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I'd just like to apologize for the recent downtime. Obviously, we had some minor issues with the domain pointer, which is now corrected. Thanks for your patience, all!
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Hey all,
We've been testing some pretty big changes to APW on the test server for the last few weeks. We're finally satisfied that with these solutions and are certain that they will be going live, so I wanted to update our community with regards to the direction we're taking things so that this doesn't come as a surprise when we get APW out the door.
First of all, APW has been changed over from a 12 man dungeon to an 18 man dungeon. We felt that gameplay with 18 was more compelling and that the performance improvements did enough for us that we could comfortably increase the max raid size. In addition this allows us a base raid size, as all raid encounters in the near future (overland, apw, etc) will have a max raid size of 18.
Secondly, we have implemented lockout timers to all bosses within APW. What this means is that when you kill any of the designated raid bosses you and all others on that bosses' 'raid list' will be locked out for a fixed period of time. During that time period you cannot engage the raid boss and the raid boss cannot engage or damage you. We felt that this solution allowed us to solve what we believe was a critical problem (APW will be the only raid dungeon at its release, and especially with merged servers we need this content to be able to accommodate a relatively sizable raiding population), while maintaining a certain degree of competition (it remains true that only one guild at a time can attempt any boss, in addition these bosses do not respawn instantly). I am intentionally being vague about the exact times for respawn and lockout since these are still under evaluation.
As always, feel free to discuss these changes - and I'll be around to clarify or answer any questions or concerns that you all might have.
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http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/po...topic_id=19965
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HIDE AND SEEK ILLUSIVE
Participants must be LVL 12-30 light armor wearing classes.
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Here's the notes I took at the Vanguard panels at FF as requested by Laby :)
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