Black Fire Basin needs help

Black Fire Basin is a scenario in Tier 3. I know, I know, Tor Anroc is supposed to be the only T3 scenario but it is true. It features a classic Capture the Flag (CTF) mechanic with two flags. Usually CTF is pretty fun, but not here.

Last night I only had about 20 minutes to play, so I queued up. To my surprise Black Fire Basin came up. Sometimes it can be pretty fun, but that is pretty rare. So I hop in. When the match starts, a few of us Order head off to make a run at their flag. What do we find? The entire Destruction team at their base. We actually manage to grab the flag for about 15 seconds before we were all killed.

So we regroup and try again. the entire Destruction team is still turtling at their flag. In fact, I don't think any of them left the base for the entire match. Since we were aggressive, we had died more, giving them a score lead. They ended up winning due to the time limit. It was pretty awful.

This scenario should reward aggression, not the turtle tactic. Here are some ideas on how to improve it:

• Move Spawn points to opposite sides in the middle of the map. Right now, if a defender dies, they will easily be back in the action (without a rez) before the fight is over. This just makes turtling easier.
• The map is big, maybe a little too big. It takes a couple minutes to ride over to the enemy flag, which also supports turtling since the attacker has to come so far.
• Maybe the flag should cause damage, as other objects do in scenarios. This might help the situation when each side has the others flag and are turtling. Map size may also help here.

This is one of the scenarios Mythic needs to look at and improve. Hopefully they will in the coming months. The real sad part is that it was still enjoyable since it was not Tor Anroc.

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Queue me up

Mythic's change to allow a player to queue for all scenarios they can, from anywhere, has been great. My Engineer (Rank 17) is in T2 land and has had little trouble getting into the scenarios. Before this patch, unless I was in a group which was scattered all over the world, I was only queued up for 1 scenario. Now I am in line for all 3, and the wait is not long.

The past few days I have only been able to play for some short clips at a time. Before the change I could only get a couple scenarios in. Now I can spend almost the entire time in the action. It has been a lot of fun!

Tier 1 is a different story. I have a few alts down there... sometimes a new playstyle is refreshing. Anyways, I queued up for all 3, but only the Nordlandwatch scenario ever came up. I can understand Khaines Embrace not popping, but Gates of Ekrund is fun and quick. So I am leaning towards there being some kind of bug.

There is one more thing they need to do: Right-Click on icon, 'Queue All' option in the menu.

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