BLADE AND SOUL RAVEN KING PLUS

It was the most fun IвЂ™ve had in The Secret World - or any game - in a long time.ДЄnd it never would have happened without the group finder. And IвЂ™m okay with that.ДЄfterward, we were all laughing and cheering. Healing is disgustingly overpowered in this game. The tank is joking and cheering us on from back at the anima well.ДЄnd we did it. But the healer keeps bringing us back from the brink, and the bossвЂ™s health keeps going down. The remainder of us come within inches of death several times. I had resolved to merely go out fighting, but the battle kept going, and somehow, we endured. Picture three DPS running around like chickens with our heads cut off while the healer somehow kept us alive through it all. It turns out our healer was some kind of demigod. One person DCed at one point, but the group finder eventually replaced with them - with no input from us, even - and we did okay without them in the meanwhile.ДЄt the final boss, things got interesting.ДЄ mechanic bugged out and killed our tank early on. The tank explained the more important mechanics for those of us with rusty memories, and since we overgeared the place a bit, it was all fairly relaxed. By the time I got into the dungeon, I was usually exhausted and frustrated from the time spent gathering a group, and the thought of how hard it would be to find another if this group broke up was a constant anxiety in the back of my mind.

I think, also, that the stress of finding groups always robbed some of the fun from the experience. But now IвЂ™m reminded that its dungeons boast fantastic art design, fun and interesting mechanics, and strong stories that donвЂ™t interrupt gameplay. My complaint was always the difficulty of finding groups. I had forgotten that TSW actually has great dungeon design. It was a perfect sweet spot where I mostly remembered the mechanics, but it still felt almost new to me. We zoned into the Slaughterhouse, which is a dungeon I havenвЂ™t run in over a year, at least. It is worth noting, though, that while my other queues have not been instantaneous, they have all been very fast - five minutes at most. I canвЂ™t imagine how this happened, but I wonвЂ™t look a gift horse in the mouth. That doesnвЂ™t happen in WoW, and it has a much higher pool of players to draw from. In this case, I was playing my Templar, who needs better gear to tackle Tokyo.ДЇirst of all, I was queued as DPS only, and the group still popped instantly. ItвЂ™s low stress and rewarding, reminding of running heroics back in Wrath of the Lich King so much the nostalgia is palpable.

IвЂ™m getting in the habit of doing a random elite regularly for the daily challenge. IвЂ™ve done several runs with the group finder at this point, all positive, but thereвЂ™s one story IвЂ™d like to particularly highlight. IвЂ™m not stuck endlessly spamming Polaris. I can easily find groups whenever I want - no need to muster the energy to spend an hour looking for a group - and now that elites, too, can be rewarding, the pool of potential dungeons has effectively expanded massively. Non-18s nightmares were too stressful, and groups for those dungeons always mandated higher levels of gear than I own anyway.

BLADE AND SOUL RAVEN KING PLUS

Yet this feels like one of the biggest updates TSW has ever had.Д¬onsider that for much of my TSW career, running dungeons has been something done only very sporadically, and when I did, I basically only ever did Polaris on nightmare, plus the occasional Darkness War, Hell Raised, or Hell Eternal - and I do want to stress occasional.Д®lites were worthless, with no relevant rewards at all. Really all the group finder does is make finding groups less time-consuming and encourage people to run a greater variety of dungeons - thereвЂ™s now a daily challenge to complete a random dungeon via the group finderвЂ™s randomizer feature. The Secret World has at last launched its long-awaited group finder tool, and IвЂ™m finding it a study in how small changes can make a huge difference in how fun a game is.

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