I agree with you completely that there should be something like this and combining this concept with the one you discuss in the more recent post (social ice-breakers) should be a hit in itself.

C out

It would be great fun to have big, epic raids where not everyone have to be absolutely perfect every second. Like it!

I want gates to open and the legions flood out on either side to battle each other and take down a boss general.

Why couldn’t you zone in to a massive PvE raid just like that? It should still be hard, but failure would mean that it takes longer, or the rewards would be slightly less, etc.

An epic, non-linear raid instance would also feel somewhat different every time, and be less grindy with repetition.

Hell, combine some of the aspects of Wintergrasp and add some limited PvP to the mix. Maybe the final fight could be which faction could burn down the other faction’s boss fastest. I’ve always wanted to defend a big boss. It could spawn a whole new area of strategy; how to disrupt a boss fight, or how protect a core group during a boss fight.

I’m going through my solo quests, and no matter what I do, I keep my power at 100% on Weapons and 25% on Shields, because the enemies don’t hit me hard enough to do anything. I just fly around, gleefully hitting them with photon torpedoes and watching them explode and moving on to the next mob. No downtime, ever.

I went into a ground-based fleet mission over the weekend, there were dozens and dozens of people there, I didn’t actually join the group and I tend to keep zone chat turned off anyway, so it was utterly silent but for the people /saying “thx” when they were rezzed, just an enormous group of players swarming from one Klingon to the next, such that even the big guys with shields went down in a matter of seconds. It was constantly run forward, target, shoot, run forward some more.

I was in that mission for something like 30-45 minutes, and I had a great deal of fun the whole time, though it left me rather exhausted. I can only think back to when I used to raid in WoW, when it was all about bosses that could one-shot you if they so much as looked in your direction, where the tank could die if you healed him a half-second too late or too early. That sort of thing mostly ended in frustration for me, but the swarm mentality of STO is quite fun so far.