I don't agree the wurm is a good fight though, at least it certainly isn't the kind of stuff I find good, the requirements to succeed are son insane it's been killed only handfull of time by people who spent over an hour waiting in an overflow just to have a go at it with a tiny chance to succeed. Nope, not for me, sorry I come here to have fun, not wait for an event to start.
Well, let me rephrase. The principle of the fight is good, but the implementation is hugely problematic. It should be brought in line with other fights, eg become scalable - 25 decent players doing one head at a time, or 75 average players doing all heads at once should be more than enough, instead of what looks like a 150-man raid that turns into a logistical nightmare with just ten mouthbreathers present. Fuck, 40-man raids in WoW were a logistical nightmare for a lot of people, and that was in closed environments and with a way to prepare, and now you have what, a 150-man ad-hoc, well um, that'll sure end well.
Encounter design-wise, it's a good fight. Scalability-wise, it's pretty bad since it just doesn't scale at all.
Marionette is the same kind of shit, but becuase it is signifcantly easier than the wurm it can succeed with just some basic coordination, so there is game everytime you go at her, mind you, there is game, it still fails over half of the time.
Yeah, again, non-scalability fucks it all up. This could work perfectly with 2-3 people per platform instead of 4-5, which suddenly makes it a 50/75-man instead of 100/125. Easier to manage, more room for maneuvering. So one lane is too heavy? Well, allow them all to enter and upscale the champion inside, per-platform, the mechanics are already in the game anyway. One or two times with an overtuned boss at a populated lane and people will sod off to unpopped lanes themselves. Scale lanes. Champ on low-pop lane to be vet. Simple stuff, really.
I actually don't get why these aren't scaleable, when Tequatl is - especially after last patch, when a ton of people is hanging out at EotM instead of forming at Marionette. ANet should totally hire me as a designer.
