haven't seen a raid on the Cannith lfm since December 2023. I play at odd hours. Being able to try some raid content solo would be nice.