Issue With End Game Raiding

[Warlyx]

I've only cleared A5S and I can empathize I used to be a hardcore raider in 2.0 and now I can barely get anyone from my static consistently on. It really sucks and I'm in the same boat do I keep playing or just quit? It's honestly just a headache to get everyone on and when they do its 1 cycle and we're done till before reset. The raiding needs to change that's for sure but there's not many ideas left that hasn't already been said.

Alex gordias killed raiding for lots of ppl......

[HylianBebop]

Alex gordias killed raiding for lots of ppl......

I can say for myself, it almost made me quit the game. The group I was in, which went through several replacements during A3S, spent 3+ months trying to clear it. I didn't get my clear until 4 months after first stepping foot into that turn. Absolutely the worst decision the dev team made was allowing that version of the fight to get through testing (and we all saw how they "tested" it .... SMH). Maybe if it was the last turn people might have dealt with it better, but A4S is actually a worse fight IMO (super boring mechanically). A3S mechanics are actually fun, it's just it was tuned way too high for the majority of groups, and individual skill couldn't carry/overcome anyone's shortcomings during progression for it. I know it got nerfed hard and has echo now, but I would say it's a fun fight even now that everyone should try out since it's less challenging. But yea, I was so close to saying screw it, this is ridiculous. A4S I heard also made a lot of people quit, too.

[Warlyx]

I can say for myself, it almost made me quit the game. The group I was in, which went through several replacements during A3S, spent 3+ months trying to clear it. I didn't get my clear until 4 months after first stepping foot into that turn. Absolutely the worst decision the dev team made was allowing that version of the fight to get through testing (and we all saw how they "tested" it .... SMH). Maybe if it was the last turn people might have dealt with it better, but A4S is actually a worse fight IMO (super boring mechanically). A3S mechanics are actually fun, it's just it was tuned way too high for the majority of groups, and individual skill couldn't carry/overcome anyone's shortcomings during progression for it. I know it got nerfed hard and has echo now, but I would say it's a fun fight even now that everyone should try out since it's less challenging. But yea, I was so close to saying screw it, this is ridiculous. A4S I heard also made a lot of people quit, too.

same here , replaced 3 players (1 left because was bored to tears ) ,and i almost quit , patch took too long , that didnt help either, took weeks until we finally killed a3s....and in the end i still think it wasnt worth it , i wasnt even happy , just saying FINALLY ....ugh

[Awful]

Alex gordias killed raiding for lots of ppl......

It honestly did my old static got to 11% AS3 and we were at it night after night for 2 weeks straight (at least 4 times a week) after that poof no more static. Then I had to refill the slots and it was just a headache, Alex Gordias was just not a good raid the new Midas is but that's because the fights are actually not as soul crushing as the last ones. Still a pain but the problem is Gordias turned off so many raiders that no one (even new players) don't want to do Midas Savage. SE might have screwed it's raiding community this expansion.

Also the rewards still don't justify the means why do raiding (especially back in 3.x...) when you can upgrade your 200 gear for 210 and make the rest of the gear obsolete from raiding? Why bother getting fending when STR was the meta back then? There are so many design flaws even now you can be fully pentamelded and have 240 gear either or, and still in 2 months time the gear is replaced as Lore will be the new non capped currency with the new Void Ark gear being better + with a weekly drop. It's pathetic.