Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

[Warlyx]

I think the issue with Alexander is that it's a bad raid. The story left a poor first impression. The latter half of Savage feels poorly tuned, over designed, and with a larger jump in difficulty to the rest of the raid unseen since Psychonauts' Meat Circus. The loot tables for each individual floor is a linear joke, completely ruining the fun of gear optimization by making it completely linear and the excitement of clearing fights in general.

You didn't see this amount of complaining from Coil. The common joke response when someone would criticize Coil's fights was "yo get gud". I have yet to have another player come and defend any of the actual design in the latter half of Savage.

My group blazed through floor 1 and 2 in the first two weeks of release, while floor 3 has sandbagged us since. And it's not a team failure, I'd feel confident in claiming that 60% of our wipes have been due to the obnoxious amount of RNG tied to it's tight instant-death mechanics. Nothing is more infuriating than wiping when you KNOW that you are attempting to preform the mechanic correctly, only for the game to just say no.

If I didn't absolutely love actually playing with my static, I'd have dropped this raid and probably taken a break. Chatting up with my friends is fun, the actual fights are not.

I really hope Square has payed attention to the points being made, and take them into account when designing the next part of the raid.

couldnt said better myself , im in the same situation....so frustrating....im almost burned out, i still keep going because my static ....else i would quit raiding...Alex is everything u dont want from a raid , horrible story , poorly tuned raid , and tight instand death , and once one member dies is over ,wipe and wait for potions cds ....

another thing that infuriates me , is food time, why is 30 min? come on put it on 60min already , on progression when waiting on potions , food only last what 4-5 trys at best...

Feast - food (best wow idea ever) can i have it? - yes ,please