Argos Lockout System

[Lord Commander Dante]

Here's a post i've stumbled across on another forum that pretty much describes what happend to me this reset.
Have a read younglings, let me know what your thoughts.
Hopefully this information will help people who have yet reached this raid and save you some of the mistakes this post talking about.
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Well yeah I just figured it would be common sense for you to be able to beat phase 1, farm some more and come back when you are 1385 to beat phase 2 and claim those rewards as well, however this is NOT the case. I ended up losing not only the opportunity to play and enjoy phase 2 of Argos this week but also some big time rewards.

There were 2 ways to go about this from a developer standpoint :

Make it damn obvious that this is the case (lets just be reasonable for a second and assume not everyone will instantly seek 3rd party assistance regarding literally everything in the game just because the info is out there)
Make it so that the phases are separate raids and you don`t have to do all of them in one go. (which is how it should be for every logical reason, in fact I can’t even find one reason as to why it should NOT be te case)
Like this doesn’t even make sense, what if you don’t wanna spend 5 hours in a row for everyone to learn and adapt and eventually clear all phases ? What if I wanna enjoy Argos 3 separate days since its a weekly lockout ? What if I can’t even afford to spend that much time in a row doing something at all ? What if I can’t possibly evaluate how much ilvl I am going to get this week in order to decide if I should do it now or wait to unlock another phase ? What if something happens in the last day of the week and I wake up to not being able to complete it in time because I held onto it hoping I could do an extra phase ?

I do not think I am being absurd or unreasonable.

P.S.: I have heard that Argos is literally the only end-game raid that forces you to do all phases in one go, the others won’t and you will be able to enter phases at will. This further confuses and frustrates me.

[Lord Commander Dante]

Bump!

[Midrak]

Originally posted by Lord Commander Dante:

Here's a post i've stumbled across on another forum that pretty much describes what happend to me this reset.
Have a read younglings, let me know what your thoughts.
Hopefully this information will help people who have yet reached this raid and save you some of the mistakes this post talking about.
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Well yeah I just figured it would be common sense for you to be able to beat phase 1, farm some more and come back when you are 1385 to beat phase 2 and claim those rewards as well, however this is NOT the case. I ended up losing not only the opportunity to play and enjoy phase 2 of Argos this week but also some big time rewards.

There were 2 ways to go about this from a developer standpoint :

Make it damn obvious that this is the case (lets just be reasonable for a second and assume not everyone will instantly seek 3rd party assistance regarding literally everything in the game just because the info is out there)
Make it so that the phases are separate raids and you don`t have to do all of them in one go. (which is how it should be for every logical reason, in fact I can’t even find one reason as to why it should NOT be te case)
Like this doesn’t even make sense, what if you don’t wanna spend 5 hours in a row for everyone to learn and adapt and eventually clear all phases ? What if I wanna enjoy Argos 3 separate days since its a weekly lockout ? What if I can’t even afford to spend that much time in a row doing something at all ? What if I can’t possibly evaluate how much ilvl I am going to get this week in order to decide if I should do it now or wait to unlock another phase ? What if something happens in the last day of the week and I wake up to not being able to complete it in time because I held onto it hoping I could do an extra phase ?

I do not think I am being absurd or unreasonable.

P.S.: I have heard that Argos is literally the only end-game raid that forces you to do all phases in one go, the others won’t and you will be able to enter phases at will. This further confuses and frustrates me.

Spend some money like 5000 Dollar or so ..

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by Midrak:

Originally posted by Lord Commander Dante:

Here's a post i've stumbled across on another forum that pretty much describes what happend to me this reset.
Have a read younglings, let me know what your thoughts.
Hopefully this information will help people who have yet reached this raid and save you some of the mistakes this post talking about.
----
----

Well yeah I just figured it would be common sense for you to be able to beat phase 1, farm some more and come back when you are 1385 to beat phase 2 and claim those rewards as well, however this is NOT the case. I ended up losing not only the opportunity to play and enjoy phase 2 of Argos this week but also some big time rewards.

There were 2 ways to go about this from a developer standpoint :

Make it damn obvious that this is the case (lets just be reasonable for a second and assume not everyone will instantly seek 3rd party assistance regarding literally everything in the game just because the info is out there)
Make it so that the phases are separate raids and you don`t have to do all of them in one go. (which is how it should be for every logical reason, in fact I can’t even find one reason as to why it should NOT be te case)
Like this doesn’t even make sense, what if you don’t wanna spend 5 hours in a row for everyone to learn and adapt and eventually clear all phases ? What if I wanna enjoy Argos 3 separate days since its a weekly lockout ? What if I can’t even afford to spend that much time in a row doing something at all ? What if I can’t possibly evaluate how much ilvl I am going to get this week in order to decide if I should do it now or wait to unlock another phase ? What if something happens in the last day of the week and I wake up to not being able to complete it in time because I held onto it hoping I could do an extra phase ?

I do not think I am being absurd or unreasonable.

P.S.: I have heard that Argos is literally the only end-game raid that forces you to do all phases in one go, the others won’t and you will be able to enter phases at will. This further confuses and frustrates me.

Spend some money like 5000 Dollar or so ..

What?

[Brakiros]

Originally posted by Midrak:

Spend some money like 5000 Dollar or so ..

Money not needed at all

[Caduryn]

Just ignore Midrak, his Tunneling View can only see P2W

Smilegate and Amazon already admitted they released Argos too soon.

[Vexillarius]

Cool, that sounds fun. So when i eventually get past the massive grind to 1370 argos is not really actually available to complete till you meet his third phase ilvl requirement?

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Just ignore Midrak, his Tunneling View can only see P2W

His comment doesnt even make sense and is out of context.

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by VEX84:

Cool, that sounds fun. So when i eventually get past the massive grind to 1370 argos is not really actually available to complete till you meet his third phase ilvl requirement?

I mean, noting stopping you to do all three phases but 1370 is only capable to clear phase 1. for phase 2 you need 1385 and phase 3 i reckon 1400,

[Nebucadneza]

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Just ignore Midrak, his Tunneling View can only see P2W

Smilegate and Amazon already admitted they released Argos too soon.

thats one way to look at it.
the other way would be that they didnt release the material sources that other versions have.

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by Nebucadneza:

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Just ignore Midrak, his Tunneling View can only see P2W

Smilegate and Amazon already admitted they released Argos too soon.

thats one way to look at it.
the other way would be that they didnt release the material sources that other versions have.

They will next week. But hey, this is not even what this topic is all about...